Elon Musk has notified Twitter and the SEC [SEE LETTER HERE] that he is exercising his “right to terminate the merger agreement and abandon the transaction contemplated” due to the social media company not providing transparent access to background data that would allow authentication of “monetized daily active users” (mDAUs).
It appears that Twitter Inc did not want to reveal how Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop was able to sustain operations, at an extremely high cost, without making money. That’s the essential source of the issue.
The social media company did not want anyone looking at the data stream inside the communication platform. Musk was not allowed to authenticate the number of real users and identify the number of ‘spam’ or ‘bot’ accounts within the platform.
From the SEC Letter: […] ” Specifically, in the Merger Agreement, Twitter represented that no documents that Twitter filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission since January 1, 2022, included any “untrue statement of a material fact” (Section 4.6(a)). Twitter has repeatedly made statements in such filings regarding the portion of its mDAUs that are false or spam, including statements that: “We have performed an internal review of a sample of accounts and estimate that the average of false or spam accounts during the first quarter of 2022 represented fewer than 5% of our mDAU during the quarter,” and “After we determine an account is spam, malicious automation, or fake, we stop counting it in our mDAU, or other related metrics.”
Mr. Musk relied on this representation in the Merger Agreement (and Twitter’s numerous public statements regarding false and spam accounts in its publicly filed SEC documents) when agreeing to enter into the Merger Agreement. Mr. Musk has the right to seek rescission of the Merger Agreement in the event these material representations are determined to be false.
Although Twitter has not yet provided complete information to Mr. Musk that would enable him to do a complete and comprehensive review of spam and fake accounts on Twitter’s platform, he has been able to partially and preliminarily analyze the accuracy of Twitter’s disclosure regarding its mDAU. While this analysis remains ongoing, all indications suggest that several of Twitter’s public disclosures regarding its mDAUs are either false or materially misleading.
First, although Twitter has consistently represented in securities filings that “fewer than 5%” of its mDAU are false or spam accounts, based on the information provided by Twitter to date, it appears that Twitter is dramatically understating the proportion of spam and false accounts represented in its mDAU count. Preliminary analysis by Mr. Musk’s advisors of the information provided by Twitter to date causes Mr. Musk to strongly believe that the proportion of false and spam accounts included in the reported mDAU count is wildly higher than 5%.
Second, Twitter’s disclosure that it ceases to count fake or spam users in its mDAU when it determines that those users are fake appears to be false. Instead, we understand, based on Twitter’s representations during a June 30, 2022 call with us, that Twitter includes accounts that have been suspended—and thus are known to be fake or spam—in its quarterly mDAU count even when it is aware that the suspended accounts were included in mDAU for that quarter.
Last, Twitter has represented that it is “continually seeking to improve our ability to estimate the total number of spam accounts and eliminate them from the calculation of our mDAU…” But, Twitter’s process for calculating its mDAU, and the percentage of mDAU comprised of non-monetizable spam accounts, appears to be arbitrary and ad hoc. Disclosing that Twitter has a reasoned process for calculating mDAU when the opposite is true would be false and misleading. (more)
In April of this year the social media company Twitter said revenue for the first quarter totaled $1.2 billion (+16%). However, costs and expenses totaled $1.33 billion (+35%), resulting in an operating loss of $128 million (link). Another unsustainable financial result for a company that doesn’t make a dime in profit, yet it continues to operate.
The metaphorical Jack had a great idea, open a coffee shop where the beverages were free and use internal advertising as the income subsidy to operate the business. Crowds came for the free coffee, comfy couches, fellowship, conversation and enjoyment.
It didn’t matter where Jack got the coffee, how he paid for it, or didn’t, or what product advertising the customers would be exposed to while there. Few people thought about such things. Curiously, it didn’t matter what size the crowd was; in the backroom of Jack’s Coffee Shop, they were able to generate massive amounts of never-ending free coffee at extreme scales.
Over time, using the justification of parking lot capacity and township regulations, not everyone would be able to park and enter. Guards were placed at the entrance to pre-screen customers. A debate began.
Alternative coffee shops opened around town. It was entirely possible to duplicate Jacks Coffee Shop, yet no one could duplicate the business model for the free coffee. Indeed, there was something very unique about Jack’s Coffee Shop. Thus, some underlying suspicions were raised:
The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account. A public-private partnership.
