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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1577977)	12/17/2025 3:03:04 PM
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>> No, what's really st00pid is discounting how much Musk's own personality factors into the Tesla brand name. Only in the sense that if anything happened to him it would be devastating to the stock and the company because there is, quite simply, not a person in this country who could replace him. You and I both know that. To make it worst, the actions of Democrats have made him a serious target for assassination. In fact, a better investment might be found in taking out a life insurance policy on Musk but for the fact he doesn't go anywhere without be smothered in security details. It is damned sad. >> Tesla has yet to break out of the Musk cult, even though it is well poised to do so. If I stay in TSLA stock until they day after announces resignation, I will have stayed one day too late. It is definitely a gamble. But right now, the concern over attacks by Democrats is far more concerning to me. If I had a ton of money in TSLA, I'd want to be persistently hedged with puts. >> Apple successfully grew out of the cult of Steve Jobs and became one of the most valuable hardware companies out there, surpassed only by nVidia. What creative product has Apple come up with since Steve died? Answer: There isn't one. Cook is a money manager, not a creative backbone. He is great at managing the money, no doubt. But had Cook not inherited Jobs' work product from the late-90s until Jobs' death, that company would have died with him.