Ben K retweeted
Musk doesn’t want the Cybertruck to go down in history as a flop, and we get it. It’s his truck. He approved the controversial design, hyped it for four years before it shipped, and boasted that 1 million reservations could translate to 5000,000 units a year.
But you can’t run a line at a quarter of capacity, run “10 days only” discounts, pull trims after 173 sales, and sell trucks to your own rocket company, then turn around and tell people demand was never the issue. The data is public. Tesla’s own delivery reports are public.
Our read on what happened is simple. Demand collapsed in 2025 and never came back. Tesla tried every pricing trick it had. When nothing worked, it found a future-facing reason to end it, and now it’s spinning the inevitable end-of-life rush as proof the truck was a hit all along.
Musk loves a big TAM. SpaceX’s IPO filing put its total addressable market at $28.5 trillion, and last month he went further, writing that he sees “a path to SpaceX being worth orders of magnitude more than the current Earth economy.”
So apply the same lens to Tesla. Pickups are one of the biggest and most profitable vehicle markets on the planet. Ford sold 801,525 F-Series trucks in the US last year, GM sold 925,656 Silverados and Sierras combined, and Ram moved 374,059. That’s more than 2.1 million trucks from three automakers, easily north of $100 billion a year at today’s transaction prices.
Robotaxis? Waymo, by far the leader, is doing about 500,000 paid rides a week, and analysts estimated its revenue run rate at roughly $355 million earlier this year. Tesla doesn’t even break out robotaxi revenue and we expect it to be a fraction of Waymo’s.
Maybe that flips one day. But that’s the bet here: Tesla is walking away from a giant market it can sell into today for one that only gets big if autonomy is solved in the next couple of years. Musk has made that exact bet before. He promised a million robotaxis on the road by 2020 and has said unsupervised self-driving was a year away almost every year since 2016. He’s lost every time.
And that rush is real, for what it’s worth. Some people want the last of a weird, genuinely impressive truck. That doesn’t make it a business.
Musk says Cybertruck isn't dying from weak sales — the numbers disagree electrek.co/2026/11/09/musk-… by @fredlambert
Ben K retweeted
Rightly or wrongly, the public does not care about a five point miss if the miss goes from D+8 to D+13. Misses in the direction of Dems aren't taken seriously, and misses that don't flip a race aren't taken seriously.
D+2 to R+1: MASSIVE POLLING MISS
D+8 to D+13: Who cares?
Ben K retweeted
National House vote margin in midterms 🗳️
• 2026: D+12.9
• 2022: R+2.7
• 2018: D+8.6
• 2014: R+5.7
• 2010: R+6.8
• 2006: D+8.0
• 2002: R+4.8
• 1998: R+1.1
• 1994: R+6.8
New @CookPolitical: with more than 114 million votes counted, Dems' national lead in the House vote is up to 12.9 points. cookpolitical.com/vote-track…
Ben K retweeted
Just to underline how ludicrous the posts are that claim "the study comparing mortality after Moderna vs. Pfizer shows 400k excess in the US"
The bump of deaths during the pandemic is driven by covid and external causes as of 2020
But sure "vax caused 400k excess!!!!" 🤪🙄🤡
Ben K retweeted
Pretending Charlie Kirk is a free speech martyr is part of what encourages the jokes.
The guy was literally part of an attempt to overthrow American democracy in 2020. This was after years spent pretending to care about the rule of law and "constitutional principles".
You think if Trump started rounding up his enemies, TPUSA wouldn't have been making videos of liberal tears and how funny it is?
No one buys any of this. Charlie Kirk was a propogandist for the red tribe. It doesn't mean he deserved to die, but if you try to make this man into a great hero, others are going to find it funny. richardhanania.com/p/charlie…
Ben K retweeted
In Florida, because of Ammendment 3, a city like Orange City, will lose 90% of its property tax revenue. I looked at the city budget and property tax is used almost entirely to pay just for Police and Fire.
What exactly are these small towns supposed to do?
Ben K retweeted
In order to give away more gifts to old people, Florida just decided to defund the police.
