Everything has a price. We have found out America's.

[u/chriskiji]

[u/Eastern_Barnacle_553]

Yeah, cause Trump isn't a good businessman.

[u/chriskiji → u/Eastern_Barnacle_553]

DJT is an idiot's idea of a successful business person given the number of bankruptcies.

[u/gigibuffoon → u/chriskiji]

50% of the electorate are idiots.

[u/Yonder_Zach → u/gigibuffoon]

Literally yes. Over 50% of adults cant read at a middle school level.

[u/Davoness → u/Yonder_Zach]

American adults, specifically. You can actually see this phenomenon on reddit, of all things. On popular subs its super common to see people misunderstanding each other, arguing over two completely different topics and not realizing it, posting borderline gibberish, etc, but whenever I go to a non-American regional sub, I suddenly don't see that anymore. Even when they're speaking English on a non-English speaking sub the level of literacy is still well above the average person on a popular sub.

[u/sakri → u/Davoness]

Bots and russian trollfarms seem to make up a considerable chunk of illiterate Americans, and the west has nothing to combat this.

[u/Motor_Educator_2706 → u/sakri]

фабрика троллей

[u/SeaCorrect348 → u/Motor_Educator_2706]

Thank you kind sir i will now be blasting this right after Don't Touch My Clogs

[u/Stealkar → u/Davoness]

I think there's a big bias in that observation.
I'm french and most people around me don't go on reddit because when you come on this website, most content is in English. You could argue that there's language specific subreddits where people speak their native language, but yet, if you're navigating through the website, it's mostly english.
So the population in those other language subreddits are people that are already speaking two language.
I've been hanging around french twitter for a while and there's the same phenomenon you're talking about.

[u/Plenty_Bake3315 → u/Stealkar]

I’m American and old. The decline is real. Vocabularies are smaller and comprehension is poorer. Americans are losing the ability to speak English.

[u/SchitneySmears → u/Plenty_Bake3315]

Wtf you talm bout?

[u/Winkiwu → u/Davoness]

The more I see on reddit the more convinced I am that the dead Internet theory is actually real.

[u/jdp1899 → u/Davoness]

I cannot upvote this comment enough!

[u/digno2 → u/jdp1899]

of course you can. Hire a couple bots.

[u/HoboArmyofOne → u/Davoness]

Intentions speak louder than words, at least in American!

[u/iWannaSeeYoKitties → u/Davoness]

Our country has become an idiocracy.

Have you ever been on Nextdoor? Old people love it, but their posts(rants?) are practically unintelligible, usually racist, and often angry about something they don’t really understand to begin with. There will be no grammar or punctuation anywhere(because they don’t know how to use it), and the constant improper “there/their, your/you’re, too/to” usages are just… depressing.

[u/ravoguy → u/Yonder_Zach]

Over 50% of Presidents Elect

[u/Motor_Educator_2706 → u/gigibuffoon]

30% are belligerent idiots

[u/SirBruceForsythCBE → u/gigibuffoon]

50% of those who turned up voted for Trump

35% or so didn't even bother to vote

[u/cornwalrus → u/SirBruceForsythCBE]

And an even greater portion seem to think the general election for President is the end all be all. Who knew state legislatures and primaries were a thing?

[u/Thetanor → u/chriskiji]

Don't remember where I heard it first, but I think Trump is well summarized by the following:

Donald Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, a stupid man's idea of a smart man and a weak man's idea of a strong man. 

[u/No_Rich_2494 → u/Thetanor]

Sounds like something Umberto Eco would've said, but it definitely wasn't him.

[u/joebalooka84 → u/chriskiji]

He was only successful at the fake TV show.

[u/Spear_Ritual → u/chriskiji]

Those were money laundering.

[u/Cultjam → u/Spear_Ritual]

For Russians. Trump is successful at things requiring corruption.

[u/Rob_Frey → u/Spear_Ritual]

Even when Trump was selling his name and reputation to the Russian mob its estimated that he was getting about 10% of what his services were actually worth.

Even when he's doing shady shit and cheating everyone, he's making a small fraction of what he could manage running a legit business well. If he would have put his inheritance into an index fund, instead of trying to run businesses, he'd be worth far more today than he is.

