Why Elon’s NYTimes Event F-Bomb Was Good For America
Sometimes it takes a little bit of 'shock' to wake a culture out of its slumber
Not gonna lie, seeing Disney’s CEO flamed in public to his face is throughly satisfying. More than that, there is reason to believe it was a good day for America.
We hear no end of left-wing finger-wagging about what’s ‘good for democracy’. But what Elon just did might actually help put the Republic back on firmer ground.
There are two aspects to the F-bomb story. There what he did, and what he refused to do. Both are important in the bigger picture.
Elon Musk stood in public and told one of the top-fifty corporations in the country that he didn’t need their money if it came with strings attached.
If that same CEO (and others like him) had the balls to look Xi and his CCP flunkies in the eye and tell them the same damned thing, America would be in a much better place today.
In a world where corporate executives routinely sell out their integrity, principles, self-interest, and even their country for the Almighty Dollar, it’s a rare breed of businessman who can look his would-be benefactors not as a supplicant would a benefactor.
Elon looked at the offer, looked at the strings attached and made the decision — it ain’t worth it.
Helluva time for Iger to put Disney up as the anti-free-speech foil against the one large-scale Social Media platform that doesn’t censor speech. Hey Bob! Didn’t you just release financials admitting your income is cratering because the world sees how woke you and your agendas are and have said ‘no thanks’?
Does Bob REALLY believe picking a fight with Elon Musk will help Disney win that trust back? Good luck with that.
The other half of the equasion, what Musk refused to do is explained in his own words in the same quote.
Elon Musk reacts to advertiser boycotts:
"If somebody is gonna try to blackmail me with money… Go f*ck yourself."
Host is stunned and speechless.
Elon repeats: "Go f*ck yourself." pic.twitter.com/MCDo2jlBBU
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 29, 2023
The full video in context can be seen here:
FULL INTERVIEW: Elon Musk tells advertisers trying to boycott X, 'Go Fuck Yourself', says, “What I see all over the place is people who care about looking good, while doing evil. Fuck them,” says he will not vote for Joe Biden in 2024, says Tesla has done more to help the… pic.twitter.com/DKNOY42gEm
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) November 30, 2023
He refused to let his principles and values be dictated to him by people who considered themselves his ‘benefactors’.
Principle before profit. Remember when that used to be a thing?
Elon’s defiance (yes, including the profanity) brings to mind someone else who refused to be bullied into submission.
Somewhere along the way we’ve exchanged that American birthright of righteous defiance for… what, exactly?
The mercenary spirit of a hireling with no country to call home?
That seems about right.
Has it taken a super-achieving legal immigrant with enough “F**k You money” to laugh off Fortune 500 CEOs to remind us what that American birthright looks like?
Ok then. Here’s the wake up call we needed.
Now that we’ve seen it in action, will more of us remember what it’s like to have the heart of a lion?
Because the alternative is the one Klaus keeps inviting us to participate in. Where we are worker drones in a world of his creation, where we eat ze bugs, own nothing and ‘are happy’.
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