If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
FREE COFFEE:
♦ June 2013: […] “Cloud computing is one of the core components of the strategy to help the IC discover, access and share critical information in an era of seemingly infinite data.” … “A test scenario described by GAO in its June 2013 bid protest opinion suggests the CIA sought to compare how the solutions presented by IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) could crunch massive data sets, commonly referred to as big data.” … “Solutions had to provide a “hosting environment for applications which process vast amounts of information in parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware” using a platform called MapReduce. Through MapReduce, clusters were provisioned for computation and segmentation. Test runs assumed clusters were large enough to process 100 terabytes of raw input data. AWS’ solution received superior marks from CIA procurement officials”… (MORE)
♦ November 2013: […] “Twitter closed its first day of trading on Nov. 7, 2013, at $44.90 a share. In the years since then, it briefly traded above $70, but more recently, it has struggled.”
Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop has been for sale, but there’s no viable business model in the private sector. No one has wanted to purchase Twitter – it is simply unsustainable; the data processing costs, specifically the server data processing demand for simultaneous active users, exceeds the capacity of the platform to generate revenue – until now….
And suddenly, the people who work in the backroom of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop did not want Jack to sell.
Twitter is not making a decision to decline the generous offer by Elon Musk because of stewardship or fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. The financials of Twitter as a non-viable business model highlight the issue of money being irrelevant. Twitter does not and cannot make money. Growing Twitter only means growing an expense. Growing Twitter does not grow revenue enough to offset the increase in expense.
There is only one way for Twitter to exist as a viable entity, people are now starting to realize this.
What matters to the people behind Twitter, the people who are subsidizing the ability of Twitter to exist, is control over the global conversation.
Control of the conversation is priceless to the people who provide the backbone for Twitter.
Once people realize who is subsidizing Twitter, everything changes.
That’s the fight. (more)
♦ 2021, Public-Private Partnership – The modern Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus. You do not have to take my word for it, the partnership is so brazen they have made public admissions.
The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can access it.
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus. It might be difficult to fathom how openly they admit this, but they do. Look at this sentence in the press release (emphasis mine):
[…] “The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”
Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are “adding to” the preexisting list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already have access to the the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a preexisting list created by the Five Eyes consortium.
Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.
When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data-mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.
The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a warrant; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted is exactly that preexisting partnership. The difference is that Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.
The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
July 26, 2021, (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into our lives, our personal lives. In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the installation of Barack Obama was all about.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons we should never have allowed to be created, and turned those weapons into tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation. Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.
…It’s all Connected Folks, SEE HERE
[…] “The vision was first outlined in the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise plan championed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and IC Chief Information Officer Al Tarasiuk almost three years ago.” … “It is difficult to underestimate the cloud contract’s importance. In a recent public appearance, CIA Chief Information Officer Douglas Wolfe called it “one of the most important technology procurements in recent history,” with ramifications far outside the realm of technology.” (READ MORE)
One job…. “take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.”
Say cheers for subsidized data processing through the cloud. The only thing we ask in advance is for operational nodes to monitor and extract data that is within computing systems.
Sundance your insight is remarkable on this issue. It is all in plain sight, but only because of your expertise in starting up CT after WordPress kicked you off, could you realize how impossible Twitter’s business model had become. Thank you for putting all the pieces together for us.Of course, our government uses Twitter as a propaganda tool as well as an info gathering site.
I wonder if Elon Musk realized what was going on before he made his offer? He wanted to open up the conversation and saw all the little men scurrying behind the curtain.
Will they let him out of this deal? To fight him will expose their hiding place.
What I can’t quite figure out is why Musk would have waived his due diligence rights in pursuit of the deal. I’m no expert on securities law but that seems like a get out of jail free card on disclosure. The litigation is going to be enormous.
Can you say discovery?
My guess is Musk walks away significantly richer with a ten foot stack curteousy of 5 eyes or…..he falls down stairs while carrying a 5 inch blade which he accidently stabs himself in between his shoulder blades and rolls into an open elevator shaft that was being used temporarily as a dump point for a building wide window replacement.
No discovery.
Did I miss something? What gave you the idea that Mr. Musk waived his due diligence rights? It was while he was performing his due diligence that he discovered the fraud involving the grossly understated amount of spam bots that Twatter has, the main reason as to why he pulled the plug on the deal.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/07/elon-musks-44b-twitter-deal-in-jeopardy-over-fake-accounts/
I think it’s about 14 paragraphs down. Says offer was made without due diligence. This is the basis for Twitter taking Musk to court (or threatening to) and this is what all the ecstatic Leftists are all screeting about the last few days. How stupid musk is, how he screwed himself, etc.
