I don't mind what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own homes, but I wish they wouldn't flaunt their lifestyle.
I merely reported, I didn't ask for a dedicated thread
In related news, the NYT just put out an article on Elon's drug use and family drama. For all of you NYT haters, maybe it's not a coincidence that they published this just as Musk is apparently stepping back from his role in the Trump administration.
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Dramahttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.9b_n.kgUGFdDqKgww&smid=url-share
https://bsky.app/profile/gbbranstetter.bsky.social/post/3lqf7zbuicc2e
I didn't want a thread on it, for the record. But yes, it is.
So glad they didn't sully the campaign by writing bluntly about Musk in real time.
Interesting they are confident enough on the sourcing to be able to say unveiled "He gets advance warning of the defense contractor random drug tests." That's a crime bigger than him.
That's a crime bigger than him.
There's no crime bigger than Elon.
C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est un Elon.
Wow: @TheDemocrats on X published a picture of a chair placed in the corner of a hotel room (this has Implications) with no comment except tagging Stephen Miller.
Oh, and they were also quoting the Daily Beast article on it, blurb starting "Elon Musk poached Stephen Miller's wife..."
I hope some on the CBS Evening News explains "cuck chair" for the people watching in Dubuque.
They can refer questioners to you. You're just down the road, right?
It's on the Illinois side of Iowa.
I take the New-Yorker-cover view of the country, except looking east from the west coast.
So Musk just appeared in the Oval Office with Trump saying he's not leaving, " he'll be back and forth". So much for the PR campaign about how he was too pure for Washington.
Apparently he is sporting a shiner, noticeable enough to the point he was asked about it. He said he wasn't in France, apparently an obtuse reference to the thing with Macron's wife, and then said his 5-year-old did it.
Someone on Bluesky noted the irony of Miller losing his wife to an immigrant, assuming that's what's happened.
12: Given Musk's breeding practices, is "poached eggs" now a euphemism for surrogacy?
I remember when I said I wasn't going to indulge in White House Kremlinology this term.
Looks like it was the questioning journalist who tied it to the Macrons, not Musk.
I'll be mad if the people who like to slap '-gate' on the end of scandals go with "Muskgate" instead of the much funnier option.
Maybe "thruple" was a tribute to Mr. Totally-Novel-Sex-Act?
I know plenty of people who do recreational ketamine and/or nonmonogamy and aren't assholes about it. Nazis ruin everyone's party, again.
That aint' no throuple. Next they'll be saying that Putin is in a throuple with the bloke he got to marry his first wife. That's cuckoldry, pure and simple.
ake accent @ 27: yeah, but his doesn't, from all reports! [ba-dum tsss]
30: I didn't see it at the time, but a few months ago there was a profile that talked pointedly about the three of them as having a special relationship in ways that prompted throuple speculation. Obviously what's happening now is less indicative of that. But now all that's been dredged up.
4: Yes, that was an interesting story and one that shows that the NYT has the resources to really do some deep reporting, and note that it was by two relatively lesser known reporters who do not cover the political beat*.
Yes, the timing is interesting, and what they knew during the campaign. Back in 2005, the Times published some quite consequential information on the Bush admin's warrantless eavesdropping. However, it turned out that they had a lot of initial info about it before the 2004 election and after some initial obfuscation basically admitted as much. It actually got comment from the public editor per the link (who was generally not that good). And this part seems very quaint in light of subsequent election coverage:
Holding a fresh draft of the story just days before the election also was an issue of fairness, Mr. Keller said. I agree that candidates affected by a negative article deserve to have time -- several days to a week -- to get their response disseminated before voters head to the polls.
*However, the business coverage of Musk at the Times (and most other mainstream outlets) has generally been shit with overly credulous articles abut his claims and goals going back years.
For instance:
7//11/2024: Elon Musk's Plan to Put a Million Earthlings on Mars in 20 Years
SpaceX employees are working on designs for a Martian city, including dome habitats and spacesuits, and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm. (note: by one of the two reporters on the drug story.)
And that article is quite different from what Josh Marshall observes about current Musk coverage : We're in the midst of a storm of articles -- variously encomiums, valedictories, friendly morality tales -- about Elon Musk's purported departure from service in the federal government. The Times entry in that is pretty shit-- a 5-author pieces including Haberman and Swan which is what their really big pieces of political shit usually are (unless i it some vapid Peter baker analysis). A Disillusioned Musk, Distanced From Trump, Says He's Exiting Washington
The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy. To be fair the corresponding WaPo article was worse.
As JM notes, they almost all are written with the premise that he was mainly focused on cutting costs.
JM also: Let me take this opportunity to say that this all has the look and feel of a well-orchestrated crisis communications job. If reporters out there really want to land a story, get me that story and I will be duly impressed. The point here is to start the project and process of unwinding the brand damage Musk has done to himself and all his companies by his antics over the last six months.
In conclusion media coverage of Elon Musk Sleeping Giant at our Doorstep A Land on of Many Contrasts.
And apparently Musk shoved Bessent during a shouting match.
It's too bad this isn't all playing out on some isolated seasteading outpost.
One day someone is going to write an operatic farce about all this.
[Does the NYT print "fuck" or not? In an op-ed the Larkin poem is quoted as " They mess you up....
There's a feature on Molly Jong-Fast and her memoir about her mother, and of course her mom's most famous phrase comes up but the word after "zipless" is chastely removed. But then in the review of the book - Sacre Bleu!- all written out for children and elderly people to see - "zipless fuck"!
When old white men say "fuck" in 60s rock anthems, radio stations will play it, but no one else can say any potty words.
39: Roger "Who the fuck are you" Daltrey? Others?
Given how much New Yorkers pride themselves on their bluntness, the NYT is incredibly prissy. It wouldn't even print "piss" in an interview IIRC.
33 How quaint to assume that voters would have cared. (I've come to thinking that Comey was an excuse not a reason in 2016.)
It goes against everything I hold dear to pay attention to Miller/Musk. And yet, I'll be willing to enter into a pool on when her pregnancy gets announced. (I have no idea if that's what she wants, but who doubts it's what he wants?)
I make no assumption that any voter would have cared.
I think this is all a smokescreen to deflect attention away from the obvious White House thruple: Donald Trump, Steven Cheung and Usha Vance
I want to make it absolutely clear that no part of 44 is intended as a criticism of any of the parties involved.
If Donald Trump experiences the most actualized version of himself as Usha Vance sprays his scrotum with can after can of Lemon Pledge, while she orders him to eat the feces of Steven Cheung as Cheung tunelessly murmurs Gilbert and Sullivan lyrics while waving a Brazilian flag, who am I to judge? As long as it doesn't interfere with their official duties, I say fair play to them. I'm certainly not going to yuck anybody else's yum, what with it being Pride Month and all.