The Twitter Implosion
The Twitter implosion is shaking social media.
Elon Musk (the most intelligent person in history) laid off a bunch of Twitter employees and promised to abuse any employees who decided to stay. Since Musk has instituted his new "hardcore" policy, all employees are required to work naked. The Twitter building is locked and the only people who can unlock the building are gone. Employee card keys have been disabled. Poor Elon is locked inside with both of the Twitter employees who haven't quit (yet).
Elon "Free Speech" Musk used his free speech police to comb through the emails and messages of Twitter employees and he fired anyone who was critical of him. Twitter users who criticized Musk were permanently suspended. Apparently, to Elon Musk, using the "N-word" is free speech, butt anything negative about him is strictly prohibited.
Elon Musk, the Chief Twit, has a new plan to revive Twitter. First, he will welcome Donald Trump back to Twitter. White supremacist extremist groups, like the Republican Party, will be welcome to spread their lies and propaganda on Twitter. Idiots like Fucker Carlson, Mike Lindell, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Louie Gohmert will be encouraged to tweet their stupidity.
Musk will even invite members of fringe groups like QAnon, the KKK, Nazis, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and various White-wing "militias" to spew hate and conspiracy theories on Twitter.
Since Twitter lost its current advertisers, like General Motors, it will feature lots of My Pillow ads. Musk will sell advertising to the NRA (and, of course, gun and ammunition manufacturers and retailers).
Musk plans to have a plethora of political advertising. Twitter is also experimenting with "classified ads". This section will be for prostitution, pornography, guns, and almost anything else.
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Is Elon Musk gonna buy NewsTalkers so he can ban me?
Maybe Musk bought Twitter because PROT from K-Pax told him to look for the bluebird.
Dr. Powell said Elon Musk is a fucking alien.
LOL
That was such a good movie! I love Jeff Bridges.
It would be a steal since I am sure Perrie would settle for a measly one billion.
And they're saying TikTok could be dangerous. LOL
Yes, TikTok is a carcinogen.
I thought I just saw somewhere where a bunch of Twitter people were quitting after Musk's ultimatum.
a bunch of Twitter people were quitting after Musk's ultimatum.
Yes.
Twitter is hemorrhaging. The life blood of every company is its employees.
Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform’s future into uncertainty
Death is in the air on Twitter.
On the platform Thursday evening, where #RIPTwitter was the top trend worldwide, users wrote what they feared might be their last posts, offering apprehensive goodbyes and listing the other (more stable) social media platforms where they can still be found.
They were reacting to the dire news emanating from inside Twitter. Scores of remaining employees at the social media company on Thursday appeared to reject owner Elon Musk’s ultimatum to work “extremely hardcore,” throwing the communications platform into utter disarray and raising serious questions about how much longer it will survive.
Inside the company’s Slack, a mass resignation effectively occurred after Musk’s 5pm deadline for employees to arrive at a decision passed. Hundreds of staffers appear to have called it quits, accepting Musk’s offer to exit in exchange for three months of severance.
Elon Musk has fucked Twitter.
many of the two thousand who quit signed off of Slack with this salute to their
ex co-workers.
Advice from their lawyers, "take the severance and run".
How about a nice class action lawsuit?
Damn, one less social media company, what will we do?
And nobody got kissed
I doubt that anyone wants to kiss Elon Musk.
Not me.
There are two in progress.
One asserts that Musk violated Federal laws by not giving 60 days notice in the first round of layoffs.
The second asserts that the termination of all remote work violated the
accommodation clause in the Americans with Disabilities Act(s).
The previous leadership team, all "fired for cause" without severance are
mulling their options. Some may opt to sue, but many had a windfall profit on
Twitter stock they held when Musk took the company private.
Interesting...Paraq Agrawal may have $42 million coming to him from vested stock in Twitter, so severance is not probably an issue for him and his family.
Seriously, Musk does seem to be taking damaging steps. Alienating advertisers and users is never a healthy move. His employee strategy has potential merits (it sucks for the employees) if he can do the same with a reduced payroll,
He reduced payroll by 90% and employees by 75%
What could go wrong?
You're 100% right.
another billionaire, desperate to stay relevant...
Meanwhile, Tesla falling down, his tunnel project is now used for parking, I guess his space program is on the back burner...
He will get bored with twitter like he has every other project 'he' started.
Then he will move on to something else.
His attention span is all in, until it is not...
Tesla's financial health has substantially improved over the past five years. In 2021, the company first became profitable and it earned over $2.6 billion of operating income in Q4 2021
Tesla's strategy of patience and long-term investing is now paying off. Now that the company is profitable, it might be able to solicit debt financing at lower costs than before.
Wasn't the Boring Company’s application to expand the Vegas Loop into downtown Las Vegas recently approved with construction is tentatively scheduled for next year?
Backburner?
NASA has expanded SpaceX's role in the Artemis program and has selected the company's Starship lunar lander to ferry the second batch of astronauts to the Moon.
Busy Year For SpaceX to Continue with Falcon Rocket Launch at Vandenberg
He might get bored with twitter, I don't know what you mean about every other project, do you mean those he sold at a profit?
This is a courtesy, after your one comment that was deleted, I will no longer be responding to you, so try in vain.
From October 2022:
Cite
Apparently Musk no longer cares.
Tesla board of directors, in justifying Musk's outrageous $55 Billion compensation
package stress it was necessary to keep Musks focus on Tesla because Elon was a
"serial entrepreneur" who has difficulty staying focused on one thing at a time.
