A few years ago, Musk got emotional and publicly accused one of his critics of being a “pedo”. He doubled down on this lie when goaded on Twitter. And when he realized he had to have some kind of evidence, he in desperation paid $52,000 to a private investigator to dig up anything on his “pedo” critic. The PI turned out to be a scammer and convicted felon: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-hired...

There’s little reason to believe that Musk is a grand genius with plans too smart for the common mind to grasp, rather than just another all-too fallible human.

Who said this or insinuated it?

My only point is people who don't know the man, or his motivation, or what he wants to do are making arguments as if they do. Or putting words in peoples mouths. Or bringing up irrelevant facts that have nothing to do with the purchase of twitter.

Fascinating

With all sorts of projection and rambling and confidence. It's so weird.

1) The 9% was surprising because everyone believed Musk had not taken any steps, because he was legally required to publicly declare when he acquired 5%.

Which he did not do until much later, in order to lower his acquisition price, and is now under an SEC investigation for it.

2) I'm not sure who was predicting a hostile takeover. His suggested price was high enough that most commentators said it would be fiscally irresponsible of the board to turn down the offer. Which is why the board accepted the offer the moment Musk showed any signs of raising funds.

3) No one believed that he wouldn't be able to raise funds. It was pretty obvious he could. The question was whether he was interested in, considering he had taken no steps to raise the funds and it was fairly obvious that it would require him to sell/pledge Tesla shares hurting the TSLA stock price, and it wasn't clear he would want to do that.

Maybe you could recite some of Musks achievements or otherwise entertain us