As news of Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter dominates the news, Producer Andrew fills in behind the mic and is joined by Jack Posobiec to make sense of the social media chaos. What did Elon’s offer reveal about his motives? What are his real aims? Also, Jack and Andrew dive into what Musk’s actions force Twitter’s board to do, by law, and what their fiduciary responsibility is to their shareholders. Revealing some key intel, Jack explains why Goldman Sach’s recent low price targets and sell ratings might already have Twitter in a vice they won’t be able to squirm out of if the board moves to reject Musk’s offer. All of this begs the question: What are the elites so afraid of should Elon take control of Twitter? Finally hear Elon in his own words explaining why he shows to act now. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Elon's Hostile Twitter Takeover00:06:25
Hey everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
This is producer Andrew filling in, Andrew Colvet.
Honored to be behind the microphone today on a very, very packed news day.
And leading off, we talk about Elon and his hostile takeover bid of Twitter, what it means, where this story started, where it's going next.
Does he have a plan B?
And in his own words, we get to hear from Elon with, you know, because he just happened to time this, all this news breaking when he had a TED Talk.
So we get to hear some of Elon's own words.
Folks, we also invite Jack Pesobic, who was tweeting back and forth with Elon only a few weeks ago about buying Twitter, only to see those very same predictions and tweets come to pass.
So you're not going to want to miss this episode.
Jack is probably one of the country's most foremost experts on the Twitter controversy on the Twitter saga that's going on, depending on what side you're on.
You're not going to want to miss it.
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Elon Musk and his hostile takeover of Twitter, his attempted hostile takeover of Twitter, woke up.
This is the first thing I'm seeing tweets and texts from like four in the morning, people instantly telling me what the backstory is, what they saw.
One of those people was Jack Pesobic, friend of the show.
If you listen to the Charlie Kirk show, you know that Jack is a good friend.
He also hosts human events daily, which is powered by Turning Point USA.
He's got the backstory.
Jack was one of the first people to call this exactly what Twitter is experiencing right now at the hands of Elon Musk, a free speech warrior.
Now, I'm not going to wave the pom-poms, if you will, for Elon on everything.
But I will say that he is a glitch in the Matrix.
This is often how we refer to him on this show.
He is a glitch in the Matrix.
Why?
Because he's not supposed to exist.
As Darren Batia from Revolver News often says, he is a, he's one of the last live players on the board.
We're going to have Darren back on the show soon to discuss this.
What does that mean?
He's one of the only world elites that's willing to actually take risks and get into a political arena like this.
Most elites are so married to their wealth that they dare not risk their status amongst the rulers of the universe.
They dare not risk their invites to the cocktail parties and their boards, their board seats, their Kush life.
Because the richer you become, the higher the stakes.
The richer you become, the more breaking from the mold of an elite ruler of the world, the higher, the more expensive breaking becomes.
And yet here we have this glitch in the matrix.
I think we wrote this morning, $260 billion.
He's actually worth closer to $300 billion.
He's able to essentially buy, make an offer at $43 billion to acquire Twitter, 100% cash, apparently, for roughly around 12 to 13% of his overall value.
Now, that might not seem like much to you, but this would represent one of the single largest philanthropic efforts any individual has ever taken, not just by sheer dollar amounts.
Obviously, the dollar's inflated.
We know that.
Adjusted for inflation.
This would represent one of the largest philanthropic, and I do use that word very intentionally, because we have to ask ourselves, and I'm going to read his quote in his letter to the board, well, to the chairman of the board, Brett Taylor, at Twitter.
So we have to ask ourselves, what does Elon Musk want?
What does he say he wants?
Now, I often say this when I get a chance to fill in for Charlie, but we have to say that when somebody shows you who they are, believe them.
When somebody tells you who they are, believe them.
There's very few other options, really.
So who is Elon saying that he is?
Because the verdict is admittedly out.
We don't actually know everything about how this story is going to play out, obviously.
But the jury's out.
This is what the letter says.
So I'm going to read this letter and then I'm going to ask the question, who does Elon Musk say he is and what does he want and is it good?
I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.
And I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
Stop right there.
He is 100% right and he is breaking with the rest of the elites.
Now you get people like on Twitter.
It's an absolute meltdown city on Twitter right now.
And it is glorious.
I have to say, I'm here for it.
I got popcorn, got my coffee, got my water.
I'm sitting here taking it all in, watching them melt down.
