Facegram & Instabook

[MDlaxfan76]

The hits keep coming: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjbDstoj ... _copy_link

Impeach him.

Why....what did he do?

He used three words when he said "I have two words for you." Much worse than withholding Congressionally approved military aid until a foreign leader does some fraud for you to help you win election, or inciting a riot aimed at impeding the peaceful transfer of power and watching television all day....

Heard the joke?

Would the GOP disavow a candidate who it was disclosed is a serial killer?

Yes...if he agreed that Biden won the election fair and square.

I posted this in the Facegram and Instabook for a reason. You guys are wound-up far too tight. I dram of Oban is in order.

Not wound up at all. Just think we have reached superstupid on criticism of this guys. Trump pays off hookers, incites violence, engages in actions aimed at racial division, tries to launch a coup, extort foreign leaders...and Joe speaks poorly in public. You're in GA, PA, AZ, or WI, for instance: you voting for Hersh? Oz? Masters or the moron Johnson? GOP Chapter 11 in candidate quality.

of course, if youth was simply sharing a really dumb critique of Biden, knowing it was dumb and likewise thinking such critiques are idiotic, but here we are with numbskulls posting on FB such dumb stuff, see...then, thanks, we agree.

[youthathletics]

The hits keep coming: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjbDstoj ... _copy_link

Impeach him.

Why....what did he do?

He used three words when he said "I have two words for you." Much worse than withholding Congressionally approved military aid until a foreign leader does some fraud for you to help you win election, or inciting a riot aimed at impeding the peaceful transfer of power and watching television all day....

Heard the joke?

Would the GOP disavow a candidate who it was disclosed is a serial killer?

Yes...if he agreed that Biden won the election fair and square.

I posted this in the Facegram and Instabook for a reason. You guys are wound-up far too tight. I dram of Oban is in order.

Not wound up at all. Just think we have reached superstupid on criticism of this guys. Trump pays off hookers, incites violence, engages in actions aimed at racial division, tries to launch a coup, extort foreign leaders...and Joe speaks poorly in public. You're in GA, PA, AZ, or WI, for instance: you voting for Hersh? Oz? Masters or the moron Johnson? GOP Chapter 11 in candidate quality.

We are on the same page seacoaster....I suppose I just do not get so riled up over politicians.

Unfortunately, the democrats are not really teeing up any healthy competition. Sometimes, I feel like we are all being played and the end goal is for us to be so pissed at our political structure, that we blow up the whole damned system up.

Hell, if you even mention something remotely pro-republican around here, you are instantly swarmed, called names, dismiss almost all cites, and hang on some fringe tidbit of what you said. I suppose tolerance is only something talked about.

Heading out to mow the lawn and split some firewood for a toasty fire this evening. Stoked, my oldest son and his wife are coming to town for the weekend. Should get to see them for good portion of Sunday (they have a wedding Sat) and take them to the airport Monday morning. Have not seen him since early March.

[Typical Lax Dad]

The hits keep coming: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjbDstoj ... _copy_link

Impeach him.

Why....what did he do?

I’ll make it easy for you….

[Seacoaster(1)]

The hits keep coming: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjbDstoj ... _copy_link

Impeach him.

Why....what did he do?

He used three words when he said "I have two words for you." Much worse than withholding Congressionally approved military aid until a foreign leader does some fraud for you to help you win election, or inciting a riot aimed at impeding the peaceful transfer of power and watching television all day....

Heard the joke?

Would the GOP disavow a candidate who it was disclosed is a serial killer?

Yes...if he agreed that Biden won the election fair and square.

I posted this in the Facegram and Instabook for a reason. You guys are wound-up far too tight. I dram of Oban is in order.

Not wound up at all. Just think we have reached superstupid on criticism of this guys. Trump pays off hookers, incites violence, engages in actions aimed at racial division, tries to launch a coup, extort foreign leaders...and Joe speaks poorly in public. You're in GA, PA, AZ, or WI, for instance: you voting for Hersh? Oz? Masters or the moron Johnson? GOP Chapter 11 in candidate quality.

