The guy that helped Ukraine stay connected and thwart Russian hackers.
The guy that is helping the world go GREEN with electric vehicles.
The guy that creates jobs here in America and employs 99,000
The guy that paid over $11 billion in taxes last year.

The guy that is a creator and innovator

Is PUBLIC ENEMY #1

The perfect editorial cartoon by @deAdder pic.twitter.com/uXw9y8Jduj

— Steven Dengler 🇺🇦 (@Dracogen) April 25, 2022

Also consider downloading an archive of your account. You might want it someday. https://t.co/6dAvalmY4f

— Steven Dengler 🇺🇦 (@Dracogen) April 25, 2022

We have reached a new era in American life when a platform dedicated to free speech is labeled 'public enemy #1". George Orwell..Aldous Huxley..call your office.

.@ElonMusk is going to restore free speech and help us with Winning the Social Media War! pic.twitter.com/O7VRGE7CTv

— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) April 25, 2022

Reinstatement. It's happening.

helltopay1 said:

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We have reached a new era in American life when a platform dedicated to free speech is labeled 'public enemy #1". George Orwell..Aldous Huxley..call your office.

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I will be documenting some of the illiberal, undemocratic reactions to the news that Twitter is set to accept @elonmusk’s offer to buy the platform.

A Virginia Democrat political operative is afraid the former US president will be allowed back: https://t.co/gOmVSqaUm7 pic.twitter.com/MExjLQgW1k

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 25, 2022

Laura Gómez, former head of localization for Twitter, says @elonmusk owning Twitter is one of the greatest threats to American elections. In 2020, Twitter was one of the platforms that censored reporting that was damaging to candidate Biden. #ElonMusk #ElonMuskBuyTwitter pic.twitter.com/SB650uJ39g

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 25, 2022

Putin was the greatest threat to Democracy until today.

All these people posting sh*t about Musk are really homophobic. Dude is breaking down LGBTQ and autism barriers!

Hmm

BearForce2 said:

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I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022

Musk is an African-American the Dems couldn't rein in.

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I love how Musk takes care of fellow African Americans.

Elon University Student Granted $20K To Focus On The Self Care of Black Women https://t.co/qUSA43YChI pic.twitter.com/YKXv19TctW

— The Root (@TheRoot) April 24, 2022

Stop posting racist links … but then again you post racist stuff

BearForce2 said:

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I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022

Musk is an African-American the Dems couldn't rein in.

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Who are African-Americans? What are African Americans? Are you using words you have no idea what they mean no context?

Here is your favorite type

An African American owner of the largest social media company on earth. This is historic.

— Lavern Spicer🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) April 25, 2022

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Musk is an African-American the Dems couldn't rein in.

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Who are African-Americans? What are African Americans? Are you using words you have no idea what they mean no context?

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Larry Elder said "don't call me African-American, I'm not from Africa."

tRump and the BI Conservatives all agree Musk is a good man. A moment of collective discernment and clarity on their part, or something else?

bearister said:

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tRump and the BI Conservatives all agree Musk is a good man. A moment of collective discernment and clarity on their part, or something else?

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Musk is a Putin asset is trending on Twitter

bearister said:

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tRump and the BI Conservatives all agree Musk is a good man. A moment of collective discernment and clarity on their part, or something else?

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Some on the right are still suspicious of Musk because of his connections with the CCP.

BearForce2 said:

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bearister said:

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tRump and the BI Conservatives all agree Musk is a good man. A moment of collective discernment and clarity on their part, or something else?

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Some on the right are still suspicious of Musk because of his connections with the CCP.

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And Obama.

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bearister said:

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tRump and the BI Conservatives all agree Musk is a good man. A moment of collective discernment and clarity on their part, or something else?

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Musk is a Putin asset is trending on Twitter

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Musk's net worth is $20B greater than Putin's and is the same amount greater than Gaddafi's was (before they shaved his legs and rectum).

DiabloWags said:

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The guy that helped Ukraine stay connected and thwart Russian hackers.
The guy that is helping the world go GREEN with electric vehicles.
The guy that creates jobs here in America and employs 99,000
The guy that paid over $11 billion in taxes last year.