I’m not a securities lawyer, so this stuff is over my head. It may be meaningless if twitter made false statements about their user base. I don’t know.
Impossible to make “due diligence” UNTIL he was given the info he asked for. Just because a “journalist” made the claim doesn’t mean it’s even close to being accurate.
just saying its what was reported months ago. I never believe “just one journalist” but this can be sourced from a number of different outlets.
I think he “knew” or suspected the Spook involvement from day one. He’s a smart guy. He probably doesn’t believe in Climate Change either, but he’s a clever businessman. He knew the Gubment tax subsidies were essential to selling EV’s. He’s had a cosy relationship with the insiders for some time now. I think he just wanted to take a peek under the circus tent. Now he knows who the Wizard behind the curtain really is. He knows he can’t make money running it day-to-day as a legitimate business and he also might not want to get in bed with the same people who gave Epstein his dirt nap. He may even walk away making millions selling his shares now. If nothing else it was all a speculative gamble.
Anhyone else think that the PM of Japan getting offed might have pushed the decision along?
No, not litigation, but exposure.
Who said he waived anything? Where did this claim come from ?
https://nypost.com/2022/07/07/elon-musks-44b-twitter-deal-in-jeopardy-over-fake-accounts/
https://www.techarp.com/business/elon-musk-twitter-deal-why/
Discovery 🙂
More teeth….
He trusted
Twitter lied
?
Not only did he make it public info via Twitter
But
I’ll bet he has recorded conversations had with the twitter
And
Has a paper trail
I read his letter to Twitter. It looks like Twitter knowingly failed to fulfill its part of the agreement in several aspects. He made sure it was pretty rock solid before offering. Musk is no idiot, that’s for sure.
This has been obvious and discussed for years.
The run off costs, vs the revenue intersect with the obvious purpose to shape and dominate the information space and by extension the society.
Discovery would be nice…
Soooo … does this confirm the FBI did know of all mass-murderer’s intents – per their social media – before they became mass-murderers?
And all the WHACKJOBS working at twatter are happy as clams.
Shouldn’t twatter be investigated if they cannot provide basic info on the company? Wouldn’t the IRS maybe want to be sure they’re paying their “fair share”?. I’ll hold my breath.
Actually, Twatter is now starting to lay off employees, and has reduced the amount of new hires for various positions. I think the mess at Twatter is going to exponentially worsen at a rapid pace in the coming months, a lot of that due to shareholder lawsuits against Twatter’s BOD and even Jack Dorsey, who bailed but is still liable for what was taking place at Twatter on his watch. Sarbanes Oxley Act I and II covers this.
If the Repubs are successful at taking over the House and the Senate, Twatter may go Chapter 7 when they are no longer allowed to use US Government servers, which should never have been allowed in the first place. The US Taxpayer should NOT be subsidizing private for profit businesses. I hope the new 2023 Congress will be cutting lots and lots of pork out of the budget, and get this country back on track in a fiscally responsible manner. We sure could use a Newt Gingrich style CONTRACT WITH AMERICA right about now.
Will the IC relinquish this tool, which it no doubt considers valuable, rather than admit to what Musk and Sundance have exposed?
Or, will they deny, deny, deny,…and eventually say “Yeah, we did. So what?”
And, what does this say about THE OTHER Big Tech titans, that have also fully embraced the censorship, right in lockstep with twatter?
Are they also heavily subsidised subsidiaries of the Federal Government?
This could potentially BREAK “Big Tech” and what are the political and social ramifications of THAT?
Dutch… good questions all. I will venture that many of the questions entered by Treepers are, in fact, mute. We have NO Justice system at this point, and have had numerous demonstrations as to what happens (nowt) when ANYONE connected with gov’t. or those we view as “the elite”, break the Law.
Dutchman, as far as I’m concerned, Big Tech should have been broken a long time ago. In fact, they never should have been allowed to become the big internet bullies that they are today. Take away their current protection from massive legal actions for their outrageous censorship, including election interference, and they will crumble, as they should. While many jobs may be lost, especially those held by snowflakes who think it’s their job to take away our 1st amendment rights, other jobs will be created by responsible tech companies who may rise up from the ashes but more in line with protecting free speech, rather than to oppress it.
In addition to Twatter beginning to have cracks in their damn walls, Zuckerbutt is now in panic mode and Meta is also showing signs of cracks in their damn as well. i look forward to the day that none of them are the tech giants that the are now, and that includes not only Meta and Twatter, but Gaggle and others like them as well.
