In the wake of a wave of jeering when he showed up for a surprise appearance onstage alongside Dave Chappelle at the comedian’s show at the Chase Center of San Francisco this past Sunday evening, New Twitter CEO Elon Musk belted out a new resounding denunciation of his leftist enemies as of Monday morning.
When Chappelle first called up Musk, a good chunk of the crowd devolved into jeering and booing, forcing Chappelle to respond, “It sounds like some of the people you fired are in the audience,” going further, “All of those people who are booing, I’m just pointing out the obvious, they have terrible seats. It’s all coming from way up there.”
Turns out Twitter can, in fact, be real life. https://t.co/FFpups1yEy pic.twitter.com/41jcZgdDR4
— Steven Goffman (@SteveGoffman) December 12, 2022
As of Monday morning, Musk took on his critics himself, posting, “The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters.”
The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022
Before making his appearance at Chappelle’s show, Musk had openly stated his disdain for the bots on Twitter targeting him, posting, “Calling all 🤖& 🧌 Please attack me!” followed directly by “Cool, the bots are so far unable to swarm to the top of my replies!”
Cool, the bots are so far unable to swarm to the top of my replies!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
Near the end of this past November, Musk highlighted in a video clip a secret closet he found at Twitter headquarters that showed the company’s extreme leftist mindset.
Musk posted the short 12-second video clip of the discovered closet that sported shelves upon shelves of T-shirt merchandise, and showed a particular shelf laden with black T-shirts showing the text “#Stay Woke.”
“Here we are at the merch and there is an entire closet full of — ” explained the CEO, before someone sitting just out of frame stated, “secret closet.”
“— Hashtag Woke T-Shirts,” finished Musk.
Found in closet at Twitter HQ fr 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/3xSI3KvvHk
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022
Despite extreme criticism from members of the political LEft about how he had dealt with the company, Musk highlighted at that time that Twitter had managed to tack on an additional 1.6M active daily users in the past week.
Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high pic.twitter.com/Si3cRYnvyD
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2022
Just a scant few hours prior to his tweet highlighting the woke slogan bearing T-shirts, Musk targeted the people trying to criticize them, stating, “Wasn’t Twitter supposed to die by now or something … ?”
“Maybe we’ve gone to heaven/hell & don’t know it,” he chimed.
Maybe we’ve gone to heaven/hell & don’t know it 🤔
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 23, 2022
A large group of over 60+ civil society and civil rights groups calling themselves the “Stop Toxic Twitter” coalition had pushed the top advertisers of Twitter to run out and boycott the company, hurling threats, “Musk must not roll back the basic moderation practices Twitter already has on the books and he must invest the resources necessary to enforce those rules.”
“Sweeping layoffs at Twitter make it impossible for Twitter to uphold brand safeguards and content moderation. Companies should immediately stop advertising in response,” they concluded.
