Elon Musk, frequently referred to as the welfare king who takes billion dollar handouts on broken promises, just made an abrupt desperate plea to the Chinese government to keep Tesla out of bankruptcy.

Failures in management at every level in the company are coming to roost with missed deadlines, collapsing sales, product quality decline, broken supply chains, and rising staff and customer injuries and fatalities.

It sounds like things are running about as well for him as his family who helped run the white racist apartheid government of South Africa (which collapsed in 1988, the reason he fled and became an illegal immigrant to America, where large handouts for lies made him rich).

Now the welfare king, being as on brand as ever and instead of doing any hard work to fix obvious issues, has just announced he courted the Chinese government for a lifeline to tug his sinking dumpster fire into even more trouble.

In exchange for what?

Tesla AI (FSD) has been proven already to be worthless, a tired and unsafe laggard. It stands out as the least innovative and most unsafe in the robotics industry by a long way.

Ah, but what about those who see danger as a benefit?

If this news doesn’t scream national security failure corruption scandal, I don’t know what does.

The agreement with Baidu that is being reported would allow Tesla to go ahead with some autonomous driving technology in China. […] In December, a former Tesla employee told the BBC he did not believe the technology powering the firm’s self-driving vehicles was safe enough to be used on public roads.

Buried lede: China now likely will have some or all control over any Tesla killer robot operating mostly unregulated in other countries.

According to press reports, Musk struck a deal on… some requirements on data security. That, after he met with “old friend” Li Qiang, China’s premier.

You think China wants military intelligence robot soldiers freely loitering on American streets? Tesla is about to make it happen.

Consider the brand now as little more than compromised robots in public and private areas around the world capable of Chinese mass surveillance and targeted assassination.

How much money did Elon Musk just beg for in return for throwing his customers and anyone around them under a giant autocratic military bus?

Tesla was imploding from its racism and basic incompetence. Now it’s managed to rope China into helping it suck democracy down too.

The Tesla, very likely on Autopilot, apparently couldn’t follow faded or weak lines on the Kansas City road just before a curve.

Sgt. Phillip DiMartino , a spokesperson with KCPD, said a preliminary investigation shows a gray Tesla 3 speeding south on North Platte Purchase Drive. The driver of the Tesla did not turn with the curve of the road and crossed the yellow center line, striking a northbound Buick Encore head-on, DiMartino said. The driver of the Buick was wearing a seat belt and was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Related: One, two, three… similar recent crashes of Tesla that crashed failing to navigate a slight curve.

Scathing commentary from down under.

…Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, [left a note that] said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform.

It’s perhaps worth noting that Elon Musk is fond of misinformation as a power strategy (profit from a rejection of law and order).

He says his car company doesn’t make cars, for example.

We should be thought of as an AI robotics company. If you value Tesla as just an auto company — it’s just the wrong framework. If you ask the wrong question, then the right answer is impossible.

Cooking the question is not how to arrive at a responsible answer.

Tesla robots have in a few short years killed more innocent people than all robots in history.

Consider another example, when a door fit issue with Tesla was falsely labeled “not a door fit issue“.

Musk thus uses childlike propaganda to distract and delay anyone from holding his car company accountable, while he makes horrible cars: far more death and injuries than any other brand.

Likewise, Elon Musk holds many titles to avoid being accountable to any of them.

The more people tell him to focus, the less they understand his lack of focus, disdain for truth, is his exact defense mechanism against anyone who wants him to be focused and to hold him accountable.