What the government created, the government can destroy.
Which Republicans? If Normals never show up to the primaries they have a choice of a Chamber of Commerce puppet who is trained to run and recite on hot button issues during the election and then serve the anti-American agenda while in office.
Nobody does any research as to who a candidate actually is under the coaching and pandering, virtually nobody reads the Constitution and Adam Smith. They vote for people who make a loud enough noise And seem to be ethnically or ideologically “one of us”.
Ya think will actually get loyal, patriotic, centrist and conservative candidates out of that soup? Only by accident, it seems
The Republicans have no real control over whether or not USG assets are used by Twitter or anyone else. IMO neither do the Dems. The three letter agencies are in charge of that. Those decisions are above Congress’s pay grade.
Which is exactly why we need to demolish the three letter agencies. Nothing should be out of the control of our elected officials. Unless or until that is taken care of, IMO we remain serfs without a means to truly thrive.
I’m guessing that Twitter stock will do a pretty fair imitation of the Hindenburg on Monday.
If they lied on their submission, the SEC might just skin them alive. We’ll see.
The “SEC might skin them alive”.
The same SEC that is headed by Strzok’s wife?
Think that she (just maybe) was put in place in case
of occurrences like this presenting themselves?
Hmmmmm?
The SEC knows and has known. They are in on it. They are ALL in on it.
Soooo TRUE
Even if the deal didn’t go through, Twitter’s unethical business practices and leftist shenanigans have been exposed …Job well done Elon Musk!
So, if I own a share of an ETF that includes Twitter in its holdings, then I have a lawsuit against Twitter because I have been defrauded? No? I might buy just one share right out and hold it for the coming massive lawsuit against these scumbags.
I bet we will eventually find out that the fourth branch is the stockholder of Twitter.
WILL the ADVERTISERS on Twitter, sue or push for investigations of FRAUD, and if not, why not?
Yep.. another couple of good questions. Thanks.
I purchased one for that exact reason.
Television advertisers always had, for example, Neilsen, to tell them how often their ads were playing, and to whom. Incredibly, no one has been asking obvious questions about “social media.”
With the capability of never-questioned fraud being so easy and so obvious, what does “human nature” tell you? 🤡
Advertisers: not only were they dishonest, you were stupid.
Flip that; The Big Tech monopolies got to be Big tech monopolies, only thru a LOT of help from the Feral Govt., including not pursueing breaking up the monopoly.
Similarly, there are laws and regulations, on the books to restrict Media ownership, and spelling out how many newspapers and tv stations one company can own.
As the media giants gobbled up more and more newspapers and tv stations, the regulating agencies just CHANGED the limits, raising them to accomodate the new purchases.
So, subtler than in Canada, but the same end result; all msm obliged to tow the gummint line, obligated to “partner” with the weoponised feral gummint, to parrot the daily talking points, word for word.
“Gaming” the system.
And when they let the monopolization of tv and newsprint happen they said it didn’t matter because free speech was protected because of the internet. Instead they all became joint actors for the government.
Wonderful ! Another of the revelations of major acts of treason and crime that fill all our news and discussion sites.
That not a single broken citizen will do anything about.
We’ve FUBARed ourselves a long time ago.
Say what you want about Musk, but the man is not an idiot.
<…the man is not an idiot.>
Correct! But AOC certainly is…
She thinks Elon Musk is a men’s cologne 🙂
“She (AOC) thinks Elon Musk is a men’s cologne” Consider that stolen!
Where I work they demanded everyone get the clot shot, when you did, just show your verification and you received days of vacation. Later you could opt out by presenting religious refusal. Several refused out of thousands, only several, I was one. I did not submit anything, religious or verification. Never heard a word back from them, the threat was removing us from our jobs. And third worlders lined up as well as all the debt laden employees.
Twitter, I-phone, Facebook, Google, all of them use the same technique. You volunteered your total information and whereabouts to a globalist group. Without the info from us we do not exist to them.
Palerider: Not existing to “them” is fine with me.
And itis painfully apparent from this thread alone that a very great many “patriots” continue to provide such information as well as support our enemies by continuing to use these platforms and products provided to us by our existential enemies.
The addictive quality of much that is “important” to post-modern Americans, both in the real world and electronically is painfully apparent. As many political and societal observers have noted, we are largely the instruments of our own destruction, both personal and national.
Imagine the generations of addicts of all sorts have been produced by our educational (not) system.
