Musk's meltdown era is here - salon

[mzmolly]

This week, SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded — again — during a ground test in Texas. That makes four failures in six months for the company’s most ambitious project, the one NASA is relying on to carry astronauts back to the moon. But what’s another fiery setback in MuskLand? Nothing much, if you listen to Musk's own X account.

While the smoke clears on the launchpad, another crisis is burning: xAI, Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, is reportedly on track to lose $13 billion in 2025. According to multiple reports, it’s burning through $1 billion every month, and bringing in barely a half-billion total. Musk moved GPUs from Tesla to prop it up and is now pitching a $9 billion raise to investors. But that’s not innovation — it’s triage.

And now, the political theater collapses too. After years of courting Donald Trump and MAGA-adjacent culture warriors, Musk has been frozen out by Trump himself, who reportedly isn’t taking Musk’s calls. No more backstage passes. No more power dinners. Just a guy with exploding rockets, a hemorrhaging AI startup, and a dying social media platform full of trolls yelling into the void.

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Musk promised moon landings, AI revolutions, and free speech utopia. What we got instead? A billionaire in free fall — and the receipts are everywhere.

SALON

[enough]

1. Too bad he got to eviscerate the federal government before imploding.

[Skittles]

2. very symbolic with what they are doing to America

yes indeed

[Srkdqltr]

3. Everything Trump touches dies??

[ms liberty]

4. This makes me smile.

[mzmolly]

5. Me too! I wish him nothing but the

worst.

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. "a dying social media platform full of trolls yelling into the void"

Gotta rec for that line alone.

[NBachers]

7. Along with the robot, which is nothing but a remote-controlled dummy, the Cybertruck, which is an icon of failure, and

vehicles that become crematoriums when their victims get trapped inside before burning to death.

[Scalded Nun]

8. Could not be happening to a more deserving POS.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Are the Millers still married and living together?

Thanks for the thread mzmolly

[ecstatic]

10. funny article! The saddest part is that it's all self-imposed.

eloon has 0 emotional intelligence. All he had to do was shut the fuck up from day one. That's literally all he had to do.

[modrepub]

11. At Some Point

Maybe someone will document and correlate his downfall to his drug use. Will probably be decades before journalists put all of this together for public consumption.