The screenshot below is @JDVance1’s unfiltered explanation from 2016 of the breakdown in Republican politics that he now personally is trying to exploit.
NEW: The former roommate of Trump-endorsed OH Senate candidate JD Vance just revealed texts where Vance said, “We are the party of lower-education white people... Trump is the fruit of the [GOP]’s collective neglect.” Vance added Trump may be “America’s Hitler.” (@JoshforGeorgia)
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) April 18, 2022
— ava anderson๐๐๐ (@avaanderson87) April 18, 2022
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad … or that he’s America’s Hitler.” — JD Vance in a 2016 message to @JoshforGeorgia, who was his 1L roommate at Yale Law. #gapolhttps://t.co/xUiKRCVNOG
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Coinbase Voices: How crypto changed my life Being new to FinTech, I immersed myself in books and local meetups to learn everything I could. One day in mid-2017, I read a chapter on blockchain, which detailed the technology’s lofty aspirations of becoming more impactful than the internet itself. ....... .
Security PSA: Mining Pool Scams Targeting Self-Custody Wallets by @coinbasehttps://t.co/mXy1WCkqLM Every time I mention Coinbase on Twitter I get approached by a scammer.
Is there a keyboard shortcut I don't know about that moves the sender to bcc and the cc up to the primary recipient. Would really give me many hours of my life back.
Seriously, do right-wingers who were obsessed with Hunter Biden’s corruption not care about the Saudis giving Jared Kushner $2 billion? Their own experts say he didn’t deserve it at all. It’s the most obvious case of corruption. Do conservatives have any principles left at all?
Plunk 100K now. And then you will have a first say in putting 1M in a few months based on milestones from now to then. Harvest 1.1B in about 10 years. Enough for the entire fund. In about five years raise 1B based on this ONE investment.
Our Great National Parks, narrated by President Barack Obama, invites viewers to experience nature in the world's most iconic national parks. Watch now, only on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/liwiVJNOYE
going to new york next week but not in a t*ch bro “who should i meet” web3 brooklyn way but in a coming of age good for the plot “emma chamberlain alone in new york” way
#WorldHeritageDay gives us a unique opportunity to reflect & re-energize our commitment to preserving historical heritage & intensifying our efforts to bring back stolen art. This is a passion of mine. pic.twitter.com/rWRnxxjkp0
Instead of that, you should say, I could not have done it without my team. (Tip from Bono: "I do it for my bandmates!") Calling himself the top band in the world.
The Twitter Board, excluding Jack Dorsey, only owns 0.12% of Twitter. They have not only, behind closed doors, rejected @elonmusk's offer to purchase the company 20% above market value. They have threatened to dilute their shareholder's stake in the company. Criminal negligence?
I am very worried about Elon Musk owning Twitter. We must keep Twitter in the hands of people we can trust. People like Blackrock, Morgan Stanley, and the Saudi royal family. At least we know that they always have our best interests at heart.
— Dr. Matt Walsh, Women’s Studies Scholar (@MattWalshBlog) April 15, 2022
Whether Elon Musk ultimately buys Twitter, he’s done the world an invaluable service by forcing leftists to admit that Twitter & other social media outlets are biased & censorious, & that there's nothing that terrifies the left more than people having freedom of speech.
Hi @elonmusk, have you considered that Twitter is blocking your offer because they are afraid you’d obtain documents proving they shadow ban and censor, which would contradict sworn testimony made before Congress?
This could be an Enron type scenario you’ve uncovered.
The fact that everyone on the Left is going absolutely nuts about Elon Musk demonstrates three things: 1. Twitter is a Left-wing site; 2. The Left is filled with censorious jackasses; 3. They like oligarchy when they're the oligarchs.
Without hate speech there is no free speech. Free speech has no limitations. Let the haters hate! Let the lovers love! And let @elonmusk take over Twitter!
Elon Musk has successfully taken over Twitter as every single tweet is now about him
— John W. Rich (Fake Tech Exec) (@Cokedupoptions) April 17, 2022
Wow, with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares! Objectively, their economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders.