The guy that is a creator and innovator

Is PUBLIC ENEMY #1

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Here is the story about his taxes (that you conveniently ignore);

"Musk has a history of using the US tax code to pay little or no personal federal income taxes. A report from ProPublica shows that for 2018 Musk and many other Americans near the top of the world's richest people paid no income tax.

In Musk's case, he receives no salary from Tesla, only very valuable stock options, as a form of compensation. And under US tax code he doesn't have to pay taxes on those options until he exercises them to buy shares of stock at a fraction of their current value.

He also would have to pay taxes if he sells shares he already held because of his earlier investment in the company, which he has rarely done. But he did that last year as well.

Musk has not exercised most of the options that he holds. But he had options to buy 22.9 million shares that were due to expire in August 2022, and started exercising those options to buy additional shares late last year.
In total, he spent $142.6 million to purchase shares worth $23.6 billion, giving him $23.5 billion in in taxable income, taxable for 2021 at a federal rate of about 41%. Musk also sold a small fraction of the additional shares he already owned, sales that fetched a taxable $5.8 billion at a lower capital gains rate.
Together those stock trades likely resulted in roughly an $11 billion federal tax bill, which he has tweeted about."

So he made over $12 billion dollars on $143 million dollars and you make him out to be a great humanitarian and he should pay no taxes like average citizens because he is such an innovator and risk taker.

The Left hates him because they have now lost their power to censor people on the right.

Andreesen has become one of the more amusing twitter follows recently.

Berkeley 1964. https://t.co/sEZciWIKSA pic.twitter.com/GjNgqFAt9M

— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) April 26, 2022

LOL

.@ElonMusk now literally owns the libs.

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 25, 2022

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So he made over $12 billion dollars on $143 million dollars and you make him out to be a great humanitarian and he should pay no taxes like average citizens because he is such an innovator and risk taker.

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You're so pathetically lost, its not even funny.
You're reading comprehension is equally pathetic.

I never posted that Musk "should pay no taxes".
In fact, quite the contrary. He paid over $11 Billion in taxes. A FACT that you conveniently ignore.

PS. Cool cut and paste job though.

Sadly, it doesnt sound like you understood anything in the artile that you cut and pasted. You might want to increase your financial literacy ... otherwise you will continue to sound extremely WHINEY and jealous of people that have worked hard all their life and achieved amazing things that no one thought even possible.

I can tell that you dont understand anything about Musk's stock option compensation, because you ignore the fact that his 26 million shares didnt come out of thin air. They were granted by a compensation committee based on MILESTONE achievements.*

There was a time when some thought that Tesla was going under and the RISK was far too great. Musk beat those odds. He was able to create and innovate on a scale that no one has ever seen before. Not Ford. Not GM. And not even VW Group.

He's the first to market in a technology that's never been done before and done so in scale that is usually reserved by legacy auto manufactures. Not brand new upstarts with zero track record.

But you're too blinded by your anger, hate, and financial illiteracy to see that.

It must really suck to wake up every morning with such a whiney outlook on life.

Good Luck with that.

* MILESTONE achievements

For the financially illiterate who cut and paste articles they dont even understand:

Footnote #33 from Form 4 filed by Elon Musk with the SEC:

Effective August 13, 2012, the reporting person was granted an option to purchase 26,374,505 shares of common stock, as adjusted to give effect to a five-for-one forward split of the Issuer's common stock in the form of a stock dividend distributed on August 28, 2020.

1/10 of the total number of shares subject to this option became and will become vested and exercisable each time: (i) the Issuer's market capitalization increases by $4.0 billion above the initially measured market capitalization of $3.2 billion; and (ii) one of 10 specified performance milestones relating to the development of the Issuer's Model X and Model 3 vehicles and our total production of vehicles is attained, subject to the reporting person's continued service to us at each such vesting event.

We’re back.

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) April 25, 2022

That was fast.

