Originally Posted by Chris

Well if he didn’t last week, he certainly does now.

Regardless, Elon is utterly naive about how politics works. He’s a quick study when the issue is maths and science - if you listen to him talk rocket science, it’s obvious he genuinely understands what the engineers at SpaceX are doing with his money. But politics is an art that requires relational skills he simply doesn’t have. At all. He doesn’t understand the British constitutional levers he’s fulminating over. Someone’s told him Charles can dissolve parliament so he’s demanding that like it’s 1629.

He genuinely seems to believe in political influence via meme and that Xitter has influence the waning ‘legacy media’ no longer has - so buying a newspaper group will be the last thing on his mind. As long as he persists in that belief he’ll be a nuisance but he won’t seriously affect anything, unless our ‘legacy media’ loses its collective schitt over him and gives him column inches, which will make it a live issue that actually might cause el gov a little bother.