As a matter of fact, just, you know, why we're at it, we heard at 2 p.m., Twitter is going to have an all hands to deal with how Elon has triggered them.
All the snowflakes over at Twitter are going to be dealt with.
They're going to have a full counseling session.
They're going to have crisis counselors on call.
It's going to be quite the scene.
You know, listen, I was just in the Bay Area.
I'm actually really sad that we didn't stay an extra day just so I could see if I could catch some Twitter employees on the way out of their building that's empty.
Oh, that's right.
Nobody's at Twitter HQ.
Elon trolled him on that pretty good as well.
He wants to stand up for free speech.
Why?
Because it's imperative, a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
Amen, yes, and amen, sir.
He's absolutely right.
And one of the reasons that people are so up in arms about Twitter, about Facebook, about Google, is because they have lost their way.
Real Potential for Change00:06:33
They've lost their vision that they were founded upon.
And people like Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter, have acknowledged this.
He regrets, he says, his role in essentially ruining and corporatizing the internet.
Let's continue.
However, since making my investment, I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form.
Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company, says Musk.
As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced.
My offer is my best and final offer, and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.
Twitter has extraordinary potential.
I will unlock it.
Phenomenal, phenomenal move.
This has the potential of being something real.
When I talk about the cynicism affecting America, when I talk about the cynicism affecting the younger people of this country that I just got to see up close and personal at UC Berkeley, it is because nothing ever really seems to change.
And for them, it was getting Biden elected and nothing really changed, right?
For us, maybe it was that we got Trump in office, didn't get the wall built, and look what we have now.
Whatever it is, real change is hard to see.
And in this glimpse of an opportunity at a hostile takeover, which has a very good chance of affecting real change, we see hope.
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What's also breaking is that Twitter shareholder Saudi Prince Al-Waleed rejects Musk's bid to take over platform.
In his tweet, he said that it's much too low, given the intrinsic value and growth potential of Twitter, which is an interesting place to land on.
He only probably thinks that it has intrinsic value and growth prospects because of the recent stock increase that Elon Musk has helped inspire.
Now, let's get into this.
I want to play some sound here while we're kind of building this out a little bit more.
Cut 75, CBS reports.
Just let's lay the foundation.
Play Cut 75.
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, wants to buy Twitter.
All 100% of it.
In a letter to Twitter's chairman, Musk wrote, I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.
And I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
He also wrote, Twitter has extraordinary potential.
I will unlock it.
And he also said, I have no faith in the current management to make that happen.
It must go private.
Now, what's interesting about this is that as left-wing Twitter implodes, you've now put them in a very ironic position where they are going to be forced to defend a Saudi prince for defending free speech.
They are in a pickle.
They have completely collapsed on their own logic, their own failed logic.
This will be really fun to watch, folks.
So keep a lookout for that.
That's going to be really, really fun to watch in the midst of all this.
So the question then becomes, and we're going to bring Jack Pesobic on in the next segment to really dive into this, but let's play this out.
What are the scenarios that happen here?
What are the potential outcomes that we need to be thinking about?
Now, you've just seen that a shareholder of 5% of Twitter has rejected the offer.
Now, rejecting the offer means that they have to be able to present to their shareholders, to the rest of Twitter shareholders, that they have a fiduciary responsibility to manage the company well, that this is in their financial best interest.
Now, if that happens, guess what's going to happen?
Twitter stock is going to tumble back down to a very low point if that happens.
One of the potential outcomes here, if they reject Musk's offer outright, is that they will then, shareholders will then have an opportunity to sue.
In which case, many of the board members would then be reinstated potentially.
Or, sorry, removed, and then they would be replaced.
That's the right way to say it.
These are potential outcomes here because you have to understand they have to do what's in the best interest of the shareholders.
This may be a communist rag, top to bottom, inside and out.
This is still an American company that has to uphold American laws.
That would be an opportunity.
Most of the analysis that I'm seeing is saying that, regardless, Elon's already won.
He's gamed this out three or four steps in advance, and he's already won, regardless of whether he takes over the company, regardless of whether he brings in somebody like Peter Thiel, ups the bid again.
Can you imagine the imploding minds if he brings in somebody like Peter Thial just for fun?
There are about four different moves that he still has on the board.
Meanwhile, Twitter's leadership is panicking.
We're already getting signals that they have rejected the offer.
So the question becomes: has he already checkmated them?
