# 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:** 254
**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:** [June 4, 2023, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5064 "2023-06-04T22:32:17Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Is that real? I thought someone made it to mock him but no, he’s marketing them himself. > **[Matt Walsh Is Selling Plush Toys of Himself in a Diaper “for Your Kids to...](https://newrepublic.com/post/173056/matt-walsh-selling-plush-toys-diaper-for-kids-play-with)** > > The far-right commentator has led the charge about LGBTQ people grooming kids. Now he’s selling this monstrosity. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5065 "2023-06-04T22:50:28Z")
I’d buy one but I spent all my money on Trump trading-card NFTs and a Twitter checkmark. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5066 "2023-06-04T23:32:56Z")
Twenty bucks says that this is a fetish for him. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5067 "2023-06-05T02:50:01Z")
The mouth certainly has a peculiar appearance in that picture. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5068 "2023-06-05T05:14:23Z")
I would like to go on record here that I have never heard of Matt Walsh before this thread. In fact the last few posts of it. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5069 "2023-06-05T07:51:37Z")
I would liken it more to the official debut of [The Shockmaster](https://www.wwe.com/videos/the-unforgettable-debut-of-the-shockmaster). ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5070 "2023-06-05T14:10:45Z")
Twitter’s ad revenue is down 59% year over year. (gift link) > **[Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sales-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=VI4dRspK8KpW_ecFrHSxN1pH3udjpm71ccYt_uGDK8cgEpVpsoouOEOyZKw2GDzaAt_khZkc5IYUVS_PPsqyYWbXytv3whqKSiCouHzd0659b9ZVdB0G74EGdQEu1EPYpPYVoU4fIy_covJxzYsUE1BGXgHIVDgz1Qr47My3SjH-1HipTtkAbOMsZQuEVNG6sJ9tdczz_1AwFWblFRivkEjQpsq_v4M1u9FYjg2pkB1CVQ9qYRKMo4KeHm4JQBvGgcttp5c-SlVsFyOx0uZUbm2jpfFarW_Cikl_xUoH5rlWyD11I-6x-al7y-EpDByDYTYp65Cs6okeUPYtLAR9A5g-&smid=url-share)** > > In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive. Really? Only 59%? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5071 "2023-06-05T14:43:05Z")
But advertising from MyPillow is way up! This is a joke. I have no idea if MyPillow advertise on Twitter ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5072 "2023-06-05T17:04:51Z")
Soon it will be all ads for gold coins (at inflated prices), prepper supplies, various multi-level-marketing schemes, diet pills etc. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5073 "2023-06-05T21:26:38Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Ah, so that trash film is basically anti-trans propaganda. _Matt Walsh_ is anti-trans propaganda. > **[Johnny the Walrus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Walrus)** > > Johnny the Walrus is a 2022 children's picture book by American conservative political commentator Matt Walsh. It allegorically compares being transgender to pretending to be a walrus through the story of a child named Johnny. It was published by DW Books, a division of The Daily Wire. > In the book, Johnny is a boy with an imagination who dresses up as a walrus by using spoons as tusks. When "internet people" find out that Johnny enjoys being a walrus, he is forced to decide between being a bo... > **[Matt Walsh (political commentator) | Campaigns against hospitals providing transgender health care](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Walsh_(political_commentator)#Campaigns_against_hospitals_providing_transgender_health_care)** > > In 2022, Walsh campaigned against hospitals providing transgender health care for youth. Boston Children's Hospital, one of the hospitals denounced by Walsh and other right-wing figures, reported harassment, death threats, and a hoax bomb threat in August 2022 that led to a woman's arrest in September. > In September 2022, Walsh made accusations against another hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and its transgender clinic in Nashville, Tennessee. Walsh said on his show that VUM... ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5074 "2023-06-05T21:34:48Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > _Matt Walsh_ is anti-trans propaganda. Also an explicit theocrat. And a pedophile. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5075 "2023-06-05T22:38:18Z")
I want to know how the book ends! ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5076 "2023-06-05T23:21:19Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Really? Only 59%? All according to plan. Just 10% more until Elmo can Twit out that he’s lost the funny number amount of ad revenue. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5077 "2023-06-05T23:25:44Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > All according to plan. Just 10% more until Elmo can Twit out that he’s lost the funny number amount of ad revenue. Perfect! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5078 "2023-06-06T00:12:34Z")
You might even say it’s “nice”. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5079 "2023-06-06T00:34:26Z")
> [@Wikipedia](#): > > Johnny the Walrus is a children’s picture book written by American conservative political commentator Matt Walsh. It allegorically compares being transgender to pretending to be a walrus, through the story of a child named Johnny. It was published by DW Books, a division of The Daily Wire. No surprise that it’s published by DW Books, the premier cesspool of far-right drivel. Remember Bethany Mandel, the author of a book on the horrors of being “woke”? She went viral on teh interwebs in an interview where she was asked to define “woke” and couldn’t, claiming later that the question had sent her into a panic attack. Yeah, Mandel is one of the star writers at DW Books. > [@Defining "woke"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/defining-woke/981220/218): > > The article is a self-pitying piece of drivel. One wonders why the hell Newsweek ever published it, but then, Newsweek itself has been something of a rag since its takeover by IBT Media ten years ago. Speaking of reputation, I was curious what sordid outfit would lower itself to publish this imbecile’s book. Well, it’s something called DW Books, which stands for DailyWire Books (not to be confused with German broadcaster DW). And here are a few of the other gems they’ve also published: Whe… ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5080 "2023-06-06T04:16:07Z")
I’m interested. I’m aware that many/most? Hyper conservatives accuse others of their own misdeeds, but I’m wondering what documentation there is on this guy being a pedophile? I would love to see it. Frankly that creepy stuffed thing he’s trying to sell convinces me, but I want to see it in print just for the satisfaction. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5081 "2023-06-06T04:28:19Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > I’m interested. I’m aware that many/most? Hyper conservatives accuse others of their own misdeeds, but I’m wondering what documentation there is on this guy being a pedophile? I would love to see it. Well, there’s his repeated advocacy of child marriage and forcing preteens to give birth to their incestuous rapists’ babies, for one. > **[Rightwing troll Matt Walsh busted defending teen pregnancy while he opposes...](https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/rightwing-troll-matt-walsh-busted-defending-teen-pregnancy-opposes-trans-teens/)** > > "What I’m saying is that the problem is not, per se, teenage pregnancy — it’s unwed pregnancy... > > > PDXfanatic 🌹🇺🇸 @PDXfanatic Imagine knowing that the reason you exist is so you could be “Exhibit A” in the trial of the man who raped your mother and is also your father and grandfather. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5082 "2023-06-06T04:30:26Z")
Ugh, what a perv. I did some reading after I posted and yeah no doubt about it. There is so much wrong with all of these people. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/5083 "2023-06-06T23:44:11Z")
Elmo’s a eugenicist now. [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx-UjXiXoAAEKku?format=jpg&name=900x900) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx-UjXiXoAAEKku?format=jpg&name=900x900) At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if he shows up at a TED talk wearing an SS uniform. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=253) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=255)