Scripting News podcast

Musk is just getting started


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Podcast: 11 minutes.

I see happy talk all over the place that Twitter is done, Musk is killing it, blah blah blah.

It's bullshit. In the next few months Twitter is going to morph into the political system that Barack Obama could have and should have built.

It turns out creating a president of the United States is worth a lot of money. Trump is inept at squeezing the money out of it, he's a loudmouth who proved one thing, Twitter is all you needed in 2016 to get elected president. That's going to change, as competition shows up (Zuckerberg, for example, with Threads).

They know, even if you don't -- that it can be very profitable to own the presidency.

If Trump loses, Musk won't get it on this round, but eventually he will own a big piece of the president, and then he will move his deals with SpaceX and Tesla up a notch.

Listen to the podcast, it's only 11 minutes. You probably haven't considered this angle, but I promise you he's moving, and he's mostly unopposed right now. He's not the nudnick so many people seem to think he is.

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