Why are democrats worried about Musk buying Twitter?

[Leetonidas]

Also

:lol taking a photo of a computer screen instead of a screenshot

[Winehole23]

Twitter refused to do the bidding of Joe Biden?

Stop the presses, what a bombshell.

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1607807884745662464?t

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607383819287515137?t

So twitter didn't even do what the government wanted?

:lol Qhris

Elon destroyed $850 billion of market value. Even the Chicoms can't save him.

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1607807884745662464?t

:lol TSLA down another 9 percent today so far and Elon is shitting himself about an inaccurate COVID tweet.

[daboom1]

trump

:lol

[Leetonidas]

:lol

Just pointing out that you're a hypocrite tbh. But we know you have no comeback for that because it's true. You don't give a shit about any of this as long as your teams the one benefitting

Also what happened to your trump 2024 thread? Did you already jump ship for de Santis? :lol

[Winehole23]

Woke forces of supply and demand have been weaponized against Elon.

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[Blake]

Woke forces of supply and demand have been weaponized against Elon.

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He needs Lee Iaococca now

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1607807884745662464?t

:lol

[Ef-man]

Remember when you thought this was Tulsi Gabbard? :lmao
https://lajolla.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/tulsi-gabbard-bikini.jpg

:lol

[ChumpDumper]

:lolTSLA lost another $30 billion in market value today.

:lol

[ElNono]

Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever to Lose $200 Billion

https://apple.news/Ar5aVBjk2SySNM5fKvhft5Q

[Winehole23]

Concierge service for Pizzagate guy

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FljcVZ2XEAAY1Tb?format=jpg&name=medium

[spurraider21]

tesla down 15% today

[Blake]

Concierge service for Pizzagate guy

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FljcVZ2XEAAY1Tb?format=jpg&name=medium

And he's not even CEO any more. Just a mod

[Adam Lambert]

LMAO

[Winehole23]

"ultimate free speech"

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[Winehole23]

lol the ingratitude

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[Winehole23]

"You won't believe this, but the other night..."

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[boutons_deux]

Hackers post email addresses linked to 200 million Twitter accounts


https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/tech/twitter-data-email-addresses/index.html

[Blake]

Hackers post email addresses linked to 200 million Twitter accounts


https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/tech/twitter-data-email-addresses/index.html

Well yeah, there's only like 3 software security programmers left. They're probably thinking about running Norton at this point

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1610963061279715331?t

[Dick Jones]

Oh, well if this estimate comes from a crypto youtuber, you should definitely take it as fact!

[Ef-man]

Oh, well if this estimate comes from a crypto youtuber, you should definitely take it as fact!

Yup, and this is Tulsi Gabbard. :lmao
https://lajolla.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/tulsi-gabbard-bikini.jpg

[spurraider21]

https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1610963061279715331?t
:lmao

[Adam Lambert]

Oh, well if this estimate comes from a crypto youtuber, you should definitely take it as fact!

LMAO the kinds of stupid shit this sad man wishcasts for.

[Blake]

https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1610963061279715331?t

Market capitalization of Twitter (TWTR)
Market cap: $41.09 Billion
As of January 2023 Twitter has a market cap of $41.09 Billion. This makes Twitter the world's 401th most valuable company by market cap according to our data. The market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the total market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares and is commonly used to measure how much a company is worth.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/twitter/marketcap/

[Blake]

Over the last three days, staff in Twitter's office in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City have been seeing the effects of the billionaire's decision to not renegotiate the contracts of facilities maintenance workers who handled in-office supplies and cleaning. Odors from uncleaned bathrooms and several clogged toilets are creeping into hallways and work spaces, according to two people familiar with the stinky situation and messages seen by Insider.

Toilet paper is nowhere to be found in the office, said these people, who asked not to be identified discussing noxious topics. Meanwhile, Musk still requires nearly everyone to work in the office five days a week.......

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs-employees-beg-toilet-paper-slack-2023-1

[Isitjustme?]

https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1610963061279715331?t

:lmao

[spurraider21]

LMAO the kinds of stupid shit this sad man wishcasts for.
scroll through that guy's twitter profile for 30 seconds

[Leetonidas]

Qhris getting hard over Elmo's wallet :lol

[ChumpDumper]

:lol Elon shitting on Elon's origin story

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[boutons_deux]

Five ways Elon Musk has changed the platform for users

1. Blocking alternative ways to view Twitter

2. Curation

3. Controversial accounts reinstated

4. Twitter Blue

5. Silver and gold ticks


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64289251

[boutons_deux]

Elon Musk has to make the first interest payment on the $13 billion debt he took on to buy Twitter –

and the company's dire financial situation means it faces risks including bankruptcy



Elon Musk financed his $44 billion Twitter takeover with $13 billion of borrowings.
The first interest payment on the debt could be due as early as this month, according to the Financial Times.
Twitter's weak finances have raised questions about its ability to repay debt – a default could lead to bankruptcy, the report said.



https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/elon-musk-twitter-bankruptcy-warning-debt-repayment-interest-payment-wirecard-2023-1

[Winehole23]

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[Monostradamus]

1615413795685339155
In Elon’s defense, he knew his technology would be ready in the near future, while Holmes promised something she knew was impossible.

[Winehole23]

In Elon’s defense, he knew his technology would be ready in the near future, while Holmes promised something she knew was impossible.we're six years out from the demo, is it the near future yet?

[Monostradamus]

we're six years out from the demo, is it the near future yet?
The self-driving capabilities of Teslas is honestly pretty remarkable. It’s not flawless yet, for sure, but it’s nowhere near the same ballpark as the complete fraud of what Holmes was doing.

[Winehole23]

The self-driving capabilities of Teslas is honestly pretty remarkable. It’s not flawless yet, for sure, but it’s nowhere near the same ballpark as the complete fraud of what Holmes was doing.it's still dangerous. totally irresponsible to beta test it on civilians imo.

