Insanity Wrap: Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy Twitter — Or Humiliate It?

Welcome to Insanity Wrap, an entire week’s worth of lefty nuttiness wrapped up in one easy-to-swallow capsule of news. Elon Musk’s evil plan for Twitter is this week’s big crazy.

Plus:

Breast milk for sale, cheap
Karine Jean-Pierre and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad first day as White House Press Secretary
Forget that nice game of chess, Vladimir; how about global thermonuclear war?

Before we get to today’s big story, here’s a short video to make you lose whatever little faith you might still have in humanity.

This Is Not a Sane World, Exhibit #1,000,006

This is very normal and sane behavior pic.twitter.com/OsQtvd1qSa

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 16, 2022

That’s not how this works. That’s not how anything anywhere at any time ever worked.

What’s Elon Musk Going to Do With (Or To) Twitter?

Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal Can’t Move Forward Without More Clarity on Fake Accounts

Elon Musk seemed happy to blow [drevilvoice] FORTY-FOUR BILLION DOLLARS [/drevilvoice] on a social media platform with a tiny percentage of fake users, aka “bots.”

Twitter claims that less than 5% of the userbase consists of fake or spam accounts.

But how much would he pay if the company wasn’t exactly forthcoming with how many bots they might really have?

History’s most perfect and perfectly succinct Twitter exchange sums up the impasse:

Musk demanded to know the true extent of Twitter’s bot problem, which his people estimated at 20%. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said it’s impossible for outsiders to tell. Only internal company metrics can determine the extent of the bot problem, and — dang, wouldn’t you know it! — those metrics are confidential.

Like if the used car dealer refused to tell you if there was an engine under the hood.

Musk aptly replied with a poop emoji.

Zero Hedge (usual caveats apply) says that Twitter’s board can either “admit Musk is right and it has a huge fake userbase, opening up existing management to countless shareholder lawsuits, or kill the deal and be sued for record shareholder value destruction.”

Third option: Both the board and Musk agree not to publicly discuss the bot problem until after Musk buys Twitter — at a fire sale price.

Musk has Twitter between a rocket (heh) and a hard place.

Was it ever Musk’s plan to buy Twitter and turn it into a haven for free speech, or did he just want to expose the company as nothing more than a house of virtual cards?

Could be he’s just winging it.

It’s like one of those old Agatha Christie mysteries: You don’t know how the ending will turn out, but you know you’re going to love it either way.

Before We Continue, a Brief Palate Cleanser…

Psator Bob Joyce just posted this on Telegram. Possibly the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen: doberman dancing like Michael Jackson and doing the Dog Moon Walk ❤️🙏💥 pic.twitter.com/eo0JFiEwIX

— DARK_ TO _LIGHT (@IAMINUNISON2) May 9, 2022

My dogs will dance for treats.

And when I say “dance,” I mean, “Wiggle and spin like a four-year-old who just ate five bowls of Super Honey Crisp.”

Goodbye Psaki Hack, Hello Quota Kid

Jean-Pierre highlights her background as a ‘black, gay, immigrant’ woman in first briefing as press secretary

Yes, but is she any good at the job?

Let’s go to the clips from Jean-Pierre’s first day as Presidentish Joe Biden’s press secretary.

Me me me me me me me me me me https://t.co/VmeJRQhcCM

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 16, 2022

Uh-oh. She’s playing the Intersectional Sympathy Card right from the get-go.

Not a good sign.

Let’s go to the next question, shall we?

If I were in Peter Doocy’s shoes, I’d have phrased this question a little more sharply. Something like, “Why didn’t Presidentish Biden visit Waukesha, where a not-racist shot three not-black people in self-defense because of white supremacy?”

Questions like that one are why I’ll never get a White House press pass, incidentally.

Anyway, let’s see what happened when Doocy asked a similar, but less pointed version of my question.

Peter Doocy asks why Joe Biden is going to visit Buffalo, NY but he didn't visit Waukesha after a deadly terror attack by a racist black supremacist:

"I mean, he's visited many communities, um, Buffalo. you know? He’s able to go tomorrow”pic.twitter.com/D2Npj7EOeZ

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2022

Translation: I have no idea about anything, really.

Doesn’t anyone in the Biden White House do their homework?

This last one is a real Doocy.

Doocy: "How does raising taxes on corporations lower the cost of gas, the cost of a used car, the cost of food, for everyday Americans?"

Jean-Pierre: "We encourage those who have done very well, especially those who care about climate change, to support a fairer tax code." pic.twitter.com/rcvptEkgPN

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) May 16, 2022

Too long, didn’t listen?

Here’s the short version: As Joe Biden has previously discussed, we’ll stop inflation with fairness because of climate change.

We’re saved!

If it’s the White House PressSec’s job to shovel nonsense answers at a press corps almost entirely bereft of BS Detectors, I’d have to admit she’s pretty good at it.

Sign ‘O’ the Times

Utah mom selling almost 4,000 ounces of breast milk as baby formula shortage continues

I started using the “Sign ‘O’ the Times” headline to report bad economic news back when Barack Obama was president — poking fun at his egotistical O logo while also referencing a classic Prince song.

This is high-level blogging, folks. Don’t try this at home.

Since the Biden Administration is mostly Obama retreads and Obama himself is probably pulling at least a few of the strings, it’s safe to bring back the old headline.

Especially for stories like this one about one mom trying to make things easier for other moms during the Biden Baby Formula Shortage:

Alyssa Chitti was hoping to sell her breast milk at $1 per ounce, but she’s willing to negotiate with moms because she understands what they’re going through, she said.

“It was making me nervous, just because so my daughter was very, very colicky,” said Chitti. “And I know a lot of moms need specific formulas for babies with upset tummies, and I know how hard it can be when they’re upset. There’s nothing you can do about that stomach pain.”

Days after the FOX 13 News story aired, Chitty began receiving negative feedback about her decision, which led her to stop selling the breast milk.

To everyone who nagged Alyssa Chitti out of doing what she could: Go to hell.

The Craziest Person in the World (This Week)

“I thought you were a dude, my bad”

Seattle journalist @choeshow films a masked screaming person who has a deep male voice at the pro-abortion protest & accidentally misgenders her. She becomes irate & her comrade harasses the Asian-American journalist. pic.twitter.com/rSUqAk6Ema

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 15, 2022

At this point, I’d settle for finding one sane person each week.

How About Global Thermonuclear War?

Russia is losing. That might make Putin more dangerous

In an unsigned editorial, the editors of the Washington Post say that Russia’s severely downgraded war goals appear “to be aiming to take, at most, the entirety of a single Ukrainian region,” but “even that might be beyond the capability of Russia’s depleted, poorly led forces.”

And as the headline says, losing might make Putin even more dangerous.

So far, so good.

But brace yourself for this non sequitur:

Now is not the time, therefore, to go for a negotiated cease-fire between Ukraine and Russia, as France, Germany and Italy have proposed in recent days. Their desire to shorten this destructive war — and thus limit the damage both to Ukraine and to their own hard-pressed economies — is understandable. Their promises not to impose terms on Kyiv are undoubtedly well intentioned. Still, the risks of relaxing the pressure on Mr. Putin before he is thoroughly beaten, and maybe not even then, are too high.

WaPo wants us to play Regime Change Chicken with a nuclear power.

Sheer madness.

I’ve got to wrap up this week’s Wrap before I go totally insane.

Previously On Insanity Wrap: Pizza Hut Is Everything Wrong With America Today

One More Thing…

I apologize for nothing.

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…assuming we make it that long.

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