Fox News’ Tucker Carlson previewed a discussion with Glenn Greenwald that will appear in full tomorrow on Fox Nation. In this segment {Direct Rumble Link Here} Greenwald gives his perspective on the motives of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter.
Greenwald does a good job encapsulating the essential support most feel for the Musk effort. There are many people still uncertain about how this will all roll out, and Musk has been favorable to Big Govt in his two most famous endeavors, Tesla and SpaceX. Elon Musk’s phase of pushing back against speech and internet control is more recent, and as a result has left many people wondering about it.
As Greenwald notes, there really isn’t a downside for people who are trying to break the totalitarian and monopoly control systems on the internet. The upside benefits to on-line freedom, debate, discussion and the first real effort to stop internet censorship are well worth supporting. Greenwald eloquently puts an appropriate context to the battle. WATCH:
Elon Musk’s business and/or personal motivations in this remain curious to me, and like many others I wonder how it will finally turn out for him. I know that his motivations cannot be “business profit,” because my frank (and entirely personal) assessment of the entire Twitter enterprise is that “there is none to be had.” We shall see.
P.S.: Please do not read into this comment any suggestion that his motives – whatever they are – are anything less than sincere. He quite-obviously has the money. (“Must be nice!!”) 🤡 I just don’t quite understand [yet …] why he now chose to spend it in this way. “I wouldn’t have.” Time will tell.
See Howard Hughes’ purchase of RKO.
Musk has a young child. Maybe that was part of the impetus to make the world a better place for his offspring. Parents are known to do amazing things because of love.
He has 7 children
I can’t imagine the cost of raising that large of a family. How does he do it??
Nicely played!
And now he has a new 24 year old actress/girlfriend so there may be more on the way. The ones he has are between a wife (now ex-wife) and weird ex-girlfriend who claims to be a witch.
And, that is all one really needs to know about Musk…
I truly enjoy your sentiments, but, I disagree. A counterexample of a parent’s love for a child is the impetus to change the world for the better is Joe Biden. Your assertion breaks down in as many ways as the number of tragic families.
And, Musk did not become a billionaire off of the US government by being an outsider.
He comes billionaire because he is talented and hardworking and investors are throwing money at his endeavors. He spent 3 years sleeping in Tesla factory, running around different sections to help employees solve technical problems so that Tesla won’t go banktrupt, he is one of a kind.
There are government assistance in the selling of electric vehicles without which Telsa would never be viable company. And, I would add the Space X does a lot of contract work for the government. He is talented, smart, hardworking, etc. and he has received quite of bit of government assistance for his companies. I would argue that that fact would mark him as an insider.
And, he is masterful at building the right image for the right effect at the right time.
It has been long understood that investment in government has the highest ROI.
America is the land of opportunity, even if that opportunity is the purchase of government.
Elon did not create the system; it has been in place for some time.
Everyone is after government money. The WEF is built around this system of “public/private partnership”. That is where the billionaires hang out.
China and other nations had this weakness of the American/Western nation system figured out some time ago.
It is too late to save Western society now. Sit back and relax, enjoy the show.
Sit back and enjoy my freedom and way of life being destroyed? Hmmm
Externally, WW3 has started, and we are going to lose. This may or may not affect your way of life.
Internally they are going to digitalize US currency via the Great Reset. The great reset is somewhat of a BK where people will not be paid as agreed. This may or may not affect your way of life.
Nobody has to sit back and enjoy the reality of what is happening but all will learn, eventually, that there is little to nothing they can do about it.
We all share the same or substantially similar emotions about what we KNOW is taking place around us but what we share and how we share those emotions differs from one to the next.
The exchange above, with Wayne, is so very typical. Emotions aside, it is happening and it will happen. You’ve got it right, Bert.
“.. and we are going to lose.” That all depends on who “we” are.
Some are going to win. But it will be hell on earth to get there from here.
And, as has been his pattern, he now has another government subsidized business.
I’m curious too. I waffle between hope and skepticism.
I have considered Musk is doing this for a more basic reason. Like money. That he doesn’t want to see our economy crash like Biden and his puppet masters want. As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money so he has taken a calculated risk and decided to focus on a root problem. If he can stop, or put a dent in, censorship, perhaps it will turn things in the right direction.
I don’t know.
My intuition about his business motive is simply that he cannot accomplish his long-term goals (like Mars) if humanity is utterly controlled by an Orwellian dictatorship. He is investing in the health and sanity of society, because society is his BASE.
He is all for transhumanism…..the ultimate poke in the eye to our Lord’s creation. Absolute evil.
Yes, and that is where his interests truly frighten me. But, if there is a huge conversation on Twitter about what and why he is doing that, then that’s a good thing…maybe?