[Winehole23]

In June, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), said it was expanding an investigation into 830,000 Tesla cars (https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INOA-EA22002-3184.PDF) across all four current model lines. The expansion came after analysis of a number of accidents revealed patterns in the car’s performance and driver behavior.

The NHTSA said the widened investigation would aim to examine the degree to which Tesla’s autopilot technology and associated systems “may exacerbate human factors or behavioral safety risks by undermining the effectiveness of the driver’s supervision”.

A second NHTSA investigation (https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/teslas-radar-less-cars-investigated-by-nhtsa-after-complaints-spike/) is also under way to determine if the removal of the forward-looking radar sensor on some newer Teslas is causing the vehicles to apply their brakes for no reason, which is called “phantom braking” and can lead to wrecks.

Since 2016, the agency has investigated 30 crashes involving Teslas equipped with automated driving systems, 19 of them fatal. NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation is also looking at the company’s autopilot technology in at least 11 crashes where Teslas hit emergency vehicles.

Many such wrecks aren’t investigated by the NHTSA. And in nearly 400 crashes involving cars with driver-assist systems reported by automakers between July 2021 and this past May, more Teslas (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/tesla-us-car-carashes-driver-assist-systems) were involved than all other manufacturers combined.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/tesla-self-driving-technology-safety-children

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Musk has laid off ~80% of the workforce.

[boutons_deux]

Elon Musk

censors BBC report critical of Indian Prime Minister Modi,

blocks members of parliament from sharing links

Elon Musk Colludes With Indian Government To Censor Critical Reporting Of Modi

Elon Musk’s Twitter origin story – the thing that drove him to buy the app – starts with the old Twitter’s decision to censor reporting from the New York Post about the potential corruption uncovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Yet now in India,

Musk has buckled to pressure from the Indian prime minister

to censor a BBC documentary that exposes his role in the 2002 Gujarat massacre.

This act of censorship of allegations of crimes against humanity against a foreign leader sets a worrying tone for Twitter — especially in light of its new management.

Elon Musk’s self-identification as a “free-speech absolutist” :lol

has been a primary talking point for the billionaire as he has sought to explain why he took ownership of the platform last year.

Much of his criticism of Twitter revolved around its decision to censor reporting around Hunter Biden, the son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.

https://badnews.substack.com/p/elon-musk-censors-bbc-report-critical (https://badnews.substack.com/p/elon-musk-censors-bbc-report-critical?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)

Elmo must fear Modi blocking Twitter in India, costing Elmo $100Ms in ad revenue.

[boutons_deux]

Elon Quickly Finds Out Nick Fuentes Is Just Too Hateful for Twitter

The man who’s known for

Holocaust denial and

racist great replacement nonsense was again banned after

he praised Hitler and

the Unabomber in a Twitter Space.

The 24-year-old white supremacist Nick Fuentes has been at the center of multiple far right campaigns, including multiple stop the steal rallies.

His online fan group have executed multiple digital harassment campaigns against critics.

https://gizmodo.com/nick-fuentes-twitter-twitter-space-nazi-elon-musk-1850030536

But Trash is back on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook while his people can't find any Repugs to blather with him for his SC rally

[Winehole23]

Cherry picking? Motivated reasoning?

How did Elon's handpicked scribblers miss this?

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[Winehole23]

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[Chucho]

One person in this entire forum is still worrying about Elon Musk and how he mismanages his money and his personal property.

No one cares. It doesn't effect anyone here aside from trying to project the image you want projected to the same 10 people you've communicated with here for nearly 20 years.

[Adam Lambert]

One person in this entire forum is still worrying about Elon Musk and how he mismanages his money and his personal property.

No one cares. It doesn't effect anyone here aside from trying to project the image you want projected to the same 10 people you've communicated with here for nearly 20 years.

Speak for yourself. I think the trainwreck is amusing, especially for someone that has so many bootlickers.

[Winehole23]

One person in this entire forum is still worrying about Elon Musk and how he mismanages his money and his personal property.

No one cares. It doesn't effect anyone here aside from trying to project the image you want projected to the same 10 people you've communicated with here for nearly 20 years.Thanks for your concern, but you really needn't. Posting here is more or less a silly hobby for me, it's a clip file plus entertainment. If you can't see that I've been clowning Elon ITT more's the pity.

[ChumpDumper]

I love watching Elon destroy this company that was doing OK all things considered.

[Winehole23]

Gotta love the gloomy Guses who keep dropping in to complain that nothing matters and nobody cares, why do they care?

[ChumpDumper]

Chucho exists only to scold other posters.

Basically a Karen.

[Ef-man]

Gotta love the gloomy Guses who keep dropping in to complain that nothing matters and nobody cares, why do they care?

Chucho with calf-tats' IDGAF complaint routine.

Who would have thought; he found a mentor.

To complete the circle, all he has to do is say, "I hope you die," or call others "beta males."

[boutons_deux]

Mercedes-benz qualifies for self-driving ahead of Tesla

[koriwhat]

Chucho with calf-tats' IDGAF complaint routine.

Who would have thought; he found a mentor.

To complete the circle, all he has to do is say, "I hope you die," or call others "beta males."

You continue to cry daily and here's another example for all to witness... Btw what do all your puto eFriends always say, "RENT FREE!"

:lmao

[velik_m]

More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers stopped spending on platform, data show

...
Although Twitter’s ad business was always much smaller than that of competitors Facebook and Google, it was still responsible for the vast majority of the company’s revenue. Musk must now fill in that gap as he stares down interest payments for the debt he took on to buy Twitter for $44 billion.
...
For now, however, Twitter remains reliant on advertising revenue as it reportedly struggles to grow its paid subscriber base.

Even among the top advertisers that remain, many have dramatically reduced their ad spending on the platform, according to Pathmatics data. HBO, for example, was Twitter’s top advertiser in September, spending nearly $12 million on ads that month, but for the month of January (as of January 25), it spent just over $54,000.
...



https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertiser-decline/index.html

[Winehole23]

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[Blake]

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Gotta feel for that engineering team

[spurraider21]

:lmao it keeps going

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[boutons_deux]

Elmo fired an engineer because Elmo's views were way down

so they algorithm'd Twitter so head twit's tweets go to everybody.