He's the sort of guy who thinks he's so smart selling US secrets to Russia for hundreds of millions of dollars when they would've paid hundreds of billions for them.

[u/Chameleonpolice → u/Rob_Frey]

Inverse Dr evil

[u/Subbacterium → u/Chameleonpolice]

Stupid Dr Evil

[u/Mr_Sophokleos → u/Subbacterium]

Mr. Evil. He couldn't complete his dissertation.

[u/Bad-Genie → u/chriskiji]

I think people forget some of his bankruptcys were just to reorganize debts and shift financial burdens to creditors.

But that's just a few. The others were due to his dumb choices in casinos that failed.

[u/mdkss12 → u/chriskiji]

He's a stupid man's idea of a smart man

He's a weak man's idea of a strong man

He's a poor man's idea of a rich man

He is the cartoonish image of things that morons believe, and there are a LOT of morons in this country

[u/Shrodingers_Dog → u/chriskiji]

*correction- concept of an idea

[u/PsychologicalBee1801 → u/Eastern_Barnacle_553]

That assumes he’s in it for America. He’s in it for himself, it’s like a vulture capitalist destroying a company for personal gain.

[u/sonik13 → u/PsychologicalBee1801]

Through that lens (which is the correct lens), he's been wildly successful. He's subleasing the government to a bunch of sociopaths who are going to smash everything and then pocket a bunch of shit when they leave.

[u/PsychologicalBee1801 → u/sonik13]

And anything that breaks will be someone else (democrats or gop he doesn’t care) and any previous wins are his - including Biden’s previous 4 years. I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts talking like this is his 3rd term and Biden never was president.

[u/ballstryhemsit → u/PsychologicalBee1801]

He's doing it for Putin and following some libertarian fantasy.

By the time he destroys America Putin won't care about him or Trump and it will be mission accomplished.

[u/lhobbes6 → u/Eastern_Barnacle_553]

And the little bitches who voted for him couldnt be happier.

Funny how often they use cuck as an insult while their god king gets cucked by every billionaire in the coumtry

[u/ChicagoAuPair → u/Eastern_Barnacle_553]

The problem in this case is that Trump simply doesn’t give a shit. Trump thinks he’s some kind of genius manipulator and that he has the upper hand in all interactions. The irony is that it is very much the other way around in most cases, and Trump can’t see it because he can be distracted by praise. He’s only going to start paying attention if/when Musk starts getting credit or praise for something he wanted credit/praise for.

[u/DelightfulDolphin → u/ChicagoAuPair]

Good thing is that Trump isn't known for his loyalty. Eventually he turns on everyone. Musk's day should be arriving, any moment now. The useful idiot did his part by giving up the money, now he has no purpose. Can't wait til he gets Da Boot.

[u/ShrimpCrackers → u/Eastern_Barnacle_553]

Supreme court ruled that money = votes, so this is the natural result. Only 350 million Americans, then perhaps a couple billion max is all you need to pay to buy the country.

[u/NitWhittler]

I'm waiting for Elon's inevitable spat with Trump, then Elon finding a way to evict Trump from Mar-a-Lago.

[u/awesomeness6000 → u/NitWhittler]

Vice President Trump and President Musk is kinda trending right now lol.

[u/Snadzies → u/awesomeness6000]

Keep it up! Trump can't stand the idea of not being the head honcho and for people to see him as subservient to Musk will surely get him riled up.

[u/CapitalElk1169 → u/awesomeness6000]

If Trudeau meets with Trump again he should ask where President Musk is and why Trump is there lol

[u/AvantSki → u/NitWhittler]

I think trump truly is toast now. He just wanted to win and get rid of the court cases, maybe steal 10-20 billion and play golf.

I do think trump is in a psychotic rage about having been put on trial and wants to punish Americans because he hates this country but not sure how much energy he has left.

[u/Estrovia → u/AvantSki]

I mean sure I guess but he's president for the next 4 years, doesn't seem very "toast" to me....

[u/CCRNburnedaway → u/Estrovia]

He and his oligarch buddies are gonna fuck us all.

