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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China’s ambassador to the United States thanked Elon Musk for proposing a special administration zone for Taiwan

LOL

Patrick says

This is Elon's biggest failure.

How's that hyperloop doing?

He's making natural gas and coal fired cars, and it's only because of ignorance and fraud people think this is a good thing.

I'm not impressed with him. He makes pretend solutions, not real ones.

Medicine is obviously not Elon's forte. But then, it isn't most people's forte, either. Still at the level of mystery and superstition.

richwicks says

Patrick says

This is Elon's biggest failure.

How's that hyperloop doing?

I say that promoting the vaxx is Elon's biggest failure because the vaxx is killing a lot of people. Lack of hyperloop isn't killing anyone.

Patrick says

I say that promoting the vaxx is Elon's biggest failure because the vaxx is killing a lot of people. Lack of hyperloop isn't killing anyone.

Well, with regard to the vaxx, define "success"?

It's pretty obvious to me at this point, people in certain positions are only allowed those positions, if they promote certain points of view and if they don't, they're removed.

I don't know if you have ever heard of Lyndon LaRouche, for example, and I was taught he was a criminal and a nutcase. He wasn't. Ron Paul got the same treatment, except not a criminal, but a racist. Even if you have power, and go against an establishment, everything is brought down on you to destroy you, up and including murder. How's John McAfee doing?

"All the world is a stage" it's said by Shakespeare, maybe he was entirely correct.

Figures:

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/jacksonhinklle/status/1580921180478840832

@jacksonhinklle
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🇺🇦🇺🇲 Elon Musk was placed on the Ukrainian government’s kill list for about 10-15 minutes before being removed. Apparently someone guessed that Starlink could be turned off permanently.

Yes, it is actually a kill list. When the people on this list are murdered, like journalists Andrea Rocchelli & Darya Dugina were, the word ЛИКВИДИРОВАН, “LIQUIDATED,” written in Ukrainian, is stamped across their picture in big red letters.

It will be fun when all of the Ukrainian blackmail against US politicians finally comes to light. Auntie Lindsey might like it in prison servicing all the Nazi Bubbas.

Of course, offering Starlink to Ukraine could just have been a way of testing its spying ability on their comms. Russians could use Starlink, too, one would presume.

My car has Starlink. Maybe some day it will be sucked into space, targeted with DEW, or run off the road by the CIA.

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/officejjsmart/status/1580782290849759232#m

Now I read that he's just demanding that they pay for the service after they told him to fuck off.

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-ukrainian-official-f-off/

Elon Musk Tells Ukraine to Pay for Starlink after Ukrainian Official Told Him to ‘F*ck Off’

SpaceX is not asking to recoup past expenses, but also cannot fund the existing system indefinitely and send several thousand more terminals that have data usage up to 100X greater than typical households. This is unreasonable.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 14, 2022

"Forgive us, Elon. It was the ten lines of cocaine talking."

Weak.

Elon must have gotten some Russian subsidies for back doors.

Or maybe he was threatened.

Patrick says

Or maybe he was threatened.

Likely

mell says

Patrick says

Or maybe he was threatened.

Likely

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-alarmed-after-appearing-well-known-ukrainian-kill-list

If I had to guess, Musk’s plebeian sense of humor is probably a big part of why the establishment can’t stand him. They don’t mind someone who challenges them through the proper channels and in a respectful manner—that’s actually playing into their hand, because it concedes they are deserving of respect in the first place. What they can’t stand is being taken lightly, being teased and ridiculed and ultimately ignored.

Why can’t they stand that? Because our reverence for the elites is actually the source of their power. They win as long as we take them seriously. They lose the moment we don’t.

I agree.

https://patrick.net/post/1340759/2021-08-20-the-elite-fear-for-their-status

Memes are a lovely way to mock them. Funny, quick to the point, and that point pops their bubble.

Elon's four point peace plan sounds good to me.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-21/us-weighs-security-reviews-for-musk-deals-including-twitter-buy?cmpId=google&sref=y3YMCJ4e

Biden administration officials are discussing whether the US should subject some of Elon Musk’s ventures to national security reviews, including the deal for Twitter Inc. and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ah, it turns out that even billionaires don't actually have any rights in the US if they oppose the Deep State agenda.

Patrick says

national security reviews, including the deal for Twitter Inc. and SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network

I watched a train of those Starlink satellites ride across the sky like a necklace of Skynet, awe inspiring and scary, like a form of doom. Musk is NASA. This is not exclusively a private enterprise, it is a strategic move to create huge redundancy so that everything can't be shot down or EMF pulsed out of function all at once.

I remember when they claimed 40 Starlink satellites were destroyed on launch through some error. My first thought was that those must have been the hyper militarized, 'secret' or hper-weaponized satellites, and they are probably up there quite healthy.

Countries are now shooting down each other's satellites all the time, that's why there is junk streaking from the sky all the time and so many places showing space plumes where stuff is being launched. It's a jungle up there.

All I know is that my spidey tingles when I saw that string of satellites traveling along the sky in a straight line was that whatever publicity was given to them, it wouldn't be the truth, and whatever the truth, it wouldn't be good.

One element of the $44 billion Twitter deal that could trigger a CFIUS review is the presence of foreign investors in Musk’s consortium. The group includes Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, Binance Holdings Ltd. -- a digital-asset exchange founded and run by a Chinese native -- and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.

Why the fuck the richest guy in the world needs SA and Chyna to buy Twitter? And what kind of free speech platform can we expect from such a lovely bunch of investors?

Changpeng Zhao founded Binance. He was born in China, moved to Canada, and is now living in Singapore. He owns the world’s biggest crypto exchange. I don’t believe he’s a communist and associates with the Chinese Communist Party.

Prince Alwaleed currently owns a lot of TWTR shares. He’ll roll his shares into the deal rather than taking the buyout in cash. Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO, is also an investor in the TWTR deal to name a few. A lot of big names and influential people in this deal as they all see the potential. Whether or not the potential will materialize is remained to be seen.

To put things in perspective, if a self-made billionaire asked you to invest in his company, which has a potential to 10x in a decade, what would you say?

@elonmusk

Think about who might have decided “The Current Thing” before accepting it

Maybe it was a social media algorithm, not even people

Who decides “The Current Thing?”
Real question. I don’t know.

Stock market suddenly thinks the deal will go through:

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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A beautiful thing about Twitter is how it empowers citizen journalism – people are able to disseminate news without an establishment bias.

Well, Twitter was that way once, and hopefully will be again under Elon.

@ezralevant
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Twitter employees demand Elon Musk “not discriminate against workers on the basis of… political beliefs.”

I wish Twitter employees would offer conservative users the same respect.

EBGuy says

The stock market seems convinced that the deal will go through, as the market price is approaching Elon's offer of $54/share:

EBGuy says

Lol, I did not get "let that sink in" at first!