# 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:** 182
**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 4, 2026, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3642 "2026-11-04T18:46:39Z")
It wouldn’t be a secret lair if we knew he had it, would it? ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3643 "2026-11-04T18:50:11Z")
You make a good point. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3644 "2026-11-04T18:51:18Z")
Knowing Musk I doubt he would be able to resist the temptation to brag about it for more than 15 seconds, 20 tops. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3645 "2026-11-04T19:06:55Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I suspect that anime waifus are overwhelmingly drawn as under-aged ingenue submissive hotties in skimpy dress. Not at all. There are a number of favored types. Lolitas are one, but there are also characters with [unbelievably gigantic breasts](https://comix.to/title/x5e3k-my-childhood-friend-has-grown-too-much/8984915-chapter-1). Also, anime-adjacent, small horses. > **[10 Cartoon Horse Waifus for Lonely Bronies on Valentines Day!](https://www.equestriadaily.com/2018/02/10-cartoon-horse-waifus-for-lonely.html?m=1)** > > My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic News, Brony and bronies, my little pony merchandise, pony art, pony music, pony media (ETA I see some of this has been covered later in the thread.) ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3646 "2026-11-04T19:15:08Z")
Weebs. The board is filled with weebs (another pop culture term that can be looked 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:** [November 4, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3647 "2026-11-04T19:19:25Z")
[![](https://i.ibb.co/BHbqPH2y/weebs.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/BHbqPH2y/weebs.jpg) ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3648 "2026-11-04T19:50:02Z")
No, those are merely “large” by manga standards. To be “unbelievably gigantic”, they would have to be big enough that in real life they’d have to be carried in a wheelbarrow. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3649 "2026-11-04T20:09:32Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > I’m surprised he hasn’t created a villain’s lair on some volcanic island. If he has he should go hide out there. Mix around the letters of Elon Musk and you get Lone Skum. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3650 "2026-11-04T20:32:33Z")
He had Grok design it. That’s why his secret volcanic island lair is in South Texas ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3651 "2026-11-04T20:43:20Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > That’s why his secret volcanic island lair is in South Texas Nah, it’s in the 15 miles of underground tunnel we built in the early nineties for the Supercollider project that was abandoned. Rarely has a site been better designed for a supervillain lair. [Desertron: The Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie - Atlas Obscura](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/superconducting-super-collider) ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3652 "2026-11-04T21:11:17Z")
Now see, that makes too much sense for him. He’d insist on finding a different site and leveraging it to get some pork for the Boring Company. I’m still enjoying the schadenfreude of watching him spend a quarter billion dollars on Texas elections this year alone and moving from California to the state only to be so despicable that it helped turn the state blue ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3653 "2026-11-04T21:19:55Z")
Maybe we can encourage him to move to Florida next? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3654 "2026-11-04T21:56:29Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I’m still enjoying the schadenfreude of watching him spend a quarter billion dollars on Texas elections this year alone and moving from California to the state only to be so despicable that it helped turn the state blue Nitpick: It’s more delicious than that, he spent nearly half a billion. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3655 "2026-11-04T22:02:18Z")
Nitpicking the nitpick, it was close to a quarter billion on Texas specifically, and a half billion nationwide. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3656 "2026-11-04T22:04:40Z")
A half a billion out of 1 trillion is 1/2000th of his net worth. Do the math on your own net worth and see how much that’d sting you. Hint: it won’t. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3657 "2026-11-04T22:07:17Z")
Oh sure, but it was just one more time he made himself look like a fool publicly. I don’t know what any of us can do to his net worth, but his ego just punched itself in the dick ETA: 1/2000th of my net worth is not earth shattering but it would sting. Burning even 1/5000th would cause me to flinch. But that’s the difference between independently wealthy and needing a steady income to live and hope to retire one day, perhaps even comfortably ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3658 "2026-11-04T22:18:04Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Oh sure, but it was just one more time he made himself look like a fool publicly. I don’t know what any of us can do to his net worth, but his ego just punched itself in the dick You know, he’d make an interesting case study. His ego is both simultaneously so thin that he’ll spend $44 billion to buy Twitter to try to stop people from making fun of him on it, and yet also so dense that he publicly punches himself in the dick with it repeatedly and doesn’t seem to feel it. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3659 "2026-11-04T22:30:05Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Nitpicking the nitpick, it was close to a quarter billion on Texas specifically, and a half billion nationwide. Awww, that’s not quite as tasty. Still pretty tasty, though! ---
**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 4, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3660 "2026-11-04T22:39:54Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Maybe we can encourage him to move to Florida next? Yes, _please_. As things stand Ron DeSantis is already bragging that he’s the ONLY Republican who managed to Keep His State Red. Clearly he’s certain he’ll be living in whatever is left of the White House, come January 2029. If Elon could come to Florida and poison the very name ‘Republican’ here, as he’s done in Texas, we **all** would benefit. . . . This is 30+ minutes long but does contain Ron’s humblebrags, for anyone interested: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uizaoU7e9yM/maxresdefault.jpg "2026 Election: DeSantis says Florida GOP 'held the line'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uizaoU7e9yM1) ---
**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 5, 2026, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3661 "2026-11-05T12:46:27Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > A half a billion out of 1 trillion is 1/2000th of his net worth A lot of his worth is on paper, whereas the ½ yard was, presumably, _actually_ paid out to suppliers and vendors. I’m sure it stings a _little_ bit. That’s why he’s joking about it. It’s a mask made of pure copium. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=181) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=183)