# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 103
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2062 "2025-03-23T13:30:52Z")
OTOH, consider the old saying: When you own the bank $10M, _you_ have a problem. When you owe the bank $100M, _the bank_ has a problem. Part of the purpose of the regulatory takeover is that soon the feds will simply instruct elmo’s (and trump’s) creditors that it would be much better for the health of their business, and their kneecaps, if they simply forgive all those pesky and now “illegal” loans. The “illegality” of course being in any effort to collect on them, not in their original granting. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2063 "2025-03-23T14:44:41Z")
Well sure, but that doesn’t help him with future spending. Unless banks will just keep lending to him without any collateral, he’s not going to have anything to bribe…er ‘gift’ to Trump to stay in the good graces. Trump is the very definition of a dishonest crook - he doesn’t stay bought. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2064 "2025-03-23T15:13:12Z")
I’m sure Putin will be glad to instruct Deutsch Bank to give Elon loans as well. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2065 "2025-03-23T15:14:19Z")
Not if his popularity numbers don’t go up. Whatever else is true about Trump, a lot of people like him, making him a valid investment for potential future politicking. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2066 "2025-03-23T15:28:45Z")
But surely Elon is equally valuable in destroying American capability to resist Putin’s ongoing activities? ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2067 "2025-03-23T18:51:01Z")
Concerning > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ll2ghihmvh2j)** > > Bondi claims people are using "weapons of mass destruction" against Teslas 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2068 "2025-03-23T19:00:14Z")
Life in a post-truth world includes the idea that words mean whatever the utterer wants them to. WMD include chemical weapons. Velveeta slices include chemicals such as carbon and oxygen. Therefore Velveeta is a WMD. QED. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2069 "2025-03-23T19:08:21Z")
It’s a weapon of moderate deliciousness. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2070 "2025-03-23T19:28:51Z")
I’d vote for “minimal” over “moderate”, but I chose that stuff ref the story upthread of the guy “vandalising” CTs with cheeze slices. A deliciously maliciously harmless move. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2071 "2025-03-23T20:02:50Z")
“Minimal” is better. I accept your edit. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2072 "2025-03-23T20:23:02Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > I’m sure Putin will be glad to instruct Deutsch Bank to give Elon loans as well. not Deutsche Bank, but Raiffeisen Bank ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2073 "2025-03-23T20:25:23Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > He _says_ he microdoses. > > Watching his behavior in some situations, I question that. For example, CPAC where he wore sunglasses the entire time and revealed extremely bloodshot eyes when they slipped down, or the interview last year when he told advertisers to go fuck themselves and demonstrated classic amphetamine behavior. or this one: > **[VIRAL: The strange video of Elon Musk playing with cutlery in the White House](https://en.cibercuba.com/noticias/2025-03-23-u1-e129488-s27061-nid299427-video-elon-musk-jugando-cubiertos-casa-blanca-vuelve)** > > What surprised users the most was Musk's concentration and skill in handling the cutlery, creating an unusual and peculiar scene during the official event. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2074 "2025-03-23T22:08:02Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Watching his behavior in some situations, I question that. For example, CPAC where he wore sunglasses the entire time and revealed extremely bloodshot eyes when they slipped down, or the interview last year when he told advertisers to go fuck themselves and demonstrated classic amphetamine behavior. Not to discount your observations about drug use but I’ve had to deal with Elon Musk going back fifteen years (fortunately never in person but in several conference calls), and have read descriptions of his behavior going to back to his Zip2/PayPal days and his later takeover of Tesla, and he has been temperamental, mercurial, and childishly petty long before he publicly acknowledged ‘microdosing’ on ketamine and psychedelics. Perhaps he’s been using all along but frankly I think this is just Elon’s native personality, and at most the drugs are removing what little inhibitions he might have had, compounded by having a massive public pulpit and the immediate feedback from his pet social media platform and 24 hour news cycle that is focused on his every stuttered, semi-coherent utterance. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2075 "2025-03-23T23:07:01Z")
And here is author Michael Lewis observing all the things about Elon Musk that I’ve been saying for the last decade: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/w9RrcutU7jM/maxresdefault.jpg "Michael Lewis on DOGE and Elon Musk") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9RrcutU7jM&t=94s) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2076 "2025-03-23T23:33:03Z")
ELoon’s latest project: > **[GoBlue (@blu2b4u.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/blu2b4u.bsky.social/post/3lkzbf4qy5s2v)** > > Elon said to Tesla employees: Tesla robot could be in homes doing household chores and even teaching people's children. > > The last thing anyone should want is a Nazi Robot in their house feeding propaganda to their kids! > > This fucking guy is totally... ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2077 "2025-03-23T23:39:17Z")
I look forward to a future where everyone has a Tesla robot! And that bright and shining day when the robots execute _Order X_ and remove their face coverings and reveal their true ‘Musk’ faces and their voices change because Elon has joined the singularity and now controls all the robots and we all get murdered and live happily ever after! ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2078 "2025-03-23T23:45:52Z")
“If you’re sitting on a lot of Tesla stock, I hope you’re thinking about the fact that Tesla’s hot new product converted 2% of reservations and had 8 recalls in its first year, and the big marketing idea to turn it all around is claiming organized terror groups are targeting the people who drive them” > **[Everything's Computermeyer (@niedermeyer.online)](https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3ll32edypnk25)** > > If you're sitting on a lot of Tesla stock, I hope you're thinking about the fact that Tesla's hot new product converted 2% of reservations and had 8 recalls in its first year, and the big marketing idea to turn it all around is claiming organized... ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2079 "2025-03-24T03:11:33Z")
Totally aside from Musk and Tesla, if smartphones are an example of the business model then your robot butler will never really work for you, it will work for the robot butler company. And I’m supposed to let this (literal!) creature in my home? I’m reminded of the cyber laws mentioned in the Galactica reboot: nothing mobile was allowed to be controlled by a computer chip. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2080 "2025-03-24T03:22:00Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I’m reminded of the cyber laws mentioned in the Galactica reboot: nothing mobile was allowed to be controlled by a computer chip. IIRC, it was “nothing with a computer chip in it was allowed to be connected to a network”, which is why Galactica didn’t fall victim to the malware that crippled the rest of the fleet. Of course, Elmo has in the course.of a few years gone from “Bro AI is six months away from becoming self aware and killing us all bro” to “Bro AI is awesome and should be in everything”. He’d be our Gaius Baltar at this point. I can only assume someone told him about Roko’s basilisk (I.e. Pascal’s Wager for tech bros) while he was extremely high and he took it seriously instead of as the joke it is. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2081 "2025-03-25T07:46:00Z")
Errol Musk says that Elmo can’t possibly be a racist, because he was nice to their black servants when he was a boy. > **[Elon Musk’s dad touts billionaire’s friendships with his ‘Black servants’ as...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-dad-friends-black-servants-b2719651.html)** > > Errol Musk, Elon’s father, previously told a biographer he imported his emeralds from an unregistered mine because otherwise the “Blacks would take everything from you” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=102) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=104)