You know i never thought i'd make this video basically giving credit to gordon johnson. This is kind of unthinkable. This is a bombshell i'm just kidding, but i mean the man deserve credit and i'm not being cynical, i'm not being funny. I honestly think so.

It takes a lot of skill to become this polarizing, because at this point this dude is worshipped by some people, saying that he's woke that he knows things that the rest of us can't see that he's the best analyst ever mainly the tesla q people and on The other hand, you have people that say that he's a complete buffoon, a clown, an idiot, the village fool and, on the third hand, if you have one, i mean people, think that he's taking money from big auto basically to promote this agenda, which, i don't think Is true by the way and i'll explain to you in a second, why, i also don't think he's an idiot and i also don't think he's the best analyst ever, but i think he's a pretty decent analyst i'll, explain everything in this video. So it takes a lot of skill to get to this point where you relevant and you're being hated by one group, you're being adored by another group. It's pretty much like the ufc or the wwe or whatever promotion i mean you want to get your brand out there, and this dude has done a phenomenal job. I mean he's very relevant cnbc.

You know fox everywhere, people talk about him, people know his name. So for that he deserves credit. However, in this video i want to explain why he's doing what he's doing and i don't think necessarily he's getting paid. I do think there's another thing here that you need to understand about gordon, which some of you don't know.

For example, a lot of you don't know that this tip-ranked screenshot we keep sending out as a joke, where he's ranked like in the top five percent of 10 percent, like 7 000 out of 7 000., that used to be completely flipped, i mean, when i say, Flipped, i mean, i think he was number one or number two on tip ranks as an analyst. He was the best analyst on the pranks just seven or eight years ago, i think 2013 or 2012. He was literally the best analyst, like 80 success rate great returns. This dude was the best and now he's suddenly the worst.

I don't think so. I don't think he just became an idiot overnight. You don't go from you know. Working at jp, morgan, lehman brothers bear stearns.

Oh hold on a second okay lehman brothers bear stearns a little bit iffy, but i mean the dude went to a good school has great education. So how does a guy like that? Who used to be number one on the pranks becomes one of the worst rated analysts on dip ranks and how does a guy like that, gives a 60 or 70 target for tesla? I don't think he's an idiot. I think that proves it, but why is he doing it because we've seen him go like jerry? You remember that episode where rick had jerry fold himself into 12., get out of the booth. Take all your clothes off and fold yourself 12 times you got it.

I mean this is literally what he's doing he's a financial gymnast he's the nadia coming at of financial analyst. He'll take tesla data and he'll convolute. It then we'll go crazy with it, just to prove some point about some minuscule information. That suddenly proves his point.

I mean we've all seen him do it. I mean the man he's a gymnast. Why does he do it? Is he an idiot? No i'll give an example, like i posted a few weeks ago about norway right, so we had tesla overtake with vw. I think in norway and all of a sudden he started posting other countries.

How about spain? How about you know the rain in spain. So here's the thing it might have been spain, but it could have been any country i mean if in botswana, um fufu motors sells more than tesla he'll use that i mean he's gon na use. Whatever information he can find to prove his point, but i don't think he's an idiot. I think he knows that this is all mumbo-jumbo, garbage and i'll explain why.

I think there's two things in play here that you need to understand now gordon used fundamentals to become the best on tip ranks. He made smart decisions: conservative decisions, fundamentals, value, investing blah, blah blah blah blah blah that worked for him. That also worked for all the other good analysts, but tesla flipped the script. The insane growth of tesla in the last few years basically caused a lot of good analysts to look like because it didn't make any sense from a fundamental perspective for a lot of time.

It's still kind of shaky if you look at it from a pure fundamentals analysis, but most other analysts basically swallow the pill basically saying well, we were wrong about tesla. Let's move on adam jonas is one but there's a lot of other examples. So what about gordon? Why he was the only analyst that stayed in his position, even though every other analyst, mostly kind of flipped and basically said well, we were wrong. Why is gordon still in this ship? That's sinking like crazy? Well, i think, there's two reasons.

Number one ego, i think, for some reason he can't let ego get the best of him. He can't admit that he was wrong. He was right for so many times. This is his moby dick there's.

No other explanation now not familiar with his ego or his personality structure, but it sounds like this is actually the case, but again might be wrong. Just my opinion, you know might be inaccurate, might be the ramblings of a madman. You got ta do research, i don't know gordon, i don't know his personality, i'm just guessing now. The other part which i think is even more important, is being relevant.

Being relevant is the key. I think gordon found a way to monetize the tesla q crowd. He knows that they need somebody to raise the flag. I mean michael berry, isn't really interviewing.

He isn't really out there speaking about how much he hates tesla. All we hear from him is you know the 13 f's once in every quarter. That's it a few twits here and there, but he isn't in the public eye. Somebody needs to come in front of this.

Just like you crowd and basically be you know the flag, be the person be the face of this brand anti-tesla and he's doing it and he's monetizing it look. How much face time he's getting on cnbc on bloomberg on every single outlet whenever they needed tesla bear he's there, because they know that people would tune in. They want to see this guy, because it's outrageous so crazy. His story, price is so low.

People love to hate him he's the classic villain in those wwe fights. They set him up to fail and he knows it, but he's getting paid he's getting the bag. I mean he's getting tv appearances, relevance that is worth money that is monetized. So the ego, combined with all this money of being relevant by being the main tesla bear, is worth a lot of money.

That's why he could never change, even though i think deep down, he knows tesla is a great company, but at this point his business depends on him being the bear and his ego depends on it. So i don't think he can never change. You know. I can't imagine what it's like to be at the top of your craft being number one, all of a sudden to being the worst in your category.

I don't think ever this has been experienced in professional sports or even an analyst. Nobody has ever gone from number one to almost dead last, especially that fast i mean that will wreak havoc through your personality. I think you have to find a way to deal with it. There is a cognitive dissonance here that you need to solve and then gordon found a way to solve it.

It's like deonte wilder against tyson fury saying that the gloves were rigged or whatever you need to find the justification. Why that happened to you. Otherwise, it's a cluster freak for your brain and i think this is what's happening here, but if you add in the bag from all these tv appearances and him being the main face of that, that tells you everything you got to know now. Let me know below what you think.

Let me know if you agree or disagree with me. Let me know your thoughts, i'd love to hear it good or bad and i'll see you tomorrow.