Hopefully this finally ends all the bullshit narrative that Musk was ever a good business man or was ever really smart. He wasn't. He was just an ass that was born to a rich family, literally lied and faked it through life until he made it, and got really lucky in life by hitching onto the coattails of actual competent people really early on in his career. He was never competent or innovative. Seeing all the dumbass Elon fans have to come to terms with him being a huge dipshit and just all around asshole all along is pretty fun though.
Consider also that not only is Twitter's much needed employees and workforce diving off the sinking ship at astonishing speed, but Twitter is already in very bad financial trouble...at a time when advertisers are leaving in droves...at a time when it's value is going to tank...at a time when Elon already paid way more than it was actually worth in the first place...at a time when his debt from his borrowing to pay for the acquisition is only going to start growing ever faster than Twitter will be able to make money for him, if it ever does.
What will makes this even more funny is how much Tesla's value is tied up in the hype and cult of personal of Musk (and selling carbon credits) and not really in it's actual worth as a business that produces things. That will also take a hit once the perception of Musk takes a hit, and even that's not considering if Musk did stuff that is really stupid like directly tie up his assets in his other businesses into the purchase of Twitter because if he did it could start a chain reaction death spiral for all of his assets in them.
Remember that he has done this while owning it for only a few weeks,...A FEW WEEKS. Holy shit. This could end up being one of the worst business deals in history. If it fails I don't know if I would even consider it a fleecing of Elon. It would be better described as him getting prison raped.
If somehow Musk doesn't turn things around, part of me hopes all the former employees of Twitter star their own virtually same company and run it out of business. Another part of me hopes that somebody like Jack Dorsey, even if I don't like him either, comes along and manages to buy Twitter back for pennies on the dollar from Musk, with what would essentially be Elon's former money because that would be hilarious. Perhaps even more than that though part of me hopes Twitter goes up in flames, as it's become a cancer upon the world with misinformation and conspiracy theories, and it takes Elon with it.
I just feel sorry for innocent people that need Twitter for their livelihood, which the adult industry is among the most notable of them. I hope an alternative comes along for them.
