EPISODE 307: Pfizer Leads Ad Cartel in Twitter Boycott Due to Elon Takeover
Lauren Chen joins Jack Posobiec for today’s exciting episode of Human Events Daily. The Muskoning has arrived, as Elon Musk conducts mass layoffs at Twitter - the same people who rooted for the firing of the unvaccinated. Meanwhile, major activist companies are pulling their ads from Twitter in attempts to ‘undermine freedom of speech’ and force Elon to bend to their will. And lastly, a conservative congressional candidate had his home shot at, while his children were inside sleeping. He...
The mass layoffs of Twitter have begun as Pfizer is leading an ad cartel in a Twitter boycott.
All of this due to the Elon Musk takeover.
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AMFEST.COM/POSO. - Some employees already getting word that they've been laid off amid more turmoil at Twitter.
In his first company-wide email, Elon Musk writing on Thursday, "Team, in an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday.
We recognize that this will impact a number of individuals who have made valuable contributions to Twitter, but this action is unfortunately necessary to ensure the company's success moving forward." The email saying employees will be notified of their job status by 9 a.m.
Pacific Time today, although some we learned were notified at midnight and immediately locked out of their work accounts.
In the meantime, all offices will be closed and badge access suspended.
The move comes just a week after Musk took control of the company and immediately fired top executives including the CEO and CFO in the wake of Musk's new leadership.
The Wall Street Journal reporting a growing list of advertisers are now pulling ads from the platform and overnight workers filing a class action lawsuit over the massive layoffs, saying that the company is doing so without enough notice in violation of federal and California law, Michael.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard tonight's edition of Human Events Daily, powered by Turning Point USA.
Today is the 4th of November 2022.
Anno Domini.
The muskening has arrived.
Mass layoffs are hitting Twitter.
This is something that we here on Human Events Daily reported would happen about a month ago.
Now, of course, we're here.
So stay one month ahead by listening to Human Events Daily.
And what's trending right now on Twitter, and this is so meta, this is so, you know, six layers of 3D chess, that the people who are being laid off at Twitter are all now tweeting about being laid off at Twitter on Twitter.
Elon Musk, their boss, is tweeting throughout all of this.
And these hashtags are going.
It's almost like competing hashtags.
It's going viral.
But of course, what's it doing?
It's bringing people and more and more eyeballs to Twitter.
So to help me make sense of this, we are going to bring on today's special guest co-host.
Ladies and gentlemen, Turning Point USA's contributor, Lauren Chen.
Lauren, welcome to the program.
Thank you for having me.
Excited to be here.
Yeah.
So Lauren, you know, and it's, it's crazy with this situation that what are we to make of the fact that all of these people are being fired?
I mean, on one hand, I feel, you know, I don't, I don't feel happy.
Right.
I, I, you shouldn't feel happy when someone's losing their job around the holidays.
Right.
And, and I think that that's something that just doesn't as a Christian, as a father, that as a husband that I always try to remember, but at the same time, You look at what they did over the years.
You look at what they did to ban the Hunter Biden laptop story two years ago, almost to the day, exactly two years ago, almost to the day that they banned that story, put their thumb on the scale of truth in that election.
And here we are again, all of their censorious actions and behavior led to this moment.
And so at the same time, it's like, guys, you, you, you did this to yourselves.
You're right.
I mean, anytime someone loses their job, it's a sad thing.
You got to think about even beyond that person, the families that are being affected.
It's not a good thing.
But you're also bringing up the flip side of that.
Am I celebrating specifically that these people will no longer be at Twitter and enabled to enforce their censorious worldview?
That I am happy about.
That I do feel okay celebrating.
And ultimately, they brought this on themselves, right?
Twitter could have been just a regular functioning company, a platform where people can share updates And they could have been running way more streamlined instead of having all of these trust and safety people on, all of these managers on from what Elon Musk has so far told us.
Apparently there's like 10 people managing for every single person coding, which in a tech company.
Yeah.
These are the people, by the way, they're making those videos of I'm showing up at 9 PM or 9 AM.
I'm going to get my cereal.
And then they always say the word obviously over and over.