[Winehole23]

:lmao it keeps going

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo-HGaKXEAArH_5?format=jpg&name=large

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao it keeps going

1625665879643136000

:lmao

According to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, Musk's "Go EAGLEs!!!" tweet was live for at least four hours, including for an unknown amount of time after the Kansas City Chiefs won the game around 10:15 p.m. (EST).

The same page capture from the Wayback Machine showed that, about 3.5 hours later, Musk also tweeted "GG Kansas City Chiefs !!" and described Rihanna's halftime show with two fire emojis. That post had also been deleted, as of this writing. It's unclear exactly when — or why — the tweets were deleted.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-eagles-tweet/

[Adam Lambert]

King of the Incels doing incel things

[Monostradamus]

I give it +/-2 years before you guys start complaining about Twitter again


Four months max
Right on schedule

https://i.ibb.co/CzcNhVL/7-E1-F0435-257-D-4-C12-9319-DAF747849-EBF.jpg

[Ef-man]

Right on schedule

https://i.ibb.co/CzcNhVL/7-E1-F0435-257-D-4-C12-9319-DAF747849-EBF.jpg

Grifters gonna grift.

[Winehole23]

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[Monostradamus]

https://ktla.com/news/california/tesla-hq-to-return-to-california-musk-announces/amp/

Tesla HQ to return to California, Musk announces:lmao another red state takes an L

[DarrinS]

https://ktla.com/news/california/tesla-hq-to-return-to-california-musk-announces/amp/

Tesla HQ to return to California, Musk announces:lmao another red state takes an L



The facility will serve as the company’s engineering headquarters while the corporate headquarters remains in Austin.

[boutons_deux]

Tesla's lawyers in German Court say the cars last only 130,000 miles,

not the many 100,000s that Elon said they would last

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-lawyers-dismiss-elon-musk-s-claim-in-germany-state-the-cars-last-only-130488-miles-210418.html

[boutons_deux]

Elmo's con exposed in court by his own lawyers

I expect Tesla will be sued for false advertising, especially in Europe

[Monostradamus]

The facility will serve as the company’s engineering headquarters while the corporate headquarters remains in Austin.
Look who took time out of their busy day-drinking schedule to copy/paste a sentence!

[Blake]

The facility will serve as the company’s engineering headquarters while the corporate headquarters remains in Austin.

Well I guess that means Musk will be living in Austin then

[ChumpDumper]

But Austin is a distopian nightmare! There are homeless people!

[Blake]

Darrin's zip code > rest of San Antonio > Texas> Austin > California

[boutons_deux]

Elon Musk faces upward of $130 million in legal costs to fight laid-off Twitter workers over severance pay



Elon Musk last month offered thousands of laid-off Twitter workers a limited severance deal.
Over 1,000 of the workers are now fighting for more through arbitration, a costly legal process.
With many claims and more expected, Musk faces tens of millions of dollars in legal costs and fees.


https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-faces-130-million-legal-cost-twitter-severance-2023-2

[Winehole23]

Elon Musk faces upward of $130 million in legal costs to fight laid-off Twitter workers over severance pay



Elon Musk last month offered thousands of laid-off Twitter workers a limited severance deal.
Over 1,000 of the workers are now fighting for more through arbitration, a costly legal process.
With many claims and more expected, Musk faces tens of millions of dollars in legal costs and fees.


https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-faces-130-million-legal-cost-twitter-severance-2023-2tried to stiff-arm severance claims; Elon may outlast a few of them, but he is gonna pay.

[boutons_deux]

From the Land of Apartheid and Afrikaner Broderbund

Musk Says Media 'Is Racist Against Whites,'

Defends Anti-Black 'Dilbert' Cartoonist

Musk tweeted that the media “was against non-white people,”

but now they’re “racist against whites & Asians.”

Musk added:

“Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America… Maybe they can try not being racist.”

https://www.nationalmemo.com/elon-musk-2659476075

Twitter gonna lose more advertisers?

Musk is proving himself dumb as shit as social commentator

[Adam Lambert]

:lmao

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[Winehole23]

I'm old enough to remember when racists didn't need permission from chatbots to say racist shit.

[Monostradamus]

Dude’s been a POS his entire life. No wonder his dad hates him.

https://i.ibb.co/TmHWhBk/D3936979-6301-4-A07-BE82-04-C72-E48-C2-B3.jpg

[Joseph Kony]

what happened to all the right wing simplords gargling Elon's balls? :lmao seems awfully quiet in here lately minus the periodic calf tats meltdowns

[boutons_deux]

Twitter Payments chief is out as layoffs cut 10% of Twitter staff, report saysTwitter now has fewer than 2,000 employees
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/twitter-payments-chief-is-out-as-layoffs-cut-10-of-twitter-staff-report-says

Musk is still stiffing landlords and contractors, emulating Trash.

[Winehole23]

paid $44B to be afraid to take a shit in his own building

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[boutons_deux]

Tesla’s Model S dropped 5% to $89,990,

while its Model X dropped 9% to $99,990

the Model S Plaid dropping 4% to $109,990 and

the Model X Plaid dropping 8% to $109,990.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/06/tesla-price-cut-elon-musk/11413463002/

[Blake]

paid $44B to be afraid to take a shit in his own building

1632799515999625216

How does he not have his own office bathroom

[Winehole23]

How does he not have his own office bathroomiF I kILL u, uR cOmPanY iZ mInE!

[Winehole23]

ADA lawsuit can't be far off.

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[Winehole23]

Turns out Haraldur sold his company to Twitter and agreed to be paid a salary instead of a lump sum, reportedly so more would be taxed. (He's a philanthropist.)