Oh, you mean like Prosthetic’s? smh
He has repeatedly warned that humanity’s greatest danger is AI. It must be servant, not master. As for honoring our Lord’s creation, do you buy GM foods?
Mike, I have never joined Twitter but after today I will and my first post will be this incredible video:
“They have a very good bass section mind you but no top tenor that’s for sure.”
My, take, beyond ,”wait and see”, and as Greenwald says “couldn’t make things worse” is maybe his motive is actually fairly simple,..and very similar to DJT’s decision to run;
He saw something that needed badly to be done, and realised there was NO ONE ELSE that could DO it.
And for both, having (especially) a young child, MAY well have played a role.
I give him the benefit of the doubt,..the attack against him, undoubtedly coming, may in itself be instructive and illuminating.
Think of how a lot of Joe Rogan fans gota red pill shoved down their throat,..they are still trying to choke THAT one down, and here comes another!
Ultimately, what will defeat these neo-Conmunists, who like traditional conmunists have a one trick pony strategy of sewing divisiveness, is UNITY.
Musks move may well expose the enemy to additional segments of society, and thats a GOOD THING.
There’s a theory, Dutchman, that the moment, the need, the crisis, creates the man. A perilous situation somehow conjures the guys to fight it. This is metaphysical, and of course spiritual, but I think it is often true.
The need may have called out across the world, the crisis is obvious and demanding a hero, and Musk might be the one man who heard it and who can also do something about it. That has to be an exhilarating feeling. We’ll see.
Ditto, i find it easy to support him just by watching who is attacking him.
The enemy of my enemy, is not my friend!
It depends.
Yes Dutchman, you can tell his move isn’t welcome by the intensity of venom being spewed by the left wing mob and the rest of the government public relations firms. I think it will be safe to assume he’s in it for free speech if it reaches even half the insane levels of TrumpHate™ . I say half because he’s still makes EVs so some on the left won’t buy into the next Two-Minute Hate program they gin up.
Two-Minute Hate Program – love it!!! And gin up – exactly!
Musk represents a consortium of interests hoping to preserve Twitter as a useful outlet for information warfare and propaganda across the globe. The frogs know they are being boiled to death and most free-thinking citizens across the West had realized the futility of Twitter except for the most brain-dead Marxists.
I have no ill will towards Musk but I still wouldn’t trust Twitter as a conservative. Musk and his companies are all beholden to globalist governments for their existence and bottom lines. The globalist Deep State obviously had firm control over Twitter as we knew it and this appears to be eye wash in a bid to restore its credibility.
I believe they will try and bait Trump to return to the Twitter platform. I would hope he doesn’t take it.
I realize social media is a hostile, unwelcoming place to all conservatives and any voices that stand up for freedom. The entire system has been gamed to promote Progressive values and the Left by default. But I am not placing in any faith in the new Twitter. This move has the stench of controlled opposition tactics.
I don’t detect any such ‘stench’? They’re already attacking the guy from every side.
He’s buying twitter to program/teach his AI technology.
Now there is an interesting idea!
I have a mental list of things I could do if a sack of gold or power ever fell into my yard.
NON-smoking motor home park.
No cellphone Faraday cage restaurant.
Horse whipping for texting and driving and hogging the left lane.
I guess my dreams are rather pedestrian.
I imagine Musk has his list too and clearly he thinks big.
Twitter Locks Down Product Changes Following Musk Takeover — Tucker Carlson and Babylon Bee Accounts Reinstated
And hours after the buyout Twitter locked down changes to its source code to prevent leftists from behaving like leftists.
Just hours after the $44 billion bid from Tesla CEO Elon Musk was accepted by Twitter shareholders, the social media company locked changes to its source code to prevent enraged leftists at the company from making retaliatory, unauthorized changes to the platform.
According to Bloomberg, which cited unnamed sources, the step was taken to ensure that disgruntled employees did not take their wrath out on the social media platform.
“Twitter imposed the temporary ban to keep employees who may be miffed about the deal from ‘going rogue,’ according to one of the people… Many of the company’s employees have been agitated about the idea of Musk taking charge and what changes may come,” the media outlet reported.
At least temporarily, Twitter will not allow updates to the platform unless they are “business-critical.” Any such changes will have to be approved by the vice-president of the company. The company is now a private entity totally under the control of Elon Musk. There is reportedly no longer a board of directors.
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So that buys them time to develop a strategy on how to hide “the algorithms” and monkeywrench Elon’s twitter moving forward
Musk has spent time on the assembly line floor when the finished product lagged time expectations. Soon enough I envision Musk poking about the “algorithms “ that govern the public square of Twitter.
