Celebrity tea is when Elon gets into yet another altercation with someone on Twitter and nothing really changes about his professional reputation or his ability to keep running multiple companies. In fact, like a lot of celebrity gossip, these situations seem to be advantageous for Elon as he tends to go out of his way to court the situations and they keep his name and the names of his companies in the media.

What I’ve been seeing seems more like an attempted character assassination of an accomplished business leader who has done a great deal for society on many occasions. Sam was literally fired from the organization he co-founded — before being re-instated, because apparently the action wasn’t tenable, and yet we keep seeing attacks against his character as if someone still wants him gone, or at least wants his influence and credibility reduced going forward.