I guess with all the other open-air graft going on it's easy to overlook, but the U.S. Commerce Secretary using his official position to go on cable news to tell people to buy the stock of his boss's largest campaign donor is just astonishingly corrupt.
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Yashar Ali 🐘
On Jesse Watters’ show, Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, tells viewers they should buy Tesla stock.
“I think if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla. It’s unbelievable that this guy’s stock is this cheap. It’ll never be this cheap again.”
“I think if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla. It’s unbelievable that this guy’s stock is this cheap. It’ll never be this cheap again.”
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But you kind of actually have to be great to do that. Honestly, America is not looking so great.
The "genius" in the room started talking and the world collectively went 👀
“Buy stock with your unemployment check.”
Don't listen to this idiot!
Wait a few more weeks and they will be having a fire sale and will be a lot cheaper ❗️
This guy is just a 💋 🫏
tRump's admin once again over steps it's boundaries & abuses their authority, while usurping the power of Congress to control the purse of the Gov't!
THIS IS NOT NORMAL
Nor is it Legal!
#RecallCongressReps
Even high-flyer tech stocks like Apple have a P/E ratio in the 30's.
https://bsky.app/profile/bloomberg.com/post/3lkshwmztt52t
Corrupt, nuts, and stupid. The perfect trifecta for this Administration.
All this is further exposing how corrupt and unreliable the US is under Trump and the Republican Party.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/german-tesla-survey-halted-after-253000-votes-reportedly-casted-from-just-2-ip-addresses-in-the-us/
Why would any of these guys worry about corruption?
Is this something they teach you about in business school?
Speaking to the nation? meh.
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3lksnjykc4s2e
The campaign donations you’ve made, all the hats, flags, pins and t-shirts you’ve bought, all the NFTs and crypto you’ve invested in wasn’t enough.
Now all you book banning, wife beating, daughter molesting conservative christians have to buy a tesla too.
Alas, for Musk, MAGA spent their money on TrumpCoin and MelaniaCoin. After buying eggs, they can't afford a real 'investment'.
Musk needn't worry. Surely, he's stopped so much fraud and waste, there's money to buy armoured Teslas: So, the share price will go up.
From the profit he's made on your dreams” 🎶
They broke the Hatch act about 1,000x in the first admin.
Now they are openly corrupt and doing pay-to-play schemes left and right, because nobody is going to hold them accountable.
And Every day, I might see 1 or 2 posts that suggest concrete ideas for what to do
And there is something very, very wrong with that ratio
maybe that ratio is just my timeline; that is possible
Soon they will be wearing logo hats, t shirts etc
And if you are silly enough to think it goes to the treasury…no it goes to their pockets
https://youtu.be/IAM1rSObk4c?si=7Aqrq-URQNCATH9m
..........setting everyone up for the Presidential Pump and Dump.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-facing-margin-call-tesla-stock-2047059
Our collective resignation to such blatant corruption will be our undoing. Lutnick’s former firm owns millions of Tesla shares & issued a buy rec with target of $450, & his political overlord is gutting the government, so boosting the stock all good in Trump world
Outsider trading
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick
Investment advice indeed
And the only way they recognize that this is how they are is when they're confronted with someone that isn't.
But Lutnick is an embarrassment. I can’t believe he was supposed to be one of the “sane” sober businessmen who would make sure Trump didn’t get too crazy.
Bessent is unimpressive in other ways, eg he seems both up tight and yet you can’t believe he’s serious (e.g., a former investment banker who doesn’t care about the stock market)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-upgraded-cantor-fitzgerald-autonomous-163241150.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADefejP6bNLtlpkQJClZJTlS-B7bB9X4XPHnKRnsHkpILpfjv49qZSdwk9tS7YG7Qz1rbQj9ZYp6TtoPSCLSmNbTiA9gbU7tfq9YYLVb_wZjKscIH0PLa753pq-BIlunkwb-Xb9YHhXaBB-llg5V9-ygY_gQ3AOPQpt9o26bdwIB
Stock pimping is the definition of corruption
Republicans: oh please don’t hurt the billionaire’s bank account or fragile ego - yes, the one gutting services for working Americans to pay for tax cuts for the rich.
*Checks notes: Oh wait, Howard Lutnick was Cantor Fitzgerald’s CEO. What an amazing coincidence….
"'s largest campaign donor"
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/mnuchin-says-he-wasnt-endorsing-lego-batman.html
(Seriously: it is my favorite Batman movie, bar none)
...sorry, never mind.
What good is buying stock if the brand is trash and has no customers?
Doing a commercial for Mu$k!!!
Remember the old days of equal opportunity rules?
Remember that oath of office to abide by the laws and the constitution.
Well, lots of people are dumping those things into the #DustbinOfHistory and not in a nice way.
Even Google is pushing propaganda articles about the merits of Tesla.
Nothing can stop the global beautiful #TeslaTakedown!
Oh, wait, is that why my cheek is all red & sore?
loony lazy lefty liberal lightweight lunchout layabouts
had to pay.
If worshiping money is religion, Ima try claim tax exemption,
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too!
I’m in! MAGA (Making Americans Grift Again)