About a week ago, CNN's Michael Smerconish said he was "rooting" for Elon Musk's noble statement of wanting to open Twitter to everyone who wanted to speak on social media and prevent Twitter from becoming a "hellscape." I confess that I was rooting for Musk, too. It seems like our hopes are already getting dashed.
First Musk suggested that Paul Pelosi - now out of the hospital - just might have been involved in a homosexual affair with the guy who tried to beat him to death. Then he announced that he was firing half of Twitter's staff, sending e-mails via Twitter's in-house electronic mail system to those who are keeping their jobs and sending e-mails to personal e-mail addresses to those losing their jobs. Those getting fired are suing Musk for giving them less than two weeks notice.
And as if that weren't bad enough, Musk plans to charge more for the "blue checkmark" - a symbol of verification to prove that you are who you say you are - used commonly by politicians and celebrities.
Musk is doing this mainly to make Twitter profitable, something it was before he overpaid for it. Experts have calculated that Musk blew 75 percent of what he paid for Twitter - which he agreed to buy then tried to back out of - and now he has to make more revenue to cover his rear end. The only way he can save Twitter now is to destroy it.
I don't know how I'm going to promote the blogs I have that Facebook won't let me post links to when Twitter is gone.
None of this will have a detrimental effect on the crown jewel of Musk's empire, the Tesla car company. They're still good cars, and people won't stop buying them just because the guy who makes them is a horrible person. After all, Henry Ford was a reprehensible figure, but Americans kept buying Ford vehicles.
At least Teslas, unlike most of Ford's vehicles these days, aren't horrible themselves.
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