I write the headline in the form of a question but in reality, all of the data points in one direction, yes.
If I am going to be brutally honest, this Elon Musk scenario is like the August 2022 review when it became obvious all of the DeSantis 2024 data only reconciled in one direction. In many ways, Musk is to social media interests as DeSantis is to DC UniParty interests.
More than half the readers here have picked up on the clues and cues showing Musk has a very real motive to position himself in the best light possible given the situation that surrounds him. Unfortunately, that position creates conflicts between ideals (what’s possible) and reality (what limits surround one’s ability). Musk is riding a tiger, and the intelligence community ring masters control the beast.
The damage control motive is a few layers deep. However, one of the recent events that would lead to Musk’s public need for brand image protection comes from the situation with Matt Taibbi:
…”When we got into the Files, we were caught off guard. The content-policing system was more elaborate and organized than any of us imagined. A communications highway had been built linking the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with Twitter, Facebook, Google, and a slew of other platforms. Among other things this looked more like a cartel than a competitive media landscape, and I had an uneasy feeling early on that publicizing this arrangement might create a host of unanticipated problems for everyone involved. Still, there was no question this was in the public interest. So we kept going.” (more) ~ Matt Taibbi
On the issue of Twitter File access and personal motivation, Taibbi’s best financial and short-term professional interests would be served most by retaining a positive relationship with Musk/Twitter. The fact that Taibbi would turn away from the lucrative interests, says something positive about his compass heading.
Accepting the COVID-19 files were never released, what some have called the Fauci files, and accepting the revelations within the filtered internal documents stopped abruptly, we can consider that ‘stakeholder’ interests became more consequential as the outside peering gained depth. Likely the core of the platform, which we now know is based on a U.S Government intelligence relationship, needed a protective boundary.
When you overlay the reality that all of Elon Musk’s ventures are dependent on the same USG for viability, the vulnerability & motive to shape outcomes (via messaging) is stark. Tesla, SpaceX, Star Link and all of Musk’s endeavors are intertwined with government approvals, authorizations and operations. Control of the Twitter platform as a tool for public opinion is in alignment with those same Big Gov interests.
Another core issue that should be the focus of attention, a string that can unravel the gordian knot, is the financial mechanisms of Twitter.
As a business model, Twitter never made any sense. That’s the obvious answer why no other Tech business ever made an effort to absorb or merge it.
When you overlay the government activity, then overlay the financial value to the government for the access and control that everyone now admits was in place, the Occam’s Razor of financial operations would indicate some form of government subsidy (direct or indirect) along with some form of financial funding (again, direct or indirect) was in the background of the platform.
As CTH has said for several years, a financial agreement in the background of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop just made sense. The platform held/holds a value to the U.S. govt, so a subsidy in operations for sustainability of the influence seemed obviously motivated.
While there are some important datapoints showing Musk trying to take steps to make Twitter a viable business without govt support (80% staffing reductions, monthly fees for premium content, etc.) the prior financial relationship is almost certainly still in place. The internal operations, the preestablished public-private partnership, at the core of the platform also appears to retain the same general executive operators as before the takeover.
Again, I go back to Twitter File Release #8 – […] “The United States intelligence apparatus was/is actively using and working with the Twitter platform to align with U.S. government interests. The govt was coordinating, instructing, assisting and benefitting from the relationship. Pro govt positions were amplified, and information adverse to the interests of the Pentagon and State Dept was removed, hidden, throttled.
Unfortunately, as admitted by Twitter File #8 Author Lee Fang, a writer for The intercept, “The searches were carried out by a Twitter attorney, so what I saw could be limited.” There is no ‘could be‘ in that statement. The searches were limited, specifically time limited putting all of the scrutiny on the timeline when Donald Trump was in office.
CTH has no vested interest in this pretending nonsense. We all know, hell, its public record, the use of Twitter and Facebook as a tool to advance U.S. foreign policy began during the Obama administration. There are dozens of mainstream press accounts of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton reaching out to Twitter and Facebook for support during the ’11/’12 Arab Spring. This is not controversial, it happened.
However, the current release uses a carefully applied time filter only showing DoD and DoS use of the platform (to assist foreign policy) starting in 2017, when President Trump took office. This is intentional. The origin of the practice starts with Barack Obama. (more)
Twitter file release #8 was curated, fullstop!
