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Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter appears to have hit a snag.
The world’s richest person says he is a champion of free speech and wants to ensure the platform offers equal access to voices across the political spectrum.
He also stands accused of exposing his erect penis to a flight attendant and rubbing her leg without consent, before offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage.
SpaceX is alleged to have paid the attendant $250 000 to settle the sexual misconduct claim against Musk on the condition that she promised not to sue over the claims, with non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses included.
That doesn’t sound very free speech-like.
As we stated last week, the timing of Musk’s tweets about political attacks against him escalating dovetail quite remarkably with him being asked to comment on the above allegations.
He also took to Twitter to crack a few jokes, including this zinger:
Finally, we get to use Elongate as scandal name. It’s kinda perfect.
https://t.co/qSNH7lsn72
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
He wasn’t done:
Hi Chad, long time no see!
Fine, if you touch my wiener, you can have a horse.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
Should Elon Musk be cracking penis jokes? I don’t really care – it’s not my headline – but I will say one thing.
Sexual abuse is hugely underreported around the world and I doubt the world’s richest person cracking wiener jokes is going to encourage victims, men or women, to come forward.
Neither will the threat of litigation:
My commitment:
– We will never seek victory in a just case against us, even if we will probably win.
– We will never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
Looking for hardcore streetfighters, not white-shoe lawyers like Perkins or Cooley who thrive on corruption.
There will be blood.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
Another strange twist saw Musk challenge his alleged victim to identify any unique features about his groin region:
Again, that SpaceX settlement is alleged to include non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses.
The attendant cannot publicly comment. The reason the story broke is that a friend of hers came forward to detail the alleged settlement.
In reaction to the above challenge, Twitter users had some thoughts:
does publicly challenging a woman to describe your weird dick constitute a legally valid termination of her NDA? https://t.co/1iejcIB2gF
— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) May 20, 2022
how weird is his dick that he expects she must have remembered it https://t.co/8xz24aP9hH
— libby watson (@libbycwatson) May 20, 2022
Damage control needs some work. 1) “I’m a Republican now.” weird opening move 2) “It probably wasn’t the first time I did this” 3) “I know exactly who alleged this thing I say never happened” 4) “She won’t be able to identify the tattoo on my penis” https://t.co/iCz61NrJ7B
— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) May 20, 2022
Satire website The Onion also weighed in:
Elon Musk Accuses Own Genitals Of Being Far-Left Actor With Axe To Grind https://t.co/otTcGtkZgX pic.twitter.com/iKQgMkbghY
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 20, 2022
So we have the world’s richest person cracking penis jokes and we have Jeff Bezos doing this:
Thank you. I’ve been working hard on my ass.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) May 18, 2022
What a time to be alive.
[source:nypost]
