As we told you this morning, Elon Musk offered over $40 billion to buy 100% of Twitter and take the company private in what he claims is his “best and final offer” to the company’s board of directors:
'My best and final offer': Elon Musk offers to buy 100% of Twitter at $54.20/share according to new SEC filing https://t.co/oo2MHoiqon
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 14, 2022
Twitter’s board is reviewing the proposal now:
TWITTER STATEMENT
"The Twitter Board of Directors will carefully review the proposal to determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interest of the Company and all Twitter stockholders." https://t.co/PUlU2rsoiL
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) April 14, 2022
And right now, a number of liberal blue-checks are in complete meltdown mode over Musk’s offer:
Liberal blue checkmarks are big mad that Elon Musk is buying Twitter.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 14, 2022
Jeff Jarvis, for example, played the Nazi card and tweeted, “Today on “Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany”:
Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) April 14, 2022
Twitchy regular Pam Keith says she’s leaving the platform, which, TBH, we wouldn’t miss at all. “Bye Felicia”:
Bye Felicia. pic.twitter.com/N9nMJvaFsh
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 14, 2022
But some blue-checks are already deleting their anti-Musk takes. Like Salon’s Matthew Rozsa (this is why Twitter needs Musk’s edit button):
To the trolls:
I decided directing my tweet solely to Twitter's CEO was an oversimplification, so I deleted it.
I stand by the underlying sentiment: Elon Musk's attempted takeover of Twitter is a threat to the free world.
I care about freedom — and, also, factual precision. pic.twitter.com/RnriZ7D4pj
— Matthew Rozsa (@MatthewRozsa) April 14, 2022
And here’s Peter Hotez asking why Musk doesn’t use his billions to build a telescope or something instead of promoting free speech:
What puzzles me: with all those $billions to spend, why Twitter of all things? He loves space flight so why not instead build a great cosmology/physics institute with a Texas U, or new telescope, an institute for our @TXMedCenter or expand STEM education? https://t.co/v22hEGZpej
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) April 14, 2022
And let’s not leave out the many, many “f*ck @elonmusk” tweets that we’re starting to see:
As Karol Markowicz notes, “I am frightened by the impact on society and politics of people who are frightened by the idea of Elon Musk acquiring Twitter”:
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics of people who are frightened by the idea of Elon Musk acquiring Twitter.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) April 14, 2022
What they’re really saying is, “In order for democracy to survive, we need to limit opinions”:
In order for democracy to survive, we need to limit opinions- they say seriously.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) April 14, 2022
Well, we don’t take them seriously and neither should anyone else.
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