I think if Hillary Clinton was arrested 3 times as she was running reporters would not have been gaming out how it would effect her campaign schedule but would be screaming about what’s taking her so long to end her candidacy. Not that it mattered post Access Hollywood in 2016, but are newspaper editorial pages even bothering to call for Trump to drop out this time?

All social embarrassment considerations aside I just don’t see sending credit card information to a business that can’t even function like a business. Our data security is top level, unless Elon’s in one of his moods.

You'd think at some point people would notice Republicans legislating to flood the streets with guns and concentrate wealth among their donor class and then blaming Democrats for a rise in violence. It's amazing to me how few articles about current gun violence mention that the last few years have been just a festival of the strapped.

Based on the accounts Elon Musk interacts with and seems to trust, I'm pretty sure the right person might get him to sell Twitter for nine magic beans. I mean this ends within a year with him selling it back to Jack for 19 billion, right?

Funny thing is all the excuses for how Musk did this. Like it would have been impossible to roll it out like a real product with paid celebrity endorsements and a cross media ad campaign. He had no choice but to top smashing the unbreakable glass. And of course it would have really been impossible for Musk to buy Twitter and not alienate more than half of its most active and read users. Keeping his mercurial decisions and wacko opinions to himself was never on the table.

Genuinely stunned by the stages of public grief Twitter blue folk are going through about celebrities not joining their club. It's tremendous content. And their replies and suggestions to Musk are Saul Goodman in the desert drinking his own urine level of thirst.

Republicans are really going with, "The more felony trials Trump is juggling in an election year the stronger he becomes?" Yeah, nice try. Something about how this is all political while claiming it actually helps him politically is some real message clarity.

How many Republicans spent their whole life striving to get into the right schools, get the right internships, sell their soul to the right donors, only to get into a caucus where their performative idiocy is no match for the natural born morons when it comes to base approval? Case in point

“Legacy blue checks will pay up to keep it.”

Legacy blue checks Anecdotally I've yet to see one pre-Elon's folly blue check say they intend to pay to keep it. I'm sure there are some, but I'm guessing not a huge percentage.

I think the endless lofty cable news fretting about what Trump's indictment means to the institution of the presidency needs to go back to what his election meant to that institution. The fundamental fact that hiding the Stormy Daniels affair may have actually mattered to the black swan event that was his election sure seems to get lost in the big picture everyone is painting.

Does anybody have the timeline that shows if this was first identified in an official statement or was the first official word responding to a leak?

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1621976587468939264

Searching Twitter it doesn't seem like anyone was posting photos before the announcement kicked off the hysteria. Which is an answer to how it could have happened before and not turn into an international incident. A balloon floating over without context is just a balloon.

Somehow I think she’ll find ways to offset that loss.

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1621908589282557952

Something extra unseemly about a Representative who until last month wasn’t even on any committees complaining that working for around a thousand dollars a day is like jury duty.

If the AP is correct that the same sort of spy balloon event happened under Trump and it was kept low key if not secret, that raises a whole bunch of questions about why it's a circus this time and who benefits from that. Here’s the piece.

https://twitter.com/saddamscribe/status/1621919686664376321

Given Musk’s whole Bond villain vibe, are we sure if he gets mad at the stock market he can’t take over every Tesla and drive them into traffic? Bond villain shopping list:

✅Remote operated death machines
✅Rockets & satellites
✅Tunnelling equipment
✅Flame throwers
✅Brain chips
✅Global propaganda platform

All he needs is to build those submarines

Do we need a more apt example of believing your own hype? Still, pretty impressive how many people he's convinced most money is the same as biggest brain.

So you’re saying this is a Republican conspiracy then? Or is the Republican head of the predominantly Republican FBI in a Republican administration somehow part of a liberal deep state?

https://twitter.com/hillbillyvols/status/1601688760890322947

I’m just trying wrap my head around who the purported villains are here.

“Conservative.” Like he’s been engaging with Mitt Romney and not Catturd. Also, I’m pretty sure fans are saying this even more excitedly than critics.

This whole thread gave me dystopian anxiety.

https://twitter.com/LonestarTallBoi/status/1600578474376314884

The only thing more depressing than an old empty mall is a new empty mall.

Are people really getting banned on the legal comedy site for the ultimate punch up? Soon Twitter will be a wonderland of people paying 96 bucks a year for the privilege of fluffing one man’s bone China ego.

Twitter’s starting to feel like a mall that’s down to a Macy’s and a Burlington Coat Factory. And Nazi Things Remembered

It’s like Musk bought a beehive but didn’t think he’d need a beekeeper suit.