We are on the same page seacoaster....I suppose I just do not get so riled up over politicians.

Unfortunately, the democrats are not really teeing up any healthy competition. Sometimes, I feel like we are all being played and the end goal is for us to be so ticked at our political structure, that we blow up the whole damned system up.

Hell, if you even mention something remotely pro-republican around here, you are instantly swarmed, called names, dismiss almost all cites, and hang on some fringe tidbit of what you said. I suppose tolerance is only something talked about.

Heading out to mow the lawn and split some firewood for a toasty fire this evening. Stoked, my oldest son and his wife are coming to town for the weekend. Should get to see them for good portion of Sunday (they have a wedding Sat) and take them to the airport Monday morning. Have not seen him since early March.

Glad you’re seeing your boy. Did they make the move to Plattsburgh?

[youthathletics]

The hits keep coming: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjbDstoj ... _copy_link

Impeach him.

Why....what did he do?

He used three words when he said "I have two words for you." Much worse than withholding Congressionally approved military aid until a foreign leader does some fraud for you to help you win election, or inciting a riot aimed at impeding the peaceful transfer of power and watching television all day....

Heard the joke?

Would the GOP disavow a candidate who it was disclosed is a serial killer?

Yes...if he agreed that Biden won the election fair and square.

I posted this in the Facegram and Instabook for a reason. You guys are wound-up far too tight. I dram of Oban is in order.

Not wound up at all. Just think we have reached superstupid on criticism of this guys. Trump pays off hookers, incites violence, engages in actions aimed at racial division, tries to launch a coup, extort foreign leaders...and Joe speaks poorly in public. You're in GA, PA, AZ, or WI, for instance: you voting for Hersh? Oz? Masters or the moron Johnson? GOP Chapter 11 in candidate quality.

We are on the same page seacoaster....I suppose I just do not get so riled up over politicians.

Unfortunately, the democrats are not really teeing up any healthy competition. Sometimes, I feel like we are all being played and the end goal is for us to be so ticked at our political structure, that we blow up the whole damned system up.

Hell, if you even mention something remotely pro-republican around here, you are instantly swarmed, called names, dismiss almost all cites, and hang on some fringe tidbit of what you said. I suppose tolerance is only something talked about.

Heading out to mow the lawn and split some firewood for a toasty fire this evening. Stoked, my oldest son and his wife are coming to town for the weekend. Should get to see them for good portion of Sunday (they have a wedding Sat) and take them to the airport Monday morning. Have not seen him since early March.

Glad you’re seeing your boy. Did they make the move to Plattsburgh?

my youngest son did, yes, back in August. Doing well so far.

My oldest, who is coming home this weekend, is currently living on Florida.

[DMac]

my youngest son did, yes, back in August. Doing well so far.

Did he get himself some snowshoes and cross-country skis yet?

[youthathletics]

my youngest son did, yes, back in August. Doing well so far.

Did he get himself some snowshoes and cross-country skis yet?

No, but he did make a nice connection at the local spirits store and snagged me a hard to find Weller Full Proof. Just hope I see him before winter sets in or he may drink it all when snowed in.

[DMac]

Never heard of it but liquor is a sure fire way for me to cross paths with trouble so I steer clear of it.
Sounds good though, but damn, that stuff aint cheap. I think the bottle pictured is $399!!
https://www.whiskeyculture.com/weller-full-proof/

[youthathletics]

Never heard of it but liquor is a sure fire way for me to cross paths with trouble so I steer clear of it.
Sounds good though, but damn, that stuff aint cheap. I think the bottle pictured is $399!!
https://www.whiskeyculture.com/weller-full-proof/

He snagged it for just a tad more than MSRP, the price you found was on the secondary market. It can be a lucrative side hustle if you can snag those unicorn, hard to find allocated bottles.

