But it's not like Elon is writing the legal wording on the offer itself, and it was terrible in a specifically legal way. You would almost have to tell your lawyer: "Write me an offer to buy Twitter. But I don't want the standard boring offer other people use. Be sure to go out of your way and waive standard protections. Just burn the bridge behind me so I'm totally stuck here if things go sideways."
And then weeks later he's on podcasts complaining that there's too many bots on Twitter and it's not fair the bridge is burnt. Dude, you went out of your way to do that.
But it's not like Elon is writing the legal wording on the offer itself, and it was terrible in a specifically legal way. You would almost have to tell your lawyer: "Write me an offer to buy Twitter. But I don't want the standard boring offer other people use. Be sure to go out of your way and waive standard protections. Just burn the bridge behind me so I'm totally stuck here if things go sideways."
And then weeks later he's on podcasts complaining that there's too many bots on Twitter and it's not fair the bridge is burnt. Dude, you went out of your way to do that.
At the time he must had some rational.