There is an angle to this move which looms. If the doomsday predictions of Twitter’s Thursday anticipated first quarter financial earnings are correct, it is entirely possible that Musk is about to take a massive financial hit.
Some, including myself, who understand the financial black hole that Twitter’s business model represents, have suspicions that Twitter may be hung around Musk’s neck like a millstone as he’s thrown into the deep state sea of social media. It will be interesting to see how quickly Musk responds to those Q1 financials. [NOTE: I foresee be a small user fee in the future]
News Release – “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” said Mr. Musk. “I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans. Twitter has tremendous potential – I look forward to working with the company and the community of users to unlock it.”
Tucker Carlson outlined the political ramifications surrounding breaking one of the big social media platforms away from the deep state control agents. WATCH:
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President Donald Trump will not be returning to Twitter, he is sticking with TruthSocial which is nearing completion. “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump told Fox News. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.”
There are a lot of downstream ramifications that have yet to surface as a result of the Musk-Twitter purchase. Will users find out what the rules are for the specific network containers they have been assigned to? Will the scale of simultaneous user data-processing be made public along with the algorithms that Twitter uses once you have been given a specific container assignment?
There is opportunity for much more understanding of how the social media platforms operate just by permitting increased transparency. There’s a possibility once the container assignment process is made public, people will then start to inquire about Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other Big Tech platform processes that divide people based on arbitrarily determined viewpoints.
Most social media users do not understand the technology behind the platform they are using, although a greater awareness is ongoing.
It is deep inside that technology that government and social media intersect, and as people get closer and closer to that intersection, there will be reactions from the intelligence operators. The public-private partnership is not codified anywhere, there is no rulebook or record keeping that will assist anyone to understand what the current process is.
Everything up to now has been easy for the tech Oligarchs to continue because no one knows how it works. Each social media system knows the larger objective so little communication between them is needed. However, just like Poland in the 1980’s, once people take to the open cyber streets and start to realize the scale of likeminded crowds around them, the ‘there are more of us than them‘ awakening, there is a risk the platform operators will lose control.
Joyful people being ungovernable is a worst-case scenario for Washington DC.
The Fourth Branch of Government will demand legislation to prevent on-line liberty.
We are living in a time of great consequence.
It will be interesting to see how much pain this pebble in the deep state shoe creates.
Their ‘pain‘ is our freedom.
Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈
@MrAndyNgo
From my sources: Vocal Twitter employees on internal chats indicate their biggest fear is Donald Trump being unbanned. Many express strong hatred toward
@elonmusk
& say they’re sick of hearing about “free speech.” They’re concerned about their mental health. #ElonMuskBuyTwitter
7:24 PM · Apr 25, 2022
“They’re concerned about their mental health.”
Apparently not.
That horse left the gate long ago.
Talk about psychosis!
Right is wrong, wrong is right, bitter is sweet… Liberalism in a “nut”shell.
I had hallucinations during my bout with wuflu. I can tell you from experience that we don’t recognize our insanity while we are experiencing it.
At least now, on Twitter, we can let them know how insane they appear without being banned.
There are many countries that will take these misfits. Just immigrate please and go live under socialism and communism if its so good. Cuba awaits.
… and FREE medical care too! In Cuba’s award-winning, first class, better than the USA medical care … Right?
If they left, then they couldn’t leach off of the accumulated social, political, and economic capital of 8,000 years of European civilization. Their crazy can only exist as a parasite upon their betters, and at least instinctually they know it. All kudos to Elon Musk, but this is akin to removing their hands from our throats, treating a symptom rather than the disease itself. As long as we share a land with them, they will never stop attacking.
Mental health, way too late for that.
Musk should leave Trump banned and run for President.
After all, Trump is nothing but a fraud and a distraction from true victory!
Trump can complain on Truth Social.
This is sarc right??
Nope. Musk is the richest man in the world, and he is only 50. Musk has a lot of years remaining verses Trump. On the basis of wealth, he can run circles around Trump.
On the basis of social platforms, which will come out the winner? Twitter or Truth Social?
Should Musk unban Trump? Musk did not do it and Trump has his own platform. Trump can scream and Twitter will laugh at him because that will be tantamount to claiming Twitter is better and dissing Truth Social.
People here ask me if not Trump, then who? As though if I have no answer to that I lose my argument. OK then, I support Musk as President. He has the better stats. Deal with it. He actually has rocket scientist in his pocket he can call on.
Musk, by birth is even less eligible to be prez than obama was.
Gonna spout stupid check for facts first.
There is nothing stopping a candidate born in Africa from becoming President!
Hmmm, could that have worked for Hussein the Kenyan?
