# 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:** 179
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3582 "2026-10-17T14:52:46Z")
[![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/naez6htjthrzepezm3t5) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/naez6htjthrzepezm3t5) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3583 "2026-10-17T14:55:05Z")
Reports emerging that almost all the recent financial support of Ken Paxton has originated from Elon Musk. And pretty much throughout the Texas races. The question is whether he’s coordinating with Trump, who has withheld his recent spending in Texas. Until a recent SCOTUS ruling, that practice was illegal. Talirico has countered with his own record fundraising, but still only a fraction of what Musk has given Paxton. > **[Elon Musk gave $158 million to Senate GOP group helping Paxton](https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/15/elon-musk-ken-paxton-donations-senate-gop-super-pac/)** > > The world’s wealthiest man transformed Texas’ U.S. Senate race with a massive cash infusion to the Senate GOP’s main outside group, which has taken over the airwaves with ads boosting Paxton. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3584 "2026-10-17T20:19:05Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Reports emerging that almost all the recent financial support of Ken Paxton has originated from Elon Musk. And pretty much throughout the Texas races. A fairly large proportion of Elon’s businesses depend on Texas laws and rulings. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3585 "2026-10-17T23:21:41Z")
[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreigihflzjt47fp5xmcy4wdshrg3d2e65d3qqvcfdicaj2qdq4oncaa) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/bafkreigihflzjt47fp5xmcy4wdshrg3d2e65d3qqvcfdicaj2qdq4oncaa) [![](https://www.reef2reef.com/attachments/giphy-gif.4516947/) ](https://www.reef2reef.com/attachments/giphy-gif.4516947/) ---
**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:** [October 18, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3586 "2026-10-18T21:20:28Z")
The cheese does appear to be sliding off the cracker. (‘Hot Wheels loops’ indeed.) But Elon is definitely still in self-protective mode, and the Ellisons (with some control over TikTok) are there to aid him: [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/bafkreialm4bwmt7jucsivq3yemnse2sh7gyzhufj4mmywf46q7yft6d4ly) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/bafkreialm4bwmt7jucsivq3yemnse2sh7gyzhufj4mmywf46q7yft6d4ly) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3587 "2026-10-18T21:35:03Z")
What happened to the free speech absolutist? ---
**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:** [October 18, 2026, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3588 "2026-10-18T21:35:37Z")
Oh, Musk had all those kicked off Twitter ages ago ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3589 "2026-10-19T01:56:33Z")
I can’t fucking wait to see it when it will (most definitely, eventually) come out. Must admit I’d doubt there’d be anything in it that I already wouldn’t have known - it’s more the schadenfraude of seeing it knowing that Elmo is 360-degree sharting freely and grandly over it. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3590 "2026-10-19T13:52:21Z")
By “it” I assume you’re referring to the documentary about Elon Musk by Alex Gibney? If so, it was released on Friday last week, but isn’t doing well at the box office. The nearly four-hour run time probably doesn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3591 "2026-10-19T16:17:39Z")
Ah, got it. Whoa - 4 hrs - would need to be just chock-a-block with horrors to sustain a viewer that long. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3592 "2026-10-19T19:25:05Z")
And would need to come with catheters and/or audiences with bladders of steel ---
**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:** [October 19, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3593 "2026-10-19T21:48:52Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > By “it” I assume you’re referring to the documentary about Elon Musk by Alex Gibney? If so, it was released on Friday last week, but isn’t doing well at the box office. The nearly four-hour run time probably doesn’t help. Seems like one of those films that will find its success on cable/streaming. I mean, who wants to see Elon’s face looming over them on the big screen, anyway?? (Gibney’s docos _have_ done well on the small screen, in the past.) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3594 "2026-10-31T00:55:03Z")
Elon changing the terms again. The Full Self Destroying (it isn’t, kiddoes) going to subscription. A monthly drip of you bodily fluids instead of a one-time amputation of your soul. [![](https://images.spot.im/v1/production/gcxnz1fjh4uxxkkwlytm) ](https://images.spot.im/v1/production/gcxnz1fjh4uxxkkwlytm) ---
**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:** [October 31, 2026, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3595 "2026-10-31T01:52:21Z")
Meanwhile, Zoox is already running fully autonomous taxis in Vegas and San Francisco that don’t even have a steering wheel in them let alone a driver’s seat, and he just keeps repeating the same empty promises he’s been making for 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2026, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3596 "2026-10-31T13:50:01Z")
Treachery in the name of greed, lust for power, and drug dependency. _Russian strikes surged 58% during US intelligence-sharing and Starlink restrictions, The Telegraph reports. From Oct 12–24, Russia launched 4,003 strikes vs 2,527 in the prior 12 days. Ukraine’s interception rate fell from 87% to 84.9%, while Shahed launches rose 66%._ [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/erh78m95noq20ltwktjo) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/erh78m95noq20ltwktjo) ---
**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:** [November 1, 2026, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3597 "2026-11-01T23:10:59Z")
Nobody: Elon: Actually the Empire were the good guys in Star Wars [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6uwytvvpihxcqyzvcltzmrr/bafkreihizxr2etrprvkbcxi7zr2y3uueaerjnpfcybs3otaqxekufzm4zm) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s6uwytvvpihxcqyzvcltzmrr/bafkreihizxr2etrprvkbcxi7zr2y3uueaerjnpfcybs3otaqxekufzm4zm) ---
**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:** [November 1, 2026, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3598 "2026-11-01T23:31:20Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Elon: Actually the Empire were the good guys in Star Wars Elon is so alien to normal human emotions that I suppose it was predictable that he’d think ‘having Hayden Christensen as absolute ruler is OF COURSE what everyone dreams of.’ _Homo vreemde_. the Internet tells me that ‘vreemde’ is Dutch for “alien being.” ---
**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:** [November 2, 2026, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3599 "2026-11-02T14:26:38Z")
George Lucas is probably wishing he could actually force-choke people. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3600 "2026-11-02T15:55:57Z")
Anyone surprised Elon is a fan of the guy who slaughtered a bunch of children? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3601 "2026-11-02T16:37:35Z")
Who is “they”, and how did they steal it? The Jedi? Sam Jackson? Ewan McGregor specifically? This makes no sense. I’ma just mark it down as another SF franchise this supposed super genius completely fails to get - like the Culture. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=178) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=180)