He knew he wasn’t going to go through with the deal from the get go. He had many conservatives salivating that he was going to set things right and he got massive publicity, which was the real goal all along. I’m not sure why so many people saw him as some kind of savior.
This. Exactly.
Funny how so many self-described "conservatives" allow themselves to get conned by those who may talk a good game but who themselves are anything but conservative.
“He knew he wasn’t going to go through with the deal from the get go.”
I disagree, he saw a company wasting its potential, thought he could do it better. He likes challenges like this, but the numbers don’t add up. Twitter is a financial house of cards. Fake data was used to drive up advertising revenue. Which is a material breach of the contract with Musk. The senior officers and board will face lawsuits from stockholders now holding the bag at a minimum. If there is evidence of fraud, then maybe they face criminal charges, and things get interesting.
He knew he wasn’t going to go through with the deal from the get go. He had many conservatives salivating that he was going to set things right and he got massive publicity, which was the real goal all along.
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This is like an echo straight out of “Atlas Shrugged”, where Francisco d’Anconia destroys his own company by appearing to play into the hands of the looters who will eventually nationalize his mines. After leaking information that causes the stock in his mining company to rise, sucking in more looters, it is discovered, once it is nationalized, that the mining company is a shell of its former self. The stock of course crashes destroying the fortunes of the looters.
“I’m not sure why so many people saw him as some kind of savior.”
The sociopathic twits at Twitter put out a public call months ago to attack Musk and defend every rotten thing about Twitter, including inflated user numbers for advertising and bot control of Twitter.