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The Biggest Stock Market Scam Ever | Exposed.

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what if I told you a company that a

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judge just argued wanted to a either

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dump shares on their shareholders as

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much as possible to raise money

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obviously so the company could survive

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and the board of directors and the

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executives could keep their Posh jobs

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with Rich stock payouts and if that

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diluting of the stock didn't work

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issuing new stock if that didn't work

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what if I told you they then rigged a

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shareholder vote legit rigged it to be

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able to dilute you in another way going

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around what retail shareholders actually

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want what if I told you that a company

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just did that and it could potentially

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be the greatest scam since Enron

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probably be pissed right let's get into

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what the judge just said about AMC

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and of course the AMC preferred Equity

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units keep in mind I have been covering

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AMC and ape for over two and a half

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years in fact 10 months ago I made a

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video warning about what was about to

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come with ape ape Shares are going to be

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worth as much as that nft is going to be

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worth

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zero in 6 to 12 months I expect Tinker

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symbol 8 will be worth one dollar or

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less that would be an 86 percent decline

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from today and it'll be worthless and

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delisted soon after that the shorts will

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win what's the point of selling

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the point of selling is the thing's

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gonna go down I mean there's no

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fundamental under eight that's why I

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sold my ape units at over eight dollars

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per share now why did I do that what did

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I see and what was reality and boy based

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on what the judge just said I hate to

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say it but reality was even worse than I

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anticipated

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but first let's understand AMC and a

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little bit of background about AMC it's

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a movie theater during the pandemic they

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took on a lot of debt and their sales

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declined more people are willing to

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stream at home and watch movies and

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stuff at home because they got more

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money to buy some big TVs and quite

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frankly you didn't really have to go to

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movie theaters anymore so movie theaters

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have kind of been pained not only have

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they been pained but because they took

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on a lot of debt a lot of their cash

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flow has gone straight negative let me

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give you a brief Overlook of AMC AMC in

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just the last three months has burned

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237.3 million dollars that's burning

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nearly 80 million dollars per month but

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not only that their balance sheet which

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shows how much cash and bills they have

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shows they've got about 500 million

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dollars in cash and they have some

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receivables but they have 704 47 million

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dollars of bills on their desk imagine

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if somebody came to you and said hey did

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you know you have 7 500 of bills on your

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desk but only five thousand dollars in

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your bank account now sure you work a

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job and you got some money coming in but

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you're actually losing 800 a month and

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you still gotta pay those seven thousand

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five hundred dollars in bills and you

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got 5K in cash

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that's a little bit of a problem you

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might think to yourself well maybe I can

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borrow some money maybe unless you

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already did a lot of borrowing and

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that's exactly the problem with AMC see

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they pay about a million dollars per day

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in interest not only do they pay about a

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million dollars per day of interest but

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they have corporate borrowings of

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4.8 billion dollars in addition to that

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even if they were to close down

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non-performing stores they'd still have

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these leftover operating lease

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obligations of around 4.1 billion

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dollars in other words this is a company

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that really needs to raise capital and

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that's exactly why the CEO of AMC says

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hey look we need to raise money to be

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able to survive and he's not wrong this

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company absolutely needs to raise money

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to survive if they don't raise money

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they might not survive and he actually

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makes a good point by saying look we

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need to defeat the short Sellers and

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take the bankruptcy risk off the table

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by being able to raise money because

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raising fresh equity in the near term is

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critical to our company's success we

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must be able to raise Capital otherwise

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we'll go bankrupt just like Bank of a or

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a Bed Bath and Beyond and cineworld or

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the Regal Theater chain second largest

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theater chain in the world

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well now the AMC CEO and board want you

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to believe that they are much smarter

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and of course maybe they've been much

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smarter because well CEO Adam Aaron has

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been dumping stocks in fact he's sold

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about 40 million dollars worth of stocks

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since November of 2021 and just January

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of 2022. in other words he dumped a lot

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of shares in just a two-month period now

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he goes and says that he's a hodler and

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he was only selling shares through

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pre-planned 10B 5-1 plans which is

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really a fancy way of saying uh that's

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my excuse for selling it was a plan a

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plan that you crafted okay whatever but

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is any of this really Sinister no no

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this is just the backdrop but what did

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the judge just say so here's what

