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In a the recent CNBC interview, Musk misquoted The Princess Bride when defending his erratic tweeting .
“You know, I’m reminded of. There’s a scene in ‘The Princess Bride’ — great movie — where he confronts the person who killed his father and he says, ‘Offer me money, offer me power, I don’t care,’” Musk told his interviewer, David Faber.
“So you just don’t care?” Faber asked.
“I’ll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,” Musk responded.
Mandy Patinkin, who delivered the line in question in the movie, took offence to both the misquote and the misinterpretation.
I don't get what it is with right wing doofuses and The Princess Bride. Reminds me of when Ted Cruz had a big mad because no one invited him to the table read of the movie they did during the pandemic.
I don't get what it is with right wing doofuses and The Princess Bride. Reminds me of when Ted Cruz had a big mad because no one invited him to the table read of the movie they did during the pandemic.
Honestly I just think it's a fun Gen X swashbuckling comedic touchstone that's quotable but also generally inoffensive and non-controversial. I don't think there's anything in particular about the movie is right-wing catnip although it's arguably less overtly political (and more watchable with your kids) than something like Python.
Still, my guess is just that those guys are around the same age and the movie was popular at the time to quip between friends.
I think in this case it's "the cool kids like Princess Bride, if I like Princess Bride they'll accept me!"
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Elon Musk wanted a bathroom built next to his office in Twitter's headquarters so he didn't have to wake up his bodyguards in the middle of the night to go pee, a new lawsuit claims.
An executive washroom isn't dirt. What else have they got?
In the article, they say that Musk refused to pull permits and looked to have it all done under the table.
If he's just going to do it under the table, he doesn't actually need a special bathroom.
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An executive washroom isn't dirt. What else have they got?
In the article, they say that Musk refused to pull permits and looked to have it all done under the table.
It was specifically the Boring Company CEO, Steve Davis. Not that I'm trying to be a pedantic ass, but I think it matters in this case because that guy was acting as Musk's capo attempting to force employees to due a bunch of under the table, likely illegal shit to keep their jobs.
In the same affidavit it makes it clear that Musk made a decision to never pay rent at Twitter HQ and to purposely use services rendered and not pay for them after, as an example firing janitors at Twitter HQ and not paying them for work completed. It further claims that it was a trio of people pushing all this contract fraud? to the employees including Mendoza, a venture capitalist who had invested in Twitter, Davis, and Davis' girlfriend Hollander who was living at Twitter HQ with her newborn infant.
Indeed, Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro, loudly opined that it was unreasonable for Twitter's landlords to expect Twitter to pay rent, since San Francisco was a shithole.
It feels like there's enough in this affidavit to get Musk, Davis, and Mendoza personally sued by every vendor Twitter has ripped off, provided any of this was recorded or written down.
So Musk is so paranoid that, at Twitter, the place he owns, he's afraid of walking across an office in the middle of the night to pee without having armed guards by him.
So Musk is so paranoid that, at Twitter, the place he owns, he's afraid of walking across an office in the middle of the night to pee without having armed guards by him.
So Musk is so paranoid that, at Twitter, the place he owns, he's afraid of walking across an office in the middle of the night to pee without having armed guards by him.
Being Elon Musk must be exhausting.
Musk must have an unreasonable fear of tall bald men and the number 47.
I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"
He's clearly just following the path forged by Howard Hughes. His wealth divorces him from reality, and his constant online presence has him seeing opponents everywhere. He's unable to reflect on his own self, so obviously anyone who criticizes him is 'out to get him'. The step to believing assassins are everywhere is pretty short step.
I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"
I'd rather just hire a crowd of people to follow him around and laugh at him.
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In a the recent CNBC interview, Musk misquoted The Princess Bride when defending his erratic tweeting .
“You know, I’m reminded of. There’s a scene in ‘The Princess Bride’ — great movie — where he confronts the person who killed his father and he says, ‘Offer me money, offer me power, I don’t care,’” Musk told his interviewer, David Faber.
“So you just don’t care?” Faber asked.
“I’ll say what I want to say and if the consequence of that is losing money, so be it,” Musk responded.
