Tesla sales dropped in the first two quarters of this year for the first time in the company’s history, by ~10% and another 5% respectively. And this doesn’t specifically breakout the new red-hat purchasers for whom Elon is the new god-king that replaced some of those liberal consumers.
Every cybertruck owner I’ve talked with and/or seen was clearly a Trumpet. Two of the ones I’ve seen even had Trump stickers and one had one of those American flags on a pole on it. Admittedly (and thankfully) I do not live in California. Nevertheless, the net effect of Elon’s mask-removal has negatively affected sales, specifically because the almost exclusively liberal, college-educated, upper-middle-class purchaser that was the company’s main consumer is declining.
Nevertheless, my point wasn’t that it is somehow going to bankrupt Tesla. My point was the exact opposite: all this stupid shit – “liberals are boycotting tesla!” “Swifties are boycotting X!” “Engineers are boycotting SpaceX!” – does not actually affect anything enough to be worthy of celebration.