The most important REASON for not having a cell phone. Never have, never will. In addition, have never twatted, false-booked, worn a mask, social distanced, danced with a jab.
That makes 2 of us then.
Where do you begin when seeing something like the following. Perhaps the best way is to draw your attention to the similarities between two apparently unrelated facts. Voter registration databases across our country have been filled with a very large number of non-existent voters, and that the current SOS’s of the affected states have refused to remove these false or non-existent names. And, the material breach by Twitter in the purchase agreement, outlined below. It seems, Twitter has tried to mislead Elon Musk and the SEC as to the number of real user accounts. In effect, Twitter management committed fraud on its own stockholders and the SEC. Twitter has effectively refused to remove such accounts, just like the SOS’s of the various states have refused to remove non-existent voters.
Now, for the bottom line. Both Twitter and the State SOS’s are part of the government. That’s right, not only are they hiding the lack of accounts (voters) but who is really paying the bills.
I worked for the Florida Secretary of State and managed the voter registration computer system. The counties manage their voters. The State has no window into the county database and cannot alter the master database held at the State. The State purges dead people on a monthly basis. If you don’t vote in 2 elections you become inactive and then are removed. You can get a copy of all the registered voters in Florida for free and do your own research, unlike California who hides their voter registration data from the public for good reason(they let illegals register). I can guarantee you nothing that you said was going on while I was there.
Well, that was fun. Who wants to buy a Tesla?
Notice the timeline.
DARPA: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Formed in 1958 and government funded “you and I”
The myth of the modern business genius is just that, a myth.
Dorsey and Twitter are a great example.
This is from May.
Elon Musk’s Twitter deal rewards risk-taking at Morgan Stanley
“Morgan Stanley, along with Goldman Sachs, is one of two dominant investment banks operating in Silicon Valley. Backing Musk’s bid and recruiting almost a dozen other banks to join signalled to Twitter investors the seriousness of Musk’s efforts to buy the company. To bring the deal together Morgan Stanley is extending financial firepower to Musk that goes beyond anything provided to other private clients.”
https://worldnewsera.com/news/finance/elon-musks-twitter-deal-rewards-risk-taking-at-morgan-stanley/
I do not understand much about Wall Street and high finance, but when I see the words “Morgan Stanley” and “financial firepower” that tells me who is likely to come out on the losing end of the Twitter/Musk battle.
President Trump did say deals were his strong suit (this was also in May, btw):
While God of course uses flawed humans repeatedly to work His divine plan (David and DJT come to mind) as He is now doing with Musk, we would do well to avoid the “hero worship” trap.
Notwithstanding Musk’s efforts to expose the big tech cabal, he is an inveterate hedonist and from all indications an atheist just like the rest of those enemies of freedom against whom we are in a total and existential war (for all the marbles in other words).
His latest escapade involves fathering twins by some executive in one of his companies.
Patriots must avoid lionizing our enemies merely because on occasion they take a position on an issue we “like” while otherwise remaining solidly in the enemy camp as to everything else.
In point of fact, as God Himself makes crystal clear and as our Founders warned us, we should never idolize anyone. Support perhaps but never to the point we blind ourselves to the truth of their entire worldview and values.
Agree, Jumpinjarhead and it needs to be repeated, OFTEN.
Just as we tell our children “I am angry AT WHAT YOU DID, not at YOU” we should differentiate between someone sayingvor doing something we agree with, and believing because of one act or speech, that they deserve our eternal support.
Look at Lindseys 2 minute, free media diatribe at the end of Kavanaugh.
SEEMED authentic and heartfelt, now obvious he was PLAYING us, and many fell for it.
It seems at least a few here ”get it.”
Good to see your posts!
Categorizing all people who are not conservatives as enemies is a rather Taliban like position. Musk is an American, a major contributor to the free market, and possibly someone a spear point in the fight against the totalitarian blob. So far no Conservatives have stepped up to straighten out Twitter.
If we make enemies out of everyone, we have no friends. If we have no friends, we get what’s coming and that is being Permanent losers with perfect principles, except that those principles will be ground to a powder and flushed by our enemies because we refused to make any friends.
I am mot classifying as you have wrongly assumed. I specifically mean in the context of this thread the big tech oligarchs of whom Musk is one.
If you do not realize we are now in an existential and total war for our lives and for the future of America where there really are “enemies” who seek our deaths, I don’t know what will persuade you.
