TSLA Stock Crash Signal: Elon Musk as Bad for Tesla as DOGE

The reign of chaos orchestrated by the DOGE-worshipping wrecking ball who just created the biggest inefficiencies in government history isn’t just embarrassing—it’s demolishing our federal government capacity brick by brick. America’s power and security teeters on the edge of oblivion from internal idiocy, careening toward disaster with all the control of a “self-driving” Tesla slamming into yet another highway barrier. And now, as the South African-born billionaire boy-king threatens to retake his throne at the Texas headquarters where scientific predictions have repeatedly failed to materialize, we’re witnessing the setup for an even more spectacular implosion. The company that already specializes in ethical blind spots and scientific fantasies is about to double down on its most toxic asset. Buckle up for the crash—it’s going to make their stock price look like another SpaceX rapid unintentional disassembly.

Source: “Gunners Mate”, US Bureau of Naval Personnel

Experts who know how to maintain a well-oiled powerful machine, never remove huge sections of said machine under a chaotic aegis of extreme “efficiency” because they can predict an avoidable disaster–definition of inefficiency–that comes next.

TSLA Stock Headlines on April 02, 2025:

  • Tesla sales plunge: Biggest decline in history
  • Wells Fargo: brace for Tesla stock to drop another 50%
  • Tesla Q1 plunges 36%, worst performance for any period since 2022
  • Tesla Q1 One of the Worst-Performing Stocks in the S&P 500
  • Tesla’s deliveries ‘disaster’ is a warning
  • Tesla data is out — and it’s much worse than expected
  • Tesla’s sales ‘brutal‘ and the worst he’s ever seen

And yet, after so much sensible analysis ink has flowed from the many experienced pilots reporting we should continue to believe gravity is real, a suspicious disinformation hand tries to float an anti-science oppositional narrative like this:

…Trump privately voiced concerns about Musk’s role and whether he had overstepped boundaries. A major turning point seemed to be Musk’s growing tendency to bypass normal governmental protocols, which led to public relations disasters and controversy, particularly after his plans to overhaul federal agencies were aired on social media without proper coordination.

Growing tendency? Musk is defined by his overstep. Such a disaster. Total failure. Outcome metrics awful. And yet, observe next how the disinformation spigot spins a “notable bounce” story of unsubstantiated “injected optimism”:

Tesla’s stock made a notable bounce Wednesday after Politico reported that Elon Musk could leave his post at the Department of Government Efficiency. This development could allow the Tesla CEO to refocus on the struggling EV maker. While the stock surged 5%, it had dropped as much as 6.4% earlier in the day due to weaker-than-expected vehicle deliveries for the first quarter. However, the news of Musk’s potential exit injected optimism back into the market. Musk’s departure from his government post follows recent discussions with President Trump, who, despite being pleased with Musk’s role and the DOGE spending cuts, agreed that the billionaire should return to his businesses.

Wall Street should not allow investors to even flirt with letting a one-man wrecking crew back into a boardroom. The story of Elon Musk is nothing but horrible carnage in his overstepping wake (nevermind the sock puppets, astroturf, and ballooned self-dealing valuations), and we are supposed to still believe how the market responds rationally to this. His public persona has shifted dramatically now that his smoke-and-mirror show has become as obvious to the lay observer as the expert in 2016. The reality is unavoidably evident, such that any “return” may spell huge trouble in shareholder value.

History shows us what happens when positions of influence are surrendered to people who do not care about any outcomes other than their own personal success. Would anyone invite Lance Armstrong back to lead a team of athletes? Of course not. Figures with this track record rarely admit defeat by definition—the narcissism won’t allow it. A meticulously crafted “everything’s perfect” eggshell isn’t something meant by the owner to be put back together again. All the pristine “our failure is our success, best product is no product” dashboards showing cars without drivers by 2017 and full colonies on Mars by 2022 are finally sprouting healthy truths through the cracks. Like flowers breaking through the 100% “clean” concrete, even deeper questions about patterns of overpromising and rapid underdelivery soon might bloom. Elon Musk’s DOGE/Cybertruck trolling experiments are unraveling in real-time. Should we accept any of their unfulfilled promises that are surely backwards to begin with? Should we allow another day of the millions of red flags waving in everyone’s face to be treated as invisible?

Tesla Cars Officially the Worst in History

The Autopian’s recent analysis of Tesla presents a compelling case that demands full attention:

…just about every major automaker has skeletons in the closet. Henry Ford was no saint, Mitsubishi and Subaru made warplanes before cars, Mercedes-Benz’s history in the ’30s and ’40s is probably self-explanatory, GM played both sides, the list goes on. However, there is a difference in experience between reading about past actions and watching things play out in real time.

This observation brilliantly captures what makes Tesla’s situation uniquely troubling. While established automakers beg our awareness of their historical burdens, Tesla emerges as a company that had the opportunity to learn from these mistakes and yet seemingly chose to ignore every lesson instead.

The Autopian correctly notes, Volvo being just one of many brands notably absent from the typical roster of automotive historical transgressions, that ethical practices are easily achievable in the industry. Tesla intentionally built its brand around present willful ignorance and disregard for harms.