[Farfromgeneva]

The hits keep coming: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjbDstoj ... _copy_link

Impeach him.

Why....what did he do?

He used three words when he said "I have two words for you." Much worse than withholding Congressionally approved military aid until a foreign leader does some fraud for you to help you win election, or inciting a riot aimed at impeding the peaceful transfer of power and watching television all day....

Heard the joke?

Would the GOP disavow a candidate who it was disclosed is a serial killer?

Yes...if he agreed that Biden won the election fair and square.

I posted this in the Facegram and Instabook for a reason. You guys are wound-up far too tight. I dram of Oban is in order.

Not wound up at all. Just think we have reached superstupid on criticism of this guys. Trump pays off hookers, incites violence, engages in actions aimed at racial division, tries to launch a coup, extort foreign leaders...and Joe speaks poorly in public. You're in GA, PA, AZ, or WI, for instance: you voting for Hersh? Oz? Masters or the moron Johnson? GOP Chapter 11 in candidate quality.

1. Chapter 7 the way we are heading
2. Obviously I have to respond on the hooker part. Problem is he didn’t pay them enough. Not that he paid them. The point of the payment is for them to leave and disappear, not show back up like a stray cat. His flaw was a lack of foresight in his initial expenditure which makes him unqualified to be president.

[PizzaSnake]

Never heard of it but liquor is a sure fire way for me to cross paths with trouble so I steer clear of it.
Sounds good though, but damn, that stuff aint cheap. I think the bottle pictured is $399!!
https://www.whiskeyculture.com/weller-full-proof/

He snagged it for just a tad more than MSRP, the price you found was on the secondary market. It can be a lucrative side hustle if you can snag those unicorn, hard to find allocated bottles.

Well, there’s always someone willing to help round up those unicorns…

““I had someone tell me that they have a back door in to the VABC computer system… when they had the Stagg release they knew how many bottles were going to be at what stores,” another commenter wrote, adding a shrug emoji.

“Somewhat true but not entirely,” another commenter replied. “Insider info.”

The conspiracy theories apparently weren’t wrong.

An ABC investigation led to four felony indictments against two men who were arrested last month and charged with computer trespass and embezzling ABC’s inventory list. ”

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/07 ... f-bourbon/

[Farfromgeneva]

I didn’t bother looking for it. Yut travels in that circle. Maybe he can post it.

Gotta say, it's a great way to sell pancake mix. Rile up your base, rake in the dough (sorry).

Something something something - P.T. Barnum

Yep. The guy knows how to make a buck. I am surprised he didn’t name the product “Sleep & Eat” Pancake Mix…..

Technically we need to have a carve out in time for “rub one out” too

[Farfromgeneva]

Never heard of it but liquor is a sure fire way for me to cross paths with trouble so I steer clear of it.
Sounds good though, but damn, that stuff aint cheap. I think the bottle pictured is $399!!
https://www.whiskeyculture.com/weller-full-proof/

He snagged it for just a tad more than MSRP, the price you found was on the secondary market. It can be a lucrative side hustle if you can snag those unicorn, hard to find allocated bottles.

For one more quarter, I track sports cards though don’t sell any bc of the collection my dad and I have and it’s off notably. All these esoteric asset classes like booze, sports cards, art, etc are the first to get hit when liquify pulls in. No coincidence that I could get Pappy 15 & 20yr bottles, plural, every year until about 7-8yrs ago, a few years into loose money and zero interest rate policy. Same with every side hustle that’s an affinity.

I’m hopeful the Fed takes the air out of bourbon, sorry Afan, so the purists can annoy it without it having to kill themselves or realize as long time customers the brand doesn’t care one whit about you like Bookers when they decided to cut production and double their prices 2-3yrs ago because it was hot. Good for them but why now I don’t want to hear any johnny come lately to bourbon explaining stuff to me ge I was into it when the twin towers went downs.