That curation reality is empirical within the data itself. That acceptance stands as a solid foundation to recognize that all of the releases are filtered and curated to protect certain levels of interest. And within that larger truth we discover the reason why the government sponsored COVID-19 operations were never fully revealed.
Just as AG Bill Barr was shown to be mitigating damage that could come from the American public discovering that Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government all collaborated in the Trump-Russia fabrication, presumably Barr motivated to save the country from the reality within the scale of corruption, so too does the network around Elon Musk hold a similar motive.
You put all this together and the sheer weight of it indicates Elon Musk appeared on the Tucker Carlson broadcast to shape public opinion favorably away from the reality of what the real Twitter story reveals. Government control is even bigger than general public understanding. Elon Musk was/is doing damage control.
Outhouse Counsel – “He voted for the cabal behind Obama, Clinton, and Biden. Not Biden. He placated the low-info left audience with his Democrat “credentials”, impressed the hopeful with the sincerity of his little nonsequitorious “admissions”, and then sought to appease the appalled on the right with another “admission” that he’s not happy with Biden and why can’t we have a common-sense moderate middle. He then frosted this cake with humble sweetener that was designed to reinforce his naivety in certain areas; the posturing that when he bought Twitter he really didn’t understand the EXTENT of the government infiltration.
And he did this over and over again, gently saying rather alarming things quietly and in a way that could be taken multiple ways because they were tempered by seemingly guileless admissions, hopeful commentary, and witty self-deprecation (he was fooled by erstwhile competitor google/Ai founder , he sheepishly shrugs at his losing money by buying during bad timing, he fired employees from “Twitter” but he’s also implicitly a victim of those who voluntarily left but no mention of who now works for X Corp…)
He is a genius at more than computer coding. Please don’t fall for it.”
There are trillions at stake…
So, Mr. Smart Guy really didn’t know what he was getting into, has lost a bunch of money and now has become a government tool so that he doesn’t lose the rest of his money.
He did all that time and work with his prior companies to get where he is and now he’s just a controlled dummy.
Sad for him, but the world’s riches are “a chasing the wind”
The US government pays thousands for every Tesla Musk sells.
Musk is launching satellites for the US Government.
Does anyone think he has banned access from the US Government?
When they speak of their “climate change” they never mention the satellite radio waves that are decimating trees and crops.
Not to mention frying human brains.
I have long suspected he works for and with the global cabal.
It’s called selling out. All us poor kids understand what that means…rich folk, par for the course. Unfortunately for Elon, the rich don’t give two craps about him…only what they can milk from him.
Something had to be done. Everyone knew Twitter was US gov compromised. Other platforms were gaining. (TRUTH)
So they decided to change everything without changing anything. Poor Elon, He had no idea. NOT! Musk and fam have been NWO connected for a very long time.
Yes, if you do any checking into his mother you can see what he comes from and is part of.
What if he acquired Twitter at the direction of the US government? Let your mind chew on that one for a bit.
More like the CCP.
Conservatives were leaving Twitter in droves. Musk was allowed to purchase the platform, oversee some modest reforms, and attract conservatives back to the surveillance reservation.
Yup
Yes.
Musk announced the intent purchase within days approximately after it was announced a report that no one wants to join the military anymore.
I assume the CIA/military complex panicked and nudged their boy Musk to purchase Twitter.
They needed patriotism back and shaming patriots and censorship needed to stop.
Project X. It’s all I need to know about Musk.
Yep…and THIS^^^ is what much of this “dancing with the devil” government is all about. Musk NEEDS the ok from the dark forces for his projects…he needs to play ball and We plebs will never know the behind-the-scenes negotiating going on. The teases in some of these interviews were no doubt approved. The TC interview, IMHO, was well-orchestrated theater.
Completely agree! Mr. Musk public persona is a very clever construct for a very dangerous mind.
He’d never admit it, but everything he built is on the back of the US taxpayer via the government. EV is no business model for the future. Mining lithium and other rare earth minerals with slave labor…seriously? It’s a pivot…nothing more.