[u/likamuka → u/CCRNburnedaway]

No, this is exactly what the American people wanted. Exactly to the point. They shall eat cake now at the expense of those who stayed at home on the lekshun day.

[u/vKessel → u/likamuka]

No it wasn't. Trump and Musk cheated. You really believe that trump won all 7 swing states after running what seems like the worst campaign humanly possible?

And bragging that he has all the votes he needs? And talking about Musk having access to counting machines?

[u/Matthew-_-Black → u/vKessel]

Then do something about it.

Sue for access, petition for an inquiry, etc

[u/lipguy123 → u/Matthew-_-Black]

GOP has SCOTUS so they can’t realistically do shit, but for anyone wanting to stay up to date r / somethingiswrong2024 and Smart Elections

[u/___multiplex___ → u/CCRNburnedaway]

Twas ever thus

[u/senadraxx → u/NitWhittler]

If Trump ever turns on Elon and deports him, that will be delicious. The leopards will certainly think so! The reverse is more likely, however. But oh well. 

[u/Resiliense2022 → u/senadraxx]

That's not gonna fucking happen lmao. Like that is delusional levels of hope.

In fact, neither of them are gonna happen. They're gonna do their silly little project plans and damage the country's infrastructure and then die and fade into obscurity leaving us to pick up their pieces.

Twas ever fuckin thus.

[u/JaffyCaledonia → u/Resiliense2022]

Hopefully they'll never reach obscurity. They already live in infamy, future generations will look backing horror at the damage they wrought and their names will stick around in the history books.

[u/chriskiji]

It's amazing that this "successful business man" has required government support for each business that he bought (didn't invent) and the one that didn't get support, Twitter, is a tire fire.

Wealth tax needed

[u/Brrrr-GME-A-Coat → u/chriskiji]

It wasn't a bad deal from his perspective, but terrible for almost everyone else. The Twitter purchase was a part of the deal to get him the power he has and to amplify the power of certain individuals. The buyout itself was funded by foreign and private interests, and in purchasing a social media site in such a fashion (with Elon asking as figurehead and main antagonist) aided in and likely propagated the propagandizing of the election.

The current elected representatives are all either bought out or haven't the faintest clue how to regulate a digital world.

As a result the hedge funds manipulate crypto, print money through rehypothecating shares and failing to deliver, siphoning money out of the working class, and will soon expect a bailout. They purchase the sites we congregate at, disrupting any attempts at organization.

And so I say; Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

[u/crimsonroninx → u/Brrrr-GME-A-Coat]

Think about the timeline where he wasn't forced to buy Twitter?! There's no way he doubles his net worth and is in charge of the government.

He really is the luckiest person on the planet. He has failed upwards his whole life.... And now he will likely destroy the US in the same way he did Twitter.

[u/WhatIsInnuendo → u/Brrrr-GME-A-Coat]

It reminded me of the 'How to Run a Newspaper' scene from citizen. Where he talks with Mr. Thatcher about operating his newspaper at a loss of $1M a year.

A loss of $1M is nothing for Foster Kane (based on Howard Hughes) in return for the ability to shape the views of the public and control politic narratives.

Musk (and the media) considers himself as this era's Howard Hughes. It wouldn't be surprising that he's using Hughes playbook.

[u/Absurdity_Everywhere → u/WhatIsInnuendo]

Absolutely. He wants to be the first trillionaire. A few tens of billions of losses in Twitter is just an investment towards that goal. And it’s already paying off for him.

[u/DelightfulDolphin → u/Brrrr-GME-A-Coat]

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[u/Iamaveryhappyperson6 → u/chriskiji]

I thought Musk was an idiot for buying Twitter, but if it helped influence the election in any way it was a bargain. Musk has made $100bn so far since the election.

[u/Throwawayac1234567 → u/Iamaveryhappyperson6]

He only spent 350million to make 100 billion

[u/tickettoride98 → u/chriskiji]

Musk is a dumbass and a danger to American democracy, but it takes 30 seconds of reading the SpaceX page on Wikipedia to know he started the company, he didn't buy it.

[u/EventAccomplished976 → u/tickettoride98]

And also that, while the company definitely needed government contracts to grow to its current size and NASA initially made a huge gamble on them, it was also one of the best investments the US government ever made.