Between Elon Musk attempting to takeover twitter and the federal transportation mask mandate being overturned Libs are having a bad bad last few days. Don’t worry it’ll be worse for y’all in November. This is an appetizer.
I’ve rarely seen a company founder rip his own hand-selected board as being dysfunctional. Speaks volumes about $twtr board. Good for @jack. https://t.co/AJO4ClCk2x
Jack Dorsey rips Twitter board over ‘dysfunction’ in Elon Musk battle Dorsey criticized the board in response to a post in which a user quipped that the company’s “early beginning” was “mired in plots and coups” among its founding executives. ..... “It’s consistently been the dysfunction of the company,” Dorsey said. ...........
“Good boards don’t create good companies, but a bad board will kill a company every time.”
......... Musk owns approximately 9% of Twitter shares, while Dorsey owns just over 2.2% ....... It’s unclear how Musk will proceed if Twitter rejects his offer, though he said last week that he has a “plan B” in mind – which may include a tender offer directly to shareholders.
it’s consistently been the dysfunction of the company
If you cut 10% of $TWTR headcount of 7,500, assuming $100K comp & benefits per position cut, TWTR would save another $75M/year. That puts 2022 Adj Ebitda at $1.5B, which levered at 6-7x, equates to $10B debt financing.
Elon Musk should buy the New York Times and make it a newspaper.
— Jason D. Meister ๐บ๐ธ (@jason_meister) April 17, 2022
They claim- “81 million votes for Biden”, and there still isn’t one yard sign, flag, bumper sticker, t-shirt or hat anywhere to be found across this entire Country. ๐๐
Remember when Saint George Floyd died and everyone decided it was time to “have a conversation” about racism in America but the only conversation they wanted to have was blaming the cops and now America’s major cities are all hellholes? https://t.co/Q0IArIlPdi
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Ilhan Omar only asked what would happen if Muslims broke out in song on a plane yet some white "Christians" took it as license to be victims. What a fragile lot.
Ilhan Omar was born in the hell hole of Somalia. Her family fled that wasteland and sought refuge in America. They were welcomed here and Ilhan soon became one of the most influential politicians in the country. And yet she despises the country that took her in. Ungrateful brat.
— Dr. Matt Walsh, Women’s Studies Scholar (@MattWalshBlog) April 18, 2022
I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end? pic.twitter.com/5696Erwsl5
Ilhan Omar asks how people would react if her Muslim family sang their worship songs on a plane. I don’t know, but it’s gotta be better than the reaction to Christian worship in her home country of Somalia, where Christians are slaughtered for praying in public.
PS: Ilhan Omar isn’t criticizing Christians. She’s pointing out the hypocrisy. A Muslim could never dream to get up at 30,000 feet to recite verses of the Holy Quran — let alone openly express their faith. https://t.co/CT77pjLuf2
This tweet from Rep. Ilhan Omar is not an attack on Christianity. It's a commentary on the hypocrisy of our so-called "religious freedom" in America, which clearly does not apply to every religion. https://t.co/zdupWZhjXG
Great time to shut India’s doors to Ilhan Omar as a constant reminder that this hateful Islamist masquerading as an American defender of democracy bears her allegiance to Pakistan and it’s terror machines. https://t.co/KXhX2O3DpF
— Alicia Smith ๐๐๐ #FBR (@AliciaSmith987) April 18, 2022
Idk who needs to hear this but Ilhan Omar was not “offended” by the Christians singing on a plane. She was pointing out hypocrisy. If a group of Muslims started singing a song on a plane about the Quran in Arabic, how do you think that would end?
I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: https://t.co/hVkUczDQmz
“all of these jack tweets got me thinking about where my hug is at… now we don’t hug at all i just wonder where that energy went. you don’t have to respond to this just know i miss you and hope the fam is good” https://t.co/vFZLIszUGHpic.twitter.com/08mdLq7G56
@jack you’re a funny guy. Why are you commenting on the Twitter board drama at all? From what I can recall, you’ve always been a part of Twitter’s problem, and the Twitter censorship & propaganda started with YOU. GTFOH. cc: @elonmuskhttps://t.co/z9afIQxf8G
@jack@paraga Twitter users should have a right to vote & choose if @elonmusk is allowed to buy twitter. The company should take consent from it’s users before transferring our years of data to someone who could misuse it!