Is anyone else losing followers too? I'm seeing people across Twitter report they have lost thousands today. I am down 5,000. Though much of that could be because I'm an idiot with way too many followers. Idk

— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 25, 2022

Just lost 2000 followers. Anyone else losing followers?

— Neera Tanden🌻 (@neeratanden) April 25, 2022

Weird. I just lost more than 8,000 followers in the last couple of hours. Was it something I said? https://t.co/TS3vwDephc

— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) April 25, 2022

Left wing bots jump ship after Musk buys Twitter.

Panic and hysteria grips the chattering classes

Now that we have Free Speech on Twitter

Joe Biden stole the 2020 Election

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) April 25, 2022

Anarchistbear said:

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Panic and hysteria grips the chattering classes

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The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022

BearForce2 said:

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Anarchistbear said:

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Panic and hysteria grips the chattering classes

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The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022

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FYI: We’re blocked by Elon Musk.

So much for being “committed” to free speech. pic.twitter.com/iXsMQYq8v0

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) April 26, 2022

Public Citizen still has their Twitter account and probably less followers.

DiabloWags said:

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Footnote #33 from Form 4 filed by Elon Musk with the SEC:

Effective August 13, 2012, the reporting person was granted an option to purchase 26,374,505 shares of common stock, as adjusted to give effect to a five-for-one forward split of the Issuer's common stock in the form of a stock dividend distributed on August 28, 2020.

1/10 of the total number of shares subject to this option became and will become vested and exercisable each time: (i) the Issuer's market capitalization increases by $4.0 billion above the initially measured market capitalization of $3.2 billion; and (ii) one of 10 specified performance milestones relating to the development of the Issuer's Model X and Model 3 vehicles and our total production of vehicles is attained, subject to the reporting person's continued service to us at each such vesting event.

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If only our elected Government leaders and public employees were compensated based on performance metrics, our quality of life would be much higher and there would be little room for political bickering.

DiabloWags said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Footnote #33 from Form 4 filed by Elon Musk with the SEC:

Effective August 13, 2012, the reporting person was granted an option to purchase 26,374,505 shares of common stock, as adjusted to give effect to a five-for-one forward split of the Issuer's common stock in the form of a stock dividend distributed on August 28, 2020.

1/10 of the total number of shares subject to this option became and will become vested and exercisable each time: (i) the Issuer's market capitalization increases by $4.0 billion above the initially measured market capitalization of $3.2 billion; and (ii) one of 10 specified performance milestones relating to the development of the Issuer's Model X and Model 3 vehicles and our total production of vehicles is attained, subject to the reporting person's continued service to us at each such vesting event.

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If only our elected Government leaders and public employees were compensated based on performance metrics, our quality of life would be much higher and there would be little room for political bickering.

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Funny coming from a Wall Street gambler that would not want the same standard applied to them.

The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022

calpoly said:

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DiabloWags said:

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DiabloWags said:

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Footnote #33 from Form 4 filed by Elon Musk with the SEC:

Effective August 13, 2012, the reporting person was granted an option to purchase 26,374,505 shares of common stock, as adjusted to give effect to a five-for-one forward split of the Issuer's common stock in the form of a stock dividend distributed on August 28, 2020.

1/10 of the total number of shares subject to this option became and will become vested and exercisable each time: (i) the Issuer's market capitalization increases by $4.0 billion above the initially measured market capitalization of $3.2 billion; and (ii) one of 10 specified performance milestones relating to the development of the Issuer's Model X and Model 3 vehicles and our total production of vehicles is attained, subject to the reporting person's continued service to us at each such vesting event.

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If only our elected Government leaders and public employees were compensated based on performance metrics, our quality of life would be much higher and there would be little room for political bickering.

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Funny coming from a Wall Street gambler that would not want the same standard applied to them.

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You're so lost.
You lie every time you post.
Youre as pathetic as a Trumpanzee that keeps coming up with the number "5" after adding "2 + 2"

hanky1 said:

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The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022

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FYI: We’re blocked by Elon Musk.

So much for being “committed” to free speech. pic.twitter.com/iXsMQYq8v0

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) April 26, 2022