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Elon Musk Says He Will Buy Coca-Cola Next “To Bring Back Cocaine”

April 28, 2022
Bharat Times

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, bought Twitter for $44 billion on Monday. (file)

After rocking one of the world’s foremost social media platforms and Twitter Rigged For $44 Billion In a bizarrely hostile takeover on Monday, billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk announced a new target: Coca-Cola.

In yet another cynical tweet, newfound Twitter owner Musk said today that he plans to buy Coca-Cola “to bring back cocaine.”

Soon after, Musk posted a screenshot of a previous tweet in which he said, “Now I’m going to buy McDonald’s and fix all the ice cream machines,” and jokingly replied to himself “Listen I can’t fix miracles”. .

Known for his outlandish statements, Musk’s reputation on Twitter precedes him — long before he bought the company. Musk has, in the past, polled Twitter users asking whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock to pay off an unrealized capital gain, after which he actually invested about $7 in Tesla shares. Billion, when the turnout was over 57%. The participants voted in favor of his suggestion.

in The week leading up to their Twitter acquisitionWhen Musk was only ready to join the board and nothing else, the Tesla founder tweeted a series of ideas he believed could improve the platform, showing some serious ones – Such as the prospect of introducing an edit button – while others seemed downright bizarre, such as turning Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters into a homeless shelter.

His most recent Coca-Cola tweet—possibly joking though not entirely understood, given his history of acting out on cynical social media statements—is a nod to the colorful history of the beverage company seasoned with cocaine. Coca-Cola’s trademark soft drink is named for its two primary ingredients: coca leaves and kola nuts. While kola nuts are a source of caffeine, coca leaves are the base from which the psychoactive drug cocaine is derived.

Coca-Cola at one time used coca leaves, which contained cocaine, when the ingredient was still considered medicinal in the nineteenth century. However, as the drug became stigmatized and Prohibition hit America, cocaine was removed from their secret formula and replaced with coca leaves instead.