These arguments aren’t going to sway a judge or the SEC, it almost feels amateurish. Of course I presume that Musk and Tesla’s lawyer are very competent, but they have to work with what they’re given. I suppose the brief can be seen as red meat for his most loyal base, but so what? This isn’t a political campaign or a popularly contest, and it almost seems calculated to piss off the regulator that has Musk’s balls in a vise.

Musk just confuses the hell out of me. On one hand he started SpaceX, which is a ballsy and amazing company on track to bring launch costs down over the long haul. He seems to have has the wisdom to put competent people in charge of it, and then stick to the PR game he sometimes excels at. On the other hand we have Tesla, which he burdened with SolarCity and his own bizarre behavior. It’s a really weird situation, and if he didn’t have such a favorably stacked board and s grip on the company it’s hard to imagine he’d still be around.

Weirdly the only realistic way he loses his job at Tesla is if the SEC kicks him all the way off, and he’s practically waving a red flag at them! What is the point of this? His ego can’t possibly be thst fragile, and surely someone in his life can tell him to shut up.