It’s all over but the shouting. Paperwork pending, Elon Musk has bought Twitter.
And, the shouting is all over the place but far from over.
It’s shaping up as a bad couple of weeks for the left side of ideology. First, it was masks off. Now, it’s Musk on.
Elon Musk used the platform he is buying to provide insight into what likely will be his guiding principle. He tweeted, ” I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter because that is what free speech means.”
But a lot (and we mean a lot) of “open-minded” citizens see it differently and came to Twitter and TV to tell us as much. Even the ones that announced that they were packing their Tesla and moving to Canada if Donald Trump won had something to say.
Let’s start with the esteemed senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren. “This deal is dangerous for our democracy. Billionaires like Musk play by a different set of rules than everyone else, accumulating power for their own gain. We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold big tech accountable.”
There is so much to unpack in that statement. Was she speaking about herself? If Elizabeth Warren identified as a man her pro(per) nouns would be Bernie and Sanders, but we digress.
News flash, free speech isn’t dangerous to our democracy. See the very First Amendment for confirmation.
What some try to define as hate speech is indeed free speech. You might hate what they say, but it’s their right to say it. It’s just like burning an American flag. You might hate seeing someone do so, but it’s been judicially ruled and subsequently upheld as freedom of expression.
Former Presidential Democratic “want to be” nominee Howard Dean tweeted that he was out.
Thousands commented back that they were as well. The irony of using the platform to boldly announce that you’re leaving the platform is palpable.
None other than former VP Dan Quayle jumped in and tweeted, “at least seven people will miss you!” Hateful. True. Quayle even spelled seven correctly!
Well, maybe the next stop for Dean is CNN+. Come to think of it, it’s been a really bad run for those that lean left.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki, “The president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, and has long argued that they must be held accountable for the harms that they cause.” Likely he’s just been too busy to tackle this cause just yet. After he fixes the harm caused by Russia and inflation though, lookout.
A study by The Center for Responsive Politics of political donations for the midterms by corporate employees, and published by Vox shows that 98.7% of the money donated went to the Democratic party from Twitter employees.
Want more? Netflix 99.6%. Apple 97.5%. Google 96.0%. Facebook 94.5%. You can see why Biden is concerned, can’t you?
People who have preached that men can get pregnant are now concerned with misinformation on Twitter. How timely? How noble?
An African American who nearly single-handedly brought electric cars to the market to save the planet is now the bad guy for wanting free speech to truly be free.
Only in America could all of this happen concurrently.
After all, it’s the land of the “free” and the home of the “brave,” depending on whom you ask of course.