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> The whole thing makes no sense and is seems like it's just Musk doing financial manipulation again.

It's a fig leaf for getting two IPOs in one. There's no sense in analyzing it any further.

Exactly. He can croon about DOGE all day, but the reality is his entire fortune was built on feeding at the trough of government largess. That's why he talks about Mars all the time. He's not stupid enough to think we could actually live there, but damn if he couldn't make a couple trillion skimming off the top of the world's most expensive space program.

No, I think he is that stupid.

Right, let's not forget that he's selling it to himself in an all stock deal. He could have priced it at eleventy kajillion dollars and it would have had the same meaning.

He's basically trading two cypto coins with himself and sending out a press release.

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