[DMac]

Never heard of it but liquor is a sure fire way for me to cross paths with trouble so I steer clear of it.
Sounds good though, but damn, that stuff aint cheap. I think the bottle pictured is $399!!
https://www.whiskeyculture.com/weller-full-proof/

He snagged it for just a tad more than MSRP, the price you found was on the secondary market. It can be a lucrative side hustle if you can snag those unicorn, hard to find allocated bottles.

Kind of appreciating my vices at this point. $2.50 a PBR draught and I can't even really remember the last time I paid for the devil's weed. I like my prices a whole lot better but to each his own, enjoy (it does sound good).

[a fan]

Never heard of it but liquor is a sure fire way for me to cross paths with trouble so I steer clear of it.
Sounds good though, but damn, that stuff aint cheap. I think the bottle pictured is $399!!
https://www.whiskeyculture.com/weller-full-proof/

He snagged it for just a tad more than MSRP, the price you found was on the secondary market. It can be a lucrative side hustle if you can snag those unicorn, hard to find allocated bottles.

For one more quarter, I track sports cards though don’t sell any bc of the collection my dad and I have and it’s off notably. All these esoteric asset classes like booze, sports cards, art, etc are the first to get hit when liquify pulls in. No coincidence that I could get Pappy 15 & 20yr bottles, plural, every year until about 7-8yrs ago, a few years into loose money and zero interest rate policy. Same with every side hustle that’s an affinity.

I’m hopeful the Fed takes the air out of bourbon, sorry Afan, so the purists can annoy it without it having to kill themselves or realize as long time customers the brand doesn’t care one whit about you like Bookers when they decided to cut production and double their prices 2-3yrs ago because it was hot. Good for them but why now I don’t want to hear any johnny come lately to bourbon explaining stuff to me ge I was into it when the twin towers went downs.

No need to apologize. Prices will never go down again for the top end, my man. Want a chart to follow? Look at pricing for hard to find Scotch. That's the ceiling. And that ceiling is nowhere near $300 per bottle. Or even $1000.

It's not interest rates that's driving the top end. It's Boomers dying and handing off trillions in unearned cash to their idiot kids and grandkids who now have more money than sense.

The Great Wealth Transfer. There isn't a Whiskey/Tequila/Mezcal/Brandy executive that isn't mapping out the next 20 years based on these inheritors. Every one of them is working on bottles they can sell from $100 and up...and one of them told me that no matter what they do, they won't have enough of these bottlings.

(sorry)

[Farfromgeneva]

Never heard of it but liquor is a sure fire way for me to cross paths with trouble so I steer clear of it.
Sounds good though, but damn, that stuff aint cheap. I think the bottle pictured is $399!!
https://www.whiskeyculture.com/weller-full-proof/

He snagged it for just a tad more than MSRP, the price you found was on the secondary market. It can be a lucrative side hustle if you can snag those unicorn, hard to find allocated bottles.

For one more quarter, I track sports cards though don’t sell any bc of the collection my dad and I have and it’s off notably. All these esoteric asset classes like booze, sports cards, art, etc are the first to get hit when liquify pulls in. No coincidence that I could get Pappy 15 & 20yr bottles, plural, every year until about 7-8yrs ago, a few years into loose money and zero interest rate policy. Same with every side hustle that’s an affinity.

I’m hopeful the Fed takes the air out of bourbon, sorry Afan, so the purists can annoy it without it having to kill themselves or realize as long time customers the brand doesn’t care one whit about you like Bookers when they decided to cut production and double their prices 2-3yrs ago because it was hot. Good for them but why now I don’t want to hear any johnny come lately to bourbon explaining stuff to me ge I was into it when the twin towers went downs.

No need to apologize. Prices will never go down again for the top end, my man. Want a chart to follow? Look at pricing for hard to find Scotch. That's the ceiling. And that ceiling is nowhere near $300 per bottle. Or even $1000.

It's not interest rates that's driving the top end. It's Boomers dying and handing off trillions in unearned cash to their idiot kids and grandkids who now have more money than sense.

