Elon Musk is his own Edsel
Who remembers the movie “Logan’s Run”? For those of you who don’t, it was a pre Star Wars-era dystopian film about an underground society of people who were not allowed to live beyond age 30. Logan was an enforcer who goes on the run with his girlfriend. Along the way they meet an ugly, boxy, murderous and insane robot called, appropriately enough, “Box.”
These days I can’t look at one of Elon Musk’s ugly, boxy, murderous and insane Cybertrucks without thinking about that robot Box. I thought Cybertruckss were absurd when I first saw them. I despised them years before Elon Musk showed me that he is despicable.
I’m pleased to report that sales for Cybertrucks are down 50% from last year. And sales for Cybertrucks were never that good. Nobody particularly liked them back then. Now they hate them. Now they disdain them and the man who makes them.
If you are an unfortunate owner of any Tesla product, my heart goes out to you. Once upon a time I contemplated getting a Tesla myself, though never a Cybertruck. So you have my sympathy if you own a 2023 or earlier Tesla of any kind. If you bought a newer Tesla you have my contempt. You’re either a fascist or an idiot. If people flip you off as you drive down the street you have no one to blame but yourself. I hope you’re not in it when your vehicle self-immolates.
Tesla sales are down 71% from last year. In Q1 of 2024 Tesla was doing brisk sales and earned 1.4 billion dollars. Q1 of 2025 Tesla car sales are actually 600 million dollars in the red. The only reason the overall company isn’t in the red is because of 400 million dollars it earned from interest for cash on hand and 600 million for selling credits to other car manufacturers.
So what does Elon Musk have to say about all this? He turned to one of the most laughable conspiracy theories I’ve ever heard, rivalling flat earth or 9/11 “Truther.” The alleged engineering and business “genius” says the millions of peaceful protesters of the “Hands Off” movement across the country were “paid for.”
“They are obviously not going to say — admit that — the reason they are protesting is because they’re receiving fraudulent money,” Musk continued. In other words, all those millions of angry Americans across the nation are pissed off because they’re really criminals who are bilking the poor US government out of its money, money that could be better used to line Musk’s pockets. They’re just pretending to hate Musk. They actually love him. But in the end, money talks.
Musk is in fact his own Edsel. His cars are covered in political leprosy. He is the manufacturer of vehicles fewer and fewer Americans want. They don’t want them because they hate the man who owns the company, because he took their jobs away from them and he’s trying to take their social security and Medicaid and Medicare away from them. Musk, who’s worth 400 billion dollars (and falling) doesn’t give a shit, because he’s a conscience-free, empathy-free sociopath who doesn’t need money.
And he wonders why people hate him. He has to invent pitiful conspiracy theories to explain it away. He is a stupid, contemptible, inadequate little man with hair plugs. I’m frankly shocked that anyone is buying his cars at all, especially his ugly, boxy, murderous and insane Cybertrucks. Musk is getting exactly what he deserves, and he has neither the guts nor the brains to admit why.
Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.