Elon Musk is an epic “influencer”. He’s well-spoken and humorous at times which helps make him a likeable person. What better kind of person is there to do the damage control / influencing?
Until you see the strings. So, show people the strings!
He’s humorous on Twitter. On Tucker I thought he was a little weird and creepy. I realize he has Asperger’s which was very apparent on Tucker.
I don’t believe he’s damage control. He’s the damage, or at least a part of it with a smidgen of remorse.
End of the day…right in front of our eyes…federal government removing our speech. And Congress, sworn to uphold the Constitution stares back at us and smiles.
While spooning us, caressing our shoulders, and telling is how much they love us.
What about Truth Social as a comparison – is it financially unsustainable?
I don’t think it matters…its goal isn’t financial IMO. I think it’s a honey pot and communications platform for #45.
I’ll take an open-minded, 4D Chess player over a closed-minded, fellow traveling Leftist any day.
Thank you Sundance your insight is always appreciated be well stay safe we need you now more than ever
R.D.
When one remembers that much of his top line revenue for Tesla was carbon credits, in addition to his government contracts with the firms SD mentioned, a healthy bit of skepticism is justified. We can applaud with one hand the “good” things he’s done with Twitter while understanding there is a lot going on that is being covered up. Me thinks there is a sleight of hand component to this.
It would seem that EM’s other companies dependence on USG are the thing that ties him ultimately to USG in all things and that Twitter will never be completely free from the government.
EM said that Twitter was approaching break even – so I wonder what, if any, income is from the government.
Let’s be honest here. Anyone involved in the kinds of things that Musk is involved in depends upon the federal government for things much more important than money–licensing, clearance to launch rockets, EPA approvals up the wazoo… Frankly, there is not a corporation in the U.S. today that is not in one way or another at the mercy of our regulation and tax mad government. I am not defending Musk, who doesn’t need my defense, but pointing out the dilemma all large corporations face.
As for Twitter, one would think Musk smelled a rat when the books were examined, although doubtless they were cooked by the best.
Not applauding anything about Musk’s song and dance and his noble “free speech” drool. It’s apparent he’s deeply immersed in government funding from several sources. Not real likely he’d be bitting the hand that feeds him by exposing all of the government control of his platform
Nope just enough to keep people hanging on.
That may be the start but don’t discount how much money Tesla makes and how much growth they have when compared to traditional auto companies.
Even with this latest round of incentives he has said that Tesla didn’t need them and I have to agree.
Also, remember that all major US automakers makers have taken from the government (remember the GMC bailouts)?
So I don’t take much about the line that his companies have greatly benefited from government money. He was smart and maybe a bit lucky but has benefited greatly from the risks he took.
But I don’t fully understand the take about Musk&twitter. I truly believe he made his initial offer as a joke and then got stuck with it. I get that he has this thought/plan to create some sort of all in one communication and financial application like WeChat and maybe he will be successful but he is spending a lot of his net worth doing so (admittedly he has a lot of net worth to spare).
Full disclosure, I have a financial stake in Tesla.
“Full disclosure, I have a financial stake in Tesla.”
So you’re a grifter.
What with clapping with one hand and sleighting of hand with the other, I’m outta hands! But then again, I never trusted this “genius” who was too dumb to know that he was buying a PIG in a poke.
Musk’s body language alone during Tucker’s interview was interesting.
Elon knew he was bullsh*tting. He grabbed his glass of water every few seconds. But I love Sundance’s analysis, as always. Are we to assume that Tucker is in on it, too?
Just ask Tucker when we’re going to see the rest of the J6 files.
That will give you the answer.
“Are we to assume that Tucker is in on it, too?” Tucker is such a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred kind of journalist, didn’t you hear his interrogative trenchancy when he asked Musk if he believed in space aliens? — that went right to the core of all things Twitter? [sarc]
Tucker had an hour or more of time with one of the most influential people in the world, but squandered it, offering nothing in the way of penetrative examination of the connection between the USG and Twitter. Nothing he asked Musk regarding AI or banking or anything else was new; Musk’s views on all those topics and more are well known, readily discoverable on-line.
Tucker is not a journalist; he’s a paid performer reading script. He’s made his mark delivering the illusion that he’s one of us; he’s not. Tucker and Musk were akin to asymptotes, which by definition cannot meet their complementary curves. They were never going to reveal truth (who in the government — naming names — is in bed with Twitter); because to do so raises the disintegrative question: How do we handle it? [Cue Jack Nicholson] No, better to not dig for truth; just give the public the illusion of searching for truth by using methods such as: pursed lips (TC), mantis hand positions (EM), thoughtful brow raising (TC), frequent hydrations (EM), etc.; the viewing audience witnessing a journalistic genius at work uninhibitedly digging deep into a business genius’ world. LOL!
Musk gives me the heebie geebies.
His body language is trying to portray confidence and loosey-goosey your all-around good guy
In reality, his synapses aren’t firing correctly and he’s a confused man.
Botox?
The facial expressions, the body language, the deer in the head lights look did not instill confidence.
Watch any interview he does and that is how he is… he also has a condition that contributes to that
Exactly He is always like that. Its Aspergers.
When Elon expressed his arguments for why he wanted Govt regulation if AI (Because it is dangerous to the general public) and then gave as hus first example “the FDA” and TC didn’t do one of his outbursts of guffaw, and instead studiously agreed, I wanted to vomit.
And I wondered how many listening were foolishly nodding along.
OH, by all means lets put the same kind of “safeguarding the people Govt regulating” on AI, as we have with the FDA’s regulation of meds and vaxs, the same kind as the FAA on regulating air travel, the same as the Natl. Education Dept regulating EVERY Child Left Behind, followed with Race To The Bottom, and on and on.
If past performance is any guide, and it 100 percent IS, Govt regulation will not prevent the AI nightmares Elon describes, it will INSURE it.
Still, I get comfort from this; it was one, small obscure corner of the I-net, where a blogger published a small article titled,…”Jacks coffee shop” that initially blew the whole thing wide open.
Kudos, once again Sundance!
I think Elon is a product of the Lib ideology. I also think his eyes have been opened, with the steal of the 2020 and 2022 elections, as well as the fact that the US Government was owning and running Twitter. I do not believe that he likes or shares the policies of the Biden Cabal. He is in a very new situation, which he is trying to navigate.
Mostly agree. Musk is not a social extremist, but is more of an old fashioned liberal.
He’s also naive or ignorant of history- as governments gain power they become more totalitarian and ultimately start killing dissenters.
I don’t trust Musk, but I don’t think he approves of totalitarianism.
“I don’t trust Musk, but I don’t think he approves of totalitarianism.”
You need to look into what people who’ve worked for/with him have to say…
That’s what I was thinking also, damage control.
Maybe.
And maybe Trump is not being a jerk for taking Disney’s side against DeSantis.
Turned it off 10 mins in. What a bunch of horse manure….
Me too…….
This gives more perspective on the urgency behind the Restrict Act now, does it not?
Yes.
In the postmodern and postlegal era nothing in the major media—and precious little in the “alternative” media—is anything other than studied, well-constructed impression management in service of certain social management objectives. One could argue, perhaps convincingly so, that mediated communication has never been anything otherwise. There are exceptions, imo re: the Bible or certain translations of it. But the exceptions do not disprove the general rule.
In Musk/FoxNews’ case, especially with the recent Dominion settlement in mind, there is nothing whatsoever that I am aware of that sets it apart from the programmed communication category. I turned the interview off after five minutes. Musk conveyed neither interest in or ability to articulate thoughts regarding AI that I haven’t read or heard from fifteen years ago. Tucker seemed genuinely uninterested in taking the discourse beyond that.
…and I think Musk’s continuing entanglements with embedded USG in Twitter, along with what others have so astutely noted already re: Musk’s other corporate dependencies on USG support, lead to no conclusion other than damage control and the selling of Musk/Twitter as revolutionary, independent, and ‘merican…
Is it possible there was other CYA motives for government operators within Twitter to push Musk with backdoor incentives in his other businesses? Couldn’t well placed whistle blowers inside Twitter have exposed the same level of government control that Musk is now dancing around? True inside whistle blowers probably wouldn’t have had the platform Musk has but the fear of what could have been exposed outside of government control could have been the reason for pushing/allowing the purchase in the 1st place. Since it’s all about control anyway, seems element’s of governmental control are still firmly in place. Where’s the Fraud Fauchi files?
