Musk wants to buy MSNBC

Why would anyone want to buy it? Its circling the drain.

^ So he can troll and own the libs. He doesn't care if it loses money.

Too many people have taken up residence in his rectum. It's not normal for one person to experience this kind of sycophancy, and they've convinced him he can do anything.

Sure, why not ruin it like he did Twitter.

MAGA folks have constantly complained they're being censored. Yet Musk's wish to purchase and kill MSNBC is exactly what they're always complaining about. The hypocrisy is so obvious. A billionaire with the ways and means to silence millions more people.

Musk is a greater threat to America than Trump.

I hope that there's someone with enough clout to convince NBC Universal (or whatever they're calling themselves today) to say no to Musk.

Will he use Russian oligarch money as he did to buy the twitters?

Pathetic. Remember when Elon tried to wimp out of buying Twitter? He had to be forced to go through with it and had to borrow against his Tesla stock.

He’d buy it to shut it down or turn it into another right-wing outlet.

Comcast is spinning off its cable operations. After that happens, anyone can buy up the stock.

The same guy who proclaims himself a “free speech absolutist.”

What he means by that is “Let speech I like blossom.”

There isn't, R7.

There are no billionaires on the side of the people. Hoping one will rescue us or rescue MSNBC is like believing in Santa Claus. None of them care about us. None of them care about anything other than themselves.

Mark Cuban and Bill Gates are decent billionaires compared to Musk.

[quote] I hope that there's someone with enough clout to convince NBC Universal (or whatever they're calling themselves today) to say no to Musk.

You mean convince SpinCo. Musk’s money will be just as attractive as any other potential buyer’s.

Can Elon Musk just fuck off and die already?

He doesn’t need to buy just MSNBC. He can buy the whole SpinCo. Chump change for him.

He knows the wheels are coming off X. Liberals are flocking to Bluesky and X is an unusable hellscape of pornbots, jihadists, JK Rowling cultists and nazis.

Why does he look like a befuddled, defrocked NUN!?

Maybe someone like Bill Gates or Mark Cuban will buy it.

First order of business-FIRE JOE AND MIKA

I don't mind the Musk threads, but could we all agree not to post pics of his PASTY, BEADY-EYED PIG FACE?

Please?

Elon always looks like he hasn’t bathed in a few weeks. Don Jr and Bannon also look smelly and unwashed. And we all know Dump is wearing a diaper full of greasy turds.

Is bathing a liberal thing?

The hilarity of calling MSNBC propaganda, when Fox, Newsmax et al are hardcore propaganda, funded in part by foreign adversaries.

Bill Gates isn't a good guy, his philanthropy was his wife's idea, she dumped his ass because of his involvement with Epstein.

Don't dismiss this.

This is how the Twitter takeover started. If he controls twitter and destroys MSNBC, there really isn't much hope for an informed public. What makes you think he won't go after CNN next?

Washington Post and NYT are already showing where they lean after this last election. LA Times is also hardcore rightwing.

Controlling the media is the surest way to control the public.

He's ugly.

[quote] Controlling the media is the surest way to control the public.

Let him buy Fox News.

Progressive billionaire offers to match Elon Musk's offer to buy MSNBC from Comcast

[quote] Is bathing a liberal thing?

Yes, hygiene is considered weak and beta for the retartet reich wingers. Dump's Secretary of Defense pick, the rapey and drugger Pete Hegseth, bragged on Fox about not washing his hands for 10 years.

[quote] Let him buy Fox News.

There's no need for that.

They're already doing the work for him.

He wants to buy the media that he can't control.

I absolutely cannot WAIT for the inevitable fracture of Elon-Trump.

That breakup will be more spectacular than the DC July 4th fireworks AND the Port Neches TPC plant double explosion and fire.

[quote]Can Elon Musk just fuck off and die already?

If only his personal assistant dosed his food and drink with sedatives.

I’m not convinced that Trump has a choice about Elon. Orders from their boss.

Doesn’t matter. There can be only ONE drug addled, insane diva, bitches!

Dead eyes.

*shrug* They proved themselves useless in this election anyway so if he wants to flush more of his money on what’s already a sinking ship, let him

Not only has it “started,” it’s already getting worse by the day. Felonious Fatty hasn’t even taken office yet.

He's such an insufferable fuckface. But, as the saying goes, pride comes before a fall.

Hi mommy never told him no. It’s a big problem in the world today. He could do a new series, Epstein island featuring him and all his friends in a porno expose of dick size to attract viewers. Who can stay hard with Marjorie T green in the room. Maga entertainment rivaling that of WWF fighting.

MSNBC's ratings are tanking. Why would he even want it? People don't watch it now, they're certainly not gonna watch if HE buys it.

R42 same reason he bought Twitter when it was already dying — to kill it faster

People here should read the fucking article.

Who cares? It’s all media, words you can find anywhere. And if Musk buys up all the “opposition” the MAGAs will grow frustrated with the lack of “hot takes” for them to rail against.

Let it burn.

You're a moron, R45.

