The Morning Briefing: Elon Musk Is Making All the Right Enemies

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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Granerjin lifted many a spirit when completing another knit cap for an abandoned unboxed action figure.

If it’s the World vs. Elon Musk, I’m taking Musk every time. Just thought I’d get that out of the way up front.

Elon Musk has been racking up quite the list of haters since he bought Twitter, renamed it X, and left all of us old school tweeters in media typing Twitter/X all the time. For the sake of convenience, I hope there is no more rebranding in the offing.

The leftists are in a tizzy because Musk broke their stranglehold on social media. Well, the social media that anyone pays attention to. I think what really set them off in the beginning was not only that Musk purchased one of the crown jewels in social media, but that he did it on a whim. It was his casual, You commies are annoying, I think I’ll just buy the place, attitude that got the poor dears right in the feelings.

Since then, it’s been War on Musk time. Celebs and leftmedia types began rending their garments as soon as the ink was dry on Musk’s contract for Twitter. With much fanfare, alternatives to Twitter were launched and the emotional weaklings announced that they would be fleeing for them en masse.

They then kept coming back to Twitter to tell everyone that they weren’t on Twitter.

It’s not just the braindead celebs who loathe Musk…