Analysis Says He Already Won00:17:22
Did he already play this out?
Did he already game this out in such a way where Twitter is effectively over in its current leadership form?
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But without further ado, we are joined by Jack Pisobic, host of Human Events Daily, powered by TPUSA.
Jack Pisobic, welcome to the show.
Andrew, thanks so much for having me on again, man.
Absolutely.
It's always an honor, Jack.
You're a good friend.
You're very, very up on this, this Elon Musk story, which we've been talking about all hour.
I have my own theories about what he's playing at here, about the chess match that's unfolding.
I hate to use the cliche, the three-dimensional chess, but it certainly seems apt here.
Jack, you have the backstory.
You know how some of these details came to be.
You were one of the first people on Twitter that sort of was calling for this.
You and Cernovich were going back and forth.
I mean, it's a really amazing thing.
I want you to tell the audience.
I don't want to spill the beans.
It's your story to tell.
What do you know, Jack?
Yeah, so, I mean, we did have that back and forth with Elon on March 26th, and we put the tweet thread up.
You know, kind of we're having a discussion in Elon's mentions about some of these censorship areas that Twitter has gotten into, centering conservatives for their viewpoints, but at the same time, allowing false information to fly, whether it's for the Covington kids or Jussie Smollett or, you know, anything that's going on in government, overseas, the foreign policy sphere, right?
All this false stuff comes down, except for anything that you say that's in a conservative vein, that's what gets censored.
And Elon said it feels a little unbalanced.
And then I responded, you should buy Twitter and take it private.
Now here we are three weeks later, and he's doing just that.
We also found out in the backstory that as he was tweeting about that and as we were having that exchange, he was behind the scenes already purchasing up shares of Twitter.
Now, one of the names that I want people to understand, what are the names that people need to hear in all of this is Alex Spyro.
And you're seeing Alex Spyro commented on as the lawyer, the spokesman for Elon Musk in this purchase and a few of his other ventures.
Alex Spyro is one of the heavy hitters out of New York when it comes to these MA deals.
He is one of the top dogs.
He's a pipe hitter when it comes to this stuff.
So when I saw Alex Spyro's name was attached to this thing, I knew right from the bat, right from the get-go, that Elon Musk was serious.
And what I hear, and you can also read between the lines of Elon's letter to the board of Twitter this morning, that originally he just wanted a seat at the table.
He just wanted a seat at the table and to have influence with Twitter and with its board.
He didn't want to do the hostile takeover right away.
But because of the way that he was treated by the management of Twitter, so you remember in the very first instance, after he said he was buying the 9% stake, the management of Twitter puts out this huge statement, Donald Trump will not be allowed back on.
And Elon's like, wait a minute, I'm not even in the room yet.
What are you doing?
And then they're putting all these restrictions on and saying, you need to take a background test and you need to cap yourself to 15%.
And oh, by the way, they were also going to put a restriction.
And I don't think this has been reported yet, but we talk about it today on Human Events Daily on the podcast that they were putting a restriction in place on him that he couldn't discuss Twitter on the Twitter platform while he sat on the board.
And obviously, that was going to be a hard no from Elon because that flies in the face of everything that he's trying to do.
And so because of that, he went back to Spyro, went back to his advisors and said, you know what?
I'm done.
Buy the whole thing.
Just buy it outright.
I don't want to play this game.
They want to treat me like that.
Then I'm just going to come up and we're going to buy the whole thing.
We're going to give them more.
And by the way, so we're now seeing that the Twitter board, so they're a public company.
So this triggers an independent committee of the board has to be set up whenever you get what's called a tender offer.
And that's what Elon's done.
However, they brought in Goldman to advise them that the price is too low.
Zero Hedge just has the tweet up where they went back to Goldman's valuation of Twitter from Q4 last year, so December of last year, and they said that it should be a sell, right?
That they value Twitter, that you should sell between 30 and 36 price target.
Elon's almost offering double of that.
So Twitter, they're in a little bit of a bind right now because it turns out the math is actually on Elon's side.
And if they don't take this deal, you better believe he's going to be vocal about it on his Twitter account.
So he actually kind of has them between a rock and a hard place.
And I don't even think they realize it yet.
That is a remarkable revelation.
I love Zero Hedge.
A big fan, big fan.
They do some great work, especially when it comes to financial topics.
They are typically way ahead of the curve and kind of, you know, some people call them fringe.