Other than X.com which merged with Confinity Bank 22 years ago to become payPal
which was sold to eBay 20 years ago, I can't think of any other proprietary property that
Musk has sold for a profit. Oft accused of inheriting dirty apartheid money from his
millionaire South African parents, Musk has retained Tesla, Solar City, SpaceX,
Spacelink, Hyperloop, OpenAI and Neuralink rarely if ever showing taxable profits.
He has many distractions.
Why should he pay taxes?
Billionaires only pay as much tax as they want to.
Yes, recession worries can impact expensive sales.
Tesla has outperformed 82% of all stocks in the Investor's Business Daily database over the past 12 months.
Had the tests been completed?
Didn't he first sell a computer game that he coded as a kid? Zip2 was his first sell as an adult prior to X.com
Since at least 2018, a rumor has been shared online about Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk in regard to his father's purported past ownership of an "apartheid emerald mine" or "slave emerald mine." The gist of the claim was that Elon's father, Errol Musk, who reports say has been estranged from his son for some time, owned an emerald mine during apartheid in South Africa, and that it was seed money from his father's wealth from the mine that made it possible for him to become the American billionaire he is today.
Here's a summary of our findings: We located reporting from as far back as 2009 and 2014 that said when Elon Musk ("Elon" herefafter) was a child in South Africa in the 1980s, his father ("Errol" hereafter) at some point owned "a stake in an emerald mine" near Lake Tanganyika in Zambia , not South Africa. Beyond that, we were unable to find any evidence that showed money generated from his father's involvement in the mine helped Elon build his wealth in North America.
Thanx for the Snopes link.
The whole emerald thingy was very entertaining.
Most young emerald smugglers don't become multibillionaires. Young Elon did very well for himself
I consider him to be a "self-made billionaire".
He is a very intelligent person but he has made some stupid decisions about Twitter.
Sure did. "Approximately" $500 when he was 12.
The instructions were in the Commadore users manual.
It was a primitive version of Space Invaders.
Coprophagia.... Thy name is "Conservative Republican!"
I don't understand you when you type with your mouth full.
If you're the Queen of hearts, we know what you have below your waist.
I loved Space Invaders!
This thread has been invaded by a "spaced invader".
It's an irritating troll from Dildo Planet that often gets stuck in Retrumplican's assholes.
Because of this you can usually smell them cumming.
Nobody wants to hear about your body or your infested snatch.
I'm clueless about your reference to my deleted comments as I have many. Your note might be a courtesy, but it's really not a response, it's a notice of not responding.
I never delete comments.
So I too, am clueless
"GLUG GLUG GLUG"...
I'm not drinking "wry".
I'm drinking highballs (Seagrams VO and Canada Dry ginger ale).
Burp.
nobody here knows who you're responding to...
With Musk's last ultimatum more employees left and now he is asking a few high-ranking ones to come back.
This whole thing is bizarre but entertaining.
It seems that Musk is learning the hard way that in some industries you cannot just bully and make endless demands of your workforce. They know they cannot be easily replaced and they can tank the company if they leave en mass.
It kinda reminds me of the strike by the air traffic controllers in the eighties.
Ronald Rayguns fired the controllers who went on strike.
That stupidity had negative impact the airline industry that was felt for years.
The amazing power of a "woke" labor force. It is funny to watch someone like Musk try to bully people who are just as smart, or smarter, than him. It never works out well for people like Musk because they to fail to understand that while they are the "owners" or "CEO", It is everyone else that actually gives them a job. And if they have options, and you are being a dick, your workers will loudly tell you to fuck off.
It seems that Musk's egotistic bravado in making such a stupid mistake only proves that he's by no means the great savvy businessman he thinks he is, and thinks everyone else see him as such as well.
The first thing one should learn when buying a thriving business, is not to piss off the ones that are the backbone of the business.
I think Musk will find it hard to regain those whom he has so egotistically thumbed his nose at. None of the Technicians he has so stupidly fired, or those who have chosen to leave on their own due to the ridiculous rules Musk has set up, will not find it hard to get another job in their chosen profession. While on the other hand, Musk may find it hard to replace them given his heavy handed and insulting attitude toward his current employees. He may be hard pressed to even find any Janitors to keep those empty offices clean.
It will be interesting to see how long it will take to save his newly acquired business, or if it goes under.
Exactly!
he could have bought a shit load of republican friends with the money he wasted on twitter...
The Babylon Bee’s account has been restored to Twitter. Now the thinned skinned little bitches have something new to whine about.
The Babylon Bee is just White-wing lame satire.
I'm glad they can tweet again, even though I've been suspended for years.
Who are the whining little bitches you are referring to?
let them, nobody is listening to trumpster boneheads anymore...
bfd. only humorless morons read their fascist shit.
Reminds me of when Jimmy Carter asked for resignation letters from all of the members of the WH senior staff and Cabinet.
The senior staff and members of the cabinet serve at the pleasure of the President. The resignation letters should be SOP. The letter(s) can be accepted at any time.
What’s even worse is the piece of shit who is in charge now did this, while choosing a bitch who was locking up minorities for pot while getting high herself.
White House staffers asked to resign or work remotely after revealing past marijuana use
Who are you talking about? The article you linked states that those that resigned or chose to work remotely voluntarily admitted marijuana use.
From your article:
Further from your article:
It's ridiculous to assume "a bitch" was locking up minorities for pot. Each state has a cannabis law on their books. The police in each jurisdiction make arrests according to state law. Who's the bitch you reference that has so much sway that she alone locks up minorities for pot consumption while getting high herself.
Thanx for debunking that bullshit propaganda!
