# 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:** 15
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/281 "2024-09-11T16:42:20Z")
> [@](#): > > [Elon Musk on X: “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life” / X] You’ll give me a child? Okay, I’ll take one that hates you already. Wait, that doesn’t really narrow it down much, does it? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/282 "2024-09-11T16:52:28Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Yeah, but there’s lots of rich people you _don’t_ hear about. And certainly don’t hear about with this nonsense. You’re rich! Go throw secret weird sex parties with consenting sycophants on a yacht or something. Don’t spend your days desperately seeking approval from incel nerds on Twitter. ⁢ He even had his own (then) darling singer girlfriend, who even seemed smitten with him for quite a while after they broke up. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/283 "2024-09-11T17:19:06Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > It all makes sense now–Twitter is his yacht. To compensate for his little dinghy. ---
**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 11, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/284 "2024-09-11T18:39:28Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Yeah, but there’s lots of rich people you _don’t_ hear about. Because they aren’t narcissists missing a few screws. They quietly and privately enjoy their privilege, and in fact that privacy is one of the biggest privileges they enjoy. Elon needs attention, like Trump if Trump actually had a crap ton of money. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/285 "2024-09-12T00:41:02Z")
Giving her a child isn’t even that big of a deal for Elmo, he’s got plenty to spare. Oh, unless he means he’ll impregnate her to produce another spawn of his. Yeah, that is pretty fucking creepy, even for him. ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/286 "2024-09-12T01:27:32Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > Oh, unless he means he’ll impregnate her to produce another spawn of his. Yeah, that is pretty fucking creepy, even for him. It’s pretty obvious that’s what the sick fuck is saying. ---
**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 12, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/287 "2024-09-12T01:29:56Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > He even had his own (then) darling singer girlfriend, who even seemed smitten with him for quite a while after they broke up. It probably had something to do with his saying that she isn’t a real human being and that he created her using his mind to be his perfect mate. > **[Elon Musk thinks Grimes is a ‘simulation’ he has created in his mind](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/elon-musk-grimes-relationship-simulation-b2204948.html)** > > ‘Grimes told me repeatedly that Musk has this theory of her that she’s not real,’ said writer Devin Gordon ---
**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 12, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/288 "2024-09-12T02:13:33Z")
Nah, that’s just his extreme narcissism and megalomania masquerading (poorly) as a form of pseudo-solipsism When you’re wealthy, you aren’t an asshole, you’re “eccentric” ---
**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 12, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/289 "2024-09-12T03:13:05Z")
The thing is when you are Elon Musk solopism kind of sort of makes sense. I mean which is more likely that out 8 billion people you happened to be the richest person in the world which molds itelf to cater to your every need, or that it is all some sort of mind trip that you are having on your own. ---
**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 12, 2024, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/290 "2024-09-12T03:17:04Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I mean which is more likely that out 8 billion people you happened to be the richest person in the world which molds itelf to cater to your every need, or that it is all some sort of mind trip that you are having on your own. I’m not religious, but if anyone on this Earth ever needed to learn the meaning of “there but for the grace of God go I”, it’s Elmo. ---
**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 12, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/291 "2024-09-12T04:37:35Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > which molds itelf to cater to your every need Except his kids hate him, no woman wants to actually be with him (vs his money) for anything but the short term, and various governments and organizations keep getting in his way If it’s all something he made up, he’s a masochist. He should ask for the manager, but apparently he thinks that’s him. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/292 "2024-09-12T11:58:46Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Looks like he really wants Taylor to write him a song. Or meet a group of large men in a bathroom somewhere. Fortunately for him, Travis and Taylor probably laughed about it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/293 "2024-09-12T13:01:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > > [@BigT](#): > > > > He even had his own (then) darling singer girlfriend, who even seemed smitten with him for quite a while after they broke up. ⁢ > > It probably had something to do with his saying that she isn’t a real human being and that he created her using his mind to be his perfect mate. > > [Elon Musk thinks Grimes is a ‘simulation’ he has created in his mind | The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/elon-musk-grimes-relationship-simulation-b2204948.html) ⁢ Well, in the sense she apparently believed it was possible. She was apparently very smitten, and very willing to believe all the nonsense he said. And wanted to keep on believing after they broke up. But then the custody battle started, and she became a prominent hater. Even started supporting his trans daughter. I actually wonder if his growing hatred for her was part of Grimes’s disillusionment with him. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/294 "2024-09-12T19:37:30Z")
Surely at least one of his beleaguered legal team has said “You know what a _lot_ of rich guys do? Become recluses. Buy your own island, staffed by people with iron-clad NDAs, an active volcano, maybe a private zoo. You’ve seen a few James Bond movies, right? I peg you as a _Moonraker_ guy. Eugenics, private space program…” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/295 "2024-09-12T21:42:40Z")
But that’s the tragedy of Elon Musk - he doesn’t actually _want_ to be a rich guy. He wants to be a rock star, or a movie star, or sports star, but he doesn’t have any real talent except a talent for making money. For most people, that would be more than enough, but not for him. It would be sad if it weren’t so funny, and it would be funny if it weren’t so terrifying. ---
**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 13, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/296 "2024-09-13T01:22:37Z")
And we’re not really sure how much of a talent he really has for making money. Once you have a certain amount, it kind of makes itself. There’s the example of MacKenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife) who gave away tens of billions to charity only to still find herself wealthier than when she started. ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/297 "2024-09-16T01:07:44Z")
Someone’s about to get a visit from the Secret Service… > > > DogeDesigner @cb\_doge True story: in 2008 I made an imprudent comment about George W. Bush in an AOL chatroom, and as a result two Secret Service agents showed up at my work and interrogated me in the parking lot for half an hour. They eventually told me they didn’t believe I was a threat and no charges would be filed, but that I’m probably never going to be able to qualify for a government security clearance, which suits me just fine. Elmo’s comment here is worse than what I did because he’s a person of influence and he should be treated accordingly. ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/298 "2024-09-16T01:17:15Z")
Someone on the TV said recently that dangerous immigrants should be deported, so let’s start with Elon. ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/299 "2024-09-16T02:10:57Z")
How much more on the nose to “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest” can you get? ---
**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 16, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/300 "2024-09-16T20:26:53Z")
Elmo deleted his tweet and is now claiming it was a “joke”, presumably because he remembered he’s a defense contractor with a security clearance and the FBI tends to frown on people like that calling for the president and vice president to be assassinated. [https://meidasnews.com/news/elon-musk-deletes-post-questioning-why-there-has-not-been-an-assassination-attempt-on-joe-biden-or-kamala-harris](https://meidasnews.com/news/elon-musk-deletes-post-questioning-why-there-has-not-been-an-assassination-attempt-on-joe-biden-or-kamala-harris) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=16)