PDS 4.25 ELON MUSK BOUGHT TWITTER, NOW WHAT? I got COVID, Joe Rogan, France, Supreme Court, & More

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

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0:00.0	Y'all, it happened. We're pregnant with, I'm pregnant with COVID.
0:05.4	Ah, my two and a half year game of hide and seek with COVID, officially come to an end,
0:09.7	tested positive last night. The good news is so far I feel like I just have allergies but I'm also
0:13.7	in kind of day one day two so we'll see as long as I have a voice though you're not
0:16.7	getting rid of me this week so buckle up hit that like button if you want me to
0:20.3	to punch you in the throat and let's just jump into it at first up today let's talk about the massive update and the will they won't they saga of
0:26.2	Elon Musk and Twitter because it's now official it's happening because according
0:30.0	to sources who spoke to the New York Times after a meeting yesterday
0:32.4	Twitter's board continued negotiations with Musk into the early hours of Monday, less than two weeks
0:36.1	after his unsolicited offer to buy the company.
0:38.1	With reports later coming out that midday today that Twitter has now agreed to be bought out
0:41.7	by Musk for roughly $44 billion in what experts have said is the biggest deal to take a company private in at least two decades.
0:48.0	And this is huge news because initially Twitter seemed to reject Musk's bid to buy the platform at $54, 20 cents a share.
0:53.6	With the news breaking after that that Twitter put in place what's known as a poison
0:56.1	pill that would make it more expensive and difficult for Musk to buy more stock if he reached a
0:59.2	certain threshold. But then Elon said he had gotten 46.5 billion in financing, and the stock market
1:04.2	responded accordingly.
1:05.2	But there is a big question of what will or would happen
1:07.0	if Musk did take over Twitter.
1:08.4	Musk, of course, has talked extensively
1:09.6	about free speech on the platform
1:10.8	and is believed that there is too much content moderation.
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