1633086380254298113

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqobo7YWIAAwGo4?format=jpg&name=medium

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqocaYuXoAMAxYS?format=png&name=900x900

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1633238548987125760?t

[boutons_deux]

Elmo is a PRICK

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1633238548987125760?t

:tu

[Winehole23]

:tuTwitterfiles 2.0

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1633238548987125760?t

:tu

Also, is Elon OK? Really looks like he could use some adrenochrome.

[Winehole23]

"if you care so much, why don't you overpay your taxes?"

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[Winehole23]

Elon bends the knee

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqqFsUoXoAU1qav?format=jpg&name=medium

[TSA]

https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1633231845566341122

[Winehole23]

What's your conspiracy theory, TSA?

[TSA]

What's your conspiracy theory, TSA?

There isn't one. Khan is just corrupt.

[ChumpDumper]

In what way?

[Winehole23]

There isn't one. Khan is just corrupt.not sure what you mean. maybe you just disagree with her.

[TSA]

https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1633231845566341122

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633446432177811459

[TSA]

not sure what you mean. maybe you just disagree with her.

You are okay with the government demanding Twitter to identify which journalists they gave access to?

[ChumpDumper]

Taibbi bragged about having access.

[Winehole23]

You are okay with the government demanding Twitter to identify which journalists they gave access to?not sure, if Musk was using journalists to do something illegal or improper the FTC might have a good reason to ask. seems Twitter is the target here, I guess we'll see or we won't.

[Winehole23]

Taibbi bragged about having access.if journalists suffer reputational damage for carrying water for Elon Musk, so be it.

[Winehole23]

There isn't one. Khan is just corrupt.Twitter violated a 2011 consent order last year. According to that order, FTC has the power to demand information to find out if Twitter is complying with or violating the order.

Sounds like you're pissed at Lina Khan for simply doing her job. If Twitter gave personal user information covered by the order to third parties -- including journalists -- it's breaking the order.

What's your real beef, TSA?

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[boutons_deux]

Elmo has exactly one remaining "reliability engineer" left

[TSA]

Twitter violated a 2011 consent order last year. According to that order, FTC has the power to demand information to find out if Twitter is complying with or violating the order.

Sounds like you're pissed at Lina Khan for simply doing her job. If Twitter gave personal user information covered by the order to third parties -- including journalists -- it's breaking the order.

What's your real beef, TSA?

1633530616057585681

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633446432177811459

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633446432177811459

Are we just supposed to take the their word for it?

[Winehole23]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633446432177811459How is it improper for the FTC to enforce its consent order against Twitter? If Twitter is currently complying, cooperation should put Twitter in the clear. If not, actions have consequences.

[Adam Lambert]

Q Conspiracy Theorists are retards, by Matt Taibbi
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/taibbi-conspiracy-qanon-trump-750486/

[ChumpDumper]

Q Conspiracy Theorists are retards, by Matt Taibbi
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/taibbi-conspiracy-qanon-trump-750486/

'The QAnon legend assigns every terrible thing in history to a blue-state plot. Liberals killed JFK Jr. to make way for the Clintons, shot Reagan, murdered Seth Rich, organized lots of kid-buggering operations (Pizzagate was just the tip of the iceberg), pulled off the Las Vegas massacre and allied themselves with an array of villains, from Julian Assange to JonBenet Ramsey’s killer. Into this mass rave of evil comes Donald Trump, a fat Christ sent down from right-winger heaven to clean the temples."

TSA pushed the items highlighted in red and definitely believed/believes Q is real.

:lmao

[TSA]

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1633874151806214146

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1633856242849394695

[Winehole23]

:lmao

[Ef-man]

'The QAnon legend assigns every terrible thing in history to a blue-state plot. Liberals killed JFK Jr. to make way for the Clintons, shot Reagan, murdered Seth Rich, organized lots of kid-buggering operations (Pizzagate was just the tip of the iceberg), pulled off the Las Vegas massacre and allied themselves with an array of villains, from Julian Assange to JonBenet Ramsey’s killer. Into this mass rave of evil comes Donald Trump, a fat Christ sent down from right-winger heaven to clean the temples."

TSA pushed the items highlighted in red and definitely believed/believes Q is real.

:lmao

:lol

Qtsa

[Monostradamus]

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[Monostradamus]

Q Conspiracy Theorists are retards, by Matt Taibbi
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/taibbi-conspiracy-qanon-trump-750486/ TSA’s favorite journalist!

[Winehole23]

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[ChumpDumper]

It's just not going to get better for him, is it?

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[Monostradamus]

It's just not going to get better for him, is it?

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I love dunking on Elon as much as anyone else, but let’s see some proof that this is for real.

[ChumpDumper]

I love dunking on Elon as much as anyone else, but let’s see some proof that this is for real.

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[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1633231845566341122

But they didn't ask for the names of reporters "interacting with the company". What they asked is right there on the quoted text: "granted access to company records".

[Winehole23]

But they didn't ask for the names of reporters "interacting with the company". What they asked is right there on the quoted text: "granted access to company records".motivated reasoning short circuits TSA's powers of reading, happens all the time, tbh.

or maybe he's just a parrot who posts without reading.

[Blake]

motivated reasoning short circuits TSA's powers of reading, happens all the time, tbh.

or maybe he's just a parrot who posts without reading.

Clearly both imo

[koriwhat]

Musk is a fraud owned by China... It makes for good entertainment since he took over Twitter but he's still CCP property.

[Winehole23]

overstated imo, but Elon is clearly conflicted there.

[Winehole23]

lol

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[Blake]

lol

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Rofl

[TSA]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195

[ChumpDumper]

#19?

:lol

[Ef-man]

#19?

:lol

Related to the CometPizza#19 twitter files. :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Musk now wants his welfare payments to be anonymous.

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[Winehole23]

Musk now wants his welfare payments to be anonymous.

1639250607138824193he's sensitive to the attached stigma for his simps

[ChumpDumper]

What # of twitter files are we up to?