The article further illuminates how this translates into growing and late consequences:

…there is a difference in experience between reading about past actions and watching things play out in real time. […] One writer from the Atlantic drove a rented Cybertruck for a day and reported ‘I had been flipped off at least 17 times, called a ‘motherfucker’ (in both English and Spanish), and a ‘fucking dork.’ Imagine putting up with that on a daily basis.

This reporting captures the essence of contemporary accountability. It’s like telling the story of a Titanic captain who called anyone “woke” and “leftist” if they dared to say dangerous ice was directly ahead.

I mean can you imagine if the Titanic was pulling out of a harbor and the captain complained that people were flipping him off and yelling “hey, get a lifeboat you dork”. The hefty criticism isn’t wrong, as these Cybertruck drivers and those around them are in danger and all should be compelled to reduce predictable harm. After a decade of getting away with refusing to fix known deadly defects, throwing armies of lawyers at victims instead, Tesla and its buyers no longer can avoid an inevitable crash into reality.

The visceral public disgust with Tesla’s many ongoing moral failures represents a form of immediate historical judgment that older companies did not face nearly enough of in their formative years.

News reports warned that “Elon Musk said that he is leaning toward backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)” after he “has a clear, repeated pattern of making offensive and/or outright racist statements, hanging out with racists, and defending other people who are also racists.”
American autoworkers and their children in 1941 protest Ford’s relationship with Hitler. Source: Wayne State

If Henry Ford were alive today funding Trump and making antisemitic statements, or if Subaru still was making the equipment used in explosions killing Americans, society would rightly demand accountability now too.

The Autopian’s analysis correctly frames Tesla not as subjected to special scrutiny, but as a company willfully replicating known problematic patterns despite having full access to the cautionary tales of basic history.

This real-time documentation of Tesla’s self-destructive trajectory offers both an obvious warning and an opportunity for reflection on corporate responsibility in America’s present moment of anti-accountability extremism (e.g. MAGA). Those who are not protesting and holding Tesla accountable are enabling the worst mistakes in history to repeat.

Never again, is right now.

Tesla factory near Berlin, Germany

FL Tesla Kills One in Crash Into Rear of Semi Trailer

This tragic crash in Florida has some unusual details. A huge tandem trailer truck lost control while trying to swerve and avoid debris. Then, as it slid and tried to regain control, a Tesla at high speed crashed directly into it from behind either pushing it into a concrete barrier or hitting it immediately after. The truck driver was killed.

Source: CBS12

According to the FHP, the 44-year-old Miami man drove a semi-truck pulling a tandem trailer north in the inside lane about 1,000 feet south of Port St. Lucie Boulevard.

He swerved to the right to avoid debris in the roadway, striking the left rear of a second northbound semi-truck pulling a tandem trailer.

The Miami man lost control, and his semi-truck started to rotate counter-clockwise and began to slide sideways.

A northbound Tesla was behind the Miami man’s semi-truck, and the driver tried to swerve to avoid a crash but wasn’t successful. The Tesla’s front left crashed with the right rear of the tandem-trailer.

CA Tesla Crashes Into Two Teens, Leaving Them Critically Injured

Neighbors are brought to tears” according to local news that reports a Tesla was driving northbound directly at two 16-year old kids southbound on a scooter, brutally crashing.

Two teenage boys on an electric scooter were critically injured Tuesday when they were struck by a Tesla car in the city of Orange. The collision happened just after 2 p.m. on Hewes Street at Via Lardo Avenue, Orange police Lt. Phil McMullin said.

A witness in the ABC7 report says he watched the scooter in plain view of everyone from far away, and yet the Tesla continued driving towards them at a high rate of speed until impact, throwing them high into the air.

What’s particularly unsettling from initial reports is an apparent disconnect between what multiple witnesses plainly observed—kids visibly approaching southbound on a scooter—and the northbound Tesla failure to slow down or take any evasive action. While teenagers traveling the wrong direction on a scooter creates an initial hazard, the witness accounts indicate a complete absence of any defensive driving by the Tesla driver approaching them.

Source: ABC7

The violent nature of the impact—throwing the teenagers high into the air and leaving them critically injured—suggests minimal or no braking occurred. This incident raises serious questions about driver attention and the potential role of driver assistance technologies. Tesla’s Autopilot system has previously demonstrated detection difficulties with cross-traffic and smaller road users, including children, which warrants thorough investigation in this case.

Source: ABC7

The disturbing contrast between what was clearly visible to bystanders and the Tesla’s failure to respond demands both immediate police investigation and broader examination of how driver assistance systems perform in similar scenarios. This disconnect is precisely what has left neighborhood witnesses distressed and demanding answers.

This comes just days after an eerily similar crash in Northern California, as a Tesla critically injured a teen on a scooter.

Source: VVNG

And both of these bring to mind high-profile recent tests by an ex-NASA engineer who demonstrated why and how Tesla technology has serious blindness issues that put children in harms way.

March 2025 an independent Tesla Autopilot safety test demonstrated dangerous design flaws.