Breitbart, as I just saw:
After a two-week battle against opposition from the platform’s board members, self-declared free speech absolutist Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and currently the richest man in the world, has succeeded in his bid to buy Twitter.
In a press release, the Twitter board announced that they had reached an agreement with the multi-billionaire to sell 100 percent of the company at Musk’s original price of $54.20 per share.
Where does this point?
DEVELOPING.
U/D April 29, Followership jumps per Daily mail:

A chart of followership shifts from the verge:

Breaking: Twitter accepts Musk’s Share offer buyout plan
What does this suggest?
Farah and co at WND:
https://www.wnd.com/2022/04/report-elon-musk-nearing-43-billion-deal-buy-twitter/
Further food for thought. WND is an early, independent, libertarian leaning news site.
KF
And of course, MSNBC:
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/elon-musk-twitter-deal-rcna25869
I saw commentary today that characterises those who do not toe the progressivist line as “nazis.”
KF
F/N: Wikipedia’s admissions on the Reichstag fire incident are worth noting:
Lessons from history.
KF
F/N, Holocaust Museum:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-reichstag-fire
KF
Elon is a full partner in Deepstate, but unlike most rich demons he has occasionally done the right thing. He has a long record of suing people who displease him, but he also protected his factory workers from forced muzzles and vaxes. No other corporate leader had the guts to do that.
We’ll just have to wait and see which side of Elon takes charge.
Well, full marks for the most WordPress key words In an OP. 14? Relevant? Not so much.
[–> a clever quip, but not a sound one. See how one liner dismissiveness works? ED]
Favourite Musk: “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,” Musk tweeted.
Say or think what you want about Musk, one of the American founders might have said much the same thing.
https://twitter.com/grandoldmemes/status/1518602046559113217
I’ve heard Trump will not return to twitter, will be on TruthSocial .
Rage samples https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/04/cry-harder-triggered-leftists-get-rip-twitter-trending-after-reports-of-twitter-sale-to-elon-musk/
More commentary in reaction to Biden Administration announcements https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1518673723322163200
We can hope otherwise but Lord Acton’s warning is still worth bearing in mind:
When this takeover is warmly welcomed by the likes of Mark Levin, Ron de Santis, Greg Abbott, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert you can see which way they think the wind is blowing,
I hope Musk stands by his promise to welcome his critics on Twitter but only time will tell.
And if Dear Leader Trump is returned to power – as is his right according to those who believe he has been anointed by God to lead the country – and then has himself created President-for-life – which would apparently be enthusiastically supported by many here – then it would be only a matter of time before Twitter becomes the online equivalent of the Volkischer Beobachter.
Sorry Ed, I’m not sure you get it. 🙂
JH, toxic side track. The recent rise of censorship was of little concern until grip on power was threatened. Had those who cheered on demonisation, scapegoating and targetting of the despised other been instead concerned for responsible freedom, this development would not have been of significant concern. That is what makes the themes you tried to deride highly relevant, KF
PS, Concerns such as, ” academic freedom agit-prop, opinion manipulation and well-poisoning games Censorship Culture Free Speech Freedom Geo-strategic issues Governance & control vs anarchy Intellectual freedom Lessons of History Media Media Manipulation, Agit-Prop &/or Lawfare Politics/policy and origins issues UD Newswatch highlights “
Sev, where were you when the tide of censorship against and demonisation of the despised other was rising? KF
PS, it seems there is need for a reminder on the Christian theology of the civil magistrate, e.g. first, Rom 13:
These show what a legitimate ruler is, as God’s servant; set apart for the defence of the civil peace of justice; of course informed by first principles of law written into our evident, morally governed but morally struggling nature. Justice being due balance of rights, freedoms, duties, where none can properly claim as a right what compels another to do or uphold wrong. However, a magistrate who turns to injustice instead is subject first to correction then at length removal, with many exemplars. The general election is a solemn assembly with power of removal and reform, and corruption of elections is a particularly wicked act. The Reichstag fire incident amply illustrates.
F/N, Mr Trump’s response https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/25/donald-trump-i-am-not-going-back-to-twitter/
KF
F/N: Some research on turnabout, turnspeech projection:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01461672012711010
21 years ago.