The police can’t lock people up, prosecutors can and the stupid bitch is Harris, who has prosecutorial discretion and still locked minorities up for pot use while doing Willie Brown for personal gain.
Biden's White House is firing staffers for marijuana use. That's a mistake.
msnbc
Please link your all your headline articles. Even if they're opinion pieces like this one. You've been proven unreliable.
Okay, I looked this up myself. Please stay current. The article is over a year old. In fact, it's almost two years old. Do keep up.
Can you link a credible piece from a legitimate source?
From YOUR source (an opinion piece from 18 months ago):
Well, last month, a White House official said the revised guidelines would "effectively protect our national security while modernizing policies to ensure that talented and otherwise well-qualified applicants with limited marijuana use will not be barred from serving the American people."
Who was fired?
Do your own research
Yet we will never know any of the details surrounding any of the hundreds of staffers who quit or were fired by Trump because everyone who has ever worked for Trump was forced to sign his nasty draconian punitive ironclad nondisclosure agreements...
Trump on a seed about Twitter? [deleted]
Didn't a federal judge rule that Trump’s presidential campaign non-disclosure clause wasv unenforceable. And of course there is no shortage of WH Staffer books critical of Trump.
The Q answer to any question.
YES, when the author of the seed/article and owner of the group Al Jizzerror
allows it and has joined in comments about Biden, (George's current favorite)
Reagan, Carter and other past Presidents.
Why knot?
Why comment?
I always do my own research and I provide links to the material I quote.
You seem to be too fucking lazy to provide links to your quotations.
Fuck off.
This isn't a "seed", it's my own content.
I "allow" comments about anything on my threads.
I don't delete off topic bullshit.
Another ignorant hateful rant from Gorge
oh, he so popular...
I prefer the word poopular in this particular instance.
[deleted]
[We have to take copyright infringement very seriously]
[Please, always provide a link/citation to your source.]
WTF?
There's another Headline with no fucking source cited.
Please include the source of your fucking headlines!
(he might not know how)
You may be right.
Butt, if he can copy&pastie the fucking headline, he should be able to copy&pastie the source too.
You managed to find it so Fuck off!
If you post headlines or quotations please provide the link to your fucking source.
derp
I asked George several times to provide links to the sources of the headlines he kept posting (see 16.1 ).
He told me to "fuck off" (see 16.1.3 ).
It looks like a site Moderator ( Split Personality) finally deleted one of George's headlines.
Do you need a tissue?
No thanx.
When trolls post stupid shit on this thread I don't wipe it up.
I leave it so eveyone knows trolls stink.
Got some especially smelly ones
stupid and smelly...
Not the ones you keep on your nightstand next to the baby oil, I hope.
LOL
When I read that Musk has instituted his new "hardcore" policy, I decided to send him an old resume with my "film" experience.
I even used my old porn name, "Lance Petersin".
I wonder if my interview will include the fucking "casting couch".
Lol this is great. I have never been a fan of Twitter or Musk, so watching Musk take control of Twitter and tank it harder than anyone has ever tanked a business before, is delightful.
This whole thing is comical. Now the extreme right wing is pissed about Musk going back on his word...
Right now it seems like all Musk is doing is using it as his own expensive playground.
I am going to make a prediction, Musk will soon get bored with twitter and it will end up being run about the same as it always has been as Musk moves on to another 'project'.
That is Musk's MO...he goes into a project full speed, but, quickly gets bored with it, sluffs it off onto someone else and goes in hunt of another project. If it is run successfully he takes all the credit. However, if it does not work out well after he abandons what is left of it he then blames everyone else.
I see this happening with his new Twitter toy, and am so very glad I never joined it.
What I liked about twitter was the comedy. Some people were hilarious.
I never joined but use to read some people.
Then they made it to where one had to join to read, so no more for me.
When did he get bored with Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX, Starlink, OpenAI and Neuralink?
Who has he blamed?
I really never had any interest in Twitter, or TickTok. But, I enjoy watching some of the funny videos on TikTok, and sometimes on Twitter. The kitty and puppy animal memes and videos mostly. They are really funny, and many of them truly amazing. But, since Musk took over Twitter I have limited myself to just TikTok.
Supposedly China considers Tik Tok to be an enemy of young minds and
national productivity so Tik Tok is limited to one hour a day for users where China controls the internet.
Some conspiracy theorists think that Tik Tok is a not so overt attempt to
undermine "Western culture" ( an oxymoron to the Chinese,
)
LoL! A lot of stuff is an oxymoron to the Chinese. (grin)
But, other than the animal memes and videos it holds no interest for me. Since Musk took over Twitter I have no interest in that one anymore.
Are you calling me an oxymoron?
I guess when NV went down I opened a Twitter account because they keep emailing me about 3 new messages in some thread so once Elon started laying people off I figured out how to get a new password to log on so I could figure out how to close that account.
It isn't intuitive. Eventually I queried the internet and the Twitter help feature.
When I eventually arrived at the "exit interview" there were only 3 choices in a pull down menu
and only one worked. That twitter wasn't available in my area...
Evidence of the dumb nonsense they are going through.
"The Emperor has no clothes".
Two weeks later and Twitter is still emailing me about the same notifications...
Don't worry, I'm sure Elon Musk will fix the problem.
In keeping with his new "hardcore" policy, Musk is fixing code with his penis.
Apparently Musk announced today that Sales and Marketing layoffs
will happen Monday...
He's a determined bugger isn't he?
I wonder if the building will be open Monday?
I wonder how many people flew to SF Friday to beg for their jobs
and actually got in?