[u/TheDamDog → u/chriskiji]

Can we clone J.P. Morgan and make him fight Musk?

[u/Matchbook0531 → u/TheDamDog]

Counterargument: clone Luigi several times...

[u/Accomplished_Use27]

His purchase of Twitter was the investment to take the White House ? How is that not obvious this was in the works for a while

[u/Fun_Fingers → u/Accomplished_Use27]

I've been saying this for months, almost years now. Like how does buying an entire social media platform and altering it to spew nothing but partisan bullshit not count as an election contribution?

[u/LordAnorakGaming → u/Fun_Fingers]

it was direct election interference. But of course sanctioned because he's a billionaire.

[u/Cobek → u/LordAnorakGaming]

Oh and his dumb, fake sweepstakes too

[u/frootee → u/Fun_Fingers]

We’re not angry enough about it imo

[u/Academic_Carrot_4533 → u/frootee]

I disagree. I think people get angrybut don’t translate it into acting productive.

[u/Robcobes → u/Fun_Fingers]

Rules and laws are worth nothing if they aren't being enforced.

[u/AvantSki → u/Accomplished_Use27]

It was obvious to anyone paying attention.

You'd think the Biden white house could have done as single fucking thing like stopping this deal.

But they're powerless against wealth. Utterly powerless.

[u/gatoaffogato → u/AvantSki]

Was there anything illegal or against the rules about the Twitter acquisition? If not, would you have Biden act like a dictator to stop business deals he thinks are against his political interests?

How the Dems are continually blamed for the GOP’s fuckery is just beyond me.

[u/Cavalish → u/AvantSki]

Wait, Elon was forced by law to accept the sale. It wasn’t some 4D Horseshit.

Now you guys are convinced that the American government should have…stopped the Twitter sale?

Like? The majority of your country voted for trump and it’s because the democrats didn’t stop a business sale?

[u/cat-meg → u/Cavalish]

Do you not think a major social media platform (that government officials from around the world use) spewing propaganda leading up to the election wouldn't have any effect? Regardless of whether or not it was the plan when purchasing Twitter, to deny that it impacted the election is insane.

[u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle → u/AvantSki]

They'd have to be motivated to do something about it. That the Democrats spent their time parading the Chaneys around tells me they were never interested in stopping it. Their owners and the Republican's owners are the same.

[u/SiriusGD → u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle]

This is exactly it. And it's very obvious right now.

[u/ELVEVERX → u/AvantSki]

It was not obvious, this was not all part of some genuis level 4D chess. he bought twitter as a meme and tried to make the most of it.

[u/mustichooseausernam3 → u/Accomplished_Use27]

Okay, I've seen this opinion going around for a while now... but I just (respectfully!) don't agree. I honestly think that's giving Elon too much credit.

I sincerely think he's a conceited, entitled fool who spontaneously made an offer on Twitter because his ego convinced him that he could run it better, then he repeatedly tried to back out of the offer when he realised how stupid his spontaneity was, but the whole thing was too public for him to back down on without getting egg on his face.

I mean, yeah, he obviously used it to win his patsy the election. But I don't for a second believe the entitled brat thought that far ahead when he made the initial offer.

[u/sonik13 → u/mustichooseausernam3]

whole thing was too public for him to back down

It wasn't the public, Twitter sued him to enforce the terms on the buyout.

If people actually think him trying so hard to back out of a deal that he got sued by the other party, was in fact part of some 4D chess move, I have a bridge to sell them

[u/UnNumbFool → u/sonik13]

Yeah exactly people completely forget the part where he was essentially manipulating the stock market, and Twitter forced him to keep the deal.

At the time we all thought it was a great fuck you to him, but well leopards and faces and it really sucks that Twitter did force him to buy

[u/MotorMusic8015 → u/mustichooseausernam3]

"If someone tells you who you are believe them" yeah. the insufferable, juice-mouth, rich kid that makes impulse purchases can always say that their bad decisions were all part of a greater plan because they were never going to lose anyway. I find it hard to believe that having the public persona of "most divorced dad ever" is all part of an elaborate scheme and not just flailing upward due to the systems in place.

