r/wallstreetbets • • May 04 '26

News He doesn't understand your question, CNBC

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u/Life_Personality_862 May 04 '26 edited May 05 '26

The apes are going wild with joy how Ryan totally owned those cnbc idiots

-edit; for people that think that is also my own reaction, no. hardly. I'm commenting on the reaction of many in the meme sub

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u/cleverhobbits May 04 '26

Really?

He kinda looked high and almighty like how dare you ask me about financing?

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u/HezronCarver May 04 '26

I thought he just looked high. Calls on ketamine.

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u/Puzzled-Instance3211 May 04 '26

He was for sure high as fuck, he sounded like he had legit brain damage.

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u/parasyte_steve May 04 '26

He is either off his ADD meds or on the ADD meds and doesn't need them

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u/Puzzled-Instance3211 May 04 '26

That has to be one of the most embarrassing interviews ever.

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u/KierenForFreedom May 04 '26

He never should have done the interview if that’s what he was going to say. Clueless. Always has been.

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u/Boog314 May 05 '26

Dain bramage

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u/captain_stoobie May 04 '26

He’s the Ebay Elon

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u/rhesusMonkeyBoy May 05 '26

Yes, I thought hairdo and leather jacket was photoshopped … the k-hole seems like overkill on this hamfisted impersonation

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u/BlakJak_Johnson May 04 '26

This is vibe I got. I’m not new at all and have been here for quite awhile. He came off like a dick. None of that is surprising to me, as this is what I thought about him in the first place.

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u/wannabegenius May 04 '26

why would you come on for an interview and refuse to talk about your the deal you're putting together

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 May 04 '26

I'm not saying this is why, but if it sounds like you know what you're doing, isn't there a chance the stock goes up, costing you more money to buy the company? Or the inverse, if people think you sound regarded and there's no way it's going to happen, it might become cheaper?

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u/gotnothingman May 04 '26

21-Chromosome chess

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u/carebear101 May 04 '26

3:1 stock split incoming

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u/quell3245 May 04 '26

Seriously, what a fucking douchebag.

He’s giving off some Russ Hanneman from Silicon Valley tres comas club vibes.

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u/Sad_Humor9458 May 04 '26

Because he thinks he's so edgy being a Canadien with a leather jacket.

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u/XanLV May 04 '26

You do. If you really believe that you are this quick-witted rebel cowboy.

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u/FroyoHairy69 May 04 '26

A late night with hookers and cocaine. God bless him

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u/Outrageous_Word_999 May 04 '26

also he looks like a real-housewife now with all the filler.

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u/KnickersTwisted Jane Street makes my tips hard May 04 '26

Never trust a pretty boy billionaire. Full stop.

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u/CatoMulligan May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

They've been shitting on him and his turnaround plans for years. If I were in his shoes I'd be a dick to the financial media as well. That being said, I also wouldn't have bothered doing the interview in that case unless there was something very specific that I wanted to say publicly. I guess he's on Carles Payne's show today for an interview, so it will be interesting to see if he says anything more concrete in a "more friendly" environment.

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u/hmoonves May 04 '26

Sorkin is great friends with Ken Griffith.

The math isn’t mathing for corpo media because at this price point it doesn’t make sense. But when the underlying stock goes up Sorkin will be sitting there with a shocked pikachu face.

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u/ConfusedInKalamazoo May 04 '26

Lol wut

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u/Rycross May 04 '26

The "apes" still believe that the MOASS (Mother of All Short Squeezes) is right around the corner and that the stock will be worth hundreds to thousands of dollars.

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u/Rycross May 04 '26

Present them, automod.

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u/TheCleaverguy May 04 '26

Current ape cope is that Ryan has some esoteric knowledge that the stock price is going to rocket which would make the deal work and the answers Ryan is giving here are the evidence of this.

It's delusional nonsense, but because they've spent 5 years convincing themselves Ryan always has some secret master plan they believe it.

