Elon Musk About To Bank An Eazy $1.4 Billion Bucks In $TSLA Options?

Elon Musk, worth an estimated $14 billion – primarily from his heavily subsidized ventures, stands to rake in an additional $1.4 billion in $TSLA options if Tesla Inc. is able to achieve six operational and market value targets by 2022, per a recent filing.

Musk, who was awarded 5.27 million stock options in 2012 tied to Tesla operational and market value targets, has achieved six of the 10 operational goals to date, up from five at this time last year, according to a proxy statement filed Thursday. The automaker has also met eight of the 10 market value milestones, up from seven last year, the filing shows. –Bloomberg

As of this writing, Tesla delivered 25,000 electric vehicles in the first quarter (subject to board confirmation), satisfying the “Aggregate production of 200,000 vehicles” milestone.

In addition to production targets, Tesla’s gross margin must remain above 30% for at least four consecutive quarters (which has ranged from 19 – 28% over the last year), and it’s market value must remain above $43.2 billion for at least six months – or $270 per share.

Musk can cash in on the options if Tesla hits the targets ahead of schedule, worth approximately $1.4 billion as of Thursday’s close.

CAN HE DO IT?

UPDATE: ANN HAS REFUSED BERKELEY’S UN-CANCELLATION!

As previously reported, UC Berkeley canceled, then rescheduled an Ann Coulter speech on campus from April 27th to the first week in May when students aren’t on campus!

Ann laid it out in a series of tweets:

GOOD NEWS FOR CA TAXPAYER! You won't be required to pay $$$$ to compensate me & my crew for rebooked airfare & hotels. I'm speaking on 4/27. https://t.co/gsScwzeDNM

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 20, 2017

In addition to facts: We've already spent $ for 4/27 Berkeley spc & I can't do May 2…THERE ARE NO CLASSES AT BERKELEY THE WEEK OF MAY 2!!!

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) April 21, 2017

UC Berkeley has un-canceled a speech by conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter, originally nix’d over security concerns after violence erupted last weeked at Berkeley’s Civic Center Park. After the cancellation, a defiant Coulter said she was going to give the speech anyway – telling Fox’s Tucker Carlson “What are they going to do, arrest me?”

@AnnCoulter on defying UC Berkeley cancellation "What are they going to do, arrest me?" https://t.co/bL0AGOPf9K pic.twitter.com/q7rdaXctqV

— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) April 21, 2017

Berkeley’s decision to cancel Coulter’s speech fueled speculation that the notoriously liberal campus was targeting speakers with conservative views, however the cancelation was apparently in response to “specific intelligence” that Coulter would be in danger:

“Our police department has made it clear that they have very specific intelligence regarding threats that could pose a grave danger to the speaker, attendees and those who may wish to lawfully protest this event,” said Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks  –CBS

And 24 hours later, after a growing backlash against the cancellation, Berkeley – the birthplace of the free speech movement of the 1960s, has now un-canceled Coulter, offering to let her speak in early May at a ‘more secure’ venue.

Perhaps they could have decided on a more secure venue in the first place?

Political correctness is a plague (and possibly a KGB long-con if you have 13 minutes to watch this). While cucked millennials and their hamster brained parents have been inculcated into the kneejerk cult of liberalism, people shouldn’t have to walk on eggshells during a crisis. Point in case; during the June 12th 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, Reddit moderators in the /r/news and /r/lgbt forums began furiously deleting all posts referencing the fact that the shooter, Omar Mateen, was Muslim. The result? A flood of Redditors from notoriously liberal ‘subreddits’ hopped over the pro-Trump ‘The_Donald’ forum, where moderators allowed pertinent details of the shooting to rise to the top. The result was nearly 18,000 new subscribers over a two day period – a jump of almost 13%.

Here are a few of the top posts in the_donald the day after the shooting:

So during a rapidly unfolding crisis, political correctness took a backseat to timely, accurate, factual information – and thousands of people subscribed to a pro-Trump forum. Fascinating. It’s as if people want to know the precise details, not a whitewashed PC version of the facts (such as CNN’s refusal to mention skin color during the Cleveland manhunt of a black guy who livestreamed himself committing a murder over the weekend).