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[Hank Scorpio]

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195


https://twitter.com/woot_master/status/1639292104148140033

[Winehole23]

"I saved Twitter"


Still, Musk's email isn't the only confirmation that Twitter's value has dropped significantly since he bought the company. "Fidelity has marked down the value of its Twitter stock by more than 60 percent since Elon Musk acquired the company at the end of October," Axios reported (https://www.axios.com/2023/01/29/fidelity-cuts-twitter-valuation-elon-musk) on January 29. Fidelity is one of the institutions that helped Musk finance the deal.

The Information article suggested that a $20 billion valuation might be generous. "It's possible Musk feels constrained from slashing Twitter's valuation any lower because the outside investors who backed his bid, which include Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, paid for shares at the $44 billion valuation of the takeover," the article said.

Musk used $13 billion of debt (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/looming-twitter-interest-payment-leaves-elon-musk-with-unpalatable-options/) to fund the takeover, resulting in interest payments that reportedly amount to $1.5 billion a year. The banks that provided the funding to Musk reportedly (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/twitter-said-to-make-first-interest-payment-on-musk-buyout-debt) haven't been able to sell the debt to outside investors.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/musk-says-twitter-value-is-down-to-20-billion-calls-firm-an-inverse-startup/

[boutons_deux]

ELON MUSK’S TWITTER WIDENS ITS CENSORSHIP OF MODI’S CRITICS

Two months ago, Musk said he was too busy to look into his company’s role in mass censorship in India.

It’s only gotten worse.


TWO MONTHS AFTER teaming up with the Indian government to censor a BBC documentary on human rights abuses (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-13170914) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

Twitter is yet again collaborating with India to impose an extraordinarily broad crackdown on speech.

Last week, the Indian government imposed an internet blackout across the northern state of Punjab, home to 30 million people, as it conducted a manhunt for a local Sikh nationalist leader, Amritpal Singh.

The shutdown paralyzed internet and SMS communications in Punjab

(some Indian users told The Intercept that the shutdown was targeted at mobile devices).

Twitter accounts from over 100 prominent politicians, activists, and journalists

in India and abroad have been blocked in India at the request of the government.

On Monday, the account of the BBC News Punjabi was also blocked

The Twitter account for Jagmeet Singh (no relation to Amritpal), a leading progressive Sikh Canadian politician and critic of Modi, was also not viewable inside India.

While Modi’s suppression has focused on Punjab,

Twitter’s collaboration has been nationwide, restricting public debate about the government’s aggressive move.

“In India, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media companies have today become handmaidens to authoritarianism,”

“They routinely agree to requests not just to block social media accounts not just originating in India, but all over the world.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punjab-amritpal-singh/

Fascist Elmo is a liar and hypocrit, emotionally unstable, impetuous, abuse of his power.

[ChumpDumper]

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[ChumpDumper]

Poor fella.

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[Winehole23]

where's Elon's internet minder?

Elon has already been admonished by the SEC for his reckless posting habits, iirc.

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[spurraider21]

jesus :lol

taibbi went from being one of the top guys covering the people responsible for the 2008 crisis to a guy who carries water for one of the richest people on the planet. you hate to see it

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[ChumpDumper]

jesus :lol

taibbi went from being one of the top guys covering the people responsible for the 2008 crisis to a guy who carries water for one of the richest people on the planet. you hate to see it

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Wow, Matt was not ready for the heat.

Hasan seems like a dick but that's really the confrontational BBC style of interviewing that the US mostly just can't get the hang of. Bob Garfield was one of the best American journalists at that before he got shitcanned.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Monostradamus]

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:lmao that sigh as Taibbi realizes there’s nothing he could possibly say to effectively defend himself.

[leemajors]

:lmao that sigh as Taibbi realizes there’s nothing he could possibly say to effectively defend himself.

And now he's pretty much done with twitter due to Musk's new policy regarding substack :lol

[DarrinS]

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[DarrinS]

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[ChumpDumper]

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How is putting the A in brackets getting it right?

Darrin won't touch the India or Trump stuff.

No fucking way he'll ever do that.

Not in a million years.

He scared.

[DarrinS]

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[ChumpDumper]

1644165369798758400

Yup. Darrin is going to focus on this and not the real story here.

Darrin won't even acknowledge Taibbi got forced off of Twitter.

The bracketed A is the most important thing in the world to Darr-Darr.

[DarrinS]

1644658758893674503

:lol

[Blake]

1644658758893674503

:lol

That's funny considering Stormy Daniels also sat on a mushroom

[ChumpDumper]

1644658758893674503

:lol

Twitter files were real but one-sided and sloppy.

DarrDarr will not acknowledge anything Trump tried to have taken down from Twitter.

Ever.

He scared.

[Winehole23]

simping really hard for a bilionaire's simp, for some reason

[ChumpDumper]

simping really hard for a bilionaire's simp, for some reason

DarrDarr is pro government censorship.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol what is this guy even doing anymore?

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[DarrinS]

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:lol

[ChumpDumper]

1644418549052473344

:lol
I mean the guy works for Peacock/MSNBC. Should the backdrop be your Applebee's bar?

You think Trump is more impressive.:rollin

You're going to vote for him even if he's a convicted felon.:lmao

And what does Michael Tracy do besides shitpost?

[daboom1]

Trump

*ding

[ChumpDumper]

*ding

Sorry Qhrissy, he has to be included if you're talking about asking Twitter to remove tweets -- because he did just that.:tu

[ChumpDumper]

1644393967809875968

Elon just accused Taibbi of making a false statement.

Whose side will you take in this one, Darrin?

[ElNono]

1644392551066255361


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Except for the whole part where there's nothing about censorship there. Nor there's anything to substantiate this alleged relationship between the NGO and CISA, etc.

[ElNono]

1644165369798758400

Oh, so now it was a minor error...

[DarrinS]

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[ChumpDumper]

1644145176808419330

Tiabbi is leaving Twitter and Elon called him a liar.