In such a war there is no middle ground where those on “our side” can pick and choose their pleasures, most of which are brought to us by our enemies and who use our addictions (including continued use and support of social media platforms we know are being used as weapons against us. All such “fraternizing” hurts both our cause and us individually.
Jumpinjarhead: I agree. Idol worship is one of man’s most self-destructive practices.
How many twitty bird accounts can you have? 5 max on one IP address. How many IP addresses can you have? Simple answer unlimited number if you pay for them.
They say there are? Jan. 2022 396.5 million/ Feb. 2022 217 million or as of May 2022 206 million monetized, they can make money off these idiots.
And then there is Hussein Obama, they say he has 131 million followers? But unlimited number of IP addresses says noway.
I’d be surprises if twitty bird has 20 million REAL users.
“It appears that Twitter Inc did not want to reveal how Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop was able to sustain operations, at an extremely high cost, without making money. That’s the essential source of the issue.”
Could it be that Musk’s inquiry would have exposed the dark money that is keeping Twitter afloat and the identities of its benefactors? We can only speculate this may be the DNC, CIA, FBI, DOJ, the ChiComs, other bad players, or all of the above. It seems rather obvious that the goal of Twitter’s censorship is to protect the Democrat Crime Syndicate at all costs, ELIMINATE their opposition, as well as to promote the march toward a Global Totalitarian controlled Marxist society with the ChiComs in charge.
Exposure of the dark money funding Twitter would open up Twitter to massive lawsuits as they could then no longer deny they are not acting as a publisher. They could also be potentially prosecuted for election tampering. Good job, Elon Musk! May God protect this man and keep him safe, as these kinds of courageous men often don’t live long in the face of the Evil that is running our country right now.
It seems to me that Twitter wanted to sell to Musk, but only on the condition, that Musk does not Check the Roof nor the Basement foundations… hahahaaa
I think the only reason the Board agreed was out of fear of being sued by shareholders for not considering a serious offer. They balked at first and only came around after “Fiduciary Responsibility” started floating around in news articles.
The Board was also possibly informed that the IC would still be in control and would bring Musk to heel.
So we know the RINOS support the left more than they support MAGA
But what happens if and when the American people learn that many R’s in Congress have known and helped support the 4th Branch of government subsidizing many of these high tech companies for the so,e purpose of controlling free speech?
This is why lawsuits with massive discovery need to commence so this blows up to include the Congress and who and what they did behind the scenes to possible put all of this in motion unbeknownst to the American people.
I’d love to see a deeper dive on this from Sundance.
By the way, interesting what is going on in Sri Lanka.
is the rebellion on-
Dutch farmers;
Boris resigns;
maybe Macron or Draghi, or Halbeck, is next- their citizens will not like burning their furniture to keep warm at Christmas-
and we will see what Abe’s assassination brings to other countries’ leaders in the area-
So sad about Abe… he was no longer in office… wonder what he “threatened”…??
You’ll find plenty of articles on the internet about his vocal support for Taiwan. Could be related….
Possibly was a revenge killing because of some policy or policies he enacted while in office that foiled someone’s plans (China is a strong suspect)
Would guess Abe was a major obstacle to the ChiComs. He got in the way of their propaganda that the citizens of Taiwan are ready to welcome a Chinese invasion with open arms, that they are eager to become serfs on a CCP gulag. Abe could also rally his nation to oppose CCP encroachment in their region and with US support was building up the Japanese military to give the ChiComs a thrashing for when they cross the lines drawn by the civilized world, which it appears they are planning to do. He was a very popular leader in Japan, much like Trump is in the US with American patriots.
in a speech recently given in London, even Dirty Cop FBI Director Christopher Wray has acknowledged that the ChiComs are up to no good and appear to be planning a dastardly event which will anger the world. Wray said they are gearing up their economy to be resilient to Western economic sanctions. Perhaps part of the their plan was to get Abe and his political influence out of the way first. Nothing is too low for the ChiComs. Wray said they are even sneaking into fields in the US heartland to dig up genetically modified seeds in the dirt because they are not capable of developing these themselves.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-poses-biggest-long-term-threat-economic-national-security-fb-director-wray-warns
When what is happening in Sri Lanka happens here, writ large, we can really renew the promise of America. We haven’t been able to keep the republic, substantial measures are needed to cut out all of the cancer and rot.
Until then, it’s just kicking the can and filling potholes where roads need to be overhauled.