Ben K retweeted
Please do not go down this rabbit hole. Let me explain something no data analysis can.
Counties run elections.
We don't have one election, or even fifty. We have 3k+ every election day.
Most of those elections are run by election officials in rural counties.
So it stands to reason that most election officials are probably Republicans.
A uniform swing in one direction may appear suspicious to some on a chart.
But behind it are thousands of employees that took an oath to the Constitution, polling place workers, and election observers.
Every one of these elections is scrutinized. Each one signed off by people who live in the community.
Real election fraud is already extremely difficult to pull off.
Pulling off fraud in a uniform swing is like winning the powerball three times.
Consecutively.
Ben K retweeted
Democrats in Arizona have an insane opportunity. They have total trifecta power for the first time since *1966*
This is by far the most liberal legislature in AZ history.
Arizona goes from a GOP legislature to a Democratic trifecta
Gov: Hobbs wins by 13.1
House: 33R-27D → 37D-23R
Senate: 17R-13D → 20D-10R, right at a two-thirds supermajority if leads hold
per @DecisionDeskHQ
Ben K retweeted
What's really crazy is, Florida is *also* prohibiting cities and towns from cutting police budgets to make up for lost revenue from Amendment 3.
A lot of cities in Florida woke up on November 4 with new, ENORMOUS unfunded mandates.
Ben K retweeted
Newsmax got shook when I smuggled the fact Florida Republicans just DEFUNDED THE POLICE during the Blue Tsunami.
Ron DeSantis put a massive property tax cut on the ballot. Republicans in the statehouse approved putting it on the ballot. It passed with 65% of the votes.
Florida’s Sheriffs associations came out against Amendment 3 because it would cut their funding.
Republicans led by Ron DeSantis took BILLIONS out of police budgets in Florida, the last remaining state of any size with Republicans in charge, despite a purple electorate.
The next time someone tries to fear monger that Democrats will defund the police just point them to Florida, Republicans and Ron DeSantis as the new leaders in that movement.
That’s why I smuggled the fact Florida just massively defunded the police, along with fire and other essential services this week.
Ben K retweeted
Rightists have trouble understanding why Charlie Kirk jokes are funny.
Maybe I can explain it in a way you can understand.
People make jokes when a situation is absurd, and more specifically, when others demand you say something untrue about a person and treat them with more respect than they deserved.
George Floyd died. You conservatives thought jokes about St Floyd were funny. In your mind, he was a criminal and a drug addict, and leftists had treated him like the Second Coming of Jesus. Or think about how you'll see a trans person playing basketball with biological women, which leftists tell you is fine and normal, and how funny it is to laugh at this.
Similarly, most Americans do not share your personal admiration for Charlie Kirk. They think he was a bigot and a conspiracy theorist. He was also not in any way a thinker or someone who contributed positively to the discourse, but a political hack who formed his opinions based on tribal considerations and owning the libs.
When Charlie Kirk died, you went around cancelling people for being insufficiently sad. Even if someone said they were sad about his death and they just thought he didn't deserve to be admired, in those cases rightists still tried to destroy people's lives. Republicans in Congress started calling for a statue of Charlie Kirk in the US Capitol, and others introduced legislation to put his face on coins.
As of April 2026, an AP article identified more than 60 Kirk-themed bills introduced across over 20 states. Among these was one in Florida that threatened to take away funding from universities if they didn't rename a road after Charlie Kirk.
Outside of your bubble in which Charlie Kirk was a great thinker and leader, this is all ridiculous.
So when people at a Chappelle show hear the name "Charlie Kirk," they're not thinking about the human being and father. They're associating the name with rightists trying to create a cult of personality, and are employing humor, which is common when people are facing a movement that is trying to tell them what to do.
Ben K retweeted
The Free Press "corrected" this outright lie with a reply to this tweet - but then didn't delete the lie! This is journalistic malpractice.
Correct approach: Screenshot the tweet containing the lie. Post your correction and apology with the screenshot included. Delete the original tweet.
This quoted post is unavailable.
