With all of your detailed reporting on all of Elon Musk's financial dealings, especially regarding ads, we can now understand how he does not have the time to think out the details of his DOGE efficiency cuts to many agencies. His actions in eliminating so many of our well-developed agencies are so reckless that it is obvious he has not put much thought into the details and repercussions of these moves.
Musk proves that he only cares about getting more money by his acceptance of "a number of ads purchased by cryptocurrency scammers. Many of the ads direct users to malicious websites that prompt them to provide sensitive details about their crypto wallets, allowing the scammers to drain the users’ funds." How dirty can he get?
Musk's "plan" was to wreck the federal government and impose maximum harm to the greatest number of people, while influcing government contracts for Tesla/SpaceX and funneling hundreds of billions worth of personal data to Grok.
I think that largely it was very personal to him as well: his companies were under investigation by several agencies and he had to 1) put a stop to these and 2) make sure no-one could launch investigations against any company.
The muskrat never intended to "think out" what he was doing with DOGE. The plan all along was set out by Project 2025: destroy the Federal government. He's just doing what he was told.
Love that Trump is even talking about forced labor with Temu and Shein while DeSantis starts his own forced labor camps with kids in Florida. Maybe that’s the point— the GOP wants to corner that market.
Unbelievable..." Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that X chief executive Linda Yaccarino and a lawyer for the company threatened the ad agency Interpublic, telling the firm that if its clients failed to increase their spending on X, the Trump administration could sabotage Interagency’s planned merger with Omnicom Group."..SUNSHINE IS THE ONLY DESINFECTANT FOR THIS CONTINUING HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF ALL THINGS DEMOCRATIC
You mean…..Musk, Trump, and the rest of their ilk are NOT motivated primarily by a desire to benefit the public, or the country, or the world, but (largely or entirely) by a desire to make themselves as rich and powerful as possible, no matter who gets hurt in the process?
In other words, the system works the way it is designed to work. It’s the “iron law of distribution”: “Them that has, gets!”
I have something to add, really two things. Friday evening, Jason Kessler interviewed Thomas White on YouTube, under the subject titled "The Woman Problem" which should raise an eyebrow since we all know what the militant right calls their main concern: "The J** Problem." Anyway, during that interview Thomas White called X, rightly so, a white nationalist platform, tossing it in with other white nationalist platforms. Personally, after 12 years on X, I agree with Thomas as to what X has become and it is a clear and easy call. If Facebook is the apocalypse, X is truly hell. I stay because of my work fighting extremists. Secondly, I cannot go a day without being swarmed by scammers following me. I block them left and right like playing tennis. I have little time left afterward to actually scroll much. Elon is too busy to care and likely enabling these accounts, as you say. They are overwhelmingly claiming to be crypto sites and immediately tag me on a long list. I want to leave but I can't because I need to follow certain extremists only allowed on X and a few other platforms.
I was married to an exact duplicate of Trump for 35 years. I must stare into the dark and find these monsters. My ex and Trump are lost causes, but these far right leaders are often insecure and looking for hope. They know I'm following them and I'm a threat, but eventually I approach them and begin to talk it through. It is scary but I have to do this. I listen to them and give them suggestions on a better way. That's all.
Well there is an infamous Nazi question called the J*w Problem or the J*w Question, with some militant far right extremists either writing essays, or books, or making video discussions about what they pose as a problematic subject that requires a solution. We all know what that solution was during World War 2. Kessler framed women the same way, for his recent discussion with Thomas White, substituting the word "women" for what Nazis normally say about the J*w*sh nationality. They find current American laws regarding women and their freedoms, wrong and threatening. They are thoroughly frustrated over the freedom of today's woman.
I can't leave yet. I'm also on telegram, signal, discord, etc and much more because I follow far right leaders. I have had a large role converting one leader, and I'm close to converting another one.
Let me mumble my thoughts.It's Monday. Isn't there a relationship to his debt, Tesla stock losses and a potential call of loans that benefitted him merging X and XAi to make it look profitable?
I read back in Dec, X was valued at 12 bil by Market Watch. Lost 30 million give or take subscribers to Bluesky, tho big names stayed and joined both.
Does anyone read ads on Social Media. I sure don't except Meta tailors them to me. Speak in front of Alexa, FB and Instagram send me ads.
Coffee might clear my head. Thanks for the report!
This man is nothing but Putin in African heritage. He has buy his way through life. He will continue to buy elections, people as he needs. He doesn’t buy for the good of anything or anybody. He’s Evil guess drugs does that to a person. He’s stole most of his money buy bullying tactics. Is that how he has kids too? Then uses those kids against the moms. Sad human.
The corruption that the Muskrat is committing in our name AND our government with the help of Trump will eventually turn this country into a Third World country. How many years will it take until we’re just like China with child labor, no unions, no rights, & no free speech? Makes me wonder.
