Eric Child

Jennifer: I am a fan of your pod cast and have the tee shirt to prove it. Plus, I want to steal Pumps away from you to be my BFF. I adore her. I have been a rabid Democrat my entire life. But, you’ve lost credibility with me. I’m no longer sure you tell the truth which is critical to your work IMHO. No matter how much the Republicans lie, we Dems must strive to tell the fact-checkable truth. No exceptions. I think you are treating Elon unfairly or worse. I’ve heard you make other half true statements about him which I address below. When you use non-political facts to make political arguments, especially when you veer into the area of a person’s family, it’s a showing of poor judgment and an off center moral compass in my book. Using a man’s young children to make cheap political points is simply wrong, always especially when you don’t know him. If you read the comments of people who say they know Elon below, you will see you are wrong and I believe you owe him an apology. I have read many articles about Elon and have never seen anyone but you report he is a dead-beat-Dad. Using that phrase connotes a man who refuses to monetarily support his kids and that could not be further from the truth. I think your comment was particularly ill-timed because his most recent partner has clearly been using their son against Elon publicly by appearing in what I believe is a defamatory documentary about Elon that Alex Gibney is hawking at Venice. Using babies, kindergartners, and grade school kids in a political rant leaves me cold. And, piling on is unseemly. You also stated previously that Elon was a welfare queen. I have researched this complaint and find it also be untrue or at least wrongheaded. Interestingly, whether people love or hate Elon, they all agree he often works himself to the point of collapse. I suppose you are attempting to register a complaint about SpaceX’s government contracts even though it is not what you said. A man who successfully sent his SpaceX company bravely into space two years ago on the spur of the moment to save two stranded US astronauts who Boeing had callously left behind in Boeing’s flawed equipment is not sitting around watching Family Feud. Who do you want to get US contracts, the failures like Boeing. I know it is easy to dismiss Elon because of his association with Trump. However, Elon is not buying himself yachts and building monuments to himself with his money. He is working all the time, spending every dime to make sure we all have a better future. That is why he is a great Father. He is doing all he can to give his kids and ours a better future to grow into. Go to the company websites and see for yourself. SpaceX is constructing a launch tower in Louisiana for interplanetary space missions (no I'm not kidding); Tesla is producing cutting-edge engineering and new technology to perfect electric cars we desperately need in response to the terrifying gas prices; and, Neuralink, is Elon’s neurotechnology company developing implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to translate neural signals into digital actions for the disabled. Elon is part of all these projects, not just as a manager but as an engineer solving problems daily. He makes these strides because he is brilliant, he is willing to take a risk, and he works like a marathoner. He is out there planting the seeds, pulling the weeds, and watering the soil every day so that we can harvest a better future. He is definitely no welfare queen Jennifer. Not in any respect.