{"id":64441,"date":"2022-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/64441\/7-lebanese-companies-we-wish-elon-musk-would-bankrupt"},"modified":"2022-11-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:00:00","slug":"7-lebanese-companies-we-wish-elon-musk-would-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/64441\/7-lebanese-companies-we-wish-elon-musk-would-bankrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Lebanese Companies We Wish Elon Musk Would Bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"Elon Musk took Twitter to 7afet abra within days of taking over the company, but we have to admit it&#8217;s been fun seeing the Titanic sink. So we thought why not let Mr. Musk take a swing at 7 Lebanese companies we will not miss.<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>1. Banque du Liban<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  If we\u2019re going to lose our entire banking system, let us at least go down in a blaze of glory. I want to see the insane takes of a man so hopped up on his own ego he can\u2019t see how 1+1=2.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/7fSQ8RYoBC0AAAAd\/this-is-elon-musk.gif\" width=\"70%\"<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>2. Solidere<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  The gaping rentier hole in the heart of our city should really not exist, and who better to burn it down than Elon Musk? He\u2019ll start renting buildings in Dogecoin and then get bored and leave, letting us finally reclaim the city center.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/FUi94opKPNopjUmQvR\/giphy.gif\" width=\"70%\"<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>3. Whichever production company is responsible for this fiasco<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"rtl\">Fake account- <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SzWRg6xrar\">pic.twitter.com\/SzWRg6xrar<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sari Rasheed (@sarirasheed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarirasheed\/status\/1315648617466781698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>4. M1 Group<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  This group is the holding company for a portion of Prime Minister Najib Mikati&#8217;s portion. So I don&#8217;t care what Musk does to it, throw some fuel and set all that cash ablaze king.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/Xrt-ty39PfEAAAAC\/elon-musk-smoke.gif\" width=\"70%\"<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>5. Future TV<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  Already bankrupt, correct. But imagine how better it would have been if we had Musk tweeting through the bankruptcy instead of Saad el Hariri&#8217;s weak avoidance strategy. Everyone is getting fired either way, so might as well get some entertainment out of it.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.tenor.com\/9cLtkZwO9hUAAAAC\/doge-elon.gif\" width=\"70%\"<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>6. OTV<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  If Musk is looking to bankrupt an existing TV station, we also have an option for him. I don&#8217;t think we need to elaborate more.<br \/>  <br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/11\/b0oqjrs3zitxsbt8loes.gif?q=65&#038;w=1280\" width=\"70%\"<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <B>7. Electricite du Liban<\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  The plight of the state&#8217;s electricity company might be one of the worst in the country. So let&#8217;s just privatize it and show all the so-called economists that billionaires are not our saviors when Musk inevitably fucks it up. <br \/>  <br \/>  <img src=\"https:\/\/thumbs.gfycat.com\/EmptyThunderousFruitfly-size_restricted.gif\" width=\"70%\"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk took Twitter to 7afet abra within days of taking over the company, but we have to admit it&#8217;s been fun seeing the Titanic sink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":425563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-64441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[56],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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