Have you ever studied how to build an algorithm? It’s the statistical relevance of the independent variables to the dependent variable that make them work. So just looking at the actual formulas of variables doesn’t tell you much. It’s all the data they have collected that enables them to use statistical analysis to predict the results they are looking for.
Seems like a good bet that Musk employs people who can tell him everything he needs to know about the algorithms.
That’s smart but also sad. If I sabotaged my place of work I’d be fired/arrested/sued. These spoiled brats need a reckoning.
Before retirement, was involved in several ownership/management transitions in large companies. Even before negotiations were underway, we had employees planted in key parts of the operations identifying risk. We then had a 2nd team inserted quite openly as “evaluators”. By the time of the actual transition, we already knew what current employees were losing access to those parts of the operation where they could do any damage. Any real negative employees were terminated the day of the transaction.
A super interesting question would be, “What about emails by employees using company equipment?” Might there be company text messages? Either one could be interesting. I’m thinking about the two Mueller love birds and their text messages, some of which were published.
Reminds me of when George W Bush won the contentious election over Al Gore, and the new Bush staff came in to find that the exiting Clintonistas had removed all the “W’s” from the computer keyboards…
The notion that “Twitter locks down product changes” is – to this well-seasoned software professional – “is a non-issue.”
“Changes” are always “locked!”
“Software source-code, and related digital assets,” are the crown jewels of any and of every software organization, and they are therefore not only well-protected but also version controlled. It is possible to track every change that has ever been made by anyone, as well as to re-create any past “release.” (“Oh sh*t! What did we just do wrong?” So it goes sometimes. “We have technology for that.”) 🤡
And you just thought that “it was all magic!”
(If you’re curious, “google” such terms as git, SVN, SourceSafe,™ and even CVS.)
Yeah the “golden instance” is tightly controlled and not used for dev or prod
thx for the explanation, Mike
so Elon’s techs will be able to re-wind to a rev that precedes any talk of him acquiring Twitter and be able to see and disclose the “algorithms” and AI scripts and parameters that accomplished the censoring, throttling, and shadow banning of conservatives?
that’d be good news and something to look forward to
current employees can’t ‘lose’ or ‘wipe’ or ‘overwrite’ code and archival backups?
and I’m not an info specialist by any means, I was simply posting the Gateway article and expressing some concern about sabotage and concealment of the much-sought ‘algorithms’
— if those get disclosed publicly, that’ll be a watershed event
Sure they can. You just need the key people with privileged access to go along.
If I were Musk, simplistically, I’d put my own people into those key positions immediately, change all passwords, and assess personnel from there.
So you know as well that if you have sufficient privileges in SVN you can make whole versions disappear. No software is foolproof or lefty-proof.
I don’t see how they’ll ever unlock it unless they fire all the leftists.
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 in the near term, or, watch the propaganda outlet remain 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 have little more market 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 take key software interfaces into open standards like Oasis, and move core software components into open source like Eclipse. 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.
Have you considered what you suggest may be Musk’s ultimate end goal? Factor in the China part of the equation as well. What better way to enable world-wide free speech, and disable software piracy, than to make all the source-code available free for all?
Speaking from my own personal experiences (torrenter, pirate, retired) this is the ultimate end many, many of us have been working toward for a good many years (Pirate Bay, Sweden, being the most famous, and longest-lived). There are dark web sites dedicated to this very thing exclusively, and have been for many years. (i’ve no doubt Mr Musk is fully aware of us and our goals)
Mr Musk’s actions give a good many of us hope for the future again.
Indeed. It is all that I am looking for in this move. Antitrust actions cannot break this up because the mutinationals control the governments.
I consider open source/standards the only way to break a global propaganda monopoly that is deeply integrated with government powers, central banks and multinationals. I worked for nearly a decade in open source and open standards before BigTech subsumed the open market forces. I follow many of the true open software organizations to this day. There is great power in open source and standards that have solid governance and licensing.
What are you talking about? Twitter is open. Anyone can join and comment. That doesn’t mean he has to give away the code.
It has nothing to do with users. Read up on open source (e.g. Eclipse) and open standards (e.g. Oasis). Not too complicated but too much to put here.
Musk is WEF. I have zero trust in anyone in WEF.
We will soon see. A strategic open source, open standards effort is the litmus test IMHO
I’m sure more that a few went to commie camp, and once they saw what they were up to either recoiled in horror, or gamed them for what they could.
And if people can be bought or indoctrinated in one direction, then surely they can also be in the opposite direction, too ?!?!
But WHY is Musk WEF?
As a non computer person, this has been very interesting to read about. Thanks sDee and jeans2nd
AT&T IS censoring txts and recording all voice calls so how much of a leap is censoring voice? Ever have voice calls mysteriously gsrble (sic) ?
