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TESLA!!
Tesla! Wait, let me rephrase: TESLA!!
People are gullible, and I'm thankful for that every, single day. If they aren't good for much else (and they really aren't), people are reliably credulous. And where there's credulity, there's opportunity.
On April 23, I wrote that Elon Musk would "figure it out." I didn't even know what I meant by that, but I knew that one way or another, Musk would find a way to get Tesla's shares back up, even if he had to resort to gimmicks, pie-in-the-sky promises or
We should refer to changes in his paper wealth in terms of Twitter purchases (one twitter = $44B), so he made 0.77 Twitters today. As much as brings me joy to watch Twitter flounder, it’s days like these that show Twitter is just a play thing for someone of his wealth and even losing billions on it doesn’t mean any more to him than me having to replace the HVAC system in my house. I am surprised Tesla hasn’t been impacted more by his politics, but even if it did, he’d probably be just as happy to play the “canceled” card.
Sales of cars were up 1%. Sales of regulatory credits were up 33%.
Stop the madness.
If Trump wins Musk becomes the God King he sees himself as. If Trump loses Musk becomes the poster boy for the fight against Democratic persecution, real or imagined (and we all know it will be imagined, because the democrats are a bunch of wimps.) Checkmate Libs!
“…and we all know it will be imagined, because the democrats are a bunch of wimps.”
This is an under-appreciated point. Every time I read about vast Democratic conspiracies and nefarious “libs” angling to oppress the populace and persecute Donald Trump, I think, “Clearly, you haven’t met any Democrats.”