Elon Musk buys $3 billion stake (9.2%) in Twitter and is now the platform's largest shareholder
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Anonymous
He’s busy trying to find a compliant sock puppet to run the company with him whispering in their ear. |
Anonymous
Not that PP but I figure he wanted to resign anyway and that’s why he put out the poll. |
Anonymous
His plan all along was to hire a CEO, this changed nothing. He still controls it and will make all the big decisions. Probably good PR to make it look like someone else is in charge, trying to limit the damage to the Tesla brand which has taken a nosedive. |
Anonymous
+1 It’s like when Dan Snyder put his wife in charge of the Commanders. |
Anonymous
True, as the largest stockholder he’ll always be the puppet master. Although as long as he continue to sell Tesla stock to prop up Twitter, Tesla will continue to tank. |
Anonymous
He’s created the perfect storm - as he tries to prop up a failing Twitter by selling/pledging more TSLA shares, he ends up bringing down TSLA. It’s a downward spiral for both companies. The banks can’t sell the junk debt they issued to Musk to buy Twitter. My guess is that Musk installs a caretaker puppet CEO by Jan 1 so the banks can start selling some of the debt to currently nervous investors. If Musk got a reasonable CEO, it would calm down debt investors. As of a month ago, banks can’t even get 60 cents on the dollar for primary placement of Twitter debt. It’s probably even worse now. A caretaker CEO would help get that debt sold. Musk could take over in twelve months once the debt is placed. The guy is an idiot. |
Anonymous
The CEO types tend to not want to be puppets. As such, I'm not sure were he'd find one that would be credible. |
Anonymous
| Still not a word from him about "abiding by" the poll results. |
Anonymous
| I think Snoop Dog should be in charge. |
Anonymous
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So apparently Musk has made some kind of response regarding him losing his poll and stepping down as a result.
Musk replied in a deranged thread by Kim Dotcom wherein Dotcom rants wild claims, without evidence, that the "deep state" has "100k analysts" each allegedly operating 30-40 Twitter accounts all voting against Musk. Never mind that Musk already claimed he got rid of all of the bots and fake accounts. https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1604810383646027776 Farther down in that thread, someone else then says that only Twitter users who paid the $8 should be allowed to vote. Elon apparently agrees and says Twitter will make that change. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604985324505030658 |
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Anonymous
| So Elon wants to charge a poll tax. Sounds about right. |
Anonymous
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He doesn't want to give up control of Twitter because he loves the love from his delusional fanboys and no one who would be competent would consider taking the job because he is guaranteed to make idiotic demands.
The media and others won't leave until one of the alternative sites is scaled up and capable of taking over the function as the breaking news, water-cooler discussion, sports updates, celebrity updates, etc. platform. It's just a matter of time, but in the meantime they are having fun provoking Elon into saying and doing ridiculously stupid shit every day. |