i would take "jokes" by em or dt as them dipping their toes in my bath water ....

Elon, and I cannot stress this enough, can fuck all the way off.

I would love the luxury of ignoring Elon Musk but he is such a threat to all of us that we must pay attention. Knowledge=power

Then we'll just turn another network into pro democracy.

If he can he will. Probably admires Murdock.

Maybe he really is the anti christ and not tRump

The #LieFactory would be expanded.

Reminds me of whenever Trump "jokes" about a third term. Believe them the first ten thousand times...

if he buys msnbc we might need to seriously consider investigating his falsified immigration records and get this man deported

why would he bother when they already caved and got in line? Then again, the assumption that filthy rich republicans are smart is patently wrong

QAnon Elon also once joked about wanting to save the planet via green technology

With what?🧐Again, the hidden paths of Russian and/or Chinese, Arab money...hm🧐🤔🤔

Wish he would just focus on space exploration...

What a "merchant banker" he is.

There is literally no one on American soil I despise more than Leon.

I’m already boycotting news media is anyway! I sure sure as hell wouldn’t listen to anything that was owned by him!

Twitter board called him on it, will MSNBC?

Well MSNBC is not currently for sale, so there is that.

They better not sell MSNBC I was so angry when the Washington post sold to Bezo

Apparently the rich on the left are holding on to their money, only right wing nut balls are allowed to own media platforms it seems, how is that working out? Glad Bluesky is here

Good.

Remember, Putin and his henchmen began buying up virtually all Russian media in the 2000s. This is how a full-blown oligarchy starts.

He ought to be able to get it at a bargain basement price now. They're losing viewers like crazy. But it would bother some folks to lose it, I guess.

Seems like they are trying to take over the media to hide the truth. This is how facism works. Are we living in Russia now?

Every time I see him I have a gag reflex.

When you’re (rich) they let you do it. 🙄

Our goal is to BANKRUPT that lil SOB

Now he has competition

He won’t do a similar buy-at-44B-destroy-it-down-to-4 act on MSNBC as there’s not an imminent election. With a merger that bad (my field) ONLY a political motivation for TWTR purchase makes sense. Also one suspects Dark &/or RUS $$ made avail to kneecap Twitter and elim it as liberal instrument.

He just bought an election so he’s probably not joking #oligarchy

Burn MSNBC before that happens. But Maddow and Lawrence need to haul ass!

Does Elonia not realize everything Dump touches or is involved with he either bankrupts or destroys? Hum, could Dump be pulling the ultimate grift on ole Elonia?

I don't think any of the talent would stay.

Would be another arm of the right wing disinformation machine most likely funded by foreign enemies

Heard today Tesla stocks are tanking. Sweet! Owners are selling them off all over the states. Hope they're selling them to their nearest Repub. neighbors for a song, & hope the battery crashes! 😆

TY.

Denmark, too. Got this from YT. Keep pushing boycotts worldwide! Myself uninstalled X weeks ago. Such a relief! FB years ago. Never Threads. Ewww! No TikTok...China controlled. Sad some co-workers love TT! Fools.

Are you also aware that he thinks he's president? What a maroon. May he be the 1st to be deported. It's good to see that X is imploding, hopefully soon. Uninstalled weeks ago! What a relief!

There should be a bipartisan foundation for free press led by two former hi level moderate leaders (say Obama + Romney) that has large independent $ and that protects journalists and media from legal harassment, bribery and conflict of interest

This is not good...

let the stink in

He’ll ruin that too!!!

Elon is a psychopath

There goes free speech

Lord I hope not !

Whatever. I don’t watch cable news and really no one should.

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That would be terrible! He'd just start giving air time to a bunch of Republica... Yeah, actually I guess it's fine.

Go ahead, Leon. Thanks to @meidastouch.bsky.social, mainstream media will become obsolete.

Until he buys YouTube and Bluesky? Control of media is a big deal...

They already own most of the media. It's time for us to figure out how to get folks to stop trusting/watching them. 🤷‍♀️

Oh no, whatever will we do? They already have Bill Maher! LOL, who cares 🙄

Ain’t Gonna Happen

Let him have it. It helped to get Trump elected. I don't watch it, anymore; haven't since 11/5.

18 months.. he started sounding like a staunch republican.. and Joe Walsh, too.. MSNBC is dead to me.. CNN Fox lite..

In times like this I remember the old adage. #ETTD Elon will too.

If that happens then me and my friends will never watch MSNBC again. We’ve already stopped watching Morning Joe.

