The latest developments in the effort to purchase the unsustainable magic coffee shop are quite revealing.
According to the New York Post, “Musk himself is willing to invest between $10 billion and $15 billion of his own cash to take Twitter private, two sources close to the situation said. That’s up from the current 9.1% stake in the company he revealed on April 4, which is worth about $3.4 billion.”
However, more revealing about the overall issue are the comments from the PR firm of the U.S. Intelligence Community, The Washington Post:
(WaPo) […] “Putting so much power in the hands of one company is bad enough, but putting it in the hands of one person, as is largely the case with Facebook shareholder Mark Zuckerberg and would be the case if Twitter were owned by Musk, would be incompatible with democracy.”
“There are simply no checks and balances from any internal or external force,” … “It would leave Musk, like Zuckerberg, with an amount of assembled data about people and the ability to use it to manipulate them “that cannot be compared to anything that has ever existed, and allows intervention into the integrity of individual behavior and also the integrity of collective behavior.” (read more)
People are starting to catch on to the reality that costs for data processing on many social media platforms (the free coffee), exceeds the ability of the platform to generate revenue. People are starting to understand that behind the scenes of the Big Tech consortium, there is something else, some other operational construct and mechanism, that subsidizes & facilitates their existence.
It is very revealing how the intelligence apparatus of the United States had no issue with Twitter data and influence, until the potential for private ownership, perhaps uncontrolled private ownership, surfaced. Do not be naïve in pretending not to know how The Washington Post represents the interests of the intelligence apparatus.
In the long arc of history, I truly believe we will discover the inflection moment for the merge of U.S. Deep State (intel community) and U.S. Social Media, will be identified in the early moments of the Arab Spring of 2010/2011. That was when Facebook and Twitter became tools for the State Dept operation in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Bahrain and beyond. That was the beta-test of synergy.
“Arab Social Media Report by the Dubai School of Government give empirical heft to the conventional wisdom that Facebook and Twitter abetted if not enabled the historic region-wide uprisings of early 2011.” (LINK)
It was from that original, albeit misguided and manipulative partnership, when the actual details about how to create the social surveillance state was first tested. Everything after those events more than a decade ago, has been this rapidly evolving blend of social media technology and the capacity of the U.S. intelligence apparatus to create and fund the underlying structures.
Daily, we see numerous examples of the ideological control that surfaces as a direct result of this public-private partnership, the closed-conversations between deep government interests (the Fourth Branch) and social media companies which are dependent on the subsidized technology for them to exist.
Perhaps 2022 represents the first time the commonsense of the American electorate begins to recognize the fallacy of the ‘free coffee’ business model. Personally, I am very optimistic people will soon recognize what many have suspected for a long time.
Ultimately the question becomes, how far will the U.S. Fourth Branch of Government go to stop people from understanding?
Marc Andreessen believes Govt and Big Tech will double, triple and quadruple down to keep their public-private partnership, the backbone of the Free Coffee Shop, hidden. I cannot say I disagree, because ultimately it is still only the minority of people who understand the stakes. However, on the upside, the number of people who are starting to understand it, is growing almost exponentially thanks to Elon Musk.
This is one of those situations where we should all welcome being called ‘conspiracy theorists’, because no matter how big the crowd is that refuses to believe it, ultimately the impossible business model of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop will reveal everything.
That’s why the public-private partnership must stop Elon Musk. As the Washington Post noted, this level of revelation “cannot be compared to anything that has ever existed.”
“Very shadowy” indeed.
Yes, because WaPo owner, Jeff Bezos, only controls a teeny weeny bit of information, through his itsy bitsy company, Amazon.
Why is Zuckerberg allowed a monopoly on personal information?
He paid good money for that.
The government has been picking business winners for a long time, and they demand their due.
FB was designed to capture data on everyone. The same with Google and Twitter. Promote and validate the daily narrative. Outright government ownership made this impossible, so they they helped create the entities and made deals with the companies.
Where would Amazon be if not for the USPS? They are running a TV campaign to keep the government from changing the service Amazon receives. WaPo pays Bezos’ dues by towing the line.
Netflix doesn’t pay the going rate for the bandwidth their subscribers use.
Don’t believe for a minute that CNN was not subsidized by government in some fashion. Airports? Cable companies forced to carry a network that no one watches, but are forced to pay for it. Any cable company dumping CNN from their lineup will bring government regulators knocking.
