Elon Musk Poised To Take Over Twitter
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NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the chief executive of Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has called his "best and final" offer for the social media company, people familiar with the matter said.
Twitter may announce the $54.20-per-share deal later on Monday once its board has met to recommend the transaction to Twitter shareholders, the sources said. It is always possible that the deal collapses at the last minute, the sources added.
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Elon Musk , who seems more like a Bond villain than a good guy, is expected to acquire ownership of twitter in the near future.
What are the odds he lets Trump back on?
WOW!
The free exchange of ideas and opinions. What a concept! With fair moderation and little political bias
Why shouldn't Trump be allowed to return?
Already there, what you will gain is once again the free exchange of falsehoods and conspiracy theories. All so Trump can restart his campaign of lies in preparation of 2024.
The Dems spout lies, falsehoods, and conspiracy theories on a daily basis.
But those are different; those are for our own good. The ends justify the means; so long as it is the left's ends and means.
Not even close. If lying was enough to get you kicked off twitter then Jen Psaki, anyone that says Putins gas hike, anyone that says CRT is not being taught in schools, anyone that says there is no border crisis, anyone that said inflation was transitory, etc., etc., etc. would also be kicked off twitter
And when all added up, don't even constitute a fraction of the number of lies tweeted by Trump each day.
Doesn't matter to me one way or another as I'm not on Twitter and won't be in the future, have no need to be on it.
But if Twitter wants to proclaim themselves as a public town square then it seems to me they should allow everybody in. Fair moderation is a good thing, allowing personal bias to dictate who should be banned is not.
Twitter is not special. Sell while you can!
Do you know how many times Trump lied ,ON TWITTER ,WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ? (thousands)
Why would anyone support the return of that person?
What about....
all the lies from Biden and the Democrats? Why do you support that?
Why would ANYONE expect to get the truth on Social Media? Who the fuck is that stupid to believe everything they read on the internet or social media?
I can't tell you how many times Trump lied on Twitter because as I told you, I'm not on Twitter. I also cannot tell you how many times other people have lied on Twitter, again for the same reason.
Question, why do you work so hard to continue to hammer Trump? Do you have a messiah complex and feel that you must save everybody?
I gather you are blase about a deranged president of the United States lying thousands of times on the worlds pre-eminent public messaging venue. [deleted]
JR asked you a question and you leap to a diversion.
Politicians lying to the public is a fundamental problem with government worldwide and historically. And while almost every politician lies (almost by necessity nowadays) there are levels of lying. Trump is demonstrably one of the most prolific liars, if not THE most prolific liar, of our times. He is on the extreme end of the liar scale. Condoleeza Rice, for example, is on the opposite side of that scale.
Why would anyone support the return of arguably the most extreme liar of our times to the office of PotUS?
Because he "owns the libs" , or so they believe.
TiG, you are a Trump hater. The Constitution says lies and even hate speech are free speech and btw your man Biden has lied more than anyone. Twitter has allowed the worst kind of dictators/murderous regimes to use it's site, but a former President had his account closed.
Why would anyone support the return of arguably the most extreme liar of our times to the office of PotUS?
PROVE IT!
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You are projecting
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There was a guy , whose name escapes me at the moment, who had the job of tracking Trump's lies for a Canadian newspaper, the Toronto Star. Every so often he would publish a list of trump's most recent lies, and go into detail as to why they were lies . Eventually the list grew to the tens of thousands.
Your contention that it cant be proven that Trump is the biggest liar of all presidents is childish subservience to the Trump MAGA myth.
That doesn't prove anything.
Every so often he would publish a list of trump's most recent lies, and go into detail as to why they were lies .
If one has to explain how they were lies, they probably weren't.
Eventually the list grew to the tens of thousands.
PROVE IT!
You conflate hatred with clarity on who millions seem to be supporting. Communicating the blatantly obvious reasons why Trump should not be supported as the leader of the GOP and potential candidate is objective analysis communicated to some who are blinded by partisanship. Thinking 'criticism' = 'hatred' is naïve.
Biden is not 'my man'. That is the second time you have made up a fact. Buy a vowel.
Biden certainly has his share of lies. For you to think he (anyone, really) holds a candle to the perpetual lying of Trump just illustrates partisan blindness IMO.
Yes. So other than expressing your disagreement, what point are you trying to make?
