This column is free to all subscribers. That doesn’t mean I don’t need your help. I do. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. It’s only $5 a month or $60 a year. You’ll get a column like this one nearly every day in your email inbox. Twitter has stopped saving lives and is now actively engaged in helping to kill people. It took one year and nine months and the insane ego of one man: Elon Musk. He’s the difference between these two headlines from the Associated Press.
We are being fully schooled on malignant narcissism this last 6 years. Musk is adding his example to the already brimming orange turd’s zillion moments of deluded self-worship and cruel insanity. Everything that Musk has been doing with his new toy is completely exposing his inflation, delusion, arrogant disregard for others, exploiting everyone on twitter for personal gain or pleasure, an extreme need for power, punishing the invisible (or visible enemy), wanting more power or dominance over others, lacking in conscience-regret-remorse for actions, taking pleasure in being cruel - calculating and cold, paranoid fantasies or engaging in conspiracy thinking, etc.
This form of sociopathy has been unleashed on the world and we are reeling from it. It’s literally traumatic and disturbing our nervous systems on a daily basis without respite.
Born on third base and believes he hits home runs daily, Musk is another psychopath with authority issues. He believes he is rebellious, edgy, and an intellectual. He is merely another rich asshole whose cars are dangerous and over-priced. He’s turned Twitter into Flitter. Please go back to South Africa, Elon.
Dec 1, 2022·edited Dec 1, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
I was suspended from Twitter about 6 years ago-by infuriating George Conway and having him get me banned.
Now I wouldn't go back to there under any conditions or circumstances-Elon Musk is going to destroy a cesspool that should have been gone a long time ago, and anyone who actively joins it now is suspect as being everything the right wing is-anti-Semitic, anti-science, all of the stupid anti-s there are-and I hope it crashes, burns and takes Musk with it.
The advertisers who are left are probably eyeing the exits very nervously because it's pretty apparent that Musk is as evil as they come and nobody can rescue him or Twitter-not that either should be.
Anyone who is still employed there is well-advised to leave before being fired outright without severance pay.
Being rich is a curse when you believe your own lies and propaganda. Elon Musk is not a genius-he's a racist anti-Semitic holocaust denying asshole with too much money and power.
Karma's coming for him and I can't wait to see how it goes down.
Spot on column. Thank you. Another right-wing, mentally ill person falling into line with the other nutcase, malignant narcissists. Masters of the Universe! Visionaries! Bigots, all of them, and monsters.
Two thoughts: 1) I hope the REAL geniuses who created Twitter are busy creating a good and trustworthy version of the soon-to-be deceased version, and 2) I will celebrate the day the Muskovite goes belly up.
There is not always a correlation between brains or common sense, and wealth. Musk will lose at least half of his Twitter investment before dumping it, while blaming the whole thing on others.
Musk chaos. Lucian if you have not read TCinLA’s outstanding analysis of Elon do it now. TC has Asperger’s which he has successfully dealt with. (Not elegant phrasing). Elon is acting out a severe case of Asperger syndrome. It is all there in an old post. Search TC’s Substack list. If you don’t read him regularly, you need to start tonight IMHO. Keep up the good work. Peace and Courage to all.
Lucian, it may be that Elon is actually channeling Dean Wormer, with all his new Twitter rules and discarding old ones: "The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me." From one autocrat to another.
Dec 1, 2022·edited Dec 1, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
I was never a fan of Musk. Something about billionaires in general seems sociopathic to me. With the growth in the number of them and their exponential involvement in public affairs, the worst of my opinions of them have only been reinforced.
The worst of those thoughts being: They're billionaires because their sociopathic, and fascism is the expression of a sociopathic culture, so of course they're fascists. Right now, I'm looking at Musk. If he is/was the richest man in the world, he is, by extension, the most sociopathic/fascist man in the world.
I always felt like killing Twitter was the ultimate goal. I don’t care how dumb or arrogant you are, no one could unintentionally kill the bird who laid the golden egg. Only a bored billionaire with nothing to lose.
Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards described former Pres. George W. Bush as “all hat, no cattle.” Musk strikes me as all ego, no humanity.
