It would not have made sense to discuss Musk's competence in context because Musk doesn't have autonomy over how Twitter chooses to respond to this.

He has autonomy into buying the absolute top of the 13 year bubble. Locking the purchase price at t minus 4/6 months. In 4/6 months when the acquisition is completed the S&P could be at 3210 and he'd have paid 54.20/share.

Or even sub 3000 if inflation becomes deeply entrenched in the economy.

If it gives him a cover story to sell $TSLA shares when that company is valued more than the next ten automakers put together, he’s at least getting a bit diversification and is winning on that side while losing on the Twitter side.

This. I'm surprised it's not talked about more.

yeah TSLA has to be feeling like a big of a golden cage at this point. 20 more years of making cars? sounds exciting

Musk's competence has to do with "this" being a thing at all. He started it!