I remember Musk once complimenting Trump on his use of Twitter, said something like, Trump's a genius on how to use it.
I think Musk is doing a version of this. He's not really expecting to take over Twitter, but he will make them embarrass themselves, and he'll probably get paid a lot of money to go away.
“He’s not really expecting to take over Twitter, but he will make them embarrass themselves, and he’ll probably get paid a lot of money to go away.”
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Would be kind of a jerk move to get people hopeful that he was/is serious, though, if that’s so.
Like Trump, Musk seems to embody Harry Truman’s axiom: “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”