re: Elon Musk to advertisers pulling ads...epic

People wonder what frick you money looks like. That’s it. That’s what it looks like.

Man, for a minority I’m impressed by their strong influence and pull.

Cajuns, take notes.

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The most awesome African-American around.

I hadn't watched the clip before now. The interviewer wasn't expecting an answer even alluding to self-copulation, much less a such a direct form, and then doubling down by repeating a louder recitation with each word getting its own punctuation.

We (as a society in general) have swung far to one side of trying to hold people accountable for not believing in whatever the "acceptable" narrative is from those with the most megaphones. This is what it looks like when people and businesses begin to move that pendulum back in the other direction.

Musk doesn't have "frick you" money, he has "frick you up" money. He can afford to research and litigate people and subjects as deeply and long as he desires.

Musk's comment to "Bob" was for Disney's newly re-installed-as-CEO Bob Iger who has literally thrown the former CEO under the bus for Disney's increasingly abysmal performance over the last few years. DIsney is one of the big names which paused its X advertising.

What most fail to realize is that Bob's recent call for Disney to get back to entertaining instead of trying to preach messaging (for which he blames his predecessor) is something that began under his last run as CEO.

Musk's pointing him out creates a conflict, of sorts, for Disney. If Iger really wants to get back to just entertaining without the messaging, he'll hop back on X because of its massive reach. He'll do this not despite Elon telling advertisers that he won't be bullied, but because -in that moment- he personified what it means today for a business to choose not to push messaging over entertainment.

Musk is a genius. And he's on the side of anti-wokeness. We must save Twitter.

There is a scene in David Fincher’s The Social Network where Sean Parker has Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) set up a meeting to have the most sought-after genius in tech, deliver an important message: “Sean Parker says f*ck you.”

That’s what you do when you have the money Mark Zuckerberg was about to have, or if you’re the richest man in the world, like Elon Musk.

Our government, in complete alignment with the most powerful entities in the country and maybe the world, has been trying to destroy Elon Musk since he bought Twitter and turned it into X. Every decision he makes is proof, they insist, that the app is about to collapse and Musk will be humiliated, ruined, and destroyed.

You might recognize the pattern. They’ve done the same thing, for seven years, to Trump. They’ve had no problem weaponizing the DOJ, raiding Mar-a-Lago, and indicting him on phony placeholder charges as the media runs with the lie that it’s for “inciting an insurrection.” They’ve even tried to remove his name from the ballot in several states for something he’s not even charged with.

Trump's answer to them has been the same answer Sean Parker gave in The Social Network and the same answer Musk just gave when asked about Disney, and other major corporations pulling their ads from Twitter/X.