Will Musk be the next Trump?

[rasetsu]

They could elect Musk to be the speaker of the house like they were talking about doing with Trump.

[Brian Peacock]

I'm not saying he's an alien, but he's an alien.

[JimC]

You can see the lizard scales trying to emerge from under his skin...

[NineBerry]

His hair is artificial.

[Scot Dutchy]

His hair is artificial.

No different to Trump; his bit of nylon.

[laklak]

They could elect Musk to be the speaker of the house like they were talking about doing with Trump.

I wonder what they'd do if the Speaker wasn't eligible but the Prez and VP died? Skip to the President Pro Temp?

[Brian Peacock]

The President Pro Trump more like.

[Svartalf]

His hair is artificial.

The skin looks like it's too, a thermal suit to fool IR cameras about his not being a cold blooded monster.

[laklak]

We don't know he's cold blooded. At his height he could be a Reptilian, a Tall Grey, or even a Nordic Pleiadean.


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[rasetsu]

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about that time when Elon Musk bought a McLaren F1 for $1 million and then immediately drove it into a ditch while trying to show off to Peter Thiel. “You know, I had read all those stories about people who made money and bought sports cars and crashed them,” Musk said to Thiel, according to Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian. “But I knew it could never happen to me, so I didn’t get any insurance.”

(The Verge)

[NineBerry]

Hm

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097

[L'Emmerdeur]

Hmm, OK then.

'Twitter Isn’t a Company Anymore'

In a court filing on Tuesday, April 4, Twitter Inc. quietly revealed a major development: It no longer exists. The company is currently being sued by right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer, who accused it of violating federal racketeering laws when it banned her account in 2019. Loomer has a Twitter account again, and her absurd lawsuit is bound to fail—but until it does, Twitter, as a defendant, must continue to submit corporate disclosure statements to the court. And so, in its most recent filing, the company provided notice that “Twitter, Inc. has been merged into X Corp. and no longer exists.” As the “successor in interest” to Twitter Inc.—that is, the survivor of the merger—X Corp. is now the defendant in Loomer’s suit. Its parent corporation is identified as X Holdings Corp.

It’s hard to know what to make of Musk’s transformation of Twitter into X Corp. (When asked for comment, Twitter responded with a poop emoji, as is its recent custom.) Elon Musk, who owns Twitter as well as X Holdings Corp., has not yet revealed this merger to the public. But it appears to have been on his mind since he first plotted his purchase of the social media company. In April 2022, Musk registered X Holdings I, II, and III in Delaware, three separate companies designed to facilitate his purchase of Twitter. According to that deal, Twitter would merge with X Holdings II, but keep its name and general corporate structure while continuing to operate under Delaware law. X Holdings I, controlled by Musk, would then serve as the merged entity’s parent company, while X Holdings III would take on the $13 billion loan that a group of big banks provided Musk to help cover the $44 billion purchase. (According to Twitter’s demands in its litigation against Musk, X Holdings I would be intended “solely for the purpose of engaging in, and arranging financing for, the transactions.”)

Here’s where things get interesting. As the merger agreement stated, X Holdings II would cease to exist as a functioning entity after merging with Twitter. So the official structure after Musk’s takeover was: X Holdings I oversees Twitter Inc., while X Holdings III handles the cash. The Nevada filings show this exact arrangement is no longer in effect.

[L'Emmerdeur]

If Twitter users want the 'blue check' which was formerly added to the accounts of notable entities as a means of verifying the legitimacy of the account, they can get it now for $8 a month. Commercial entities are charged $1000 a month. Many of the former blue check account holders have refused to pay and have had their blue checks removed. However, apparently Elon Musk is 'paying' for the blue checks on certain former blue check accounts. Not kosher, according to FTC (Federal Trade Commission) rules.

'"Paging the FTC": Experts Warn Musk's Misleading Celebrity Twitter Blue Checks Are Violation'

Experts warned Sunday that the practice of Twitter adding official blue check marks to high-profile users on the social media platform without their consent could be a violation of FTC guidelines meant to prevent fraud.

The mysterious application of the blue checks—indicating that people had voluntarily paid to be members of the new Twitter Blue premium plan controversially launched by billionaire owner Elon Musk—was a source of endless online conversation over the weekend after living celebrities like basketball star LeBron James and novelist Stephen King as well as deceased people like food writer Anthony Bourdain and slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi had the checks applied to their accounts.

On Friday, Musk confirmed he was paying "personally" to keep the checks on at least some of these accounts.

The so-called "purge" began last week, when many institutions, organizations, and individuals discovered that the traditional "blue check" verifications they'd enjoyed for years—which indicated they were who they said they were and came at no cost—disappeared. (Full disclosure: Common Dreams, a nonprofit and independent news outlet, was stripped of its blue check verification last week.)

Over the weekend, others who said they did not sign up for the new Twitter Blue program started noticing new checks appearing on their accounts without warning.

According to Timothy Karr, senior director of strategy and communications for the media advocacy group Free Press, what Musk is doing with the blue checks is a violation of rules set up by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

"Musk has 'gifted' checks to celebrity Twitter accounts and other influencers without first seeking permission," said Karr. But because the blue checks "act like endorsements of Twitter Blue," the new paid program that charges $8 for premium access and status on the platform, this is where the violation comes in.

"False endorsements violate FTC rules, legally exposing Musk," argued Karr.

[Strontium Dog]

And I thought this thread title was reaching.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Oh hey, all you free speech absolutists out there (link).