Google has every bit as much and more. Apple has an incredible wealth of data from around the world. Amazon, check. Microsoft, check. Many others too in smaller but still incredible doses. Think cell phone carriers, Comcast, etc. Even our prescription data from Pharmacies is sold off through point of sale system providers (yeah, HIPAA privacy, right?). Offline sourcing to the tune of thousands of household level variables are compiled and sold around the country and married to our, cough, cough, ANONYMOUS online data (so funny). It’s stunning to get an inside look at all of it.
Something something Lifelog.
ALMOST correct…Fakebook came into existence in 2012 and was a “brain child” of DARPA…
NOTE: the following is what has been said about Fakebook BUT Fakebook was like TWITTER…came out of NOWHERE…
DARPA was looking for ways to gather information on people surreptitiously to test how to “MANIPULATE” said people…
Facebook was already a going huge enterprise by ’05. You’re thinking of the IPO from ’12.
I recall us at work, discussing social media in ’07 and I couldn’t understand why people would want to broadcast their daily lives… I misunderstood the fundamental narcissism of so many people.
But from the point of view of the American KGB apparatchiks it was a God sent intelligence trove. Let the people do their own surveillance. I mean, it was so obvious.
Amazon still providing cloud services to CIA?
I got a feeling it’s the CIA providing the hardware for Amazon to provide cloud services.
Amazon is just the front end, the CIA and NSA run the back end.
Amazon has a business model to provide the cash flow to fund his service. He might be independent. Twitter has no business cash flow capable of supporting the data needs of the users. The question that Sundance proposed remains: Where do they get the resources to have the huge user operation? Does some entity provide it for a quid pro quo of some type? [Insert suspicious cat here]
How about – Zoom – I’ve never been on it but my wife has for two years – How do they make money? All that digital video gets stored somewhere!
I think some Zoom data was stored in China. Very leaky too.
Warning: Zoom Makes Encryption Keys In China (Sometimes) (forbes.com)
But they promised they would stop.
Zoom Stops Data Flowing Through China (tweaklibrary.com)
You can read all about their problems and what they are doing about those problems.
Zoom security issues: What’s gone wrong and what’s been fixed | Tom’s Guide (tomsguide.com)
Very, very lengthy. I couldn’t endure it.
Zoom is difficult. To use it, you must use secured servers and those cost money.
Same thing with WebEx and Slack. Do NOT use the free service.
Nothing is ever “free”. When you pay for a service, you control it.
I have a paid subscription. Free is only 40 minutes per session. I use my subscription for church meetings and my wife piggy backs on it for her study group.
And Wall Street capital is starting to come out against funding a TWTR buy out. Didn’t see that coming, NOT!
It’s not over the stock price, that’s for sure.
So glad you tackled this, Sundance. Saw Elon’s tweet earlier and was hoping you would. Thanks! Now to go read the post. 😉
The Deep State Cesspool remains uncheckable?
These corrupt carpet worms fear the People far more than the People fear them.
Do they ever ponder what Marie Antoinette’s eyes saw, for her last few seconds when the sliding knife severed her neck?
Divided America will soon come together when the common Enemy is revealed.
Too dangerous for whom, WP? US or your Communist Chums?
A little off topic but align with the flood of lies we are being told… as SD wrote about Biden opening up the US Strategic Reserves…. as thought off to Germany. Biden’s little side deal…
“Biden tapped into the US Strategic Oil Reserves in an attempt to bring down oil prices. Now we know that at least one ship, the Suezmax ship Advantage Spring, is sailing for Rotterdam filled with US oil.”
LIARS!!!!!!!!!
What is exactly your point? I have no idea what you are trying to say.
It’s a candle in the wind.
Joe “Big Guy” Biden is selling oil paid for by the US taxpayers to foreign countries.
Wonder where all that money is going? Part of the Biden “Loot America” Plan.
Yet they have no problem will mentally ill purple haired freaks who identify as sea lions being in charge of moderating twitter. Got it.
https://images.app.goo.gl/fRY97soYcsJTNhps7
Suppose Musk does buy the coffee shop. It’s a certainty the government will stop delivering the coffee and Musk would then have to buy it with his checkbook. How is that sustainable?