(2PM, 10th floor in a closed building)
I heard Twitter Security is hiring in San Francisco.
gee, I wonder what it pays to be part of that traveling entourage that will shield him with kevlar...
He requires more than the ability to use a delete button.
That's banging it out.
Gee Buzz....I didn't know you were Chinese. You said you were from Canada. I guess now that you are living in China you are now Chinese. (big grin) (jk)
LMAO! It has long been my thought that Musk is not all that intelligent himself, he just surrounds himself with people who are, and who can make him look that smart.
INHO, what is happening with Twitter is showing just how lacking he really is. To try and bully those who are much smarter in the project he bought himself into, which had been a successful and profitable organization when he bought it, and see how quickly it has fallen since he took it over.
He is nothing more than a rich boy who makes babies with various women yet has no interest in being a Father to them. And he and goes around playing in this project then another, and when he gets bored with them he hires the experts to make them a success and claiming all success for himself.
However, his immediate bullying and threatening of a very successful staff has backfired on him, and his decision to bring Trump back very well may have even worse results. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
LOL. I may be an anomoly, but I'm not an oxymoron, nor am I Chinese. Do I look Chinese in this photo? Because of the look on my face, I've entitled this photo 'Thinking about the next thing to do to get into trouble", and I got into trouble a lot back then.
You were a cutie pie, Buzz and you do have a mischievous look.
Of course you are none of those things, Buzz. You are one that has a personality that likes to challenge others playfully, and has a good sense of humor.
Well, around 80 years later I'm still a cutie pie and still looking for trouble. LOL
Well, I suppose it's that "devil's advocate" thing in me of attempting to indicate that there is always more than one side to a story. Some who I feel need challenging call me a commie one day and a Nazi another - that would be quite an accomplishment if it were true.
I think the more than one side thing was learned by me on my first day in law school. The dean of the school gave us our first lesson, and in it he said that if we could not understand and argue our opponent's side of an issue as well if not better than our own we might just as well walk out that door right now and never come back.
I sure miss Paul Harvey and his "The Rest of the Story" program - he told the "other side" very well. I lost a friend on this site because I was not in lockstep with his attitude about something, but so be it.
Holy shit!
You're qualified to be president.
Buzz is not an Ox or a Moron
charger 383
That thing got a Hemi in it?
Sorry, I'm not qualified to be POTUS, I'm a Canadian. I could have been Prime Minister, or at least as Marlon Brando said, "I could've been a contender." LOL
Well said, charger 383. Thank you.
No, when I got the Charger, it was supposed to be a 383 but was a 400 and balanced wrong and went bad after running good for a several years. I had a 440 6pack from younger days and had that rebuilt, If I had not had that I would have got a Hemi. Hopefully the Charger gets a new quarterpanel and paint this winter
So is Rafael "Ted" Cruz.
anchor baby ted.
Yeah, but he's still an American because his mother was an American. He may have given up his Canadian citizenship. And as far as I'm concerned, you're welcome to him.
We don't want him.
I don't blame you.
You're right.
His mom was a US citizen but she didn't file the form required to make Cruz a citizen. She brought Cruz to the US when he was four years old.
So Cruz was automatically a citizen because he was born in Canada.
Cruz was too stupid to realize he had dual citizenship (even though he was a Harvard educated lawyer).
Cruz finally renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014.
Ted Cruz: Canadian No More
The senator has officially ditched his Canadian citizenship.
Calgary-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz received official notice Tuesday that he had successfully renounced his citizenship from Canada.
“Being a U.S. Senator representing Texas, it makes sense he should be only an American citizen,” spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said in an email to The Associated Press.
A letter addressed to Cruz, R-Texas, from the Canadian government said he had “formally renounced Canadian citizenship and pursuant to the Citizenship Act [ceased] to be a citizen” on May 14.
Cruz, 43, was born to an American mother and a Cuban father in Calgary, Alberta. The potential Republican presidential candidate automatically became a U.S. citizen at birth, but under Canadian citizenship laws, he also became a citizen of the Great White North, according to The Dallas Morning News .
Cruz reportedly was surprised to discover that he maintained dual citizenship when The Dallas Morning News broached the issue in August 2013.
“Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, because I left Calgary when I was 4 and have lived my entire life since then in the U.S., and because I have never taken affirmative steps to claim Canadian citizenship, I assumed that was the end of the matter,” Cruz said in a statement at the time, according to CNN .
He should have renounced his Canadian citizenship the day he decided to enter politics
he probably wanted to keep all his options available, you know, just in case a war broke out and any of his bullet head pals felt the need to re-institute a draft or something...
I wish Cruz, Gohmert, Paxton and Abbott would all go back to their mother country: Douchebagistan.
Omigosh. Cutest thing ever! Such a snappy dresser, Buzz.
Cruz has lots of should haves. He should have stayed in Texas instead of fleeing to the Mexican warmth while Texans froze to death in some instances and were without water or electricity. He should have avoided fist bumping his equally disgusting colleagues regarding the military burn pit legislation.
Cite
Like many Republican chicken hawks (and their fearful leader,Trump), Cruz pretends to support the military while screwing the veterans. Cruz, like Trump, avoided serving in the military.
Like most Canadians, Cruz can't handle cold weather.
You got that right Ender. When Musk was an immigrant, moved to California at 24 and took electric cars from a political statement to a status symbol, he was adarling on the left.
But now, because of some right wing provocative words, his climate-friendly actions are forgotten. Some have gone so far as to vow never to buy a Tesla because of his politics. The whole thing is indeed comical.