We are being fully schooled on malignant narcissism this last 6 years. Musk is adding his example to the already brimming orange turd’s zillion moments of deluded self-worship and cruel insanity. Everything that Musk has been doing with his new toy is completely exposing his inflation, delusion, arrogant disregard for others, exploiting everyone on twitter for personal gain or pleasure, an extreme need for power, punishing the invisible (or visible enemy), wanting more power or dominance over others, lacking in conscience-regret-remorse for actions, taking pleasure in being cruel - calculating and cold, paranoid fantasies or engaging in conspiracy thinking, etc.
This form of sociopathy has been unleashed on the world and we are reeling from it. It’s literally traumatic and disturbing our nervous systems on a daily basis without respite.
Born on third base and believes he hits home runs daily, Musk is another psychopath with authority issues. He believes he is rebellious, edgy, and an intellectual. He is merely another rich asshole whose cars are dangerous and over-priced. He’s turned Twitter into Flitter. Please go back to South Africa, Elon.
I was suspended from Twitter about 6 years ago-by infuriating George Conway and having him get me banned.
Now I wouldn't go back to there under any conditions or circumstances-Elon Musk is going to destroy a cesspool that should have been gone a long time ago, and anyone who actively joins it now is suspect as being everything the right wing is-anti-Semitic, anti-science, all of the stupid anti-s there are-and I hope it crashes, burns and takes Musk with it.
The advertisers who are left are probably eyeing the exits very nervously because it's pretty apparent that Musk is as evil as they come and nobody can rescue him or Twitter-not that either should be.
Anyone who is still employed there is well-advised to leave before being fired outright without severance pay.
Being rich is a curse when you believe your own lies and propaganda. Elon Musk is not a genius-he's a racist anti-Semitic holocaust denying asshole with too much money and power.
Karma's coming for him and I can't wait to see how it goes down.
Spot on column. Thank you. Another right-wing, mentally ill person falling into line with the other nutcase, malignant narcissists. Masters of the Universe! Visionaries! Bigots, all of them, and monsters.
My fave nephew works for Tesla. As he says, "My boss is a real life troll."
I quittered when Musk acquired. I suggest you do the same🙏🏼
Two thoughts: 1) I hope the REAL geniuses who created Twitter are busy creating a good and trustworthy version of the soon-to-be deceased version, and 2) I will celebrate the day the Muskovite goes belly up.
There is not always a correlation between brains or common sense, and wealth. Musk will lose at least half of his Twitter investment before dumping it, while blaming the whole thing on others.
Q: “What the hell could have possessed the man who took sole ownership of Twitter…”
A: Power, attention, influence (all interconnected)…and not just for himself personally.
Don’t bet on the regulators, much as I hope for effective countermeasures.
Excellent on the current
Musk chaos. Lucian if you have not read TCinLA’s outstanding analysis of Elon do it now. TC has Asperger’s which he has successfully dealt with. (Not elegant phrasing). Elon is acting out a severe case of Asperger syndrome. It is all there in an old post. Search TC’s Substack list. If you don’t read him regularly, you need to start tonight IMHO. Keep up the good work. Peace and Courage to all.
Lucian, it may be that Elon is actually channeling Dean Wormer, with all his new Twitter rules and discarding old ones: "The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me." From one autocrat to another.
I was never a fan of Musk. Something about billionaires in general seems sociopathic to me. With the growth in the number of them and their exponential involvement in public affairs, the worst of my opinions of them have only been reinforced.
The worst of those thoughts being: They're billionaires because their sociopathic, and fascism is the expression of a sociopathic culture, so of course they're fascists. Right now, I'm looking at Musk. If he is/was the richest man in the world, he is, by extension, the most sociopathic/fascist man in the world.
I always felt like killing Twitter was the ultimate goal. I don’t care how dumb or arrogant you are, no one could unintentionally kill the bird who laid the golden egg. Only a bored billionaire with nothing to lose.
....If that's what money does to you, I'm glad I don't have it.
Apparently he runs his personal life in just as ugly a way. Genius to Bad Guy all by himself and really fast.