My example is general because we still have choices (for now)…..Including VOIP on the phone’s data connection.
BTW: ATT manages all the internet backbones for digital data surveillance for the State.
The entire leftist sphere is in hair-on-fire panic mode. Makes one wonder what they are so deathly afraid of, doesn’t it?
I find it all delicious. Buying popcorn futures first thing tomorrow.
The Left is better at Maneuver Warfare than we are. This is probably exactly what they want for reasons that are not obvious yet.
While watching them in full panic mode it might be appropriate to recall what was proven near eighty years ago; ” the flack is always heaviest when you’re directly over the target”.
I know exactly what these nasty ‘globalists’ are afraid of. They are afraid that we may all snap out of our mass formation stupor before we all drop dead. It’s a nail biter for sure..
I’m not cheering for Elon cuz I think he will do what he says. I’m cheering cuz he has pissed off so many who don’t actually know why they are mad.
I’m cheering both.
You mean those blank NPC characters who are very angry because they were led to believe they should be very angry?
Maybe it is as simple as this: Musk is a father of seven children, 1 set of twins and 1 set of triplets with his ex wife and 2 young children with his current wife. Maybe, just maybe, he is horrified at the future the global cabal are intent on, and wants to try to make things better for his children’s future. He is a very intelligent man.
He is no longer with his last baby mama apparently.
Would those last two be the ones named X and Y? Not saying that I do or do not think he may have good paternal feelings of affection but let’s just admit that he is “quirky” and wait to see how this all plays out!
Elon Musk is worth 264 billion dollars give or take. He could lose 260 billion (if they try to go after his wealth) and not miss it. Maybe he decided to do something productive and different with his wealth and his time on earth.
The bad guys can’t buy him off.
I am sure those manipulating and using Twitter to control and propagandize information did not anticipate a move like this one, that takes them out of the game entirely. Only one man had the money and vision to do it.
No one else could have made such a difference for free speech . I will get ahead of the curve to say Thank you, Elon Musk.
It’s interesting how one billionaire, Donald Trump, was able to cut their chains and now another billionaire comes along to break even more chains.
It just goes to show that those who can’t be bought outright are worth their weight in gold these days.
Ok, but what does that have to do with his love/feelings for his kids?
I won’t discount that thought. As a father of soon to be three sometimes money ain’t the end all be all. Just like Mr. Gump I may not be a smart man but I know what love is. Love conquers all.
Rileytrips: So, no more Tesla?
I remain deeply skeptical. Remember, he is WEF.
A very intelligent man who grew up in a well-to-do home, the son of a wealthy man. He is supposed to have endured a very strained relationship with his father. Speculating here, but there could be some underlying force driving Musk where he draws a parallel with the big government-business entities controlling the masses and his own over controlling father.
Two of my favorite reporters just there!!
OMG! I just read that they are planning for a new platform: Qwitter or Queertter. 🤣
<…they are planning for a new platform…Queertter>
Twitter is bad enough…
But using Queertter can be a real pain in the ass 🙂
If successful that’d be a hell of a come from behind story.
Nice one! 🙂 🙂 🙂
😳
The reaction of blue-pilled leftists is creating a warm fuzzy feeling.
If they are that concerned, I’m good with Musk’s intentions.
No doubt the swamp will attempt to rain fire and ice on Musk as they did with Trump. The left cannot coexist (or survive?) with truth.
Yep, they are a minority, and E Musk is threatening to pull back the curtain for the masses to see.
who gets the $44 billion? shareholders of Twitter? if Twitter is taken private do current shareholders get paid $54/share? What owns the public company called Twitter?
Yes, every person who owns shares of Twitter gets $54 a share. There are probably millions!
Now all these newly wealthy liberals can take their newly found windfall profits and use it to solve all the worlds problems. Of course first they will all stop and pay their fair share of it in taxes.
Yes, current shareholders get $54 per share. They are the owners and own a percentage of the company based on their amount of shares.
The board decided on behalf of all shareholders that it was in the best interest of the shareholders to accept Musk’s offer.
Divide $44 Billion by $54
The result is somewhat interesting
814,814,814.814…
The reported number of Twitter shares outstanding as of Feb 10, 2022 was 800.64M…
It’s more than sacreligious and going to require some real PR gymnastics for Biden and his henchmen to go after their Number One weapon in the climate change arsenal…TESLA!
I can’t remember the exact specifics but didn’t Musk get really ticked at SloJoe because in a speech or something about saving the climate with electric cars he dissed/omitted saying anything about Tesla. Maybe that will incentivize him to create as much “Free speech” as possible. 😀
I agree completely with Glenn. When the Twitter news first broke I said “well it can’t get any worse!”
