# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442 "2022-04-25T22:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 211
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4204 "2023-04-10T16:46:56Z")
Well, that line alone about Cuba, does make him like that in my book. Also, the extreme pettiness that he showed when getting cartoonists and reporters from his competitors. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4205 "2023-04-10T16:52:57Z")
It’s grotesque and sociopathic and warmongering, but it’s not the same as renaming his newspaper the Bazongas Gazette. Hearst, for all his evil, wasn’t a soldier of 4chan. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4206 "2023-04-10T17:13:29Z")
Well, it was a different era, but I do think that if he had seen what was going on with the tabloid press of today, he would not had cared who runs the country as long as she’s got _big titters_ 🙂 (“Yes Prime Minister” reference.) ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4207 "2023-04-10T17:24:14Z")
John Legere, former CEO of T-Mobile, had some pretty childish activities around 10 years ago. He crashed (and was thrown out of) an AT&T party at the Consumer Electronics Show, he gave profanity-laced press conferences (calling AT&T rapists and fuckers), he put out a fake press release with fake quotes from the AT&T CEO, and generally seemed to spend most of his time with childish insults against competitors. Of course, he got a lot of free publicity and T-Mobile did pretty well under him, at least initially. > **[T-Mobile CEO’s Immature Antics are Childish and Annoying but Effective](https://www.cio.com/article/298466/wireless-carriers-t-mobile-ceo-s-immature-antics-are-childish-and-annoying-151-but-effective.html)** > > T-Mobile CEO John Legere's in-your-face style has been a boon for the wireless carrier, but CIO.com's Al Sacco suggests his brash behavior could also have an unintended consequence. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4208 "2023-04-10T18:01:35Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s okay, this all part of Elon’s genius plan to get everything back on track. Here are two consultants he recently hired. > > [https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/220622114613-beavis-and-butthead-do-the-universie-paramount.jpg](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/220622114613-beavis-and-butthead-do-the-universie-paramount.jpg) Matt Gaetz and Gym Jordan? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4209 "2023-04-10T18:28:29Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Matt Gaetz and Gym Jordan? If there was an article saying they had become Twitter consultants, I wouldn’t know if it was _The Onion_ or not. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4210 "2023-04-10T19:36:54Z")
Do you think that [P. T. Barnum’s stuntery](https://lostmuseum.cuny.edu/archive/barnum-on-promotion) could be described as somewhat Musk-esque? Or maybe that Musk is aspiring to be Barnum-esque, but is nowhere near as good at it? > [@](#): > > I kept a band of music on the front balcony and announced “Free Music for the Million.” People said, “well, that Barnum is a liberal fellow to give us music for nothing,” and they flocked down to hear my outdoor free concerts. But I took pains to select and maintain the poorest band I could find – one whose discordant notes would drive the crowd into the Museum, out of earshot of my outside orchestra. Of course, the music was poor. When people expect to get “something for nothing” they are sure to be cheated, and generally deserve to be […] ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4211 "2023-04-10T19:53:42Z")
That captures Elmo’s mentality exactly! If Beavis and Butt-head ran a company, their press office would definitely auto-reply to all media queries with a poop emoji. And I have a mental image of Elmo constantly snickering exactly like Butt-head. His latest antics with the Twitter sign, and his brilliant idea of giving well-known Twitter posters “badges” to prove who they are – after destroying the whole original concept of authenticating check marks by trying to monetize it – seems like evidence that Elmo is losing his grip on reality. Lord only knows what drugs are regularly coursing through his bloodstream. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4212 "2023-04-10T20:04:38Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Lord only knows what drugs are regularly coursing through his bloodstream. He’s a fan of marijuana, but you’d think that would mellow him out rather than make him an asshat. There’s definitely something else involved. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4213 "2023-04-10T20:53:20Z")
Not mine but something I saw online: “For a guy racking up so many L’s recently, it’s insane he’d get rid of the one W he has” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4214 "2023-04-10T21:19:19Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Hearst was awful, but he wasn’t so juvenile, was he? Who knows? Up until social media, there have always been filters between rich assholes and the public. Even if they owned the newspaper, there were always editors to reword their statements. Now, the moment a semblance of thought coalesces in their brains, they immediately share it with the world. Maybe they were always this way. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4215 "2023-04-10T21:46:21Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Who knows? Up until social media, there have always been filters between rich assholes and the public. Even if they owned the newspaper, there were always editors to reword their statements. Now, the moment a semblance of thought coalesces in their brains, they immediately share it with the world. > > Maybe they were always this way. I’m not sure I buy it. Hearst was a megalomaniac for sure, and if he wanted to get something similar out, he coulda. Meanwhile, the doge-dog icon and the painting of the W in Twitter required Musk to get employees to do the task for him. I’m still going with Nero and Caligula–although @TroutMan makes a strong case for John Legere. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4216 "2023-04-10T21:57:30Z")
Elmo is looking at up to 30 billion euros in fines in Germany for refusing to moderate hate speech. > **[Twitter could be facing slew of fines in Germany over illegal hate speech](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/elon-musk-twitter-germany-hate-speech-takedowns/?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANSXYuF5s-TgDaFaJ-OWqI6IepD87JNJ8-Yq441Fwwt4s-C43_jqfE4X9LB9zNgh9OcKhtE1b74PTXqwGdFHYM3XHG7Ljaosk7h47I-1976JKpLB1u3yAZN-5vVCPlkIvuErI-KVwASW64CFqGbKvASfHZXK6RKdn9im2E4f8A4N&guccounter=2)** > > Elon Musk's Twitter could be on the hook for a pipeline of multi-million dollar penalties for failing to take down illegal hate speech in Germany. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4217 "2023-04-10T22:04:37Z")
What’s the exchange rate at 20,000 feet, though? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4218 "2023-04-10T22:16:54Z")
I suspect his response to this will be like most of his responses to things like this: “Sue me.” ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4219 "2023-04-10T23:14:19Z")
Perhaps this is why he did a pump and dump on Doge? Gotta pay the bills, and by bills, I mean fines. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4220 "2023-04-11T13:52:33Z")
He’s so clever and witty, isn’t he? > ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4221 "2023-04-11T13:54:56Z")
Did he really change his name to Harry Bolz? 💩 🤦 ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4222 "2023-04-11T14:11:17Z")
Agile trolling. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/4223 "2023-04-11T14:21:54Z")
Dude! 420.69! That’s how much I’m betting his next name change is to Mike Hunt! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=210) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=212)