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So funding security this continues to get adder by the day. So this morning, Elon Musk released another statement.

I don't even know what to make it at this point, but the funny thing to me is that no matter what happens,

the people who are involved in Tesla become more

entrenched either way so if you're long Tesla you view everything he's doing as

genius and if you're short Tesla you view everything he does as idiotic.

Don't you see both sides?

Oh, of course I do, but it's just funny to me how no matter what happens, they become more entrenched.

And that's why I wouldn't want to touch this thing because there's so much like emotion involved.

And it is kind of hard to believe because I don't know.

It seems like he's making this up as he goes, but like it almost it's almost like he could have he's playing poker and he does the flush and he gets a car

turns over at the end that saves the day for him or something right like if this Saudi deal

comes through well speaking of making it up as he goes I don't know where

he got this but he wrote in the letter my best estimate right now is that

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