[DarrinS]

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[ChumpDumper]

1644145916079661061

:lol this Muslim really triggered you

[Blake]

Darrin can't speak for himself? I guess it's hard with a drink always at the lips

[ChumpDumper]

Darrin can't speak for himself? I guess it's hard with a drink always at the lips

:lol He's never going to make the call whether he thinks Taibbi or Musk is lying.

[ChumpDumper]

You can follow Matt on the UnderTheBus app.

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[ChumpDumper]

El:loln deleted this:

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[ChumpDumper]

El:loln also deleted this worldwide:

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[boutons_deux]

Elmo's HQ in SFO sign now reads TITTER, Elmo painting the W same color as b/g

Fucking childish clown, more $Bs that wisdom, maturity

[boutons_deux]

Elon Musk's pathetic Twitter-tantrum against NPR shows no signs of stopping

We don't know why tantruming billionaire child Elon Musk is engaged in a one-sided war against NPR,

Musk's Twitter slapped a "state-affiliated media" label (https://www.dailykos.com/story/2023/4/5/2162248/-Musk-puts-false-state-affiliated-label-on-NPR-s-Twitter-account-because-he-s-a-big-pouting-baby) on NPR's Twitter account,

despite NPR not being a candidate for such a label according to Twitter's own definition of the term,

NPR is not "state-affiliated."

Faced with perhaps more public mockery than he expected, now Musk has flinched again.

He's still lying his ass off, though.

Now Musk's engineers have

changed NPR's designation to read "Government Funded Media,"

which is ... still not accurately correct.

NPR is a nonprofit corporation that gets somewhere around 1% of its funding from government grants and relies on donations, grants, and station dues for the rest.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/9/2163000/-Elon-Musk-s-pathetic-Twitter-tantrum-against-NPR-shows-no-signs-of-stopping (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/9/2163000/-Elon-Musk-s-pathetic-Twitter-tantrum-against-NPR-shows-no-signs-of-stopping)

Does the childish prick Elmo know that phosphate for his now-preferred iron-phosphate batteries is already in critical supply shortage?

[spurraider21]

you hate to see it

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[Blake]

El:loln also deleted this worldwide:

1645522677229125656

Who'd ever thought there would be more freedom here on ST than on Twitter after Musk took over.

Looks like all those Democrat straw men were worried for nothing, amirite op?

[Adam Lambert]

El:loln also deleted this worldwide:

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He really did turn Twitter into a free speech paradise. I mean, maybe not when it comes to government censorship, but at least you can say the N-word again.

[Splits]

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[ChumpDumper]

Mod attempts to find solutions for irate poster.

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[Winehole23]

1647040102475128832the breaking emergency is one is the situations Twitter is -- or was -- good for. faster and nimbler than broadcast/print media.

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[Blake]

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Musk needs to give them one of the new super special secret emblems other than a pedestrian blue check mark.

[Winehole23]

Shadowbanning good now.

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[Blake]

The left seems scared of people expressing their opinions tbh

:lol

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1648071538690732041?t

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1648071538690732041?t

Tesla is government funded.

[Spurs Homer]

The look on Cucker Tarlsons face was priceless when Elon Musk answered a question just now with;


”I actually did not vote for TRUMP-
I actually voted for Biden- I prefer a normal person…as president with common sense and whose values are smack in the middle…”


lololol

[benefactor]

:lol
That aged well:lol

[Adam Lambert]

:lmao

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[Winehole23]

:lmao

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[Winehole23]

bingo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuMUyX2aAAEvaGx?format=jpg&name=small

[ChumpDumper]

:lol what was ever the point of fucking with blue checks?

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[spurraider21]

:lmao

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuQt78LX0AMa31F?format=jpg&name=large

[Hank Scorpio]

#BlockTheBlue trending :lol

[Winehole23]

lol Elon alienating top accounts and pissing off nouveau blue checks at the same time.

I hear the great purge netted 400 new subscriptions the first day.

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[Winehole23]

Auto-subscribing dead celebs for clout

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[Winehole23]

"extreme free speech"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuWz-GPaEAEI9i2?format=png&name=small

[Winehole23]

Elon offered one million dogecoin to anyone who could prove it.

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[Hank Scorpio]

Famous people literally ashamed to have blue checks now and only losers have them lolol

[boutons_deux]

Elmo wants to get Twit into banking and crypto, desperate for more $Bs just to interest payments, not profits.

[Winehole23]

Elon's verified brotards are crying. They haven't figured out you have to tweet good.

Also, Elon's algo putting them all at the top of replies makes them easier to block en masse.

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[Winehole23]

snitching on users is up under Elon


It’s been exactly six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter, promising (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728) a new era of free speech and independence from political bias. But Twitter’s self-reported data shows that, under Musk, the company has complied with hundreds more government orders for censorship or surveillance — especially in countries such as Turkey and India.

The data, drawn from Twitter’s reports to the Lumen database, shows that between October 27, 2022 and today, Twitter received a total of 971 requests from governments and courts. These requests included orders to remove controversial posts, as well as demands that Twitter produce private data to identify anonymous accounts. Twitter reported that it fully complied in 808 of those requests, and partially complied in 154 other cases. (For nine requests, it did not report any specific response.)

Most alarming, Twitter's self-reports do not show a single request in which the company refused to comply, as it had done several times before the Musk takeover. Twitter rejected three such requests in the six months prior to Musk's takeover, and five in the six months prior to that.

More broadly, the figures show a steep increase in the portion of requests that Twitter complies with in full. In the year before Musk's acquisition, the figure had hovered around 50 percent, in line with the compliance rate reported in the company's final transparency report (https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/removal-requests.html#2021-jul-dec). After Musk's takeover, the number jumps to 83 percent (808 requests out of a total of 971).
https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-orders/

[Adam Lambert]

Elon's verified brotards are crying. They haven't figured out you have to tweet good.

Also, Elon's algo putting them all at the top of replies makes them easier to block en masse.