The Great Wealth Transfer. There isn't a Whiskey/Tequila/Mezcal/Brandy executive that isn't mapping out the next 20 years based on these inheritors. Every one of them is working on bottles they can sell from $100 and up...and one of them told me that no matter what they do, they won't have enough of these bottlings.

(sorry)

I see it more in my banker and lawyer buddies who do it because it’s cool now to have it on a shelf even if they don’t drink or appreciate it.

We will see. I want you to do well but its become a joke and I do think the marginal buyer leaving the market will put pressure on prices especially if the long lead time leads them to create lots of unmet supply in 5-10yrs. Anyone flipping liquor will be out as a buyer .

And…while I like bookers it’s not too high end. For a decade I’d do my $20-$35 regular bottles like a Ridgemont Reserve/1782 or basil Hayden and sometimes get the $50 dollar trio which was for a long time Blantons/Bookers/Bakers (bakers always a little cheaper than other two and I liked less but ways to lump together in 1004 or even 2009) but that’s a far cry from high end even backs then.

[Farfromgeneva]

Never heard of it but liquor is a sure fire way for me to cross paths with trouble so I steer clear of it.
Sounds good though, but damn, that stuff aint cheap. I think the bottle pictured is $399!!
https://www.whiskeyculture.com/weller-full-proof/

He snagged it for just a tad more than MSRP, the price you found was on the secondary market. It can be a lucrative side hustle if you can snag those unicorn, hard to find allocated bottles.

For one more quarter, I track sports cards though don’t sell any bc of the collection my dad and I have and it’s off notably. All these esoteric asset classes like booze, sports cards, art, etc are the first to get hit when liquify pulls in. No coincidence that I could get Pappy 15 & 20yr bottles, plural, every year until about 7-8yrs ago, a few years into loose money and zero interest rate policy. Same with every side hustle that’s an affinity.

I’m hopeful the Fed takes the air out of bourbon, sorry Afan, so the purists can annoy it without it having to kill themselves or realize as long time customers the brand doesn’t care one whit about you like Bookers when they decided to cut production and double their prices 2-3yrs ago because it was hot. Good for them but why now I don’t want to hear any johnny come lately to bourbon explaining stuff to me ge I was into it when the twin towers went downs.

No need to apologize. Prices will never go down again for the top end, my man. Want a chart to follow? Look at pricing for hard to find Scotch. That's the ceiling. And that ceiling is nowhere near $300 per bottle. Or even $1000.

It's not interest rates that's driving the top end. It's Boomers dying and handing off trillions in unearned cash to their idiot kids and grandkids who now have more money than sense.

The Great Wealth Transfer. There isn't a Whiskey/Tequila/Mezcal/Brandy executive that isn't mapping out the next 20 years based on these inheritors. Every one of them is working on bottles they can sell from $100 and up...and one of them told me that no matter what they do, they won't have enough of these bottlings.

(sorry)

https://sportscollectorsdigest.com/.amp ... ecks-debut

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/201 ... ve-on.html

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/g ... ow-100000/

[a fan]

I see it more in my banker and lawyer buddies who do it because it’s cool now to have it on a shelf even if they don’t drink or appreciate it.

We will see. I want you to do well but its become a joke and I do think the marginal buyer leaving the market will put pressure on prices especially if the kong leas them to create leaves unmet supply in 5-10yrs. Anyone flipping liquor will be out as a buyer .

That's America. Bourbon and Rye have next to zero footprint in the EU and UK, but it's growing on the top end, in particular.

Then you have India and China. Again: we're talking about the top, top end.

And my little distillery isn't effected by any of this. I will NEVER have enough Three Chamber Rye to go around. Which is what you want as a producer. Don't have delusions of grandeur, and be happy making a little less.