Musk then gets to see behind the scenes how the whole operation is being run.
He knows already. He doesn’t care about the economics.
In poker it’s called I’ll see you.
I am not at all sure Musk REALLY wants to own Twatter,; not sure that is his end goal.
I think he wants to EXPOSE and perhaps bring down Twatter, and what he is doing is just a ploy, to achieve that end.
What about using it in relation to his Starlink satellites? He could take it really private.
Musk buys the coffee shop, Musk gets to see its inner workings. Musk gets to see who delivers the coffee and the exact ingredients in the cup. Government does the delivery now, so controls the content of the coffee cup. Government will NEVER give up something it controls, which is the content.
They’ll blow up Twitter before they let Musk see what’s behind the curtain.
Well the swamp along with 5 state legislatures stopped Trump from an overwhelming win. So stopping a Billionaire from restoring free speech to the internet is a weekend work up.
The PR firm of the U.S. Intelligence Community…. Good one.
Awesome
So why don’t the 100M MAGA Patriots step in and begin a fund and help raise the capital to go in with Musk?
For example:
Supposed Current Offer – 43B Cash
Musk in for 15B
Funding Needed – 28B
28B divided by 100M MAGA strong = $280.00 each to take free speech back
Even if only 50M step up and fund = $560.00 each
Or if only 25M step up = $1,120.00 each
To take Twitter private, to take back free speech and ensure it stays free for the world, I’d gladly put in $560 or $1,120.00
And the cherry on top is We the People, if we take it over & private then would own/have all the emails and communications to see if there was any subsidies or other government hanky panky not disclosed or in line with SEC rules.
And if the deal doesn’t go through everyone gets their investment back
Think of the 25M or 50M MAGA group as a private equity group willing to help fund freedom.
MAGA strength is mass, ability to fund hugely, common sense and our desire to be free.
I think you might be missing the *key* point.
The operational infrastructure that permits the technology to work, data-processing demand, is operated by and subsidized by, the United States Government.
It doesn’t matter whose shingle is on the front of the coffee shop, the coffee comes from the government.
Why buy something that doesn’t make money unless your federal government, who doesn’t give a dam, uses the platform to remove free speech
Free cheese but no free speech
I understand that. My point was using MAGA to help Musk BUY Twitter as I read today he maybe having issues getting partners so MAGA becomes his partner.
I want the Patriots to own Twitter so we can expose this possible fraud to the world.
Then once we own it yes, Musk will need to change the model to make this MAGA held entity a profitable business, one that offers and promotes free speech forever for the world.
Or following along with the analogy, MAGA can begin to brew and deliver “real” coffee. Yes it might cost the 50M MAGA owners another $50 to replace the “possible supplied servers” but the world will finally know possibly the truth.
And you got to start somewhere.
It all seems to hate speech, jokes, unrealistic outrage, gossip, self promotion or lies. I know news and sports programs are constantly telling me what someone I don’t care about Tweeted about a game, a rival, or a contract negotiation. None of this information is meaningful.
Musk knows the government is behind Twitter’s ability to operate.
Musk knows they can’t let him buy Twitter.
Musk said he doesn’t care about the economics, which I assume means he doesn’t care whether or not he makes/loses money on his investment.
Seems to me that Musk’s goal all along has been to expose Twitter/government and destroy the company’s value.
One would think that with a 9.6% interest in Twitter, Musk could examine the books and find the secret source.
I’ve been asking, where are all the big conservative high rollers at.
The dog that didn’t bark?
Read the article on todays Americanthinker,
“What Elon Musk could do, to buy twitter despite the poison pill.”
The author explains the shortcomings/limitations of “the poison pill”, also explains how any stockholder CAN give musk their proxies, and with enough proxies he can overcome the poison pill.
So, as you describe any Patriot could buy shares, and send their proxies to musk.
At least, from what I understand.
Yep, 800M shares x 51% = 408M shares less the 73K Musk already owns = 335M shares needed to be purchased by MAGA.
335M / 50M MAGA investors = 6.7 shares x approx $48 = $321 investment if Musk announces a tender
or if 25M MAGA investors = 13.4 shares.
Everyone would need to ask themselves how much is free speech worth?
PS – If successful, it would probably require another small investment $50-100 each) by the 25-50M MAGA owners to possibly buy new server infrastructure as the existing equipment might not be “available” any longer.
