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National News See other National News Articles Title: Leftists are pressuring Twitter advertisers to abandon the platform A huge number of leftist activist groups, which get their money from Soros, Clintonites, Obamaites, and even the European government, are trying to bully corporations to stop advertising with Twitter once Elon Musk brings free speech to the platform. The big question is whether these companies will heed the left’s siren call or, looking at Florida and Disney, stay out of politics. Corporate America’s swing to the left has played out in dozens of ways over the years. It hit the big time with the 2017 corporate boycott of the Breitbart website because it dared to support Donald Trump. The example that sticks in my mind from 2019 was Gillette pandered to the LGBTQ+++ crowd by showing a proud father teaching his daughter how to shave the beard she had acquired thanks to taking testosterone. Gillette products are still banned in my house. In 2020, of course, there was the groveling following George Floyd’s drug-induced death, which saw Black squares all over Twitter, endless new diversity statements on corporate websites, and millions of dollars handed over to Black Lives Matter, which seems to like buying real estate. Professional sports, which had once offered entertainment and cross-party camaraderie, groveled and kneeled, too, turning off half of America. Beginning in 2021, with BLM having run its course, the new woke virtue- signaling revolved around transgenderism. Sports Illustrated, when it published its swimsuit edition, tried to entice its male readers by featuring a man with breast implants and a skillfully contorted body meant to hide the fact that he has no waist and hips. Since then, everywhere, it’s “transgender this and transgender that.” The whole transgender thing culminated when Disney threatened to force the Florida legislature to reverse a bill protecting children from groomers in schools. That was followed by a bunch of leaks showing Disney’s creepy obsession with transgenderism, sexual identity, gender identity, and children. We’d always known that former Disney TV stars tended to show signs of sexual trauma (with some making it clear that they had, in fact, been sexually exploited) but this was different: Disney was promising to go after everyone’s children. Florida’s legislature slapped Disney back, hard. The legislature passed, and Governor Ron DeSantis signed, a bill stripping Disney of its self- governing status. The bill is already the subject of legal action but there’s no reason to believe that Disney won’t suck it up to retain its premium properties in Orlando. Corporate CEOs, who previously had signaled their virtue with impunity, are suddenly getting nervous. The first sign was when Exxon-Mobile announced that it would no longer fly any issue flags (BLM, LGBTQ++, etc.) in front of its headquarters. The Wall Street Journal reported that other CEOs are getting nervous too. In private meetings and coaching sessions over the past few weeks, top business leaders have been asking a version of the same question: How can we avoid becoming the next Walt Disney Co.? The fallout from the recent political spat between Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has alarmed leaders across the corporate sphere, according to executives and their advisers, and heightened the challenges for chief executive officers navigating charged topics. This question must be even more vexing to these CEOs now that Twitter has accepted Elon Musk’s buy-out offer. That’s because Media Matters, a left-wing advocacy group, has joined with myriad other left-wing groups (GLAAD, BLM, NARAL, Women’s March, etc.) to send a letter to the top advertisers on Twitter telling them to pull their ads if Musk goes forward with his plan to bring free speech principles to the platform. Failing that, threatens the letter, “your brand risks association with a platform amplifying hate, extremism, health misinformation, and conspiracy theorists.” (Never mind that they’ve just described Twitter under its current management.) Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Ada (#0)
It seems to me that Musk could have started up a whole new Twitter-like thing for a lot less than 44 billion dollars. If he really does allow free speech on Twitter, masses of advertisers quitting Twitter is a given. Then what happens to the value of the company and his $44 billion investment??
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