Elon Musk Has Been Making Memes About Twitter’s Lawsuit Threats
Last week, Elon Musk decided that he didn’t actually want to buy Twitter for $44 billion and released a statement informing everyone that Twitter had misled him, and therefore he was backing out of the deal. That’s not good, considering Elon and Twitter signed a contract with Elon agreeing his intention to follow through with the purchase, and Twitter let it be known several times that they’d happily summon their team of lawyers on Elon, should he metaphorically skip town. So no one should be surprised that Twitter is lawyering up. But according to Elon’s recent Twitter activity, he’s not bothered in the least. In fact, he’s casually making ha-ha-has and tee-hee-hees about the whole mess.
Any other reasonable person who publicly pulled out of an impulsive multi-billion-dollar social media platform purchase on Friday might have spent the weekend freaking out on a conference call to their legal team, like “Oh fuck oh fuck what did I do, I screwed up bad!“. Not Elon. Elon hasn’t yet seemed to grasp the reality that Twitter, a very big and very powerful corporation, is coming after him for their money. Elon has claimed that the reason he didn’t want to fork over $44 billion to buy Twitter is that Twitter wasn’t able to effectively prove how many spam bots they had. Twitter believed they were forthcoming with the spam bot issue. And so, we’re likely to see a very messy, very expensive lawsuit come out of this three-month stunt. Well, at least that’s what the lawyers are probably preparing for. Elon’s pre-lawsuit prep appears to be researching the corniest, most outdated, barely funny memes to post to his Twitter account. via The New York Post:
Musk used the platform he is no longer interested in buying to mock Twitter’s leadership on Sunday. The Tesla CEO tweeted a meme which included photos of himself “reacting” to the legal battle with increasing levels of amusement – and referenced the likelihood of more revelations of the number of spam bots within Twitter’s user base.
Here’s some of Elon’s best material, like a self-referential meme that I don’t believe can even be technically classified as a joke, and a Chuck Norris joke in the year 2022.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022
Chuckmate
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2022
Those tweets are so embarrassingly dorky that I wouldn’t be surprised if the rest of Elon’s kids found themselves filing paperwork to change their last name to anything but Musk. Also, someone should pull Elon aside and inform him that that caliber of “joke” would probably go over better on Facebook. I might be acting in my own selfish self-interests there. It’s just that I use Twitter, and I don’t want to be around when he discovers Minions memes. I don’t have enough cash on my health plan to cover the massages I’d need on my neck from cringing too hard. But don’t worry about me. Worry about Lorne Michaels! Lorne has to fill the vacancies on Saturday Night Live left by this year’s exiting talent, and you know Elon is delusional enough to have submitted those tweets as a comedy audition package.
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