{"id":6154,"date":"2023-12-01T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T10:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=6154"},"modified":"2023-12-01T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T10:47:30","slug":"elon-musk-tells-advertisers-off-sealing-xs-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=6154","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk tells advertisers off, sealing X&#8217;s fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><strong>Appears like Musk is able to abandon Twitter, er, \u201cX\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Yesterday, Elon Musk <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/29\/2208752\/-Elon-Musk-admits-advertiser-boycott-will-kill-Twitter-X?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\">told his corporate advertisers<\/a><span>, and particularly Disney CEO Bob Iger, to \u201cGo fuck your self.\u201d And after claiming he\u2019d by no means let advertisers \u201cblackmail\u201d him (and clearly not understanding that phrase\u2019s which means), he admitted, \u201cWhat this promoting boycott goes to do is, it\u2019s going to kill the corporate.\u201d Then he mentioned he wouldn\u2019t use his personal cash to bail out the corporate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Every day Kos\u2019 Mark Sumner <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/30\/2208837\/-Elon-Musk-prepares-to-walk-away-from-the-smoking-crater-that-was-Twitter?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\">writes today<\/a><span>, \u201cIf the corporate ought to fail within the coming weeks, it will likely be one of many largest, most astounding, and most self-inflicted enterprise failures in historical past.\u201d (Click on by way of on that hyperlink for a joyride of Musk\u2019s biggest hits.)<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><strong>Extra prime tales<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/29\/2208694\/-Cheney-s-new-book-is-a-devastating-indictment-of-Republican-efforts-to-overturn-2020?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\" title=\"\">Cheney\u2019s new book is a devastating indictment of Republican efforts to overturn 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Former Rep. Liz Cheney hates Republican insurrectionists as a lot as we do. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/30\/2208873\/-While-legislative-to-do-list-piles-up-GOP-plays-games?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\">Republicans continue wasting time instead of governing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Republicans in Congress are as much as nothing helpful, as regular. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/30\/2208871\/-Republican-Congress-member-opposes-overtime-pay-but-whines-about-Americans-who-don-t-want-to-work?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\">Republican Congress member opposes overtime pay but whines about Americans who &#8216;don&#8217;t want to work&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>In response to Republicans, the issue with individuals working additional time without cost is that they \u201cdon\u2019t need to work.\u201d Bought it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/30\/2208874\/-Trump-s-lawyer-told-him-it-would-be-a-crime-to-ignore-a-federal-subpoena-Guess-what-he-did-next?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\" title=\"\">Trump\u2019s lawyer told him it would \u2018be a crime\u2019 to ignore a federal subpoena. Guess what he did next<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Trace: It\u2019s not a trick query. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/29\/2208715\/-Daily-Wire-CEO-makes-pitch-for-everyone-to-say-the-N-word?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\">Daily Wire CEO makes pitch for everyone to &#8216;say the N-word&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s as unhealthy because it sounds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/30\/2208853\/-Cartoon-Mike-Luckovich-on-Kevin-McCarthy?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\">Comic:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-captioned\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"no image description available\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/pwhoAYTjPnJIbAxtDKvvDMShyC0nmUQcIGF-sNQeFWwCN8ZFkSfXqqjMGhBRvwcHR-HTBgCuzD21Ey83zOnOAgNg7CyXmIZ6Q30aQn7cxiZ89rsWZKBbx-K5RlZYjC_dCZciJjFNlmnEmemvOtKzGoM\" title=\"no image description available\" width=\"624\"\/><figcaption\/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/blog\/Comics?pm_source=ICYMI&amp;pm_campaign=ICYMI11302023\">More comics<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/campaigns\/form\/sign-up-to-receive-the-brief-in-your-inbox\" class=\"dk-action-link\" data-action=\"form\" data-slug=\"sign-up-to-receive-the-brief-in-your-inbox\" data-src=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/widgets\/v4\/form\/sign-up-to-receive-the-brief-in-your-inbox?format=js&amp;source=widget&amp;can_widget_id=can-form-area-sign-up-to-receive-the-brief-in-your-inbox-832402\" data-campaign-id=\"11574\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/campaigns\/form\/sign-up-to-receive-the-brief-in-your-inbox\">Campaign Action<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/11\/30\/2208928\/-ICYMI-Elon-Musk-tells-advertisers-off-sealing-X-s-fate?pm_campaign=blog&#038;pm_medium=rss&#038;pm_source=main\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appears like Musk is able to abandon Twitter, er, \u201cX\u201d Yesterday, Elon Musk told his corporate advertisers, and particularly Disney CEO Bob Iger, to \u201cGo fuck your self.\u201d And after claiming he\u2019d by no means let advertisers \u201cblackmail\u201d him (and clearly not understanding that phrase\u2019s which means), he admitted, \u201cWhat this promoting boycott goes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6260,792,6262,793,6261,938],"class_list":["post-6154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-advertisers","tag-elon","tag-fate","tag-musk","tag-sealing","tag-tells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}