Elon Musk.Andrew Kelly/Reuters Elon Musk riffed on J. Robert Oppenheimer's iconic quote years before the release of "Oppenheimer." The Tesla boss joked he was destroying short sellers with memes, and recently tweeted he still is. Michael Burry, Jim Chanos and others have bet against Tesla stock, which has skyrocketed since 2020. Elon Musk nodded to the "father of the atomic bomb" more than two years before the release of "Oppenheimer" in cinemas last weekend.