But Im convinced the investment would be worth it from the standpoint of exposing truth, gaining forever free speech for the world and building it right this time to be a profitable going concern.
You would have to be rich to make a difference.
But, if you already own shares odds are that you are letting some creep vote your shares. So transfer your proxies.
They would also step in and simply prevent this from happening through brute force. Remember when the stonks got Gamestop stock STOLEN out of their accounts? Sold, for them, at a lower than market value price?? While they were locked out of their own accounts and couldn’t do anything to stop it?
If worse comes to worst, TPTB will simply pull a move like that.
Buy Twitter stock at the poison pill price, sell it to Musk for 53 a share, make a ton of cash, and presto, Musk owns Twitter.
“There are simply no checks and balances from any internal or external force,….”
Don’t use the platform.
Worries expressed about “no checks and balances” from the people that have been working to undermine that!
The three-legged stool was specifically designed for balance, working when all three legs are balanced . . .
the “fourth branch” is all about NO “checks and balances” and “we know better than the founding fathers”!
Truly amazing, how much the IC fears Elon Musk. Exposure of illegal activity and corruption is the reason.
My fearless prediction is that Twitter is a complete sham company, its books entirely fictitious and its balance sheets made up out of thin air to make it look like a real, operable company.
Heck, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out Blackrock is a sham company operated and controlled by the deep state.
I find it hilarious that the paper of Bezos, WaPo, is in such a flutter about Twitter. And now they don’t like FB?
Disclaimer: I don’t utilize FB, Twit or WaPo, and have no intention of doing so. Thanks, Sundance, for your reporting.
Kettle. Pot. Black.
Hot tamale!
Or maybe hot na’an! I don’t know.
The half-life of our “conspiracy theories” is about 48hrs.
……..then they become conspiracy facts.
So yesterday I was skeptical about criticism of Vanguard and BlackRock because the only own the stock for benefit of other people.
Now this.
OK.
You should look into how those groups force companies to follow practices that hurt their bottom line. Green, sustainable, and other such BS. Not good for investors.
But don’t worry. Now OBiden’s SEC will force all companies to do so, not just those controlled by Blackrock.
This is akin to CNN saying only they can read wikileaks
In other words, “We can’t lose our primary means of controlling people’s thoughts”
As usual, people’s individual rights such as freedom of speech are “bad for democracy”
They do NOT have the degree of control they think they have, would LIKE to have, or NEED to have, in order to prevail.
THEY are fighting a war, against US, that they can not POSSIBLY win.
My money’s on the guy with $273 billion squirreled away!
How’s about the guys who just print money whenever they want?
And who already announced an “investigation” into Musk?
And who know more about everyone than everyone knows about themselves due to all the data mining?
The Founding Fathers would go to war again if they knew what the “leadership” of this country, on both sides, was doing.
And there are the guys that are licensed to kill.
Blackrock is about $8 Trillion and Vanguard $6 Trillion.
The Fed’s have unlimited trillions
What a spectacular self-own:
These same people tell us that social media platforms are private companies, so how can private ownership of such private companies in any way jeopardize or otherwise be “incompatible” with democracy?
If, on the other hand, manipulation of speech and expression through such social media platforms does, in fact, jeopardize or represent incompatibility with democracy, then the same risk holds true today, under their current ownership and control. As such, government protection of individual freedom of expression and speech through such social media platforms is wholly appropriate.
But, of course, that’s (d)ifferent…
Yep!
and that Jack-off owned all this Twitter data before
or they didnt have a problem with Zukerbucks before
or they don’t have a problem with Bezos and other Zillionaires owning all this private data
Only have a problem when Elon decides to step in… Tells me all I need to know about the cabal
Who is advising Musk? He is doing this to twist the knife. It’s using available Leverage Against the CIA or CCP or whomever enemy owns the world. A lesson for Men. This is not without risk. I admire this man.
NO ENEMIES
by Charles Mackay
You have no enemies, you say?
Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;
He who has mingled in the fray
Of duty, that the brave endure,
Must have made foes! If you have none,
Small is the work that you have done.
You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,
You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,
You’ve never turned the wrong to right,
You’ve been a coward in the Fight.
