### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/4 "2024-08-13T00:53:55Z")
I got through and listened for a minute. They were just talking about the almost assassination.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/5 "2024-08-13T00:55:59Z")
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### Author:  [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/6 "2024-08-13T01:00:38Z")
What’s Elon going on about?
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### Author:  [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/7 "2024-08-13T01:17:31Z")
I was going to make a joke about an ElonGate scandal but I googled it first. Not only has Elon already made the same joke (ouch) but there is a cryptocurrency based on Elon’s joke.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/8 "2024-08-13T01:34:14Z")
Meg isn’t even Jack’s sister, she’s his ex-wife! Dammit Donald!!!
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### Author:  [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/9 "2024-08-13T01:53:25Z")
That’s fake, right? Trump would know nothing of Meg and her drumming skills, nor how to compare her to Ringo. Right? I think I missed a joke here.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/10 "2024-08-13T01:59:58Z")
Yes, that was a joke.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/11 "2024-08-13T02:05:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/12 "2024-08-13T02:26:00Z")
Clearly, the problem is internal sabotage. Some employee—probably a senior manager—has fired the team responsible for maintaining Twitter’s—I’m sorry, “X”’s—live streaming feed in an attempt to take down the world’s last bastion of free speech and measured political discourse. I have it on good authority that the forensic cybersecurity team of O. Klosoff and S. Butz have been looking through commits logs and has determined that the handle of the suspected culprit is “ERM\_69\_420\_88”, but it seems unlikely that they will be able to tie that ID to an actual employee, although this individual was also apparently responsible for earlier erecting an X-shaped strobe on the building as a prank or ‘art’ installation.
Meanwhile…invest in Dogecoin! It’s definitely not a pump & dump scheme!
Stranger
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### Author:  [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/13 "2024-08-13T02:34:02Z")
> [@Folly](#):
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> Oops. I accidentally 10000th.
Nooo!!! You stole my one chance at glory! (Insert JD Vance making a fool of himself about military service joke here).
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/14 "2024-08-13T03:02:14Z")
People have carved out a bunch of audio where Trump is slurring and lisping, and it is definitely weird.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/15 "2024-08-13T04:23:45Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> I have it on good authority that the forensic cybersecurity team of O. Klosoff and S. Butz have been looking through commits logs and has determined that the handle of the suspected culprit is “ERM\_69\_420\_88”, but it seems unlikely that they will be able to tie that ID to an actual employee, although this individual was also apparently responsible for earlier erecting an X-shaped strobe on the building as a prank or ‘art’ installation.
If Oliver and Seymour say so, we have to believe them.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/16 "2024-08-13T04:27:10Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> the handle of the suspected culprit is “ERM\_69\_420\_88"
I believe you mean “xXx\_ERM\_69\_420\_1488\_xXx”.
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/17 "2024-08-13T05:22:40Z")
Elsewhere, I saw an image (screenshot) of Elno XScreeding about all the movies in which you rooted for the resistance but when it comes to real life, you side against the resistance. Implying that _he_ supports the good guys.
Meanwhile, the rest of us look over at WWII and decide we want to be _against the **fucking NAZI** s_.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/18 "2024-08-13T05:39:02Z")
By November Elmo is going to be explaining that actually the Empire were the good guys in Star Wars because they were spreading peace and preserving (white) human civilization against Woke Midichlorians and the multi-ethnic Jedi.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/19 "2024-08-13T05:44:44Z")
Trump said that when Chineer and Russia are on the same side of a war it’s a bad thing . . . yes Donny, they defeat fascists.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/20 "2024-08-13T06:09:37Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> Clearly, the problem is internal sabotage.
This debacle does pretty much give the lie to the usual defense offered by Muskheads. “Okay, sure, I’ll grant you he’s creepy and off-putting personally … and yeah he’s incredibly bigoted against non-white people, like, just, racist on a mind-boggling level … and, yes, he’s a drug abuser … and I can’t deny, his relationships with women plainly display he has intensely disturbing issues with them … and sure, he’s a terrible father whose kids are very public about how much they hate him … and okay so maybe his politics are destructive on a massive scale … and his sense of humor is puerile and never progressed past 12-year-old memelord … but you gotta hand it to him as a next-level engineering savant who understands technology inside and out!”
DDOS? Really? _Really,_ Elon?
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