I may be under a delusion of grandeur here but I like to think at least one high-ranking Microsoft employee is a fellow Stacker News user. If so, Microsoft would need to explore the possible deep state connection between Saylor and/or Microstrategy. If confirmed (or at least not categorically dismissed) it would need to tap its own deep state contacts for permission to proceed for an outright acquisition. Simply buying shares would lead to a headache as it would then become a Saylor simp which would be a PR disaster ranking alongside a dancing Steve Balmer with sweaty armpits.

(Note: I must be tired, somehow I thought this was about Microsoft not Google but I don’t want to remove my Balmer’s armpit joke….. Up with the rocket or down with the ship.)