Mandy Patinkin, who delivered the line in question in the movie, took offence to both the misquote and the misinterpretation.
Okay, misinterpretation of the Princess Bride here aside... there's a full twenty seconds between being asked the question "So hey, what happens if a dude doesn't want to advertise with you any more?" and Musk starting his response. Had he... had he just never considered the possibility before?
All that money and he's being shifty about building a bathroom.
I'm gonna guess it wasn't about the money, it was about the long permit process and he wanted it NOW
234. For example, Davis told Killian that Musk wanted to add a bathroom next to his
office so that Musk didn't have to wake his security team and cross half the floor to use the
bathroom in the middle of the night.
235. Killian explained that it would take time to get the necessary permits, but
promised to begin that process right away.
236. In response, Davis instructed Killian not to bother with obtaining permits because,
to paraphrase, we don't do that, we don't have to follow those rules.
237. Shocked, Killian reminded Davis that if they did not get a permit, no licensed
plumber would perform the work for fear of jeopardizing their license.
238. Davis responded by instructing Killian to hire an unlicensed plumber instead.
239. Now thoroughly bewildered, Killian attempted to explain that the use of licensed
tradespeople was a condition of their lease, and that failure to abide by it would put them in
breach of that lease.
240. Davis responded that management did not care about any of this, that they weren't
interested in ensuring that the work was performed in accordance with the standards required by
the lease, by the City of San Francisco, by the State of California, or any other authority, they
just wanted it done.
241. It got worse.
242. Musk announced via the Transition Team that he was going to be installing hotel
rooms at Twitter HQ .
243. Killian was initially told that the hotel rooms, soon renamed to sleeping
rooms to avoid triggering the suspicions of the city inspectors, were just being installed to give
exhausted and overworked employees a place to nap.
244. Though the changes had initially been simple, if unorthodox--removing a
conference table and installing a bed--Davis instructed Killian to begin planning for and
implementing the addition of features like en-suite bathrooms and other changes to the physical plant.
245. Concerned about how city inspectors would react to Twitter's plans, Killian
emailed the Transition Team to note that the changes they had made thus far were limited to just
furniture and therefore were code compliant, but that Twitter's future planned changes would
require permits and more complicated code compliance.
246. In response , Hollander visited him in person and emphatically instructed him to never put anything about the project in writing again.
247. Hollander appeared surprised and distressed that Killian did not inherently
understand that this was not a project for which Musk and the Transition Team wanted a written
record.
248. Hollander specifically conveyed that Davis in particular was upset that Killian
had sent the email.
I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"
He's clearly just following the path forged by Howard Hughes. His wealth divorces him from reality, and his constant online presence has him seeing opponents everywhere. He's unable to reflect on his own self, so obviously anyone who criticizes him is 'out to get him'. The step to believing assassins are everywhere is pretty short step.
I bet the weird personal security stuff is just another sad flex. "Look at me, I'm so important people want to send assassins after me!"
He's clearly just following the path forged by Howard Hughes. His wealth divorces him from reality, and his constant online presence has him seeing opponents everywhere. He's unable to reflect on his own self, so obviously anyone who criticizes him is 'out to get him'. The step to believing assassins are everywhere is pretty short step.
Howard Hughes did stuff.
Musk wishes he was Howard Hughes.
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Mandy Patinkin, who delivered the line in question in the movie, took offence to both the misquote and the misinterpretation.
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Honestly I just think it's a fun Gen X swashbuckling comedic touchstone that's quotable but also generally inoffensive and non-controversial. I don't think there's anything in particular about the movie is right-wing catnip although it's arguably less overtly political (and more watchable with your kids) than something like Python.
Still, my guess is just that those guys are around the same age and the movie was popular at the time to quip between friends.
In the article, they say that Musk refused to pull permits and looked to have it all done under the table.
If he's just going to do it under the table, he doesn't actually need a special bathroom.
It was specifically the Boring Company CEO, Steve Davis. Not that I'm trying to be a pedantic ass, but I think it matters in this case because that guy was acting as Musk's capo attempting to force employees to due a bunch of under the table, likely illegal shit to keep their jobs.
