Meme War III just started boys!
A "trade" means you have a counterparty. So if you want to buy, someone else has to sell, and you both have to agree on price.
I'm saying that I don't see a way for Elon to convince more than half of Twitter shareholders to sell their shares, which would give Elon a controlling majority. The only feasible way to do it would be to end up paying much more than the shares are worth right now.
I do not respect the SEC
The $33B evaluation takes the last price for a single trade and multiplies it by the total number of Twitter shares in existence.
But you could only buy half of Twitter for $16.5B if half of the current shareholders agreed to sell at the last price for a single trade. Most, if not all, current shareholders of Twitter won't sell for that cheap. I suspect the index funds and other institutional investors won't sell for any price. So it would cost significantly more than $16.5B to buy half of Twitter.
It's like someone trying to build a shopping mall where there's currently a neighborhood of houses. Each house might be worth $200K, but there will be some homeowners holding out for a larger payment, and some that might not sell at all. You can't build the shopping mall until you have all of the land.
Hey, I've seen this one before...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_French_presidential_election
I want Le Pen to win, but I think the deck is stacked against her
Were they controlled opposition? Because they looked like controlled opposition.
What's the best way for the DS to prevent 1776 v2.0? When the people are ready for a revolution, you start the revolution yourself, take charge of it, and then let it fizzle out. That prevents the real revolution from ever being realized. Freedom Convoy may just be the latest iteration. We've seen it before with Tea Party, Romney 2012, etc.
There were good people in all of these movements, but the leadership failed. Maybe on purpose.
That's true for most states, but not Nebraska. Nebraska has a single legislative body when most other states have two.