When?
He is miserly when it comes to political contributions but he contributes equally.
We already discussed the rumors of his family's fortune being a benefit of apartheid which would
alienate many blacks and libs.
He might be a fan of the anti oil industry club but Tesla EV battery manufacturing and reclamation
is not a fan of most environmentalists who tend to be left leaners.
Ditto with Solar City's solar panels and roofing tiles.
The closest Musk came to be political was briefly supporting Trump, joining a Presidential
Commission briefly before resigning over the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.
My bride is recently retired from a Texas law firm that has no shortage of cases of labor contract
disputes involving Tesla, SpaceX and other Musk entities. He is fiercely anti union.
His respect for his employees and leadership contracts (Paraq Agrawal) is now on full display
with this Twitter fiasco.
I have said it before yet if I had the money to buy a nice one I would rather have an Audi.
Give me an A8.
Either that or a Dodge Charger or Challenger. Haha
I grew up working on Mopar Muscle cars, 413s, 383s, 400s
426 wedges and Hemis, Carter Quads and six packs
but I evolved to German cars and drive a Benz made in Georgia.
Best car purchase ever.
The past decade.
What is the percentage of your political contributions to income?
The ones that Snopes found no evidence?
ugh, you guys are full of beans. after '71 mopars were all junk. faulty electrical systems, cheap interiors, and gas guzzlers. while I agree that if you want a quality engineered automobile it needs to originate from some country we decimated in WWII, I'll stick with my lexus'. I'm on my 3rd one in the last 18 years.
I guess that makes it your opinion
None of your business.
I stated earlier that it is often reported. If you can find where I have ever
purported it to be factual, feel free to post that.
I think it's safe to say that most public opinion is not based on factual findings,
(i.e., the cases of O.J.Simpson, Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman)
regardless of what Snopes has found.
(Snopes the go to source for most conservatives/S)
Awesome.
any auto manufacturer that can consistently produce bullet proof engines has got my attention.
Toyota is the only automaker that claims that burning through a quart of oil every 1,2oo miles was "normal".
Eventually we got a recall notice IF the car was under a certain age and mileage.
We weren't. Neither were the 800,000 other Camry owners...
My bride loves that car but in this day and age no one should be adding a quart of oil once a month.
We also have a recall for deteriorating dash pads which constantly off gas onto the inside of the windshields. Those parts were never made available...
My wife had a 86 Toyota Celica GT-S when we married. It was a good car, shipped it to Germany and it handled both the Autobahn and small Alpen roads. Replaced it in 03 after 17 years and 212,000 miles.
in the past mazda has made that claim (rx8) and so has acura (TL) I've never owned a toyota that burned oil. lexus #1 = 260K miles, toyota pickup = 190K miles, lexus #2 = 387K miles, current lexus = 145K miles. I consider myself extremely diligent when purchasing a used vehicle and realize that all manufacturers have issues with some of their models. that said, I would never turn down a balanced and blueprinted mercedes AMG.
I have gotten spoiled being up high. I am always in a truck or Tahoe.
Going back to a sedan would be weird for me. I feel like I am sitting on the ground.
I grew up with my fathers 59 Thunderbird, 57 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce (fun little 2 seater convertible and a Turbocharged 66 Corsa Corvair. I loved that last car but when I was 16, I was arrested for racing, my dad let me spend that night in jail and sold the car within a week. I had to drive to school som he replaced it with what later became the Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser. I got it from an Airman that brought it back from Japan. It was geared so low that the top speed was around 64 MPH.
I think it was back in the late 80's my family had two of the same, I think they were little Toyotas. Little almost VW bug like cars.
One the driver side floor rusted out. They kept a board over the hole...
I hear that. I've only owned and driven a handful of cars that didn't have a seating height above average. it's been mostly trucks and SUV's. being above the morons on the road is much safer.
Makes you feel more powerful?
that's the contraband ejection hole when you're about to get pulled over...
Ha. The hatch.
The hole was big enough for about a kilo...
no, deleting trolling dumb asses where I'm able does that...
Exactly, deletions and riding high make you the man!
What did you pay for that amount of Mexican dirt weed?
You'd hafta pay me to smoke that shit.
I prefer legal domestic weed.
Ender was reminiscing about the 80's, not now.
Who said I was talking about weed...
Exactly, you might have bought bulk tobacco by the kilo then.
I haven't bought any mexican weed since the mid 70's. I moved on to columbian until that went away and it's been domestic for the last 40 years. I think I've seen 4 seeds in the last decade and 50 years ago that was 25% of the weight in the baggie. the weed biz has changed for the better, since I'm paying less now than I was 50 years ago for 10x the quality.
You must have been getting screwed back then, either that or your getting serious quantity discounts now.
... says the guy that lives in a state where they sell legal hemp and pass it off as the real thing.
It's coming. I mean how are you gonna say delta 8 & 10 are legal but....
All of you are all wet.
Get a Ford.
I had a VW in high school, then I got a Roadrunner and been almost all Mopar
I like Dodge trucks. The only Dodge car I ever really liked was the Daytona. We got one of those shortly after we got married. I cried the day we traded it in for a van
dodge would have gone the way of oldsmobile and pontiac if it hadn't been for the contracts with cummins diesel for their trucks and the mass production of cheap sold chargers for LE use.
Chrysler has survived mainly because the rear seats of their minivans fold flat into their floorboard allowing the 600 pound plus Americans to ride to Houston...
