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Yesterday evening, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2025, and they were abysmal: Profits dropped 71% from the same time last year.
Musk sounded bitter on the call with investors that followed, blaming the company’s misfortune on protesters who have raged at Tesla dealerships around the world over his role running DOGE and his ardent support of far-right politicians.
“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.
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“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.
No. When you do a double seig-heil on national television we protest for free.
Fuck, I’ll pay to protest at this point. I’m livid at this assface.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Fuck that, take my ideas.
I’ll donate $50 to the legal defense of anyone who rids us of this turbulent billionaire, and I’m not the only one who would
The ones I’ve been to have been the least organized protests I’ve seen. There was no announcement on www.mobilize.us, people just showed up on Saturdays at 12. I couldn’t actually find any organizers, there weren’t anyone with mega phones or anything. I wanted to thank them, but it looks like it was largly just people having the same idea.
do none of the investors just go “shut the fuck up you sig heiling cunt”?
The same investors who were fine with Musk peddling himself as real-life Tony Stark?
One is remarkably worse than the other
Nah, they are either true believers or the “420.69 lol” crowd
Free market go brrr
Don’t let up, this is just nothing to him. Make it painful.
Where do I submit my paid protester invoice?
I’m still waiting for my doge check.
Every accusation is a confession.
Submit expense reports here:
At most companies, it’d be long past time to show the CEO the door. But Tesla’s stock price is inextricably linked to Musk and his onetime image as Silicon Valley’s greatest living genius.
BWaHAAHAhaahaha. Ahhh what a fuckin’ idiot Elmo is.
He is also Tesla’s largest single shareholder, and has a hand-picked board. It would take a lot to get him to leave involuntarily.
Oh yeah, it’s not happening. I just thought the part about his image as the greatest genius was well-played as sarcastic AF and also laughable in hindsight
i’d kinda like to see a movie about some sales guys at tesla trying to sell their way around this, maybe dane cook/jeremy piven… and have their discussions with management, and their cooling off after hours. and michael sara just stumbles around with no sense of context and accidently being top rep.
Good. Hope it gets even worse.
They would have lost hundreds of milliions if it weren’t for carbon credits, which have now been removed.
Nobody’s got to pay me to convince me Musk is a nazi piece of shit, he did that all on his own.
he did the salute twice to emphasize his support;.
It is a mistake to lead off with “here’s the thing about Elon Musk,” because there’s LOADS of things with Musk, but in particular. Let’s set aside how ludicrous it is to claim that the protesters are being funded by some outside source, because sure that’s worked in the past, and of course it’s the Democrats, those notably cash-positive people, who are doing it.
Elon Musk is THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. If anyone could beat a theoretical money-backed protest against him, it would be him. Just offer to beat the offer of anyone funding the protesters. That’s it! If they’re only in it for the money then the protest would fold immediately.
More than that, Musk has literally paid people to vote in his favor in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race! The levels of hypocrisy are so staggeringly great that it risks materializing actual hippopotamuses on his properties.
Maybe he should spearhead a supertruck or an xcar project to save the company. Wow those xonsumers with a jetson car theme or something. Cheaply built but somehow luxury segment. It’s Idiot proof!
I’ve been calling the cybertruck the Homer since it’s release. So apt.
Maybe he should make a submarine and go see the Titanic
Made in China, no doubt.
So good. I hope investors keep buying and it just keeps failing and they all just lose a shit ton of money.
Shorting TSLA is my favorite thing right now. The one tiny bright point in my life.
Are there any ETFs that I can put money into that short Tesla for mentally handicapped retail investors like me? For example, inverse REITs are an easy way to short the housing market.
Unfortunately no. There is the Bear Cave though. https://thebearcave.substack.com/
You can bullshit the American people that they are paid protestors, but if any of his investors buy that line of bullshit, they deserve to lose all their money.
TSLA is around 1.5% of broad market index funds, like S&P 500, so if you’ve taken the general advice to put your 401k or other savings into index funds, you own TSLA.
Not if you moved to foreign indexes.
I haven’t checked yet but I spent my evening last night completely rebalancing my 401k and IRA to international stocks and municipal bonds.
If all goes well, my 401k should be executed by now. My IRA I have to do myself but that should be done tomorrow.
People with $3500 of TSLA aren’t really who I’m talking about here. You have a technical point, but it’s not really what I was getting at.
I really want one of these paid protester jobs.
Nothing on indeed or LinkedIn. Any tips on where to find them?
Basements of pizza restaurants.