It was only a few weeks ago when, at a public event, Jack Dorsey asked Elon Musk, "How would you fix Twitter?"
Ends up it was a few years ago. But I might have first seen that video only a few weeks ago. Time travels.
Little did Jack know. Elon has ideas.
I am neutral on the idea of who should own which company. Elon's bid is a drama that many are watching. So am I.
But I am on record stating at this very blog over 10 years ago that Twitter needs to live its potential. Just do a search on Twitter in the search box in the top right corner. Thank you, Google.
Elon wants to "unlock Twitter's potential." That idea I like. Elon wants to make it the free speech vehicle around the world. That idea I like even more. I guess Twitter is in the habit of taking down tweets to play nice with governments around the world. That is not nice. People should not use Twitter to commit crimes, like inciting violence. Trump getting booted out is not a violation of free speech.
Even if Elon manages to take Twitter private -- some people think he is not even trying to do that -- but if he manages, and liberates the platform, eventually Twitter does go public again.
My conclusion, @elonmusk is fucking with the SEC. His filing w/the SEC allows him to say he wants to take a company private for $54.20 ๐ Vs his "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured" Price go up. His shares get sold. Profit⬆️ SEC like WTF just happened.
Don't oppose Elon running twitter (at least compared to status quo), but I do disagree with the more generalized enthusiasm for wealthy people/orgs hostile-takeovering social media firms. That could easily go *very* wrong (eg. imagine an ethically-challenged foreign gov doing it) https://t.co/LDqjXh3xCK
The "but that Saudi guy already owns 5%" point is well taken but ultimately weak imo. Control is superlinear in ownership stake. His level of ability to control policy is very low now, and would increase by *far* more than 10x if his ownership increased to 50%.
Ironic how South African-born @elonmusk cares more about fostering and protecting the American liberal ideal of free speech than many Americans who work at Twitter and sit on its Board. You can’t make this stuff up.
In Defense of Elon Musk's Managerial Excellence The Tesla CEO’s track record proves he’s a pre-eminent builder of businesses and maximizer of shareholder value. ....... the chief executive officer of the world's most valuable automaker has no equal. ...... Among the 10 largest publicly-traded companies, Musk’s Tesla Inc. is No. 1 in growth the past decade with revenue increasing more than 260-fold to $53.8 billion; No. 1 the past 12 months with sales surging 71%; No. 1 in share performance over five and 10 years with its stock appreciating 15- and 146-fold, respectively, to a recent $1,000; and No. 1 in employment by more than quintupling its workforce since 2016 ...... Among the six companies with at least a $1 trillion market capitalization, none achieved the milestone as quickly – and stayed there – as Tesla, which did it 11 years after its initial public offering. It took Apple Inc. 38 years, Microsoft Inc. 33 years, Google parent Alphabet Inc. 16 years, and Amazon.com Inc. 23 years. Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. reached $1 trillion nine years after its IPO but has since dropped back to $600 billion ...... Tesla almost four times as valuable as the second-largest automaker, Toyota Motor Corp., and worth about 57% of the 10 biggest combined. ......
Tesla accounts for 41% of the total value of the 184 publicly traded vehicle manufacturers worldwide.
