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edhopper

(37,168 posts)
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:12 AM Jan 1

Here's everything Elon Musk promised in 2025 - and failed to deliver

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-failed-to-deliver-on-2025-promises

People on Mars by 2025

Tesla robotaxis would cover half of the U.S. population

Fully driverless Tesla robotaxis

xAI would achieve AGI

A flying car / demo of the long-awaited Tesla Roadster

DOGE would cut $2 trillion in 'waste, fraud and abuse'
This one hurt us all in ways it will take years to work out.

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mwmisses4289

(3,538 posts)
9. Actually, what he wanted even more than the data- all the different agencies
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 11:02 AM
Jan 1

investigating him and his companies to stop their investgations.

Ol Janx Spirit

(826 posts)
3. He doesn't even seem like a real person. Are we sure he is?
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:26 AM
Jan 1

Sometimes we see him glitching out on live video.

And he certainly lacks a lot of the qualities we would attribute to actual human beings.

Who is controlling that clunky POS?

edhopper

(37,168 posts)
6. I have posted this Evelyn Waugh quote about Trump
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:50 AM
Jan 1

but it also fits Musk.

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”

sop

(17,905 posts)
4. Elon is still taking deposits on his long-delayed Tesla sports car that he promised would be ready in 2020.
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:29 AM
Jan 1

Many depositors are struggling to get refunds for their substantial payments of up to $250,000.

tinrobot

(11,986 posts)
8. Musk quote: "The ability to predict the future is the best measure of intelligence."
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 10:56 AM
Jan 1

If that's the yardstick he wants us to use, then Musk is officially an idiot.

Dave Bowman

(6,925 posts)
12. He sill really wants to pretend that he's that guy who can save the world. Well, all he has ever done was
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 02:23 PM
Jan 1

nothing at all. He's a a damn parasite.

snot

(11,586 posts)
13. I have to admit,
Thu Jan 1, 2026, 02:26 PM
Jan 1

it infuriates me that DOGE quit before getting around to the Pentagon (which recently failed its EIGHTH audit! Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse!)

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