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happened at AMC

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AMC tried to raise money in 2021 but

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shareholders were unsupportive that's

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because if you raise money usually the

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stock price goes down but the company

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knows they need to raise money so what

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they did instead is they lowered the

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number of board members who actually

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need to vote to decide certain changes

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or new proposals for let's say dilution

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at AMC this is basically a way of saying

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let's give more control to fewer people

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and shortly after that first vote failed

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they tried again to issue 25 million

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shares to raise money but once again

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shareholders said no thanks and AMC

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decided fine we won't try to raise money

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so obviously twice shareholders rejected

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AMC's opportunity to raise money so

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instead AMC came up with the most

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beautiful elaborate ruse I've ever seen

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in the stock market since the days of

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Enron AMC announced they would issue ape

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which is convenient because ape is what

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people say about AMC oh I'm aping into

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this I'm holding on to this because it's

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gonna go to the moon it's gonna go to a

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thousand dollars whatever what actually

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stands for AMC preferred Equity unit

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that's sort of the fancy legal name they

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came up for it it was basically a stock

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split it was essentially a way AMC would

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say hey we're gonna car out some of AMC

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stock and give it to you as ape however

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we're gonna make ape rigged we're going

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to set up ape in a way that's dirty and

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so what ended up happening well

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a the ape shareholder agreement said

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that even if these Shares are

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technically equivalent in economic power

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we are going to say that in the event we

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can't dump this stock and raise enough

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money we are going to change the way

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voting is done so think about this for a

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moment to catch you up to speed you have

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one big giant pie okay this is the

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easiest way to picture it you have a

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giant pie and that pie is AMC stock but

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now what we're going to do is we're

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going to carve out a section of that pie

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and we're going to call a section of

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that pie the ape stocks these are the

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ape Amazon the AMC preferred Equity

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units

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these ape units are going to go on the

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market under a separate ticker symbol

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what we're going to do is we're going to

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dump ape stock as much as possible so we

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can raise money for AMC which AMC tried

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to do but unfortunately failed they were

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too slow in fact some of my original

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videos covering ape I specifically

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warned that the only reason these shares

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existed was to dump on you and they

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would end up reducing the value of the

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ape shares dramatically which is why I

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thought okay if you want to hold AMC

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hold AMC but don't hold ape that was the

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warning that I gave 10 months ago

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but even AMC couldn't pull that off they

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failed because they took about a month

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to actually start trying to dump shares

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they issued ape units around August 21st

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of 2022.

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and about a month in a week-ish later

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AMC finally entered into a distribution

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agreement with Citigroup to sell 425

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million Apes we knew this would happen

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unfortunately the campaign was

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unsuccessful because by December Apes

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were trading below one dollar per unit

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forcing AMC to stop selling additional

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Apes on the open market not a surprise

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in fact that's exactly what we predicted

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would happen and why holding ape shares

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was a bad idea but that's okay because

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the board knew there was a risk of this

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and they came up with a different

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strategy if we are not successful at

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dumping these shares on the market what

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if we have something else what if we

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then say we have AMC shares but these

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new ape shares we created have a little

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asterisk on them and here's how this is

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going to work

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when retail shareholders vote in AMC

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their vote counts so in other words if

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you get 10 people who vote for an AMC

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election and 90 people who don't vote

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what do you end up having well you have

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10 people who voted and if let's say six

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of them said no raise in other words

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rejected a money raise well now the

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majority say no raise and then guess

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what no raise AMC can't raise money

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that's usually how shareholder elections

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work it goes like the majority is based

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on the number of people who voted so

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even though a hundred people in this

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example a hundred had votes only 10

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voted 90 didn't vote of the 10 who voted

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most said don't raise money AMC fine

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well what if I told you there's a way

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you could scam retail with ape shares

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let's say a hundred had votes

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10 vote and 90 don't vote but now what

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we're going to do is we're going to

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change what happens to the don't votes

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the don't votes are now going to vote

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automatically the same way the majority

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votes

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of those who vote okay so wait a minute

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wait a minute this is a little bit

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rigged what we're now saying is the way

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this gets set up is if

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six people are uh let's say uh a friend

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of the CEOs and four people are retail

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let's just say for ape holders right and

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90 people don't vote now all of a sudden