I've owned dozens of cars and trucks. the only one I was ever sentimentally attached to was my 95 lexus SC400. that's because it was the only stock vehicle I've ever owned that would do 150 mph. I sold it to some kid that wanted to put a N2O setup on it. now I rarely exceed the speed limit, unless I've got some moron in front of me going way faster than me on the interstate when I'm traveling. both of my radar detectors have been sitting in my glovebox unused for over 2 years.
3% THC versus 20+% THC, for the same price. yeah, right...
Ooooh ... meeee tooooo.
My first car was a red Mach I. Loved that car. Kept that for quite awhile, then I got TR6. I was a total 'standard' snob in those days. Insisted on having a manual transmission despite my then daily commute from South Pasadena to Century City.
Sorry I'm so damn late to this party.
The Charger is a floor shift automatic, my Dakota pickup has a pistol grip shifter from a Roadrunner, Need something to shift
4 gears?
My F-150 is a six speed automatic. I can also change the transmission to a lower setting for towing.
I like looking down on people.
68 Charger has 3 speed TorqueFlite,
all toyota's are overpriced. I was actually selling hondas the first year lexus came out.
Yes, as a true African American, Elon Musk was loved by the liberals. /s
One year after Obama took office, Tesla got a $465 million federal loan to design electric vehicles and build them at a manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif. The company went public shortly thereafter, repaid the loan early , mainstreamed the electric vehicle, and now employs about 20,000 people in the Bay Area alone.
That was during to worst financial collapse since the great depression.
The automobile bailout was much bigger. Those loans were also repaid early and saved an estimated two million jobs.
Yes, he needed the money badly at the time.
Elon Musk even tried to sell Tesla to Apple.
Butt Apple ghosted him.
Yes, starting a new auto company is very challenging and very expensive.
Especially during a financial collapse.
Banks were not making any new loans.
I haven't bought an "American car" ever:
When you're in the market again, test drive a Mercedes C300 All Wheel drive 4cyl turbo,
a "pocket rocket" that gets 35mph and higher on the highway.
Two to three years old are most affordable with low mileage.
Seems like the last 10 years are indistinguishable from one another.
My favorite new (old) car is a fucking ten year old work truck.
I drive my 2012 3.7L V-6 Ford F-150 while my Toyota Highlander is parked in my driveway.
The F-150 was fun on my ten state camping trip.
On my previous trip I stayed in motel rooms and I found it annoying when the smoke detectors kept going off.
A camper is great for a pothead like me because there are no fucking smoke detectors.
Thanks. I got the Sonata Eco with the the penalty dollars I got from VW for their cheating. It's a 1.6-liter turbo-four/seven-speed dual-clutch. I had a similar transmission in the Jetta and this Eco had high torque like the diesel had.
I bought off of Carvana when that was still relatively new. It was a good experience, but I recently discovered that even though it had a good CarFax report, it had actually been in an unreported accident and I now have a paint problem. Not Carvana's problem but I doubt that I will ever buy used again.
He’s back bitches.
Elon Musk reinstates Trump's Twitter account 22 months after it was suspended
cool. with musk's new relaxed freedom of speech standards, I may need to join again just so I can tell private citizen trump to go suck off a 12 gauge if he sincerely wants to make america great again.
Who'd thunk it?
From this article:
Elon Musk, the Chief Twit, has a new plan to revive Twitter. First, he will welcome Donald Trump back to Twitter.
I'm glad Trump will be able to tweet again.
The Donald used to tweet lots of asinine shit shit that alienated most people.
That's why I love freedom of speech.
When idiots like Trump exercise their freedumb of speech, they showcase their stupidity.
The news from Trump this morning is that he isn't coming back to twitter he is going to stick with ''Lies Social''.
As soon as Musk begs him to com back he'll come back. Its just a matter of time, and probably not much time.
Trump returning to Twitter would effectively fuck his own oxyMORONIC platform.
"Truth Social" (which is not owned by Trump) is already bleeding money despite his presence there.
Trump probably won't leave until the site gets stockholder support for it's IPO.
CEO behind Trump’s Truth Social IPO begs small investors for support: source
The boss of the company looking to take Donald Trump’s Truth Social app public has personally been canvassing small retail investors in a desperate bid to keep the deal alive , The Post has learned.
Patrick Orlando, CEO of Digital World Acquisition Corp. , has been picking up the phone and calling investors with as few as 20 shares each to urge them to vote for the deal, according to sources close to the situation.
Orlando — who has been forced to reschedule the vote six times — now believes he has the votes to consummate the merger, these people add. Orlando reportedly has scheduled a live interview with the IPO Edge media service for Nov. 22 — the day of the shareholder vote
Orlando previously put $3 million into the deal in September to keep DWAC from liquidating after failing to get a vote approving the extension. If he doesn’t win the Nov. 22 vote, Orlando could deposit another $3 million by Dec. 8 to keep DWAC operating another three months as it waits for SEC approval to buy Truth Social.
If the deal is approved by shareholders and the SEC finally clears it, it will infuse the money-losing social network with $1.25 billion in cash. Voting for the deal is also in shareholders’ interest: DWAC’s shares are trading above $20 and they would receive just $10 each if the deal is liquidated.
It’s in Trump’s interest, too: Faced with a Twitter ban and increasing disinterest from TV networks, Truth Social may be his best platform as he mounts a 2024 presidential bid.
Nevertheless, Trump has backed away from promoting Truth Social’s merger . Late last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission launched a probe into whether DWAC’s founders had advance knowledge of its target company before listing its shares in September 2021 — a violation of securities laws. Insiders believe Trump, already under investigation over the Jan. 6 riots, wants to avoid yet another fight with the feds.