They're like, obviously I'm going to get my matcha.
Obviously, I'm going to go to yoga.
Obviously, we're going to go to the rooftop to have a couple to have a morning meeting, morning yoga sesh.
And they they're making these videos all day long when they're not actually working.
I've yet to actually see someone working in any of those videos.
Right.
And I think what we need to keep in mind is even if they were actually working, what would that look like?
Probably just advocating for different conservatives to be banned.
Let's be real.
So I think, you know, I have not been on board 100 percent of what Elon has done since taking over.
We're going to get into the rest of that, from my understanding.
But in terms of the layoffs, he's absolutely doing the right thing.
He needs to cut the bloat.
And it seems like Twitter has just a lot of unnecessary people who not only don't need to be there, but actually making the company worse, like less enjoyable for users.
So they had a story out of Reuters that I'm just seeing across the desk here that the curated trends that you see on the side, so that curated trending feed, everyone, according to Reuters, again, you know, obviously we're still kind of in the fog of Elon in terms of all of this, but Everything that was involved in that team, every person on that team has been completely fired, completely laid off.
And we know that every time Media Matters said something or anyone associated with Media Matters, the left had a tweet up or had something up.
So if I see my name trending, if I see your name trending, Charlie, Steve Bannon, whatever, you know, it's going to be one of like three or four accounts because that always goes up on trending.
It's never someone conservative.
It's never someone on the right.
But, you know, something I was thinking about you saying, That, oh, we shouldn't feel bad when people lose their jobs.
That's true, we shouldn't, and we should care about that, but at the same time...
Where were all of these people and where was the outpouring of support over the last two years for people who lost their jobs because they refused to take an experimental vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna or one of the others when they were kicked out of their jobs, when they were kicked out of the military, so our actual troops here in the United States, when you had the President of the United States going on television demonizing them, blaming them for all the ills like some sort of scapegoat group
I've yet to see one tweet, and I've been looking, I've yet to see one tweet from these people saying, oh, this is terrible.
This is happening.
Well, that's the thing.
When that was happening, they weren't not only just not saying anything, not giving condolences.
They were the ones who are actively rooting for it to be happening.
Hey, remember, we're all in this together.
Like I said, they're families.
Yeah, I'm under no illusion that if they had their ways, not only would we be unemployed, we would be speechless, we probably wouldn't be able to vote.
They would probably go a lot further in just trying to ruin our lives than we could ever think of.
So just for some perspective for your audience to keep in mind.
No, 100%.
The idea that these people would not shed a tear for Jack Posobiec or Lauren Chen or anybody from Turning Point if we were banned on Twitter, and in fact, behind the scenes, and I'd love to see if these Slack videos could come out or anything like this, the messages, the internal messages, because we know Elon's starting to leak some of them.
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I know what I'm getting followers.
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We're talking about all things Twitter.
One of the big pieces, in addition to the Twitter layoffs, we're also seeing this massive advertiser We're not sure if it's an exodus yet or a pause.
They're saying they're pausing this list of advertisers that say they don't want to work with Twitter because they're worried about what Elon is doing.
Look at this.
General Mills, Audi.
Pfizer, I guess we can actually tweet about the vaccines now.
Cheerios, Oreo cookies, General Motors.
These are some of the biggest, everybody, if you work in advertising, all right, little behind the veil action here.
If you work in advertising, if you work in media, you know that those auto ads, that's some of the biggest, creamiest advertising budgets that are out there in the entire country.
So if they're pulling their ads, I mean, think about how many car ads you see on a regular basis.
They're pulling those guys out.
They are the ones that actually have the influence in this.
Elon coming back and saying, look, these advertisers are trying to undercut freedom of speech.
They're trying to pull this out.
I said yesterday that this was going to happen.
And that's why Elon's talking about these subscription services.
Move it over.
Taking the same page out of the book of Substack and so many other people out there that say, look, we're going to move this to a subscription service, a fee based service.
We're going to get advertisers out of the influence level that they have.
But then also the fact that there's these outside activist pressure groups that are putting pressure on Elon to be censored and to lose revenue.
When he hasn't even done anything.
He's literally not even done anything other than this.