Sadly, the MSM is continues to choose political correctness over factual reporting…

A horrific shooting took place yesterday in Fresno, CA which left three people dead – all white. After the incident – now ruled a hate crime, it was reported that the 39 year old shooter, Kori Ali Muhammad, shouted “Allahu Akbar” while being arrested – and that his Facebook page was riddled with violently anti-white postings – which referenced “white devils” and included the phrase “Allahu Akbar”

Except AP didn’t exactly report it that way…

Not until we delve into the story does AP bother to mention the shooter’s motivation; his Islamic faith and a seething hatred of white people…

On what appeared to be Kori Ali Muhammad’s Facebook page, he repeatedly posted “#LetBlackPeopleGo” and encouraged “black warriors” to “mount up.”

A posting Monday says, “My kill rate increases tremendously on the other side.” He also posted about “white devils” and on several occasions, posted status updates that included the phrase “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic. –AP

Now watch ABC astonishingly report that the victims were ‘chosen at random’ according to police – before running a clip of the Chief of Police laying out exactly why the killer did it!

ABC says #Fresno victims "chosen at random," then show Police describing anti-white killer shouting "Allahu Akbar" ? https://t.co/fEmIyUvxYk pic.twitter.com/4eu6NG41YU

— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) April 19, 2017

Meanwhile, this is why alternative media is winning hearts and minds:

A black Muslim social justice warrior who hated whites murdered 3 people today before yelling "Allahu Akbar".

These are facts.#Fresno

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) April 18, 2017

*Allahu Akbar

Fixed that for you, @AP.#Fresno pic.twitter.com/ylNDrAHWjm

— Brittany Pettibone (@BrittPettibone) April 19, 2017

There is a serious anti-white movement growing in our country & it is radicalizing too many people. BLM leaders MUST condemn this. #Fresno

— Jeremy Nolt (@RealJeremyNolt) April 18, 2017

Fox gets it:

Charles Payne: @foxbusiness slams the @AP & @CNN for covering up Muslim Terror attack in #Fresno CA & hiding skin color of Cleveland Killer! pic.twitter.com/zBcEsa1eVJ

— ?STOCK MONSTER? (@StockMonsterUSA) April 18, 2017

Considering this attack was both anti-white and done in the name of Allah, how can Islam begin to fix it’s problems if the MSM won’t acknowledge they exist?

Well put…

The left couldn’t have produced a more retarded liar than Maxine “Putin is advancing into Korea” Waters… who on several occasions has called for Trump’s impeachment; over Twitter, in interviews, and recently in a chant she led at an anti-Trump rally. Today on MSNBC, host Craig Melvin called Waters out for her rhetoric – reading her most recent tweet on the topic, then letting her mechanically run her ventriloquist puppet mouth about Russia. When Melvin suggests perhaps waiting for an investigation before indicting Trump – Waters tries to backtrack, and it doesn’t go well…

Craig Melvin: Should we wait to call for impeachment until we have the answers to some of the questions?

Maxine Waters: I have not called for impeachment…

Craig Melvin: You said you’re going to fight every day until he’s impeached!

Maxine Waters: Yeah, but here’s what I’ve said… Here’s what I’ve said…

MSNBC's @craigmelvin calls out Maxine Waters for impeachment tweet – and then she lies about it on live TV! https://t.co/AhFne46i15 pic.twitter.com/r7z9j2mTiT

— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) April 18, 2017

Some of the tweets in question:

Get ready for impeachment.

— Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) March 21, 2017

Trump is hiding something. This is why he continues to lie & distract from investigations.The truth will be uncovered & he will be impeached

— Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) March 29, 2017

The President is a liar, his actions are contemptible, & I'm going to fight everyday until he's impeached.

— Maxine Waters (@MaxineWaters) April 18, 2017

Talk to the hand Maxine… you’re full of shit.

After criticizing Trump’s swagger last week for enjoying a ‘beautiful’ chocolate cake with China’s President Xi Jinping before informing him the USA was lobbing 59 tomahawk missiles into Syria, radio host Michael Savage has slipped into a rare spell of optimism – spelling out Trump’s accomplishments thus far:

Michael savage (@ASavageNation) reminds us what Trump has accomplished so far: https://t.co/wKUGWBaDGm pic.twitter.com/C0hOJ4S2lo

— ZeroPointNow (@ZeroPointNow) April 18, 2017

So while concessions have clearly been made to the ‘deep state’ over Syria and NATO – perhaps to fend off the ongoing Russophobic witch hunt by the neocons, Michael Savage laid out more than a few examples of things moving in the right direction. Perhaps the flip-flops are just “art of the deal: DC edition,” where compromise is necessary to gain political capital. Trump isn’t a dictator, after all. That said, the whole Jared / Ivanka / Dina Powell / Gary Cohn / McMaster infiltration will continue to be troublesome – especially if Bannon is ever out of the picture. We didn’t vote for liberal advisors and regime change, after all – and the usual suspects seem to be quite pleased with Trump’s Goldman Sachs and Petraeus-connected staff. Hopefully Trump will be able to add to his list of campaign promises without being pulled further into the swamp.

