Most of the time when I see someone who ostensibly not cripplingly stupid do or say something that by all accounts is, in point of fact stupid, and then later on I come to learn of a fuller picture of the whole ordeal it turns out that the stated goals and motivations were not actually the true goals and motivations. I see this in politicians pretty often.

Anyway, I figure we should all suspect that the actual goal of this charade is not simply "to acquire Twitter" and motivation is not "to protect free speech" or "solve Twitter's bot problem" or whatever.