Come on MSNBC. Grow a pair. Don't let the facists win. Not interested in propaganda news. Just want the truth. If we are screwed, I need you to tell me.

He's about to tank Twitter

Yeah nah, he'll buy it then close it.

Maybe @mcuban.bsky.social can buy it?

They're all kissing the ring. I don't listen to most of the news stations anymore. MSNBC and CNN are the worst

That would be disastrous….

The Apartheid NepoBaby would turn it into an American franchise of RussiaTV.

DONT CARE.. Not watching legacy news anymore. Wer him waste his money.

Reality has become scarier than any horror story

Trump doesn’t have the money. Leon would be doing this. The networks spin off would be a lot more than Twitter.

Behold Zorg Industries, but real life

😂👌💯

Control the media , control the narrative and agenda too which that brainwash society- #Dictor101

Musk should be the very first Deported Apartheid hating son back to SA asap. Anyone who purchased a Tesla should put it on the first flight to Pluto

If he bought MSNBC, it would only be to kill it, perhaps as a tax write-off? Why am I sure it would die? Rachel Maddow would leave.

Thank god @maddow.bsky.social has other irons in the fire. Into which I would follow her, if anyone asks.

He can have it, it has no real world value anymore

We better HOPE it is just a joke.

A catch and kill operation

Well hopefully he does and everyone stops watching that too.

Let him buy it, we all quit watching and its value also plummets to a fraction.

MSM is dead.

Let him. He'll burn it down, too.

What idiot banker would lend him the money?

Bank of oligarchs.

Peter Thiel

Only if there was something in it for him. I don’t think MSNBC is valuable to him. finance.yahoo.com/news/banks-f...

Let him. MSNBC is already in the toilet.

This asshole needs to divest from all personal business before being allowed to hold a government position. He’s an ethical nightmare and a walking conflict of interest. Fuck Elon!!!

Owning all the media. Yep, sounds like a dictatorship.

Do it. It's already worthless lmao.

Elon Musk Buying MSNBC? A Difficult Feat, Because It Isn’t for Sale Owner Comcast sees cable news channel as key to new spinoff venture search.app?link=https%3...

Please no.

No wonder that Nicolle Wallace seems worried, especially with an investigative journalist spouse. Does anyone else feel the rumble of the tsunami?

What a horrible person

It's ready in the tank.

Not understanding all the hate for MSNBC. They are our only rep on TV for liberals (okay, not Joe and Mika). If Musk buys it, we will essentially have state run TV news outlets. Seriously, this would be bad. Reading though that it's NOT for sale.

The Oban / Putin Model. First buy the judges to get executive immunity Then buy the media, twitter, paper press and broadcasters Then suppress protests ruthlessly. Then sham elections by stopping the opposition by force and courts.

Musk has also "joked" about personally repopulating the planet. Sick, sick, puppy.

He will buy up Networks so all we are doing is watching Republican Channels. Its called State TV to attempt to brainwash us all. I quit watching Network TV because they started leaning right.

He's a loser!!! Mad weird

He probably saw how those two obedient useful idiots went down to Mar-a-Lago and liked it.

That’s an interesting tactic. If the free press gets in your way, just buy them out and make them in your own image.

So when will Elon Musk buy TikTok?

I guess once twitter’s gone he needs a new playground that he can ruin.

If Elon buys MSNBC I'll enjoy watching it sink like the Xitanic. In the very near future the man who is now worth 321 billion will hurt millions of Americans and become the most abhorred immigrant in this country.

Welp, one way to save Morning Joe…

He'd buy it and call it "x squared". New maga network to comolpete with fox. Can we get rid of these jokers with some joker spray????

Only Andrea, Katy, & The Morning Joe crew would stick around!

2 vile men….

I'd have a lot more free time! I'm sure many of the people I watch will start podcasts--Rachel Maddow already has one.

Turns out if you let them hoard ALL the money they end up owning EVERYTHING. Interesting.

He will buy it. He doesn't care about losing money as long as he can control the media.

Well, MSNBC is falling on its own. He'd immediately lose the few viewers left.

Further proof that he's no genius. Cable news is dying - that's why MSNBC is being sold off. So unless he just wants to deplatform Maddow, he'd be throwing away a few more billion.

He can't be allowed to purchase/destroy any more Media Outlets. His last purchase derailed an Election.

Truth Social TV

The problem is he bought democracy. 😳😳😳

He can buy MSNBC, nobody gives a shit about them anymore.

That’s a great warning if you have stocks to sell 🚨

He does not know how to joke.

He is not joking, buying twitter started out as a joke too, soon its MuskNBC.

