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If you really hate Elon Musk, I have two words for you. "Thanks Obama"
Every single aspect of Elon's "success" has been heavily subsidized or paid for by the US government (aka, tax payers).
EDIT: It seems the "Thanks Obama" meme has fallen into obscurity. It is an older joke in which everything was blamed on Obama, no matter how far fetched. I even used italics.
The point of my comment is that Elon is the biggest "welfare" beneficiary in history. All of his businesses would be a financial failure without billions of dollars in grants, benefits and contracts from the government, and that he's been sucking on that government teet since Obama was in office. In fact, it was Obama who saved Tesla, hence the 'Thanks Obama" joke. Even Obama is aware and why the crashing Teslas scene is in the Netflix movie he produced. Now Elon is looking for federal assistance to block his competition.
Obama did not make Elon a narcissist cry baby now did he?
Everybody is to blame but the gang of assholes that swarmed them.
On the contrary, Obama was an intelligent, well-spoken black (shudder) person that wore tan once. It's obviously his fault.