This was a “quote tweet”. Think of it as a way to embed a tweet within your own tweet. Quote tweets are not displayed as replies.

This is one of my biggest peeves with Twitter, it takes ages to figure out what people are talking about without wading through a lot of contentless replies. Promoting verified users tweets has seemed to make the problem worse

also offtopic, but I really feel like Elon is the addict that bought the farm

I find I start to become ruder and less considerate if I spend even a few days on reddit, never mind 10+ years on twitter. you need a break. you need to hang around normal people who have a filter and don’t just mindlessly agree with you or angrily shout at you for being wrong. you don’t need to be financially and pridefully locked into a death bond with the system that provides the drug

maybe this is why he tried to back out of the purchase. a moment of clarity perhaps

It's not a "reply", it's a "quote (retweet)". They don't show up in the replies.

Not that it'd show up anyways unless Jimmy pays $8. Elon changed it so that paychecks are ranked higher in replies than normal users.