Shaun King rage quits twitter and accuses twitter of white power. Talcum power decries white power. You cannot make it up.
The Melanin-Deficient Wahn reactivated his account within the 24 hour limit and is back on twitter, just to continue their feud according to Jack Posobiec. Whatever the reason, Shawn King is back on twitter.
I just had a thought/fantasy. Elon Musk hires Larry Elder and Candace Owens to create the algorithms to sic the bots after Shaun King. It would be glorious.
OMG wouldn’t that be a fair turnabout. Reverse all their existing algorithms to add millions of bot “friends” to bolster Conservative accounts, while shadow banning all those leftist accounts? Then they would be forced to argue against themselves to avoid their own censorship algorithms.
“We believe in continued censorship on social media for the safety of everyone!”
“STOP censoring our voices on social media!”
I think Elon’s heart is in the right place (hopefully). Very surprised he went thru with this. Let’s say his heart is indeed in lockstep with freedom loving Americans the issue he will have is the muscle behind the Globalist Cabal.
Listening to Greenwald now and he makes great points. This is what concerns me too. We know Twitter would have probably never gotten off the ground if not for the dark forces assisting its flight. As I said on an earlier post:
There are shadowy groups relative to the CIA, FBI, Military, etc. They have been fed power for a long time and have grown strong. My message is for those who are in those groups who operate in the light. We need you more than ever. You have the ability to get traction inside. If you act there will be others who follow. America is waiting for that first domino to fall.
Right you are Luke. Top secrecy. Need to know. Compartmentalization. Not everyone in these organizations is “in on” the illegal, treasonous actions undertaken by the corrupt. There are certain to be those who are disgusted with certain things, but don’t feel they are in a position to do anything about, and are certain they’ll lose their jobs if they try to right the ship. My dad was a senior military officer with top secret job responsibilities, and a career’s worth of classmates, unit mates, teammates who’d grown up together, many also deeply involved in top secret affairs.
I remember his concern when JFK was assassinated. While he didn’t say much to his children about what he knew, he said he hoped we would not have to face such a situation again. In retrospect, I believe he and his network knew enough to know it stunk, but weren’t able to do anything. Same with the Gulf of Tonkin incident, where he described his conversation with an officer on one of the ships involved, who told him it was all staged.
I am certain the worst criminals in those organizations depend entirely on intimidation of others around them to hold on to the ability to lie cheat murder and steal, and are resented by most of those who work nearby. They all took the same oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. As the facts pile up about the Russiagate conspiracy, the election theft, Hunter and his laptop, the enormous and perpetual grift in Ukraine, the planned demolition of our economy, the open border fiasco, the censorship, the arrogance of woke culture, we are all waiting for some of them to initiate the process of living up to their oaths.
Twitter won’t matter , when there is no FOOD. Do your own homework …. please.!
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Who would have thought that someday the world’s richest man would be African American. That someday is here, congrats to Elon Musk!
As I understand Twitter, the users are free to set up accounts. There is no fee charged to use Twitter.
The media soundbites focus on the control aspects of twitter are needed to protect the vulnerable users; who in turn are not paying anything to use the service. Maybe a fee should be charged…
Twitter has been and is being subsidized by the government as are all the big tech companies. Each has a purpose to serve, FB compiles personal data and creates lists, Google puts information the gov wants out in front of people or buries info the don’t want and Twitter acts as a narrative engineer and target identification system for anyone not in agreement with the government.
Musk won’t lose a dime on this, he will probably make a fortune. He just snuck in and took one of their major weapons away from them and they have no replacement! The midterms are fast approaching and if they want ANY say over the narrative they will have to pay up because Musk now is in control of it. The news media has relied on Twitter as their source for so long they will be unable to counteract it.
They can’t ignore Twitter as a strategy either, because with the promise of a free and fair platform along with Musks popularity tons will go back to it. They will have to constantly monitor it (just like they did with Trump) to try and squash or counter anything negative against them.
Musk is an odd duck and an inconsistent one at that, but I tend to agree with Greenwald, what’s the downside here? I don’t see a significant one. I also don’t see what Musk paid $45B for either. What are the assets exactly? I have to admit I don’t understand any of the big-tech mega-valuations in the marketplace. Twitter could go from $45B to $0B in 12 months.
I don’t do Twitter or facebook or Instagram or any of that other caca, so maybe I’m just not with the program. I’ll keep it that way, thank you.
I think there is a huge downside. Elon Musk, is a WEF guy. His dream, is solar and wind, and EV’s.
He reminds me of Soros.
paid troll?
Seriously? Have you looked at Elon’s past comments, and meetings attended? Did you think his Starlink offer to Ukraine was without cost, or perhaps Donbas mines were on his mind?