Oh, no worries about being a Third World country, JerryB. We'll still have paved roads, even if the paving is broken, because there won't be anyone to cart the debris away.
What surprises me is that anyone still thinks Trump/Muck are on the right track.
Can someone explain why Unilever caved under the lawsuit? A company can spend its advertising budget however they see fit. To sue a business because they won't advertise on your platform is bonkers. How does a judge not throw that out as nonsense? I'm out here in Public Land so perhaps the nuance is lost on me, but the lawsuit appears frivolous and unlikely to succeed, so why would a giant multinational company fold so quickly? I understand the point of lawfare is to financially decimate the opponent. But I can't understand how that plan coalesces over something stupid.
THEN WHY NOT BOYCOTT X.??? I support the Tesla take down and demonstrations but how many folks will actually be buying Tesla in the first case?! No one I know….however almost everyone I know uses X. The platform owned and run by a racist white supremacist, spreading lies, hate, chaos and trawling users data on that VERY PLATFORM. The more users he has the more he makes from advertising and the more sustainable X becomes the more disruption and power he has.
Users have to accept, like it or not, by using X you are literally SUPPORTING MUSK and enabling him and his agenda. BOYCOTT NOW!!
#ElonBreaksAllHisToys He's an over aged juvenile with no forethought, self discipline or patience to take into consideration anyone or anything outside his personal interests. Then, like a toddler, publicly whines and weeps, over the backlash on his connection to Tesla, when he's thrown thousands of people out of work without care or thought. That's while he's dismantling agencies that sustain human life and safety. Anyone that would contract with anything "X" is misguided, foolish or strictly interested in their personal gain.
With all of your detailed reporting on all of Elon Musk's financial dealings, especially regarding ads, we can now understand how he does not have the time to think out the details of his DOGE efficiency cuts to many agencies. His actions in eliminating so many of our well-developed agencies are so reckless that it is obvious he has not put much thought into the details and repercussions of these moves.
Musk proves that he only cares about getting more money by his acceptance of "a number of ads purchased by cryptocurrency scammers. Many of the ads direct users to malicious websites that prompt them to provide sensitive details about their crypto wallets, allowing the scammers to drain the users’ funds." How dirty can he get?
Musk's "plan" was to wreck the federal government and impose maximum harm to the greatest number of people, while influcing government contracts for Tesla/SpaceX and funneling hundreds of billions worth of personal data to Grok.
How has he not succeeded?
I think that largely it was very personal to him as well: his companies were under investigation by several agencies and he had to 1) put a stop to these and 2) make sure no-one could launch investigations against any company.
How dirty indeed. If things don’t change we’re about to find out.
Well said
I really don’t want to find out
The muskrat never intended to "think out" what he was doing with DOGE. The plan all along was set out by Project 2025: destroy the Federal government. He's just doing what he was told.
Love that Trump is even talking about forced labor with Temu and Shein while DeSantis starts his own forced labor camps with kids in Florida. Maybe that’s the point— the GOP wants to corner that market.
DeSanctimonious and his Florida fuckery are abhorrent, but no need for allegations of "forced labor camps" for kids in Florida.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-desantis-immigration-deport-migrant-workforce/
Thank you for agreeing.
Nothing about FORCED labor, or about LABOR CAMPS with the DeSantis shit.
Why did you paste that link?
Unbelievable..." Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that X chief executive Linda Yaccarino and a lawyer for the company threatened the ad agency Interpublic, telling the firm that if its clients failed to increase their spending on X, the Trump administration could sabotage Interagency’s planned merger with Omnicom Group."..SUNSHINE IS THE ONLY DESINFECTANT FOR THIS CONTINUING HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF ALL THINGS DEMOCRATIC
Amen.
I guess you get used to the stench once you've been mired in the sewage for a while.
Right, Katy. I've always figured skunks don't know they smell bad.
Thank you for a comprehensive snapshot of X and its strong arm, criminal enabling advertising tactics. Well done and please keep up the good work. 💪💪🏾
You mean…..Musk, Trump, and the rest of their ilk are NOT motivated primarily by a desire to benefit the public, or the country, or the world, but (largely or entirely) by a desire to make themselves as rich and powerful as possible, no matter who gets hurt in the process?
In other words, the system works the way it is designed to work. It’s the “iron law of distribution”: “Them that has, gets!”