And…while I like bookers it’s not too end. For a decade I’d do my $20-$35 regular bottles like a Ridgemont Reserve/1782 or basil Hayden and sometimes get the $50 dollar trio which was for a long time Blantons/Bookers/Bakers (bakers always a little cheaper than other two and I liked less but ways to lump together in 1004 or even 2009) but that’s a far cry from high end even backs then.

And part of the issue is.....those brands aren't the same whiskies they were when you got into them 20 years ago.

They may SAY 8yo on the label, but that just means that's the youngest barrel that went into it. Blanton's et. al. are the dumping ground for the older whiskies that they couldn't sell back in those days. So in 2000, 8yo bourbons would routinely have 10, 15 yo bourbons in them in fairly larger percentages.

Sorry, mate!

[Farfromgeneva]

I see it more in my banker and lawyer buddies who do it because it’s cool now to have it on a shelf even if they don’t drink or appreciate it.

We will see. I want you to do well but its become a joke and I do think the marginal buyer leaving the market will put pressure on prices especially if the kong leas them to create leaves unmet supply in 5-10yrs. Anyone flipping liquor will be out as a buyer .

That's America. Bourbon and Rye have next to zero footprint in the EU and UK, but it's growing on the top end, in particular.

Then you have India and China. Again: we're talking about the top, top end.

And my little distillery isn't effected by any of this. I will NEVER have enough Three Chamber Rye to go around. Which is what you want as a producer. Don't have delusions of grandeur, and be happy making a little less.

And…while I like bookers it’s not too end. For a decade I’d do my $20-$35 regular bottles like a Ridgemont Reserve/1782 or basil Hayden and sometimes get the $50 dollar trio which was for a long time Blantons/Bookers/Bakers (bakers always a little cheaper than other two and I liked less but ways to lump together in 1004 or even 2009) but that’s a far cry from high end even backs then.

And part of the issue is.....those brands aren't the same whiskies they were when you got into them 20 years ago.

They may SAY 8yo on the label, but that just means that's the youngest barrel that went into it. Blanton's et. al. are the dumping ground for the older whiskies that they couldn't sell back in those days. So in 2000, 8yo bourbons would routinely have 10, 15 yo bourbons in them in fairly larger percentages.

Sorry, mate!

All good. The Bookers thing recently was really annoying. Sounds like the industry has matured with respect to supply/demand and other attributes of the business. As a banker/finance guy I appreciate it, as a customer I think it blows .

[Seacoaster(1)]

Musk's plans, Twitter's plans:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... taff-cuts/

"Twitter’s workforce is likely to be hit with massive cuts in the coming months, no matter who owns the company, interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Post show, a change likely to have major impact on its ability to control harmful content and prevent data security crises.

Elon Musk told prospective investors in his deal to buy the company that he planned to get rid of nearly 75 percent of Twitter’s 7,500 workers, whittling the company down to a skeleton staff of just over 2,000.

Even if Musk’s Twitter deal falls through — and there’s little indication now that it will — big cuts are expected: Twitter’s current management planned to pare the company’s payroll by about $800 million by the end of next year, a number that would mean the departure of nearly a quarter of the workforce, according to corporate documents and interviews with people familiar with the company’s deliberations. The company also planned to make major cuts to its infrastructure, including data centers that keep the site functioning for more than 200 million users that log on each day.

The extent of the cuts, which have not been previously reported, help explain why Twitter officials were eager to sell to Musk: Musk’s $44 billion bid, though hostile, is a golden ticket for the struggling company — potentially helping its leadership avoid painful announcements that would have demoralized the staff and possibly crippled the service’s ability to combat misinformation, hate speech and spam.

The impact of such layoffs would likely be immediately felt by millions of users, said Edwin Chen, a data scientist formerly in charge of Twitter’s spam and health metrics and now CEO of the content-moderation start-up Surge AI. He said that while he believed Twitter was overstaffed, the cuts Musk proposed were “unimaginable” and would put Twitter’s users at risk of hacks and exposure to offensive material such as child pornography.

