The good news today is that wokeness is fading like all other fads eventually do [see photo].
Hard evidence that the wokeness is fading comes this week with the total failure of CNN+, Elon Musk takeover bid for Twitter, and admission by woke leaders that Russia will win the Ukraine War. Let me delve a little into each of these events.
Apparently CNN+ was the latest venture based on wokeness to fail. It is alleged that the CNN+ venture cost somewhere between $US 300 and 500 million. In essence this was a subscription service for the woke by a major media company. It lasted around four weeks before it was closed. The notion was "built it and they will come" however they did not respond to the call of the woke team at CNN.
Elon Musk bought around 9.2% of the shares of Twitter. The woke team at Twitter responded by offering Elon a place on the Board. I guess they were following the old adage of co-opt the invader and within that process neuter him through local rules and regulations. Elon refused to cocoon himself in their simple trap. Instead he launched a full takeover bid for Twitter as a prerequisite to taking the company private. The woke board reacted with the tactic of creating a poison pill strategy. This play will lock-out anyone with around 15% of the total shareholdings from increasing his or her holding while the board floods the market with new shares. This flood of shares reduces the worth of each share and therefore dilutes the power of shareholders proportionally. This action will lead the woke board into a constant round of litigation from those who have had their shareholdings reduced in market value. By the way Elon will not pay anyone for being a Board Member when he takes this company private and at that point all the woke members will surely leave.
Russia is winning the Ukraine War and no amount of woke support for the Zelensky regime will turn their fantasies into reality. Russia has turned out to be a bulwark against the lies, slander, and ideological fantasies of the woke. The EU, NATO, America, Australia, UK are all woke pockets of power. Let us be clear all those actors are both promoters of, and strong propagandist for, the corrupt Zelensky regime. This is the war that Russia did not want to fight but the woke [listed above] forced them to defend their sovereign boundaries. But the woke has failed despite their actors in Washington DC sending around $US 800 million to 1 Billion of American taxpayers funds this week. The other element of the woke war on Russia is the financial assault on Moscow with sanctions and removal of the rouble from the international markets. Of course these woke moves have made Russia stronger not weaker.
Wokeness is a fad and thankfully it is fading and fading fast.
Richard.
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