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Anticipatory Obsequence
I hate to say I told you so, but... well, I told you so.
"Way" back on April 23, I wrote about Elon Musk. Tesla's shares were beset, and there were pseudo-existential questions swirling around about whether the company's hard pivot to "Robotaxi" might be a kind of death knell.
I wasn't worried. In fact, I was buying. As I reminded readers, you don't buy Tesla to bet on cars. You buy Tesla to bet on Musk. "I don't care for the man. At all. But that's a separate consideration from whether I'd be
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Are you selling TSLA now or holding it due to the “tailwinds”? I don’t own it, I am just curious.
I don’t need the money and I don’t want to pay the taxes on it, so I’m holding it.
My grandfather used to say it was his patriotic duty to pay taxes; but greed is good I guess…
Well I mean I’m already paying taxes on the part I sold, and if I thought the rest of it was going to just crater tomorrow, I’d obviously sell it too, but if the past month’s any indication, Elon’s going to leverage his relationship with Trump for everything it’s worth, and by God I want my piece of that additional upside. [shrug]