Like everyone else on the planet, we wait and see…
“As you know, we are more than a car company. We are the world’s first vertically integrated sustainable energy company, with a wide variety of products, from generation to storage to consumption. As we described in Master Plan, Part Deux, the next phase of our development involves a number of exciting plans that will further accelerate the inevitable shift toward a sustainable energy future. These include expanding solar energy generation through Solar Roof and other solar products and seamlessly integrating them with battery storage, building out our vehicle product line to cover all major forms of terrestrial transport, continuing to advance autonomous technology to create a fully-self driving future, and enabling sharing so that your car can make money for you when you are not using it. ” https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312518035345/d524719ddef14a.htm
Do you know how much devastation in other countries is required to fulfill this dream?
Lets believe Almighty God uses Elon Musk to upset the apple cart big time of the jackal satanic cabal of gates,soros and all the others who dwell in the slimy darkness.All on this site are well aware of whats been going on so inform others and prepare yourselves mentally,physically and spiritually,especially spiritually.Father God,we lift up Elon Musk to you in the name of Jesus Christ and we plead the blood of Jesus over him and his family and all around him, give him your wisdom to do what s right and honorable before you for this nation and our people.We ask that the fire of your Holy Spirit surround him and all with him to protect him.We ask that your warring angelic host guard him and tear down every plot,plan and assignment against him and to protect what he is trying to do with twitter.We thank you Father,in Jesus Christ name we pray,Amen.
Good reminder, God is absolutely in control.
Men are always looking for a hero but God was looking for a saviour.
Among humanity God could find no such person so He raised up His own Man, the man Christ Jesus.
Do we need earthly heroes?
We certainly do and God raises them up according to His purpose.
Hoping that God uses Elon Musk to restrain the evil empire
I’m confused. In her book, “A Woman Makes a Plan” Elon Musk’s mother, Mae Musk, writes of divorcing her abusive husband, and making it on her own with their three children in SA for several years before moving back to Canada, where she was born. She describes a life of struggling to make a living on her own, juggling modeling jobs and teaching classes in nutrition. In her account, they weren’t well off until Elon and is brother sold a video game they invented. If Elon’s father was very rich, she didn’t mention it in her book. She did say that Elon lived with his father for a while after the divorce, but gave no details.
Treepers, what I don’t see in all this Twitter hoopla is a follow the money look.
I see Musk borrowing money from a couple of Globalist factions to pay off other globalist factions (check out top owners of Twitter, 80% owned by institutional investors).
Musk is making the majority of his money from Government money, using those proceeds as leverage to buy a largely Government controlled asset. Jack is celebrating that Twitter is finally free of Globalist corporate influences that were the “problem ” at Twitter.
Either this is a smokescreen transfer because of behind the scenes machinations with a public explanation. Or, we will need to wait and see how this plays out.
This has all the feel of good cop bad cop. I would still rather follow Trump, Devin and others that have proven themselves to be America First.
Musk has ever been about Musk and his intellectual and business curiosity.
Exactly. It’s seems to be a flim-flam scam.
Musk does not make most of his money from the government. His personal net worth is mostly bound up in shares of SpaceX and Tesla. To buy Twitter he put up/sold shares of Tesla from what I’ve read of the transaction. His products are either purchased by the gov (SpaceX) or subsidized by the government (Tesla).
Not sure how that’s any different from GM getting bailed out for the second time by the government in 2008 or the Chevy Volt getting the same subsidies as Tesla for an EV purchase.
In the case of the subsidies, the money goes to the purchaser at point of sale, not the manufacturer.
…..” Twitter’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, reportedly broke down in tears during a virtual meeting with the company’s policy and legal teams to discuss the ramifications of Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform.”…..
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitters-top-lawyer-breaks-down-tears-during-musk-takeover-meeting
Here’s her interview from March 2019, when she was more smugly sure of herself and her Speech Fascism. 20 min. vid.
Very enlightening, thanks for posting. And oh by the way, this is exactly why we absolutely must NOT cede the language to these prog theocrats. Speech control >> Mind control >>> Behavior control.
President Trump has stated that he will “not” go back onto Twitter – even with the purchase by made by musk.
Twitter it kind of reminds me of the adage: “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!!”
Why should he take a chance when he has his own social platform with real people that he can trust like Devon Nunes running and implementing his new social media platform.
Someone on Twitter should be able to follow Trump on Truth Social, then “retweet” it to Telegram. That’s open.
Greenwald is always on the money.
I love Glen Greenwald. Its so weird. I have started reading “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand. Its over 1,000 pages. Past proves future. Elon Musk might as well be the main character in the story. I am so happy Elon has a sense of humor. Am still laughing at his emoji of Bill Gates big belly. I guess that shut BG up for about 5 seconds.
