Someone at Tesla supposedly thought they could generate positive buzz about their Truck fraud by slipping $400,000 to a front organization.

That “spend” kind of leaked as advance indirect fees, from Tesla, in exchange for a Truck made in the uncertain future, by Tesla. And somehow some people actually mistook that unholy self-dealing tryst for an actual Truck sale and delivery. Nope.

Buzz, buzz. Flop.

In related news, pre-production Tesla Trucks are allegedly being dumped as unusable, abandoned by their test drivers. It’s a revolutionary concept to make a vehicle so bad it can’t ever get to the production line, but even more revolutionary to have zero continuity plan for failure.

Millions of people paid $100 in advance fees into the fraud, so I’m guessing (like Bernie Madoff getting his investors to returns) all those victims are going to suddenly roost if this Truck dares to move into something transparent and publicly measured, like production.

Frankly I’m surprised that Tesla didn’t engineer a self-destruct sequence for it like SpaceX, so it can be blown to ash when abandoned: totally meant to fail.

Speaking of propaganda, Tesla claiming now to be under pressure to achieve sub micron accuracy is such a sad and pathetic attempt to distract from being multiple years off with estimates. You want to play sub micron? Maybe try being sub decade to start.

It turns out a loud CEO randomly shooting from the hip is great for attracting fear-addled investors looking for a tough talking John Wayne act to woo them through an uncertain market… but that also is really, really bad for the kind of certainty actually required for hitting any real target ever.

See the burn.