Saturday Night Open Thread: Defending The Horse’s… Mouth

Christ, what an asshole!

Musk is a four-letter word.

’nuff said.

😉

@DanB: Cocaine is a helluva drug.

Musk is just reminding me more and more of TFG. He might be academically smarter than TFG but the gas lighting and whining and whatever mental illness he has is very TFG like. With all the new Tesla competitor vehicles coming out in the next couple of years there’s, there’s a decent chance Tesla’s stock will continue to drop which means he’s going to have even more freakouts on Twitter.

@ Dan B: When he hosted SNL, he said he had Aspergers.🤷🏻‍♀️

and names kids after dot-matrix printer errors.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

@debbie The DSM-V eliminated Asperger’s as a diagnosis and “rolled” it into autism spectrum disorder. Some countries’ psychiatric associations have not followed suit. This is why my nephew, diagnosed in 2004, has Asperger’s while I, diagnosed in 2021, have ASD but both of us express our autistic traits in similar ways.

@NotMax

The fascist turtle has charm?

What have you been cooking up (and smoking) with your Instant Pot? 🙂

This is my sacrificial comment, in order to be recognized in the new era.
or “from Hell” as others have put it.

NotMax
That seems a bit harsh.

True of course.

But a bit harsh.

Also well earned.

Elon is just the richest and most influential spoiled brat in the world, far exceeding TFG in both wealth and lack of self-control. He’s probably trying to build this inhouse lawsuit squad simply because Tesla’s lawyers told him why it was a bad idea. He’s only going to wind up with the shady characters no reputable law firm would want.

“Muskrat Ramble,” Sidney Bechet

There should be a montage of Heist Movie type scenes where Musk lands his personal spaceship outside the house/ranch/cave/mountain keep/burger franchise/supermax penitentiary where these various ‘hardcore street fighter’ attorneys have retired to since clashing with ‘The System’, concluding with him telling his harassed (but incredibly attractive) PA that it’s not enough, he needs one last bastard.

PA – (ashen faced) “But, Sir… he’s a recluse. Nobody’s even seen him for years.”

Musk – “Then it’s lucky I’m not a Nobody.”

Cut to shot of The Vatican. Camera plunge to deep beneath the ancient building. Focus on a cell in a cavern lined with crosses, Latin chanting and the wet, gruesome sound of someone being flagellated.

Hooded Monk – “Holy One, you have a visitor.”

Titles Roll

‘My Cousin Vinnie II – Money For Nuthin’

A Muskverse Production

Entitlement. Helluva drug.

Money just amplifies and enables it.

So good to see you all again!
Since it’s an open thread, I’ll indulge myself by copying a comment I just dropped in the local paper. (Replying to commenter who expressed concern about the “genocide” of Black women allegedly choosing abortion at a higher rate than white):

Black women have a long history of being treated as chattel and livestock, whose purpose is to produce offspring to serve the needs of others. For them to reclaim ownership of their bodies is not genocide.
Additionally, Black women are less likely than white women to receive adequate and appropriate medical care (which would support continuing their pregnancies if they choose) and to receive fair pay for their work (to support themselves and their children). These may both be factors in the higher rate of abortion. If you are truly concerned with helping Black families to survive and flourish, you would be more effective if you focused on challenging the culture that often tips the scales in favor of termination. Would you be willing to consider that change?

The reference to Cooley is a hoot. He fired Cooley as one of his law firms when *they* refused to fire a lawyer they’d hired who had worked on one of the SEC’s investigations of Musk. So he fired them for having the integrity to stand up to him (and, not incidentally, it was a stupid move – Cooley actually had done him a favor by taking the lawyer out of the SEC). The story made the Wall Street Journal, so every big, good law firm knows about it.

BellyCat
Not only is entitlement a hell of a drug, it can make someone well over just being infected with it into a simpleton. As the subject in question has shown. I sort of enjoy that his wealth is based upon his stock in his company so that his assholyness takes the legs out of his public stature and his standing in the wealth line up. Sure he’s still wealthy, sure his product, while flawed is better than a lot of the superficially wealthy shitheads that have influence “product’s”, he’s still a very wealthy man by the concept of wealth being based upon ideas that can gain and lose value by the measurement of gross stupidity. IOW a dollar is a dollar, a stock portfolio is only as valuable as it’s owners/originator’s mouth. IOW Elon seems to have sort of trashed himself. It’s almost enough whatever to create a giggle.