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August 5, 2026
The market's ripping because people are jerking off over every bullshit rumor about "peace" in the Middle East, acting like that magically fixes everything. Reality check: oil's the only thing holding this weak-ass rally together, and if that shit cracks, good luck!!
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Elon's Space Fantasy Just Hit a Brick Wall
SpaceX finally dropped its first public quarterly earnings, and on the surface the numbers looked ok, but this man can’t manage to do shit except make money off govt handouts. I mean revenue exploded 92% year over year to $7.8 billion, and the company still lost $541 million.
Investors sent the stock down more than 8% because they realized billions are being shoveled into unproven AI infrastructure and massive capital projects with no clear path to making that money back. Same shit I’ve been saying since last year.
Here’s the bigger problem: who the fuck is actually building anything in outer space? Nobody’s opening factories on Mars. Nobody’s launching shopping malls into orbit. There’s no booming space economy waiting around the corner. These are trillion-dollar fantasies that depend on government contracts and taxpayers far more than paying customers.
The AI Bubble Is Starting to Smell Like Bullshit
AMD put up what should’ve been a monster quarter, with revenue jumping 50% to $11.54 billion, but the stock still got curb-stomped 7% to 9%. Why? Because this AI trade is priced like every company is supposed to cure cancer, colonize Mars, and print money at the same fucking time. A 54% gross margin instead of 56% was enough to send the stock into freefall. That’s how detached this shit has become.
The AI spending is getting fucking ridiculous. AMD more than doubled capital expenditures from $389 million to $808 million in one quarter! It’s become one giant game of “spend now, maybe make money someday,” while nobody can explain when these investments actually start paying for themselves.
Then Elon came out and basically told AMD to get fucked, saying SpaceX is building its AI infrastructure exclusively with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips.
That’s what this whole AI craze has turned into: the same handful of mega-cap companies endlessly buying each other’s shit, pumping each other’s valuations, and calling it innovation. It’s one giant circular investment jerk-off where everyone pretends the money is coming from somewhere new.
And just because he has to fuck up everything: Trump’s proposed crackdown on Chinese networking hardware threw another wrench into AI data center expansion. Higher costs, supply chain uncertainty, and more delays are exactly what this overhyped sector didn’t need. Wall Street is finally starting to realize AI isn’t a license to print money. It’s an insanely expensive bet that’s still looking for a fucking business model.
Elon Wants Your Phone Too
SpaceX says it wants to go head-to-head with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile by building its own nationwide mobile network. Sounds cool until you realize this isn’t just launching a few satellites. They’d need thousands of cell towers, more spectrum, billions in infrastructure, and years of construction before this shit even starts looking like a real competitor.
Let's be real. Nobody is asking for a phone company built around satellites. Building a true nationwide network means launching more satellites, buying billions in spectrum, constructing thousands of towers, and spending obscene amounts of cash before seeing a dime in return. It's another trillion-dollar science project disguised as the next big thing.
Wall Street keeps rewarding these announcements like they're already finished products. That's the scam. Announce a massive new market, get everyone hyped, pump the valuation, then worry about whether the economics make any fucking sense later.
If you voluntarily hand Elon Musk your phone, your texts, your location history, your internet traffic, your satellite connection, and eventually your AI assistant, you're giving one billionaire a front-row seat to your entire fucking life. If people are losing their minds over Flock cameras reading license plates, imagine carrying around a device connected to a company that wants to know where you are, who you talk to, what you search, and what you do every hour of every day. Fuck. That. Noise.
