Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2)

The human body has ways of dealing with this type of situation (and they’re usually not so great for the owner of that particular body).

(I’m seeing #PresidentMusk even more, since my last post. And it’s showing up on cable news, too: today Adam Kinzinger was on CNN and used “President Musk” throughout his remarks. (Go, Adam!))

With Musk’s wealth having reportedly jumped by $170bn since the election to about $455bn, just in time for Christmas, it would appear he has surpassed Mansa Musa (~$400bn by most estimates), long considered the richest man to ever live. Finally a Christmas miracle going to somebody deserving, rather than some dirty orphan or welfare mom.

Personally, I think he’s due a visit of some sort of spectre sometime soon, whether holiday themed or otherwise.

I’d take this one, too:

This asshole cannot OD fast enough.

Crossing fingers the guywires snap on him while zooming around like Spiderman at the next comics convention, or after seeing the vid with David Lee Roth swilling beer mid-air across the stage - trying that, and failing.
I’ll bet the shtup has a grocery list of, ok, so there’s my buddy Geert in Holland, then on to Marine, etc…
Meanwhile the brah-clown’s likely fuming at countries like Austria and Poland, whose leaderships have, at least for the time being, veered from right back to left again (as well as the majority of Scandinavian countires if I’m not mistaken).

As I was departing Twitter, I caught the tail end of a bunch of posts saying how much Blake Lively sucks…something about being demanding on set, rude, unpleasant, etc. I’d always liked her, so it was a little disappointing, but whatever, people are sometimes very different from their personas.

Turns out it was all an orchestrated campaign, however, to fend off some Me Too allegations, and it took place largely on Twitter and Instagram (gift link).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/business/media/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-it-ends-with-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE4.yNV_.VXZzWjAdAR0x&smid=url-share

Town commons of any kind are mostly turning out to be shitholes.

“We can bury anyone”----the smear campaign-makers had better watch out, or they’ll be swept to Washington DC to serve in Trump’s Cabinet!!!

Another thing to note with that:
Elon’s tweet was in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a german market that resulted in 5 deaths (at the time of writing this) by a Taleb al-Abdulmohsen…

The only problem? Yeah, Taleb turns out to be a supporter of AfD, who had posted anti-Islam and anti-immigrant views on social media for many years, as well as a similar far right interview with the BBC and newspaper articles (cite).

However, it’s not going to stop the AfD from doing a victory lap rally.

My new favorite artist.

I love his calendars.

Elmo is demanding that a congresswoman be expelled for having the utter temerity to criticize him.

Been a fan of him since the late 70’s, starting with his hilarious tennis series.

Elmo is a paid subscriber (one of only TWO, even!) of a pro-Apartheid South African Twitter influencer.

Unsuprisingly, the racist Xcrete account is wrong.

If you have the fortitude to click though and see the claims made… Nigeria is, in fact, the largest economy in Africa, haven taken the lead about two years ago. (Based on GDP)

And while there are whites in Nigeria - my friend’s ex-wife is a white Nigerian citizen, they don’t have much influence.

To quote Willow Rosenberg: “And we’re what - surprised by this?”

We are THIS close to achieving the funniest of all possible outcomes - Woke Elmo.

(points and laughs) HA-ha!

I think you misunderstood. Elmo wants to remove from the Republicans anyone who does think Indian Americans are in fact Americans. Race traitors are the worst kind of traitors in Elmo’s book.

Nope. Leon is upset that racist Republicans are pushing back on his desire to import more H-1B cheap-labor serfs.

He decrees that the Republican Party must kick out the racists, which would have obvious advantages (for instance, they could go halfsies with the Libertarians and rent a Denny’s for their convention(s)).

This is not my experience of working with H1B workers.