Billionaire nutcase Elon Musk ranted Thursday at Bob Iger, the Disney chief govt he blames for the corporate not shopping for adverts on Musk’s web site. Musk accused Iger of endorsing little one sexual abuse content material, amongst different issues, in a sequence of rambling and misspelled tweets.
“He needs to be fired instantly,” Musk, who typically makes use of his influential perch to bully critics and others, wrote about Iger on the platform previously often known as Twitter. “Walt Disney is popping in his grave over what Bob has carried out to his firm.” Representatives for Disney didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. However Iger is broadly credited for reinforcing Disney into an leisure juggernaut by way of a sequence of well-executed acquisitions — Star Wars, Marvel Studios, and Pixar — throughout his first stint as chief govt.
Disney quietly stopped promoting on Twitter after Musk described an antisemitic conspiracy concept doing the rounds there as “the precise fact,” however solely introduced it after Musk advised them, amongst others, to “Go fuck themselves” in a televised interview. Musk admitted that his tweet was the dumbest factor he’d ever posted and groveled earlier than Bibi, however neither measure has appeased the manufacturers, and Musk quickly reverted to tweeting about conspiracy theories and pc video games.
Amid all of it, someplace, Iger stated Disney “felt that the affiliation with … Musk and X was not essentially a optimistic one for us,” which is presumably why he has develop into Musk’s goal.
Observe that even essentially the most staid and standard media are changing the standard fancy phrases they’ve for Musk’s conduct, reminiscent of “mercurial” and “impulsive,” with barely extra alarming ones like “erratic” and “capricious.” We have not gotten to the “risky” and “wayward” stage, when it is going to be time for somebody to cover that silly anime gun he performs with, however issues are getting regarding.