I believe that’s not only possibly the case, but very likely the case. William of Ockham would have had something to say regarding the simplest explanation.
Re: Faux Xi files, I very much doubt any will be forthcoming. There’s too much at stake, both positively and negatively. Too much profit yet to be made wrt Biden’s “Speedy” vax initiative…and too much to lose should the actual truth of the fraud receive adequate sunlight.
As Sundance put it, the low-info left audience .
The low info audience, I suggest, encompasses mare the the left.
In a sense, the information silos in D.C. create their own low-info group of people you’d think would be mega-info.
Yep…ain’t that the truth. Impression management…get the masses to think the cultivated low-info group are high-informed. You have the typical audience for The View, Gutfeld!, and Clay & Buck listeners. Clay and Buck’s banter for more than an hour today on favorite Disney films was awful. It was either that or silence as I was on the road. I should have chosen silence.
I’ve been researching and teaching this stuff for 40 years and I never thought things would devolve like they have. Oh, to have believable folks like Cronkite and Rather…hold on, they were just as bad.
“Damage control”?…ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY!
This said, I also believe he’s working both sides of this situation. He’s trying to return public trust to Twitter while sending the message to USG that he still has leverage on them for what he is holding on to & has not released.
I believe what Elon has disclosed thus far but remain highly skeptical that he is not disclosing the full spectrum of issues.
Each case is equally problematic in that it’s still just a player playing the game at the expense of the American people
Musk said that only 20% of the original Twitter employees when he bought it are still there. This can mean that the three letter agencies can alter Twitter from their HQs, but they got to pay their salaries.
Twitterfiles’ full stop brake on Covid-19 mirrors Tucker Carlson’s J6 video coverage blackout.
No published reasons given, similar content, but being causally related is a different question.
The similarity of the content is the corruption both began to expose.
This is exactly the kind of analysis we need of media messages these days. Look for narrative anomalies, i.e., sharp turns in narrative evolution or trajectory that aren’t adequately accounted for within the narrative. Those are good signs that there is a ‘glitch in the Matrix’. But don’t worry: Karinne Jean-Pierre or Mark Levin will be along shortly with believable backstops. Well, Levin maybe.
Let’s suppose the subsidy and IC control are still in place. Why then did Musk reveal the extent of previous IC control? He could have cleaned out the deadwood and stopped censoring conservatives and let it go at that.
Elon Musk is socially on the left. Elon did not buy Twitter to ‘own the libs’ as some people are want to believe. Elon had a specific motive for buying Twitter that did not involve politics or Government control.
Elon bought Twitter to use the recorded interactive convesations to train his Artificial Intelligence algorithms. The added baggage of ‘Jack Magic Coffee Shop’ did not become an issue for him until after the purchase.
“Elon bought Twitter to use the recorded interactive convesations to train his Artificial Intelligence algorithms.”
Can you provide any evidence at all for this statement?
Maybe he’s interested in acquiring Dominion and Smartmatic for future a.i programs. Then he can truly rule the planet.
Stormy, exactly. He stated that Paige wanted to create a digital God and that the original AI company (non-profit) changed to profit. EM got punked and Twitter was the only ‘asset’ left from which to draw all of ‘data’ needed to approximate human intelligence. At one point in the interview he recognized that “….there was something wrong…, but didn’t know its source.
His go to answer was a working group to establish rules with a comment period before their adoption. He did not demand a Magna Carta Movement first.
Equally disturbing was his response to the question about a soul….”maybe it is an illusion….” He could not support a religious foundation to our existence.
Welcome to hell people.
“Twitter was the only ‘asset’ left from which to draw all of ‘data’ needed to approximate human intelligence.”
Hmmm. That would explain why he welcomes conservatives back, in order to have more complete data.
‘ ”maybe it is an illusion….” He could not support a religious foundation to our existence.’
At least he admits that his feeling could be wrong. Beware of anyone who can’t admit that.
JR, thanks for the thought.
I interpreted his response as evading a higher power and that our view of a soul is an illusion, leaving he and Paige to do what they will with AI. He alluded to this in the second interview when he acknowledged that the problem arises when the human intelligence is surpassed by the machine intelligence and we arrive here, where manipulation for ‘control’ and ‘power’ are acceptable because we can’t know there is a ‘soul’ read higher power as a governor (regulator).
