Do You Like Being
Lied to?
By Don Bennett
You've heard that certain people have "agendas", and people can have biases. And these can cause some people to outright lie about things to benefit themselves somehow. Whether it's to try and ruin a company that they've "shorted" on the stock market (betting that the company will fail), or because an editor tells a journalist what to write or tells a news anchor to read what's on the teleprompter, there's a ton of lying going on (don't get me started on all the lying about Covid 19 and the vaccinations). People lie all the time. And it's especially egregious when these lies stand to hurt good people... financially or their health.
Take yours truly for example. There are people who assume I sell Daily Green Boost (a green powder nutritional supplement) and they assume I make money from it because of how highly I promote it. But they'd be wrong in this case because I don't (because I want my recommendations to have the highest level of credibility, and they won't if I sell it). But there are also people who know I don't sell it, but say I do anyway because they want to discredit me (because they don't agree with me on certain health issues, or because I told the truth about something they said and that info did not paint them in a good light).
So while it's one thing to honestly believe you're right about something you're saying (even though what is being said is incorrect), it's quite another to knowingly lie about something when you know you're lying. Ignorance of the truth is fixable and forgivable, but lying isn't and isn't.
Now let's take Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and now owner of Twitter. Full disclosure, I'm an expert on Elon Musk, having been following his exploits since he started Tesla, and am familiar with his work before then when he founded PayPal and sold it to ebay (which was how he was able to start Tesla and SpaceX).
And just because many wealthy people are evil robber baron sociopaths who care about nothing other than themselves, not all wealthy people are like that. On that spectrum, Elon Musk is at the same location I'm at... he cares about people (but he is able to do a lot more good than I can because we're at opposite ends of the funds spectrum).
So this is why it upsets me when people lie about Musk in order to hurt Tesla (because the worse Tesla does, the more money they make). And these people are Tesla short-sellers, fossil fuel executives and investors, and legacy auto execs and investors. There are gigantic incentives for them to harm Tesla. And considering Tesla's goal: To accelerate the adoption of sustainable energy (generation, storage, and transportation), to want Tesla to fail so that you don't take a hit financially is an extreme act of selfishness.
And if you happen to have a negative view of Elon Musk, you likely have the mainstream media to thank for that. So if you're one of those people who simply believes everything the mainstream media says, then you're not getting the truth. Instead you're doing their bidding, or rather the bidding of those who influence the media's talking points and shape their (hidden) agenda.
Take this guy...
He's an anchor on an online mainstream business news program. And like most such anchors, his network and parent company has an anti-Tesla bias (because some of their big advertisers hate Tesla). So this guy took an opportunity to lie about Elon Musk.
As you may have heard, Musk bought Twitter because Twitter was censoring speech, and Musk didn't like that. So now Musk owns Twitter (and discovered a lot of politically motivated shenanigans that he made public, so now ardent Democrats hate him for revealing the collusion between Twitter and the Democratic Party that violated some people's First Amendment rights of free speech). And understandably Musk is spending a lot of his time fixing what's broken at Twitter, so anti-Tesla people jumped at the opportunity to start a meme that said because of all the time Musk is spending at Twitter, Tesla is suffering. This is of course untrue, and there is zero evidence of it, but there's no law against making things up and saying them.
So this "I'm just doing my job" anchor pictured above said, "...and according to Dan Ives, Elon Musk is asleep at the wheel of Tesla." No, Elon musk is not. And did this anchor correct Dan Ives or even challenge his statement? Of course not. In fact he said another lie, that Tesla's "fundementals appear to be slowing". No they're not. In fact they've never been better. So another attempt to harm Tesla. And it should be understood that Dan Ives is a fund manager and has clients who bought Tesla stock on Dan's recommendation, and now that the fear that these false memes have instilled in Tesla investors have caused some of them to panic and sell their stock, which brings down the stock price, which alarms Dan's clients, Dan wants Elon to turn over the Twitter CEO position to someone else and get back to running Tesla, even though Dan knows that Tesla is still running just fine, and that Elon has not "fallen asleep at the wheel". More disingenuous behavior from people who care more about their financial situation than anything else.
So, I'm just disheartened by all the lies told about people who truly care about people, whether it's me or Elon Musk. But especially Elon Musk, because his help can benefit the most people, including future generations.
Thanks for listening. And if you want to hear the CEO of GM lie about Tesla, read this.