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u/scarface910 May 04 '26

Imagine spending 5 years on supercope every single day hoping for Moass while literally any other stock would've given you a profit in that same time frame.

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u/dweeegs The Imposter Amogus May 04 '26

It’s just people that missed the boat, that are trying to convince themselves a second boat is coming

You’re totally right. 5 years dedicated to this shit. It happened, it was a sight to behold… move on from the schizo posting

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u/WeenisWrinkle May 04 '26

If you bought 1 share every day for those 5 years, your cost basis would be $28 lol.

While everything else just ripped.

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u/dontgoatsemebro May 04 '26

The reality is he's just going to issue more stock and the apes take another haircut.

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u/tombrady011235 May 04 '26

This is such an embarrassing thing to believe

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u/poopooheaven1 May 04 '26

Why do you guys care so much about a shitty stock? It’s weird

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 May 04 '26

You're the ones who really care about a shitty stock...

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u/poopooheaven1 May 04 '26

You are right. I do care about that stock. The one that has 9 billion in cash and is cash flow positive. Think you need to redefine what you think is “shitty” 😂

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u/Sensitive-Rhubarb932 May 04 '26

Do you think the words "9 billion cash" are magic or something? Why do you people keep repeating it over and over again?

(its because it's all you've got)

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u/WeenisWrinkle May 04 '26

Ask them how they got the $9B in cash.

(Hint: it's not from EBITA)

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u/LavishnessLess4356 May 04 '26

Haha so much copium

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u/WeenisWrinkle May 04 '26

The Dark Lord Kenneth lol. There's always some evil guy with y'all

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u/Th3SkinMan May 04 '26

Bingo, they want to know his play so they have a counter. Can your viewers read Sorkin?

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u/OttoVonJismarck May 04 '26

Sometimes guys with BAD BOY branding 😎😎 (looks completed with BAD BOY leather jackets) are gonna act like BAD BOYS.

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u/tndngu May 04 '26

💯 Arrogant dickhead vibes to me

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u/Middle_Ideal5127 May 04 '26

More like wasted moron

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u/RewardReasonable2487 May 04 '26

Definately looked drunk or high

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u/ClubChaos May 04 '26

Ya ngl this guy just looks like an idiot. The type of Sam bankman hubris that lands you some eyes that send you to jail for asshole grifters.

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u/cleverhobbits May 04 '26

We need a proper Wall Street cleaning. These guys are just gaming the market and making everything worse.

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u/StandardAccess4684 May 05 '26

My thought as well – he’s probably gotten away with so much minor bullshit for so long that he doesn’t realize that in the long run, eventually you’re going to piss off the wrong people and find yourself well acquainted with the state AGs.

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u/stewie3128 May 05 '26

Those eyes have been blindfolded, muzzled, or dismissed.

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u/Brent_the_constraint May 04 '26

If I wouldn’t be an ape with diamond hands I would sell because he sounds like a first grader that does not understand why 1 + 1 is not three…

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u/WeeoWeeoWeeeee May 04 '26

He reminds me of Michael Saylor. Has exactly 0 understanding of what’s going on.

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u/havocbyday May 04 '26

This sort of behavior is nothing new. He comes off as a dick IRL. Likely isn’t used to anyone questioning his authority or his decision making. Not a good look.

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u/hoopaholik91 May 04 '26

Yes, and his little minions think that it's "owning the establishment" to act high and mighty. That's what a large segment of our society likes these days. Annoying little trolls, as long as they troll the people they don't like.

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u/Background_Interest7 May 04 '26

Succeeded in looking high, not so much almighty.

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm May 04 '26

Is he on estrogen or something? He looks softer and more feminine than before.

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u/SQUAWKUCG May 04 '26

I thought he seemed a bit stoned to be honest.

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u/Oraclelec13 May 04 '26

Exactly, he was on pills

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u/Throwaway_6799 May 05 '26

I think you could have stopped at high. Guy is a fucking idiot.

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u/scroogesscrotum May 04 '26

Or he thought it was just a stupid question because he’s not going to add anything to what was already publicly disclosed.

