Rabbits Against Magic by Jonathan Lemon for January 07, 2024

Even his name is a synonym for “stench”.

The world’s greatest vacuums, Musk, Newsom, Hoover.

To continue to fall upwards when making a mess of every single venture he’s engaged in* takes a certain type of genius, I guess.

*the battery he built for Victoria is actually pretty cool.

I do like the cologne he came up with many years back! (Well, sorta, anyway….)

You would think he’s on drugs

Musk is a totally and complete rat!

Thanks for the info.

Make an affordable EV. That would be genius.

Has Mr. Wriggly become a rat’s tail? (Who is that creature, anyway? I don’t think we’ve seen him before, but I could be wrong.)

What Jonathan, did the Tesla you bought let you down? Disappoint you? Fess up…

I don’t know… he did a GREAT job with Twitter!

Southern California has a long, LONG tradition of sabotage of public transit in favor of cars and highways.

Musk is a drug addict, allegedly

WHAT’S THE RATS NAME? HOLY BEJESUS. I take a couple of months off for brain surgery (not kidding. I had too many falls) and Lemon introduces a new character! Urrrg!

Mr. Wiggly: 2nd panel. He wants to make a point concerning his opinion of Ol’ Musky.

I’ve also noticed the color of Mr. Rat’s eyes keeps changing. Does Mr. Lemon have some dubious plans afoot? Or has he drawn an interesting new character? Hmm.

Disclaimer: just because Elon Musk is bad does NOT mean all autistic people are bad.

Okay, I’ve been a transportation historian for nigh on forty years, and this is the first time I’ve heard anyone accuse Musk’s hyperloop project, however far-fetched and “loony” it may have been, described in terms of a “sabotage” of California High Speed Rail. This falls into tinfoil-hat delusion worse than any Musk may have. The Musk project was aimed at an entirely different market—L.A. to Vegas—and currently Brightline, the first successful for-profit non-tourism passenger train operator since perhaps World War Two (depending on how you define terms), is taking aim at the L.A.-Vegas route after stunning success so far in the South Florida market.

The California HSR project is doing a fine enough job screwing itself and California taxpayers. Are you going to next insinuate that Brightline is “sabotaging” CHSR?