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PART I: CLIFF’S NOTE: AMPLIFY GOOD
Thanks for your patience! I came down with a nasty case of the flu, so that + our launch phase has been..challenging! But we’ll start getting you our regular key-story updates. And special features; columns, videos, more! We also have another livestream coming, soon to be a weekly event on Substack (though shorter than 12 hours!).
In this Blue Letter—as we’ll call regular updates—we talk about Elon’s terrible, awful, BAD week. Also! Highlights from a great interview w/ Counterterrorism badass & democracy defender, Malcolm Nance. And, as always, our Video On Demand + a few odds and ends.
Ok, let’s turn this thing on!
PART II: ELON
💰 Tesla Stock is in Freefall – Along with Elon’s Fortune
I’m not crying, you’re crying….Fine, we’re both laughing our arses off.
You know when you see someone slip on a banana peel in a cartoon, and they don’t just fall—they hit every object imaginable on the way down? That’s basically Elon Musk’s week. And let’s just say, I’m fresh outta sympathy.
First up, Tesla’s stock is plummeting faster than hair dye on Giuliani’s face. Since December, his net worth has taken a $140 billion nosedive. That’s billion. With a B.
To put that in perspective: That’s roughly the GDP of Ukraine, or 140 billion more dollars than Musk has good ideas.
Why is Tesla tanking? Well, let’s see:
People aren’t buying Teslas like they used to. (Turns out exposing yourself as a guy who cozies up to Nazis and makes Twitter an unusable cesspool doesn’t make you feel great if you have a soul, and isn’t great PR for companies. Whoops.
His so-called “self-driving” technology keeps, you know, crashing. Minor detail. I’m sure it just needs to take a driver’s ed course again.
He’s too busy cosplaying as a free speech warrior (read: giving neo-Nazis a megaphone) and hanging out with grandpa crypto-scam to run his companies.
Investors are bailing like his SpaceX Starship, not to be confused with the band “Starship,” which to my knowledge hasn’t blown up. Or, as Elon put it "a rapid unscheduled disassembly." 😂
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🤡 Elon Musk: The Apartheid Trust Fund Baby Who Thought He Was Tony Stark
Musk’s entire persona was built on a lie: that he’s some genius innovator, a visionary businessman, a real-life Iron Man. But here’s the truth:
He didn’t found Tesla. Bought in, bullied out the founders, slapped his name on it.
He didn’t invent anything—he’s just, like his pal Trump, a a convincing liar.
He didn’t buy Twitter to save free speech—he bought it because his fragile ego couldn’t handle people making fun of him and his cringe sense of humor
Now, his empire is collapsing under the weight of his own arrogance (a bit more if you’ve seen those yacht photos). And for once, there’s no government bailout, no overhyped new product, no army of Twitter simps that can save him.
🏆 Karma Comes for Us All – Even the “Smartest Man Alive”
Musk is learning a lesson: being the richest guy in the room doesn’t make you the smartest. It just means you can afford more lawyers & PR flaks to tell people how smart you are. If only he’d stuck to his pre-Twitter routine of..not talking, we might not know he’s one of the dumbest people in the room. With the EQ of a lawn chair.
Tesla’s sales are tanking across the world—they are down 60% in Germany since January, 63% in France, two of Europe’s largest car markets.
Tesla’s stock crashed yesterday due to this and so many other Musk problems. It is down over 41% the past month.
The Cybertruck’s a disaster. Are you familiar with the infamous Ford Pinto cases of the ‘70s? The car often blew up when rear-ended, leading to an increase in car-safety measures. Well, now the Cybertruck, besides looking like two toasters had a kid, has a “fire fatalities rate” that is “17X THAT OF THE PINTO!” according to a report by our friend/contributor, David Shuster. That is INSANE.
Twitter went down multiple times yesterday because nobody’s home, Musk isn’t paying attention and his attempt at Twitter DOGE, i.e. firing most of the company’s necessary workers, has been a disaster.
Musk’s reputation is toast. He’s hated for supporting Far-Right parties around the world. A French Senator, Claude Malhuret, called Musk a "jester high on Ketamine." Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, when asked about Musk’s “attempt” to buy his company, responded “I wish he’d [Musk] just compete by building a better product, instead of..all this crazy stuff.” Altman said “he felt sorry for him”—which felt more like a jab—because he “wasn’t a very happy guy.” Yikes.
So what could go wrong for Elon next? Hair plugs catch fire? Go a year without having his 434th a child? Who knows. Maybe he’ll pivot to selling NFTs of his comedy or announce Tesla’s latest innovation: a car that blows up on command.
Either way, we’ll be watching. And laughing. A lot. Because, finally, Elon Musk is the one taking the L. And it’s glorious. 🎉
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PART III: MALCOLM NANCE INTERVIEW
🔥 Malcolm Nance + Cliff Schecter Talk Russia & The Rise Of A Resistance
Alright, folks, if you missed Malcolm Nance on Substack Live, you missed one hell of a convo. But don’t worry—I got you covered.
Malcolm’s message? We’re in a fight for our democracy. LET’S ACT LIKE IT. I’ll summarize key points he made, but you can watch the whole interview (link at bottom) to see his powerful jeremiad on how we Amplify Good!
🏛️ Trump: Russian Asset or Moron? (Spoiler: NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE)
Let’s get straight to the point. I asked Malcolm: “Is Trump a willing Russian asset, or the world’s dumbest, stupidest, cerebrally-lobotomized useful idiot?”
Malcolm’s answer? Yes.
The Kremlin courted him—especially in 2012, when he went to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant and started parroting Russian propaganda like he’d had one too many bowls of borscht and his birth sign was “bot.”
But Malcolm went into the deeper Russian rot on the alt-right, how they built a fantasy-world based on Putin:
David Duke? Lived in Moscow.
The NRA? Infiltrated by Russian agents (remember Maria Butina?).
The alt-right doesn’t just admire Russia—IT’S THEIR MODEL. Well, have they seen what Russia did to actor Steven Seagel, proud Putin toady?
Pre-Pootie:
Post-Pootie:
Did he…did he eat Putin??
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PART IV: VIDEO ON DEMAND!
Elon Musk just had a where where Tesla sales tanked around the world, the stock crashed, Twitter went down on a few occasions, he was insulted by foreign leaders and domestic business titans and, per usual, a rocket of his crashed. Quite a week for the marble-mouthed doofus trying to destroy our government. Enjoy!
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