These tech heads under oath lie to congress on multiple occasions and we are supposed to believe anything they now say as to the fake accounts
This is going to get interesting. Musk is no dummy. He knew going in a lot of the accounts were fake. If they sue him, he can get discovery into the info he was seeking. Also, he planned to charge government and commercial users a fee to use Twitter. That may sound inconsequential, but it could potentially generate a lot of revenue. One of Twitter’s major problems is that it generates low revenue per user compared to other social media platforms.
What is true in the Musk-Twitter tale?
The problem with a world turned into a wilderness of lies, is that we can’t know the truth…
…or what may be psyop, perhaps with surveillance collecting responses.
See chapter 5, paragraphs 3-6, on CHENG and CH’I.
SD is spot-on talking about the fourth branch (Intel), see chapter 13, keep in mind the spying is ubiquitous.
https://suntzusaid.com/
Meantime, dazzling events like Musk-Twitter also keep us distracted from serious things afoot that appear to possibly be part of the Great Reset. A few:
Inflation draining economic power from the commoners:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/with-6-trillion-in-covid-relief-the-government-could-have-given-every-taxpayer-41000
Justified by an artificial plandemic created by US government funding and direction, prolonged by suppression of safe treatments, used to justify the shots appearing more and more like an extended attrition bioweapon:
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-safe-and-effective-narrative
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-17d
And “climate”:
https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2022/05/100-ways-biden-and-the-democrats-have-made-it-harder-to-produce-oil-gas/
Military wokeism and shot mandates worsening the recruiting problem, while xiden escalates war:
https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/army-cuts-pay-from-over-60k-unvaccinated-national-guard-reserves/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/28/biden-pentagon-facing-historic-military-recruitment-shortfalls-perfect-storm-of-events/
Based on overwhelming evidence of insidious shot harm, and the claimed 90+ % injection rate, the military has been profoundly weakened.
Globalists helping to push commoners into usury:
https://americafirstreport.com/wall-street-is-buying-everyones-homes-and-driving-up-prices/
Further:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/marxism-you-will-own-nothing-and?utm_source=email
So, back to topic: Musk-Twitter? This is important?
Xiden. When you look at what he’s doing, he certainly seems like the CCP. First the virus which allowed his ‘election’ and ushered in a new era of authoritarianism and control. Then he drained our SPR. Then he emasculated the military. Then he disappeared incredible amounts of military hardware. He opened the border to anyone and everyone. Then he tanked the economy, and last but not least, ended what was left of the dollar. Xi will be able to walk in without a shot after Xiden unilaterally surrenders our country.
Still, I’m interested in the Musk deal just on the outside chance something good comes of it.
Amazing.
A private intelligence operation sponsored by the Government.
And a propaganda machine to lobby their interests.
Add to that it is fully weaponized, censored and controlled by the Government as well.
This explains everything.
The entirety of the Federal govt has been weoponised, against the American people, and the same applies in all the major “Western Democracies” using variations of the same techniques.
are you referring to Google, Facebook, Amazon, AT&T, Apple or Twitter?
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Yes.
And far too many “patriots” do not miss a beat in continuing to support through their use these platforms and products of our big tech enemies
I hope your right!
Would appreciate an explanation of your comment, and to whom.
Fraud vicciates EVERYTHING.
SUNLIGHT is the best disinfectant.
In the end, the TRUTH will out.
These are Universal truths, they are REALITY.
Many layers of false narratives have been promulgated, and one of them involves TECHNOLOGY.
It has been “hyped” to the point that many accept that Technology can do ANYTHING; IT CAN’T.
There are real, tangible limits to what technology is capable of.
Just as there are real, tangible limits to what GOVERNMENT, any government, can do.
Our enemies have fallen victim to believing their own hype, on both counts, and are in the process of learning, painfully the difference between flying and falling.
Liberals then: We can’t let Nazi Musk buy Twitter!
Liberals Now: Musk must go through with his purchase of Twitter!
THis might be settled by Musk going throgh with the purchase, but at a much, much, lower price. Or a left-wing “White Knight” will step in and buy it.
Haha, left wing white knight will heroically “save” Twitter from extinction using taxpayer funds. This “critical infrastructure”is necessary for the safe operation of the Country doncha know!
Musk is left wing except for when it affects him personally. He has the morals of an alley cat but of course many “patriots” focus on his taking on Twitter which is just another platform of our mortal enemies that should not be supported.
The deposition of Jack could be priceless and an eye opener to millions of Americans.
Dorsey is going to get a shave and a haircut. Couldn’t happen to a better jackass.