That presents a tough climb for DWAC, which needs 65% of shareholders to approve extending the merger deadline.
A spokesperson for DWAC did not respond to a request for comment.
“DWAC is unlike any other SPAC out there,” Matthew Tuttle, chief executive of Tuttle Capital Management, told The Post. “Other SPACs typically have investors who know the deal inside out whereas DWAC has a majority of investors with just 50 or 100 shares.”
SPACs are shell companies that raise money in the public markets and then use that money to merge with a private company and take it public. If the SPAC can’t consummate a deal, it must return all the funds to investors.
As the clock is ticking toward the liquidation date, the likelihood of getting the deal done decreases. Trump has also previously considered merging Truth Social with other conservative “free speech” platforms like Rumble and Parler.
Still waiting bitches.
Trump will go wherever he gets the most attention and exposure. So he will probably use both.
The real question is, will the attention whores who promised to quit Twitter if he came back keep their word? I mean, is there an alternative in Canada where they all live now like they promised?
the america he and his supporters yearn to occupy is only 6 feet below the surface.
You spend a lot of time wishing your fellow Americans were dead. For simply having different beliefs.
that's a bullshit statement. I stopped thinking of trumpsters as americans over 2 years ago.
Unlike the "fellow Americans" who literally wanted Capitol police and members dead, including the then vice president. After they shit in the halls of the Capitol, of course. You know ... the place where people actually died based on a lie perpetuated by trump, who KNEW he lost the election.
They should be facing "Capitol" punishment.
I thought that's where all the rethugs promised to go when Obama was elected. Twice. Popular vote and electoral vote. Twice. That Canada?
CBS showing the depth of their integrity, they’re back on Twitter after a whole 24hours.
Why do so many Republicans love Elon Musk?
Oh my God. I am blind....
I swear, I have blonde hair and I am not that white.
I've never seen anything this white. Good grief. He looks like a Dairy Queen soft-serve.
Musk was born in South Africa and he is now a US citizen (as of 2002).
Elon Musk is a genuine African American.
He is the embodiment of "oxyMORON" because he is an African American who is so White he glows in the dark.
Skin pigmentation is what is so very important.
It is to the right. And it seems so is ethnoreligiousness.
It seems to be important to more than just the right here.
So I looked up "apartheid" to make some snarky remark about it, but I was amazed that it was seems like it ended somewhat recently. But then again, I'm still somewhat amazed that women didn't get the right to vote until 1920.
Why?
They passed prohibition in 1918. They never needed to actually vote to control everything.
Cut the shit. What we are making is an observation about someone not getting out much, which creates a somewhat pasty look. It has nothing to do with the prejudices, preconceptions and biases as you're trying to portray it to be. (Next will come the "Oh no, that's not what I [said/meant/inferred]; you're projecting" bullshit.) We've spent what seems like forever making fun of the orange one. Quit making bullshit out nothing. You're not good at it. It's predictable and tired.
Exactly, an important observation as looks are critical.
Of course not, that’s silly to think that commenters here have any prejudices.
I’ll try harder but can’t promise success.
I think Elon Musk (and Charlize Theron) have illustrated that the phrase "African American" is not necessarily about race. I worked with a guy from Zimbabwe who left Africa when the economy collapsed. He said he was an actual "African American" butt most of the people who used that label were born in America not Africa.
Charlize Theron, like Elon Musk, is a genuine African American.
Snark noted, but stay on Elon's pale appearance on this thread. Quit trying to make what's on this thread into something it's not. And own your shit. To do otherwise is cowardly. I've noticed that most, not all, on the right have a lot of nerve but they haven't a lot of spine.
Ok, what about a pale appearance?
What is it about?
What makes you think that I don’t?
Why don't you tell me what you meant, Drinker. Was it just a lame attempt to make it about something other than making a reference to a complexion comparison to a vanilla pudding cup, or did you really mean skin pigmentation is what is so very important? If so, why do you deem it so very important?
I’m sorry that it wasn’t self evident, I was poking fun at your observation of:
”I've never seen anything this white. Good grief. He looks like a Dairy Queen soft-serve.”
Lame or not, I don’t make jokes about people’s skin tone.
When Elon first came to the US, his pale appearance got him a job in marketing.
He was the inspiration for the cute little Pillsbury Doughboy.
Unfortunately, the Pillsbury started getting abusive.
The reason you don't see the doughboy anymore is because their sadism went too far.
Eventually those sick sadistic bastards put him in the microwave so the Doughboy is toast.
Good for you. Why the question of pasty skin so very important? Important compared to what? Was it your version of "Forget his physical appearance, how about how he fired all those folks?"
I would never stoop to ridiculing someone's skin tone either.
Orange is the new stupid.
Exactly, paleness was his primary attribute.
Absolutely, although he was born around 6 years after the first Pillsbury Doughboy, he was clearly the inspiration.
I heard the doughboy died while in the hospital. Cause of death: Yeast infection.
Well, it's free speech that's important.
Now the RWNJs can tweet the "N-word" as much as they want.
Those are really questions for you that I can’t answer.
It’s healthy to find humor in death. My Army experience taught me the same.
So everyone with an orange hue is stupid?
Why? You said it. What was the answer you were expecting from Ender to that comment?
Holy shit!
That sentence so much funnier than the Doughboy gifs I posted.
Absolutely.
Name one orange genius.
I don’t know that history has characterized geniuses by skin hue.
No way, you are always the funniest.
My mistake, my initial comment in this thread was meant for you, 25.2.1
i heard the same thing , eating too many lil debbies ....and sarah lee found out ...
