BREAKING: Psizer, General Mills and Audi suspend ALL advertising on Twitter over Elon Musk turning

[riversedge]

Its a start. Maybe it will get Musk's attention??


BREAKING: Psizer, General Mills and Audi suspend ALL advertising on Twitter over Elon Musk turning Twitter into a MAGA hellscape.

RT TO THANK THEM FOR HOLDING ELON MUSK ACCOUNTABLE!

Link to tweet

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[Sympthsical]

1. A better source

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/03/general-mills-twitter-ads-halt-musk-takeover

Occupy is a grift fest.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. Occupy Democrats has put out a lot of good memes

and info, such as this.

It's a shame they're too 'liberal' for some.

[Sympthsical]

4. They're a grift fest

And it's been posted here many times.

https://www.newsweek.com/occupy-democrats-super-pac-defends-lack-donations-candidates-1746799

he founder of Occupy Democrats is defending the well-known Democratic activist group's work after critics have alleged that the brunt of the organization's spending over the last several years largely went to a handful of liberal consulting firms, including an LLC owned by the founder and his brother.

On Monday, wildlife photographer Hamish Mitchell posted several photos on Twitter of Occupy Democrats' campaign finances over several cycles where he pointed out the combative meme-making social media titans spent the lion's share of the fundraising—about $577,000 of a total $797,000 raised this cycle—on "fundraising consultants," with no contributions to candidates.

However, a quarter-million dollars of what the group raised over this past election cycle, Mitchell pointed out, went to Blue Deal LLC, which is owned by Occupy Democrats' founder Omar Rivero and his brother, Rafael.

While Blue Deal had reportedly done nearly $600,000 in contracts for California Congressman Ro Khanna's campaign, Occupy Democrats was the firm's second-largest client—raising eyebrows about whether the media brand known for eye-rolling memes and all-caps attacks on Republicans represented anything more than a means for the brothers to pad their bottom lines.

That's the thing about grifters - their whole deal is that they kind of just tell you what they think you want to hear so you'll give them money.

Their track record isn't good anyway:

https://www.politifact.com/personalities/occupy-democrats/

[FoxNewsSucks]

6. I don't give them money, I just like their work.

And a six-figure budget wouldn't make many meaningful contributions anyway.

It seems that some just don't like their opinion, even though a lot of their work effectively kicks republicon ass. Which is why I like them.

[Sympthsical]

9. I substituted a Guardian link

Which is a lovely - and reliable - liberal publication.

I don't support assholes just because "I like the memes!"

But I'm also not a 17 year old on Instagram, so . . .

And as noted, they're not good with the whole "actually being true" thing. I've long noted they publish many factual inaccuracies in their stuff even before the grift surfaced.

[FoxNewsSucks]

28. I don't support them, I just use their work

when it's accurate. Which, other than a typo, in this case it is.

If we can take the help from the likes of Liz Cheney, or other right leaning sources that happen to take our side, I'll use an Occupy picture when it helps also.

[Sympthsical]

29. Using them is advertising them

And that is promoting and supporting them.

And hey, people are free.

But let's not pretend that it's not the choice that it is.

[malaise]

31. THIS

Wish I could rec

[progressoid]

17. Thanks.

I was unaware of their history.

I used to see their bold (and often incorrect) memes on the facebook but haven't seen much of them lately.

[PatSeg]

18. My problem with Occupy Democrats

has been too many inaccurate memes that don't pass the fact-check test. I try to avoid their memes because I can't always trust their accuracy. I didn't know about the fundraising track record.

[hlthe2b]

23. PFIZER! If they can't even proof a 140 character Tweet then what good are they?

[FoxNewsSucks]

30. Typos and spelling have always been my pet peeve.

It drives me nuts when people text or email things like "wat r u doin"

I gave up on ever seeing the world return to the use of good spelling. Too many people rely on spellcheck, and too many more think that text abbreviations are OK to use everywhere.

[riversedge]

8. Thanks. I had not seen this.

[PatSeg]

20. Thanks for posting

I won't go to Twitter these days and I don't trust Occupy Democrats.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. This is why he is laying off people by the hundreds.

He knew he was going to take a serious hit on ads.

[Journeyman]

5. General Mills, General Motors, Pfizer - what's Musk going to do when the big advertisers leave?...

[leftstreet]

7. He'll have to rely on collecting $8 from Stephen King

LOL Musk is so in over his head

[Journeyman]

10. Ah, yes, the old nickel and eight dollar 'em financial model . . .

Forgot to remind myself what a titan of industry Musk aspires to be . . .

[NJCher]

12. That's funny

You have me laughing in the middle of the night.

[SheltieLover]

19. Bazinga!

You win the thread!

Let's all hope musk holds his breath for this to happen. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Petulant child might just do that!

Did you see King's tweet where he said musk should be paying him for content? I agree!

[uponit7771]

22. +1,

[moniss]

11. He probably

thinks he will recoup it all from ads by the guy with an unnatural affection for bedding.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Like That Company Has Any Money

The single biggest reason Lindell was in his own commercials was because they needed to keep advertising costs low.
Despite his reputation (unwarranted), the company never had over $152 million in revenues. (It's down 35% now).
The valuation never exceeded $150 million, and creditors owned $125 million of it.
I haven't looked for the data to estimate current value, but my guess is is no higher that total debt leaving no net value to Mikey & his partners.
Musk isn't recovering anything from that coke head.

[moniss]

32. I know about the deal

with his company. I was being tongue-in-cheek and getting a twofer with a shot at both people.

[ShazzieB]

13. Something tells me this is just the beginning.

[SheltieLover]

21. I think so, too, ShazzieB!

[Cha]

14. Excellent.. TY rivers! Good word

for iwhat muskratfuler has done to it.. "Hellscape".

I love how these Tweeters call out his Shit on his own platform!

[Cha]

15. Oh and I Like Occupy Dems.. they're

working for our Democracy..!!

There are a lot of Grifters in Politics.. they Bash and Work Against Dems.

[C Moon]

16. My thoght all along has been that musk wants to destroy Twitter to help trump's app. nt

[hlthe2b]

24. Pfizer, not Psizer!

It pains me that the sender of that Tweet can't even proof a brief Tweet. Credibility matters.

Also, General Motors among others, BTW:
Key Facts. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that General Mills, Pfizer, Audi, Volkswagen and Mondelez International Inc.—the maker of Oreos—stopped advertising on Twitter after Musk took over the company, in part due to concerns about how Twitter will moderate content.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/11/03/gm-audi-pfizer-pull-ads-from-twitter-after-musk-sale-here-are-the-other-companies-rethinking-their-ties/?sh=16998cfe7100

[Gordolfon]

26. I don't blame Pfizer. Elon wants to allow kooky conspiracy theories about vaccines

Would a company that makes vaccines pay lots of money to a guy who is encouraging people to discredit said company?

[hlthe2b]

27. Of course not.

I'm just irritated this group, Occupy Democrats (who are already a bit questionable) will not take two seconds to proof their tweets. Call me Mr. Wilson grumbling at Dennis if you wish, but it is infuriating to me. 140 characters are too much to take a single second to proof?

But, no, of course, Pfizer is doing the right thing, as is (apparently) General Motors, General Foods, Audi and all the others.