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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

honestly, the whole time I was writing this, I was half-expecting I'd have to set it aside and write about Trump getting indicted this morning. oh well, maybe tomorrow.

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Yoleen's avatar

The days is young, my friend.

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Daniel L. Cooper's avatar

Never give up hope! You did write about “Frumpy, the Fucked-up Clown”! Just, hopefully, your next article will be about his ass getting thrown in the ‘grey bar hotel’!

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Morgaine Swann's avatar

I'd give anything to know what, if any, communication is taking place between Fani Willis and Jack Smith.

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CroneEver's avatar

Once again Elon Musk is proving to everyone that money does NOT equal intelligence.

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Daniel L. Cooper's avatar

This article is an excellent read. It describes Frumpy and Elon to a “T”! Thanks for sharing this!

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

Loved it, thank you!

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Linda Weide's avatar

The Bushes and Reagans proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt and probably first drew attention to legacy admissions to universities. Which is why it does not matter where you go to school, but what you do with it. Elon Musk is just a dumb, racist, Afrikaner.

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Karen Livolsi's avatar

“More money than brains” Dad used to say. They older I got the examples were far too many to count.

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Gordon's avatar

Never was a fan of Elon’s. After he teamed up with DeFascist from Florida to launch his presidential campaign, which was another MAJOR mis-fire, that was it for me. Elon sux. (<---that’s a better use of an “x”)

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Patris's avatar

Building that pyre, climbing to the top with a lighter.

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Mindi H's avatar

Perfect Janette! I deleted failing twitter x ass hat

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Helen House's avatar

RE: tfg's pompadour. I read somewhere that he had surgery on his putrescent melon to patch up growing bald spots. The problem was that there's not enough skin on the scalp to patch all the spots he had. As a result, a bald spot remained on the back of his noggin, which he labours assiduously, with the help of brushes, combs, rakes, blowguns, and several Club-Sized cans of hairspray to glue this bouffant hair mousse into place.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Best giggle of the day!

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Yes!! Especially “rakes & glue guns”!!

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RV maxima's avatar

Also, read that he had a bad "hair plug" surgery? He is so vain... I love that blow-dry photo Jeff included! That and the baby diaper balloon probably really gets to him. That he is melting down in a pool of orange goo every day waiting for his justice just puts a smile on my face.

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George A. Polisner's avatar

Jeff, it's called "X" as an ode to all of the ex-twitter users, like most all of us.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

It takes a skilled writer (such as you, Jeff) to express what others are thinking in a style and voice all one's own. Well done!

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Openly Fae's avatar

That was like an 85% Drumpf-free article about stupidity. Sometimes I go a couple of days without driving and forget there are stupid people entirely unconnected to Donald.

That being said, I'd say the one place Elon may have wanted to fuck with his brand is Tesla, since they have a reputation for exploding. But of course he did it on Twitter, where recognition was literally the last thing it had going for it.

Hopefully the ghost of Malcolm X visits him and scares him to death before he stupids Earth into extinction.

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Linda Weide's avatar

When one of my daughter's classmates was given a Tesla after getting his DL, he was driving the boys in class out to eat at lunchtime, against school rules. Then, someone ran into his parked car and totaled it. My daughter, who at 18 has a very clear understanding of how I view Musk and supporting anything he produces, so she told me that she bet her classmate regretted the car (which I doubt). However, I told her his dad probably regretted getting him a Tesla when he did, because just then the price dropped a lot. Both of us looked upon them as sad sacks, not people to be envied. Duped by Musk. I looked into other E-cars for purchase, not that I will need one where I am moving.

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Openly Fae's avatar

Haha same. Selling car and going to Europe where they have mass transport like adult nations.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Yes. Our house in Europe has 2 bus stops near the front door, which take us directly to the main train station and the central business district, the university, and with transfer to another frequently running bus or tram gets us pretty much anywhere else in the city. Can even get to next city with not much muss or fuss.

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mreilly450@comcast.net's avatar

Talk about messing with your brand: I was an early adopter of hybrid cars and electric cars but I will NEVER buy a Tesla.

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RV maxima's avatar

He muffed that up too. He came in and pushed his new owner status and wouldn't let any intelligent changes happen. Tesla was a lot more popular until it was associated with this dick.

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Sharon Buchbinder, PhD's avatar

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's CLUSTER-X!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ellen the Wise's avatar

For the win!!!!

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Charlie Austin's avatar

LOL!!

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DonP's avatar

Yeah. Elon's a genius alright. Just ask any fanboi.

He and tRump share two things in common. They're both narcissists, and they both think they're the smartest guy on the planet. And neither one could pass an IQ test.

OH! And they also both share the utter inability to get out of their own way.

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RV maxima's avatar

Nailed it!

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Toby Koch's avatar

When I saw "Glass Onion", I thought one of the main characters, Miles Bron, was like Elon. Watching the crap that Elmo keeps doing, it's more like he IS Miles Bron - shallow, egotistical and not terribly bright,

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Karla's avatar

Someday I may get through the first sentence of your Substack without LMAO. Today isn’t that day. Hilarious as always.

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Helen House's avatar

I bet that when he was a kid, Elon broke all his toys as soon as he got them.

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CroneEver's avatar

And then whined about how badly they were made, and how he'd make some better ones right after he broke the next one.

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Charlie Austin's avatar

I hate spoiled rich boys!!

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Neal Bravin's avatar

as they sow, so shall they reap. pretty sure he didn't ask my old employer about the branding thing but then they probably would never have accepted him as a client. they probably would have told him the same thing but charged him big bucks for the same advise- DO. NOT. FUCK. WITH. YOUR. BRAND.

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Barb L's avatar

Watch for that X to be turned a swastika. SMH.

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