That kills me.
Poor Sara Lee. She's had it tough. Word on the street she was .... well ... let me put it this way. She was like the first piece of a loaf of bread. Everybody touched her but nobody wanted her.
It slays me!
No shit!
Former WWE 'Tough Enough' Winner Sara Lee Dies At 30
personally i like those end pieces ( heels )make great sandwiches , just like i like the heels of roasts .
i also heard there was a line , marie collander and aunt jemima were seen waiting too , that little dough boy didnt stand a chance , i hear uncle ben is sitting pretty now though .
I had to read that twice to get it
point is , you got it .
like how i got kicked out of weblos , i couldnt stop eating brownies .... I know , old joke , i will show myself out .....
you'd think the titanic would have at least left a scar...
another wasted joke...
dump trump bump
x2
just because, ha ha ha...
I am going to use that one day on someone and see if I get a ticket.
So, youtwitface? Haha
better than my version...twatface
that what santos' colleagues in the house are calling him now...
"Cumbucket"?
designated pivot man for the GOP circle jerk...
Good one, thanks.
But I won the election and I still can't get airborne, seems shit is really heavy.
I love this...
That shit was rigged.
When traitorous trump was soft on immigration.
Just another stunt to "own the libs" at any cost. So allowing the hordes of bots that are pro right wing talking points along with all the haters back on to the site isn't going to win over "hearts and minds". It definitely isn't going to "own the libs". It isn't going to win over any liberals to the "conservative" side. It isn't going to endear conservatives or right wing hate posters to any particular group, it just expands their right wing bubble. It isn't fooling anyone and there is no victory to be had. Just a mega expensive game of words that benefits no one. If anything it is going to vastly expand other sites to liberals and progressives and expand their sphere. The Twitter experience as right wing megaphone will not work. All it does is preach to the choir of right wing haters and they cannot be swayed by anything so what is the point? Pandering to the right so they can hear their own voices does nothing for them and won't sway anyone else to join them.
Elon Musk is to free speech as Fox is to news.
I edited my Christmas cards this year. Took a while and an eensy bit of a pain in the ass, but it was a labor of love. Card on the left is in its original state; card on the right with my modification.
That was somewhat satisfying to hear!
He'd be twice as wealthy if he got paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of the problems he creates.
I heard one commentor say something the the effect of...I was a little insulted at Chappelle for saying the people booing were in the cheap seats...
Gentlemen on NT: Be wise.
Speaking of Twitter, have you been unjailed with the new landlord in charge, al?
I personally lost interest when billy o'really blocked me like 13 years or so ago...
the less I handle my phone, the happier I am.
This thread removed for no value.
LOL
... uh, you missed some spots...
Uh-oh. World domination has begun.
he could fuck up a free lunch.
he can afford to buy all the attention he never got as a child.
and all the friends he's never had...
taking out the trash...
twice a day...
every day...
>boom<
LOL
-1
>poof<
The only thing that is happening is the opposite of the goal, twitter's aim to elevate right wingers is going to backfire. The right wing nuts lie and while a lie can go around the world before the truth is told, advertisers will leave rather than back the level of right wing extremism and lying that is being allowed. The new attempt at adjusting algorithms to accommodate the right wing loons is unsustainable because we have all heard it before, there won't be enough of other points of view to argue with them which is all they want. They don't want progress or ethics or truth or change or anything positive or constructive, they opt for the lies and any "gotcha" moment and people are tired of it. There is no longer any way to reason, only pointless rage baiting fake arguments that go nowhere. No company wants to be associated with a site that has now become more political than every with no real positive outcomes for either side. The left is only going to increase their reach across multiple other sites and there will be nowhere to go for the right wing bots, trolls and contrarians to go but back to their own separate bubbles.
the new rwnj house majority will dig a hole so deep that no GOPer will be able to climb out of it in 2024.
bummer
Many of us have been wondering how Tesla will perform now that it's $ is being used to keep Twitter from going bankrupt.
I asked Google: "How has Tesla done since Musk acquired Twitter?"
Tesla stock has plummeted since CEO Elon Musk took over Twitter, falling more than 45% in about over two months. In all, the company's stock has dropped more than 65% since January, when Musk began investing in Twitter. By comparison, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has fallen about half as far over that period.Dec 24, 2022 - Google
Massive price cuts on Tesla cars took place in December which of course will cut into the profit of Tesla. The competition is getting larger and stronger so I don't see with these facts and the attention and money that Musk is putting into Twitter that there is going to be any good news for Tesla for a while.
Currently, Musk is on trial, and if found guilty will have more headwinds for Musk which will also translate to Tesla.
Tesla is generating some of it's own headwinds.
In most cases the driver who is behind another car and "rear ends" it is at fault. Nine people were injured in the Tesla pile up. The Tesla driver (a lawyer) claims he had "full self-driving" engaged when it stopped suddenly, causing the collision. The surveillance video shows the Tesla signal and execute a lane change as it braked hard. Butt Teslas in with self-driving engaged don't change lanes unit the driver takes manual control.
It appears that the lawyer who was responsible for the accident will blame the car and he will sue Tesla. Everyone involved in the crash will also sue Tesla.
I don't think I will ever let my car drive itself. I rarely use cruise control.
And it's probably not a good idea to let your fucking cat drive your car.
my car wrecked me...
Tesla owners love their cars.
Butt most Tesla owners just use the convenient "self destruct mode".
I guess the car beside it (007) may have killed the Tesla (it was licensed to kill).
... expensive bonfire.
Got marshmallows?