“It would be a cascading effect,” he said, “where you’d have services going down and the people remaining not having the institutional knowledge to get them back up, and being completely demoralized and wanting to leave themselves.”

On Thursday evening, Twitter’s top lawyer Sean Edgett sent out a note to all employees saying the company did not have any confirmation from Musk about his plans. Twitter’s own, smaller-scale “cost savings discussions” were put on hold once the merger agreement was signed, Edgett said, according to an email viewed by The Post.

In internal Slack groups, Twitter employees reacted to the news with anger and resignation, supporting each other and making jokes about the turmoil of the past few months, according to people familiar with the conversations.

Twitter and Musk are expected to close the purchase by Oct. 28. Planning for the closing is moving forward in apparent good faith after months of legal battles, say people familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. If the deal closes, Musk would immediately become Twitter’s new owner.

Twitter did not immediately respond to request for comment.

“The easy part for Musk was buying Twitter and the hard part is fixing it,” said Dan Ives, a financial analyst with Wedbush Securities. “It will be a herculean challenge to turn this around.”

Nell Minow, a corporate governance expert who is vice chair of ValueEdge Advisors, said Musk was likely shopping ambitious plans to potential investors but will face challenges in implementing his proposals.

“He’s got to be able to show if he makes those cuts, what happens next?” she said. “What’s he gonna replace it with, AI?”

Company executives have repeatedly told employees that there are no immediate layoff plans during town hall meetings. In the one town hall that he attended, in June, Musk was pointedly asked a question about layoffs. He answered that he didn’t see a reason low performers should remain employed.

But the new details, which reflect conversations over the last few months, highlight the extreme nature of Musk’s planned transformation of Twitter amid the challenge of making the long struggling company more profitable. Twitter has never achieved the profit margins or size of other social sites like Meta and Snap. And Musk’s plan to take the company private — freeing it from having to please Wall Street — was a key reason former CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey got behind Musk’s bid.

Musk and his representatives did not respond to requests for comment.

The months-long roller-coaster saga of Musk’s on-again off-again bid for ownership — coupled with a tense legal battle — has left Twitter battered and bruised. It faces significant worker attrition, slowed hiring, stalled projects and a volatile stock price.

Recently Andrea Walne, a general partner at Manhattan Venture Partners, a firm that has invested in the deal, told Business Insider that she thinks Twitter is worth only $10 billion to $12 billion and that other partners were trying to get out. Musk himself said that he and his investors were “obviously overpaying” for the site during Tesla’s earnings call on Wednesday. Walne did not respond to requests for comment.

Musk has suggested he’ll loosen content moderation standards and favors restoring former president Donald Trump’s account (on Tuesday he posted a meme of himself, Kanye West and Trump each holding a sword for the social media company he owns or is in the process of purchasing).

Musk has told investors that he plans to double revenue in three years, and would triple the number of daily users that can view ads in the same period, though he’s offered scant details on how he would accomplish those goals.

Twitter estimates that its monetizable daily active users (MDAU), defined as the number of users eligible to see ads, is 237.8 million, up 16.6 percent compared with the same quarter last year. But documents that have emerged in Twitter’s court battle with Musk point to far lower numbers, with Musk’s side claiming, using Twitter’s own data, that fewer than 16 million users see the vast majority of ads.

Moreover, the time those users spend browsing Twitter declined 10 percent over the course of 2021 and only recovered slightly in the first quarter of 2022, according to the interviews.

Gutting and then reshaping the workforce through rehiring chosen people is a huge part of Musk’s ambitions, according to interviews and documents. Though Musk has previously indicated he would be open to cutting staff — legal filings show that he agreed with a friend over text that the company’s head count wasn’t justified by its revenue when compared with other tech companies — he has not offered specific numbers publicly.

In presentations prepared for investors and other interested parties, Musk’s optimistic business projections were fueled in part by steep jobs cuts across what was termed a “bloated” organization. One prospective investor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe Musk’s proposals, likened them to leveraged buyouts, where companies are made profitable through devastating cuts to labor and operations.