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96 people will automatically oops we'll

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spell that correctly automatically uh

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vote

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the same way as the CEO's friend

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now what do you have now you have a way

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to control the election because you're

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assuming that retail shareholders will

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not vote and that assumption ended up

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being correct retail shareholders do not

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end up voting that is not a horrible

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surprise retail shareholders generally

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don't vote when's the last time you

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voted in a shareholder election it's

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very rare to actually vote as a retail

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shareholder It's usually the vanguards

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and the brokerages and the suits who

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like to vote so did this actually happen

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yes and it was even dirtier than what I

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just described in fact

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watch this here's the CEO's friend

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they'll call them anterra capital and

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the board happened to approve the sale

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of 110 million Apes to their friend

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anterra Capital now anterra realized

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they were now holding the bag on apes or

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a commitment to buy Apes that weren't

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actually very valuable because they

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realized these were going to get diluted

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to nothing and they already mostly had

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been diluted to nothing

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now to make it look good and Tara said

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they would agree to a lock-up agreement

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that would keep them locked up for 90

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days it says it right here at least 90

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days so the CEO friend is like yeah yeah

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okay we'll go ahead and buy 34 million

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dollars worth of ape units on the market

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and we'll commit to buying another 110

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million and you know what we'll keep

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them for at least 90 days

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okay so now all of a sudden you have the

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CEO's friend who's going to promise to

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vote with the CEO

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wait a minute where does it say that

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Kevin oh it's the very next line it's

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right here and Tara agreed to vote all

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of its ape Holdings in favor of the

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proposals the proposals being whatever

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the CEO wants huh interesting okay and

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the board specifically told anterra that

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there was a good chance AMC would

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basically get What It Wants through this

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new ruse which is to raise Capital right

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now this is where things get wild you

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ready for this this takes a little bit

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of a drawing out so anterra agrees to a

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90-day lockup ready for this you agree

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to a 90-day lockup now you have a

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specific date of record that hits that

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date of record says whoever holds shares

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on that specific date gets to vote

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and then what ends up happening AMC says

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let's remove the lockup

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and then guess what the CEO's friend

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does they dump the shares wait a minute

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is that what happened did the CEO's

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friend come in promise to vote the way

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the CEO wants holding the bag on

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basically worthless ape units promising

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publicly to hold the stocks for 90 days

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only to basically hold them for a day or

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so until the date of record of a

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specific meeting that was coming up that

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the CEO wanted this group of people to

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vote in then AMC happens to remove the

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lockup and then they dump their shares

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oh interesting that's actually exactly

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what happened the next day AMC announced

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that it would hold a special meeting

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within 90 days for stockholders to vote

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on proposals on February 7th AMC issued

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AP units called for by the AP or the

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anterior transaction two days later

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AMC waived the shareholder lockup

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restrictions permitting anterra to dump

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ahead of the meeting and then what

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since the record date for the special

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meeting was Feb 8 and Tara could still

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vote on any shares that it had sold

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it's a complete rigging But Not only was

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it a complete rigging in that the CEO's

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friend was basically able to pump and

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dump you want to see it here it is

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around feb9 look at that here's the pump

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yay they agree to a lock up oh my gosh

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the lock up gets waived oh they dump

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pump and dump then you get the bleed out

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it's like in our face pump and dump it's

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just absolutely disgusting that this is

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even legal this should be highly illegal

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but then guess what ends up happening

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well no duh only about 25 of

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shareholders end up voting to agree

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two

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the dilution that AMC was proposing to

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raise Capital however because of what

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was known as the mirrored voting feature

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which I described earlier because of the

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mirrored voting feature where the people

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who don't vote automatically vote in

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favor of whatever the board wants

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91 of ape units voted in favor of the

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share increased proposal

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and a majority of the stockholders and a

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majority of the ape units did not give

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any voting instructions at all let alone

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in favor of the proposal this is a court

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document written by a judge that

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literally says the proposals passed only

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because of the Apes mirrored voting

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feature and anteras promised votes which

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anterra had already dumped by rigging

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the game

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that is a scam

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but folks I hate to say it it gets worse

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because we need to talk about the

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Practical next steps we already know

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that this was set up as a scam think

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about high level what we just talked

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about AMC needs to raise money the CEO