1650920583977398273

Such entitlement, smh, today's incels are soft.

[Winehole23]

No data, no problem

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[ChumpDumper]

meltd:lolwn

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[Winehole23]

New Twitter CEO plucked from the Davos crowd, nouveau blue checks are flipping out.

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[Winehole23]

Narrator: Yaccarino is a MAGA moron

[ducks]

Narrator: Yaccarino is a MAGA moron

Yes trying to make American great makes you a idiot

Let’s destroy America
That is liberal thinking !

[Winehole23]

Yes trying to make American great makes you a idiot

Let’s destroy America
That is liberal thinking !America was already great, wanting to remake it in the image of Jim Crow America is radically destructive.

[Winehole23]

Could be coincidental...

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[Adam Lambert]

Yes trying to make American great makes you a idiot

Let’s destroy America
That is liberal thinking !

Taking "Make America Great" literally and uncritically, that's mongoloid sheep thinking.

[Winehole23]

More extreme free speech.

Twitter bends the knee to Erdogan.

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[Winehole23]

...literally just before a national election

[boutons_deux]

Twitter Conspiracy Bozos Are Freaking Out Over Elon's WEF-Friendly CEO Pick

The eightdollarati are having a meltdown after Musk picked a new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, who has ties to the World Economic Forum.


the WEF is also a focal point for conspiracy theorists.

That’s especially true of the WEF’s annual Davos meeting,

where many of the richest and most powerful people on earth gather to talk about make decisions about how they’re going to run the world.

To be clear—the conspiracy theories about the WEF have little, if any, grounding in reality.

https://gizmodo.com/linda-yaccarino-twitter-ceo-wef-conspiracy-elon-musk-1850433392

[Adam Lambert]

He'll sell it for a profit in under a year.

Checking in on this.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FwN-KMmaQAANIvr?format=jpg&name=small

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[Winehole23]

guilty of selling Tesla stock for a profit.

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[Winehole23]

DeSantis and Elon fellate each other, Florida's rubber stamp lege applies the seal of approval.

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[ChumpDumper]

:lol blue checks

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[ChumpDumper]

blue check: revoked!

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[velik_m]

Twitter has chosen 'confrontation' with Brussels over disinformation code of conduct
...
"We believe this is a mistake of Twitter. Twitter has chosen the hard way. They chose confrontation," Jourová said.

"This was noticed very much in the Commission and I know the code is voluntary, but make no mistake, by leaving the code Twitter has attracted a lot of attention and its actions and compliance with EU law will be scrutinised vigorously and urgently."

But even if the code of conduct is voluntary, fighting disinformation will become a legal obligation under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), which comes into force on August 25 this year.

"If Twitter wants to operate and make money in the European market, it will have to comply with the Digital Services Act," Jourová added.

...

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/06/05/twitter-has-chosen-confrontation-with-brussels-over-disinformation-code-of-conduct

[lefty]

lmao

[daboom1]

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419?t

Tucker goes HAM :wow

5 hours old and already 30 million views :wow

[ChumpDumper]

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419?t

Tucker goes HAM :wow

5 hours old and already 30 million views :wow

:lmao "views"

[daboom1]

:lmao "views"

What's your conspiracy theory here?

[ChumpDumper]

What's your conspiracy theory here?What counts as a view, Qhris?

Explain your metric.

[daboom1]

Chump folds.

[ChumpDumper]

Chump folds.I don't have a conspiracy theory.

I was laughing at your bragging about views.

:lol Qhris and his views

Are you going to define your metric or are you going to fold?

[ElNono]

What's your conspiracy theory here?

Qhris folds

[leemajors]

Anyone who views your Tweet counts as a view, regardless of where they see your Tweet (e.g. Home, Search, Profiles, Tweets embedded in articles, etc.) or whether or not they follow you. Even an author looking at their own Tweet counts as a view.

[Adam Lambert]

Imagine watching that.

[ChumpDumper]

Twucker.

[Monostradamus]

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419?t

Tucker goes HAM :wow

5 hours old and already 30 million views :wow
“I hate him passionately,” Carlson texted (https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/07/fox-news-dominion-tucker-carlson-texts/) Pfeiffer on January 4, days prior to the riot at the U.S. Capitol. He added, of Trump’s presidency, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

[daboom1]

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson texted (https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/07/fox-news-dominion-tucker-carlson-texts/) Pfeiffer on January 4, days prior to the riot at the U.S. Capitol. He added, of Trump’s presidency, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1643406476323463171?t

[RandomGuy]

tweet tweet tweet in public, while fucker loathes him in private

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson texted Pfeiffer on January 4, days prior to the riot at the U.S. Capitol. He added, of Trump’s presidency, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

----------------------------------------------
"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait," he texted an unidentified person.

"I hate him passionately. ... I can’t handle much more of this," he added.

---------------------------------------------------

In an email to former Fox executive Preston Padden 20 days after the election, Murdoch said he believed the network was "navigating" everything "pretty well."

"And losing tons of viewers - but not leadership yet! Just have to hold our nerve and up our game! In another month Trump will be becoming irrelevant

-----------------------------

Chris Stirewalt on Dec. 2, 2020, about a month after the election, Bill Sammon, who was then the network's managing editor, lamented the state of the place they worked.

"More than 20 minutes into our flagship evening news broadcast and we're still focused solely on supposed election fraud — a month after the election. It's remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things," Sammon said.

Stirewalt later said he believed they were "losing the silent majority of viewers as we chase the nuts off a cliff."


:rollin

[RandomGuy]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyGXQIMWcAI3EzK?format=jpg&name=small

:lol

[Adam Lambert]

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1643406476323463171?t

The whole point is Tucker lies to you about his feelings on Trump because he makes more money appealing to rubes like you. Posting this as a rebuttal just proves you'd rather be a willing rube. This is how desperate for validation you are. What a sad loser.

