The Twitter Purchase

I was always surprised how that went down

It’s an interesting day. Tonight at 8PM, Elon Musk will interview Donald Trump live on X. It’ll perhaps be one of the largest streaming interviews in history and certainly a pivotal moment for this election cycle.

In a surprise move, an EU Commissioner sent a letter to Musk threatening him with legal action if he doesn’t prevent Trump from spreading “disinformation”. As always, I say that it is not government’s job to determine what is truth and fiction since they have a vested interest in those decisions.

Musk had a pretty hilarious reply.

Quite.

I really do find how we got to this place fascinating. Twitter back in the day was heavily left-leaning with most prominent conservatives getting banned off the platform. It was the center of group and “right think” on the internet. It was highly suspected (and later confirmed) that they coordinated with the federal government to stifle speech and speakers that they did not approve of with seemingly many ties to the so called deep state and the intelligence community.

For the government, everything was going smoothly with Twitter as they love being able to craft and control the narrative.

And then came Elon Musk who made a bid to purchase the company. All seemed well until Musk got 2nd thoughts. He appeared to have noticed the depth of the bot problem on the platform which he claimed increased their user totals artificially.

Meanwhile, after Musk’s offer and open talk of making Twitter a more open platform, liberals went nuts seemingly not wanting to lose their safe space. But shockingly, when Musk tried to back out of the purchase, those same liberals all insisted he overpay and lose money. It was a certain cognitive dissonance that happened overnight I will never understand. One day people were saying Twitter had to prevent the sale and the very next day the same people were insisting they sell.

Meanwhile, I was surprised they were willing to sell at all. As Musk has defined it, Twitter/X is the “town hall.” And the government had their hands deep in it. What more could they want? And in the most shocking decision, after Musk dropped his complaints about the price, Twitter agreed to sell and the rest is history. Musk has become perhaps the strongest proponent of free speech in the world, X is the Wild West, and Musk is now set for a major event supporting one Presidential candidate that those same people who previously controlled twitter absolutely abhor.

I really do think if Musk hadn’t tried to back out, they may not have even agreed to the sale. Short term malice has ended up backfiring in a huge and hilarious way.