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2022-10-21 -Land of the Free

Elon Musk planning to cut 75% of Twitter workforce: report

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Posted by Fred 2022-10-21 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 That's a good start.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-10-21 00:05|| 2022-10-21 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah, now Twitter is refusing the deal. Control over elite discourse is too valuable. It doesn't matter if it makes a profit or not.

Posted by Spike the Hairy6811 2022-10-21 05:17|| 2022-10-21 05:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Start with the "fact-checkers" and "censors". Twitter itself had been planning on a 25% cut.

Posted by Frank G 2022-10-21 06:20|| 2022-10-21 06:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Elon Musk Planning to cut 75% of Twitter Workforce.

Wonder if someone can talk him into purchasing the FBI and IRS ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-21 06:33|| 2022-10-21 06:33|| Front Page Top

ZERO - Biden Admin Weighs Blocking Twitter Deal On "National Security" Grounds... Just As Musk Wanted

You had to know it would come to this. Intelligence front companies cannot be purchased or publically traded like shares of CSX or Walmart.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-21 06:41|| 2022-10-21 06:41|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ USSA

Posted by Ebbavising Black7384 2022-10-21 08:44|| 2022-10-21 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 If so and not a typical tactic used by liberals to hose up a change over to a more free speech format.

I would guess the 75% would mainly be the NewsSpeak vs. free speech censor dept.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-10-21 09:48|| 2022-10-21 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Don’t discount tge possibility that the Muskrat engineered this outcome. ZERO:

“when Delaware Chancery court is about to rule that you must consummate your $44 billion acquisition of a company that, as SNAP today showed, is worth less than $10 billion, your best... no, your only bet is to force the government to step in and demand the deal falls apart. And how do you do that? Why demand the judge pushes back the court case by a few weeks in which you blast out what to the Biden admin seems to be unhinged pro-Putin propaganda.

Well, Elon old chap, golf clap to a beautifully executed plan.

And while the world's richest man would never come out and confirm any this, he did the next best thing late on Thursday when in response to a fellow reader’s reaction to the Bloomberg article, that “It would be hysterical if the government stopped Elon from over paying for Twitter", Musk responded simply "💯🤣"...

Because the collapse of the deal would be just what Musk wanted (and intended) from the very beginning.

Posted by Sletch Untervehr7450 2022-10-21 09:57|| 2022-10-21 09:57|| Front Page Top

#9 The Muskrat is saving himself and his investors about $30 billion that he would have torched had the deal gone through at his ridiculous, 4-times-NPV valuation for that TWTR piece of shit.

Wonder how many of the spooks on the CFIUS panel he bribed? Remember: “just like the infamous FISA courts, the CFIUS panel operates in total secrecy, behind closed doors, and rarely confirms when it is conducting reviews. CFIUS also holds the power to review deals that have already been consummated... such as Musk's acquisition of twitter. “

Posted by Sletch Untervehr7450 2022-10-21 10:01|| 2022-10-21 10:01|| Front Page Top

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