....... Tesla, unlike its peers, persevered through the dislocations caused first by the pandemic and then war in Ukraine by spending years focused on shoring up its supply chain. That’s a big reason why Tesla was able to report record first-quarter deliveries earlier this month despite what it called “an exceptionally difficult” period ........ “Tesla's vertical integration strategy has been critical,” Cathie Wood, founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Ark Investment Management LLC, said in an interview earlier this month. Unlike its competitors, “Tesla is in control of its cars” and “can tweak and change” in contrast to rest of the auto industry whose “specs are put to bed, you know, three to four years or five years prior. And they're not going to change.” ......... the company’s battery technology “is about three years ahead of any other auto manufacturer.” ........ Wood raised her target for Tesla last week to $4,600 a share in 2026. ...... Tesla's “more than a million and a half cars on the road are effectively data collectors for Elon Musk,” she said. “No other auto manufacturer has cars equipped to send back this real-world driving data. In order to compete with Tesla, at let's say a like-for-like price, they'll either have to skimp on range or performance and rely on their brand, otherwise they'll just lose money if they want to keep up with Tesla at the same price.” ........ Tesla's 2021 revenue of $53.8 billion accounts for 20% of the entire EV market and 80% of the world's six EV-only automakers ...... In addition to its incomparable real-world driving data and battery technology, Tesla has an artificial intelligence chip “that no one else has” ........ “Elon describes Tesla as a manufacturer of factories,” with plants in Freemont, California, Austin, Shanghai and Berlin. “With each factory, Tesla becomes more efficient and more productive” ....... “It is from the bottom up, constructing these highly automated factories, more automated than anyone else's in the world.” .
This is what I would like to suggest as a roadmap, should the takeover happen, and Twitter becomes Boring.
Buy a browser. Something next generation. Build or outsource the Pi tablet/laptop.
Allow Google to index the entire Twitter. Make them pay for it. Let them be the default search engine on the browser. Make them pay.
Let Twitter be the landing page in the browser.
Marry Starlink to the whole idea. People get internet access for free on this device. The browser has a paybar, or a pay corner where ads are served. That pays for it all. Location and browsing history determine what ads get served.
Redo Twitter. 99% just want to consume. They don't even want to open an account. Let them consume.
Of the 1% who bother to sign up, most content is created by the 1% of that 1%.
So Twitter should have three modes. (1) Browsing mode. No sign up necessary. You don't see any symbols. Just natural language. (2) Sign up mode. (3) Content creation mode.
I am for free speech. No tolerating any curbs anywhere.
I am curious about open sourcing the algorithms. Perhaps the Open API madness can make a comeback.
This Is Not the Year of the Optimist The news has been so depressing lately. A crazy guy opens fire in a subway in Brooklyn. The Russians are committing atrocities in Ukraine and are about to start a major offensive in the east. And my tuna melt on rye costs $21 at a not-much-to-look-at New York City diner, not including the tip. ...... The Mets are off to a strong start but give them a few months and they’ll be depressing you as well. ...... winter’s over, job openings are way up in the past year, and the subway shooting was miraculously — miraculously! — without fatalities. ....... “Crazy Guy Aims, Shoots, Misses” could also be a contender for the next Russian national anthem. ........ Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter at $54.20 a share........ Half the punditocracy seems to think this would be great; the other half thinks it’s the apocalypse....... the 4.20 in $54.20 is an inside joke about getting high. ....... Even if Twitter tanked, wouldn’t there be some new post-Twitter communications system coming around the bend soon? ........ the idea that Twitter is a good forum for speech is silly. Trying to communicate a thought in 240 characters isn’t speaking. It’s blurting. You don’t use Twitter for persuasion. You use it for insults and virtue signaling. A healthy free-speech environment depends on people talking with each other. Twitter is a medium for people to talk at others. The best thing that could happen to Twitter isn’t an acquisition, by Musk or anyone else. It’s bankruptcy. ....... And what’s the chance the Republican Party is going to become the Home for Unwillingly Retired Entertainers? ....... It’s ironic that the Democrats’ huge flaw is an inability to get anything serious passed in Congress — because of the, um, lack of Democrats in the Senate. Which will probably cost them several more Senate seats.
Elon Musk has built a track record over the past 20 years that is outstanding. He is the "king of kings" among tech entrepreneurs. And he is not that old. He could still run hard for 20 years if he chooses to, before he transports himself to Mars. (Some people think that is where he came from in the first place! When he first landed, his name was Elon Mars.) Twitter would be in good hands. I think Elon Musk could turn Twitter into a trillion-dollar company in less than 10 years.