I have something to add, really two things. Friday evening, Jason Kessler interviewed Thomas White on YouTube, under the subject titled "The Woman Problem" which should raise an eyebrow since we all know what the militant right calls their main concern: "The J** Problem." Anyway, during that interview Thomas White called X, rightly so, a white nationalist platform, tossing it in with other white nationalist platforms. Personally, after 12 years on X, I agree with Thomas as to what X has become and it is a clear and easy call. If Facebook is the apocalypse, X is truly hell. I stay because of my work fighting extremists. Secondly, I cannot go a day without being swarmed by scammers following me. I block them left and right like playing tennis. I have little time left afterward to actually scroll much. Elon is too busy to care and likely enabling these accounts, as you say. They are overwhelmingly claiming to be crypto sites and immediately tag me on a long list. I want to leave but I can't because I need to follow certain extremists only allowed on X and a few other platforms.
You must have a very strong stomach, Rebecca. Good for you for sticking it out (for the rest of us).
Thanks for the encouragement. It can get pretty scary.
I was married to an exact duplicate of Trump for 35 years. I must stare into the dark and find these monsters. My ex and Trump are lost causes, but these far right leaders are often insecure and looking for hope. They know I'm following them and I'm a threat, but eventually I approach them and begin to talk it through. It is scary but I have to do this. I listen to them and give them suggestions on a better way. That's all.
What’s the j problem and what was the woman problem?
Well there is an infamous Nazi question called the J*w Problem or the J*w Question, with some militant far right extremists either writing essays, or books, or making video discussions about what they pose as a problematic subject that requires a solution. We all know what that solution was during World War 2. Kessler framed women the same way, for his recent discussion with Thomas White, substituting the word "women" for what Nazis normally say about the J*w*sh nationality. They find current American laws regarding women and their freedoms, wrong and threatening. They are thoroughly frustrated over the freedom of today's woman.
By being on X you are supporting and enabling MUSK….like it or not YOU ARE enabling him and keeping that platform afloat.
I can't leave yet. I'm also on telegram, signal, discord, etc and much more because I follow far right leaders. I have had a large role converting one leader, and I'm close to converting another one.
Let me mumble my thoughts.It's Monday. Isn't there a relationship to his debt, Tesla stock losses and a potential call of loans that benefitted him merging X and XAi to make it look profitable?
I read back in Dec, X was valued at 12 bil by Market Watch. Lost 30 million give or take subscribers to Bluesky, tho big names stayed and joined both.
Does anyone read ads on Social Media. I sure don't except Meta tailors them to me. Speak in front of Alexa, FB and Instagram send me ads.
Coffee might clear my head. Thanks for the report!
This man is nothing but Putin in African heritage. He has buy his way through life. He will continue to buy elections, people as he needs. He doesn’t buy for the good of anything or anybody. He’s Evil guess drugs does that to a person. He’s stole most of his money buy bullying tactics. Is that how he has kids too? Then uses those kids against the moms. Sad human.
The corruption that the Muskrat is committing in our name AND our government with the help of Trump will eventually turn this country into a Third World country. How many years will it take until we’re just like China with child labor, no unions, no rights, & no free speech? Makes me wonder.
Really? There’s plenty of evidence that they are making a tech fiefdom. Not well hidden
I agree.
Oh, no worries about being a Third World country, JerryB. We'll still have paved roads, even if the paving is broken, because there won't be anyone to cart the debris away.
What surprises me is that anyone still thinks Trump/Muck are on the right track.
Can someone explain why Unilever caved under the lawsuit? A company can spend its advertising budget however they see fit. To sue a business because they won't advertise on your platform is bonkers. How does a judge not throw that out as nonsense? I'm out here in Public Land so perhaps the nuance is lost on me, but the lawsuit appears frivolous and unlikely to succeed, so why would a giant multinational company fold so quickly? I understand the point of lawfare is to financially decimate the opponent. But I can't understand how that plan coalesces over something stupid.
Makes me glad that I got off Twitter (before it was x).
THEN WHY NOT BOYCOTT X.??? I support the Tesla take down and demonstrations but how many folks will actually be buying Tesla in the first case?! No one I know….however almost everyone I know uses X. The platform owned and run by a racist white supremacist, spreading lies, hate, chaos and trawling users data on that VERY PLATFORM. The more users he has the more he makes from advertising and the more sustainable X becomes the more disruption and power he has.
Users have to accept, like it or not, by using X you are literally SUPPORTING MUSK and enabling him and his agenda. BOYCOTT NOW!!
#ElonBreaksAllHisToys He's an over aged juvenile with no forethought, self discipline or patience to take into consideration anyone or anything outside his personal interests. Then, like a toddler, publicly whines and weeps, over the backlash on his connection to Tesla, when he's thrown thousands of people out of work without care or thought. That's while he's dismantling agencies that sustain human life and safety. Anyone that would contract with anything "X" is misguided, foolish or strictly interested in their personal gain.
Total extortion.
I saw a note in a NYT news summary today that said federal spending is higher than it was last year at this time.
Good job, E-lon!