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Elon Musk is joking about buying Coke
to ‘put the cocaine back in’ as investors
worry whether his Twitter buy will go through

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 4/28/2022 8:56:27 AM

Two days after Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to take Twitter private was accepted by the board, Musk tweeted out in jest, “Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in.” Musk then sent out another picture of a fake tweet written by him, which read “Now I’m going to buy McDonald’s and fix all of the ice cream machines,” captioning the image with “Listen, I can’t do miracles ok.” After pledging $21 billion in equity and raising $25.5 billion of debt and margin loan financing, Musk has continued to use Twitter to buff his image as a brash billionaire who is not afraid to break the rules

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Reply 1 - Posted by: sanspeur 4/28/2022 9:09:10 AM (No. 1140575)
a sense of humor and history is strong with lefties /s .This is carry over from” the mean tweets “ and regime garbage that soooo offended any one looking to be offended
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Reply 2 - Posted by: minuteman 4/28/2022 9:29:19 AM (No. 1140598)
It must be fun to be him.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 4/28/2022 9:30:53 AM (No. 1140600)
FTA: "A day after an SEC filing said Musk must avoid posting disparaging Tweets about Twitter and its agents until the buyout deal is finalized, Musk tweeted a meme on Wednesday mocking the company’s head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde. (snip) Gadde, formally Jack Dorsey’s right hand, has been the main driver of Twitter’s new rules regulating the content of its users. Gadde has been behind the company’s decision to ban political ads, kick Donald Trump off the platform, and delete controversial COVID-19 tweets. But during the 2018 U.S. elections, there was an error in Twitter’s censorship, which Gadde was responsible for. Twitter censored a New York Post story on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop...." Yeah, the laptop story suppression simply was "an error." Fortune is not a serious publication.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: hoopsfan 4/28/2022 10:07:13 AM (No. 1140644)
What a snarky lefty spin piece by Sophie Mellor of Fortune.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MickTurn 4/28/2022 10:16:38 AM (No. 1140658)
How about you buy the Democrap Party and then put it in the Dumpster where it belongs?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Krause 4/28/2022 10:24:46 AM (No. 1140669)
Why doesn't he buy Joe Biden. He's for sale.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 4/28/2022 1:04:23 PM (No. 1140852)
At first they were terrified that he would buy out the Twits. And, now they are worried that he won't? Incompetents as far as the eye can see, and do we only have ONE MAN who can intelligently run a company any more? Apparently so. Leftist brainwashing seems to have entirely wrecked all our managerial class, made them more interested in hiring incompetents who have the right mental illnesses or the right skin colors - regardless of the fact that they may be entirely unable to do the jobs that they were ostensibly hired for. Everywhere - US companies are underperforming because hiring by merit is no longer permitted, so we have incomptetents being hired and promoted and - they run the companies incompetently, unsurprisingly.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Faithfully 4/28/2022 9:01:48 PM (No. 1141210)
Too bad. I don't drink Coke but I was willing to start.
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