• Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Trump inauguration date: Tesla 426 USD per stock

    Today: 240 USD per stock

    He did a little oopsie

  • andallthat@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Two comments:

    1. If you and Elon Musk are playing bad-cop-good-cop, how shitty of a person do you have to be for Musk to play the good cop?

    2. This sound a lot like Russia saying they want peace. You know the argument that"if Ukraine just gave up their territory, government and freedom there would be no war, it’s their fault!". Same here, if Europe removed all their social security and pesky regulations so that US companies could do everything they wanted there would be no tariffs!

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      2 years ago

      After the report the other day that Trump said Musk would soon be gone, with Musk responding that that was fake news, I was expecting Trump to be playing the good cop.

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        He took loans against his tesla stock to buy Twitter. If the value of that stock gets low, The banks or whoever will ask for their money. They could also sell the stock to try and recuperate some of the money and that will cause tesla to drop. Which will cause investors to sell and it’s a spiral until hopefully he’s broke. Thata why hes crying about the protests, telling his workers not to sell their stock, and having trump and his propagandists say support the asshole buy a truck!

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          How is this affected by him selling X to his AI company? I know banks don’t like letting you off the hook, but I also know banks do things differently for rich people. I figured that was the reason he did it in the first place.

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            2 years ago

            according to Reuters , he sold it for 33 billion with 12 billion in debt. So 45 billion total, which is conveniently 1 billion more than what he paid originally. It also says that the banks that lent him 13 billion were finally able to sell. I wonder if the Saudis bought it.

  • VeryFrugal@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    I’d say just about the same thing if I had lost a whole Boeing’s market cap worth of stock value in just about few days.

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      2 years ago

      Naa this timeline is dumb they’ll just say its gods plan and blame atheist gay vegans. I want to be wrong so bad.

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        2 years ago

        You might be onto something with gay vegans. The democratic party leadership has been flailing around looking for a cause they can rally around without solving any problems for anyone.

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      2 years ago

      Oh god you’re right. Research into lone actor grievance fuelled violence shows that people who are more likely to do it include unemployed people with MH issues and access to firearms. Musk inspires a lot of hatred and the news is saturated with him, someone already shot at Trump… it’s gonna happen.

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    2 years ago

    They’ll still hate Tesla almost as much as they hate you, Elon. They won’t suddenly start trusting Xitter or Starlink, either. Just shut up and go away.

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    2 years ago

    Alternative headline: Musk pretends to be critical of policies he’s endorsed and supportive of countries he actively interferes in the elections of

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    2 years ago

    He said this in the far right political party of Salvini, current rival of the far right prime minister Meloni. Weird I thought they were loving each other, Did Meloni push him back?

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    2 years ago

    Which is roughly what we had before he rode Dirty Diaper Donny into the White House.