Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.
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they screamed about illegal aliens but said nothing about the wealthy who employed them. they screamed about medicare fraud but said nothing about the medical industry clinics, pharmacies, hospitals,etc. who got rich from it. this is a class war. permanently tie minimum wage to the cost of living
How can Trump hurt their companies, when WE consumers have the power of the wallet.
Costco is the indicator …..they didn’t bend the knee and memberships soared…
Do NOT bend the knee
The most upsetting part this is that we have so few people in power/these conglomerates that provide services & or products, we have no choice but to go back to building it or growing it ourselves. And we can't do that anymore. For many reasons. And this is why, imo, Harris was campaigning 1/5
on an idea to help curb corporate greed. No clue if/how she could have made it happen, but it wouldn't have gotten as bad as it is now w Trump team support. We're going back 100 yrs where we had presidents on both sides of the aisle curbing the greed since. It's gone crazy in the last 25. 2/5
Something's got to give! With the industry explosion of the early 1900s, population explosion in the latter half of the century, so many many people started believing that if folks were lifted out of poverty, somehow that would diminish their wealth & growth! I played a numbers game a while back 3/5
obviously on a much smaller scale than our country as a whole, and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that if the lower 60% in our country we're not just surviving but thriving? The upper 40% would continue to thrive! Why? Those making less than a half million a year or not hiding their 4/5
money. They're spending it! Sure they're investing it as well, but they're not finding ways to hide it so it is not taxed. They are not hiring the tax accountant that finds that most obscure loophole to save a crazy amount of tax $. Anyway, end of my rant for the night. Y'all have a good one. ❤️ 5/5
If they do, we the people will fight back. I'm guessing at least half of the military will back us up too. Trump and his Oompa Loompas will experience the biggest civil unrest in history.
What makes you think the courts are going to save you? They own the courts. But if that fails they've already foreshadowed pretty clearly that they're not going to abide by court rulings anyway.
"or else what" there's a reason we call them fascists and draw parallels to Nazi Germany. Do you think companies hiring Jews were able to defend themselves in court? Did that stop fascists from razing them to the ground? Of course not
How can Trump hurt their companies? One word answer.
Lies. There are many ways to spell that word, like audits, failed health inspections, and defamatory reports on Fox News.
Well, that would be an easy decision for me. I would stop advertising at all. I hope all these Maga fucks are happy that they have contributed to the destruction of America
For all advertisers that stand up to this, I will go out of my way to support you. I might not even normally but your product, but I’ll definitely be looking to purchase them if you don’t capitulate.
Elon is the bigger threat, not Trump. His endless resource will buy him anything and anyone, and he is going to muscle out anyone who doesn’t comply with his vision. Really the best bet it to pit Trump against Elon, because there can only be one Alpha on the world’s stage, and it isn’t Trump
A useful discussion of Musk's "functional stupidity" and how it reflects on a billionaire's situation/tendency toward that functional stupidity. Regrettably, the richest man in the world goes down that path with malice, pettiness, and racism.
Thank you for this I’ve been talking everyone that the cuts are coming from AI. That’s why the errors are so laughable, confusing “biodiversity” with a DEI program.
It certainly didn’t help! I miss Nothing about TheElon’dTwitter! Periscope and Twitter might have had some issues before it got sold…But what Elon’s done to it in what? Less than three whole years?? 😵💫 Unreal! Nope! Don’t regret leaving it & deleting the app!
Grrrrr.
Try behaving like Costco you greedy people. Americans are starting to hold back their spending dollars to the big companies who are bending the knee to Trump instead of supporting the people who made them rich in the firs TV place. Go Ams Go💪🏼💪🏼
Allies, we need to get out of states of shock. We can all read the news. We need to plan & share actions. Let’s repost ACTION ideas! Example-anyone can do the attached-boycott as long & often as you can. Will you repost? Let’s stop reposting their sh*t like they want. $$ Boycott multiple times!
I'm all for action but these piddly one day "protests" are next to pointless and waste our energy. How about we try those suggestions out for two WEEKS.
Absolutely. That’s why I am encouraging people to do a minimum of one week. Minimum. We can do it multiple times. We can do it as long as we can. Let’s focus on the positive so we can get as many people involved as possible.