They've had their own Twitter issues, but they are very, that's a very smart group that runs that.
Okay, so Jack, you just said something that's very, very important.
Twitter is working with, the leadership of Twitter is working with Goldman.
December, you said, 2021.
Goldman said it was a sell at what price?
Price target of 30.
30.
And what price did Elon Musk just make as an offer on Twitter?
The number everybody remembers, 5420.
5420.
That's right.
I've seen that written up.
He has a history of this.
Didn't he try to make Tesla private at $420 a share?
Right, exactly.
It's all sort of this troll of his Joe Rogan, his famous image of him, I guess, smoking weed with Joe Rogan.
Very, very specific number there, Ms. Franklin.
Yeah, it's a very, very specific number.
For any of the folks that don't know, just Google 420.
Okay.
Which I was surprised that he didn't make the offer 42.0 million or a billion.
Interesting.
Probably a missed opportunity.
Here's the thing.
What's very critical to understand here, though, folks, is that there is a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders of Twitter to make them as much money as they can, right?
To look out for the financial best interests.
No, no, this is what people don't get.
This isn't something where Twitter can just turn around and say no, right?
They are required to do this as a publicly held company.
They're required to do this.
They have to shop the offer around.
And I guarantee you.
So Saudi Prince Alawid, by the way, who was arrested by MBS a while back.
I guess he's back on Twitter.
I thought he was driving an Uber or something.
But I guess he's back on Twitter now.
And he's saying that we reject the offer and it's too low, right?
Well, the problem is you're not going to get a better offer than this.
So you've got to shop the bargain.
You've got to shop it around, see if you can get a better deal.
They're not going to get a better deal.
So what they might try to do is stand up someone to say, even if it's not completely, you know, completely fought through, they're going to stand up someone to say, oh, well, I'm offering 80 billion, right?
Find some other billionaire to come in and offer 80 because they probably want 100.
They probably want 100.
Who's going to do that?
Without Elon, you know, with the competing bid, I mean, exactly.
So you've already got the number one, you know, the most, the wealthiest man in the world.
And plus, by the way, if Elon wants to, and I've seen other people were talking about this, if he wants to, he could enlist the ape army.
And if people know what the ape army is, these were the retail investors that were behind the meme stocks, behind Dogecoin, behind AMC and GameStop.
He could get all those people on board.
So if they reject the offer, he could still get all of these people on board and then pledge their proxy votes to Elon.
Exactly.
So he could still keep in mind, this isn't the hostile takeover.
This is a sweetheart deal.
This is actually a sweetheart deal.
And so it puts them in a bind from a fiduciary responsibility, you're 100% right perspective to have to take the deal.
Because if they don't, Elon, number one, he's threatening to tank the stock already.
He says, if you do not take this deal, I believe that my shares are overvaluated, which means he's going to pull out.
And we all know what's going to happen to Twitter stock if he pulls out.
And they know, all right.
And he's saying, basically, take it or tank it.
You take it or I tank it.
Here's what people need to understand as well, Jack, is that the publicly traded company is supposed to already reflect the market valuation for that stock, right?
In theory, it represents the value.
Yeah, this is the corporate pitch for how the stock market is supposed to work.
Right.
It's supposed to work, right?
So what he's saying is I'm giving you a premium on where that is.
These people are saying, well, the Saudi Prince is saying, hey, it's actually undervalued, even though Twitter just skyrocketed in price.
So what they're going to do here, Jack, is they're going to say, well, look at what the price tag was for the stock at its high watermark in February 2021.
It was actually at $77.06.
Well, what's happened since the stock plummeted from $77.06, $77.06 in February 2021.
Rampant censorship of conservatives.
You've had the emergence of actual viable competitors in the space, right?
Yeah, maybe they're not.
you know, full of left-wingers, but apps like Getter, platforms like Getter, which you are very active on, which Charlie Kirk is very active on.
Yeah, look, getter as well.
I mean, it's one of those things where if this deal doesn't go through, you know, people are just going to move together.
They're going to say, if this, this is like the last shot for Twitter.
And for a lot of people out there, and not even just conservatives, but people who are independent-minded, people who just want to have a conversation, people want to be able to debate things that are, you know, they see things coming across their screen.
They see the news.
They say, hey, I want to debate this, whether it's vaccines or whether it's Russia or whatever, you know, whatever the topic of the day is, they'd like to be able to have serious and substantive debate on it.
