# 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:** 483
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9676 "2024-05-24T04:59:17Z")
We’re rapidly approaching the point of needing to consult a magic 8-ball to determine Elmo’s views on AI on a daily basis. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9677 "2024-05-24T05:12:08Z")
Pretty sure cocaine isn’t one of Musk’s drugs, but okay. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9678 "2024-05-24T05:20:48Z")
> **[Elon Musk Used LSD, Cocaine; Gave Slurred Speech At SpaceX Event: Report](https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-used-illegal-drugs-sparked-concerns-among-tesla-spacex-board-members-report-4815677)** > > People who have observed Elon Musk's drug usage claim that he has taken LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and psychedelic mushrooms, frequently at private parties across the world. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9679 "2024-05-24T05:51:54Z")
Magic 8-ball it is then! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9680 "2024-05-24T06:09:32Z")
‘Ahem, Magic ~~8-ball~~ X-ball.’ ~ Elmo ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9681 "2024-05-24T12:50:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > “Treatments for whatever makes him like that are probably pretty expensive.” > > “If we don’t give him $56 billion, how is he supposed to waste $56 billion?” > > “The price of ketamine has gone up a lot recently.” > > Good stuff. have you seen what McD charges for a big-mac meal, recently??? > [@Smapti](#): > > [https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-used-illegal-drugs-sparked-concerns-among-tesla-spacex-board-members-report-4815677](https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-used-illegal-drugs-sparked-concerns-among-tesla-spacex-board-members-report-4815677) not disputing the claim, but if you read this article, it seems a lot refers to events in 2017/18/19 … so, the article is - from a news POV - a non-starter ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9682 "2024-05-24T17:37:45Z")
He’s gotten better? Based on his recent actions? Statements? Demands? I’m a gonna need a doctor’s note. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9683 "2024-05-31T23:35:05Z")
Please, Daddy Trump, please use my website that I spent all this money on. Please hang out with me and tell me my memes are funny. Please Daddy Trump PLEASE HELP ME I’M THIRTY BILLION IN THE HOLE ON THIS THING AND I ONLY BOUGHT IT SO YOU’D HANG OUT WITH ME PLEASE [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GO7U5G6WYAA7fUj?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GO7U5G6WYAA7fUj?format=jpg&name=small) ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9684 "2024-06-01T00:22:48Z")
Which one is the bigger narcissist, the one on the right or the one on the left? Insert The Office “It’s the same picture” meme. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9685 "2024-06-01T00:31:54Z")
[Advisory firms urge Tesla shareholders to reject Elon Musk’s ‘excessive’ pay package](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/31/business/advisory-firms-urge-tesla-shareholder-to-reject-musk-pay-package/index.html) (CNN link) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9686 "2024-06-01T00:51:23Z")
Elmo and The Don - a horror story from the depths of Hell, Hate and Fear. > **[Elon Musk And Donald Trump’s Gruesome Twosome Is Just Getting Started](https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-and-donald-trump-s-gruesome-twosome-is-just-g-1851512418)** > > There may be a place in the White House for Tesla's CEO if Trump is given a second term as President. Organizing billionaires to back the Con and freeze out Biden/Democrats because they don’t already control enough money. From in the bowels of the story. "…His politics publicly shifted in May 2022, when he tweeted he would vote Republican _ **because Democrats had “become the party of division & hate** _, so I can no longer support them.” Bolding mine. Elmo must have been on some potent muskrooms when he did that. Surely a different plane of existence or tripping through a bizarro world where every day is opposite day. ---
**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 1, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9687 "2024-06-01T00:53:39Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Elmo must have been on some potent muskrooms when he did that. IIRC, he tweeted that out the day before the horse-for-handjob story broke, because he (rightly) presumed that Republicans don’t care if you’re a rapist, pervert, or general deviant anymore. ---
**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 1, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9688 "2024-06-01T00:53:44Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > There may be a place in the White House for Tesla’s CEO if Trump is given a second term as President. I’m thinking he can be appointed to lead the United States Commission on Civil Rights. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9689 "2024-06-01T01:08:32Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I’m thinking he can be appointed to lead the United States Commission on Civil Rights. But he’d probably hold out for SEC Commissioner ---
**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:** [June 2, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9690 "2024-06-02T13:36:44Z")
He wants to make sure trump will make it legal for someone not born in America to be president. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9691 "2024-06-02T18:17:15Z")
The very thought that Elmo could be appointed to an actual official position with the United States government fills me with existential dread. But then I think about the fact that Musk, much like Trump himself, is a raging narcissist. And also much like Trump, I don’t think musk would ever accept anything less than the presidency. Simply because I think he is mentally incapable of taking orders from somebody else. And anywhere else he could land in the government he would see as a middle management position. He’s actually wielding far more power now than he would if that were to happen. And of course musk can’t win the presidency without a constitutional amendment first. Which ain’t happening right now. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9692 "2024-06-02T18:42:10Z")
I think Musk is the kind of narcissist who would accept that position based on the unspoken but absolute belief that he’s much smarter than Trump (or anyone, really) and that he would be able to do whatever he wanted and run circles around the moron at “the top.” And indeed, as much as I think Musk is a blithering jackass, in the specific case of Trump the belief would be essentially correct. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9693 "2024-06-02T20:16:36Z")
While I think Musk would enjoy the power fantasy, and like Trump, keep breaking things because they aren’t done his way, I think he’d be so insulted by how little money is there for his august presence. And that the shit that has already gotten him into so much trouble with the SEC would be many times worse as a formal government employee. Granted though, if this is in a new Trump administration, everyone who doesn’t sign a loyalty oath in blood is going to be purged, so said rules (even as loosely enforced as they are) are likely to be an afterthought. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9694 "2024-06-03T19:12:32Z")
How do you expect a universe-wide genius to profit if he can’t sell stock based on inside information. Besides, just $3 billion extra profit - “What is that, one banana?” That conduct is only illegal in a “technical” sense and doesn’t apply to the mega-rich. /s > **[Tesla Investor Sues Elon Musk Over Alleged $7.5 Billion Insider Trading](https://jalopnik.com/tesla-investor-sues-elon-musk-over-alleged-7-5-billion-1851515202)** > > Plus Toyota, Mazda and Honda are embroiled in safety certificate scandal and Zoox faces further questions over self-driving car crashes. "The lawsuit, filed by Tesla investor Michael Perry, alleges Musk had nonpublic information about Tesla falling short on fourth-quarter deliveries and production when he sold approximately $7,530,113,926 of company stock in November and December 2022. Had Musk waited to make the selloff after the public announcement of the delivery miss, the sales would have netted him less than 55% of what he actually realized, the lawsuit said. Musk allegedly profited about $3 billion from the November and December sales, according to the lawsuit, which cited Tesla’s Jan. 3, 2023, closing price of $108.10 per share." ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442/9695 "2024-06-03T19:14:40Z")
X is now XXX. > **[X has new rules that officially allow porn now](https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170352/x-xxx-porn-adult-content-terms-of-service-policy-update)** > > X or OnlyFans? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=482) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-1/963442.md?page=484)