I love that – thank you for posting – I came across it recently along with other old favorites e.g., “If” by Kipling) on a youtube channel, “Red Frost”
Suejeanne:
Many an unshakeable truism marked by the pen of Kipling.
“East is East and West is West,
And NEVER the twain shall meet.
It goes back to the story I have shared here before. I was with the world’s largest data aggregator for many years. The ACLU killed our portion of CAPS-II passenger screening after 911 due to privacy/profiling concerns. Once Hillary was SOS it all changed and we sold the motherload directly to the Sate Department. Our C-Suite could not resist the payoff. Oh, and the data usage by the State Department, exactly what you would expect: Classified.
With that experience I can only imagine the payoffs FB and others have received and continue to haul in.
To your point SD, what’s the likelihood that the infrastructure behind Tweeter is, at some level, classified? Nothing would surprise me. I suspected it would come to be with FB from the first time I stepped foot on their Menlo Park campus.
I always doubted the explanation that Social Media companies made their $ from targeted advertising, directed based on the mega-data they aquired.
Just didn’t seem THAT valuable; a friend texts me that they just took a hepatitis cure, or bought a metal building, and for the next month I get ads for Hep cures and metal buildings, which I have no use for; how is that ‘more valuable’ than traditional advertising?
I think, while the “color revolutions” may have been an obvious demonstration of the incestuous synergy between big tech and deep state, it was being used to shape public opinion for years before that.
I think IC was involved, from the inception.
the ad-buys were just money laundering to do the subsidy from the Fed’s
The thing which has always perplexed me was the notion of deplatforming and demonetizing:
If the way a social media company generates income is from advertising but then they undercut themselves ultimately by betraying a good customer, that runs counter to “good business practices”. Betrayal AKA “pulling the rug out from under people” is not a good business model . . . eventually, it is self-cannibalizing (I made that up – I did not graduate from Wharton, Harvard or Stanford Business School – I just think it is ultimately nihilistic to be on this course)
“Trust” . . . a beautiful concept and IMHO the bedrock of civilization and all advancements!
As it pertains to FB, your example hits home for me. It was easy to walk away knowing what their business model was and with the way I became a targeted user due to my conservative positions and posts. So, yes, great point. However, they still have 2.5-3 billion users worldwide. They aren’t missing me.
What surprises me more are the number of conservatives I know who are still on FB, with multiple aliases for when the are in jail, all aliases shadow banned, and they are STILL THERE! WHY? It’s an addiction for many. Kind of like watching NFL games are for many conservative men who simply can’t give up the TV on Sundays. That was another easy drop for me after being a lifetime fan. They alienated me with their kneeling and BLM BS. But it’s not that way for most.
That’s another reason I say conservatives are doomed because they are soft. If you can’t walk away from a FB or a football game, you sure as hell aren’t going to pick up arms and fight for the Republic. OK, I’ve strayed far enough from the topic.
Dutchman:
Agreed. If the annoying and obtuse ads were their only source of Revenue, they would all be bankrupt.
Constant advertising with inane ads that tag onto irrelevant words or casual look-ups, is more than annoying. It makes me not buy anything advertised in popups or crowding the screen.
Digital ad spend has eclipsed TV ad spend. Around $200 billion last year. By next year digital is expected to account for two thirds of all media spend in the US (about $250 Billion). Between Google and FB, they pretty much own the digital ad space. Google through DoubleClick (ad serving) and FB as the new Marketing engine direct to the consumer.
Digital is far more valuable than traditional TV advertising because TV advertising has never progressed to the level of 1-to-1. TV is more about brand advertising. (we all see the same ad). Digital is about a direct 1-to-1 ad exposure or offer to the consumer or customer (you and I see different ads based data mined from our own wells.
Is the system perfect? No. But FAR more accurate than years gone by.
“allows intervention into the integrity of individual behavior and also the integrity of collective behavior”
Did you read that? No… please: “read it again … and again …”
Because: the essential differences between these two underlined words, both of them juxtaposed astride the word “integrity,” are the purest essence of: crowd (‘mass …’) psychology.
That is impressively astute. Integrity, or the essential wholeness and functionality of a person or society, is exactly what totalitarians must destroy to take over a country/civil structure. It shows in all the psyop propaganda and the subversive intellectual/psychological intervention in our schools, churches, and other foundational institutions.
Elon may just have found the weakness in the public private partnership that will begin its fall.
