# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/221 "2024-09-05T03:21:12Z")
Well, I pretty much agree with all of that post, minus the third from last word. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/222 "2024-09-05T13:51:51Z")
Umm Elon? Meritocracy and _President_ Trump are mutually exclusive concepts. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/223 "2024-09-05T14:03:07Z")
You’re not using their definition of “merit”. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/224 "2024-09-05T15:19:29Z")
Merit according to ~~Merriam-Webster~~ Elon: - Born on third base - Born with a silver spoon in your mouth - Born in the correct country - Born with the correct skin color - Born the correct sex ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/225 "2024-09-05T15:43:30Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > - Born the correct sex Which, according to him, always perfectly aligns with your gender ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/226 "2024-09-05T15:44:42Z")
Well, of course. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/227 "2024-09-05T16:35:42Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Born in the correct country As a South African (and white, though born elsewhere) I would like to point out that Mr. Musk is a nobody here, he’s not a national hero or anything. No one cares. I think the consensus is that he is full of shit, which can be better transliterated as “Sy ma se poes”, which is the absolute worst Afrikaans insult. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/228 "2024-09-05T18:32:43Z")
Words fail me: “Trump Backs Plan That Would Give Elon Musk Broad Role in U.S. Policymaking” – _Washington Post_. Reuters link: [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adopt-musks-proposal-government-efficiency-commission-wsj-reports-2024-09-05/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adopt-musks-proposal-government-efficiency-commission-wsj-reports-2024-09-05/) ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/229 "2024-09-05T19:04:38Z")
> “If we want to preserve freedom and a meritocracy in America, then Trump must win” I totally see that. Certainly no one is more meritorious than the Orange Felon. And no one exemplifies “freedom” more than someone who vows revenge against his perceived enemies, openly declared that he’ll be dictator on “Day One”, and apparently intends to emulate Hitler’s “night of the long knives” where up to 200 of Hitler’s perceived enemies were executed in the summer of 1934. Elmo must have upped his dosage of ketamine to toxic levels and combined it with cocaine and LSD. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/230 "2024-09-05T19:13:43Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Elmo must have upped his dosage of ketamine to toxic levels We can only hope. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/231 "2024-09-05T19:19:01Z")
Can we now look forward to two departments of Xportation? ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/232 "2024-09-05T20:28:54Z")
Oh yeah, let’s make Elmo be in charge of efficiency for the US government. He knows all about how to make things efficient. He took over what was an insanely successful social media platform, got rid of most of the people who knew how to make it work in the name of efficiency, and caused the fucking thing to completely break multiple times. Then again, the decision to give Elmo this power came from a guy who somehow made casinos lose money and go belly up. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/233 "2024-09-05T20:52:54Z")
Yeah, but Trump isn’t trying to excite people like you, he’s trying to motivate people like @Dr.Strangelove who would love to see Musk in charge. It’s a Heinlein / Randian dream scenario. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/234 "2024-09-05T20:57:10Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > came from a guy who somehow made casinos lose money and go belly up The most profitable business can be rendered distinctly unprofitable if you skim it hard enough. Those businesses were great successes for donny. The shame is that investigators somehow never thought to question how somebody lost that much money operating a casino. Odd that. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/235 "2024-09-05T20:58:11Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > It’s a Heinlein / Randian dream scenario. I wouldn’t include Heinlein in that; libertarian he was, but if you’ve read his short story [“Coventry”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_(short_story)) I think you’d agree he’d despise Elon. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/236 "2024-09-06T03:42:45Z")
It’s clear from more than the low number of clicks the link has gotten that nobody actually read the article, otherwise we’d all be laughing our asses off at this line from it. Not claiming to be much better, I read the post hours ago and only just clicked on the link now on a whim. But from the article: > Trump did not detail how such a commission would operate, besides saying it would develop a plan to eliminate “fraud and improper payments” within six months of being formed. Because if there’s one thing TFG knows about, it’s fraud and improper payments. It’s almost like he has felony convictions and ongoing court cases where he’s been convicted or accused of such things. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/237 "2024-09-06T05:25:33Z")
Perhaps when he said “eliminate” he really meant “redirect”. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/238 "2024-09-06T22:37:02Z")
> **[Divorced Gamer Follows Up Racist Manifesto With Plea For His Kids to Return...](https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/divorced-gamer-follows-up-racist-manifesto-with-plea-for-his-kids-to-return-his-calls/)** > > BOCA CHICA, Texas — Divorced gamer and distinguished racist, Elon Musk, followed up his latest vitriolic post on X – The Everything App with an… > [@](#): > > “The Woke Mind Virus has taken my children from me.” Musk said before retweeting an account under the username “HitlerLover88” that depicted an image we are unable to display in this publication. Musk, who has admitted in a legal deposition to using a secondary account pretending to be his toddler son, wrote on his own timeline, “Don’t cry, Space Dad. It’s not your fault the custody system is run by DEI hires,” Making readers wonder if he had accidentally posted on main… > > “I’d return your calls, Elon. I love you. If only I had been born a woman I would happily let you breed me,” wrote perennial Musk bootlicker Ian Miles Cheong. > > At press time Musk was seen quote-tweeting several posts from an account promoting phrenology, calling their findings “interesting". ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/239 "2024-09-06T22:56:39Z")
It sounds like Elon could benefit from a visit to a Retrophrenologist. [https://wiki.lspace.org/Retrophrenology](https://wiki.lspace.org/Retrophrenology) ---
**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:** [September 6, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/240 "2024-09-06T22:59:02Z")
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