KF
News/8
Let’s hope he stands by that promise.
Has there been a similar commitment from TruthSocial?
If they don’t do the same thing, it will fail.
Including criticism of Trump. People on both sides of the political spectrum get off on ad hominems. But one side is pretty much empty on content that can be justified, similar to here at UD.
Just published:
Muskageddon! Elon Musk, world’s richest man, now owns Twitter
And wants it to be more of a free speech platform. How will that go?
https://mindmatters.ai/2022/04/muskageddon-elon-musk-worlds-richest-man-now-owns-twitter/
It’s almost as if free speech was a brand new idea, like Tesla. Actually, it’s not.
The Hill nails it:
https://thehill.com/opinion/3462948-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-brings-free-speech-into-sharp-focus/
In reality, only repentance, reformation and reconciliation [sometimes involving restitution for harm done] can restore innocence, and restored innocence is never the same as original purity.
HT, News.
KF
PS, As the media are a key means by which the public learns and understands the business of democratic self government, the betrayal of trust by the media and elites including education institutions is misanthropic and anti civilisational. Hence the constellation of strategic issues in the themes tied to this OP. We are at kairos and it will be critical to see whether Twitter expels Musk and returns to business as usual. His apparent taking private looks like he intends to do major and difficult reforms. We can expect that this former darling of climate change thought and policy will be demonised and attacked without regard to the right of innocent reputation or respect for truth. A pattern we have seen all too much of.
Jack supports it.
Jerry, if that is Dorsey who brought in a lot of the censorship and marginalisation, not a good sign. KF
Musk’s Twitter Purchase Fails After 138,000 Board Votes Found Overnight
“ looks more like advocacy. ”
But it’s not?
cf “only looks like it has been designed.”
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Good one, LCD.
Where were they found? In the trunk of a car?
It’s not just Twitter melting down. LoTT is keeping score. Here’s Amazon having problems.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1519029650294378497
My theory – intelligence and mental health are not positively correlated and may actually be somewhat negatively correlated. Hence the mentally unstable get jobs in the digital world and that’s what we see in many cases.
Aside: rumor of massive walkout at Twitter. Did Musk pay $43 billion just to kill it? How soon could it be up and running if such a walkout screwed its operations?
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-twitter-insider-leaks-audio-recording-of-companys-internal-all/
Not the Babylon Bee but could have been
https://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2022/04/canada-to-build-border-wall-demand.html
Trump’s Truth/Social launch – Devon Nunes video a few days ago.
Before Twitter buyout. Wants Truth/Social to be competitor of Twitter. Instagram and Facebook.
https://rumble.com/v124t4w-nunes-truth-social-fully-launched-for-iphone-users.html
Rumble is a competitor to YouTube.
People should also learn about The Cathedral!
Nunes is a Trumpoodle.
Truth/Social just got the ultimate endorsement.
F/N: mirror, mirror on the wall, is this confession by projection?
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/04/27/elizabeth-warren-we-need-big-tech-rules-to-break-elon-musks-stranglehold/
Cognitive dissonance-driven projection can be a useful tool for analysis, especially as an index of self referential absurdity.
KF
PS, one of the things incentivised is inflationary policy, which degrades money across time and artificially pushes up value of assets, which then neatly fits with set number thresholds for taxes, which nearly always lag impacts of inflation by years to decades. This has all sorts of what sweet nanny goat mouth run ‘im belly style policies. Stealing from the future creates a false sense of advantage in the present.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/28/100-facts-elon-musk-owned-twitter-should-now-allow-people-to-say-without-getting-banned/
H’mm, Jack Dorsey tweets:
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1510314535671922689?s=20&t=sJ1P0jo2RxQtgYEUf5HvPA
More:
Note, he sits on the board that tried a poison pill then backed off as from hints legal actions began to rumble like distant but fast approaching thunder.
KF
F/N: J C Wright cites and cleans up Larry Correia — and why isn’t this part of a 24/7 media meltdown expose of insidious censorship:
https://www.scifiwright.com/2022/04/we-knew-the-game-was-rigged/
Its recalibration time. Including, what has been done to UD as an almost trivial footnote.
