Posted on 04/15/2022 7:48:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sure enough, Elon Musk pulled the trigger, handed Twitter a fat offer of a buyout, and it's been nothing but bonkersville ever since.
According to CBS News:
Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter for $43 billion, saying the social media company "needs to be transformed as a private company."
The billionaire and founder of electric car maker Tesla, who earlier this month disclosed he owns a 9.2% stake in Twitter, proposed in a regulatory filing on Thursday to buy all of the company's outstanding common stock for $54.20 per share.
"I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy," he said in the filing. "However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form."
The market acted as one might expect of a company that has seen stagnant growth over recent months:
Twitter shares rose 3.6% to $47.49 in early trading. Shares in the social media platform, which was valued at $37 billion prior to Musk's offer, had declined by roughly a third over the prior year.
It prompted huffing and puffing from the likes of the Washington Post, owned by mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos, about Musk being a threat to democracy or something.
The blue-checks, meanwhile, completely beclowned themselves:
Best Blue Check meltdowns of the Elon Musk Twitter buyout
A 🧵/1It prompted huffing and puffing from the likes of the Washington Post, owned by mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos, about Musk being a threat to democracy or something.
The blue-checks, meanwhile, completely beclowned themselves:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Congress would need to stop it.
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A Republican Congress might (depending on how many Assistants were active), but a Democrat Congress would double down.
Murray 🇺🇸
@Rothbard1776
Don’t worry communists, if you lose Twitter you’ll still have:
CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, Politico, NPR, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, YouTube, Google, Facebook, the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOD, CDC, USA Today, Bloomberg, Time Magazine, Hollywood and academia.
12:22 PM · Apr 14, 2022
RE: Monica, how could he “stumble upon” it when it’s the main focus of his buyout offer and right out in the open for all to see?
SEE POST #8 ABOVE.
Between the buyout rebuff and the sudden “investigation,” Musk revealed that there are probably skeletons that have Twitter and FedGov fingerprints on them.
Musk recognizes and talks about things way ahead of the curve. He rambles a lot but his warnings about the future dangers of Artificial Intelligence really can make you think. He is brilliant and like most brilliant people, there is a little nuttiness mixed in.
Elon Musk doesn’t “stumble” onto anything.
He knows exactly what he is doing. A person such as Musk doesn’t engage with with these levels of lawyers and the SEC without knowing what is happening.
Your on target remarks are why the elite liberals are so upset with Musk!:
Elon Musk doesn’t “stumble” onto anything.
He knows exactly what he is doing. A person such as Musk doesn’t engage with with these levels of lawyers and the SEC without knowing what is happening.
Absolutely, the government as a proxy for BlackRock in this case. The real controller of government is BlackRock, who also owns controlling interest of Vanguard. And Vanguard just picked up most shares in Twitter over Musk.
This has all exposed Twitter for the Globalist propaganda machine it really is. You can bet it is the same with Facebook, Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and others.
How did you forget the worst of the worst? AP !!
Yup
Yup
I believe they would arkancide him as well
I think the biggest risk to all social media, if Elon takes Twitter, is he will have access to the censoring algorithms they were using and publish them publicly for all the world to see the biases coded therein. Google, particularly, who always lies to Congress about their biased search algorithms will have big exposure.
Twitter seems to sell customer metadata to select governments and commercial and political entities. Thus, Saudi Arabia, China, and other nogoodniks can find out who follows dissidents and critics or political partisans or commercial products.
Well, to be the FIRST, I think it is marvelous for an African American to have the honor of such wealth.
lol..if he could he'd be banned and “Fact checked” as a threat to DEMOCRACY...Didn't you get the memo?
Twitter is being sued by a Sports Illustrated model named Genevieve Morton whose nude calendar photos were sold by Twitter to a XXX site. Turns out twitter sells your image naked or not to anyone to be used by the buyer in their ads.
What scumbags!
I don’t know the rules but could Musk dump his shares driving down the Twit price even more then offer to buy again at his original price which would be significantly higher per share than it was before?
I don't know the answer to that, but I'm sure that Musk didn't become the richest dude on the planet without plan B-C-D-etc.
If push comes to shove, I'll line up with Musk.
It will be fun to watch.
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