He’s one-upping Murdoch. MSNBC will be all Tucker Carlson, all the time. Maddow will be indicted for mopery with intent to gawk, in the first degree and we will never see or hear from her again.

And it wouldn't be good for Lawrence O Donnell either 😞

Regardless of the Musk threat ... Maddow needs a plan.. podcast / youtuber channel etc . The Right can do it.. so can she.

Maddow needs a platform where she controls the narrative. I am convinced that she has been constrained by the heads of MSNBC time after time. She renegotiated her contract with MSNBC at a time when she was their highest draw and was working he arse off on a daily basis. MSNBC is compromised.

Very much agree.. .. and will only get worse.

I hope not, but it is the usual pattern.

Her best shot is they fire her, so she can go it alone. If she quits, they will sue for breach of contract / try to silence her, etc.

As an attorney I can say that the successful challenges to a contract begin and end with the first material breacher. The management of MSNBC doesn’t want the record of how they softened their stance on Trump to become a public record. Maddow can win a breach of contract action against MSNBC!

"X News" 🤮

He'd call it XBC and it would cease to exist as a viable entity inside of 3 years.

MXNBC actually

I'm sure Disney would love to sell MSNBC. Disney is not doing well at all. All the stupid's are too busy hating like Orange Asshole want's them to to got the "the happiest place on Earth" anymore.

Is it me, or does he get stupider by the day ?

Ketamine addiction will do that

On the bright side, now we know if he tries, MSNBC can highball him and he's too stupid to not take the bait

It’s already owned by a corrupt billionaire who suppresses real journalism in favor of propaganda, so what difference would it make?

There you go

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He's considering buying Hasbro because WOTC introduced a reprint of the original Dungeons & Dragons documents by distancing themselves from the racism, sexism, attitudes towards slavery, & other offensive aspects. ⬇️ www.themarysue.com/im-actually-...

There is a LOT of diversity in the modern player base for RPGs; it's probably the safest way for a trans-curious teen to pretend to be another gender & see how it feels to interact that way among their friends, just for one category. 2/

To these who feel entitled to their privilege, mentioning how ANY of the views someone expressed are problematic is exaggerated into "trashing" their memory. They didn't NEED to republish the originals at all - the greatest damage one could do to someone's memory, is to not remember them at all. 3/3

At least when he bought Twitter we hadn't all left already. MSNBC is already in ratings free-fall because we've all told them to kick rocks.

It just gets better and better

What's MSNBC?

If I had to work at an Elon owned Xnbc I'd friggin' quit.

I'm sure he's also salivating at the thought of owning YouTube as well

After seeing Morning Joe and his sidekick sell out, it wouldn't surprise me whatsoever

Dear christ...

Knock yourself out Elon. It's time to create a new, honest and objective news organization anyway. We learned that this last election. CNN? Worthless. MSNBC? Worthless. All jockeying for clickbait. Screw 'em. We can do better. They are all just minutes away from Bat Boy lead stories anyway.

I really hope @mcuban.bsky.social will call their bluff and save us all!

I won't miss it. 🤷‍♀️

Screw him and the hate he brings

All the MSNBC bashing is dangerous. Be careful what you wish for. Just because you don’t utilize tv media doesn’t mean a big % still does. Yes, they’ve screwed up post election but will be really tragic to have zero representation of left leaning voices

This is why I didn’t cancel my WaPo subscription. But, I only read certain sections now. The Health & Science section on Tuesday is my favorite.

If that happens there won’t be enough salt to do the proverbial taking it with a ‘grain’ to use while reading it. More like a 25 megaton payload. 🫤

I’m so over main stream media!

Haven't most ppl moved on from msnbc? Go ahead and throw more money away, asshole. No one will watch it.

Classic technique right out of the Hitler playbook. Take control of the media.

He's going over the details of the purchase atm--like firing Whoopster, Culture-appropriating Hostin, Behar (jowls, too), Maddog/w, and the piece de resistance--Joy wants-to-be-a-blonde Reid. He'll do it ON AIR, in person, prime time--talk about a popcorn moment:))))

Let him buy it, then all people should stop watching it and let it sink like everything else he touches. Most network news is propaganda anyway. We should all know by now not to believe most if not all of what is said on network news.

Yep... more money than sense!

Didn't Joe and Mika already guarantee State TV?

He is physically morphing into Donald Trump. I look forward to outliving both of these fugnuggets.

He isn't joking. Soon, Dems will have only podcasts and Sustack for information.

well demand a seat on the new MXNBC

*SUBSTACK

what a dangerous idea, to have media owned and controlled by an oligarch.

