But seriously, news from Enron not very long ago was that scores of upper management were let go because of performance needs. In reality, Enron executives were firing anyone who could see and document the fraud, let alone whether any dared to speak out.

In a similar vein Tesla today is so awash with egregious fraud that it’s halting their supercharger team (which was a huge scam from the start), stopping the gigacasting team and their obvious nonsense, throwing out the “new model” team, and even service teams are being let go… as the list goes on and on.

It’s all crazy not least because there is a skyrocketing demand for repair technicians to clean up the mess.

If Tesla hadn’t tried to use “environmentalism” and “reliability” fraud to hedge and corner the EV market, they instead could be heavily profiting right now just from training electrical engineers to repair or replace battery packs.

Honestly, the amazingly successful Nissan LEAF becoming the most popular EV in the world in 2019 seems like not that long ago, given that we can see clearly now how much Tesla basically lied to steal the market and blew itself out in just five years.

What’s left of this fraud balloon?

Remember a long time ago when I used to call Tesla a culture of “free speed extremism“?

Of course he refers to himself as a “free speech extremist”, but really how different is that from extreme thinking that vehicles shouldn’t be regulated (shouldn’t have any suspension or brakes) and allowed to repeatedly stupidly crash instead?

The Onion just took its own hilarious swipe by saying it far better than me.

“As the brakes never really worked anyway, we figured the team’s existence was redundant. Going forward, none of our models will be outfitted with brakes. Instead, we will shift our efforts to making fart noises louder.”