Stop doing business with X. Keep your notes and lawyers on speed dial. Musk himself told his X workers they barely broke even. It’s not collusion to strategize as a group to Sue X .
When threats and intimidation don't work, then branch out to extortion and blackmail. It's a natural progression. They are passing all the milestones of fascism.
I really hope that they platform just shrinks substantially that there's only right wingers left. I hardly go on these days, just hoping for more companies to start blue sky.
No, Musk can afford to bleed several $ billion a year from Twitter without really noticing especially as he is profiting from his techno-fascist coup. His tax savings alone with be worth far more than that
Musks little toy X is on the Edge to be terminated in Europe . Ireland not longer protecting Meta and X . The Europan Digital Service Act is fully ratified in all EU Countries . Everybody can now sue X Facebook or Instagram for Hatespeech ,spreading Disinformation. And the Fines are extreme
Honestly I agree. Just block the entire domain continent-wide. Make them lose out on traffic from nearly 700 million potential customers.
To be fair, only a fraction of those use Twatter, and those who are super addicted will use a VPN to keep access, but the traffic to the site will die slowly.
This is blackmail, isn’t it? If you don’t do what Musk wants he will try and make something bad happen to these companies. Totally lawless behavior by Twitter and Musk, and if Trump capitulates, then he is also guilty and now we have a conspiracy.
I expect EVERY law maker to arrest, hold and put before a judge TerroristNaziMusk-so the masses do not have to fo it for them?
I want Musk arrested for being a terrorist from South Africa! 😡😡😡
He bought Twitter on a guarantee of profits for partners and investors with him putting up 100% of his stake in Tesla as guarantee. If X doesn't make his forecast profit levels X and Tesla could fold. Jeff Bezos is waiting.😂
I have a better idea, why don’t we charter a SpaceX and send him to Mars? And while we’re at it, he can make some room for his buddy Trump. Even better if we send them to the sun.
He wants to be the world's first trillionaire.
He's an insecure lowlife who is desperate to be remembered.
And he will be, as an example of humanity at its worst.
The vast majority of Americans have no idea any of this is even happening. They get their news once a day from the nightly newscasts on NBC, ABC, or CBS.
And those cowards aren't covering the unAmerican actions of this administration.
When the left bought into the "peace and love, and they go low we go high"to the extent that they lost sight of the reality Hitler was defeated with guns, bombs, and violence. At some point the only thing to be done to evil people is to resist them with violence that matches or exceeds theirs.
Thats where I believe this is headed and the only end to the oligarch rule for good! Then take their money, cause they cant take it to hell with them, and pass it around to non-magats in need!
Caving on Merrick Garland's appointment was absolutely on him and the milquetoast Dems...if Obama seated him and told McConnell to fuck off, and RBG set her hubris aside, the SCOTUS never makes that executive immunity ruling...it also means a different person would have been AG...
I fear it may come to that. But you guys gotta get off your collective arses. They're dismantling your democracy and they're doing a pretty good of it so far.
I wish I was surprised by this tactic. He has no honor, integrity or character. He cannot be successful on his own merits so instead he is resorting to shaking down his customers. Let’s hope they just jump ship.
Dear Lawyers,
Perhaps we should all get our own legal teams and see how far threats get you.
Sorry, canceling my account.
Sincerely,
All of us on Twitter/x
He seems to be taking the exact opposite stance from about a year ago when "X" advertisers were boycotting "X" after Musk's Antisemitic comments!! He told the advertisers: "Go F--k yourself!" TWICE... During an interview. https://youtu.be/U_M_uvDChJQ?si=-wlBLkbkTaxDEUMQ
I've kept my X account only so I can log on and block 20 ads then log off. Try to block 60 to 80 a week as an experiment to see what real freaky ads pop up.
All companies should pull everything. Pull it all. Fuck him. He is telling you want to do and expecting you’re too afraid of hurting your bottom line to disobey. Fuck this guy.
It gave me a hard time deactivating because I was swapping my account name so I could axe all my old tweets yet retain my user name. It took about two weeks of me trying every day.
Journalists and politicians need to be in whichever public forums they can as part of their jobs, either to monitor what powerful people are saying or for outreach. No one else has an excuse at this point.
We need to en mass tell them to join Mastodon & BlueSky. and then delete the X account.