“Putting so much power in the hands of one company is bad enough, but putting it in the hands of one person, as is largely the case with Facebook shareholder Mark Zuckerberg and would be the case if Twitter were owned by Musk, would be incompatible with democracy.”
its called capitalism imbeciles. True capitalism isnt incompatible with “democracy”…well, we aren’t a democracy, we are a republic. Capitalism is what we’ve been compatible with for a very long time. The ultra-powerful companies that have too much power have always been those in cahoots with the government to get special favors and subsidies, which have misused those powers and privileges to destroy the republic or gain power over it so they could be above the law, live lives of depravity and commit sin and criminality. Those companies are Musk’s Tesla, Space-x, Facebook, Google, Disney, Apple, Bell, Microsoft, Universities, and so many more, going all the way back to the railroad trailblazers in the early 1800’s. And before that, others who unlawfully bribed corrupt politicians to conspire with them for power and riches and favors because they couldnt hack fair capitalism so they committed crimes with their government buddies to unfairly make themselves profitable and powerful over competition..
It’s called Crony Capitalism, or at least it once was.
It starts out as a deal between those with no regard for law, and ends up as a fascist dictatorship.
So as a finance guy I thought I would go out and look at TWTR’s annual filing to see it they did a break down of their ad revenue. Well. my hunch was correct, of course they did no such thing. Ad revenue was $4.5B followed by $500 million of licensing revenue. After other items, the company lost about $200 million in 2021.
They did break down their ad revenue by geographic region. Big FN whoop. $2.8B from the US, $700M from Japan and $1.5B from the rest of the world. The amount to fund TWTR is a drop in the bucket for the US gov’t. If they/we are in for 50% of the US part, that’s only $1.4B. Heck, Joe peddles that amount on a daily basis to the highest bidder. “10% to the big guy.
Source: SEC 10-k filing.
“That is OUR job.” – Mika Boobinski
Well, by implication then it’s dangerous to have Google and Facebook collectively control so much information. So, in reality, Musk’s move to acquire Twitter and change how it currently manipulates information/facts based on a political bias is a solution to the stated problem. In fact, doing the same to Google and Facebook would be the Constitutional solution. But, of course that’s the opposite of the swamp’s desires.
All of the leftist are all running around with their hair on fire, because they don’t want to loose their must effective social platforms and know that they have had dominion of the content and the smearing campaign.
While the left’s hair might be on fire, it’s the worms in the US government’s 4th branch that are in a panic. What Musk will expose or is exposing is that Twatter would not function without the assets of the US government. The control of worldwide information by the 4th branch through their patsy company Twatter is for all the stakes. It sounds evil because it is evil.
This would explain why big money conservatives refuse to get involved with big tech, social media, etc.
They know who is really running the show and do not want to risk getting destroyed for challenging it.
Elon is the Great White shark… wapo, google, FB, etc are the seals about to be eaten. They deserve it, they have been clapping for quite some time.
If we could look at the accounting for the “magic coffee shop”(s) we would be able to uncover a large portion of the U.S Governments unaccounted for lost trillions. The Magic coffee shop(s) include more than Twitter. Zuckerberg, broadcast news media, publishing companies, USPS, etc. are receiving money from tax payers to fund their spying and propaganda enterprises. The dollars are hidden (gone missing) to keep many blind to the fact we are paying for our own demise.
Musk won’t be allowed to get close to the accounting of Twitter. I wish he could but he will not be allowed by the eye of Sauron.
That’s the eye that Frodo and Sam managed to sneak past…
There is also evidence coming out that Ivermectin may be a cure for cancer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7272521/
Depends upon the drug. A certain non-chemo cancer drug saved my life not too many years ago. I would not be here writing this, but for that drug. It took 15 years from trials to FDA approval. Even after approval, had to sign a consent form acknowledging the cardiac risk involved.
I think about this often, comparing that drug’s rollout to the Covid shots. How many people would have taken the Covid shots, if they had to sign a form acknowledging the shot could cause cardiac events, including death?
Glad you are with us to tell your story and your point is spot on.
So, we should band together, and buy an IVM manufacturing plant, air tight legally, no corrupt pharma owners.
And this is what all Red State Funds should do:
Decentralize the media or America will become a 1984-style single party state sooner than later.