But Musk has told associates he thinks that dramatically slimming down the company is the first step to executing a turnaround strategy that would then involve bringing in more effective workers and profitable innovations. Those include expanding on new services that he has claimed could bring in more revenue, such as a subscription business where people pay to subscribe to exclusive content from powerful figures and influencers. (Twitter is currently experimenting with such a model, called Twitter Blue).

But Twitter’s own data has found that subscriptions may not bring in significant new revenue, according to the interviews. That’s because the users who view the most ads — roughly the top 1 percent of users in the United States — are also the ones most likely to join a subscription service. If they began paying a monthly subscription and went ad-free, the program could cannibalize the most lucrative part of Twitter’s current ad business.

Twitter’s budget for head count — roughly $1.5 billion last year — includes many highly paid ad salespeople and several thousand engineers. The company also spends hundreds of millions on contracting firms that pay people to review reports of hate speech, child sexual abuse, and other ugly and rule-breaking content on the internet. Twitter’s median compensation — the point at which half make more and half make less — is about $240,000 for all employees and $308,000 for engineers.

Some of the planned cuts were put on hold pending the sale to Musk, which was announced in April.

The company is instituting a performance review system called stack ranking that requires managers to grade employees on a numerical curve, so that a set percentage of workers will always be marked as low performers, according to one of the company documents obtained by The Post. The move has been protested by staff members, but Twitter says other tech companies have the same practices.

Human resources staff at Twitter have told employees that they aren’t planning for mass layoffs, but documents show that extensive plans to push out staff and cut down on infrastructure costs were already in place before Musk offered to buy the company. Musk would then have built on those plans by first targeting low performers — people the company’s human resources system designated as “not on track” or receiving below a 3 out of 5 rating — before moving to other phases of downsizing.

For weeks leading into the acquisition announcement, Musk and his attorney Alex Spiro pitched a who’s who crowd of elite investors in Silicon Valley and Wall Street on a deal that was billed as a chance not only to transform underperforming Twitter, but to work with the celebrated Musk. Not all potential investors received the same details from Musk’s team.

Some of Musk’s biggest partners in the deal, including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Sequoia partner Doug Leone were also Trump supporters and self-proclaimed believers in the type of free speech ideology Musk promised to bring back to the platform. (Leone is no longer a Trump supporter but is said to take an expansive view of free speech). Hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin, the second largest GOP donor in the current midterm cycle, also committed a smaller amount — under $20 million compared with $1 billion from Ellison — to the deal, The Post has learned.

But many potential notable funders passed.

Private equity giants T. Rowe Price, TPG and Warburg Pincus, who collectively control more than $1.4 trillion, all decided not to invest after being approached by Musk’s representatives, according to people familiar with the process.

And other prominent Silicon Valley heavyweights said no as well. LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman helped connect Musk with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as part of the money-raising process, but decided not to invest himself, according to people familiar with the situation. Hoffman is a major Democratic donor, and Musk at the time was already talking about restoring Trump.

Founders Fund, the Silicon Valley venture firm founded by billionaire Republican donor Peter Thiel, also said no. Thiel first worked with Musk in 2000 when the two merged their companies to form PayPal, and Thiel’s associates have said he is a fan of Musk running Twitter.

It’s unclear whether these parties didn’t buy into Musk’s lofty projection, or didn’t want to be involved politically.

Some passed after the company’s finances and Musk’s own predicament began to look less attractive.

One person who lost interest told The Post that he was alarmed after the market downturn and the cost of the deal began taking a toll on Musk’s finances and the crown jewel of his portfolio, Tesla.

It hasn’t helped that Musk relentlessly attacked Twitter and its leadership after announcing his takeover, pushing down its stock price. Musk’s latest turnabout only added to the sense of chaos.

“[It’s] like you bought a new car, you decided you didn’t want it, and then you crash it,” the person said. “And then you’re like ‘I’ll keep it.’”