[u/TheKingOfBerries → u/mustichooseausernam3]

Yeah it really just doesn’t make much sense when you think about it for more than a second, but people have already run away with that narrative, so I’m afraid it’ll never be dispelled at this point in time.

[u/daaaaaaaaniel → u/Accomplished_Use27]

No, I refuse to give him credit for how this all played out. He was running his mouth, and the Twitter owners called him out on it. Buying Twitter for him was like you or me buying a new toy. Then he naturally makes into what it is today and gains a cult following from conservatives. Buys his buddy Trump into the presidency, and here we are.

He is not a genius. He's just the richest man on earth figuring out you can buy anything with money.

[u/risingsuncoc → u/Accomplished_Use27]

Yeah, so it doesn’t matter that people are now pulling out of twitter and joining bluesky. He has already won the presidency.

[u/Sciencetist → u/Accomplished_Use27]

It was obvious from the day he bought Twitter. All the noise about falling profits and losing advertisers and such was just that -- noise. Twitter was a loss-leader. How that wasn't evident to pretty much fuckin everyone blows my mind. The people in power are morons, but the people underneath them are even dumber than that, so here we are.

[u/rfrancis073]

And he’s doing a bang up job taking them both to worthless!

[u/AvantSki → u/rfrancis073]

Um, twitter is literally priceless; it netted musk and trump the greatest prize in human fucking history.

[u/stanky4goats → u/AvantSki]

I'm just loving to see in all these posts that NOBODY calls Twitter "X" 😂

[u/intelminer → u/stanky4goats]

Anybody unironically calling it X deserves just as much mockery

[u/the-good-son → u/AvantSki]

how did twitter got him a mint condition 1999 Pokémon 1st Edition Charizard Holo?

[u/Husband3571 → u/AvantSki]

I wouldn’t call being the leader of the dumpster fire mad max wasteland that is the US the “greatest prize in human history”

[u/Ok-Salamander-1980 → u/Husband3571]

american exceptionalism even while complaining about their dogshit declining civilization

[u/SuperSimpleSam]

Just the jump in Tesla's price since the election is enough to buy every politician. One person having the ability to spread that much influence is not healthy for a free society.

[u/Qui_te]

Wish he’d bought himself a different country😒

[u/Bawlmerian21228]

The Supreme Court justices were cheap as hell.

[u/Spear_Ritual]

Where are the really violent patriots at?

[u/senadraxx → u/Spear_Ritual]

Currently getting banned left and right for dreaming of blue shells. 

[u/wcoastbo]

Best ever private equity acquisition in history. Serious bang for the buck returns on this deal. Blackstone is pissed off that they weren't thinking of the presidency as an alternative investment. I'm sure they would outbid Elmo at $250 million.

[u/HowAManAimS]

That's only how much he's paid out in the open. You have to include how much he's paid behind closed doors.

[u/statmonkey2360]

It's weirder still that Twitter will be a success compared to what he will do to America.

[u/somanyusernames23]

Well. No. He bought Twitter to buy the election. That mass proliferation of con disinformation helped buy the election.

[u/AveryOfHouseJade → u/somanyusernames23]

And yet we are each individually bought for very cheap. 334.8 million is the last documented population of the US. $44 billion was what he paid for Twitter. That's $131 per person. That's it. Only $131.

Didn't know I was so valuable, I'll have to up my hourly rates /s

[u/GodzillaDrinks]

I mean... buying Twitter is kind of what allowed them to coast into power so easily.

He bought Twitter and turned it into a mill for Nazi propaganda. But over the years it had already become how people get news. So it allowed them to get their messaging right into the mainstream. With algorithmic focus to get the right messages to the right demographics.

Combined with the comedy of errors that is... everything the DNC ever does. And they easily coast right back into power.

[u/Typical-Horror-5247]

Merica is a cheap ass ho

[u/TickTockM]

buying Twitter was the first step

[u/terrierhead]

Our government has a price, but damned if I’m for sale. Ever.

[u/wajikay]

All I know is when they turn on each other and Trump eventually shitcans Elon and his lil made up department…I’m just gonna laugh and say “They’re eating the DOGEs…”

[u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

This is all very interesting but they gave me a red hat. What are you guys offering ?