Far bigger, is what is the actual truth about events of 2020 starting with the pandemic and the dumpster fire known as the US Election?
Will we ever know, short of a certain great white throne of judgement?
KF
PS, a sample comment from Correia’s onward linked:
PPS, another comment:
How much of what has seemingly been going on is a madhouse hall of warped mirrors, Plato’s cave shadow shows, crooked yardsticks decrying what is actually straight and worse?
Elon Musk does not own Twitter. His offer has been approved by the board.
Will it happen? Probably but why is the stock trending lower than offer? Seems like a great way to make instant money.
Jerry, stocks normally fall after an acquisition, likely as such is a radical change with implied jump in risk thus needed risk premium. This is obviously hostile, and that compounds risk. Right now, the astute and insightful, ice water for blood investor is likely thinking the best time to buy is when blood runs in the streets. But that is not the general psychology involved. I am seeing from DM, that a string of conservatives so called have had followerships jump by 1 – 300k, while leading lights of the left have dropped like 10 – 30 k, Musk is the exception and jumped nigh on 3 mill, but he just became a hot property. I don’t think it is really organic, a switch just got flipped. KF
PS, Take DJT Jr as a stand in. Updated OP. Right now I guess next Republican ticket looks like DJT- De Santis.
More on the uncertainty of Musk buyout.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/investors-fret-over-potential-musk-u-turn-44-bln-twitter-buyout-2022-04-27/
So, what people post on social media (or blogs?) will now be prosecuted as matters of “Homeland Security”.
U/D, Further evidence on Twitter follower trends:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/27/23045005/conservative-twitter-follower-boost-musk-acquisition-data
They try to argue the deal isn’t complete and management hasn’t changed but seem to have overlooked the flip the switch in the algorithm effect. (Aka, turn on the light and watch the scramble for dark corners . . .)
Opens in select theaters today. The one in my local area is sold out. On-line streaming begins May 7:
Trailer: https://2000mules.com/
Looks like some nice investigative work: design detection …
“2,000 Mules” is a compelling election integrity whodunit. Visually reminiscent of director Tony Scott’s thriller “Enemy of the State,” this film uses state-of-the-art technology to prove that the 2020 presidential election was stained, if not fully stolen, through the lowest-tech means: stuffed ballot boxes.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/04/29/film-2000-mules-offers-vivid-proof-of-voter-fraud/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGEGMVFADjY6j-ib8YUYuDDAKzGBeAOKLWuCoGSuqA4NM8yeT5R-sbVjQNRmHXQqQAElIp0HdtoaGVGcc4iDAoMwBzdNWWUk3A3H5FkE0Br8kqAnY7s
They will get around some of the investigative techniques in the upcoming up elections. They will instruct everyone to turn off the tracking on their phones. Hard to do but I am sure they know how.
They immediately went to plastic gloves in Georgia for the senate elections after they saw that finger prints were being taken in Arizona at the drop boxes.
Apparently is was incredibly well organized and probably paid for by Zuckerberg. What a half billion Zuck bucks can do.
We are about to see what 44 Billion Musk bucks can do, looks like.
Here is something that Twitter is really good at, publishing individuals who have done hours of work compiling information. This is about the cost to Russia of their invasion of Ukraine.
So far about $34 billion. They expected it would be $1 billion and over in 3 days.
Next Monday is the biggest day of year for Russia. It’s their yearly anniversary celebration of the defeat of Germany. They had planned to include their war with Ukraine in the celebration.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520463608135749634.html
🙂 Cnn type of info? It’s called disinfo.
US increased with 43% import of oil from Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjFZjt3cF0
Jerry, if their spec ops had worked, that may well have been so. KF
Not Twitter but definitely the spread of information.
Bill O’Reilly just released his new book, “Killing the Killers.” The opening prologue is about the raid on Osama Bin Laden that killed him.
If one never heard the details, part of this book is free including most of this prologue. But definitely not all. I am listening to the Audible version as I drive or walk.
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Killers-Against-Terrorists-OReillys/dp/1250279259/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1651670914&sr=8-1&asin=1250279259&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
O’Reilly’s books are some of the best histories available. I highly recommend “Killing England” which is one of his best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYEjYnmPlA