The American market regulation system is so broken, it has taken ten years and hundreds of unnecessary deaths for mainstream reporters to start admitting Tesla is a fraud.

It wasn’t true then and still isn’t.

From hyperloops to solar roofs to trillion-dollar savings from federal budget cuts by DOGE, Musk has developed a reputation for excessive boasts and telling outright whoppers. For years, that habit hasn’t been a big problem for his companies, his image or wealth, but it’s shaping up to be one for Tesla, already stung by a 13% drop in its global EV sales in the first half of 2025.

The world’s “richest” man is basically generating wealth from fraud, which America is slow to act on.

Tesla drivers can pursue class action over self-driving claims, judge rules… The California classes include drivers who bought the Full Self-Driving package from May 19, 2017, to July 31, 2024, and opted out of Tesla’s arbitration agreement, and drivers who bought the package from October 20, 2016, to May 19, 2017.

CBS News says a Tesla slammed into the back of a law enforcement vehicle.

Illinois state trooper injured in overnight crash on I-88
State police said the trooper was inside their squad car when they were hit by a suspected drunk driver inside a Tesla early Sunday morning.

This has all the hallmarks of a driverless crash.

Zuckerberg has built the world’s most expensive human contact prevention system while lecturing us about bringing people together.

The Financial Times absolutely burns Meta for spending over $27 million on Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security in 2024—the highest among major tech companies and a jump from $24 million the previous year.

The tech sector had the biggest increase in companies implementing security measures for executives, with a 73.5 per cent jump in those receiving the benefits from 2020 to 2024, according to a report by Equilar.

Meta has long had the highest security bill of the big tech companies. The Facebook parent paid more than $27mn in 2024, up from $24mn a year earlier, for Mark Zuckerberg and his family’s personal security, including at their residences and while travelling, according to disclosures.

This absurd accounting raises uncomfortable questions about leadership isolation, let alone basic economics. Meta could probably give each potential threat a million dollars to disappear, and still save millions to donate to charity that would reduce threats even more. Hell, fund actual community programs that might address why people are pissed off at CEOs in the first place.

When a CEO requires more personal protection spending than entire small nations, it suggests a fundamental disconnect from anyone his platform allegedly serves.

The man who pushes artificial observed connections through his centrally controlled metaverse simultaneously constructs increasingly elaborate barriers between himself and physical reality.

This evil prison guard mentality explains Meta’s persistent tone-deafness—from privacy scandals to content moderation failures. How can someone make rational decisions when they experience the world through $27 million “scared squirrel” goggles designed to filter out basic reality?

Consider the broader pattern:

Zuckerberg buys Hawaiian land for its tropical paradise qualities, then builds walls to block the ocean breeze that made it paradise. Talk about blowing a budget. What’s next, cover it in stainless steel to get rid of the icky plants and yucky sand?

Meta promises human connection while designing platforms that isolate users in algorithmic bubbles. The company’s approach to user privacy and platform governance makes perfect sense when viewed through the shit colored lens of extremist isolationism.

Meta’s business model increasingly resembles what critics have long claimed: a prison system prioritizing control and containment over genuine human connection.

When your lived experience is total confinement by $27M “choice”, perhaps platforms that keep users similarly enclosed become your only reference point for shit “connection.”

Investigators are looking into why two of the eight Tesla did not burn as expected.

A big rig car-carrier loaded with eight Teslas caught fire on the Golden State (5) Freeway in Sylmar on Saturday, resulting in toxic smoke that shut down southbound lanes.

The fire was reported at 5:35 p.m. Saturday on the southbound Golden State Freeway just north of Balboa Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol. […] Video from the scene showed that there were eight cars on the trailer and that six of them were burned. […] Caltrans was on the scene to help remove the two unburned cars from the trailer…

Update: the Tesla PR machine is working overdrive to jump ahead of investigators and throw the trucking company under a bus. A Tesla Twitter account has named a trucking company (unnecessary) and asserted, without evidence, fire started in the truck. That being said, six of eight isn’t a good result.