Prove a question?:
The word 'arguably' is an extremely obvious sign that this is a hypothetical question, not a claim of certainty. There is no burden of proof here. The question is why anyone would support such a person.
Your non-answer deflection is an answer.
Use your brain. Every reader of that information was not necessarily up on the specifics of all the things Trump lied about. Of course there were times when the specifics of the truth had to be "explained" to some people.
Oh dear, did I ruffle someone's beard?
Every reader of that information was not necessarily up on the specifics of all the things Trump lied about. Of course there were times when the specifics of the truth had to be "explained" to some people.
You see John, leftist news anchors and pundits have repeated lies about Donald Trump and race so often that even those saying it begin to believe it.
Like when Trump said “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press” and it was twisted to Russia go hack Hillary's e-mails.
Or when Trump said “Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
And that was twisted into Trump calling Nazis fine people.
I'll leave it to the rest of you: WHO DID THE LYING?
You can feel what ever the fuck you want because your words are just wind. As I said, why would anybody go to any social media format including Twitter and believe what they are told without verification? If you need to feel sorry for anybody you really should feel sorry for yourself as you do have a messiah complex with this. There is so much more going on in the world and all you seem to be able to focus on is Trump.
But blase? I can take that a step further in that I just don't care about Trump on any platform. I don't search things out to follow him, I really don't care. But if it makes you feel better about your life by all means continue to howl at the sky.
But, you seem to be blase about Twitter allowing murderers and thugs and dictators on the platform but only seem to be against some Republicans. Why is that?
Do you want to debate me on who was behind the "Unite The Right rally" in Charlottesville ? I'll be happy to.
The rally was promoted and conducted by white supremacists. The person who applied for and received a permit from the city to demonstrate in that park that day was a white supremacist. It was all over local media that the rally was a gathering of white supremacists. And yet Trump makes the false equivalence of "fine people on both sides." How much of a fricking moron is he? Or maybe he was just lying yet again. Take your pick.
I focus on a lot of things. It is your obsession to presume that all people do is talk about Trump. You are probably embarrassed that your political beliefs are so connected with the party that created this moron.
The correct equivalence would have been "criminals on both sides".
Couldn't prove it to me based on what I see on this board. All I see from you in almost every post is you bitching about Trump or you bringing Trump into the discussion.
My obsession? Don't embarrass yourself. While you continue to believe that my political beliefs are in line with the Republican Party you continue to be wrong.
Perhaps I was a bit harsh. I guess that's what happens when we conflate personalities with policies and the policies that have been in effect since Jan 2021 have devastated this country.
You might want to direct that question to CNN and MSNBC. Donald coming back may be the only chance they have to stay in business.
That sounds alot like "It is OK when we do it because we only tell little lies".
Then you are inventing instead of reading.
And guess what, there are laws that limit what free speech can do.
He's only a good guy when he's making $80,000 electric cars /S
What are the odds he lets Trump back on?
100%
$43 billion.....
Huge deal with not altogether insignificant ramifications on free speech....
And your first and only concern is about Trump.
That's utterly hilarious.
Doesnt mean a thing to me.
Possibly, if Musk and his Twitter team decide to let the dregs of society, assorted demented social misfits such as Q Anon and election deniers back on to spew their toxic bilge.
Where did I say it is my first and only concern? In fact I am not concerned at all. Trump already has all the publicity and influence he needs to try and ruin this country. He goes on Fox about once a week , holds rallies every couple weeks, and puts out a daily press release.
Stop trying to pigeonhole people. You are not good at it.
Of course not. It's fact and not feeling.
Riiiiight. Only JohnRussell approved toxic bilge should be permitted.....
First comment, no other concerns noted.
This get more hilarious with every post.
If you say so. And you know all this.....why....exactly?
You don't need my help for that.
And you are?
Lol ..... I wonder.
Is there enough room in the TDS triggered mind to include free rent for Elon Musk as well? I say yes but time will tell.
Only temporarily ! The truth is they secretly want Trump back on Twitter, the vast majority of his followers were Democrats looking for something to pretend to be offended about. And Trump always delivers !
I bet he finally agreed to provide upper management with Golden Parachutes, what's a couple hundred million one way or the other when you're paying 43 billion. Probably cheaper than fighting them.
Yes, and Netflix just lost 35% of its stock value. The next best new thing is always just around the corner and today's hot tips are next year's America Online!
