No, at one point the writer specifically asserted that the only thing that matters is that Musk signed an agreement to purchase and therefore must purchase.
He evidently doesn’t understand the clauses in the contract.
Only a fool would sign a contract to buy a house, making an extremely generous offer, without inspection. Musk ain’t no fool.
The question that must be answered, in order to understand what is happening, is what was Elon’s goal in the first place. I believe that it will become obvious that he knew what they were doing, and that he played them.
For the most part,
@steve, I think you and I are saying the
exact same thing. I do realize that, at the end Zero Durden asserted that what Musk is asserting is "bunk," but earlier in the piece he wrote, "Of course, none of that will stick as Elon waived all rights to rework the deal when he signed the purchase agreement on April 25, and
now it will be up to either i) a judge to impose the original deal, an outcome which will likely take place after several years of lawsuits or ii) to renegotiate the purchase price lower." (emphasis added by Durden) What Durden bolded is that (despite Musk's legal argument being bunk), the possibility is that either the price can be renegotiated lower or, even if the judge reimposes the original deal, that will not be finalized for multiple
years, during which the original Honchos of Twitter will see their share prices drop like stones, and during which -- much more importantly -- the public will follow the machinations of the legal proceedings even more closely than they did Johnny Depp's successful raking over the coals of Amber Heard. And, in the end, the richest man in the world can afford any amount of legal wrangling, while Twitter itself and what it's been up to will be laid bare for all to see. What we think we know now is only the tip of the iceberg of what is going to come out.
And I think Durden knows this. He doesn't like it, because he's a stocks guy and his Twitter investment is currently tanking, but he knows this isn't some kind of slam dunk no matter
what Musk signed, and Durden also knows that Musk's sensibilities in the matter align much more closely with Durden's than the Twitter Honchos' do.
I, your Grasshopper, therefore wholeheartedly agree with both you, my Zen Trucker Master, and
@NickF: while he might not have seen exactly how the game would end, it has been Musk's intention all along to play this chess game pretty much exactly as he's playing it, knowing that, in the broad context, a stalemate led up to by even the loss of almost all of his other pieces, will still be a Net Win for him, not to mention for all the other people in the world negatively affected by Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc.