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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]
If Beelzebub’s in the pilot’s seat with Lucifer riding shotgun, might as ride the slipstream…
I thought you were godless H, is trump your god now?
Uh, what? You folks are seriously mad that I continue to own Tesla? Pull it together, guys.
Why not? Musk is constitutionally barred from the presidency or he’d already have it. And he gets much more money this way. He saw what Trump did in his first term. He sent bills to the government for millions, paid zero taxes and weaseled out of some bad property deals. Musk and Trump are a couple of grifters who really understand “magic beans.” That third wheel they picked will be gone by summer.
Didn’t mean to start this. The comments below are childish. Thanks for your honesty, H.
I saw something relevant to this a day or two ago in a story about the possible negative impact on corn belt farmers and workers (think MAGA base) if RFK is confirmed and moves to ban HFCS. There were amazing photos of a couple of giant refineries producing both corn syrup and ethanol.
The author interviewed workers at each. Unsurprisingly they were not real enthusiastic about that prospect but rightly kept a wait-and-see attitude, while also trusting Trump not to stab them in the back. The relevent quip came when an interviewee piped in and said “I’M SURE THAT ELON WILL THINK OF SOMETHING!”
So can we add “Elon will think of something” to “Trump will fix it” as mottos for 2025?
would love to see the end of HFCS and ethanol. would love to see end of musk corporate welfare.
when they make the lists of which things to actually do, these arent onthe list. just like Homan isnt going to TX or FL to find illigal immigrants, he’s going to chicago.