Does it really matter? Obama is still probably President with a Biden puppet. There is no law saying you cannot be a Puppet Master!
Trump absolutely proved himself for 4 years. He saved us from Hillary and Jeb. No one, absolutely no one, has the Dems, RINO’s, and Deep State’s number like he does. They’re literally scared to death of him making his comeback. Which is why no one else compares , even Musk or DeSantis.
Yes and he also proved that he does not defend and uphold the Constitution. Musk can call him out and Trump will have to fold his tent. America wants a fighter, not a quitter!
Nothing you just said explains why Musk would be a better president. We don’t even know exactly why he bought Twitter, and his “wealth” is on the backs of US taxpayers. Maybe keep it in your pants.
Trump is a supporter of aircraft carriers. I figured out 20 years ago that the missile would make aircraft carriers obsolete. In today’s world, aircraft carriers are nothing, but obsolete weapons turned into giant coffins.
Musk is a believer in rockets which is the future of defense and offense. Currently Russia is ahead with ballistic missiles that can reach speeds of 15k to 20k mph on impact. We have no defense against these. If you believe in America, go with Musk.
It’s anti-Trump shilling designed to denigrate Trump on a conservative website. Media Matters and its online ilk, not to mention Lincoln Project losers, have been pushing sophisticated demoralization tactics online against Trump since early 2021. You can see it on virtually every conservative site of note which doesn’t heavily moderate posts.
It’s ramping up as we head ever closer to the 2024 election. Much of the visible online support for DeSantis is astroturfed by these groups. They fear Trump, they do not fear any other Republican in the White House.
Sowing division within the Republican voting base is their ultimate goal.
You can always sharpen your sword and debate the issues. Iron sharpens Iron. Bring me your best and come back when you are ready.
Hey it’s real twitterbot…or a low-info lefty. No difference.
“Hey it’s real twitterbot…or a low-info lefty. No difference.”
Just because Musk owns Twitter does not make him a Twitterbot!
Thankfully it was Musk who acquired Twitter and not you.
Yes, it will be Musk verses Trump in the next Presidential election. The owners of social media face off!
Maybe that generation of geeks who went into the biz just need to fade away.
They are mostly male. never dated in high school or college, maybe never, a lot of virgins and guys with blow up dolls made in Japan.
Donald Trump (and yes, they hate a guy like DeSantis almost as much) is the alpha male they love to hate.
Their mental health went south some time ago.
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
I’ve never been a proponent of electric cars, nor do I ever wish to fly into space.
That said,
@elonmusk
is a hero. He proved that capitalism will crush socialism every time. #BravoElonMusk
10:38 PM · Apr 25, 2022·
😁😂🤣
Is it just me, or did the kid do a cartoon Exit Stage Right there at the end?
Our gain; however, I do feel badly for our northern neighbors.
Stay strong, and perhaps they will continue their journeys to Cuba and Venezuela…ha ha ha.
“Our gain; however, I do feel badly for our northern neighbors.”
You mean PA, right?
They’re driving to Key West right now, planning to continue on to Cuba.
Yes that clearly looks like two products of modern edjamacashun. Can’t look at the sofa or even use a tape measure to tell it’s far too large to fit in their minicar. My heart is momentarily sad for the little child…. if its theirs.
The same electric car that survives on government subsidies, or the rockets launched from government launch facilities that ferry government payloads to orbit?
What SpaceX has done is prove that you don’t need Lockheed and Boeing. And Tesla made electric cars cool so the government could force them on people.
But let’s not pretend either one is a free market endeavor.
Bingo
Electric cars are fine, it’s having them shoved down our throats by the government using false “science ” that proves we became an entry level fascist country decades ago. The slide towards socialist fascism started with Woodrow Wilson.
Musk has repeatedly stated that while a fossil fuel free future is the goal, we are not there yet. The infrastructure for EVs is simply not ready for them to be the only option. The guy gets it. He doesn’t let his aspirational ideologies run away with what his common sense can clearly see is reality.
Electric cars will not be feasible until they can be powered by something much better than a glorified cell phone battery…
And until they come WAY down in price. The government can’t have it both ways – destroying the middle class AND having us buy expensive electric cars. Sorry – doesn’t work that way.
Oh– the Gruberment plan is to have you (the middle class) NOT own any vehicles. It’s public transportation for you sport! Now wear your mask and follow the lead of the Chinese slave laborers.
So true.
Depends on the goal.
Don’t you need fossil fuel (electricity) to charge electric cars?
Not if it comes from my solar panels, or from the hydropower and nuclear energy that feeds my wall socket.
