Musk On Buying Twitter: “Owning The Libs” Isn’t Cheap

The Daily Mail reports:

Elon Musk has joked that ‘owning the libs’ isn’t cheap after claiming to put his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on hold. ‘Owning libs’ is internet slang used by conservatives that refers to defeating or embarrassing liberals in arguments.

On Friday morning, Musk threw his Twitter takeover bid into chaos by tweeting that the deal was ‘temporarily on hold’ while he investigated the prevalence of fake and spam accounts on the social media site.

Analysts as well as insiders widely believe that Musk’s tweets on Friday were an attempt to gain leverage and negotiate a lower price for his takeover.

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At least, that’s what the lib hivemind thinks haha

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022

This you? https://t.co/Y1jh59n2uI

— JerryRigEverything (@ZacksJerryRig) May 14, 2022

this is what buying your hair back does to you. he could have accepted being bald, and spending 15 minutes in the shower with a pivot razor. He could have had a hat collection. but he threw it all away https://t.co/HS8ZaJxzCI

— Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) May 14, 2022