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Comment by jeffwask | Hacker News Reader

He's really shuffling the X purchase debt around.

Probably in a desperate attempt to stall margin calls on the debt, which would cause him to have to sell his Tesla stock, which might start the freefall in stock price, creating a negative feedback loop and cratering his empire. See also the news about Tesla shifting manufacturing to robotics.

Yep, it's all just a shell game. He used xAI to move the Twitter debt so it couldn't be taken away for failure to pay debts. He's already been using SpaceX to buy Cybertrucks to prop ups sales and Tesla. Using SpaceX to generate revenue to pay off the xAI debts is just another step in the shell game.

> He used xAI to move the Twitter debt so it couldn't be taken away for failure to pay debts.

Exactly. I think it was obvious he was shifting the debt around when xAI merged w/ X right after xAI raised a large funding round and had cash in the bank (which it could use to pay down the X debt).

What debt?

Most of the money to buy Twitter came from investors. They were not loans.

He took out $13 billion in loans.

He's not even vaguely close to getting margin called.

Not now, no, he shuffled it around. He was quite close beforehand, however.

That makes zero sense. The loans he took out are personal loans. He can't shuffle those into the companies, and all the other purchase money came from investors not as debt.

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