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is dumping shares knowing he's on a

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sinking ship takes advantage of the meme

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Movement by offering people an ape share

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and an nft if you huddle your ape shares

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then strategy number one let's dump as

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many Apes as we can oh no we suck at the

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stock market and we fail to dump enough

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shares before it went basically to under

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a dollar and we couldn't dump anymore

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okay execute strategy number two which

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is let's use the ape rigged voting

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method to increase the number of shares

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that we can control by authorizing a

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merge of the AMC and ape shares but now

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we have slightly more ape shares in

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control and now we can vote whatever way

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we want and we'll do that by calling up

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our friends and allowing them to hold

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these worthless shares for a few days

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while obviously we get a commitment from

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them to vote the way we want and make

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sure to rig the entire election that's

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basically what happened here but now the

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question is what happens next is this

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good for AMC or is this bad for AMC well

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first after this ruling a lot of people

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sent me messages and said this is great

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the judge said AMC is not allowed to

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convert ape into AMC this is actually

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something I talked about 10 months ago

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when I said look if you're a shareholder

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of AMC you do not want ape to convert

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into AMC because it's just going to

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dilute you more and so a lot of people

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cheered they're like this is great if

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the judge just denied that ape could

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turn into AMC that's good for AMC stock

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well in the short term maybe that is

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good but in the long term AMC is still

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trending towards bankruptcy because you

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saw the cash numbers right they got some

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work to do but that's not actually what

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the judge said see the reason a judge is

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even involved here at all is because the

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shareholders of AMC are suing the board

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of AMC the shareholders are pissed

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and in this proposed settlement where

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basically the board settles with AMC

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shareholders

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the settlement calls for ape

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shareholders taking a small haircut in

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other words ape shareholders are going

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to get slightly less of the new pie

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after a settlement is created

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well the judge says to cut to the chase

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the settlement cannot be approved as

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submitted because you can't release

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claims for people who aren't actually a

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party to this lawsuit and that's what

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they're arguing now I'm oversimplifying

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a bit here but basically they say here

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you can't award more common shares to

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stockholders at the expense of the ape

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units without the ape folks being

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represented in this lawsuit therefore

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the settlement cannot be approved as

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presented the court also says they're

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not going to address any theories on

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synthetic shares Wall Street corruption

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dark pool trading insider trading Rico

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violations and a request for a share

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count the judge is not going to evaluate

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any of that what the judge here

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basically did is say look the settlement

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the way it is not going to fly by the

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way here's a background on how this how

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this basically entire scam played out so

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here's all of the the info for the world

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to see I haven't seen anybody actually

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break down all of these details yet but

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as you can see it's pretty shady

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so what does this mean going forward

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well here's what it means number one

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there's probably still going to be some

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form of a settlement so this idea that

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ape cannot convert to AMC in my opinion

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is highly flawed there is likely to be

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some kind of revised settlement where a

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judge still authorizes some kind of

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conversion

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so any kind of conversion merging ape

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into a is going to be bad for AMC stock

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but AMC is already trending towards

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bankruptcy so the best thing for AMC is

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to be able to raise money and hopefully

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be able to survive but it's very very

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difficult now if you're holding ape it

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might actually make sense to be

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optimistic about ape because there is a

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likelihood that ape which is currently

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trading for 184 ends up merging into AMC

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stock which is currently trading for

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4.80 so there is a potential Arbitrage

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here to buy ape and sell AMC however and

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this is the risky thing if a and C

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because of this trend towards bankruptcy

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and how long this whole settlement

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procedure could end up taking if AMC

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drops to let's say a dollar

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then you're still going to lose money if

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you're holding ape and you're trying to

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Arbitrage into AMC

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so nobody knows exactly what's going to

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happen but let's just put it this way

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the board thinks retail investors are

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stupid

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and by thinking retail investors are

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stupid they set up an elaborate way to

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dump shares on you despite you as retail

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investors saying no we don't want you to

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authorize more shares they still did it

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with ape shares dump those shares and

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when that ruse failed they went to the

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second one when you don't vote you

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automatically vote the way we won and

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we're gonna have our buddies who don't

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even have to hold the bag vote in the

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election on your behalf that is the

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definition of Wall Street corruption in

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my opinion

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