And then, you know, just to, you know, kind of look at, connect the two stories.
Well, maybe if the advertisers weren't pulling out all the revenue, then we wouldn't have to lay off all half the people on the thing.
I'm very sorry.
I'm so sorry to hear this.
Lauren, why are these activist groups doing this?
Well, they're doing this so that Elon will cave to their will.
It's a simple playbook.
They've done it to places like YouTube, the Wall Street Journal, Adpocalypse that they caused because PewDiePie, you know, did some edgy things and the Wall Street Journal and establishment media in general doesn't like the competition that places like YouTube is giving them.
And so when it comes to these activist groups trying to encourage these boycotts, it is specifically, explicitly, if you read some of the pieces that are going around, like Media Matters is trying to say to these advertisers, leave Twitter until they ensure that they are standing against hate, et cetera, et cetera.
And it's funny because Elon, just a few days ago, proudly tweeted out that he was meeting with so many of these groups to, you know, stand by Twitter stance on combating hate.
And it's like, well, this is what you get when you try to appease these people who ultimately hate you and what you stand for.
He should never have tried.
Look, they're putting him in.
This is like that movie Dune when they put your hand in the pain box.
Yeah.
To determine how much you can withstand.
That's what they're doing to Elon right now.
They're putting him in the pain box.
And now it's his turn to feel what it's like.
And so the idea that he didn't foresee this as possibly happening, I think is a little I think it's a little bit I'm not going to sell him that short.
I think he knew that something like this was going to be coming.
And that's why he's been talking about revenue so much when it comes to Twitter.
And I think he he kind of understood intuitively.
And certainly he's got a whole team around him.
He's got David Sachs, he's got VC guys, he's got the Tesla engineers around him.
He understands that you can't have freedom of speech, which of course inherently is gonna include controversy as well as these massive advertiser brands.
It just don't work, to your point, because of adpocalypse and so many of these other things.
So if you have to look at Twitter as number one, okay, yes, the most interesting place on the entire internet, for sure.
You're my timelines.
Obviously.
Number one on there.
We'll, we'll, we'll argue about who's, who's number one.
Um, but, uh, but the idea is how do you make it make money?
The way I look at it is the way you'd make money is with targeting, right?
Don't go for these big blanket, huge advertisers anymore, but actually give me targeted niche ads to something that I might like, like, like podcasting stuff or cameras or Uh, you know, we're Catholic.
So, you know, send us some Catholic stuff and work with that, those advertisers.
You would see better conversion rates, but of course you're not going to have this massive batch of Wall Street money there.
And then sure, by the way, $8 a month, I'd pay, I'd pay $8 a month.
I'd pay $80 a month.
I'd be $800 a month for this service because Twitter is the only social media out there that has soft power.
It's just, it's the front page of the internet and it just is what it is.
And obviously that goes to what we were saying before, Everybody's on Twitter talking about Twitter.
The people who are leaving Twitter are still on Twitter, even though they've lost the physical Twitter, they're still on Twitter, the website.
Even at that point, they're still not willing to get off of Twitter.
So, he's clearly got everyone's attention, and if you can't use that to make money, then just leave business completely.
No, you're absolutely right.
And I have an ad guy who always tells us that if there are eyes on what you're doing, then you can sell ads on what you're doing.
So I think you're right.
Yeah.
Maybe people like Pfizer, they're going to bend the knee to the activists.
But guess what?
That just means that you need to work on Twitter's own promotional ad campaigns for smaller businesses, for individual people.
Make advertising through Twitter as an individual actually fun and useful.
And then, you know, you can tell those big Pharma companies, the big banks, they can take their money fine to YouTube.
Have fun with those fake views.
Twitter is going to be where the actual people are.
And I think this is another example of just this is why I'd love to see Elon sit down with Chris Pavlovsky of Rumble and figure out a way to get that Rumble ad stack in there because the Rumble ad stack would not be leaving in terms of this.
And they're going after Rumble now, too, because they say, oh, you're letting you're letting Russians have, you know, perspective on your platform.
They're like, yeah, people have channels.
It is what it is.
But The like we let Germans and British and everybody else have out news outlets on there, too.