Correct. He seems to understand one cannot launch a rocket that runs on batteries. Nor can you build and maintain an electric car with windmills and solar panels.
“Fossil” fuels have a place in society, and they always will.
Carbon dioxide is not going to destroy the earth.
Progressives however, are doing a pretty good job destroying the country.
Twitter has just become a platform where you can actually post a comment like this, and that is a good thing. Change my mind.
(Hat tip, Steven Crowder)
Sounds more like propaganda to me. What else could he say?
Please buy YouTube next.
YES YES YES, YES
… and the Bay Area goes WILD! Oh wait. That was a time long ago … when Bay Area residents still knew what it meant to be truly free. Free to accept the Stars and Bars for what they were.
Saw Skynrd in concert back in the day………………..IT WAS FABULOUS…..
Now they’re free to crap on the sidewalks and shoot drugs anywhere…
Sorry, I forgot they’re also free to shoplift/loot any store they choose…
Don’t forget the medieval diseases they’re free to contract again!
Free drugs now, provided by taxpayer money.
Sidewalk sundaes are just local color that helps you identify that you’re in the wrong place.
Kenji:
Wow (Flashback), I was there. There were four other bands, couldn’t tell you who they were because Skynyrd stole the show!
Long B4Ihad3kids
Sweet. I lived a short drive away … but missed it. I was a poor working college kid with no spare $$ for concerts and whatnot. Nope. Neither Obama nor my divorced parents funded my college career. I did.
MAN!!!!! What a great way to wake up in the morning!!!!
If your coffee hasn’t kicked in yet … just drop in at the 6:00 mark 🤗
But sometimes my mornings need a 15 minute long guitar solo to get going …
Thanks. I needed that.
It is quite important that Elon’s social circle / dinner party group doesn’t…apparently….comprise the post modernist, admin state, hipster “rulers of the world”, like Zuke’s does. Otherwise he’d be under unbearable pressure.
Elon, maybe, has better friends, a better peer group.
Good advice for child rearing.
Obviously Mr. Musk is a more honorable man.
You might be amazed at the influence a wife’s social life requirements has on an upright. casual, Orwell understanding, iconoclast like ….maybe….Elon.
Happy wife. happy life……you don’t matter.
He is not married hahahaha
So no female interfering bs
I understand that Musk is an Aspie–high functioning autist. I have an Aspie son. They don’t care. Period. They are the honey badger.
HB don’t care……..!!!!!
And we really, really, really hate being told what to do. Or condescended to.
That is interesting. Kind of explains Trump as well. I do think they care and have a sense of fairness. They are just smart enough not to indulge morons getting in the way of their success.
I also have an Aspie son. My experience is that my son cares deeply, but does not understand the point of human duplicity. If you ask him a question, my son just assumes you want to know exactly what he is thinking about the topic (i.e. How do you like sister’s new haircut? His answer was “I think it is ugly” – The difference is that there is no associated malice toward the person).
When he came to realize that he had been abused by a sexual predator mom, he called her out as EVIL to everyone. He lost all his friends and was asked to leave the church; not because he was wrong, but because no one wanted to confront the scope of the problem. He was crushed and became suicidal because he did not understand how you could state the truth and so called friends not only ran the other direction, but vocally cancelled him on-line and parents were uncomfortable with his overt expressions of pain and despair. This was a very hard life lesson on the cruelty other humans can inflict on the weak.
His outcast status says more about the supposedly normal population (“the mob”) than the neural atypical population. I have a feeling the gates of heaven will be wide open when his appointed day arrives to enter. The only real test that matters in the end.
He doesn’t even own a home. Bunks with friends. Doesn’t need to impress. Can’t be bought.
Sleeps mostly in his factory or in the $10,000
Little House he invented.
Completely solar.
Check it out on YT (ughh)
The up side of autism; Musk has an inability to care about what others think of him.
Like his Satanist wife?
Not joking.
That’s a bold claim without backup
😁😂🤣
Bradley Devlin
@bradleydevlin
Sad to see white flight from Twitter just because it’s owned by an African American now.
Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING:
@ShaunKing
has deleted his Twitter account
10:24 PM · Apr 25, 2022
It’s not so much an exodus as it is a group jump over Suicide Cliff.
I suspect they are deleting their accounts ASAP as a pride thing.
They don’t want anyone to realize how few fans they really have once the bots disappear.
😳🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Oh no, Shaun King deleted his twitter account, how will I ever get such intelligent perspectives on current events 🥱
I’m sure about 10 people know about it and care.
Shaun King can never again impersonate a black man in 140 characters or less
I haz the sads
😂
It takes 30 days to permanently delete a twitter account. Shaun King is a histrionic poser. He’ll be back in a week. Outside of twitter, nobody is aware of his existence.
I thought he was already back.
Hahahaha….from another white African (Cape Town)
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
MASHUP! Libs aren’t coping well with Elon Musk buying Twitter. A DOZEN people already deactivated their accounts. How will Elon ever recover from this?
Video linked in tweet
Thanks to Libs of TicTok, we finally get to see the full array of racist wackos that are infected with agoraphobia. Imagine if you will, anyone on this planet hating an African American person with autism? What an awful, disgusting piece of sh*t.
China will love this. 😉
If the smelly, smarmy, hate-filled twatter users all move to tick-tock, they just opened up Pandora’s box for the CCP.
Is there a thing called the UGLY Libs of Twitter? There should be
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Trump doesn’t need to rejoin Twitter.
Anything he posts on Truth Social will be able to be shared and re-shared on Twitter by others. His message still gets out on Twitter.
Great point
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Teacher at
@CentralHSPvd
and candidate for public office taught his students anti-capitalism propaganda about Elon Musk buying Twitter.
@EnriqueForRI
did you also teach them about other billionaires owning social media platforms and media sites?
(Attachment linked in tweet)…
“is the worse thing”?
He calls himself a teacher and he wants your vote.
“Buy off”?
Like what Zuckerbuck$ did to our elections?
someone should tell him about WaPo, A##Book, TikTok, Amazon (if you don’t know there is censorship on amazon you are blind. and google (and now even qUACKqUACKgO
“No individual … should be GIVEN these types of opportunities …” is a statement conveying a firm belief in freedom!
sad to think our children are being re-educated like this in our public schools. Time for vouchers. Way past time for vouchers. Time for Parents to choose schools for their children.
Time for home schooling
That too
Alas, as I’ve said before….’Truth Social’ is a doomed name.
No matter how you cut it, the name reeks of some low-rent tele-evangelist tv channel.
Dumb as 9 chickens.
I’ve thought it … you said it out loud…
The blind trust of the users is what bugs me.
Now, now, don’t abuse the intellect of yard birds. Some are quite intelligent!
It’s intended to appeal to the same CivNats who get a tingle every time a black “conservative” gives a fiery speech about bad government and who insist “this time it’ll be different” when it comes to the GOP.
Alas, a “drip” was what we used to call someone who no one wanted to hang out with.
Agreed. All the creative thought of a fart
Lame complaint.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
1. Here is a thread that includes the 5 tweets my personal account was supposedly permanently banned for.
I’m a Member of Congress.
My job is to create policy, legislation, and laws.
Should I have been permanently banned for these tweets?
Continue reading thread on Reader App…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1518778213887062019.html
MTG= Mother-Tough Griffin. Stay tough Marjorie and keep speaking your mind. Today, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
She would have been banned anyways. Just for being who she is
I’m fearful that Musk has been assigned the task of protecting what’s gone on from the legal system by taking Twitter private.
Musk is a graduate, like so many of our indirect enemies, of the WEF. There is no reason to expect him to suddenly exhibit and express conservative impulses no matter what words he’s spoken in the past.
I believe if he was given this as a task, when he expressed his attitude about Twitter he was approached and a deal was done. Twitter is about to be inundated with lawsuits and if the House and Senate become GOP some investigative hearings. The powers that be do not want that to happen but Twitter is very useful so they’ve decided they’ll take the company private, pay off as many suits as they can and deny the hearings. All this aide by them now being a private company playing by different rules than before and with different people heading it. I’m quite sure that any data that needed protection has already been taken care of.
Elon may or may not allow some users back. I don’t think the past concerns him. All else is not even worth speculating about but I don’t believe it will be in the country’s interest.
Keep in mind he is rich in potential only he can be made broke quite quickly and that of his current two largest project 1. is to aid the Government in maintaining a presence in space for the long term. 2. is building vehicles founded on technology that is dangerous and uses material that must be gotten from places we don’t control and that does not actually make any solution to our power problems any better as they just shift the burden. So it is a false claim that it will aid any so called climate change or sustainability. In the future perhaps but not for decades. Until then we will be on the edge of famine and poverty due to power unreliability and a shrinking consumer base for vehicles. And Musk knows his company is a fake with a phony facade priced too high. That doesn’t show me much about his integrity.
Please stop using biased, generalized, and uniformed accusations. You are making logical fallacies or false arguments that can be proven wrong with reasoning.
Not to forget Hasty Generalizations, Post Hoc, Special Pleading, Oversimplication, Black and White fallacy, and Argument of the beard. See Logical Fallacy Exercises.
