It's pretty remarkable that Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but acquiring the US government only cost him around $250 million. - ThreadSky

sethcotlar.bsky.social • 1 day ago

It's pretty remarkable that Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter but acquiring the US government only cost him around $250 million.

Reposted from The New York Times

Breaking News: The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said.

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acampina.bsky.social•1 day ago

X is the power HE needs to influence peoples opinion, create fear, hate and the will to accept more and more the change.Nothing works if the people are not well trained in the „right“ direction.

rev-deb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Did he pay or did he leverage credit on his stock for it? He doesn’t pay for anything. Even the original space x contest project prize was funded by others.

kkempen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Huh.

telemark.bsky.social•1 day ago

Highly distressed property

kevinwhitejr.bsky.social•1 day ago

Selling this is going to make him solvent again.

peterburnside.bsky.social•1 day ago

yep. I've always been amazed at how cheaply you can buy American politicians.

sargito.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not really. Politicians are cheap, but social media can affect stock prices. If Musk had a brain cell he'd have realised that the only reason the Saudi lent him the cash to buy twitter is because he would destroy it. And now he has, and Tesla. Because he is a man child, and they all know it.

michael-geste.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a distressed asset.

nursegenius1019.bsky.social•1 day ago

Will he be drug tested before the meeting?

roberttulsa.bsky.social•1 day ago

His best investment. Our worst nightmare.

davidbowman17.bsky.social•1 day ago

experimental22.bsky.social•1 day ago

Will Musk be high on K and wearing sunglasses and wielding a chainsaw when he gets briefed by the Pentagon our most sensitive military planning?

jeffreycpugh.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not sure why we need that massive defense budget if we can be bought for chump change.

merz.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is absolutely going to share the plans with the PRC. He will absolutely commit treason in the most direct sense possible. There is no doubt whatsoever.

merz.bsky.social•1 day ago

And he will do it for TSLA market access.

katwiner.bsky.social•1 day ago

Guess buy and hold?

julicarson.bsky.social•1 day ago

America, since 2016, has proven itself to be an incredibly thirsty, cheap date. So yeah, 250 mill was about the right price.

embracethebald.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, he He paid $44.25 Billion to buy the US Government…

dramaticowl.bsky.social•1 day ago

yes. his purchase of twitter allowed him to control narratives, boost specific voices while suppressing others, and that bought him the us government too

txdcny.bsky.social•1 day ago

elon couldn’t have acquired the us government wo buying twitter, but $44.25B is still pretty cheap

marshaleaton.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the Saudis and Russians helped finance it!

firthermor.bsky.social•1 day ago

Getting the top secret information is a perk for his acquisition. Our adversaries are now looking at paying wholesale prices when they buy our classified information in bulk like Elon.

reganorwegian.bsky.social•1 day ago

And it's been paid back and them some in spades. Everything is so stupid.

reganorwegian.bsky.social•1 day ago

Then*

headdoc35.bsky.social•1 day ago

But her emails….

sethcotlar.bsky.social•1 day ago

And here I thought Trump was a great deal maker. Only $250 million, for the whole US Government?!?! That's like giving it away. Come on Donald, you can do better than that.

samcohen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can he though

adios-democracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

No, he can't. Donald gave away HALF the proceeds of The Art of the Deal to his ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz. A 50/50 split with the ghostwriter was inconceivable prior to Donald himself doing it.

craigynoodlehorn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ooooo, but what if Elon gave Trump some off shore bank account for Trump and hidden away money there?

jaksays.bsky.social•1 day ago

Narrator: Donald couldn't do better than that

cats-n-apples.bsky.social•1 day ago

The rest was write down of his Russian debt

mapablue.bsky.social•1 day ago

and like Twitter, by the time he gets done with theUS gov't it'll hardly be worth 125 mil.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anyway, I'm sure this is fine and does not in any way pose a security risk to the nation. https://www.vox.com/world-politics/404621/elon-musk-china-tesla-trump

webrant.bsky.social•1 day ago

Let's see, sales are down 16% in Country 1 and more than 41% in Country 3...so...

https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social/post/3lku344yi322j

mwyr.es•1 day ago

Musk is a dangeous idiot, but he does have a factory there and had it there for a long time - so it isn't exactly a revelation that he has "ties to China"...

meanjean1234.bsky.social•1 day ago

He just built a another new one.

southernsunyy.bsky.social•1 day ago

China and Russia . Great ☹️

meanjean1234.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hey... don't forget the saudis. They are waiting on the side lines for trump to pay them back.

bskwitter.bsky.social•1 day ago

US will cede Taiwan in exchange for protecting Tesla factories

differentperson.bsky.social•1 day ago

good. tired of sinophobic war fucks pretending like we need to protect the world.

bskwitter.bsky.social•1 day ago

It will be interesting to find out the ramifications; we are well on our way to being a nonplayer

jpdaltonaz.bsky.social•1 day ago

This reads like the plot to a Clancy knockoff. Except in the novel, someone would provide a fake report and wait for intelligence to get confirmation that it had been handed immediately to the Chinese.

dungbeetle.bsky.social•1 day ago

I honestly think he just thinks Elon is the smartest computer person he knows and China is good with computers so we gotta get Elon involved for computer stuff

kate-skiba.bsky.social•1 day ago

Honestly I think that’s 100% it after hearing him talk about how Barron is so good at computer because he can turn it back on.

aguythatknows.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a good thing Tesla (he) doesn't have a GigaFactory in China that could be seized by the government if he doesn't provide intel. or if they just feel like it. Tesla stock go sad trombone.

libtilend.bsky.social•1 day ago

You’re forgetting the stay out of prison part.

billstewart.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hey, that number almost certainly doesn't include the money he spent to buy Twitter and set it on fire.

katiecannon.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3lku3zk2v7c2v

dons.bsky.social•1 day ago

How do you know he didn’t do better? My guess is Musk rented the government for a year at $25 billion. (He was willing to pay 100 but you know—the Art of the Deal.)

daemonsquire.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't think he values it all that highly to begin with.

shawnmaclean.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fart of the deal.

coyote108.bsky.social•1 day ago

The road to Trump/Musk installing an oligarchy, like Putin did in 1990s Russia where the most profitable organisations were dismantled and taken over by tycoons able to take advantage of an increasingly compromised privatisation process and seize control of hugely profitable state enterprises.

graverubber.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wasn’t most of the 44b from investors from Saudi Arabia or whatever?

jocejocejoe.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I mean, technically, I think acquiring the gov't did cost him $44 billion + $250 million.

All part of the plan.

agent139.bsky.social•1 day ago

The one did lead into the other, as a primary pipeline for propaganda

ratingbook.bsky.social•1 day ago

Like everything else Musk has done, he stole that idea from the Adelsons, who were able to maintain the billions of US tax dollars and weaponry sent to Israel for relatively (compared to Musk's) pocket change donated to Donnie. Miriam now lives in the former US embassy in Tel Aviv, too.

greenlightening.bsky.social•1 day ago

And that the US government GAVE that mfer the money he’d later use to buy them out.

libtilend.bsky.social•1 day ago

Where are his other 76 kids?

el-kristy.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤣🤣

davetait.bsky.social•1 day ago

All else aside, I'll bet this is the first time in his life Trump has had an actual buddy -- someone he views as a peer who (he believes) doesn't have a selfish motive. I haven't studied either men (no interest in doing so), but the same may be true of Musk. It's their Butch & Sundance time...

sethcotlar.bsky.social•1 day ago

Or their Bonnie and Apartheid Clyde moment...