Looking forward to the duels and fights among the billionaire class, and hope to watch the whole interview on Tucker Today, tomorrow. Things are finally getting interesting.
Josh Hawley:
Here’s an idea for @elonmusk. Open the books on who Twitter has shadow banned, who Twitter has suspended, who they’ve throttled, and who was responsible for the egregious censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop reporting. Make it all public https://t.co/gbLaaUXuR4
As the new owner, Musk assumes all past legal liabilities.
Showing the world how discriminatory his new company was could cost him even more money.
Musk has made his fortunes around DC policy. Tesla doesn’t liftoff without subsidies. Spacex doesn’t liftoff without NASA neglect. Could Musk be a friend to freedom, and fight DC? At this point I am a skeptic. Perhaps this is a headfake to stomp the egg of truth social before it hatches. A classic Rockefeller move-kill the competition before it can grow. Feels like RINO coopting tea party.
Color me a Musk skeptic.
Read about Musk baby momma before you get too excited about Musk.
Nevertheless, I will take the win-for now
Twitter delisted becomes more opaque. It can kill truth social, then get worse than it is now.
Musk vs Bezos? Musk sticking it to Biden cabal for slighting Tesla in favor of laughable GM electrics? Just an ego play?
Or, Musk is a good guy
Nothing is as it seems
I agree 100% with Greenwald’s sentiment. I worry about Elon’s safety (real safety, not the kind the wimps at Twitter are talking about), and his businesses. He’s taking on the entire world’s gangsters all at once. Big Industry, Big Military, Big Government and Big Media. They are not just going to take their ball and go home. But here is the prediction, and I hope this is his calculation – just like Trump did, he will further expose the ugly underbelly of these large, rotten institutions that need to be shaken up and cleaned up – starting the Draining of the Global Swamp.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Truth Social is currently beating Twitter & TikTok on the Apple Store
Founding a new car company was regarded by most as impossible. Making electric cars attractive and profitable was regarded by most as impossible. As Patrick Byrne did on a smaller scale with Overstock.com, Musk faced down huge organized hedge fund, derivatives leveraged efforts to “short” the company, then destroying Tesla’s value. Tesla now exceeds the market cap of all the other US car companies. When chased by the SEC over some of his moves fighting the shorts (the SEC was taking the side of the George Soros crowd), he made some remark about how SEC was an acronym for something else, where the E stood for “Elon’s.” Absolutely fearless. Making a private rocket company and returning the US to space exploration at a fraction of NASA’s inflated costs was regarded as highly improbable. Yet he pulls these things off. His father bankrolled his first start-up, which he sold for $100s of Millions, and formed another that merged into the company that became PayPal. But he’s one-of-kind.
Can he make Twitter enormously profitable? I wouldn’t bet against him. He may even start a trend of restoring value to the corporate “Get woke, go broke” companies, run by Leftist and RINO idiots, by returning them to their founding purposes, with Elon Musk’s ideas for improving the business models thrown into the mix.
His clarity of purpose around restoring a digital global public square for the free exchange of ideas certainly resonates strongly with me.
Lol, i hadn’t heard about his SEC acronym.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all
2:26 PM · Apr 26, 2022
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519020176884305920
Suspicious cat remains suspicious.
Time will tell.
Musk is a bit of a visionary. I expect he has a plan. I don’t expect it involves throwing his money away.
I expect he will sell advertising, charge user fees, or compile and sell user information, i.e, the social credit score garbage, to the government possibly.
He definitely has a plan.
Pray for Elon Musk
(Musk will face worse than Donald Trump, or Kyle Rittenhouse, or Brett Kavanaugh did)
https://stream.org/pray-for-elon-musk/?fbclid=IwAR3ItBqZWVSRSnpgxp4VjMSvH-KM7JqGmhTO-mRK6fc9ipdwpqiZBzvPhyM
How does this move by Musk fit in with his current companies and interests? Tesla …… Space X …… AI.
There is a connection …. if you want a business, you either build it from the ground up or you buy it. He does not have the interest or maybe the time, to build it from the ground up. He has the money and backing to buy it.
Why this platform? Why now? How will it benefit him and his other companies? Why Twitter?
He bought the eyes and ears of Twitter…. 192 million daily users from around the world. 99% of Twitter users are on other social media platforms.
21% of US adults and 42% of online Canadians are on Twitter. It is Japan’s # 1 social media network. 66% of companies with over 100 employees use Twitter. 30% of Twitter audience have a college degree and make +60,ooo a year and are between 25-34 years old with 35-49 year olds coming in at second place.
