Adventures of the Longest Muskrat

[Thad]

Musk puts Twitter buy on hold, casting doubt on $44B deal

god damn this thing has more will-they-won't-they than X-Files

[Crick]

Hilarious! I'm guessing if his Tesla stock doesn't pull out of free-fall he won't do it. He's a bit of a dumbass, but even he'll know not to risk his biggest money pile.

[Mongrel]

I mean this all assumes he was going to really do it in the first place.

[Grath]

Hilarious! I'm guessing if his Tesla stock doesn't pull out of free-fall he won't do it. He's a bit of a dumbass, but even he'll know not to risk his biggest money pile.

Most of Tesla's profits came from their "liquid" assets being held in Bitcoin, all the profits of which have now been wiped out by Bitcoin's price crashing.

[Crick]

[Mongrel]

Honestly, it's a bit of a shocker that anything was even built at all.

[Büge]

[Crick]

I remember when it was a vacuum tunnel that the can-like car rushed down like those old pneumatic tubes.

[hngkong]

I remember when it was a vacuum tunnel that the can-like car rushed down like those old pneumatic tubes.

https://www.londonreconnections.com/201 ... derground/

Fucker couldn't even do something that was done in 1861.

[Mongrel]

Headline: "Elon Musk says Twitter legal team told him he violated an NDA"

ELON? NEVER!

[Crick]

Cancel culture, amirite?

[Thad]

I mean this all assumes he was going to really do it in the first place.

I find it unlikely that even Musk would set fire to a billion dollars just for the lulz.

I suspect he either intended to go through with the purchase at the time, or figured he could find some way to wriggle his way out of the due diligence waiver and billion-dollar penalty because, y'know, he's never had to face consequences for anything and believes this is because he's a super-genius.

I'm not going to ascribe any plan to him beyond impulsive instant gratification. The Twitter board, on the other hand...

[KingRoyal]

I figured he wouldn't go through with it because nobody who likes having money would buy Twitter. And I think he's dumb enough to lose a billion on the whole escapade because I don't think he thought that hard about the actual goings on at Twitter until now and his impulsive decisions have gotten worse since his millenial girlfriend left him

[Mongrel]

I'm not going to ascribe any plan to him beyond impulsive instant gratification.

That's the thing - he didn't set fire to a billion dollars for the lulz, he set fire to it because reading the fine print is what lawyers are for.

Small text is for small people, right?

[Thad]

I figured he wouldn't go through with it because nobody who likes having money would buy Twitter. And I think he's dumb enough to lose a billion on the whole escapade because I don't think he thought that hard about the actual goings on at Twitter until now and his impulsive decisions have gotten worse since his millenial girlfriend left him

Oh, I think he's dumb enough that he's probably going to lose a lot more than a billion before all this is over.

I'm not going to ascribe any plan to him beyond impulsive instant gratification.

That's the thing - he didn't set fire to a billion dollars for the lulz, he set fire to it because reading the fine print is what lawyers are for.

Small text is for small people, right?

Yes but then he didn't listen to his lawyers.

[Crick]

He's 100% in some kind of spiral. The whole weird "I'm Republican now because unions" and planting the seeds of "attacks against me are super gonna pile up" ahead of what I suspect will be some kind SEC investigation or something.

[Mongrel]

I figured he wouldn't go through with it because nobody who likes having money would buy Twitter. And I think he's dumb enough to lose a billion on the whole escapade because I don't think he thought that hard about the actual goings on at Twitter until now and his impulsive decisions have gotten worse since his millenial girlfriend left him

Oh, I think he's dumb enough that he's probably going to lose a lot more than a billion before all this is over.

I'm not going to ascribe any plan to him beyond impulsive instant gratification.

That's the thing - he didn't set fire to a billion dollars for the lulz, he set fire to it because reading the fine print is what lawyers are for.

Small text is for small people, right?

Yes but then he didn't listen to his lawyers.

Well, exactly.

It's not like he has a great track record of listening to his lawyers the fine print people.

[Mongrel]

Like Muskie is practically the platonic ideal of "I'm the idea guy!"

[Thad]

He's 100% in some kind of spiral. The whole weird "I'm Republican now because unions" and planting the seeds of "attacks against me are super gonna pile up" ahead of what I suspect will be some kind SEC investigation or something.

Good guess, but I'm afraid the correct answer is sexual harassment.

[Mongrel]

Oh lordy, "I'll buy you a horse" is going to birth a thousand memes.