Well, that line alone about Cuba, does make him like that in my book. Also, the extreme pettiness that he showed when getting cartoonists and reporters from his competitors.
It’s grotesque and sociopathic and warmongering, but it’s not the same as renaming his newspaper the Bazongas Gazette. Hearst, for all his evil, wasn’t a soldier of 4chan.
Well, it was a different era, but I do think that if he had seen what was going on with the tabloid press of today, he would not had cared who runs the country as long as she’s got big titters
(“Yes Prime Minister” reference.)
John Legere, former CEO of T-Mobile, had some pretty childish activities around 10 years ago.
He crashed (and was thrown out of) an AT&T party at the Consumer Electronics Show, he gave profanity-laced press conferences (calling AT&T rapists and fuckers), he put out a fake press release with fake quotes from the AT&T CEO, and generally seemed to spend most of his time with childish insults against competitors.
Of course, he got a lot of free publicity and T-Mobile did pretty well under him, at least initially.
Matt Gaetz and Gym Jordan?
If there was an article saying they had become Twitter consultants, I wouldn’t know if it was The Onion or not.
Do you think that P. T. Barnum’s stuntery could be described as somewhat Musk-esque? Or maybe that Musk is aspiring to be Barnum-esque, but is nowhere near as good at it?
That captures Elmo’s mentality exactly! If Beavis and Butt-head ran a company, their press office would definitely auto-reply to all media queries with a poop emoji. And I have a mental image of Elmo constantly snickering exactly like Butt-head. His latest antics with the Twitter sign, and his brilliant idea of giving well-known Twitter posters “badges” to prove who they are – after destroying the whole original concept of authenticating check marks by trying to monetize it – seems like evidence that Elmo is losing his grip on reality. Lord only knows what drugs are regularly coursing through his bloodstream.
He’s a fan of marijuana, but you’d think that would mellow him out rather than make him an asshat. There’s definitely something else involved.
Not mine but something I saw online: “For a guy racking up so many L’s recently, it’s insane he’d get rid of the one W he has”
Who knows? Up until social media, there have always been filters between rich assholes and the public. Even if they owned the newspaper, there were always editors to reword their statements. Now, the moment a semblance of thought coalesces in their brains, they immediately share it with the world.
Maybe they were always this way.
I’m not sure I buy it. Hearst was a megalomaniac for sure, and if he wanted to get something similar out, he coulda. Meanwhile, the doge-dog icon and the painting of the W in Twitter required Musk to get employees to do the task for him.
I’m still going with Nero and Caligula–although @TroutMan makes a strong case for John Legere.
Elmo is looking at up to 30 billion euros in fines in Germany for refusing to moderate hate speech.
What’s the exchange rate at 20,000 feet, though?
I suspect his response to this will be like most of his responses to things like this: “Sue me.”
Perhaps this is why he did a pump and dump on Doge? Gotta pay the bills, and by bills, I mean fines.
He’s so clever and witty, isn’t he?
Did he really change his name to Harry Bolz?
Agile trolling.
Dude! 420.69! That’s how much I’m betting his next name change is to Mike Hunt!