It’s been hilarious watching the left have a meltdown about Elon Musk taking over Twitter and bringing in a lot of changes.
One of the things that he seems intent on doing is making the company a more viable and efficient workplace. I wrote last month about how it was more like a spa at the headquarters than a work environment, where people could work remotely if they chose to but if they came in they had meditation rooms, yoga areas, free food, and red wine on tap.
That’s likely one of the reasons that the company wasn’t making money and was in trouble before Musk. How wild was their situation? Because anyone could work remotely, Musk had to check to make sure that alleged “employees” were truly real people.
But he had a condition. Before paying the bonuses, Mr. Musk insisted on a payroll audit to confirm that Twitter’s employees were “real humans.” He voiced concerns that “ghost employees” who should not receive the money lingered in Twitter’s systems.
Mr. Musk tapped Robert Kaiden, Twitter’s chief accounting officer, to conduct the audit. Mr. Kaiden asked managers to verify that they knew certain employees and could confirm that they were human, according to three people and an internal document seen by The Times.
Now, Musk has also slashed 50 percent of the employees of the 7500 employees. Those remaining were going to have to work.
Mr. Musk added that they would need to work strenuously to keep the company afloat. “Those who are able to go hard core and play to win, Twitter is a good place,” he said. “And those who are not, totally understand, but then Twitter is not for you.”
How evil was Musk? No more free lunch at the company. Literally. He was going to make people…gasp…pay for their lunches — like most of the rest of the country.
This was how some on the left took it: that Musk was evil “incarnate” who was now “starving” employees. It was such a window into how the left thinks.
Imagine thinking that you’re now entitled to a free lunch. This is the attitude of the left — it’s what they think in general about so many things — that they’re entitled to whatever they want because they want it. Bloated staff, all kinds of perks, free food and wine — is it any wonder the company wasn’t making any money? How dare that cheap pile of garbage want to keep the company afloat and the other 50 percent employed!
It also wasn’t like the employees were so poor they couldn’t buy their lunches — Twitter employees get a hefty salary, all the more so when you consider some worked from home and others didn’t seem to be working particularly hard.
The left freakout over this is hilarious.
But Musk’s moves already appear to be generated more user growth on the site, so it may already be making money, as he works to make it into the “town square.”
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Senator Throws Hissy Fit, Threatens to Use Congress Against Elon Musk Over Twitter Spat
Sheesh, that escalated quickly.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a man who chooses to use a portrait of himself wearing a mask as his Twitter profile picture (which tells you everything you need to know about his mental state), reacted like an angry child today after Elon Musk absolutely owned him in a tweet regarding the state of Twitter’s rocky rollout of the new Blue verification process.
It started when Markey opined on the ongoing turbulence concerning Twitter’s new verification system, which Musk has repeatedly admitted was in the process of being fixed and polished. Markey proudly shared a Washington Post journalist’s account of how they managed to create a verified account impersonating Markey with little difficulty.
“A @washingtonpost reporter was able to create a verified account impersonating me—I’m asking for answers from @elonmusk who is putting profits over people and his debt over stopping disinformation. Twitter must explain how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again,” Markey tweeted, attaching a scary-looking official letter expressing outrage at the possibility of such an impersonation attempt taking place.
As Musk is known to do, he responded with humor to Markey’s pearl-clutching letter simply by writing, “Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody?”
The remark quickly drew out the lurking Democrats, who were quick to defend Markey before warning Musk, a successful billionaire entrepreneur, not to piss off a U.S. senator who happens to sit on several committees that could impact Musk’s various business dealings.
In other words, the message to Musk was, “Don’t trigger Markey, or he’ll come after you.” You know, like President Biden’s DOJ and FBI do to conservatives they don’t like.
A Twitter account called “People For Bernie” drove that threat home.
Musk, in his perpetual brilliance, immediately responded to the idea that he could be threatened for exercising his right to free speech.
“Are you suggesting the Senator will abuse his political power to attack me?” Musk replied, silencing the Bernie dullards.
Musk also hilariously called out Markey for his ridiculously asinine profile pic, which is a portrait of himself wearing a mask in 2022 when, as the president himself recently said, the pandemic is over.
“And why does your pp [profile picture] have a mask?” Musk tweeted, generating thousands of hilarious responses and virtual cheers as he faced off against the powerful Democratic senator on home turf.
But it wasn’t over, not by any stretch. The back-and-forth took a rather disturbing and dark turn.
Markey was apparently quite triggered that an American citizen would dare make fun of a senator and immediately mounted his Washington, D.C., high horse to use the full weight of Congress in a threat to Musk’s businesses in quite a detailed reply.
“One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree. Auto safety watchdog NHTSA is investigating another for killing people. And you’re spending your time picking fights online. Fix your companies. Or Congress will,” Markey huffed and puffed in his outrageously snooty reply.
Translation: MAKE FUN OF ME, AND I’LL COME AFTER YOU, PEASANT.
Conservative watchdog Tom Fitton provided one of the first replies to Markey’s pouty response, tweeting, “Leftist senator threatens an American citizen.”
“Wow, senator threatening a businessman?” another user wrote. At the time of this writing, there were presumably thousands of similar statements.
Clearly, Markey — like most Democrats — isn’t skilled at reading the room. In the wake of what’s happened under Biden and the obvious abuses of power the country has witnessed, for Markey to threaten to use Congress against an American citizen and his business either makes him incredibly stupid or downright scary.
While I have my own issues with Twitter’s current state, like a hacker taking over my personal legacy-verified account days before the election (I still don’t have it back), I have to say that watching Musk shut this clown down was the highlight of my day, and I look forward to seeing more of these interactions as Twitter steadily becomes fun again.
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