So have at it….prove jakee308 wrong
Nice to see someone else here gets it.
There is nothing about stinky that is good, everything that vermin does is to screw us, and somehow even wiser people are getting snowed by that globe-shaker. As you point out, everything he has he got by helping Big Brother create the enslavement grid. But while people seem to be able to see that scenario for google and facebook, they seem baffled by this clown.
The last two years, people realized that Jesus Christ was being replaced by fauci during Holy days. Well, this year on Easter week, that fake messiah (the right’s new ‘hero’) was the only thing on the news. So, in case you missed, another false messiah came to steal Jesus from us.
He’s a devil, and you are being tricked.
You’re referring to Zelensky?
I agree with (2.) completely,
He still does business with China and is planning a new factory over there.
He and Bezo’s both depended on government subsidies to get their start? Government still subsidizes electric car sales don’t they? I know they do solar panels and bird killers.
Best FY money spent in the history of the world!!
waiting and watching; by their fruits you shall know them……… I’m looking this gift horse in the mouth
“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 backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
There is simply no way the Fourth Branch of Government, the U.S. intelligence system writ large, is going to permit that discovery.” – Sundance
So, either (1) Elon exposes what we believe to be true (unlikely), or (2) he has walked into a giant trap set to destroy his wealth (even less likely), or (3) Elon has been offered a seat at the “Big Club’s Table” and will play the role of White Hat to assuage the anger of the masses until they can figure out that they’ve been duped again.
…My money’s on the #3 horse.
Interesting theory. Q did consume a tremendous amount of talk and time trying to figure out the entire topic matrix and the Marxist world took advantage of that mis-directed focus, that they now realize. So if there’s some real nasty stuff to do, they need to divert attention away from, say food production in the US & raging inflation, while they conduct a tactical Nuc WWWIII with Russia on Ukraine soil. This sounds almost like Obama strategy.
#4 The Forth Branch of Government disconnects from Twitter without Musk having to confirm our government was involved. This leads government to disconnect from all free speech platforms, where government never belonged in the first place.
“…simultaneous user data-processing be made public along with the algorithms that Twitter uses…”(Sundance)
Pelican, I think you are on the right track. But I see it a little differently. Elon is a technologist. As he said about himself, he is enthused to understand how things work. He has Aspergers, and as such, he is interested in knowing EVERYTHING about a topic in detail.
As a consultant to smaller technologists in Silicon Valley, I can testify that my clients are motivated to invent things that will “change the world”. They would thrive on the challenge of dreaming something up and then making it happen. Remember the book “The Soul of a New Machine? That excitement of invention keeps you tinkering in the lab at night. Dinner parties with the cool kids are nice but really just keep you from making things happen faster.
I cue on Elon’s statement that he has a vision for Twitter becoming a world communications platform. His Aspergers gives him a focus few have. And I don’t see a political motive, that’s really not in a nerds wheelhouse, though watchout when the baby is threatened.
The IC motivation is another issue. It is in our interest that our government have the intelligence to protect us. But this is tricky as it is not transparent. In recent times, the IC knows that they can learn a whole lot by monitoring the communications, meta or otherwise, of their targets through partnership with big tech. In order to train software to “identify” a bad guy using software, the software needs to know what a good guy is. This puts a requirement on the IC to look at far more than just the target. Furthermore, the data has to be constantly fresh and relevant. Machines using stale data and stale decision methods will become progressively error prone….a nightmare for us citizens.
Unfortunately, we must depend on the people that hold this power to be virtuous and competent. To Do No Harm. But what we have learned over the past 5 years, is that there exist powerful people that do not hold that as a priority. Their priority is to get elected and then deal with that problem….but they don’t since it is too lucrative for them and too risky to step on other toes. As soon as this technology came to exist, we saw it abused. The people who did this and those who jumped on the bandwagon to help them seem to have no thought to the damage in trust of this technology and government.
I support Elon in his venture and his resolve to restore trust. Transparency is a good start. Culture change would help. Checks on the IC are necessary. Checks on the technology are good. Decentralize the power. Define the problem appropriately and engineer a solution that works or trash it and start over.
“It seemed to me some time ago that you could sort of think of humanity as a biological boot loader for digital super intelligence (AI).” – Elon Musk
“I think in a situation where if you, you know, the old saying, if you can’t beat them, join them. You know, that’s what Neuralink is about. Can we be able to go along for the ride with AI?” – Elon Musk
For AI to remain relevant, it must be continuously refreshed. Elon knows this. What better way to provide that living uplink than a thriving user engagement site like Twitter?
