ICYMI: Elon Musk tells advertisers off, sealing X's fate

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Daily Kos Staff

Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 at 1:46:44pm PST

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 29: Elon Musk speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The New York Times) — Elon Musk

Looks like Musk is ready to abandon Twitter, er, “X”

Yesterday, Elon Musk told his corporate advertisers, and specifically Disney CEO Bob Iger, to “Go fuck yourself.” And after claiming he’d never let advertisers “blackmail” him (and clearly not understanding that word’s meaning), he admitted, “What this advertising boycott is going to do is, it’s going to kill the company.” Then he said he wouldn’t use his own money to bail out the company.

As Daily Kos’ Mark Sumner writes today, “If the company should fail in the coming weeks, it will be one of the largest, most astounding, and most self-inflicted business failures in history.” (Click through on that link for a joyride of Musk’s greatest hits.)

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