That is tremendous buying and influencing power. Know your market …. What can you influence your audience to buy? The world is pushing electric cars and “ clean” expensive energy and not getting very far very fast. Clean up Twitters image and what can a thinker like Musk do with it? A novel idea…..follow the money.
Elon Musk Weighs In On Twitter Censoring Hunter Biden Laptop Story During 2020 Election
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-weighs-in-on-twitter-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story-during-2020-election?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mattwalsh&fbclid=IwAR2l0GxF7N6xps1g7r2430VhAR4nL5kltERjXxteRBEWgBUP-HDYx7dSNmQ
Tucker Carlson Today
@TuckerToday
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@TheBabylonBee
was suspended from
@Twitter & @elonmusk
bought it. Will #FreeSpeech be restored? We hope so. The Bee’s CEO
@SethDillon gives us his take. The full interview streams exclusively on
@foxnation– plus: unlock free sign-up offers only at http://TuckerCarlson.com
(Video linked in tweet)…
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
When this guy says “free speech,” he puts his money where his mouth is. I am so impressed with his “can do” spirit. Imagine if Republicans had the balls this guy has. We would have free speech, a secure border, and honest elections .
@elonmusk
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Signs First Deal With Major U.S. Airline To Provide Free Wi-Fi For Passengers
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-spacex-signs-first-deal-with-major-u-s-airline-to-provide-free-wi-fi-for-passengers?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter
Tyler Carditis
@TyCardon
Definitely something bizarre happening with the Twitter algorithm impacting follower counts over the past 24-48 hours. A few examples:
Cont reading full thread on Reader App
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1519067389110853633.html
Why did Musk need to finance the purchase of twitter? He could have easily just paid for it from his existing funds. Is Musk posing as buyer a cover for whoever really bought Twitter?
Do you really think Musk keeps that many billions in the bank? My answer would be no.
His worth is based on stock market wealth. He would have to then sell stock to put money in the bank
This would show up as a huge insider sale which could negatively impact his net worth. Musk could have used existing stock as collateral backing a loan to lower the interest rate on the loan.
There is nothing to raise suspicion here.
All the forces the globalists can muster will be out with their long knives going after every asset, both corporate and personal that Musk has and those of any other major player that may support him. Governments and their press, International Organizations dealing with monetary policy and trade, and other Oligarchs that support the globalist agenda. All of them! It is going to get extremely nasty if Musk follows through with his promise.
They have to. Such a breach in their control will be fatal to their agenda to control everything. Allowing such a thing to succeed will show weakness.
The pressure on Musk from all fronts will be tremendous.
Musk should team up with Trump, so that two forms of genius are merged together and focused on good instead of ….
Maybe he thought, “These political hacks are going to start up a wealth tax on billionaires and take 20 percent off the top of my money. What could I do with the money they want in wealth tax ( say around 50 billion) to stop these tyrant wannabes? And he bought Twitter
They can’t destroy him because he’s the one man who is capable of building a better future and equipping them with the tools they want to control the World.
Musk is the one building autonomous vehicles, a power AI, Starlink, and a super rocket that can explore those mineral rich asteroids. He’s building Neuralink and creating a subterranean transport system.
There’s no one else who is this visionary. Everyone else is either copying him or just trying to keep up!
Musk will tweak Twitter and ultimately try to monetize it. The real threat for all on the Right is that he ultimately concludes Twitter is not worth his time due to all of the other things he’s trying to get accomplish and turns it back over to public ownership.
At that point, it will end in a dud and censorship will accelerate to make up the time he was in charge.
Well…the idea that it can’t be any worse than the existing situation is wrong.
Elon’s businesses rely on taxpayer subsidies.
That means the political Admin State owns his a*se.
A probably rationally compliant Elon means escape from State media is going to be demonstrated to be impossible.
They might like that.
Let’s not re-write recent history..
Musk taught himself how to manufacture electric vehicles after GM, which resuscitated this century old technology, failed to build and market them successfully.
He subsequently learned to construct, launch and return rockets to earth intact, a skill that had evaded the scientists who invented them (along with Russia and NASA) for 7 decades.
Now he believes he can make Twitter a commercial success by promoting its “free speech” potential, and owing to his track record savvy investors have lined up to back this endeavor. So we’ll see..
“He subsequently learned to construct, launch and return rockets to earth intact, a skill that had evaded the scientists who invented them (along with Russia and NASA) for 7 decades.”
Incorrect. The technology is not that difficult. NASA had other reasons for not returning the launchers. All Musk has done is similar to what Toyota and Honda did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They took existing technology and re-engineered it for efficiency and durability.
AOC thinks that Musk purchasing Twitter is because he wants to date her.