Yes. But he has to get Twitter, among other things, right first. And your concern about AI is valid. The exuberance for AI solutions far outpaces it’s ability to deliver safely. There will be many problems for us while this develops. We’ve already seen the problems of AI and self driving cars. In fact, the little nudge my VW gives me to stay in my lane pushes the wheel on shadows and road repair work. God help us if they let that become autonomous in its current state. People are and will die due to the mismanagement of AI. But I do see success with AI in very small, constrained problems. Growing it slowly, safely, and with accountability to us, the public is a requirement, though I am not counting on things going that route. I can only support things when they do.
I think you may be on to something here. People are still “the Product”. He doesn’t care about money or even power, he’s reaching toward eternal life without God. Maybe he wants to use our collective intelligence via free speech to perfect artificial intelligence. To use us as a “ biological boot loader for digital super intelligence ”
“The next big thing is just history repeating ”
If Twitter stock dumps on Q1 earnings and Elon takes a multi-billion dollar loss, he will probably never pay income taxes again.
I’m guessing he’s ok with that.
That’s one aspect to consider. He didn’t buy Twitter to “make money” off it’s current structure. He could careless, and it’s not relevant, what the stock “price” is. The stock price is now what he’s offered to pay or about 50%+ less if the deal falls throw.
There’s a reason he offered what he offered. It’s was strategically higher than the stock price at the time of offer to create a situation where the Board of Directors had to accept. You think he did it before Q1 earnings for a reason?
I’m confident that he’ll more than make his money back in some way. There’s a reason Space X is still private. He could take it public and make a killing. He doesn’t need the money, nor does he care about money (read his biography).
Everyone is looking at this through a paradigm of buying something and continuing the status quo to get a large ROI. THat’s not why he’s doing it. He has his reason and plan, all we can do is wait to see.
Elon said something to the effect that “the economics of this deal do not matter to me at all”.
Exactly, Elon doesn’t do things for money. He does things because he’s an engineer and likes to solve problems. He’s solved a lot of problems with the help of those he hires, money has been a byproduct of those solutions. Yes, he owns a private jet but for the ease of traveling to all of his companies so he can work more.
Will Elon buy Dominion next and promise us free elections?
It is good news that Musk bought Twitter.
It is sad that a foreign born billionaire has to help us purchase our first amendment.
It’s sad that anyone thinks they don’t have a first amendment because a company of, by, and for ADHD patients with low impulse control is run by Liberals.
I wonder if Musk is going to eliminate the Compliance Firehose API. It is highly restricted and very expensive. That’s what all the very rich entities hook up to. It allows data analysis on users through a “firehose”real time stream of data….
A brilliant analysis (not by Tucker, by Sundance)
I wonder if Twitter will lift my suspension now…..
Perhaps it can be propped up like AMC and GameStop while he gets it going
Musk was allowed to purchase Twitter as a hedge to forestall the impending republican charge after 2022 midterms to turn social media giants into utilities.
That makes a lot of sense.
I was thinking that the globalists are having a problems getting enough money to control everything to prevent losing power.
It takes trillions upon trillions to keep it all going it seems they have become more bold, desperate and obvious with their tactics to keep the money flowing.
People get that Build Back Broken and Ukraine are nothing more than a ruse to shovel out tax dollars among friends.
Look at CNN+. They can’t afford to keep it going so they actually thought they had enough followers to use a subscription model. Haha.. but the point is they no longer seem to have enough money to keep it all going. Elections, bribes, payoffs. The list is global and growing daily.
I was wondering if Musk was just providing capital influx to keep Twitter from going under ( they can easily repay him with government funds to his other projects.
I don’t know. But your point is simple and direct. It seems very logical.
This ^^^^^^^^^
And blunt the effectiveness of Truth Social.
I am crying foul. You have concluded that the GOPe will fight back. They will instead try to use the same system to benefit their corrupt schemes.
If it has the left screaming at the moon and scrambling for a safe space in which to put on their masks and cry, then I’m all for it..
The twitterverse yesterday and last night was on full meltdown. It was awesome!
Who is going to save them from “hate speech”? Oh My!
Better than Nov. 8 2016 meltdowns?
Their safe space has been removed by Elon.
Interesting chatter about Musk opening up Twitter feeds to allow lineage to other social media. Post on Better and it also gets posted on Twitter and vice versa.
That would make Twitter’s voice much larger?
If he does it through true open standards like OASIS, it will truly create a free open market.
If he makes it proprietary standards as Google does quite deceptively, it will eventually control the other platforms.
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Elan is part of the club with the same connections and takes the same directions from the 4th branch.
And to ALL the HB visas foreigners working at twatter……… GFY
Musk is brilliant and can see things others do not. Owning this media provides him much more power/influence than Bezos Washington Post.
