I'm quite shocked and taken aback by this.
For those that don’t use twitter
Video
Elon Musk message to advertisers who are trying to ‘blackmail’ him: ‘Go f*_k yourself
https://rumble.com/v3yoar7-elon-musk-message-to-advertisers-who-are-trying-to-blackmail-him-go-f-k-you.html
Even if he loses ALL advertisers, it’s a relative drop in the bucket for him.
But he will not. Rush dealt with the same and the big advertisers left, but the lower-tier advertisers were very happy to get on his show. Sure, Rush couldn’t charge the same relative to his audience, but then with less than 100 employees, he didn’t have to. Similar for Twitter, Musk cut the costs way down...so his losses, at worst, will be small.
Tell the richest guy in the world that a few advertisers are boycotting him in a small boutique corner of his empire. And it didn’t scare him?
Surprise! LOL
I like how he said it again slowly. LOL
Right said, Elon!
This is the ultimate version of FU money. I think I first heard the term from an interview with Johnny Carson where when you have enough money that you can say that to all the lowlifes who think they can make you do something for money.
he has been very clear and consistent on this
he will not allow them to shut him up
The DERP STATE wants X (and free speech) GONE ahead of the 2024 election. That is what this advertiser fiasco is all about.
Love it!
Where would those advertisers go?
They can boycott but I think it is quite likely many companies will see their social media presence as a mistake. Being that much in contact with the public is far too risky. It takes just a bad tweet to impact revenue. It also places too much pressure on being forced to take an immediate stance on current events.
These boycotts will force companies to abandon ALL social media.
That will lessen the power the left has to scare companies into compliance
Those of us that remember Rush Limbaugh’s advertiser Cancel Culture Crap know that for every big sponsor there are hundreds of smaller sponsors waiting to take their place.
One of the smartest business person I worked with when she was on the C level of a Fortune 100 company taught me the importance of firing your customers when necessary.
One other source of advertising is for podcasters on other channels to advertise on X, especially those podcasters that have to make restricted content on YouTube to avoid getting banned.
The media created adn perpetuated the lie that he was an anti-semite. The corporate woke goons then played along with blackmail so Elon would “apologize” for being an anti-semite and thus they would restore their advertising.
Elon is the GOAT.
I hope he locked or deleted their accounts.
I for one took a second - and third - look at $TSLA because of the way Musk handled “Twitter," as it then was.There is no gainsaying that Tesla, under Musk’s tutelage, has argued for, and adjusted its business practice to exploit, policies which - while (at least marginally) reduced environmental impact - have been engines of inflation (see, the “Inflation Reduction” Act). I like that not at all. But the existence of such policies, and their past consequences, is water under the bridge.
Where we now sit, the technology of rechargeable battery effectiveness and of production efficiency has been substantially advanced. The learning curve, if plotted on a linear scale, looks sort of ill-defined. But if plotted on a log scale against the log of the total quantity of any particular good which has ever been produced, fits very well to a straight line. This is Wright’s Law, first published in 1937 by an aircraft production engineer (not related to Orville and Wilbur). If you predict that the quantity produced will increase at a geometric rate, your Wright’s Law prediction turns into a Moore’s Law prediction. And we all know how exciting that can be.
All prejudice caused by past low cost and modest utility of rechargeable batteries notwithstanding, the system of storing electric energy and converting that energy to driveshaft torque via electric motor(s) was - sooner or, realistically, later - going to become competitive with our beloved internal combustion engines. But, accelerated by expensive Democrat policy, the quantity produced has grown so much that the cost and effectiveness of BEVs is now reasonable, and can be expected to soon become more than reasonable.
Recognizing this, I have devoted what is (I hope) discretionary investment in TSLA. TSLA is not for the faint hearted, because its market price is volatile and jumping in and out of it looks to me like sheer gambling. If you aren’t ready to hold thru thick and thin, don’t buy in the first place.