Tesla Engineer Quits, Roasts Elon Musk in Spectacular Fashion

Elon has caused enormous damage to Tesla's mission (and the health of democratic institutions in several countries)

The Trump presidency will cost between [1.7 billion](https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/trump-biden-us-climate-action-1.7383758) and [4 billion](https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030/) tonnes of CO2 by 2030. Tesla saved 20 million tonnes in 2023 and 32 million in 2024. Damage control will take decades at best. And Musk asked his base to vote for Republicans to Congress in 2022, who gave Trump unlimited power over tariffs, the chaotic application of which has now slowed down US GDP growth from 2.5% to 1.6% and undermines investors' faith in the American market. NASA's budget is about to be cut to a level [never seen](https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-2026-budget-proposal-in-charts) since the Apollo program. African children who SpaceX engineers worked so hard to get internet to are now dying of hunger and disease due to USAID's destruction. It's mind-boggling and sad how in 3 years Musk has destroyed his entire legacy that he spent 30 years building.

I agree except that the legacy was always just virtue signalling to provide cover for tye larger money/power/ego goals. I find it difficult to believe Elon cares so long as his bank account and goal dejure is on track.

And Tesla stock gonna go up another 20 points tomorrow 🤷‍♂️

Saved? LOL, just walk, run, cycle and take the train if you actually care. Tesla hasn't saved anything, it's nothing but greenwashing.

"roasts Elon Musk in a spectacular fashion" is a pretty wild exaggeration for what was said, because what he actually said was very tame and diplomatically worded, all things considered. My guess is this reserved reaction was the best he could do without fear of violent reprisal from Musk's vast army of psychotic halfwit edgelords. If he said what he actually thought unredacted, he'd probably have all of six minutes to pack a bag before one of Musk's NaXis set fire to his house.

I can't stand when I see the line "Elon built". He doesn't build shit. He buys his way in and takes over. He is not a thinker or a builder. He is a parasite that moves from one host to another.

Elon has never actually cared about any of that. He picked companies that he saw were about to take off and then rewrote his biography to fit the narrative.

This is gonna take the stock to $500

unless it changes literally anything at all, this is pointless

Does it count as "Saving CO2" if you sell the CO2 credits so that other companies can emit?

Do you believe that Musk is directly to blame for Tesla's culture problems, or is it simply the strain of growing at that scale?

God your truths made me so sick because reality is metal… whether we like the metal or not…. I prefer baby shark metal, but I’m forced to live a tree stump grinder metal now….

“Disgruntled employee” and “didn’t really contribute much anyway”

On the bright side, hopefully more people will realize how worthless the SEC is currently.

Seems like the engineer was brainwashed. Musk posts/reposts frequently about solar and batteries on X; or at the very least replies to solar/battery posts that are proponents for it. Gotta remember that Elon plays the long game. He may cozy up with those that may be in opposition to the Tesla mission but he changes their minds one way or another.

I do think the guy wants to see a mars colony, but yes he’s clearly willing to be optimistic with shareholder expectations (lie his ass off) to get it, and he’s clearly not above political sycophancy.

>"I do need to address the elephant in the room: the main reason I'm leaving is that I think Elon has dealt huge damage to Tesla's mission >(and to the health of democratic institutions in several countries)," Giorgio Balestrieri, a staff algorithms engineer who joined in 2017, wrote in a scathing LinkedIn post last week. >"Beyond that, Elon's leadership and decision making seem seriously compromised." I don't know. Seems pretty spectacular to me.

Hey now. He just bought a billion dollars of stock that he rolled out with quarters... of millions of dollars

Thank you! Been shouting this into the void for years now.

Why are we posting click bait?

Doubt he cares now, stole every government database he could while DOGE existed, in exchange for helping steal an election and who knows what the value of that is and what that precious data will be used for. No wonder the share price is still high.

The strain of his worthless, lying and narcissistic ego growing at that scale?

It says a lot about our media & journalism, specifically in regards to research, in how lazy they are, and in how much they fail us. So many amateur & independent sources have reported for years now how much if his background story is filled with lies. Yet in 2025 we will still get ABC, NBC, CNN, and the rest referring to him as a tech genius, or the founder of Tesla. His sycophant SpaceX founders refer to him as a rocket engineer, but they are just fanbois ignorant to everything. Yet we can get a CNN news piece referring to him as the chief engineer as if he had something to do with the rockets. Again nobody bothered to cover the outcome of that idiotic Hyperloop fiasco. But they sure did hype it up at the start. Where is that 60 minutes piece covering how much of an embaressment the Vegas loop turned out to be, or how ALL those cities that were supposedly signed up to have tunnels dug. I remember a few news establishments covering how city X or Y had signed up to have a hyperloop tunnel built or their futuristic car fiascos done. Sad realization that modern commercial journalism & news is not about informing anyone, not about educating anyone. As much as they love to pat themselves on the back and think they are the 4th Estate protecting us all, their self flagellation is doing more harm than good. All about the news cycle & ratings or viewership or subscribers. Worst of all? I can literally see the commercial for profit media trying to rehabilitate Elmo's image in a few years.

The real tragedy is how these simple, obvious truths are never disseminated in our thought-controlled/billionaire-controlled corporate media machines.

> African children who SpaceX engineers worked so hard to get internet to are now dying of hunger and disease due to USAID's destruction. Yeah, but someone is still on the hook for paying the monthly subscription for starlink space junk.

Perfect right 👍

Oh the inhumanity!!! Think of all those “African children.”😂😂😂😂😂

Elon is a degenerate grifter.

They are real and they are spectacular

You can roast people in a spectacular fashion and still do it eloquently. Have you ever read Emma or Bronte sister stuff?

But this isn't a spectacular roast, it's tepid. There is so much more he could say just as eloquently. This was tepid, lacking detail. When I say it's reserved, I'm not saying that it should be filled with expletives, I'm saying that there's way more material he could save brought forth. This could have been far more scathing.

He is willing to have a mars colony now in so far as being able to rule it, just like the other tech-utopia adherents with their island cities and independent nations.

Part of me still hopes you’re wrong, and this was all just a speed bump on the way to post scarcity caused by late stage capitalism eating itself.

Not enough Musk worship. Try harder 😂😂

Newman probably found out.

I believe everything he’s ever done, even aligning with trump, is ultimately to one day own mars. Tunnels? Can’t live on the surface of mars. SpaceX? obvious enough. Tesla cars? No fossil fuels on mars as far as we know. Tesla Panels? Will charge everything on Mars. Tesla bots? Will be the first sent to mars to build a habitat. Hyperloop? Would be able to transport from one side of the planet to the other in a vacuum sealed tube? Why? Mars. I’m pretty sure Mars has been his goal long before we knew his name.

As a long term TSLA investor, I'm all smiles. Keep up the great work Elon!

not enough musk worship. try harder

I believe it's time for the richest man To pay for his only rockets,not tax payers