Elon Musk $41B offer for Twitter

[paulguitar]

thatsprettyshady said:

paulguitar said:

Byker28i said:

I know I should never be surprised by anything the shameless grifter does, but holy st.

FFS.

Unsurprisingly, this is a fake tweet.

Naughty Byker

Cheers. It's so annoying that people do this. It's not as if it is necessary to make up stuff about trump...

[Petrus1983]

thatsprettyshady said:

Unsurprisingly, this is a fake tweet.

Naughty Byker

It was fake a million miles away and unbelievable anyone would think it was real. And that's the problem if people want to post 10-15 'links' a day - no one can be bothered to fact check them.

[Byker28i]

thatsprettyshady said:

[

Unsurprisingly, this is a fake tweet.

Naughty Byker

and yet no response about trump schilling for Musk? Nothing on Musks further donation of $100m to trump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hours-trump-promises-bu...


Yet calls me naughty, suggesting I did it deliberately. Hum almost as if Shady does it deliberately

This was all doing the rounds yesterday - as always happy to be corrected...

Edited by Byker28i on Thursday 13th March 06:19

[Byker28i]

Petrus1983 said:

It was fake a million miles away and unbelievable anyone would think it was real. And that's the problem if people want to post 10-15 'links' a day - no one can be bothered to fact check them.

Yet there was trump, openly promoting Tesla for Musk as his shares and hence personal value dropped a little...

Also - how many links a day? There aren't that many about Musk, and I keep them limited. Yesterday was a big day, 7 posts...

Again made up stuff. I notice you didn't come back with the proof after you made another false claim against me recently about the term trumpettes, I challenged you on...

What would Shady say - oh yes, Naughty Petrus

Edited by Byker28i on Thursday 13th March 06:17

[Byker28i]

Meanwhile - seems a reasonable take on it

"The tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog."
https://bsky.app/profile/dell.bsky.social/post/3lk...


It seems the Tesla protests are having an effect... so many plan to continue, such as

Edited by Byker28i on Thursday 13th March 06:23

[Countdown]

Petrus1983 said:

It was fake a million miles away and unbelievable anyone would think it was real.

Given Trump has been actively promoting Tesla why would anybody think it wasn't real?

Also, let's be honest, given the amount of genuine crap that Trump comes out with, this would have been on the more believable end of the spectrum

[Byker28i]

Court cases are still trying to get to the bottom of Musks authority over Doge.

Judge Chutkan has granted a request for discovery in the case brought by state Attorney Generals alleging that the conduct of Musk and DOGE violates the Appointments Clause.

The permitted discovery includes documents and interrogatories related to the scope of Musk/DOGE's authority.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25559974-s...


Just at a time when there's evidence being destroyed.
USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/us...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2...

[Byker28i]

rscott said:

Byker28i, I think you're no longer in the '47 thread, so reposting here..

Interesting site compares actual savings by DOGE against claimed savings:-

https://doge.muskwatch.com/

More on this from the Financial times, as posted about yesterday, Federal spending is up, not down, despite all of Musks claimed cuts of $100bn

“Musk’s hyperactive efficiency drive failed to prevent US federal spending rising to a record $603bn last month, new Treasury data has revealed, highlighting the trump administration’s difficulty in drastically cutting the size of government.”
https://www.ft.com/content/6d938875-d9c8-47b1-9116...

[Byker28i]

Space-X launch to return the astronaught was scrubbed yesterday
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/nasa-spacex-cr...

NASA explained that there was a “hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp.” Clamp arms help keep the second stage booster in place to make sure that the entire rocket remains vertical while on the launch pad. As the mission nears lift off, the clamp arms open and pull away from the rocket,
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/2025/03/...

Launch expected later in the week when they get the right weather.

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Byker28i said:

Meanwhile - seems a reasonable take on it

Pick a different starting point on your graph.

[hidetheelephants]

Petrus1983 said:

It was fake a million miles away and unbelievable anyone would think it was real. And that's the problem if people want to post 10-15 'links' a day - no one can be bothered to fact check them.

Oh, the irony that this in itself is also fake news.

[Riff Raff]

I have no idea if this is fake, but it is funny.

Tottenham, yesterday.

[Byker28i]

Remember when trump was gifted a cybertruck by Kick streamer Adin Ross during his campaigning...

Then when schiiling for Musk on the WH lawn trump said he bought 17-year-old granddaughter Kai Trump a Tesla Cybertruck.
Is it the same one?

[Byker28i]

Riff Raff said:

I have no idea if this is fake, but it is funny.

Tottenham, yesterday.

There's a group actively producing posters against Musk/tesla in London, the bus shelters, London tube ones. Looks like they've gone bigger?
It does look like all the protests are having an effect on sales

[Al Gorithum]

Riff Raff said:

I have no idea if this is fake, but it is funny.

Tottenham, yesterday.

Blimey. In Tottenham which is known for its Jewish communities.

[paulguitar]

Petrus1983 said:

thatsprettyshady said:

Unsurprisingly, this is a fake tweet.

Naughty Byker

It was fake a million miles away and unbelievable anyone would think it was real.

It is entirely possible to believe it was real. There have been many genuine trump tweets over the years that have been significantly more difficult to believe. I found the recent one about Canada being the 51st US state much less credible, and that was real. And that's just one example. I could find 40 or 50 more.

[98elise]

Petrus1983 said:

thatsprettyshady said:

Unsurprisingly, this is a fake tweet.

Naughty Byker

It was fake a million miles away and unbelievable anyone would think it was real. And that's the problem if people want to post 10-15 'links' a day - no one can be bothered to fact check them.

Why is fake a million miles away? Have you heard the things he says and does?

Does Trump do any fact checking?

[Byker28i]

Al Gorithum said:

Riff Raff said:

I have no idea if this is fake, but it is funny.

Tottenham, yesterday.

Blimey. In Tottenham which is known for its Jewish communities.

There's a Tesla dealership not far away, mind you there's lots all over London

It was the one where one of the People Vs Elon campaign members walked into Tesla’s Tottenham (London) dealership, with a cardboard cutout of Musk performing the Nazi salute, which he performed twice during trump’s inauguration.

Edited by Byker28i on Thursday 13th March 09:31

[iphonedyou]

Petrus1983 said:

It was fake a million miles away and unbelievable anyone would think it was real.

It's not that unbelievable.

There was the meme coin. Well, meme coins; Melania and Barron got in with their own.



The trump watches - still time to get yours, at gettrumpwatches.com.



His bible - again, relax. There's still time at godblesstheusabible.com.



Then there's... well, there's this.



RFK in on the act, naturally.



Melania's beautiful Vote Freedom necklace - a snip at $600 and yours at melaniatrump.com/vote-freedom.



That he'd be helping his boss out by throwing out affiliate links for product is entirely in keeping with how the man has carried himself to date.

[tangerine_sedge]

98elise said:

Petrus1983 said:

thatsprettyshady said:

Unsurprisingly, this is a fake tweet.

Naughty Byker

It was fake a million miles away and unbelievable anyone would think it was real. And that's the problem if people want to post 10-15 'links' a day - no one can be bothered to fact check them.

Why is fake a million miles away? Have you heard the things he says and does?

Does Trump do any fact checking?

There's a special kind of member on PH who can simultaneously consume trumps constant lies, but get very sensitive to the truth if they can point to any error made by Byker.