[in very lay terms] We cannot ‘know’ as per the Heisenberg uncertainty principle about our ‘existence,'(soul) but I believe that the square root of -1 proves God and a soul, because it is the imaginary number “i.” Without the imaginary number, the electromagnetic formulae to solve the applied physical challenges don’t ‘work.’
I share the conclusion of many here, that there is a very nasty (evil) battle raging for ‘power’ and ‘control’ through AI, read-digital currency, social credit, censorship and Elon is behind the curve and beholden to DS/IC.
He certainly is no Dorothy (or her dog) pulling back the curtain for all to really ‘see.’
Like we used to say on the docks. “I don’t trust nobody”Unfortunately I think that’s exactly how THEY want it
Once you purchase a crime scene you can’t UNSEE THE CRIME, right Elon! 🤔
Elon Musk is in the same position nearly every C-Level running a US corporation is: completely beholden to the government regulatory apparatus to survive. If agencies want access to any part of your business, you best let them have it or the full-force of the US government will be upon your company and upon you personally.
I don’t do social media and never have, but I have always believed that every electronic communication was being monitored in some way and in a personally identifiable way. Totally unconstitutional but who is gonna stop them? They are Hilter’s SS.
You can rest assured they monitor this site directly and likely know who (by name) is posting what.
More dangerous is the censoring of content. People can just be called names and easily disregarded. Trying to tell a liberal anything outside their scope of trusted influence gets put in the trash bin of their mind, only to be accepted when it’s normalized and taken out of context enough for them to accept it by some MSM boob they trust, not a kook from CTH or even Fox News, which they’ve been mind controlled not to trust.
I don’t trust Fox News because they are manipulators. Good liars tell half truths. Fox is controlled opposition and nothing more.
Agree; given the files not released, the curating of files that were released, the reliance on government (US, and Chinese) approval to conduct his businesses (Space-X, Tesla in China), seems apparent that Mr. Musk is (the temporary) face of damage control.
When those players in the big game don’t need him as their face anymore, easy enough to figure out those same powers will find another one; at least, that seems to be how these things work.
“The fact that Taibbi would turn away from the lucrative interests, says something positive about his compass heading.”
I think it was likely that Matt was “made an offer that he couldn’t refuse”, perhaps in the style of a classic crazy-kooky-spooky-scary letters glued to paper letter, and wisely chose option A:
A – “You can live if you shut up”
vs option –
B – “You will die if you don’t shut up”
Four things I knew before last night (and I didn’t watch):
–Twitter is a steaming pile
–Musk is a modern-day, high tech PT Barnum, living large off the gubmint and taxpayers
–Tucker hosts a TV show
–The gubmint surveilles everyone
This is really getting old! The Anti-Musk rhetoric that is.
I have been a reader and a fan of the treehouse since it’s inception and have never commented before.
But this is getting ridiculous.
So let me say my two cents.
That Man (Elon Musk) has done more to expose the deep state and turn the NPC’s with his purchase of Twitter than any other person could.
I applaud him and all that he is doing. I could care less who he has supported or who he intends to support.
Whoever is president is not going to save us…. FREE SPEECH WILL…. as it will ignite the brush fire of FREEDOM in many hearts and minds…. Bravo Elon Musk! (John Galt?)
This illustrates why you need a thorough, hard nosed, no nonsense team. Iconic billionaires like Trump and Musk can fight the system more or less as individuals and make varying degrees of progress inflicting wounds.
But they are facing armies of swamp creatures and aggressive hostile government enemies. Who know every dirty trick and have no restraints.
Unfortunately the dynamics of power handicap anyone trying to fight the system on a large scale.
Trump had/has the masses. But we see how the powers that be have treated him. And he never had the type of close knit team that really were in sync with him and/or cunning enough.
Musk is a bit different because he’s about ego, money and prestige. Plus a lasting legacy as an innovator. Though he does have a streak of independent thinking. It seems that he too was more or less an isolated individual fighting a segment of the system.
