The Two Most Powerful Men in the World Hate Short Sellers - and so Does GameStop's Ryan Cohen.

"I try not to pick fights, but I do finish them" - Elon Musk.

There are few people who hate short sellers more than Elon Musk. And he hates them for good reason: they tried to drive (pun intended) Tesla into bankruptcy.

"Tesla was under the most relentless short seller attack in the history of the stock market....they wanted Tesla to die so bad that they could taste it" - Elon Musk, April 14th, 2022.

Besides the fact they tried to kill his baby, Musk hates them for another good reason - short selling is unAMERICAN.

As Musk points out, "Short selling is used against the public. Most people aren't aware that short selling exists. It's basically like 0.01% of stock holders know how to use short positions to get ahead. It's effectively a tax against the public".

We highlighted that tax part b/c just yesterday Musk concluded this poll on X:

Elon Musk runs a poll on X "Would you like Doge to audit the IRS?" $1.9M votes; 92% saying "Yes or F&ck Yes"

Now, let that sink in. Seriously, take a moment to think about the fact that Elon Musk - who hates short sellers & unnecessary taxes against the public - is right now helping run DOGE for THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and they're about to go after the IRS. The government is no longer standing for corruption in the markets.

Musk tweets "Let that sink in" in response to Trump winning the election.

WILD shot in the dark, but you know who we think DOGE & Elon will go after next? The SEC & Short Sellers.

In 2018, Musk claimed short selling should definitely be illegal.

In 2023, Musk claimed he'll go after Wall St. short sellers.

Why else do we think this? Because Musk pointed out in an interview with Lex Friedman that the SEC has been protecting short sellers.

WTF! The SEC is literally supposed to be doing the exact opposite. How f&cked up is that? And at the expense of the American taxpayer...

Now, maybe you still don't believe us? That's fair as we don't even know what SEC stands for (we know it's a 3 letter acronym, and the middle word stands for Elon's but we forget the other two words).

Elon is THE master troll and DOGE will be the final kill shot.

So let's jump to Donald Trump, and specifically his media company - (Trump Media & Technology Group - Ticker: DJT).

In April 2024, Devin Nunes, CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, wrote a letter to Congress where he claimed:

• Naked short selling was occurring with DJT, which is "particularly troubling given that “naked” short selling often entails sophisticated market participants profiting at the expense of retail investors"

  • Read that again.. sound familiar?

• He called out 4 firms specifically: Citadel Securities, VIRTU Americas, G1 Execution Services, and Jane Street Capital.

GameStop holders are too familiar with Citadel and the concept of naked short selling from 2021.

Donald Trump later would respond to rumors about him selling shares of DJT (rumors that were likely made by short sellers). Later on, Trump would accuse the SEC of given orders to manipulate DJT stock.

His words, not ours:

Donald Trump posts from his truth social account essentially calling for an investigation into short sellers and the SEC.

Musk, too, has called out how short sellers lie on TV:

As recently as November 2024, Musk calls out that Tesla short sellers still haven't been held accountable.

In December 2024, Donald Trump selected Paul Atkins to be the new SEC Chairman. Here's what Paul Atkins had to say on short sellers:

Paul Atkins was nominated by Trump to be SEC Chairman, Atkins believes naked shorting is a "huge issue".

Musk calls out how short selling doesn't make any sense.

Now, GameStop holders, if you made it this far, it's time to take your SHORTS off (pun intended again) b/c you know who else hates short sellers?

Ryan Cohen. And the SIMILARITIES to ELON MUSK are so eerie it must be a COHENcidence.

In 2022, Ryan Cohen calls for the government to crack down on short sellers. He also mentions that short sellers are the "dumb stormtroopers" of the investing galaxy ... we can't help but think Elon Musk would agree.

As X user Quantum1nvestor points out below from a deposition of Ryan Cohen in the BBBYQ case, he too believes short selling is unAMERICAN.

Now, wouldn't be a GregisKitty blog post without some speculation so it's not like Elon Musk has ever interacted publicly with Ryan Cohen nor do they have pictures together, do they? Nope... but these photos were posted on LinkedIn ~36 hours apart:

Within 36 hours, Sultan Almaadeed, Former Chairman of the Alkuri Global Acquisition Group, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, met first with Ryan Cohen and then with Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Yeah... let that sink in... what if they are planning something so big, something the hedge fund short sellers will never forget... so big that they'd take down the short sellers once and for all?