Is Elon Musk Nuts?
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UPDATED: Thursday, September 3, 2026 02:05
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How Musk threatens America’s national security, and what must be done
Fuck off, Robert "Third" Reich.
You guys are fuckin' goofballs.
Elon Musk saved free speech online. You're all just still butthurt that Twitter isn't an Alt-Left disinformation playground anymore.
Your censorship is not welcome here. If you don't like that, might I suggest that you move to one of the countries that we're going to be deporting all the illegals to and see if you like it better over there. You won't be missed.
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All That Twitters | Who Owns a Piece of Elon Musk?
By Jacob Silverman | September 26, 2024
https://thebaffler.com/latest/all-that-twitters-silverman
It cost $44 billion for Elon Musk to buy Twitter—a transaction that he initiated, then tried to back out of, before acceding under legal pressure. It was a costly acquisition, highly leveraged. The money was cobbled together from $20 billion in Musk’s assets, $13 billion in loans from big banks (which now can’t move them off their books), $6 billion in loans to Musk himself, and more than $7 billion in commitments from investors who would be shareholders of the new private enterprise.
In a May 2022 SEC filing, Musk listed a number of his planned Twitter co-investors and their equity stakes, so we had some idea who was helping him buy the company. Other reporting—including a public show of support from Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal and text messages produced for a Delaware court that revealed a $1 billion commitment from billionaire tech luminary Larry Ellison—helped fill in the picture. But once Twitter went private that October and Musk set about slashing and burning the divisions of the company that offended him, there was no definitive list of its shareholders, or the names of the trusts, funds, LLCs, and other corporate entities holding their shares.
This August, a federal judge ruled in favor of a motion filed on my behalf by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to unseal a list of shareholders that had been filed by the company, since renamed X, under seal as part of one of the many civil lawsuits that it faces in the wake of Musk’s disastrous turn at the helm. We now have a complete list—dated April 2023—of who helped Musk acquire Twitter. I’ve argued that this list is important for a number of reasons, but here’s just one: according to the Washington Post, anyone who invested more than $250 million received special access to sensitive data about the company and its users. Who pitched in that much? Saudi Arabia, Qatar, a mysterious UAE-based venture capital firm, a lawless crypto exchange, and CIA contractor Ellison. I’m sure they’re happy with their access. What follows is a rough taxonomy of X shareholders—a half-serious attempt to categorize and account for the moneymen helping boost Musk Inc. It takes a lot of cash to prop up an oligarch, and some of it comes from unsavory sources.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is an alleged horse enthusiast and compulsive shitposter who was one of several executive producers on the Hollywood film Thank You for Smoking. He is also the chief technology officer and executive chairman of X and its majority owner through the Elon Musk Revocable Trust, dated July 22, 2003.
Friends of Elon
Afshar Partners, LP
Omead Afshar is a Musk loyalist and fixer. As a Tesla executive, he was investigated internally for accounting issues related to the order of “a special type of glass,” possibly for Musk’s personal use. (We’ve all done it.) He was later parachuted into a high-level position at SpaceX overseeing the Starship deep-space rocket program.
Dayton Family Enterprises, LLC and Dayton Family Investments, LLC Sky Dayton is a tech investor and the founder of Earthlink, a formerly massive dotcom-era dial-up internet service provider that gobbled up smaller tech companies and pivoted to reselling their internet services under its own brand before being acquired by a private equity firm. My ninety-five-year-old relative still pays a monthly fee for an Earthlink email address—just the email address—that she can no longer access but can’t cancel. Congratulations to Sky Dayton.
Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust Larry Ellison is the eighty-year-old founder of Oracle. Larry Ellison started his business with help from the CIA and is the second richest person in the world after Elon Musk. Larry Ellison owns the Hawaiian island of Lanai, where he invited Musk to come cleanse himself of drugs. Larry Ellison strategized about how to overturn the 2020 election. Larry Ellison promises a world where “citizens will
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Its funny, I was just wondering where we would be today, if Musk hadn't sprung Twitter from our deepstate's clutches.
But in SECOND'S upside down world, Musk is a techonfascist because he broke Twitter free of our government censorship machine, and allowed more free speech.
Oh, BTW ... rich people invest in acquisitions? Wow. Color me shocked. Not.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Quote:I guess you missed this part where Musk ruins the business: Fidelity bought pieces of X for more than twenty different funds, an incredible show of faith in Musk’s over-leveraged buyout. It’s since marked down its X holdings more than 71 percent, reflecting the emerging belief that, with Musk’s chaotic management and his enormous debt obligations, this was one of the worst takeover deals in tech history.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Its funny, I was just wondering where we would be today, if Musk hadn't sprung Twitter from our deepstate's clutches.
But in SECOND'S upside down world, Musk is a techonfascist because he broke Twitter free of our government censorship machine, and allowed more free speech.