A real movement that can’t be perverted, compromised or infiltrated may be the only way to change the status quo. But good luck now with totalitarianism and censorship increasing everywhere.
Musk needs and is intertwined with the government because of his businesses/projects. In return he is doing a limited hang-out regarding surveillance and censorship to stay in good with TPTB.
Quid pro quo. Diplomacy.
That’s one reason I trust Trump. He is self funding.
I am going with Shellenberger on this and think Musk has helped a great deal. He may not be perfect but he is still a hero to me.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/31/twitter-will-never-stop-censoring-conservatives-its-broken-beyond-repair/
Then please explain his stance on Disney vs DeSantis.
Mr. Rudd. You are the one who keeps bringing that up so why don’t you enlighten us all?
Oh I can explain it. It’s very simple, as Trump laid out.
Every contract struck that is to take over another operation has clauses about what can and cannot be done from the day the contract is signed until the formal takeover. It’s to prevent poison pills from being used in the interim.
The Florida Legislature and DeSantis had none of that language in their legislation. Hence the Reedy Creek Improvement District/Disney voted on things that can only be undone when King Charles III heirs die.
DeSantis signed defective legislation. He’s not a businessman and likely didn’t know or didn’t care. It gave him bragging rights, up until it blew up in his face.
DeSantis and the FL Legislature allowed themselves to be outmaneuvered.
Would you want DeSantis to run the country knowing that? Would you want him renegotiating NAFTA like Trump did?
No thanks, DeSantis is a fool.
Good explanation, thanks. My good feelings about Trump are restored.
What if we STOP using Twitler, Facebook, Instagram, tiktok? At least young people would stop being obese and go outside once and while and not die in crosswalks while looking down at their phones while young drivers run them over while looking at cellphones…
Yes , many posters here picked up on that vibe / impression / observation and Yes he is riding a Tiger and that Tiger IS the IC . So whether he fully realized that before buying is irrelevant -Once on , Tiger riding is not something you can easily dismount from safely …
So, in your view, it’s okay to ride the Tiger as long as YOU are safe, and if it screws everyone else, well then . . . Meh, who cares? At least YOU’RE safe!
In my view, that’s the definition of a COWARD!
Musk isn’t stupid. You must remember that. He could be about positioning himself as the tech-guru for the eGOV republican glglobalists. I suspect he suspects there a reversal by 2024 voters such that Ron DeSanctimous will become president.
Tech-guru.. More like Technocracy Overlord, there’s a point at which governments will become irrelevant, even more than we can possibly imagine
Wasn’t Elon accused some time back of using offshore servers in Europe for Gamma manipulation of options on Tesla stock? This supposedly led to massive price increases for little cost, because, there was huge leverage involved.
In essence due to regulation market makers have to hold x amount when y happens or there are massive legal consequences from the govt.
And, that is what led him to become worth at the time, say, a quarter of a trillion?
instead of “And it’s gone!” (think South Park), rather, “And it’s there.”
Completely fabricated valuation. That would make it easy to buy a worthless paper fraud such as Jack’s magic coffee shop.
And, the blind man (govt.) didn’t see the crime as his paycheck (intel) depended on it.
A nice cozy bunch, No?
I believe the article came from Zerohedge some time back. Afterwards, crickets.
That said I like Elon. He is the ultimate huckster/3 ring circus leader.
Tucker Carlson isnt talking about the stuff people say he talks about again.
As CTH has said for several years, a financial agreement in the background of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop just made sense. The platform held/holds a value to the U.S. govt, so a subsidy in operations for sustainability of the influence seemed obviously motivated.
Any thoughts on MSNBC and CNN receiving subsidies?
What are all these lies meant to stop? They are meant to stop the American people understanding that American institutions are currently waging war on them, because the American People might read the Declaration of Independence and realize that when the compact between government and governed has been broken, the remedy is force.
But the people are figuring it out. At least those among the living are…
If you read thru the comments on the Tucker Interview yesterday,
Many Treepers picked this
story apart like a Christmas
Turkey for a Family of 15
During the depression!
Oldjunkfixer: Burp!
Thank you Sundance.
“guileless” – all an act.
Elon Musk would not be Elon Musk if he was not a favored child of the elites. Fullstop.
