Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
What does a billionaire Silicon Valley liberal (or perhaps socialist, or maybe republican) do when his giant “Thai cave rescue” diversion from his auto company woes goes sideways and authorities tell him to back off?
Why handle rejection poorly and question the rescue chief’s credibility, of course.
And what does said billionaire do when the Thai rescue chief tells him to “stick his submarine where it hurts” before being outed as a top donor to a GOP PAC?
Engage in a weird Twitter exchange with the Sierra Club about climate change to show the world you’re an environmentalist, then call the Thai rescue chief a pedophile.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1018497953051258880
After Musk’s boy-rescuing submarine was rejected by Thai authorities and his idea called a “PR stunt” by rescue chief Vern Unsworth, the Tesla CEO began melting down over Twitter – saying Unsworth had been “inaccurately described as rescue chief.”
Unsworth, an explorer and expert cave diver who lives in Thailand’s Chiang Rai province, said that Musk was “asked to leave” the cave “very quickly” – and that the Tesla CEO had “no conception of what the caves would be like.
Musk hit back – tweeting “Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves … Only people in sight were the Thai navy/army guys, who were great. Thai navy seals escorted us in — total opposite of wanting us to leave.”
“I challenge this dude to show final rescue video,” he continued. “Huge credit to pump & generator team. Unsung heroes here.”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1018496446415306752
It was then that Musk accused the man heralded worldwide as a hero – a pedo.
After Musk’s shocking pedo claim, he doubled down – betting a Twitter user a “signed dollar it’s true.”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1018513369404493824
Maybe Thai officials had a bad feeling about his boy-rescuing submarine after Musk promised to send two tourists to the moon in 2018, only to delay the grandiose plan due to “technical challenges“? Maybe they saw pictures of Musk’s makeshift tent city assembly line and didn’t want to risk Elon rescuing a fraction of the boys he promised despite reassuring investors Thai officials it would be no problem? Perhaps they wanted to avoid a mid-cave battery fire?
Either way, Musk then responded to a nine day old tweet from Texas Observer journalist Christopher Hooks by calling him a jackass…
https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1016213509355573248
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1018506614616178688
Musk’s latest gaffe comes on the heels of a Bloomberg interview in which he acknowledged the need to tone down his Twitter spats, saying “I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because Somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season,” adding “This is my mistake. I will correct it.”
https://twitter.com/TMFNewCow/status/1018549401369894912
https://twitter.com/WallStCynic/status/1018558711671947268
Meanwhile, Musk’s pedo comment is not going over well…
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1018510616858898434
https://twitter.com/yoda/status/1018533652655951873
https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1018501898784124934
https://twitter.com/QTRResearch/status/1018546986486599682
https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1018519026492993537
https://twitter.com/PyrionFlax/status/1018528054371549185
https://twitter.com/lopezlinette/status/1018520209102114816
https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1018502460292251649
https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1018514059803541505