In the same affidavit it makes it clear that Musk made a decision to never pay rent at Twitter HQ and to purposely use services rendered and not pay for them after, as an example firing janitors at Twitter HQ and not paying them for work completed. It further claims that it was a trio of people pushing all this contract fraud? to the employees including Mendoza, a venture capitalist who had invested in Twitter, Davis, and Davis' girlfriend Hollander who was living at Twitter HQ with her newborn infant.
It feels like there's enough in this affidavit to get Musk, Davis, and Mendoza personally sued by every vendor Twitter has ripped off, provided any of this was recorded or written down.
Being Elon Musk must be exhausting.
Yeah, he's pooped.
Or he would have, if he had a closer bathroom
Musk must have an unreasonable fear of tall bald men and the number 47.
He's clearly just following the path forged by Howard Hughes. His wealth divorces him from reality, and his constant online presence has him seeing opponents everywhere. He's unable to reflect on his own self, so obviously anyone who criticizes him is 'out to get him'. The step to believing assassins are everywhere is pretty short step.
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I'd rather just hire a crowd of people to follow him around and laugh at him.
Don't even need to hire people, most would do it for free.
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He definitely has started to strike me as a piss jug kind of guy.
He's definitely got a shit sock somewhere
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Okay, misinterpretation of the Princess Bride here aside... there's a full twenty seconds between being asked the question "So hey, what happens if a dude doesn't want to advertise with you any more?" and Musk starting his response. Had he... had he just never considered the possibility before?
I'm gonna guess it wasn't about the money, it was about the long permit process and he wanted it NOW
I mean this is normally 100% correct
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But you'd still need to provide the assassination coordinates.
234. For example, Davis told Killian that Musk wanted to add a bathroom next to his
office so that Musk didn't have to wake his security team and cross half the floor to use the
bathroom in the middle of the night.
235. Killian explained that it would take time to get the necessary permits, but
promised to begin that process right away.
236. In response, Davis instructed Killian not to bother with obtaining permits because,
to paraphrase, we don't do that, we don't have to follow those rules.
237. Shocked, Killian reminded Davis that if they did not get a permit, no licensed
plumber would perform the work for fear of jeopardizing their license.
238. Davis responded by instructing Killian to hire an unlicensed plumber instead.
239. Now thoroughly bewildered, Killian attempted to explain that the use of licensed
tradespeople was a condition of their lease, and that failure to abide by it would put them in
breach of that lease.
240. Davis responded that management did not care about any of this, that they weren't
interested in ensuring that the work was performed in accordance with the standards required by
the lease, by the City of San Francisco, by the State of California, or any other authority, they
just wanted it done.
241. It got worse.
242. Musk announced via the Transition Team that he was going to be installing hotel
rooms at Twitter HQ .
243. Killian was initially told that the hotel rooms, soon renamed to sleeping
rooms to avoid triggering the suspicions of the city inspectors, were just being installed to give
exhausted and overworked employees a place to nap.
244. Though the changes had initially been simple, if unorthodox--removing a
conference table and installing a bed--Davis instructed Killian to begin planning for and
implementing the addition of features like en-suite bathrooms and other changes to the physical plant.
245. Concerned about how city inspectors would react to Twitter's plans, Killian
emailed the Transition Team to note that the changes they had made thus far were limited to just
furniture and therefore were code compliant, but that Twitter's future planned changes would
require permits and more complicated code compliance.
246. In response , Hollander visited him in person and emphatically instructed him to
never put anything about the project in writing again.
247. Hollander appeared surprised and distressed that Killian did not inherently
understand that this was not a project for which Musk and the Transition Team wanted a written
record.
248. Hollander specifically conveyed that Davis in particular was upset that Killian
had sent the email.
And then goes to court to officially say they built it.
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Howard Hughes did stuff.
Musk wishes he was Howard Hughes.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Apparently it's at least two, and one annoying spouse.
Designed everything from bras, to ahead of the curve aircraft, truly an engineer for the record books.
~ Buckaroo Banzai