We don't play.
No, in order to encourage diversity acceptance, we're going to need 23 and me reports from everyone who is starting a channel.
Also, passports.
That's the only way forward with tolerance.
Yeah, it's the only way to get verified.
But I love this idea, though, that it's kind of been out there in the ether that if Rumble And Twitter do some kind of, uh, whether it's an integration deal or a merger, people have said, why does Nealon just buy rumble as well?
I mean, he just spent 44 billion.
I don't know if he's going to be able to get it more, but this is obviously a way that you could put YouTube on its back.
And then if it becomes the issue, right?
Who, who has the real power?
Is it the people who have the eyeballs or the people who have the money?
And I think that's the struggle you're seeing right now.
No, definitely.
And I think as the people with the money continue to bow to these activists instead of what their users actually want, eventually they're not even going to have the money in the first place.
That's 100% right.
Look, shows like ours, organizations like Turning Point USA would not be doing well, right?
If we had a mainstream media that was capable and interesting and fun and actually did their jobs, right?
Nobody would be coming to, you know, Twitter and digital journalism.
But the reason that it's, been so successful is primarily that.
It's just because they're complete failures.
They're more interested in going to their morning yoga sesh than actually breaking stories or finding out what's going on in our world.
Yeah.
Although to put that out there, if anyone wants to like give me a free office where I can do yoga sesh, not actually work and have match every day, I also wouldn't say no.
So just putting that out there.
I'll run, I'll run that by Charlie.
I'm going to make sure that specifically it came from you.
All right.
Stay tuned.
We're coming back last segment with the great Lauren Chen.
-Risings all over the country, maybe there will be.
-People need to start taking to the streets. This is a dictator. -You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there's unrest in our lives. -Enemies of the state. -Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. -Do something about your dad's immigration practices, They go low, we kick them.
How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck?
The biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right.
I thought he should have punched him in the face.
I said, even if you lost, he insulted your wife.
He came down the escalator and called Mexicans rapists and murderers.
He said, well, what do you think I should have done?
I said, I think you should have punched him in the face and then gotten out of the race.
You would have been a hero.
I'd like to punch him in the face.
I said if we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
Punch some people in the face!
When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?
They're still gonna have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump, and that's a fact.
Look as his character is stabbed to death.
Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?
So which side is actually the side that condones violence?
Very interesting because that was a bunch of people from the left, plays, actors, celebrities, and politicians, even media figures, all calling for violence against conservatives and particularly for President Trump and his family.
And we have this whole speech from Joe Biden this week talking about, oh, the violence of the right and the people that have pushed this.
Well, here's an interesting story, and it's not so much interesting as it is horrible.
WBT News is reporting this, that a Republican congressional candidate, Pat Harrington's home, last October was shot at while his children were inside the house at the time, sleeping.
The FBI is now investigating this.
He's running in District 14, what is this, North Carolina, Hickory, North Carolina.
He has a three-year-old daughter and a five-year-old daughter.
Their house was shot up.
Apparently, it happened a couple of weeks ago.
The story is only breaking now because, for some reason, the media just didn't seem to want to tell us about this.
Lauren, I have a question.
What's the real issue here?
Why is it that, when it comes to political violence, the left and sort of the leaders of the left always overlook You know, for the longest time, I was inclined to think that they just had a huge double standard when it came to things like political violence.
that night with Paul Pelosi, they paint the entire right with this.
Why do they overlook all the stuff that happens on their own side? - You know, for the longest time, I was inclined to think that they just had a huge double standard when it came to things like political violence.
Oh, it's the end of the world, it's national emergency when the right does it, but it's, you know, it's totally fine, maybe just an outlier when the left does it.
But I no longer think that.
I actually think that the left has one very consistent standard, that anything that hurts the right and conservatives is good, as well as anything that can get the left into power.
So from that lens, things actually start to make a lot more sense.
They're not focusing on this story, you know, the horrific fact that perhaps children could have been hurt because of their dad's political beliefs, because It hurts conservatives.
It's good.
Focusing on the story is in no way going to help propel the left to power.
So why would they care in the first place?
