Dang gut idee!
Twitterâs new owner, I mean founder (sorry, Elon), tweeted last night, âWidespread verification will democratize journalism & empower the voice of the people.â
Itâs really amazing this guy was successful at ever selling anything with that sort of bullshit sales pitch. Elon is selling verifications on Twitter, the blue check. That means youâre verified and a real boy or some shit like that. Famous people, corporations, news outlets, and journalists have them (not all journalists, you bastards). Previously, you were awarded a blue check when Twitter deemed you worthy. Now, you will receive a blue check after you pay Twitter/Elon $8.00 and you will keep it by paying him $8.00 every month. Thatâs democracy? No, itâs a money-making scheme.
Iâm not opposed to capitalism on paper, but donât sell me some bullshit and tell me itâs a club sandwich (I had a club sandwich in Washington with red onions on it and I never even considered that before. It was delicious!). What Elon is selling here is something that used to be earned, not paid for.
Iâve seen political cartoonists boast about being a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Wow. A real Pulitzer Prize nominee. Thatâs impressive and looks good on bios and resumes. Did I already say âwow?â Being a Pulitzer Prize nominee must mean youâre a really good political cartoonist, you badass, you. But the thing is, anybody with $75 (it used to be $50) can be a Pulitzer Prize ânominee.â You can even nominate yourself. So, when you see a political cartoonist brag about being a nominee, donât be impressed. Itâs an amateur move like pathetically tagging ten celebrities with every cartoon you draw in a desperate effort to get one of them to retweet it despite the fact they donât have anything to do with the subject in the cartoon. If you see someone brag about being a Pulitzer Prize FINALIST, then yeah. Be impressed. You can also be impressed if theyâre Herblock Prize finalists.
But my point is, how âauthenticâ are you if you paid for it? I shouldnât have to pay to be recognized as authentic. If I pay the $8.00 a month, that means Iâm as authentic as Anderson Cooper in Elonâs eyes. I would rather earn it. Elon shouldnât be charging for the blue checks. Twitter should stick to granting it to accounts that should have it. It serves the account and the Twitter audience.
A blue check would serve my readers because then theyâd know the cartoons I tweet out are the official versions, and not from a goosestepping jackass tweeting out my cartoon after he manipulated the caption to support his bullshit propaganda. Yes, that happens. It happened to me recently on Reddit and despite my complaint, Reddit said it was âfree speechâ and in the âpublic domainâ for that lying sack of shit motherfucker to impersonate me. But Iâm not bitter.
But Elon doesnât like being impersonated. He banned comedian Kathy Griffin for impersonating him claiming she violated a rule by not making it clear her account was a parody. Yeah, right. After buying Twitter, Elon tweeted âcomedy is now legal on Twitter,â then he banned Sarah Silverman for changing her account name and bio pic to his and tweeted, âI am a freedom of speech absolutist and I eat doody for breakfast every day.â
Elon said accounts that impersonate will be permanently suspended without warning, which brings us back to Twitter Blue, which is supposed to be for public figures. Now for $8.00, it will be much easier to impersonate a public figure. If I change my name to Elon Musk, use his photo, and have a blue check that I paid $8.00 for, then why shouldnât anyone believe Iâm Elon Musk, other than the fact I donât eat doody for breakfast every day?
Elon doesnât care about democratizing journalism or the âvoice of the peopleâ any more than he cares about facts and free speech.
Elon tweeted yesterday, âTwitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. Thatâs our mission.â I find that disingenuous from the guy who tweeted a conspiracy theory about Nancy Pelosiâs husband and her attacker.
Youâre full of shit, Elon, but maybe thatâs because you eat doody every day.
~Clay Jones
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Weâre going to watch Musk burn through 44B faster than the Pentagon.
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Chief Twat is a douchebag, plain and simple. He may understand techie stuff, but he is really bad at understanding human beings.
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He dumped 20M Shareâs of his Tesla stock at a 52 week low this morning.
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lol this guyâs a born rich moron like the donald and wants his employees to be like the slaves in his fatherâs african diamond mines lolâŚ
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Kid with 8 bucks blows it all up
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Snopes is full of clarifications today of false things being tweeted by $8 âblue checkedâ accounts. Theyâre inundating Elonâs new monetization plan.
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Cuban got on his case over it, you saw the mention of a paywall, lol that will spur growth!!!
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The blue check is nearly free publicity for the celebs. Musk should charge $1,000 for one, this way only Donald Trump could afford the blue check. 
Heâs not as wealthy as his sycophants think he is. You know what Iâm saying to you?
It used to mean that the tweeter is legit. Now itâs just a revenue stream, meaning nothing other than you donated money to the Mercurial Billionaire Fund
