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chowder66

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8. Who needs a mega church when you can just go out and hawk shit and call it genius?

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Thu Nov 6, 2025, 05:22 PM

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Tesla Shareholders Decide Elon Musk Should Be the World's First Trillionaire [View all] highplainsdem Nov 6 OP

He needs that money soooo bad...who is even buying those POS Tesla cars anymore? wcmagumba Nov 6 #1

He needs that money COL Mustard Nov 7 #30

Musk is now more dangerous than ever. Irish_Dem Nov 6 #2

Agree. I hope more people boycott Tesla and everything Musk. Lonestarblue Nov 7 #36

Bunch of worthless paper unless he meets benchmarks. Silent Type Nov 6 #3

Will enough people want to hitch their wagon to crap? chowder66 Nov 6 #4

WTF EarlG Nov 6 #5

Elon said Optimus robots may one day be assigned to follow "criminals" around to stop them from doing crimes. sop Nov 7 #37

Tesla BOD LiberalArkie Nov 6 #6

I hope the short sellers win fujiyamasan Nov 6 #7

That shit stock is at 443.66 on tanking sales. Win they will........ Bengus81 Nov 7 #34

Makes no sense fujiyamasan Nov 7 #42

Who needs a mega church when you can just go out and hawk shit and call it genius? chowder66 Nov 6 #8

What the actual FUCK???? AZ8theist Nov 6 #9

The most annoying part is that pretty much anyone with retirement funds likely has TSLA somewhere nt Gore1FL Nov 6 #10

This is really not good for us as he will spend a good chunk of it on the Republicans Mr. Sparkle Nov 6 #11

The whole Trump "BBB" was money-laundering to the criminal terrorist organization formerly known as Jack Valentino Nov 6 #26

Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade LetMyPeopleVote Nov 6 #12

Disgusting. mdbl Nov 6 #13

Tesla has a robot army? LisaM Nov 6 #14

It's highly unlikely all those benchmarks will be met Fiendish Thingy Nov 6 #15

I just read an article about a wealth fund voted against this compensation package.. Deuxcents Nov 6 #18

I think they only owned 17% of the stock Fiendish Thingy Nov 6 #24

There is no amount of money or anything else that moniss Nov 6 #16

This made me smile LetMyPeopleVote Nov 6 #17

Make believe money? BidenRocks Nov 6 #19

Because he'll get a lot more happiness and use out of a few more billion? Scrivener7 Nov 6 #20

In capitalist society great monetary wealth is used as a marker of prestige and status. dedl67 Nov 7 #31

He'll still be a miserable piece of shit. NEOBuckeye Nov 6 #21

Don't care what rationale is used lonely bird Nov 6 #22

Well, no one can accuse them of being smart. CaptainTruth Nov 6 #23

"Let the shareholders EAT CAKE!" Jack Valentino Nov 6 #25

Why anybody still owns this stock is beyond me CanonRay Nov 6 #27

Okay, so you could buy 20 billion steaks with thatt. Permanut Nov 7 #28

"Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality." Adam Smith dedl67 Nov 7 #29

"The extent of my money is the extent of my power" Karl Marx in "The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society" 1844 dedl67 Nov 7 #32

He'll soon have the money to build his colony on Mars. Borogove Nov 7 #33

It's too bad he can't go and live there now, BlueKota Nov 7 #35

Musk should be broke. Kid Berwyn Nov 7 #38

To get the triilion, in 10 years he has sell 20 million cars and increase the value of the company SIX TIMES! Fil1957 Nov 7 #39

Tesla shareholders profoundly stupid Picaro Nov 7 #40

They're signing their company's death warrant RedArkGuy Nov 7 #41