In the ongoing war between left-leaning media giants and conservative content providers, Google admitted Monday that one of the vendors they use for ranking websites had singled out InfoWars.com as an example of a site with “low-to-medium” reliability – after media personality Mike Cernovich shared screenshots showing the obvious bias.

A vendor hired by Google employs contractors to rate the websites that appear in its search results — the rating is used to improve search quality, helping Google’s automated search algorithm prioritize higher-rated, reliable information.

In examining how the staffers working as website “raters” should evaluate a “rather poor site,” the contractor pointed to InfoWars, advising raters to consider the quality of the information and its reputation. –Business Insider

When reached for comment, Google distanced themselves from the vendor, stating:

In this instance, we have confirmed that a vendor we work with sent out more detailed instructions to some raters without our knowledge, which included references to specific sites,” the spokesperson said. “This is in conflict with the intent of our guidelines and the vendor has taken action to remove these references in their training module

Cernovich called for peaceful protests outside of Google headquarters after he shared the screenshots on InfoWars Monday, revealing the “marching orders” for google’s paid arbiters of appropriate content.

This latest assault on conservative media comes less than 8 weeks after liberal ad agency AdRoll “fired” InfoWars, denying them millions in ad revenue.

Welp, Kim Jong Un is fucked.

North Korean Cartman unveiled his “special forces” squad last weekend – trained to defend him to the death in the event of attempted regime change. Marching along in matching camo face paint, truckstop sunglasses, press-fit grenadier rifles, and ‘Johnny 5’ night-vision binoculars – N. Korea’s best of the best looks like a bunch of extras from the next Expendables.

‘Once Supreme Commander Kim Jong-un issues an order they will charge with resolve to thrust a sword through the enemy’s heart like lightning over Mount Paektu [the country’s highest peak],’ a broadcaster announced on North Korean state TV. –Daily Mail

Quick observation – look at those chest-holstered pistols. Imagine yourself reaching for that weapon in combat; arm all high, elbow out awkwardly, grip at armpit level. Does that seem well thought out?

If anything, this would be where you’d want a chest mounted pistol – center of mass or cross-draw.

And where do US Special forces holster their sidearms? ON THEIR FUCKING SIDES!

I don’t think these guys are too worried about Kim’s elite forces:

‘Murica bitches…

As President Trump’s ‘Armada’ continues to assemble off the Korean Peninsula, US officials have indicated that a “sudden strike” of “kinetic” military action is on the table if diplomacy fails to “counteract North Korea’s destabilizing actions in the region,” after this weekend’s failed missile test.

In an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” McMaster said Trump had directed the National Security Council to collaborate with the Defense and State Departments, and intelligence agencies to “provide options and have them ready for him if this pattern of destabilizing behavior continues.”

Hours after the failed test, McMaster emphasized Trump’s preference, as with this month’s airstrikes in Syria, for unannounced military action. He added that the North Korean leader’s unpredictability complicated U.S. strategy. –Bloomberg

But did Kim call Trump’s bluff? Now the MSM is talking economic sanctions:

Last week, it was “We’re sending a massive force to the region. If Kim so much as farts wrong he’ll be relieved of his mortal coil.” [Kim launches missile] Which was followed by the United States promptly downplaying the failed missile launch in statements issued by National Security advisor H.R. McMaster and General Mattis. I suppose intention doesn’t matter if the effort fails?

Hours after the failed test, McMaster emphasized Trump’s preference, as with this month’s airstrikes in Syria, for unannounced military action. He added that the North Korean leader’s unpredictability complicated U.S. strategy.

Meanwhile, retired Marine Corps Colonel and ABC commentator Steve Ganyard downplays a nuclear test!

