# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/301 "2024-09-16T21:31:42Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > 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. Sure, the FBI frowns on those acts… when committed by non-billionaires. I have a feeling that Elmo gets a complete pass—and that this would be true even if the federal government weren’t so tied up with his businesses. (Those astronauts will _never_ get home if Elmo is expected to conduct himself in a non-outrageous way. But even if the government didn’t need Spacex and Starlink, Elmo would still be able to call for the assassination of politicians without facing any consequences whatsoever, just because he’s rich.) ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/302 "2024-09-16T21:37:27Z")
All I know is that I would hate to be a staff lawyer at any of his many companies which depend on the good grades of the federal bureaucracy, or his personal counsel. Because there isn’t enough retainer pay in the known universe worth having to babysit that. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2024, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/303 "2024-09-17T07:37:05Z")
> **[US Secret Service says it is aware of Musk post about Biden, Harris](https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-secret-says-aware-musk-192156536.html)** > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Secret Service said on Monday it was aware of a post by billionaire Elon Musk on the X social media platform musing about an absence of assassination attempts on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. ... > [@](#): > > “Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he wrote. “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.” 🤨 He’s a perpetually online tech genius, and he’s only _ **JUST NOW** _ learned this? ---
**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:** [September 17, 2024, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/304 "2024-09-17T10:02:42Z")
Musk lives in the finest bubble money can buy. ---
**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 17, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/305 "2024-09-17T10:04:45Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > Musk lives in the finest bubble money can buy Indeed; [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXj97zoW0AAHN9x?format=jpg&name=small) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXj97zoW0AAHN9x?format=jpg&name=small) My brother in Christ. You are a nepo baby with national defense contracts, your own social media network, and you are literally one of the richest people to ever live. You **are** the Machine, dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/306 "2024-09-17T12:39:03Z")
When you’re a stable genius ubermensch, it’s hard to act like a normal schlub (or care what they think “normal” is). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/307 "2024-09-17T12:41:24Z")
He’s just Elon From The Block. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2024, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/308 "2024-09-17T12:54:14Z")
He’s so gross. I saw a tweet from the FBI this morning. It’s no doubt fake, but it stated " Unlike his kids, we will be visiting him". ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/309 "2024-09-17T12:55:31Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > no woman wants to actually be with him (vs his money) The world is a weird place, antibob, and I suspect there are women who want very badly to be with that “visionary genius” even if he doesn’t throw a dime their way. ---
**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 17, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/310 "2024-09-17T12:58:36Z")
As I said “the short term”. There’s has yet to be any woman, including among his own children, who could stand to be near him for very long after actually getting to know him. Or at least any that did not work for him. So, I’ll stand by my statement until there is any evidence to the contrary. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/311 "2024-09-17T21:34:41Z")
Re: This “Elmo” shit If you draw some kind of pleasure from calling someone names behind their back, I believe that your opinions can be readily dismissed, and will just skip to the next post. If I wanted petty juvenile bullshit I’d be on Reddit. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/312 "2024-09-17T21:36:24Z")
I’d call Elmo that to his face, but he never stops by. The fink. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/313 "2024-09-17T21:44:39Z")
Anything I’ve ever said here, I’d say to his face. Actually, I’d probably have a very hard time controlling my temper to not say worse things to his face. As a woman, I found his tweet about Taylor to be utterly disgusting. ---
**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 17, 2024, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/314 "2024-09-17T21:45:55Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > Re: This “Elmo” shit > > If you draw some kind of pleasure from calling someone names behind their back, I believe that your opinions can be readily dismissed, and will just skip to the next post. Thank you for your insightful and undoubtedly very helpful observation. I might mention that some other nitwit made exactly the same observation around a year ago. Nobody gave a shit then and nobody gives a shit now. No one is under the impression that “Elmo” is any sort of brilliant takedown. It’s just a sort of entrenched tradition here. If you don’t like it, please feel free to fuck right off. Please do feel free to skip over any posts that use the name “Elmo”, which is darn near most of them. Or better still, do yourself and the rest of us a big favor, and take your pompous moralizing someplace else. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/315 "2024-09-17T21:48:49Z")
I kinda agree. We should all address him by his given name. Leon. ---
**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 17, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/316 "2024-09-17T21:52:19Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > Re: This “Elmo” shit > > If you draw some kind of pleasure from calling someone names behind their back, I believe that your opinions can be readily dismissed, and will just skip to the next post. > > If I wanted petty juvenile bullshit I’d be on Reddit. ⁢ Come on. You’ve supposedly been here since 2002. You know what the Pit is for. “Elmo” is probably one of the tamest insults this place uses. Acting all offended and trying to shame people for it is ridiculous. If you will dismiss the cited claims in a post because of a single word, that’s on you. This is a thread to vent, not a thread to convince some random Musk supporter. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/317 "2024-09-17T22:01:03Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > do yourself and the rest of us a big favor, and take your pompous moralizing someplace else. Like Reddit. ---
**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 17, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/318 "2024-09-17T22:10:13Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > If you draw some kind of pleasure from calling someone names behind their back, I believe that your opinions can be readily dismissed, and will just skip to the next post. Just in case you weren’t aware, the nickname was not something that board members came up with. It was a nickname that his own employees at Twitter chose for him, and that info leaked on social media, so it was adopted by some people here as well. I am also generally not a big fan of grade school playground insult nicknames either, but at least this one has a history to it. ---
**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 17, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/319 "2024-09-17T22:13:53Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > If you draw some kind of pleasure from calling someone names behind their back Oh, I’d call him much worse to his face if I had the opportunity. ---
**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 17, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/320 "2024-09-17T22:27:10Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > If you draw some kind of pleasure from calling someone names behind their back, I believe that your opinions can be readily dismissed, and will just skip to the next post. I’m sure that, properly chastised, going forward we will all be careful to police our posts to assure that Randolph doesn’t skip over them. Else how would be bear the disappointment? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=17)