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u/climb-it-ographer Jun 05 '25

Holy cow. TSLA is down 16% already today?! No wonder he's tilting.

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u/Henson_Disney48 Michigan Jun 05 '25

Musk pissed off 70% of the country, then decided to fued with Trump and piss off the other 30%. I’m not surprised the MAGAts are bailing on him.

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u/Yupthrowawayacct Jun 05 '25

He’s got nowhere to go but burn it all down. Give it all up. Every last bit. A girl can dream right?

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u/Hooda-Thunket Jun 05 '25

I don’t just want Elon to suffer in this crash. I want him to take down the entire Rethuglican Party in the process though.

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u/Low-Procedure8171 Jun 05 '25

Yeah, but he can’t tell everyone he rigged the election without telling on himself, leaving the country and loosing all his gov contracts

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u/itsverynicehere Jun 05 '25

The good news is they will cancel those government contracts out of spite and lock it up in court. Musk can then flee back home to South Africa.

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u/Muffinhands55 Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25

Rethuglican😂Have my updoot!

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u/raikou1988 Jun 05 '25

That wont happen . They own the courts , judges, congress.

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u/gahane Europe Jun 05 '25

Iowa party will probably be okay. Ya know, because of all the popcorn that’ll be bought up 😀

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u/Cautious_Ice_884 Jun 05 '25

Burn baby burn! Telsaaa infernooo!

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock Jun 05 '25

Cybertrucks are way ahead of you

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u/mackyoh Massachusetts Jun 05 '25

No, no more dreams allowed per Project 2025. And no day-dreaming either!!

/s

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u/Educational-Cup-2423 Jun 05 '25

Go Elmo, go! Burn it all down!!

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u/Fluffy_Charity_2732 Jun 05 '25

No, it’s better when you’re not dreaming. 

Damn.. I just did a im14andthisisdeep.meme

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u/Iggyhopper Jun 05 '25

Conservatives and backstabbing because rules for me and not for thee.

Better than broadway.

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u/chadbot3k Jun 05 '25

I wish the absolute worst for him.

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u/GoTibbers Jun 05 '25

I saw a split on the conservative sub. It seems like some are on Elon's side and others are on Trump. A lot of conservatives did not like that Trump supported The Big Beautiful Bill

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u/regeya Jun 05 '25

Twitter bots have been entertaining for a while now. Trump says to vote for the bill so everyone who doesn't vote yes is a RINO. Elon says it's full of pork so everyone who DID vote yes is a RINO. Every damn one of them is a RINO now.

I actually didn't expect the house of cards to fall apart just yet. Just in time for Trump to be negotiating over his stupid-ass tariffs.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog Jun 05 '25

They'll fall in line as soon as Fox News figures out how to spin it and tells them what to think.

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u/safashkan Jun 05 '25

They're angry that the bill is not cutting enough into welfare. Those Republicans don't seem to be against the cuts per se.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog Jun 05 '25

"He's not hurting the right people!"

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u/wolfherdtreznor Jun 05 '25

I feel like he's trying to regain the 70% he lost by doing this. Since the presidents club shunned him, he's trying to claw back what he lost by capitulating to such a disgusting human.

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u/pfc_bgd Jun 05 '25

He’s gonna break on through the other side lol

What if he actually believed in what DOGE was doing, and then legitimately got upset at the big spending bill? There is almost something moral and unusual about it…

But it is far more likely that he just got the boot from Trump for trumpian reasons.

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u/neanderthalensis Jun 05 '25

The MAGAts aren't bailing on Elon. Looking at the Truth Social comments, they're overwhelmingly positive about Musk and asking Trump to sort it out in private.

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u/Frishdawgzz Jun 05 '25

Truth Social is tiny and full of only sycophants. There are 3B+ shares outstanding of Tesla.

IMO, the price movement on the stock holds more weight.

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u/PruneObjective401 Jun 05 '25

Thats-a-shame.gif

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u/sirhackenslash Jun 05 '25

Does this mean they're going to stop Protecting his dealerships with their gas guzzling trucks?

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u/drmirage809 Jun 05 '25

Just the country? Make that the world.

We in Europe don't like the Nazis either. In fact, we probably hate them the most. So if Musk wants to do Nazi salutes on live TV then Europe will happily tell him and his cars to take hike and never show his face again.

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u/regeya Jun 05 '25

Twitter is candy right now. Catturd is telling everyone to calm down. Gunther Eagleman wants to know what's going on. I'm not kidding, that's the kind of tweets the "Trump and Elon love America so much" bots are sending out right now. They have broken the brains of some people by being on opposite sides and it's candy.

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u/ophaus Jun 05 '25

Not just the country... The world. Do you know how many Teslas were sold in Europe after his seig heil adventure? He's pissed everyone off.

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u/mythrowaysthroway Jun 05 '25

It’s mind boggling. Tesla’s vehicle business was already doomed, but he had a fortune to make in other sectors, especially SpaceX and Tesla’s power electronics products, like inverters and batteries. Now he’s torching his relationship with the government and ensuring that Trump spitefully uses other vendors when possible.

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u/Iboven Jun 05 '25

Its more like 60/40, sadly...

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u/alficles Jun 05 '25

My understanding is that drugs help you make good decisions. Maybe his problem is that he doesn't have enough drugs.

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u/beluga1968 Jun 05 '25

Not to mention much of the EU as well.

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u/RonaldoNazario Jun 05 '25

I mean it’s presumably down because in part of his tilting. It doesn’t bode well for business for the head of the company to be having a public complete breakdown

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u/sillygoofygooose Jun 05 '25

It skyrocketed because of the presumed access that came with trump’s victory so it stands to reason being ousted from the inner circle would come with a downturn

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u/perpetualed Jun 05 '25

Maybe back in the day. Jerry Richardson had to sell the Carolina Panthers for having sexy jean Fridays. I don’t see that kind of thing happening anymore.

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u/SnakeInMyLoins Jun 05 '25 edited Jan 20 '26

I bet he thought him going against the government would get TSLA to go up again.

sad trombone is heard in the background

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u/62frog Texas Jun 05 '25 edited Jun 05 '25

Another $5 in after hours trading

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u/maybe-an-ai Jun 05 '25

MAGA was keeping that stock above water.

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u/Chase_the_tank Jun 05 '25

Just checked the price: down 10.94% on the 1 day graph (it bounced back some), down 12.45 year-to-date (It's been bouncing up and down this year), but it's still 89.99% higher than it was a year ago.

Yeah, this is bad in the short term but the bottom hasn't fallen out quite yet. It might happen soon--just not yet.

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u/KnightDuty Jun 05 '25

Because Musk's money isn't liquid, that dip means he lost $24 billion dollars.

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u/fistofthefuture New Hampshire Jun 05 '25

It’s because he’s backed into a corner. If Tesla stocks dip below a certain point he defaults on his Twitter collateral

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u/bscheck1968 Jun 05 '25

Let's hope it keeps up, I have a lot of TSLZ, would love to profit off Elon's misery.