Thanks to Sundance, I cannot unsee the strings everywhere I look.
I like to call him “Elon Mush” because of the incoherence between what he says he believes in and what it appears he is actually doing.
I’m not buying it. CTH weaves these deep dive, facts behind the facts, secret information, tales, even though all the pieces won’t fit together.
So, we’re to believe the all powerful intelligence community let all this truth come out they’re crooks, then decided to real Musk in? Makes no sense.
This dump of govt’s illegal thought policing is second only to Snowden’s reality dump.
We all knew the govt. had it’s thumb on the scale. What we didn’t know was that govt’s control of media content was/is absolute and omnipotent.
They wanted the US citizenry to know that?
That makes no sense either.
I’m not saying I know the whole truth, I’m saying CTH doesn’t either.
They just want you to think they know. Stringing the readers along, and going to the bank.
Think. If the facts don’t add up, it’s common sense. It’s a made up fairy tale.
We need truth. There’s no more truth here than at the WSJ, or the NYT.
If Twitter was losing traction, and, after much govt. time and investment it needed to be rebranded would that not seem plausible?
DeSoros is tanking in the polls. Musk had to subtly promote his man.
And. …He tweeted the other night that rna is basically useful for example in cancer treatments. A lot of people were ticked off.
RNA is inflammatory as per the shot inventor Dr Kariko. And what about shedding to others??!!! How can Musk ignore that?
Musk is playing us all! He’s a globalist but playing all sides. Don’t fall for his lies.
This is the kind of info that makes me delete all my Twitter posts and likes. I know I could just refrain from liking and posting but I just don’t seem able. People think I’m a bot as it is: few posts (none right now) and few followers. Actually I’ve written thousands of posts, I just delete them every month or so. Tweets are like newspaper, only useful for a couple of days. After that I see no upside to keeping them. Can big brother still find them? I’m sure, but why would they care about a bot?
Warning – this song is very dark, very disturbing, and VERY profane, but the warning is also very clear! There IS evil in the world and, at this time, it is being allowed limited access to humanity. I would suggest that Mr. Musk might want to choose wisely, because eventually, the time for choosing will be gone!
No, thanks! I can get the same message from the Bible, which is not dark, disturbing, or profane. And, yes, Musk and anyone else who discounts God better heed His voice and respond to Him before it’s too late!
I want to know the real reason why he bought Twitter.
How many other big corporations are run by the CIA?
We were always told the lie that America was a capitalist nation.
No. Our big corporations are run by the government, just like in China. Maybe (?) not as directly, but definitely indirectly, through government funding and government contracts and the threat of an FBI visit.
Same with most churches, sorry to say, as we saw during the lockdowns of religious services. Government controlled religion.
Oh look, another one . . .
Who is CEO of Anheuser-Busch? All-American boss, 46, of under-fire Bud Light earns $12M a year, dropped out of college to join the Marines, worked for the CIA . . .
Oh look another one . . . In May of 1999, Al Gore told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “During my service in the U.S. Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”
The internet was an extension of the military industrial complex, developed with heavy DOD funding at universities such as Carnegie Mellon, where they have also been developing war robots for decades now.
It’s not a free market society. China has a “stock market,” too, just like us.
Oh look . . . The unprecedented rally of GameStop stock, propelled largely by retail investors, faced a new hurdle Thursday after trading platforms including Robinhood restricted users from purchasing shares.
Yes. That’s NOT AT ALL what happens in a “capitalist society.” That’s our system, where stock trading is stopped when the small investor is winning.
We live in an “information regime” of pervasive mind control.
I just watched the Zapruder film again. President Kennedy’s head flings backward, as required by the laws of physics, when he is SHOT FROM THE FRONT. So, it wasn’t Lee Harvey Oswald from behind in a high window. And yet, when I saw this film originally, I never noticed that. For years, I scoffed at people who said he was shot from the grassy knoll, that it was a CIA kill. I was a true believer, a zombie who believed what the tv told me, even when I SAW President Kennedy’s head fling backwards.
So, I have sympathy for the zombies who took the experimental injection. I was a zombie, too.
“That’s our system, where stock trading is stopped when the small investor is winning.”
And voting is stopped when the wrong guy is winning.
I think Bannon is on to him too.