So in this case they’re probably going to test a nuclear weapon in the next day or so, and there’ll be lots of condemnation – but we’ve yet to see any serious action taken against them.

We’ve had a lot of talk in the past few days about “military action, military action,” but interestingly enough the economic side of this – the economic opportunity for the US to put pressure on North Korea really hasn’t been put into place.

Up until just recently, Zimbabwe was more sanctioned than N. Korea was [Steve researches stuff]. So there are all sorts of things that could be done. 90% of the trade from N. Korea goes into China. There’s lots of things the Chinese can do. There are lots of things we can do. In 2005 we shut down their banking access and it was like touching a hot wire to a nerve.

…the danger is if you push too hard on the economic side – that fragile North Korean economy could collapse and there could be some sort of a revenge attack or offensive by Kim Jong Un as his regime falls.

So the notion of North Korea testing a nuke was mentioned almost in passing, and economic sanctions are now part of the script. But don’t do TOO much sanctioning – or Kim might just nuke someone as his regime collapses. Interdasting.

Huffington Post contributor Shelly Garland – who is probably not a transsexual despite early reports AN EPIC TROLL, has taken the assault on white males to a whole new level – calling for the suspension of their right to vote – WORLDWIDE!

Garland, who is all woman, really has a hard-on for bashing white dudes.

If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened. It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely – the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world.

Shelly duct-tapes together the totally racist notion that suspending white male voting rights would lead to the redistribution of wealth that liberals who work for a living already receive.

This redistribution of the world’s wealth is long overdue, and it is not just South Africa where white males own a disproportionate amount of wealth. While in South Africa 90 percent of the country’s land is in the hands of whites

And why is this broad-shouldered argument fair? MUH SLAVERY

Over the past 500 years colonialism, slavery, and various aggressive wars and genocides, have been due to the actions of white men. Redistributing some of their assets will go some way to paying the historical debt that they owe society.

Maybe HuffPo’s resident Jack Black doppelganger should tuck this argument and get straight to the pitchforks? After all, just 8 people hold as much wealth as the poorest 50% worldwide. Why not just take all their shit so you can achieve your utopian socialist vision?

Let’s be clear; fucking around in the Middle East sandbox and regime changing out-of-pocket puppets is not cool – since most of those assholes pose no threat to the USA – plus I don’t want American kids dying for oil interests. But Kim Jong Un is a crazy fat kid with nukes. Think Korean Cartman… And he keeps lighting off atomic firecrackers, so it’s only a matter of time before he sends one into Long Beach harbor via container ship. “Har Har Har” he will say, with that stupid fucking fat face of his.

And today we learn that Korean Cartman may get lit the fuck up if he so much as tests another nuke.

So there you have it – the same day as the USA cock slapped an Afghani ISIS stronghold with our largest conventional bomb evar, we put Lil’ Kim on notice that he better not so much as think of fucking around with nukes. He trolled the world yesterday with a big emergency announcement that some “big event” about to happen – only to find out he was opening a new street in Pyongyang, so who knows what that crazy motherfucker will do. Maybe he’ll sneak up behind Trump and pop a paper bag? Who can know, he’s crazy!

You may be asking yourself “how can I profit from all the impending death and destruction if Kim gets regime changed?”

Wonder no more, for there are not one, not two – but THREE ETF’s to take advantage of population reduction if you’re not into buying individual defense stocks!

iShares US Aerospace & Defense $ITA

SPDR S&P Aerospace & Defense XAR (66.04–0.65%)

PowerShares Aerospace & Defense $PPA

The overlap between the three is fairly high, so pick your poison – just know that $ITA has the most assets, highest liquidity, and best YTD, 1 year, and 3 year total returns – and it’s already up 28% y/y. That said, it’s also oversold in Exodus, and it may rally on all the sabre rattling alone.

Just an idea for ya. While I can wrap my head around taking Kim out because of the legitimate threat he poses, I have to wonder if Trump will turn out to be the best thing for defense stocks since…. well, it’s been pretty fucking good for them since Jimmy Carter left office.

Dear 8 lb 6 oz tiny Jesus, in your golden-fleece diapers, with your tiny, little, fat, balled-up fists… we thank you so much for our unmatched military industrial complex and our glorious interventionist President who totally ran on that platform. I just want to take the time to say thank you for all the additional bombs we are about to drop on 3rd world countries – may they exterminate all who oppose the United States of America and their little dogs too.

Amen