Now, when the Republicans control Congress again they need to look into any unfair and illegal policies of Facebook, Google, and You Tube
I don’t really have an opinion on musk, but it hardly seems possible he could make Twitter worse.
what’s really amusing is seeing the same people who responded to conservative issues with bias with brusque dismissal of “it’s a private company, and “build your own platform,”,absolutely freaking out about it being a “threat to democracy” that musk will own Twitter.
Liberals seem to believe if they need to censor all dissenting views to “win” consistently. Maybe they should concentrate on winning the battle of ideas instead.
I am a liberal and I couldnt care less if Musk takes over Twitter, although I doubt if it is a "good thing" to have the worlds richest person controlling the major venue for instantaneous public communication.
Crazy ass far right wingers get their message out , with or without twitter.
I'm sure man of the people Jeff Bezos will keep him honest with his major venue for public communication. .
She isn't wrong. The melt down is already occurring and the deal isn't even closed yet.
Good, let her grease the wheels for her removal from Congress. She is almost as much a pathological liar as her idol and will not be able to control herself.
Which....lets' be honest....doesn't happen very often.
I can't wait to see how many of the snowflakes actually quit. If I was Elon the first things I would do is insist everyone works from the office and get rid of Twitters monthly "day of rest". It would be a good way to get rid of some of the dead wood plaguing the company.
This is all about Twitter shareholders jonesing for a big payday. It's always "follow the money".
of course.
It's called free enterprise. The best part may be when Musk gets rid of all those leftist ideologues who somehow got onto the Board.
And I'd love to see Parag Agrawal tossed out on his ass.
That's an acceptable concept. But this is all about greed and ego.
It's what's supposed to happen when one gets a profitable offer. The Board, on the other hand was not made up of business people, nor where they acting in the best interests of stockholders. They were dirty lefties, which is my key demographic!
LOL, your "key demographic" ?? I never saw you as a dirty lefty,.
Call it whatever you want, it's pure avarice in it's most basic form.
“It's called free enterprise.”
Unless you are Disney, then all bets are off.
Yes, those most interested in what I post!
Musktwiteer ... one for all and all for me ... touché!
That's only because he doesn't already own Disney cuz if he did it could be renamed "Muskatwitteer"... Now that Disney has lost 30% of it's value maybe he could scoop them up to? hehe
I expect that Disney is losing value for the same reason that Netflix is, Spring has arrived and after 2+ years it's get out of the basement time!
Annnnnd it's a done deal................
And let the screaming to the sky commence...
Wonder how many people will leave it before any changes are made, simply because of how this has been reported and talked about for the past week....
Also wonder how long it takes for Musk to start making changes so that he can make money from it. I have a hard time believing that he bought it just because he's a swell guy who believes in free speech...
Or does he remake it to break it up and sell it piecemeal to make even more money??? time will tell but I was terrible with waiting around for Christmas as a kid too...
And once again tesla stock took a hit. Down 15 points.
Holy shit!! $15 on a $990.00 stock? I hope he has saved some side cash to survive. LOL
C'mon Ender. Are you even ON Twitter?
I have posted this before. telsa stock owners are getting upset with him and now saying if he takes over twitter, tesla will get neglected.
Breaking it down to one stock is a bad attempt to wash over the fact. tesla is losing millions.
At peak they were $1045+/- in April. You are probably correct about the Stock holders and their panic but it seems to me he has a pretty hands off unless needed attitude while things are humming along. I am sure he has a team set up to handle this acquisition. Most smart business people would.
I see quite a few of his cars here every day so at least here, there is a lot of interest.
I think he has done shit like this before. He had threatened to make tesla private, kinda like he is threatening to do to twitter.
And with the push to go green I would expect more of them to sell each year.
I do find it interesting however, Tesla went public in 2010 and they have never paid out a dividend. With that said however, a $1000 investment back in 2010 would now be worth $150k now.
I have never seen one in real life. Of course he is not very popular in these areas.
They are also taking a hit as another one of his cars had an accident the other day.
It is going to get to the point there are cheaper options than his over priced ones.
I saw one where the "smart summon" feature function ran it into a $3.5million jet. Not a real smart summon. Perhaps it is so smart that it panicked thinking it was going to the principal's office LOL
As I said to Jim, with the push for electric, there will be other options available.
Plus now his what I would call base of customers were mostly Liberal people. He is alienating them.
That was the one I saw. SMH...