My prediction:
The breach of contract litigation will go on for years, concluding with a settlement agreement which includes a non-disclosure provision. The SEC will do nothing against Twitter, although another fed. agency will start to investigate Musk for something….. and will find nothing.
Ultimately, Musk will be richer, Twitter will remain as it is now and will not lose any money, and, for the public, it will be the circus that keeps minds off the decreasing supply of bread.
We will all be left dissatisfied and disappointed, until the next circus act grabs our attention.
Of course Musk KNEW this … It is the reason behind the offer, he wanted to expose it. We could debate on the reasons why, but it is clear that Musk has known this all along.
Heck, I remember Rush Limbaugh explains the real issue with Twitter, from a business stand point, is that there is no way for them to legally make a profit and therefore HAD to be subsidized by SOMEBODY.
Trump knew this, Musk knew this, pretty much anyone who has followed Twitter for 10 or more years knew this.
I am not saying that Musk is a “good guy”, for all I know, he could want to expose it for spiteful reasons, but the fact that it is being exposed is the miracle, now we need for the big, real big ugly of it all to go mainstream. The US IC have been funding Twitter (and likely others) as a means to collect data on citizens, control the conversations, and share with other countries via 5Eyes.
It is hard to put into words how abhorred this is … it is way yonder past mere corruption, it is corruption with the intent to harm … or simply EVIL.
They all need put up a wall and shot! Who has the power to dismantle it all?
We do.
Musk is a genius.
I do believe he was sincere in his effort to make Twitter a “public square” where all could speak and not be deleted.
Idk the legal ramifications here.
I do know Twitter is going to lose share value as institutional investors begin to see the real value of their investment and need to protect their own shareholders.
Where’s the SEC?
Thanks, as always, Sundance, for the Clarity on events.
Elon Musk is the quintessential used car salesman.
Look into Musk’s fake roof tile presentation on the former set of Desperate housewives , in order to trick Tesla shareholders into authorizing the bailout of SolarCity (which was owned by his cousins).
Musk perpetrated Theranos level fraud which was never prosecuted because the Solar City bond losses were dumped on Tesla retail investors.
It is refreshing to see at least some on our side are not fooled by this leftist who got wealthy on our tax dollars.
Sadly, as reflected in just this thread alone, many “conservatives” think him a “hero” and worthy of our attention.
The American public are being played for suckers. The old line from WC Fields ” never give a sucker an even break” comes to mind when thinking about what the unelected bureaucracy is doing to American public.
“that doesn’t make a dime in profit, yet it continues to operate”
Because it’s a great official narrative preservation and propaganda distribution service.
He was never going to buy twater, he just likes running his mouth.
Indeed.
It is rather telling how many “conservatives” are mesmerized with him. Probably a great many who are still supporting the platforms of our mortal enemies.
https://gab.com/
Steve Bannon just said Twitter Execs will be criminally charged
Knowing all of this, how could anyone with any morals still be on the twit, helping to feed the illegal 4th branch of government.
This thread alone suggests the answer.
I would have thought “patriots” would have abandoned all of the “legacy” social media platforms when it became crystal clear several years ago they were all run by our mortal enemies and were actively working to not only silence us but to destroy us and our nation.
The damage done to all of us by the sewer of a culture is quite evident but apparently many on “our side” just cannot live without the “entertainment” afforded by social media and sports.
I’m unsure how Twit determines who to ban. On one hand having Alex Jones on will give them 1000s of “white” names as subs. That’s really what they want… info on us.
that 5% SEC discosure was very material to income and whether the biz was a going concern – am sure it was subject to being audited by the outside auditors. Would not like to be the audit partner right now.
“If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.”
I will go a step farther and call Twitter (and Facebook) government agencies operating in the shadows. Much more than a Public-Private Partnership, a quasi-government agency which does not even have to report to congress or the president. No one can buy Twitter. Twitter does not care about profit or the SEC. Twitter employees openly mocked Musk.
Same with Antifa and BLM. They are Deep State government agencies operating in the shadows.
People with Facebook and Twitter accounts are useful idiots.
So, if I click the link and read this, and read other linked pages, the intelligence community can get that info from Google and link it to other lists. Say I gave $10 to the Freedom Convoy that Trudeau called racists and boom, I’m on a list. If I belong to the Conservative Party of Canada, that party has “extremists” and racists in it. This allows Trudeau (who has more or less disbanded parliament for years after getting less than a plurality in two consecutive elections) to rule as an absolute monarch. Bill 11 will outlaw “extremist” communication on the web. Bye, guys. Coming to a nation near you too.