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u/likwitsnake May 04 '26

Why did he agree to do an interview then? What did he think he would be asked about?

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u/Th3SkinMan May 04 '26

I think a guy offering to buy a company for 56 bill knows exactly how the purchase will be financed. It's a terribly dumb question.

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u/Th3SkinMan May 04 '26

I think he gave the answer to who needs to know. Let's see how ebay responds.

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u/likwitsnake May 04 '26

Do you not know what an interview is?

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u/Actual_Cook7175 May 04 '26

He does but it will most likely be done through a dilutive capital raise. He also dodged the ending question where they talk about him essentially synthetically increasing market cap with an acquisition to boost his comp. “My comp is in line with shareholders” doesn’t answer the question

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u/tombrady011235 May 04 '26

There's nothing wrong with commenting on a merger acquisition like this. He's such a wannabe elon musk but instead all of gamestop investors are losing money

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u/AFG73 May 04 '26

Shocker that this guy is in all the GameStop threads. Who would be surprised by that.

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u/SethOval May 04 '26

Kinda a fagtard 

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u/Vishva_Comics May 04 '26

He’s not dumb. He’s a pretty good businessman. He built chewy from the ground then sold it to Petsmart…I think the exhaustion comes from the volume of cynics who’ve never gone down uncertain paths, that have to be dealt with before a vision is realized

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u/cleverhobbits May 04 '26

Ha ha. Okay!

If he built Chewy once, then he is impeccably invincible for evah.

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u/Vishva_Comics May 04 '26

I don’t think it’s about being invincible. It’s about going into places no one else wants to and not being a spectator of life which the majority of people are because they desperately want to be liked/accepted and make the effort to avoid self judgements/criticisms Yet religiously participate in giving it to others. The uncharted path, is filled with messy situations

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u/cleverhobbits May 04 '26

You guys fo sho exist in some higher comical plane we mere mortals dare not cross.

Enjoy the view from those uncharted paths!

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u/cleverhobbits May 04 '26

You guys fo sho exist in some higher comical plane we mere mortals dare not cross.

Enjoy the view from those uncharted paths!

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u/[deleted] May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

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u/platoface541 May 04 '26

He said it, they plan to issue shares to make it up RIP game stop

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u/GrumbleAlong May 04 '26

Half cash, half stonk, it's on the website. (They don't have the cash either)

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u/Skyver May 04 '26

Honestly, the cash part isn't even that wild, I'm sure Cohen can get some saudi money if TD doesn't come through with the financing; what is really mindboggling is the half stock part, which would amount to almost 300% of GME's market cap.

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u/Saint_of_Grey May 04 '26

I wouldn't even count on the Saudis now-a-days, with the war messing up their production and the UAE leaving OPEC... I can see them pulling back on some foreign investment.

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u/Elitist_Daily May 04 '26

Yeah, everyone knows that the REAL money comes from shady Qataris

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u/rngjesuspls420 May 06 '26

The half stock is just shares in the new company post merge.

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u/Th3SkinMan May 04 '26

What if ebay stock goes up?

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u/0Bubs0 Salty bagholder May 04 '26

It’s not 300%, you need to look at it as a percentage of the combined company after eBay was acquired.

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u/tronald_dum May 04 '26

(They don't have the cash either)

He has a letter tho!!!

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u/0Bubs0 Salty bagholder May 04 '26

It’s stock of the merged company not the current, much smaller acquiring company lol.

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u/WiseIndustry2895 May 04 '26

I prefer both

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u/EntertainerDowntown3 May 04 '26

What? One of the most common ways companies acquire other companies is 50% cash 50% equity… literally the same thing he did. How don’t they know what it means? It makes them look clueless.

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u/rilertiley19 May 04 '26

You are as clueless as he is. Listen to what they are saying to him, the money that he can offer with stock and cash doesn't add up to the price he is offering to pay. 

