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Uh and what has changed for the muskrat to suddenly grow a smidge of conscious? That trump may loose and he won't be reimbursed by the orange president?
Trump? Reimburse?
Wait….. what?
Maybe the wrong word. I mean in the sense that Elon thought of getting something more out of his 45 mil a month to trump once the latter became again president.
The aid money for Ukraine. Or from selling government secrets.
I agree, but...
Did you mean IDF or IVF?
Sadly, the average American are pretty supportive of the IDF
damn, I am really not into that sport or anything, but that asswhippin that the falcons toted around after that was rough on anyone in the metro area.
As an Atlantan, ouch. Great analogy but ouch.
Tesla profits are way down. He might simply be unable to afford it. Simplest explanations and all.
I don’t know if this is the actual reason, but it’s damn pleasant to think about.
Like everything else in that world it's really fucking complicated. He didn't get a check for $53 billion. He got a huge chunk of Tesla. First, I don't know of he gets it all at once, but second, even if he does it takes something like 6 months before he's allowed to sell it or use it as collateral due to being leadership at Tesla. Also the value is falling, so by the time he gets to sell it, it'll be worth less than today.
Also, I think this guy (or at least his companies) has monthly bills in the hundreds of millions between all his failing companies - boring company, starlink, Twitter. All of them are losing money. But what his personal finances look like I really can't know.
Caveat: this is my understanding pieced together from a bunch of sources I consider reliable, and upon which I relied for my earlier comment. I'm not an encyclopedia and could be wrong about some things.
Maybe the Tesla board finally explained to him that Trump voters don’t buy their products.
It's best to really doubt what Musk says. Likely he's still giving money but using weasel words to pretend he's not because of the fallout.
There's no smidge of conscience, this is merely self preservation after he became aware that he was drawing too much attention to it.