We can only hope he will be the truth seeker he claims to be.
The powers to be have much to lose if Musk obtains his goals. Look for Intel to start circulating which will be anti-Musk.
Nobody really knows what this means good or bad in the long run, but if his public statements match how he re-launches twitter and upholds our 1st Amendment by allowing free speech without the nanny sate then it will be a win. By the same token if he slides back into being a hall monitor, new boss, same as the old boss we’ll see.
I can make an argument either way. Without the support of DARPA (the swamp) it’s a bottomless pit that will burn cash like Autumn leaves. Perhaps he bought it to kill it? But Elon Mush isn’t your average bear, he has Starlink. Maybe he can muster the bandwidth to make it break even or even at a profit. We’ll see and we’ll see soon.
I do know when people who come from outside the country aka foreigners and then naturalized citizens have a great love for all things American, especially “free speech”.
My heart says he will open the town square to “all” speech. My mind says with the treachery we’ve experienced in the last 30+ years it’s some kind of trick to distract us, again we’ll see.
“Nobody really knows what this means good or bad in the long run”
We will see very soon if we know what to look for. If Musk uses Twitter’s monopolistic position to create true open interchange standards for text, images, notifications, following, subscribing etc, we will have an open market. If he opens it up with propriety standards, it will be but a brief glimpse of what could easily be an open market.
The technology, licensing, and governance exist to do this (e.g. Oasis, Eclipse). The funding capital and regulatory protections may no longer support open markets.
Islands of information cannot be free and open. To make Twitter open is to collapse Twitter. It is an over inflated State monopoly. Someone has to lose big here, or, keep the propaganda outlet a State monopoly.
To be a true open social media platform Twitter would have to interoperate with other platforms. If it had to compete on a level playing field Twitter would no longer have more value than say Gab or Telegram.
Phones have always interoperated worldwide because of open standards for placing connections, maintaining calls and terminating calls.
Imagine if AT&T would not let us make/receive calls with Verizon. Or T-Mobile with either of those. Islands of phone service would not last long. Soon one would become the dominant monopoly – the one that had the most favored capital and State regulations.
Imagine then if AT&T started censoring our phone calls.
To accomplish his stated goal of “free speech” across multiple, open social media systems Musk will have to enable an open market. To do that, Musk’s Twitter will have to open its software interfaces and open source key software components. Crucial in the long run but a big market share hit at first.
The software industry knows how to do it. The State and the Central bankers do not want it.
Wow. Great explanation! Thanks!!!
Musk isn’t a paradigm of virtue. He doesn’t give much to charity and isn’t religious as far as I know, but I think this is a good development. He isn’t really left or right because he transcends politics. He will harness it to his advantage where possible and go around it where it gets in his way. That’s good. I don’t need a political teammate, just someone who will get it out of the equation. To be honest, I’m surprised he hasn’t attempted to take FB. That metaverse stuff seems right up his alley.
He donated $10billion to combat world hunger. He also paid the highest tax bill ever at $11billion.
Which triggered Elizabeth Warren to demand he pay his fair share.
I like Elon 🙂
I hope I do later. My trust has been abused so violently over the last few years the statement “trust but verify” has morphed into “wait and see”.
“The Fourth Branch of Government will demand legislation to prevent on-line liberty.”
But, we have phones and
e mail to stop legislatures from legislating.
Twitter has a fiduciary obligation to people who use it…That is one of the most outrageous claims I have ever heard.
Seeing the video of the grieving petty tyrants at Twitter reminded me of a recent discussion between my wife and me.
These lovers of dictatorship, perversion and violence will never be convinced to support solid dependable, elections because they know in their hearts that the majority of any decent community will never ratify their culture of death and misery.
We need supremely secure elections so that we can just shrug at these mutant hearts and minds, confident that we can fix things at the ballot box.
When you have as much money (power) as Elon Musk, a financial hit is known as a tax write off. Twatter could be nothing more than this in his mind with a little free publicity thrown in for good measure.
Am I the only one, who is uncomfortable with this whole scene? Musk got rich off dangerous, ill-conceived cars, and money sucked out the veins of american taxpayers. His new Twitter venture seems noble, but now it pulls oxygen from Rumble and Trump’s effort. Finally, instead of an uprising by the people, we have our fantasy (seemigly) fulfilled … a strongman from afar has fought our battles for us. It doesn’t add up for me.
This Tweet actually aged well (Check the date)… 😁
The key: Musk is opposed to patents. His patents are open sourced…intentionally. Bring on the innovations to everything.
