this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
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And your post sounds like all the IQ in your family went to your siblings. Now that we have exchanged the traditional personal insults, let's get back to the actual topic at hand.
I'm not "protecting" him from anything. I'm explaining how money works at his levels; how he can seemingly lots of cash while actually having lots of debt. As long as his stock rises he can keep up with the leveraging and the banks don't care. But, get this, by the very definition of what a "loan" is, it is not his money.
If you don't believe me, look up what "loan" means in any number of a myriad of online dictionaries.
Compassionate Fucking Buddha, can you not even begin to figure out why this information is useful? If it's "his money" (FSVO "his") it's far harder to take him down than if it's someone else's money that has him leveraged up the wazoo. If all those billions were "his" he would be damned near unassailable. Since, however, they're all debt he's easier to attack and destroy!
THAT is why getting it right is important! This is not boot-licking, this is "how you fight the motherfucker". Find a way to tank Tesla stock again and you've NAILED him.
Off the top of my head: Bernie Madoff, Eike Batista, Björgólfur Gudmundsson, Adolf Merckle, and Bill Hwang.
Maybe you'd see them if you opened your fucking eyes.
Fair enough.
Thanks for the 4 billionaires that eventually went down the drain, when I guess a hundred new ones were created.
In the same vein, even if "elon goes down" the core problem still exists. And I'll eat my hat if he finishes broke under a bridge lol.
IMO you are attacking something that is just the tesult of the problem, not the problem itself.