November 2023. The most powerful companies on Earth lined up to make him kneel.
Disney. Apple. IBM. Comcast. They pulled their money and waited for the apology.
The whole press corps wanted one word out of him. Sorry.
Sorkin leaned in and offered him the exit. Just walk it back.
Musk: “If somebody’s going to try and blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.”
No retraction. No cleanup post at 2am. No quiet calls begging the brands back.
They wrote that it was over. That he’d finally buried his own company.
He was worth around $230 billion that night.
This week SpaceX went public.
He became the first trillionaire who has ever lived.
Forbes puts him at $1.1 trillion. Almost four times the next richest person alive.
This was never about him.
The people threatening you only hold the power you agree to hand them.
Every time you apologized to keep the peace, you taught them the price was you.
He refused to pay it once, in front of the entire world.
The world blinked first.
The crowd never remembers who knelt. It remembers who refused to flinch.
The only person who can ever make you beg is you.
@DalrympleWill The fact that people like you dislike him so much categorically proves how good he actually is. He cuts through your nonsense and you hate him for it.
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“Sad times for racist middle class wankers who think their shit racist kids are above the law because they had clarinet lessons”
From a locked account, but too good an analysis not to share with a wider audience. 🔥
The rejoin EU activists really don't like that we found the Observer/Opinium polling this weekend, and like even less that we made it public.
It would be a terrible shame if you shared it with them some more. As it really does seem to upset them.
Good morning Annette
Since the "taboo has been broken" as you put it, perhaps you can tell your readers and the British public why they should want to accept:
⚫️ An obligation to adopt the Euro
⚫️ An obligation to join Schengen
⚫️ An obligation to be part of the Migration Pact, which would allocate tens of thousands of additional illegal migrants to the UK each year
⚫️ Annual membership fee exceeding £35bn a year
⚫️ Worse trade deals with major global economies
⚫️ Worse trade with USA - our largest trade partner
⚫️ Worse animal welfare regulations
⚫️ Worse financial services regulations
⚫️ Worse agriculture regulations
⚫️ Worse AI regulations
⚫️ Worse environmental protection regulations
Am sure you have an answer for all the above.
Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.
George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.
Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.
And we all know why.
During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.
They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.
And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.
This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.
This needs to stop.
@DPJHodges C will happen whether you like it or not. It will transform everything like the Industrial Revolution did. Governments are too slow to keep up with it. I am astonished that people don’t see this reality
Living in a luxury house in London and sipping champagne on the book festival circuit is about as far away from serving a prison sentence as I can imagine. It’s worth remembering that thanks to Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable women in Scottish prisons are banged up with violent men.