Yeah we can already see what a great idea that is! 🙄

Hitler did this. Took control of all the media.

Well, since nobody is watching anymore, he can buy it and watch it sink into the swamp.

Trump is Elon bitch now!

I wonder how much money Twitter has lost to date.

Hell, I already don’t watch MSNBC 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Could he work with DJT/DOGE and own a network? Sounds like a conflict of interest.

Remember how great Bezos was for the Washington Post. Strangely, as it burned, the owner was unfazed. It was their whole journalistic career. For him, it was Thursday. www.npr.org/2024/10/28/n...

Such a gross villain Elon Husk has become, truly a long way from where he started being a tech investor & seemingly decent guy. I wonder...🤔 maybe Elon got that brain implant & hes now just a #Borg for the hidden (infinitely richer) oligarchs?

Everything he touches turns to 💩 lately.

Let him waste more of his money by throwing it into a dumpster fire. Everyone will abandon his garbage like always, until there's fewer and fewer people that even care about his existence.

He should, after all he is the ultimate king of overpaying for stuff and than loosing 80% of its worth w/ in two days. Grifters must be grifting.

Fair point

Well, it seems like ruining twitter and wrecking it financially worked out pretty well for him.

He should take all of his money, and buy a really nice home! Far, far, far away from the United States though!

Oh god, those 2 are now bff’s. What dork duo.

If no one joining to watch it is useless.. or I’m too naïve like no one will vote for a felon and the rapist..

Whatever. I stopped watching after the election. Let MSNBC and Fox go at it. Don’t care.

Comcast might not sell. In the meantime can we please stop bashing the people who ARE good on there. Rachel, Nicholle, Joy...and others... it's not those people.

Oh god no! I love all the legal eagles on MSNBC. But I think they should get rid of Morning Joe and wife!

I hate that freak.

I hope he buys it and fires everyone. They deserve it. Nobody is watching post election anyway

Not Lawrence O'Donnell. He's amazing.

They do NOT deserve it. I watched Joy, Chris, Rachel, Nicole and Lawrence and they were constantly warning us about Trump. They said lovely things to support Kamala and show her policies as helpful and sane. We need to stop hating on the entire network.

I agree. Rachel is my go to for reporting.

I have a feeling they will be shoved out when the orange perp is in office.

I worry about that too.

Thank you!

Joy was on the g-Joe train, Chris would always find little ways to praise trump. Nicole is from the Bush WH. Lawrence is too good for that channel. Rachel decided to enrich herself with off topic books and took 4 days off a week whe facism was breathing down our necks. I'm good.

I’m not sure what the g-Joe train is. I disagree on Chris. Yes Nicole is a reformed Republican. She was an avid anti-Trumper. Rachel was exhausted and her books & were podcasts were literally about fascism in America. Not sure how it helps us to lose the farthest left cable news network.

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You definitely got those words outta my keyboard for me. I was about to write a similar post until I read yours. Misplaced anger about the whole MSNBC crew without legitimately giving the few amongst them who deserve credit is just troglodytic and bizarre.

Yep.

I don't think Elon jokes

Let him have it, I don’t know anyone who still watches post-election & that will just demolish it faster. Support local news👏🏽

He sure did. Now it’s full of Russian bots and violent rhetoric.

Didn’t he create Tesla & become the richest man on earth to help combat carbon emissions & save the earth? So why the f did he sell his soul to this pathologically lying, Putin-loving, convicted conman imbecile who still calls climate change a Chinese hoax? Greed?

Good. I hope he buys it and destroys it just like twitter. I thought we all gave up msm anyway. They’re all becoming Fox anyway.

F**k that. He'll just kill another profitable company, and others will pop up to take its place. #WelcomeToBlueSky

I would really like a divorce from this reality! 🏳️‍🌈💙🍌

We wait..its all we have is hang time. Store your riches in heaven its real and the more evil we watch (not saying he is or isn't, he is riding a fence) oh Lucifer son of the morning star... falls to the earth to ride the fence between good and evil and 2Satan is chained to this worlds core. Telesis

Don’t twitter my 401k or social security. I’m at the age I may not recover. Resist the billionaire immigrant.

It used to be that if you asked home worst person in history and you’d get an answer of Hitler. I think it might change to Musk. Not cuz he killed millions but cuz he’s killing democracy

Ackman is over there claiming Bluesky should be purchased. Funny how they want to control every single means of communication with their propaganda.

Good luck, babe.

Party of freedom, right

Ever notice how much Musk's face looks like an infected zit?