Busy draining the swamp over there...
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Commerce Secretary is heavily invested in tesla stock.
dump that stock.
make the bank collect on Elon tesla stock loan collateral.
make Elon pay taxes on that stock.
He forgot the Golden Rule.
Never bet on a fucking Nazi.
- Never get involved in a land war in Asia
- Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line
- Never bet on a fucking Nazi
Never try to invade Russia during winter
Unless you're the Mongols of course.
Next week they'll probably try to rename the country as United States of America sponsored by Tesla Motors.
Just the year. The start of subsidized time.
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They're starting to reek of fear...
This is most probably illegal, even in the US. But, oh well, it's just Wednesday in naziland.
It's almost certainly a huge ethics violation. And it's disgusting. The gop doesn't even pretend to have integrity anymore.
No market manipulation is illegal in the USA for quite some time now.
Illegal is only illegal if someone is willing to prosecute it. Who pray tell is going to charge the Secretary of Commerce?
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The Democrats are going to have to wave those little round signs extra hard.
And then vote for the bill that makes this legal.
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People who take this advice are going to be disappointed when Tesla gets outcompeted by every other EV company and it drops to zero. It's just like the trump shitcoins. Just scamming their base at every turn because they've gotten used to lying about everything without consequences.
matter of time before Seattle starts disregarding tariffs and dumping teslas into the harbor
When the government starts promoting particular products, whether it's Goya beans or Teslas, there is a line being crossed. This administration is completely topsy-turvy.
The precedent was set with Goya. It's now only permissible to the GOP. President sponsored private businesses is such a fucking insane thing.
Disgusting. His "joke" about running over the reporter is even worse.
“Elon Musk is probably the best person to bet on I have ever met,” said Lutnick. “And I think, we all know that, I mean, gosh, in the same week that he saves astronauts with his rockets that he invented — imagine that. He’s building, he’s building the coolest robots you’ve ever seen. Go online and look up ‘Optimus’ — it’s the coolest thing you’ve ever seen, we’re all gonna be buying robots, they’re gonna cost about $30,000, you’re buying a Tesla robot, and anybody who doesn’t buy a Tesla robot is gonna be silly, no one’s gonna be keying anything. Elon Musk is the best entrepreneur and technologist in America and I’d bet on him — I wish I was allowed, but I’m not allowed to buy any stock!”
Thank you for this transcript. I doubt I could have made out anything of what Lutnick was saying given how deep into Elon's asshole his tongue appears to be.
This literally reads like a child's homework assignment to "write about your hero" lmao
he saves astronauts with his rockets that he invented — imagine that.
No, he didn't.
He’s building, he’s building the coolest robots you’ve ever seen.
No, he doesn't.
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Encourage the public to buy it while executives unload millions, yeah, wonder why they are recommending that.
He literally rug pulled a shit coin and then did it again with Melania lol
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tesla must be loving their image shifting from a "cool tech company" to a brand only loved by insufferable partisan pricks.
Brand that old uncool politicians go on tv and beg people to buy.
Good thing American consumers love desperation.
So much for the old "the government should not pick winners and losers!" line conservatives used to swear by...
Repeat after me:
Every accusation is a confession!
Remember Trump 1.0 selling beans straight from the White House?
Apart from that, TSLA most certainly is not good to bet on, despite its owner being one of the richest and most powerful people in the USA rn.
It‘s a bad bet because he is so insanely rich and powerful. Just take a look at Putin‘s Gasprom. Oligarchs know how to extract money out of a company before lesser oligarchs can get their hands on it. Avoid any stocks that are too close to the government right now.
It is frankly a terrible business move for a company to align itself with the government.
I think it is funny that Zuck decided to align himself with the administration. I'm sure it was to avoid being thrown under the bus by Trump but I don't think it is helping there general PR.
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We'll be back with more US government right after these messages!
Except for the fact that he is single handedly responsible for a massive decrease in teslas value. I would not bet on anything he touches because even if he were loved inside the US, he is now despised everywhere else. Tesla was built on left wing progressive ideals and so was spacex, and solarcity, etc etc. Musks turn to the right betrays all of those who liked his companies for ideological reasons. I don't expect tesla stock to recover any time soon.
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Having these guys shill for Tesla is not going to help the stock. It looks desperate. It turns off the core buyers even more.
There are two groups of Republican at this point. There are quite a small number of ultra rich people. There is an army of mostly not that well off folks. The latter cannot afford Teslas and have seen them as the enemy forever. This is going to highlight that the main GOP principle is supporting rich allies. It shines sunlight on a very dangerous fact.
Elon is really unpopular right now and “regular” republicans feel like he and DOGE are attacking them. Then they see the Trump administration rallying to support him. The GOP does not care about them but does care about him.
This could backfire on the GOP and it is not going to sell a lot of cars.
I'm thinking this administration is backfiring like crazy
I'm not sure what they are smoking but I want some
Elon is really unpopular right now and “regular” republicans feel like he and DOGE are attacking them.
Only those who have been personally harmed. The rest of them, and that's the vast majority, actually believe Elon is cleaning up the government and finding/eliminating corruption. I work with one, he's convinced everything DOGE has found and cut is corruption/fraud, the kids who are rooting through the Treasury are geniuses capable of finding things that no other administration has been able to (or been willing to?) find, and ultimately the Government is going to run more efficiently and taxes can be lower for regular people when it's all said and done. They're too deep in the rabbit hole to see the light.
Honestly, even if they've been personally harmed... They just move the goalposts. "He's kidding! Oh he isn't kidding? Well, it won't hurt/affect me! Oh it did? Well it won't be for long. Oh it's permanent? We'll this is necessary for it to get better. It didn't get better? Democrat lies, I feel fine. I no longer feel fine? It's the democrats fault!"
Truest thing trump ever said was that he could shoot someone on fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. This guy could march into their home, murder their family and burn down the house right in front of their eyes and they'd still be saying "if only the Fuhrer knew".
Yes fox viewers, you can be bag holders, do it.
Looking for bagholders lmao
So the big guys want to dump, right? Is reverse Cramer still up?
Once upon a time, Government was neutral towards brands. Or at least not as blatantly biased as Trump and Lutnick are.
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