Musk said in a tweet that production of Tesla’s money-losing stainless steel loser-chariot would wind down “around the middle of next year” to make room for his Texas Gigafactory to ramp up production of the self-driving “Cybercab.” Sure, that’s the reason, not the uncomfortable fact that Cybercuck sales never came anywhere close to Musk’s goal of 250,000 units a year. Instead, Tesla only sold 38,965 ClusterTrucks in 2024, the first year of production. Sales dropped to 20,237 CyberAzteks in 2025, and in the first three cyberquarters of 2026, Musk could only unload 11,586 Incel Caminos. (No, Musk didn’t mention the vanishingly low sales in his announcement.)
Musk also didn’t say the elections factored into the decision to stop making the finger-eating e-behemoth after just three years. But we do know he’s a very sensitive boy who’s undoubtedly feeling a bit of regret for blowing half a billion dollars trying to scare voters. The inevitable tell-all stories from inside the Muskosphere, the investor freakouts, and the performative stunts of Musk fans desperate to buy the last few TrumpsterDumpsters will likely be hilarious.
Democrats probably can’t take credit for the collapse of Musk’s Wankpanzer folly — Elon made his brand toxic all on his own. But the 120th Congress should waste no time getting to work investigating all the sleazy shit Musk has done in the Trump years, particularly in his brief reign as Donald Trump’s co-president. We need an Oversight-a-Palooza.
As Robyn discussed the day after the election, a bipartisan group of members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is already looking into the Wall Street Journal’sOctober report (gift link) that Musk himself ordered the slowdown of data transmission over the military version of Starlink used by Ukraine’s military. The committee has sent letters to Musk, the Trump administration, and private businesses advising them to preserve documents that will be requested once the new session of Congress is sworn in.
That’s a pretty good starting point, and come January, House and Senate committees will be able to back up those document requests with subpoenas — and if the administration refuses to comply, there’s one more count in impeachment charges for the justice-obstructing rats.