You’d think the IC would be glad to have Elon Musk “fix” Twitter for them on his dime.
One unintended consequence of censorship and canceling accounts is that the IC lost substantial amounts of easy to get, current data from the millions of conservatives who once posted on Twitter. (Pres. Trump had 100 million+ followers or so IIRC). Same consequence to the IC with those thrown off Facebook. Add in those who don’t use Google and there’s a massive information gap. What’s left on Twitter are mostly lunatic lefties, bots and a few brave souls – not exactly the targets of our weaponized IC.
I would never use Twitter after it is “fixed”. Trump shouldn’t accept an invitation to return either. It’s very possible the “fix” will be in whether Musk knows it or not.
Mr. DeSantis is in it to win it! May God keep shining down upon him.
https://mobile.twitter.com/therecount/status/1516450074292801548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1516450074292801548%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2022%2F04%2Fron-desantis-threatens-hold-twitters-board-directors-accountable-breaching-fiduciary-duty%2F
For those who don’t want to look at a Twitter link:
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) threatens Twitter after it activated “poison pill” plan to prevent Elon Musk’s acquisition:
“We’re gonna be looking at ways the state of Florida potentially can be holding these Twitter board of directors accountable for breaching their fiduciary duty.”
If control is the reaction to fear are they beginning to fear the loosing of the “control”?
On a related topic, when Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes left Facebook, it was to run Barack Obama’s “enormously successful Web outreach campaign..” https://techcrunch.com/2009/03/17/after-facebook-and-the-obama-campaign-chris-hughes-takes-a-post-at-general-catalyst/
Musk aims to expose the incestuous relationship between Big Tech and the swamp.
Yet, an idiot like Jack Dorsey can have that power.?.
More good news. Another big leftwing “entertainment” business takes a 23% hit in their stock valuation. As with the rest of Hollywood, it will have no effect on their leftwing bias.
I actually had a Netflix account early on but dumped it when I saw all their programming was pushing the same old woke agenda.
https://noqreport.com/2022/04/19/netflix-stock-cratered-after-report-of-plummeting-subscribers-for-which-they-blame-russia/
Netflix stock graphic
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Nice!
I dumped it the day the Obamas got there.
For all the Fascists wailing about this, tell me EXCATLY what Musk would do that would harm you??
If they do give some ridiculous hypotheticals, we can provide 100X of actual harm by F$%#book, G**gle, Twatter, %@$Tube etc.
“if Twitter were owned by Musk, would be incompatible with democracy.” …..
Considering Twitter is a U.S company and we are a ‘Constitutional Republic’ then there is no Legal justification to ‘not’ sell Twitter….In-fact it would seem Illegal otherwise and should be taken to Court…It would also seem this ‘Democracy vs. Republic’ needs to be argued in Court for the wilfull Idiots(MSM included)….I want to hear Lawfare argue the U.S is a Democracy….Lol…
Deep state hypocrisy— much? Imagine an entity having too much power?
I so admire and respect Sundance. This is not a place where very many people attempt to “out clever” each other. It is intelligent, informative, and heartfelt. Love it!
For once in my life I agree with the Washington Post: too much information and power is in the hands not only of whoever owns Twitter but various other mega corporations and mega monopolies. They all need to be broken up into a number of smaller independent companies. And while we are about it why not break the largest 10 banks into 100 banks? Why not similarly break up the largest media companies? Costs may go up but real competition and a free market will then benefit the public. I want a bank manager I can relate to as I do to my family GP, getting wise financial advice from the former and wise medical advice from the latter. Now I have to go through a maze of numbers when I phone for help from either and often end up speaking to neither.
Metadata
All communications now stored
Algorithms can also understand
Metadata all of liberty’s records
Central control’s grandiose plan
Knowledge of the people’s home
No longer the most private castle
By this an evil tyranny ’tis grown
Now begins freedom’s final battle
Sans Dieu Rien
Without God Nothing
As an aside, notice how in the quote it’s something against the “democracy”.
“putting it in the hands of one person, as is largely the case with Facebook shareholder Mark Zuckerberg and would be the case if Twitter were owned by Musk, would be incompatible with democracy.”
They aren’t lying. It is incompatible with their democracy. The autocrats rule via a democracy … but that democracy is amongst them, not the people. Their ruse is that they use social media to portray what they want as being what the majority of people want.