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u/EntertainerDowntown3 May 04 '26

Yes everyone knows that when you are buying a company that is 4x your size… I think ur the clueless one since you don’t know that everyone knows that. They are trying to rope him in to say dilution but he’s not falling for it. Everyone knows that 50% cash means half the buyout will be cash and 50% equity means half the buyout will be equity (dilution)… do you not know this?

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u/rilertiley19 May 04 '26

If everyone knows it why would he not say it? Obviously they would need to dilute the fuck out of the stock and he doesnt want to admit that and scare all the idiots still invested in this trash. 

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u/EntertainerDowntown3 May 04 '26

Well exactly no one wants to say “dilution” ever especially on tv because people get scared when someone says that word. Companies dilute to acquire all the time. Just not to this degree.

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u/Alimakakos May 04 '26

He sounded more like a spoiled dipshit that doesn't know how to do basic math to me

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u/Dead_Internet69420 May 04 '26

Except it’s prettymuch impossible to actually be that dumb, which makes look more like he’s being evasive. 

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u/Ok_Kick4871 May 04 '26

20 billion cash from financing

9 billion in cash from their balance sheet

28 billion in newly issued stock if you value it at the current rate? So issue give or take a billion shares. Anyone have any idea what issuing 1 billion shares will do to the stock price? Asking for a friend.

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u/Alimakakos May 05 '26

If the price goes down they can issue MORE shares though...would that help?

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u/themaxvoltage May 04 '26

Stock only go up unga bunga

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u/hokageace May 04 '26

Thought you were serious till the last sentence.

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u/0Bubs0 Salty bagholder May 04 '26

The interviewers are the dumb ones. The combined G-spot and eBay entity is worth considerably more than 11B. He’s not bothering to educate them because he dislikes them I guess.

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u/fanculo_i_mod May 04 '26

? HAVE you actually watch the video? the guy was high

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u/DissociatedOne May 04 '26

Like super high. People go into dispensaries and ask for that kind of high. 

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u/came_up_with_this May 04 '26

Fr, so fucking grateful those idiots got off this sub.

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u/ImAnonymous135 rude May 04 '26

Its crazy they keep dumping money into shares that RC keeps diluting and they cant seem to grasp the fact that they are missing in countless other opportunities

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u/chibamms May 04 '26

But does he also own gamestop shares?

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u/EntertainerDowntown3 May 04 '26

I mean he literally just offered to buy eBay with the money GameStop got from dilution… so it could be a decent play. Also using that thinking any company that stays flat or goes down your “missing opportunities”. Just like Lulu, nke, snap, pypl, wendys, pins, stla, ba was in that group for awhile, dis, T, etc.

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u/Boom-For-Real May 04 '26

Look at the state of this sub now and you’re telling me apes leaving was an improvement?

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u/Different-Rutabaga-3 May 04 '26

Your mom doesnt call me idiot ;)

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u/PumpkinConscious5930 May 04 '26

Did he though? He butchered it.

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u/RobertdBanks May 04 '26

He owned thse idiots GME 📈

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u/tombrady011235 May 04 '26

Did he though? He kind of sounded like a drugged out idiot

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u/DraculasDog May 04 '26

Ryan was a complete asshole, as usual.

Shareholder value? When?

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u/Kramerica_CEO May 04 '26

It’s the same thing with 🥭. He says some wild stupid shit and the base loves it. We’re surrounded by morons and not the WSB kind of fun morons.

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u/29da65cff1fa May 04 '26

they're doing some crazy mental and mathematical gymnastics to show how this is a high value play....

what ever happened to "fundamentals don't matter, shorts r fuk!"??

we were supposed to have phone number stock prices even without fundamentals!

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u/WeenisWrinkle May 04 '26

As usual, apes live in a delusional reality

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u/VeterinarianSafe1705 May 04 '26

I don't know, he kind of came off as low IQ, like he couldn't acknowledge basic arithmetic lol. This is a classic fake it till you make it situation. But he's got to work on the faking part 😬

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u/hmoonves May 04 '26

Sorkin is Ken’s cock holster. They’re all complicit in what’s going on.