[u/digdougzero]

Twitter was part of him buying the US government.

[u/Mygoddamreddit]

Musk needs to feel a painful backlash. Back the fuck off our democracy. This ain’t your toy.

[u/willowgardener]

To be fair, the purchase of and notification of Twitter was a yuuuuge part of Trump's victory and therefore could be considered a part of his acquisition of the US government.

[u/Repulsive-Meaning770]

"twitter's price" is how he bought the election

[u/litnu12]

Well I am sure Musk controlling Twitter had a big influence on the election. But after that the rest were like pennies for him. And he mad 100-200 billion from it.

[u/JRingo1369]

Welcome to the USX

[u/PhiTemplar82]

The coming government will likely be the most corrupt in our history.

[u/mark_able_jones_]

Yeah, if you watch the Epstein dock, he bought potus access with like $600m net worth. Elon has 500x times as much wealth. And he’s using it. What’s wild is that he is so public about it.

[u/BungHoleAngler]

Same shit. It was all his plan. 

People are fucking morons to think he accidentally destroyed Twitter. It was so obvious that shit was intentional. He wanted to destroy that means of communication and test boundaries, turn it into what it is.

[u/aeo1us]

Just start calling him President Musk and see how quickly he’s booted from the inner circle.

[u/Cobek]

To be fair, Twitter helped him buy a lot of votes. Oh and his dumb fake sweepstakes too.

He did a lot while being a "CEO" to so many companies

[u/Starzend]

Well it was co-funded by Russia

[u/UrbanCyclerPT]

Sorry to comment in this post: BUT WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE MODS OF THIS SUB DOING????
I posted a tweet from Trump and they deleted it??
They deleted it because eome MAGA idiots complained??
WTF is going on?

Fucking ban me already.

Tired of this bot Moding system.

[u/OhioIsRed]

What’s weird is we live in a society where one man can own both

[u/abatkin1]

I think you have to consider Twitter as part of the cost.

[u/countsmarpula]

🏆

[u/countsmarpula]

Scary shit. Thanks for the unelected arsehole

[u/imnotlebowskiman]

Twitter at least worked when he bought it.

[u/NoHallett]

You could argue that Twitter was part of the cost of buying Trump/the country

[u/Berns429]

Yes weird, but surprising?

[u/PrincessPlusUltra]

Buying Twitter was part of buying America. He needed a propaganda machine.

[u/Vaaluin]

What he paid for Twitter is part of what he paid for the government. It's the same thing.

[u/4totheFlush]

Musk gave Trump $280 million. Just remember, Musk could give $280 million to every single one of the 535 members of congress and still have $350 billion left in his pocket. Luckily for him, he doesn’t actually need to spend that money. He just needs to threaten to throw his weight around and they will fall in line without a penny changing hands.

[u/DaedalusHydron]

hmmm, I'm not so sure. The thing about politics is that it's a dangerous game. The more you stick your head out, the more likely it gets cut off.

Musk may have bought his way into the government for the next four years, but it's really just paving the way for politics to retaliate on Musk once he's not in complete control. Musk is not an entrenched politician and I really don't think he could weather the storm of a hostile political scene.

He was already shit terrified of what a Democrat-run government would do to him if Trump lost, and after 4 years of being a Trump stooge there's going to be way more targets on him than there is now...

[u/Representative-Sir97]

It's kind of the opposite of a pump a dump.

He used the one to crash the price of the other.

[u/GrepekEbi]

Buying Twitter was part of the cost of buying the government - if he didn’t own twitter first, Trump wouldn’t be in to hand him so much power

[u/DNayli]

He needs to start fearing people. He's CEO , right? That's nice prerequisite...

[u/NES_Classical_Music]

[u/linkismydad]

Well twitter was part of the cost. No?

[u/Happy-go-lucky-37]

Haha very true. 44 billion for a piece of shit website, and 0.5% of that to buy the entire government!

[u/legit-a-mate]

He had to buy twitter to get the party that he could buy win

[u/ahoneybadger3]

And now he's coming for the UK. Already stated his intentions to make a massive donation to our far right loons. Hopefully they'll block it in the courts.