Ben K retweeted
Steven Miller's immigration policy has taken arguably the GOP's best issue and made it a liability. He, second only to Trump himself, is responsible for blowing up the multiracial coalition that elected Trump in 2024 and sparked the GOP's dream of a multiracial working class coalition. He's also probably the single most despised person in American politics. So of course, Trump appointed him Chief of Staff after getting humiliated at the polls. It's so perfect.
Ben K retweeted
Jared Kushner's father paid $25,000 to have a prostitute seduce his sister's husband on a hidden camera. Then he had the sex tape mailed to his sister.
His sister had been cooperating with federal investigators looking into his taxes and campaign donations. Charles Kushner, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer, wanted leverage.
According to the FBI complaint, the men he hired couldn't find a woman willing to do it. So Kushner personally recruited a call girl in New York and promised her $7,000 to $10,000.
She met the brother-in-law outside a diner and said her car had broken down. The next day, a hidden camera in her motel room recorded them having sex.
Kushner watched the tape in a conference room at his office and "expressed satisfaction," the complaint says. He asked for copies with her face pixelled out, and still photos.
He tried the same thing on another witness, a former employee, and advanced $10,000 to $12,000 for it. That man turned the woman down twice.
In May 2004 he ordered the tape mailed to his sister and to her children, timed to arrive right before a family party. The investigator he hired talked him out of sending it to the kids. His sister opened the envelope and gave it to federal agents.
In the video below, Chris Christie, the US attorney who prosecuted him, says it was her son's engagement party, one Kushner was going to attend. He calls him "the most disgusting defendant" he prosecuted in his seven years there.
Kushner pleaded guilty and got 2 years. In 2020, Trump pardoned him. In 2025, the Senate confirmed him as US ambassador to France, 51-45.
At his hearing he said: "I made a very, very, very serious mistake." And: "There's only one accountant I trust that I believe in, and it's God."
Should a man who did this to his own sister represent America in Paris, or did 2 years in prison settle it?
Ben K retweeted
So here's what happened in today's Stupid Olympics.
There are two people named Dana White.
One is President and CEO of the UFC
The other is Dana W. White, who served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense under Secretary James Mattis
Their pictures are below. He's the white guy. She's the Black woman. I'll call them UFC Dana and DOD Dana to make it easier for you.
Suzie Wiles, shortly before being replaced by Count Stephen Miller, advised Trump that his new Press Secretary should be Dana White.
And Trump in all his finite wisdom, immediately assumed the UFC Dana, who has never done anything to prepare him for press secretary, and not DOD Dana, whose entire career has been in preparation for that.
Now you might be saying, "Kelly, not everyone knows about DOD Dana. It's an honest mistake."
But he's NOT just "everyone." He's the President of the United States. And this is a man whose administration has been firing Black people, women, trans people, and so on, insisting that none of them got their job based on merit.
And then he's going to name someone completely unqualified to be Press Secretary because the President is a fan of the UFC.
And he didn't even think to ask anyone. It never even occurred to him to ponder whether UFC Dana is the person he should pick as Press Secretary.
Stupid and incurious are a dangerous combination, and this man is both of those things.
And that got me to thinking about the two Dan Sullivan in Alaska. And I get it now. The man who is too stupid to know the difference between two Dana Whites thinks Alaskans are too stupid to know the difference between two Dan Sullivans.
Ben K retweeted
Oh look. This racist college republicans account is actually part of a sockpuppet operation and forgot to switch to one of its other anons that postured as a Dem voter from Michigan...
Ben K retweeted
This is 17-year-old Stephen Miller, filmed in 2003 around the time of the US invasion of Iraq. In a 2017 article (link below), @vicenews confirmed Miller’s identity through three individuals who were present at the time, verifying the video’s authenticity. Miller is currently White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
There have been repeated attempts to scrub this footage from the internet, but as we all know, the internet is forever. This clip offers a glimpse into his early mindset!
Ben K retweeted
Kevin Bass? Kevin Fucking Bass?
The antivaxxer who got kicked out of medical school for sexual harassment?
That's who Trump is platforming?
There's no depth to which this sad, little tinpot won't sink.
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