This past election tore it for me. WE need propaganda like the right has. We need radio, TV and streaming. Voters are idiots who vote on vibes, and the vibes are from what they hear. The right wing has their propaganda circuit AND the traditional press either agreeing with them for tax cuts, clicks/subs, or just plain FEAR.

The left, liberals, Democrats, civilized human begins, NEED MSNBC and another liberal channel and about 5 streaming ones and a radio presence for people trapped in their damn cars.

Count with me: AM Radio-right wing hate FM Radio-right wing simulcasts Fox Nazi News Fox Nazi Business Newsmax OAN The First Real America's Voice

The last 2 are streaming only. And OAN and Newsmax are over the air on digital subchannels.

WE need to counter-program this or we're going to always be at the mercy of idiots voting cause the Egg Prices are Too Damn High.

^ Not to mention Sinclair owns a lot of TV stations around the country, subtly pumping out reich wing talking points to people watching local news.

I guess my dream scenario would be Reuters, AP or a non-profit acquired MSNBC, rebuild the outlet to a focus on reporting, a higher foreign affairs content and a lower share of opinion shows, possibly a daily talk show format a la Larry King.

There's a bill in Congress right now to strip non-profit groups of their tax exempt status. That would include NPR, AP, and many others.

R49, don't switch your day job to news production.

That would tank in today's environment, r49.

He's the new Rupert Murdoch.

R50 Churches and the religious based medicine scams need stripping of their non taxable status too. They blatantly use the pulpit for politics where I live and the Christian’s even try to get prayer and bible crap into the schools. I live in a blue state. This country is failing terribly in so many respects. It’s an engine of inequality from top to toe

R47 the problem with that is MSNBC is also owned by a Trump supporter. It’s useless to us. We need Mark Cuban to buy a network.

R51, R52, that's why I call it my dream scenario. It's what I ideally get if it was up to me. I'm not claiming that it is a realistic scenario. It actually happens quite rarely that someone builds a TV channel per my personal requirement list. It would be nice though.

[quote] the problem with that is MSNBC is also owned by a Trump supporter.

Huh, R55?

I hope he does-no one but elderly watch it.

Another idiot and another moronic assumption at R58. Wrong.

R58 is thinking of Fox.

[quote]I hope he does-no one but elderly watch it.

[quote][R58] is thinking of Fox.

From a WSJ article this year:

"The cable news audience is even older, with MSNBC’s median age at 70, Fox News’s at 69 and CNN’s, 67. Among broadcasters, CBS’s median age is 64 and ABC’s is 66."

The MSNBC audience is the oldest.

By 1 year, R61. So I guess they're all viewed by the elderly. So not a very compelling argument at R58.

r59 wasn't comparing the MSNBC audience to any other. His point was that MSNBC's audience is elderly and that's true.

Sorry, I meant R58,. ^^

ALL the viewers of all those shows are elderly, R63--within a year of each other. r58 wasn't making much of a point.

If there's anything to be gleaned, it's that senior citizens get their news from TV and younger generations don't. What a news flash.

Musk wants to fire an abundance of government workers.

This is what happens when people elect a 78 year old incompetent president.

And why anyone would "hope," as Miss R58 does, for a megalomaniacal billionaire to buy a news source just to destroy it is not a very coherent wish.

Anyway, MSNBC is not for sale. So fuck him.

I can’t believe Amber Heard fucked this ugly robot ass mother fucker.

R67, this is what happens when a bunch of fucking idiots in swing states get to make the most crucial decision for all of us. Stupid fucking country. MAGAts will really "reap the rewards" of a busted economy and through-the-roof inflation.

[quote]Musk is a greater threat to America than Trump.

Garbage R6. Trump unites all the threats (people, movements, policies etc.) and concentrates them into finely tuned weapons which are disguised as something else.

Musk is tolerated because of his money. Nobody likes him or wants him around because there's something wrong with him - but they tolerate him because of his money and the power that buys.

Musk is infinitely damaging yes but there is no greater threat to the US and the world than Trump & co.

If the median age of those news channels is all in the sixties, where do the under-60s get their news from? Not actually sure I want to get an answer to that.

[quote]If the median age of those news channels is all in the sixties, where do the under-60s get their news from? Not actually sure I want to get an answer to that.

X, TikTok.

Clearly on the spectrum

R70 I mean…Johnny was a hideous bloated mess when she married him too so I don’t think looks are a problem for her

Both Heard and Depp are druggie alcoholic drama queens. Both seriously mentally ill. Heard doesn't have good taste in men.

[quote] This past election tore it for me. WE need propaganda like the right has.

We operate on ideas, analysis, science, economics.

They operate on gut feelings. Negative gut feelings like resentment and fear.

We can’t just create a liberal propaganda machine to match theirs. There is no market for it.

Musk is behaving like he thinks he's the next president.

R76, Johnny looked GOOD when they got together.

Watch The Rum Diary, if you haven’t already.

It kills me that we have to look at not one but TWO ugly faces for the next 4 years.

We will be looking at many, many ugly faces for the next 4 years.

FAT and ugly, r82.

Don't forget FAT and ugly.