Can we get 100k or 500k people who have X accounts or make on for a day, follow them, tweet at every democrat and journalist to start fucking cross posting on other platforms, and then delete every account?
That is straight out extortion. Extortion is a crime that involves using force or threats to obtain money or property from a victim. It's often charged as a felony.
They are going to go to far and their threats won’t work any more.
Yes, except the most corrupt federal government administration ever is now fully under trump’s control. The FBI was the last agency to get its trump loyalist leadership but the cowardly GOP senators confirmed Patel today. Trump is in complete control of the federal law enforcement now.
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They haven't seen anything yet.
This is basically a large scale mugging.
I want in to Fort Knox.
For the same reasons he does.
As Willie Sutton said, "It's where the money is!"
Costco is the indicator …..they didn’t bend the knee and memberships soared…
Do NOT bend the knee
I would say it's unprecedented, but this sort of thing happened in Nazi Germany.
Their next step is using their Red Army to enforce their agenda. They might start arresting business owners
Thats not legal
It will not end well for them. We promise.
Lies. There are many ways to spell that word, like audits, failed health inspections, and defamatory reports on Fox News.
Its their MOU.
This can't be America.
Recent New Yorker article/podcast provides a decent perspective:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000694198577
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/2/19/2304530/-Musk-s-Functional-Stupidity-Demonstrates-Billionaires-Are-a-Social-Blight
https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/climate-aware-billionaires-have-lost-the-plot-477d25feadcc
I thought it was fiction initially 🤷🏼♂️
Try behaving like Costco you greedy people. Americans are starting to hold back their spending dollars to the big companies who are bending the knee to Trump instead of supporting the people who made them rich in the firs TV place. Go Ams Go💪🏼💪🏼
Said too much already.
At this point, anyone still there, whatever the excuse might be, is an accomplice of a criminal regime.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000694198577
Wall Street can take him down
When has Musk (or Trump) avoided using any tools to seek to boost his power and influence? Whether legal or not?
And, of course, how has Musk (or Trump) suffered true consequences for unethical, immoral, illegal actions?
248 years of SLOGANS down the drain.
" Nice company you have there...
" Would sure be a shame if something were to happen to it.
To be fair, only a fraction of those use Twatter, and those who are super addicted will use a VPN to keep access, but the traffic to the site will die slowly.
Neither. He is very good at the con game, and got really lucky with his first con, and invested well.
I want Musk arrested for being a terrorist from South Africa! 😡😡😡
🤦♂️
He's an insecure lowlife who is desperate to be remembered.
And he will be, as an example of humanity at its worst.
And those cowards aren't covering the unAmerican actions of this administration.
I think we need to know who he’s threatening and then buy from them more frequently so their business is more secure
Perhaps we should all get our own legal teams and see how far threats get you.
Sorry, canceling my account.
Sincerely,
All of us on Twitter/x
Fuck those Nazis at Twitter
Somebody please give us a list of their advertisers so we can boycott them like all the companies that pulled their DEI programs
@gtconway.bsky.social
He seems to be taking the exact opposite stance from about a year ago when "X" advertisers were boycotting "X" after Musk's Antisemitic comments!! He told the advertisers: "Go F--k yourself!" TWICE... During an interview.
https://youtu.be/U_M_uvDChJQ?si=-wlBLkbkTaxDEUMQ
Option A) Pay an ever increasing monthly tithe to the Musky one
Option B) Find out how many thousands of hitmen one can hire for I dunno, half that money.
Can we get 100k or 500k people who have X accounts or make on for a day, follow them, tweet at every democrat and journalist to start fucking cross posting on other platforms, and then delete every account?
very soon
Standing up to Lord Tyrant will bring you more business
guaranteed
millions are sick of the little Third Reich arm saluting dolt
I'm wondering when one will suddenly be domiciled in Ireland to avoid it
They are going to go to far and their threats won’t work any more.
Sue if any shit comes down
I wish him luck elsewhere in the world…🍿🍿⌚️👀
As of February 2025, several major companies have resumed advertising on X (formerly Twitter)
• Apple
• Comcast
• Disney
• IBM
• Verizon
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-hinted-at-possible-deal-trouble-in-talks-with-ad-giant-to-increase-spending-feb122a6?utm_source=chatgpt.com