Once you accept that, how little regard they have for the safety of the right, how little regard they have for your safety, if you disagree with them at all, then everything starts to be a lot more clear, especially when you look back at the Summer of Love as well.
Yeah, I mean, there was even that story up in North Dakota where a 17-year-old kid, Kayla Ellington, was run over and killed By a crazed leftist who said, I did this because he was an extreme MAGA Republican.
That's exactly the same phrase that Joe Biden's used over and over.
Extreme MAGA, mega MAGA, all these different little phrases that he has where it's like, no, it's not MAGA conservatives that are upset with you, sir.
It's the country because you're running us into the blender.
I mean, you guys have had power for two years now.
You've had total control of the White House, Congress, Uh, both the house and the Senate and a ton of governors out there.
What have you done with it?
Is our country better?
Uh, we've got a war in Eurasia.
Gas prices are going up like crazy.
Inflation is going like crazy.
The violence that's in the streets, it's not being done by, you know, these roving bands of like conservative lawyers running up and, and like jumping out of cars.
No, we know where the, there were, there was an ATV gang down the street from my parents' home.
Okay, in the suburbs of Philadelphia that was trying to carjack people just a couple of weeks ago because they're coming out from the city and they're doing this stuff now.
You've got Republican candidates here in North Carolina.
His home was shot up and they didn't even talk about it.
Right, and as sad as it is to think of, and I'm not trying to delegitimize the idea this was targeted, you mentioned the rising crime.
There is also the possibility that perhaps this was just complete unrelated random violence because we see that happening more as well.
And so when your two choices are either you're being targeted politically or it's just, oh, well, there are shootings all the time.
That's a bad place to be in for the average person, but unfortunately that's where we are.
It's like when they go after the Paul Pelosi deal and they say, oh, well, you know, you guys support this and this guy, he's one of you.
It's excuse me.
I'm pretty sure that one side in this country is very much on the record of, we want to lock up the violent psychopaths and keep them away from all of society for a long time.
I don't care what their political beliefs are.
If you're doing something like that, you're going to go behind bars and we want you to stay behind bars, regardless of, you know, who your victim is.
It actually, it kind of confirms your point earlier that they're the ones who are playing games about Who they care about the victim, the targeting.
Well, if it's that one, then it's not so bad.
No, actually, that's what you do.
What we're saying is we want all violent criminals locked up.
They should be kept behind bars.
We're not playing any of these games like cashless bail, like letting people out, like allowing our border to be completely overrun with all this insanity.
No, we just stand for law and order for, oh, by the way, for all people, not just conservatives.
Lauren Chen, we are just about out of time on this.
I'm so happy that you've been able to come on.
Hopefully we can get you back.
What are you up to?
Where can people follow you?
Your latest... I used to know you as Roaming Millennial, by the way.
It'd be cool to see if you brought that back.
What are you working on?
Where can people follow you?
Well, you can find me just on Lauren Chen on YouTube and on Rumble as well as Odyssey.
I try to be everywhere.
Those are my main videos.
I also started a second channel called Rabble Rouser for shorter, more up-to-date, more focused on politics instead of just current events and maybe some culture in there.
You can follow me on Twitter at the Lauren Chen as well as Instagram, same handle.
And I would love to see your viewers over there.
Oh, we'd love to do it, Lauren.
We've got to do something.
I have to get you and Tanya together to do something about, like, you know, being conservative moms or, you know, something like that, because I just see everything that you're posting about having become a new mom.
It's amazing.
You definitely have leveled up, and I think we all do when we become parents, in a way.
You know, we realize that there's more to life than just us, you know?
Yeah, and it's such a blessing to be able to call myself a mom.
It almost, it still feels surreal, but in the best way.
Amen, amen.
Lauren Chen, thank you so much for joining us today.
Folks, here on Human Events, we have spent this week going in and out, talking about all things Elon Musk, Twitter.
If you notice, What did we call?
We called that the advertisers would be boycotting.
We called that the revenue was going to come down.
We called that the censorship was going to fight back.
And we also told you a month ago that there were going to be these mass layoffs.
We've also been at the forefront of this political violence and the fight that we have against it.
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