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Miles Archer

(19,390 posts)
7. Remember when he was ridiculed for paying $44 billion for Twitter?
Sun May 25, 2025, 10:34 AM
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In terms of "making Twitter better," that was never his intention. He wanted a pre-made audience that he could manipulate, and he got it. He wanted to spend millions to purchase and influence an election, and he got it.

Because Trump is a consummate troll (as is Musk) and you can never take 100% of what he says seriously, we'll never know exactly what Trump meant the day after the election when he "thanked" Musk for being "so good with election system computers." It might have simply been Trump's "payback" for his "big lie"...sort of "YOU stole 2020 from ME, so I stole 2024 from YOU," because he ALWAYS lusts for payback, even when the thing that pissed him off was 100% legitimate.

His old man drilled that thing into him about failure NEVER being ACCEPTABLE, and it became a cornerstone of Trump's pathology.

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WTHF? Joinfortmill Sunday #1
Trump, Musk and their fellow billionaires are sociopaths. CousinIT Sunday #2
The ones who are NOT tend to stay away from the media Miles Archer Sunday #3
I have read that most of Congress dislikes him. CousinIT Sunday #5
Remember when he was ridiculed for paying $44 billion for Twitter? Miles Archer Sunday #7
And doing his criminal acts in broad daylight and never getting punished Justice matters. Sunday #11
Food for millions! yardwork Sunday #4
Trump says whatever the eugenics-loving billionaires who constantly GoCubsGo Sunday #6
Whatever is in America, should at least go immediately to hunger programs IN America RandomNumbers Sunday #8
And yet Trump gets away with it Grim Chieftain Sunday #9
Expensive military parade fit for a dictator, but no food for hungry kids. Emile Sunday #10
"Feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. Shelter the homeless." - Jesus Christ BoRaGard Sunday #12
We have enough surplus food that we can afford some degree of generosity to those who have so little. MLWR Sunday #13
The atheists and agnostics I know in the small Unitarian Universalist congregation... 3catwoman3 Sunday #15
"What say you, Mr. President?" Ray Bruns Sunday #14
Funny how this story is pretty much nowhere in the M$M Blue Owl Sunday #16
But I DID see the story of one of Trump's golf buddies getting bitten in the crotch by a swan at Bedminster Miles Archer Sunday #18
"Let them eat cake." -Dump, probably sakabatou Sunday #17
They don't want to pay for it... dchill Sunday #19
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