I wasn't exactly convinced there was some shadowy plan going on in today's current year politics. No, I'm utterly convinced everything is happening by pure stupidity. There's no grand master plan to do anything, it's just stupid people doing stupid things. Twitter could've easily released Elon Musk from the contract and while they would have the stigma of bots, the Democratic establishment, allegedly, could withhold the entire site and still operate it as normal. Granted it would bleed money probably, but other democratic sympathizing companies like Blackrock would probably bail it out. No, they press forward with it under the assumption this would ruin Elon Musk or maybe give the twitter higher ups an easy way out. Or maybe people pressured Elon into sealing the deal so that Elon could do what he's doing right now.
I don't know, but all I know is this was probably easily the stupidest decision ever made this year and probably for the decade to come because now the establishment has unintentionally painted themselves into a tighter corner. They can't bleed it out and seize it and reform it because that will confirm what everyone suspected of twitter before. They can't just buy it out right and bail Elon out because then people who support the establishment would be unhappy. So what do they do in this situation that's subtle and carefully planned? Nothing. They can't do anything with their golden goose now because as a direct consequence of their actions Twitter is in the hands of essentially a rebel.
Unless they plan on changing things through force and through blatant manipulation, this is essentially a lose-lose situation. Twitter can bleed out and die and Elon acquires a debt that he may or may not recover from, but what did the populace of America and the world just witness at the end of it all? That everything we suspected about the modern day internet and social media was correct all along?