And that's the rub with all of this, because Elon Musk isn't saying that he wants to own Twitter.
He's saying he wants to liberate Twitter and restore it to its place of a global forum for freedom of speech.
And that is terrifying to the powers that be and terrifying to the regime.
They will throw everything they possibly can at Elon, because keep in mind that a lot of his money is derived from government contracts, at least here in the United States.
He's also got ties to the CCP, and I'm not blind to that, right?
His factories, by the way, in Shanghai right now are down because of the lockdowns.
So they're going to go after, you remember there was that series of Tesla tweets that was out about whether he's taking it private, not taking it private.
The SEC is going to look into that.
They're also going to potentially look into his SpaceX contracts, right?
All of these deals that he has with NASA.
And so Aaron Sorkin went on Morning Joe, sloppy morning Joe this morning today.
And Joe suddenly is talking about Section 230 reform.
Oh, wait, there might be a problem if the billionaire doesn't agree with me.
Oh, wow.
It's almost like exactly the position that conservatives have been saying for years, Joe, for years.
He suddenly found Jesus on it.
So they are going to throw everything.
They're going to throw everything at Elon.
This is, and I don't know if he realizes it.
I don't know if he realizes it.
It's not just a financial question because it's a question fundamentally of political power in this country and political geopolitical power around the world.
No, I think you're absolutely right.
And I think what makes this moment so stunning is that people like Elon are not supposed to exist.
He is a glitch in the elites matrix.
He's not supposed to be willing to take this type of political risk.
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I want to play one cut here, Cut77, and I want to then read a tweet from Max Boot, and I want to get your take on what exactly they're so afraid of.
Cut 77.
But at the Washington Post, they served up something slightly different, a little more stealthy.
They enlisted the former CEO of Reddit, an activist mediocrity called Ellen Powell, who couldn't manage to actually run Reddit, to write an op-ed with this title, quote, Elon Musk's vision of free speech will be bad for Twitter.
And then the piece contained this line.
Now, this line doesn't so much reveal a lack of self-awareness as it does commit murder against the entire concept they're trying to support.
And here's what it is, quote, Musk's appointment to Twitter's board shows that we need regulation of social media platforms to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.
That's something.
I needed a moment there.
Here's the tweet.
I know.
Here's the tweet from Max Boot.
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics, Jack.
If Elon Musk acquires Twitter, he seems to believe that on the social media, anything goes for democracy to survive.
We need more content moderation, not less.
Jack, what are they so afraid of?
Look, they're afraid of what Marshall McLuhan warned about all the way back in the 1960s.
The medium is the message.
So, of course, you got the Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos, right?
The Bezosian Post.
But that's the second richest man in the world.
You've got The Atlantic, which is essentially owned by Steve Jobs' widow, the Globe and Mail, owned by Canada's richest manned, and the New York Times that at one point that was financially backed by Carlos Swim of Mexico.
And so what you have here isn't so much a, you know, this, they're making this argument about freedom of speech, right?
But what this really is is an oligarch fight.
So congratulations.
We're going full mask off at this point.
You live in an oligarchy, and it's certainly an oligarchy when it comes to communication because who controls communication controls the flow of public opinion, and the flow of public opinion then informs democracy.
So Mass Democracy comes with, of course, the Washington Post has this in their title, which we're told, Democracy Dies in Darkness, was it's very, obviously very cheesy, kind of cliched and very 1984 sounding.
Jeff Bezos came up with it himself.
And then the rest of the board said, sure, we'll go with that.
Sure, you pay our bills.
No problem, Moss.
And so what McLuhan pointed out, though, and just to finish my point, those are all outlets of information, yet Twitter is a medium of information.
So if Twitter is the medium by which, you know, it's the network, it's the channel, it's the space where all these things are able to compete and able to be debated, they're telling you that their version of democracy only works if you silence all opposition and all dissenting voices.
Sign of Healthy Free Speech00:04:08
Yeah, I think you're spot on on this, Jack.
I think what the oligarchs, what the elites are realizing is that their message is failing.
I mean, look at this Quinnipiak poll that just came out.
I mean, this is, Jack, he's got an approval rating of 33% according to this poll.
They realize that if they lose even the mechanisms of the delivery of speech like Twitter, that it is, that is such a ruling class platform that they're really dead in the water.
Now, you are often on one of our friends' shows, Bannon's War Room.
