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Elon Musk Complains About 'Paid' Protests on Call About Tesla's Poor Earnings
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They probably receive or expect to receive funds or services from Social Security or some other government program. The filthy swine.
Somehow, I don't think that this is going to do a great deal to heal any brand damage with progressives.
Frankly, I think that Mr. Musk would be considerably better off if he would simply stop tweeting or publicly-saying things before running them past a PR team.
Hiring a PR team is too close to admitting that you recognize you say and do wrong things. Narcissism requires the denial.
IIRC he fired his PR team. That's why his reputation went down the toilet, we started getting raw Elmo instead of the shiny image his PR team had carefully crafted.
Apparently so.
https://www.bluesky-pr.com/blog/recruitment-hr-and-talent-management/why-elon-musk-shouldnt-have-dropped-his-pr-team
Frankly, I think that whatever said team cost would have paid for itself many, many, many times over from the "DOGE" incident alone, had it been able to dissuade Mr. Musk from engaging in it.
Who ever they were they really should advertise themselves as the people that were able to make elon look sane