[Blake]

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1643406476323463171?t

Lol simpletons

[Leetonidas]

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson texted (https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/07/fox-news-dominion-tucker-carlson-texts/) Pfeiffer on January 4, days prior to the riot at the U.S. Capitol. He added, of Trump’s presidency, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

So qhris is anti Trump now? How does one reconcile slurping the guy that hates their orange god? :lol

Mental gymnastics are the rights specialty though I guess

[Extra Stout]

So qhris is anti Trump now? How does one reconcile slurping the guy that hates their orange god? :lol

Mental gymnastics are the rights specialty though I guess
Tucker has been forgiven by MAGA for his brief lapse from orthodoxy in a moment of anger.

What matters is that he stands firm as a bulwark against wokism, globohomo, and those perfidious Jews.

[velik_m]

Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
Devin Coldewey@techcrunch / 7:28 PM GMT+2•June 14, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - NOVEMBER 18: Twitter Headquarters is seen in San Francisco, California, United States on November 18, 2022. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Image Credits: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency / Getty Images

Twitter owes three months’ rent to its Boulder landlord, and a judge has signed off on evicting the tech giant from its office there, court documents show.

Since its takeover by Elon Musk, Twitter’s business has more or less fallen into disarray, and there have been numerous reports of unpaid bills. While a contractor going unpaid during a rocky transition is unfortunate but not uncommon, ceasing to pay rent altogether for months suggests Twitter’s operations may be farther gone than anyone expected.

According to court documents and reporting by the Denver Business Journal, Lot 2 SBO LLC, the Chicago-based landlord that owns Twitter’s office at 3401 Bluff St in Boulder, was provided a $968,000 letter of credit back in February of 2020. It has been drawing on this to pay the rent in lieu of ordinary payments (the details of this arrangement are somewhat obscure), but the money ran out in March, and the company has not paid since. (If we assume rent was paid regularly from that sum, that places it at around $27,000 per month, giving a sense of the values involved here.)

In May the landlord took it to court, and on May 31 the judge issued an order that the sheriff should assist in the eviction of Twitter within the next 49 days — i.e. before the end of July. The case number is 2023CV30342 in Boulder District Court.

...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/twitter-is-being-evicted-from-its-boulder-office-over-unpaid-rent


Twitter stiffed Boulder office cleaners out of $94K, firm says
Avalanche Commercial Cleaning, of Boulder, sued Twitter on Thursday in Boulder County District Court as it tries to collect $93,504 from the $20 billion company

Twitter Inc., the social media giant that was evicted from its Boulder office in December, is now accused of stiffing the office’s cleaning company on the way out.

Avalanche Commercial Cleaning, of Boulder, sued Twitter on Thursday in Boulder County District Court as it tries to collect $93,504 from the $20 billion company.

Avalanche said it was hired by Twitter in mid-2015 and kept 1301 Walnut St. clean from then until Dec. 19, 2022, when Twitter terminated its contract and asked Avalanche to send an invoice for the cleaning it had done in October, November and December.

Avalanche said it sent that invoice but Twitter never paid it. So, it’s suing.

An email requesting comment from Twitter’s public relations department was not answered. Instead, the department auto-replied to the email with a smiling poop emoji — the company’s standard response to media inquiries since March.

...


https://www.denverpost.com/2023/05/22/twitter-boulder-colorado-lawsuit-office-cleaners/

[velik_m]

Twitter stiffs Google

Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, Platformer has learned, leading to a high-stakes conflict between the companies that could result in Twitter’s trust and safety teams being crippled.

While Twitter hosts some services on its own servers, the company has long contracted with Google and Amazon to complement its infrastructure. Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things.

Twitter has been trying to renegotiate its contract with Google since at least March, the Information reported that month. It had also delayed payments to Amazon Web Services, leading the company to threaten withholding advertising payments.

https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google

[velik_m]

Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed As Nearly 2000 Laid Off Employees File Arbitration Claims

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Now, as you well know, in the last few months, Elon Musk has laid off a huge percentage of Twitter’s former employees. When he took over the company it had around 7,500 employees. Within a month that number was closer to 2,500. The most recent report I’ve seen is that the company is down to around 1,000 employees. So, approximately 6,500 employees are gone.

Another important point: part of the purchase agreement that Musk signed (but apparently did not read very carefully, given his hilariously inept attempt to get out of it) was that employees under Musk’s ownership would get “substantially comparable benefits” to what they had under the old company, including severance payments:

Parent shall, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation or any of their Affiliates to, provide for each Continuing Employee (i) at least the same base salary and wage rate, (ii) short- and long-term target incentive compensation opportunities that are no less favorable in the aggregate than those provided to each such Continuing Employee immediately prior to the Effective Time (provided that Parent shall not be obligated to provide such incentives in the form of equity or equity-based awards) and (iii) employee benefits (excluding equity and equity-based awards) which are substantially comparable in the aggregate (including with respect to the proportion of employee cost) to those provided to such Continuing Employee immediately prior to the Effective Time. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, during the Continuation Period, Parent shall provide, or shall cause the Surviving Corporation or any of their Affiliates to provide severance payments and benefits to each Continuing Employee whose employment is terminated during such period that are no less favorable than those applicable to the Continuing Employee immediately prior to the Effective Time under the Company Benefit Plans.

Of course, for a while, Musk, who verbally promised three months severance (which was below what the company had previously offered, and really only one month, since the first two months were required by the WARN Act, and were actually just continuing salary, since he had to give 60 days of notice for a layoff) refused to provide employees with any severance documentation. Then, when the documentation finally came, it was way less than they expected. They also included gag orders and giving up legal rights.

Many employees chose to fight this, including suing the company. But, those old pesky arbitration clauses meant that some of the lawsuits were dismissed, with the judge telling employees they had to go to arbitration, instead.

It turns out that many of them did.

1,986 former Twitter employees have filed arbitration claims.

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https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/16/twitters-lawyers-admit-theyre-overwhelmed-as-nearly-2000-laid-off-employees-file-arbitration-claims/

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