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Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.
Joined Oct 2021
The Times also has a statement, but it's basically "we assume he can give us a good reason!"
Elon just banned a big Voice of America reporter for covering the purge.
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@lgtwriter Legally, Musk can do whatever he wants with Twitter.
And prominent voices and advertisers have every right to abandon it.
Good. Freaking. God.
This is his "major announcement."
Trading cards. With him as a superhero.
#Politics sort of.
Good lord, it's staggering how thin-skinned these wannabe strongman Republicans are.
How in the world could this basic query possible be considered "inappropriate"?
The orange maniac has actually sued the Pulitzer board because they won't retract their awards to reporters over the Russia scandal.
Throwing a sulking fit in court and sobbing that's all a "hoax" doesn't actually work as a legal argument. And it gives the other side the opportunity to show how true it all is... including Mueller's evidence and the damning bipartisan Senate report.
You hate to see it.
No... not hate... what is the word...
Oh yes, love.
The particular irony is Rs saying they want "Trump's policies" without Trump.
What "policies"? When did he ever have "policies"?
All he had was revenge politics, grievance, and personal enrichment.
Per this poll, Rs are just as committed to MAGA BS... but are souring on Trump as a viable standard bearer.
That's hardly a solution to our national ills, but one step at a time.
After all, the midterms showed that Rs blow key races with Trump imitators as well as with Trump himself...
Fascinating data... that should terrify Rs, if they have the brains to pay attention.
They DID get the expected R midterm turnout advantage in many key states... but enough R-leaning voters defected that they lost key races anyway.
Lake and Chemtrail Kelli just scream "FRAUD!!!" instead of learning anything, of course.
Very promising news on Electoral Count Act reform. Looks like it is indeed a go, either in the spending bill (likely) or standalone (as a fallback).
Enough Rs get that another 1/6 is bad for *them* that it has the needed support.
Well said, *Majority* Leader Schumer.
Maybe if Rs weren't too terrified to say something similar they wouldn't have struggled so badly in what should have been easily winnable races.
Classic #Musk. After all his hysterical propaganda rants about "shadow banning" back when Twitter enforced its terms of service, now he'll officially shadow ban anyone who doesn't pay him ransom.
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A particular irony of the whole "WE WOULDA WON IF EVERYONE HAD SEEN MORE ABOUT HUNTER'S DICK PICS!" line is that it *admits Trump didn't win.*
If the voters swarmed to him anyway and the votes were all rigged, how would the supposed impact of not seeing the laptop story 24/7 matter at all?
A particular irony of the whole "WE WOULDA WON IF EVERYONE HAD SEEN MORE ABOUT HUNTER'S DICK PICS!" line is that it *admits Trump didn't win.*
If the voters swarmed to him anyway and the votes were all rigged, how would the supposed impact of not seeing the laptop story 24/7 matter at all?
Rational Left
Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.
Joined Oct 2021