> They can't handle when someone is expressive (aka the Tesla @ 420 tweet, he simply expresses his opinion)
How is faking a buyout offer for your company expressive? That's fraudulent.
> (weed is legal right? Yea, might smoke it, might not, does it matter? New experience is new data, hmm, doesn't seem too interesting).
Smoking weed on Joe Rogan's podcast forced the government to spend $2 million investigating the drug policies at SpaceX. Government contractors, especially those with security clearance are expected to have strict drug policies. Doing so sets an obviously bad example to all of your employees.
> They think he's insane. He isn't.
People don't think he's insane, they think he's a narcissist who is willing to say almost anything in order to satisfy his own ego or to meet some goal.
He needs to save his cousin's failing solar company, so he goes on stage with a fake product that has never come to fruition.
He needs to keep his shares a higher price in order to meet the debt convert convenants on some of his loans, so he fakes a buyout offer.
He has a cave diver see through his cynical PR move to insert himself in an international crisis, so he calls him a pedophile and pays a guy to try to dig up dirt on him.
He needs to re-open his Fremont factory in order to not keep burning cash in Q2, so he rails against "fascist policies" that close it down.
This isn't insanity; it's self-serving narcissism.