My crazy hot take prediction: Musk buys a controlling share % of Twitter, reinstates Trump

[Celerity]

Elon Musk buys 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the largest shareholder

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/04/investing/elon-musk-twitter-stares-stake/index.html


Let us all hope I am dead wrong.

[brooklynite]

1. Emphasis on the "crazy"?

You’re saying Musk is going to spend an additional $40 B for the sake of showing he’s pro-Trump?

[Celerity]

3. or crazy like a

[Achilleaze]

2. TFG's kinky Republican mojo is in the FLATULENT stage

of deterioration.

So no stinkin tweetsy bullhorn is gonna make much of a difference.

The majority of Americans have decided rightly that Republican traitors are an evil batch of skeezy grifting lying a-holes.

So Musky Man can put that up his greedy-ass Republican tailpipe.

[uponit7771]

4. K&R, is Musk kompromat too?

[Celerity]

5. I think he is a libertarian chaos agent with closing in again on $300 billion to play with

[NCDem47]

6. Musk comes off to me like a user too

No allegiance to anyone and you're never quite sure if he is working in good faith. Works all angles to make a buck or amass greater power.

One person's "disruptor" is another person's overlord.

[Lovie777]

7. Musk does not want to pay his fair share of taxes . . .....

GQP majority will ensure that.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Given Musk's railing against Twitter in the past

This is exactly what he'll push for. 9.2% is a lot of votes, but more than that he'll have the ability to persuade other shareholders.

Trump will be back on Twitter before the end of the year. Musk has specifically called out Twitter for banning certain users as being an assault on free speech. Yes, Musk doesn't understand what the constitution says about free speech, but that's the point.

[Beakybird]

9. Musk said Justin Trudeau was as bad as Hitler in a deleted tweet.

He also supported the Canadian trucker convoy. He's a major asshole.

[UTUSN]

10. K&R

[malaise]

12. Elon Musk is a white supremacist from apartheid

South Africa. Expect anything. That is all

[Bleacher Creature]

13. It's a $2.9 billion stake.

It's hard to believe that he did that solely to give Trump the ability to say crazy things on Twitter.

It's a lot easier to believe that he's doing this to help elect people who will lower his taxes, as others have said.

[iemanja]

14. 9.2% isn't a controlling share

51% is. Any changes would need to be approved by the majority of other stockholders, or the board that represents those stockholders.

[Celerity]

15. I never said it was (obviously), please re-read

I am saying my prediction is he DOES (not already has done so) buy a controlling percentage

he has already started down that road by buying the 9.2% (0.8 per cent away from no longer being consider 'passive' by Wall Street), which makes him the single biggest shareholder (again obviously not a controlling share % yet)

If he already had a controlling %, it would not be a a prediction, it would be simply stating a fact.

[Arazi]

17. Iirc Twitter's closest "large" shareholders are instititions and investment groups

They’ll vote for what enhances Twitter’s profits.

#Traitor brings in traffic = $$

I too believe he’ll be allowed back on and fast. Truth Social was always a grift. #Traitor could give a shit if that tanks because he’s back on Twitter

[a kennedy]

16. He wouldn't do that would he??? OMG...... 🤬

[BannonsLiver]

18. Musk is evil incarnate so nothing he does would be a surprise.

He’s basically Hugo Drax at this point.

[Initech]

19. If so that's when I quit.