Although Trump may not return, his comments will be repeated on Twitter within seconds. I guarantee it.
Whatever Elon Musk is doing, he is doing primarily because he will benefit from it in some way. There are no cuddly, altruistic billionaires.
Twitter employees should be very scared…I wonder how many of them saw Elon Musk’s tweet from a few weeks ago.
Elon ‘Liked‘ and responded with the comment ‘Exactly‘ to a tweet from Nick Huber…Huber tweeted out a video of Carl Icahn (Billionaire/Investor) where Carl talks about “I Fired Twelver Floors of People” after he took over a company and realized there were 12 floors of people that did nothing useful. 🧐 😂
The video is about 8 1/2 minutes long and worth a watch if you have time; (hopefully Musk will do something similar)
Nick Huber on Twitter: “@elonmusk https://t.co/o6JMEvHUm1” / Twitter
Don’t save Disney from the communists… save twitter…
This country is lost..
We can all say that anyone who is against the Twitter Musk buy out are racists.
He is after all a true African-American. The dude was born in Africa! He is more African American than the weasel maxie watters.
That’s Over – I think Not, Tucker!
GLOBAL GOV’T ALERT: Threat to national sovereignty set to go down May 22-28 at WHO World Health Assembly
By Jim Hoft
Published April 26, 2022 at 8:15 am
“This treaty could also be used to take away Americans’ First and Second Amendment rights. What about the Bible? Is it a matter of your religious faith or is it a tool for “hate speech?” Guns, the Bible and too much free speech are bad for our collective “health” and therefore must be regulated by the WHO.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/global-govt-alert-threat-national-sovereignty-set-go-may-22-28-world-health-assembly/
Language warning:
Twitter’s Thermonuclear Musk MELTDOWN – A Rant
I disagree with his claim in the video that free speech on Twitter will cause it to flourish.
Far too many people are low information NPCs who don’t possess the learned skill of critical thinking, people who don’t want their world view which has been spoon fed to them challenged and they are too lazy to investigate facts which contradict it. They want to inhabit the herd of people like them.
Why They FEAR Elon Musk
So How Is The WHO Connected To Free Speech And Our Children’s Health? By Treaty
FDA Approves First and Only Covid-19 Treatment for Pediatric Patients as Young as 28 Days Old
By Jim Hoft
Published April 25, 2022, at 9:10 pm
Remdesivir bottles with a syringe for treatment of Covid-19 (Getty Images)
(WHO will determine when and how)
Given the similar course of COVID-19 disease in adults and pediatric patients, today’s approval of Veklury in certain pediatric patients is supported by efficacy results from phase 3 clinical trials in adults. Information on the trials in adults can be found in the FDA-approved drug labeling for Veklury. This approval is also supported by a phase 2/3, single-arm, open-label clinical study of 53 pediatric patients at least 28 days of age and weighing at least 3 kilograms (about 7 pounds) with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and mild, moderate or severe COVID-19. Patients in this pediatric phase 2/3 trial received Veklury for up to 10 days. The safety and pharmacokinetic results from the phase 2/3 study in pediatric subjects were similar to those in adults.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/fda-approves-first-covid-19-treatment-pediatric-patients-young-28-days-old/
The fascism monster has been re-vivified, and fascism cannot survive without intense nationalism or patriotism.
Elon Musk, and his control of Twitter, will be attacked on the grounds that he is not a native-born American.
You have my guarantee.
I don’t even care if Musk leans left. If he restores free speech to Twitter, it’s a good thing….period. I’m done with the conservative purity tests. Anybody who helps our side make progress is fine by me.
Trump says he won’t return to twitter. IMO he should use both Truth and Twitter. Leftist will hate it . LOL
Musk takes one piece off the chessboard from the Left’s total control of the Net but Google is by far the most important piece in their arsenal. I still wouldn’t trust Twitter any more today than I did a week ago. It’s a compromised platform almost certainly run by Intelligence spooks and their corporate allies.
Taking down Google can only be done through the action of the Federal Government and severe anti-trust action.
I apologize I didn’t search through the 300+ comments, but I think Sundance is suggesting that Facebook in particular, and the other social media companies, are a house of cards.
Zuckerberg became a multi-billionaire (at times the world’s richest person) by selling advertising? No, no he didn’t. Almost everyone on the internet is selling advertising. Not to mock Sundance, but he started selling advertising recently. How many $billions so far, Sundance?
All but the biggest liberal suckers know that. Zuckerberg is data-mining the dopes who use his “free” service and selling it. Or something far worse..
So what if the enormous subsidies supplied to Facebook and others by the fourth branch of government are suddenly denied to Twitter? The crash may be shocking.