Oh, BTW ... rich people invest in acquisitions? Wow. Color me shocked. Not.
The previous management of Twitter kept the Nazis off of Twitter. Since Musk is a Nazi, he sued advertisers who did not want to be associated with Musk's political beliefs:
Elon Musk Is Mad Advertisers Listened to His Request to “Go F— Yourself”
Fortune 500 companies are not, uh, woke.
https://slate.com/business/2024/08/elon-musk-sues-advertisers-ads-fund
ing-sales-x-twitter.html
Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, which made almost all of its money on ads, was bad business from the start. Musk campaigned to buy the company on a platform of restoring “free speech” for all users, which meant rolling back the content rules and enforcement procedures that the old guard had put in place to both keep advertisers happy and make sure Twitter wasn’t a cesspool of hate speech and misinformation.
Immediately after taking control of Twitter, Musk began removing content rules and allowed swarms of formerly banned individuals back on the site, including Nazis . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yes, Musk makes a terrible businessman. He was bought out from PayPal, which he founded, bc of his chaotic influence. That is between him and his investors, don't you think?
However, one thing the article fails to mention is that Twitter significantly overstated its subscriber base, which was inflated by bots and fake accounts, which inflated its purchase price. When Musk found out the truth, he attempted to back out, but was forced to pay for a fraudulently portrayed business.
Another thing that the article doesn't describe: WTF is this lawsuit about? Filed by
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“Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press“
If they're really for press freedom, I can't imagine they have standing.
Sounds like just more deep state harassment.
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Second and the cult he belongs to does not care about anything else surrounding Musk, whatsoever. All they want to do is tear him down. They'd be happy if somebody started taking shots at him too. By any means necessary.
Elon saved this country from the people who own MSNBC and NYT and thought they had the entire internet locked down too.
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Rogan: First Amendment In Danger If Harris And Walz Win
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/27/rogan_first_amendme
nt_in_danger_if_harris_and_walz_win.html
He's also suing the Harris campaign for going around and telling everyone that Rogan endorsed her. Using, you guessed it, out of context clips taken from his podcast.
Fucking Democrats never stop Democrating. The party of cancer.
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Elon Musk fears for the future of the republic
By Kevin Drum | September 30, 2024 – 2:34 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/elon-musk-fears-for-the-future-of-the-republ
ic/
Elon Musk went nuts a few years ago. Nobody knows quite why, but it seems to have been brought on by frustration with California business rules; his dealings with unions; and liberals making fun of him. Since then he's become obsessed with the "woke mind virus," childbirth rates, and illegal immigrants voting for Democrats. The latter has produced a tsunami of tweets and retweets like this one:
Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!
Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast…
More at https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1840409051357696324
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 29, 2024
This particular tweet is a sober-minded graduate thesis compared to most of them, but it lays out the argument in simple terms:
1. Democrats are deliberately opening the border to an army of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.
2. ???
3. They will all vote for Democrats and democracy will be over.
The magic in the middle is that somehow all these illegal immigrants become citizens and start voting in large numbers. How? That's something of a mystery, since even the most liberal immigration legislation requires a waiting period of 10-20 years for citizenship. The politician who risks his career over a possible advantage a decade away hasn't been born. Most of them think of the "long term" as next year.
Want more? Virtually all naturalized citizens have been in the country for many years and almost none of them arrived illegally. And anyway, of those who did most aren't even big fans of Democrats. A KFF poll suggests that among immigrants who are "likely undocumented," only 18% say the Democratic Party represents their views. This is not the stuff of landslides.
Musk seems like he's too smart to believe his own nonsensical tweets. Does he, really? Or is it all an act? But if so, why? What's the endgame? Quicker FAA approval for his rocket launches? Starlink expansion into the hinterlands? Letters patent declaring him Emperor of Mars?
Or is he just nuts?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Elon Musk fears for the future of the republic
Kevin Drum is just salty that he only has one fan and Elon Musk has millions of followers.
Get fucked Kevin.
ALL of the illegals and their illegal children will be removed.
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Quote:You never shout about How To Remove Illegals. Will it be fast and cheap, done in months? May I suggest secret concentration camps, gas chambers and crematoriums as the fastest and cheapest way for Trump to do this. Or, he could slowly build prisons to hold 30 million illegals until their trials in tens of thousands of courtrooms across America. Then Trump negotiates with other countries to accept Trump's illegal 30 million. There might not be a place for all those illegals in another country. For example, no country wants the Palestinians that Israel wishes to deport. Well, the Israelis can't do crematoriums because of history, but for Americans crematoriums are a final solution to the illegal alien problem.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Elon Musk fears for the future of the republic
Kevin Drum is just salty that he only has one fan and Elon Musk has millions of followers.
Get fucked Kevin.
ALL of the illegals and their illegal children will be removed.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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