Another ripple from the tariff and DOGE stone Trump and Elmo tossed. Things are going to escalate…

Read the article. The police have them all.

“We’ve gone through many a crisis over the years and actually been… on the ragged edge of death – at least, maybe a dozen times,” he told investors on the conference call Tuesday. “This is not one of those times. We’re not on the ragged edge of death, not even close. There are some challenges and I expect that this year will be probably be some unexpected bumps this year but I remain extremely optimistic about the future of the company.”

I was wondering why the stock price got so much air in the last few days. He got on the phone with his tech bro stock holders and promised miracles. But… Full Self Drive is a joke, there aren’t any new models being developed, the cyber truck is a disaster, and he’s outted himself as a mother fucking Nazi. It may take a while but his bag of tricks is running close to empty and being a ketamine junky isn’t helping him.

You forgot to add that the people who are steering that narrative are literally billionaires and millionaires who are actively publishing propaganda to brainwash the masses.

And it isn’t just undereducated people who fall for it. This is an effort that has been going on for 50 years. The conservative ideological points have been worked into ads, schools, and main stream television. Touting American exceptionalism while downplaying the socialist programs that have ushered in the golden era of America’s general populace prosperity. Medicare, Medicaid, social security, welfare, and even agricultural subsidies are all social programs enacted with the intent to bolster a strong populace. These downplaying and demonizing efforts are being paid for in full by multimillion dollar corporate conglomerates run by millionaires and billionaires. Conservative voters in both well educated places and undereducated places have been thoroughly convinced that these programs are horrible and are “stealing money from their pockets to give to dirty immigrants and poor people who don’t want to work.” Reagan, over 40 years ago, coined the term “welfare queen” which is the single dumbest term in the history of the world. No one living on welfare is living “like a queen”. And yet the term still gets airtime and ink in not only conservative rags but moderately liberal spaces as well.

Yeah it’s The Hill. They launder conservative talking points to neoliberals and centrists in order to obfuscate real information. Nothing they report is trustworthy.

And the more stock he has and the more it’s worth, the more money he can get from a loan based on it.

My point is still standing, the thing keeping him from selling his stock is not the taxes it’s the value of the stock.

This was literally proved when he sold some of his stock to pay off taxes that he owed. Bitching on twitter the entire time about it as well.

Thank you for confirming my point.

He actually had to sell some of his stock to pay taxes a couple of years ago. And when he did so it dramatically dropped the price of the stock. So no. There’s a rule in place that if you have a stock for X amount of time you do not have to pay taxes on it when you sell it.

Honestly I think the real nail in the coffin for that company would be if another company like BYD came in and started selling their EVs on the market. Cause unlike Tesla they make decent cars at affordable prices.

90% of what is keeping Tesla’s value is the tech bro community’s absolute belief in Elmo. If he sold all of his shares the value of the stock would plummet to almost zero. Hell if he even just sold a moderately large portion of his shares the stock price would plummet dramatically. That’s why he’s always so reluctant to sell his stock and basically uses it to leverage loans.

Do you have a source on this?

Collapsing hedge funds would be the icing on the cake.

Yeah, the people who trade that stock are stupidly invested in him personally. They’re hoping he will come back and reinvent the wheel at Tesla again and things will turn around for the company immediately. They don’t take into account at all that he’s completely burned down the connection to the people who primarily bought his stupid cars. And the MAGA crowd is either too poor to afford them or are completely uninterested in EVs.

I have young nieces who did nothing to deserve a life in the world these oligarchs are crafting. I owe it them to do whatever I can to fight these assholes.

Yeah, cause 1 rando’s unsupported opinion overrides a researched article that sites sources. You know, if you actually bother to click the links they provide. But hey, I guess you’re too clever for that.

I don’t even care if this is fake or not, this gave me a good laugh.

With a congress full of Republicans and utterly spineless democrats, I wouldn’t hold my breath for a renewal of funding. Not to mention Orange Julius Caesar is likely to veto any spending on people who aren’t absurdly wealthy.

No, but don’t you understand? Tesla is not a car company, it’s an AI company. They were just making cars while developing AI systems. So it’s fine if they stop selling cars. So just keep buying TSLA stock and everything will work out great!

~Elmo

It’s honestly better if that inventory sits on the lot unpurchased. It costs them money to store it and it looks bad for them having old inventory around months or even years out of date. Torching it just gives them a nice insurance payout.

They were overpriced garbage anyhow. BYD is outputting EV’s that are ten times better at a fraction of the cost. The only reason they aren’t being sold here is a bunch of protectionist bullshit that even democrats are responsible for.

It’s only misplaced faith by a bunch of techbro traders that’s even keeping the TSLA stock aloft. Tesla management literally dumps every certificate of stock they get as bonus the second they receive it.