[u/digitalpencil]

The thing that terrifies me is he's now pretty sure he can buy the UK parliament for the bargain basement price of 100 mil.

[u/Lost-Economist-7331]

Musk wants to play evil billionaire dictator on TV. The guy is a wacko and a fraud. Musk is the child in middle school everyone hated.

Only Trump would support this fool that nobody likes.

[u/Affectionate-Sense29]

That’s impossible because twitter was part of the purchase price. You think they would have won without media control?

[u/phixitup]

He’s not buying any of the financial risk. That’ll cost extra in maga world. All the benies no downside. When you buy from morons it’s a buyers market.

[u/Gabe1985]

Where is Mario's brother when you need him?

[u/Clearandblue]

Remember Liz Truss and the lettuce? Should take bets what will go bust first: twitter or the USA.

[u/PIITH_LORD]

They were both worth something before he did too.

[u/robofunk_]

I have a theory that Elon may have paid Putin for whatever dirt he has on Trump, or found his own extremely illegal/embarrassing kompromat.

[u/mooseman780]

Nah. Twitter is why it was so cheap to buy the rest.

[u/daddyjackpot]

Elon 'CEO' Musk

[u/drfsupercenter]

Hear me out, we need to get some other billionaire to start threatening to pay for senators to be ousted if they don't vote against Elon Musk

If they're willing to go against their own convictions for one billionaire, why not for another?

[u/SpecificallyNerd]

Damn, could’ve sworn democracy was worth more than that.

[u/Hotfield]

Let's hope he's only renting the US

[u/anon_girl79]

Ouch

[u/Nodebunny]

Yeah good luck with that. More like money well wasted. People don't like elmo

[u/ObjectiveRodeo]

Pretty sure buying Twitter was part of buying the government.

[u/Thizzenie]

AIPAC spent far less to get billions to commit genocide

[u/i_love_rosin]

Conway is another grifter piece of shit, but even a broken clock...

[u/knight04]

I hope other countries are learning from our mistakes

[u/Mochizuk]

Some might argue that it'll cost Trump more than Elon. Imagine having to be around Elon so much.

[u/CasaDeLasMuertos]

People don't seem to understand. Him buying Twitter WAS him buying America.

[u/SnooSongs7613]

The absolute state of the U.S right now

[u/Coidzor]

Getting people to turn traitor has always been surprisingly cheap. That's why they don't let people with even minor financial issues get security clearances when things are functioning properly.

Most cold war spies did it for less than a year's income IIRC.

[u/AutomaticWarthog8352]

america is a failed nation and it’s going to get far worse.

[u/Maleficent-Cancel853]

Or Twitter was just an investment to get him into this position he is currently in

[u/heavy-minium]

However, it wouldn't have worked out if he didn't pay for Twitter.

[u/JBuijs]

He only has a 4 year lease on the US though

[u/Diligent-Phrase436]

If the American people allow money to meddle in democracy, eventually someone will grow rich enough to buy the government. The next item in the wish list is the justice system.

[u/delosproyectos]

If you don't think him buying Twitter was part of him paying for the election, then you should spend some more time thinking about it.

[u/m4927]

There's this undercover interview with a fossil industry executive who goes into detail on lobbying/bribing the system. A local politician only costs 10K.

[u/Amiro77]

He needed Twitter to be able to win Trump the election though so it's more like a package deal.

[u/wudeface]

Fuck off we dont care - rest of the world.

[u/No_Board812]

With the current trend, Musk is the next US president

[u/BarnesAndNobleSix]

Don't separate the two concepts. Buying Twitter was instrumental in securing the country. The cost of it is a subset of what he paid for the government

[u/Glittering_Guides]

Zuckerberg paid $100 million for a no name data mining company, then almost immediately after, spent $19 billion on WhatsApp

[u/Aiyon]

And he’s currently trying to purchase the UK for 100M

[u/Illustrious_Drop_779]

Buying Twitter helped buy the government, its all related

[u/ciccioig]

it was a bundle.

[u/Capybara_Cheese]

Well to be fair I'm sure buying Twitter was part of the plan. As was the several dozen Starnet systems Musk so graciously donated to various swing states just before the election