He calls this an extinction-level event, right?
I mean, this really could be an existential crisis amongst the rulers of the universe here.
Do you think?
Well, Andrew, that's exactly why I'm saying that for them, they realize what this is.
And we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what the response is going to be because what you've got here is a rogue oligarch, right?
You've got a rogue elite, someone who's not playing off the same playbook.
He's not one of us.
You're supposed to just drive your electric cars.
You can get some space contracts, but stay in your lane.
Elon's not doing that.
He's not staying in his lane.
And he says that there are things that he cares about more.
And this is a power move, by the way, by Generation X.
And I've talked about this a little bit on Human Events Daily, where Generation X is typically seen as this sort of, you know, the don't tell me what to do generation.
They reject authority.
They're rebels.
You know, this is the generation of Kurt Cobain.
It's the generation of Joe Rogan, the generation of Jack Dorsey, the original creator of Twitter, and also, of course, the generation of Elon Musk.
And so time and time again, what you see them doing is rejecting authority.
And so for him to make this move, it's because the woke authority and the woke tyranny has gotten too much.
Jack, I could go on and on with you about this.
I wish we had more time.
But I'm just going to make a prediction here that Elon Musk has already checkmated Twitter, the leadership of Twitter, and I cannot wait to see where it goes.
It looks like Elon is speaking out.
He is now going on the record about his Twitter attempted hostile takeover of Twitter, which is just, can I just say again, it's so much fun to watch.
Let's play Cut 89.
And a good sign as to whether there's free speech is, is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like?
And if that is the case, then we have free speech.
And it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like.
That is a sign of a healthy, functioning free speech situation.
Where someone you don't like says something you don't like and it's allowed to happen.
That is a very simple and a very powerful way to say it.
Now, here's the thing: there's a difference between compelled speech, right?
This is why I am in favor of things like the anti-grooming bill in Florida.
It's saying, teachers, you don't have the right as instruments of the state to teach children about sexualization, gender identity, and things like that.
These things belong in the power of the people through their vote and through their legislators, through the representative.
That is compelled speech.
If a teacher forces a child to listen to certain things, to listen to their indoctrination, to their ideologies about whatever, right?
Now, we're willing as a society to give them wide berth on a lot of topics.
But when it comes to sexualization, we've said in Florida at least, the people of Florida have said via their representatives that we do not support that.
So I want to make this very clear because a lot of the argument comes back on conservatives say, yo, you're anti-free speech.
I thought you were pro-free speech, conservatives.
And it's like, yes, we are.
But free speech is a willing speaker and a willing listener.
So even on Twitter, you're saying, well, you know, saying something they don't like.
Well, you could turn them off.
You could block them.
That's part of the Twitter landscape.
But not as a platform.
We're saying it's a platform.
You shouldn't be blocking people.
But individual users can block people from following them in this and that.
That's free speech in action.
Free Speech as Willing Listener00:02:29
Elon Musk also says in clip 88 that he believes that it is his strong intuitive sense, which I love, that having a public forum that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is critical to the future of civilization.
CUD 88.
My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.
But you've described yourself.
I don't care about the economics at all.
Okay, that's cool to hear.
I didn't see that last part and I had not heard that part.
I don't care about the economics at all.
What you are seeing is a man that...
I mean, that's powerful.
I apologize if I'm reacting on the fly here.
He doesn't care about the economics at all.
That is a powerful statement.
You know, I started today's show by saying that when somebody tells you who they are, somebody shows you what they are, you have no choice but to take them at their word and by their actions and by their deeds.
Elon Musk, we always knew he was a great entrepreneur.
We did not know if he was attempting to do great things.
The last couple weeks in Elon's activities, the things that he is saying, reveal much about the man.
And should his efforts at taking over Twitter ultimately prove successful, I believe that it will be in the hands of a benevolent force for good and for free speech, at least insofar as free speech is concerned.
Now, I have my issues with Elon.
I'm not saying I don't.
But in those areas, I think that this will be a vast improvement upon the status quo.
Thanks, everybody, for tuning in.
Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did.
It went quick.
I can tell you recording it.
Folks, the Twitter story is just getting started.
We're at the middle of it.
Charlie's still suspended from Twitter.
Will he be brought back on if Twitter is under the control of Elon Musk?
I would happen to think so.
So let's see where this plays out.
We'll be staying very much attuned to it.
Thanks so much, guys.
We'll talk to you soon.
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