Let me see if I have this straight.
Elon Musk fires a dude who's owed $100 million if he gets fired. In the process of firing him, Elon revealed and insulted the man's private medical condition, exposing Twitter to a simply massive lawsuit.
And people still think he's a genius.
Americans by and large don't understand how transformative high speed rail would be. There's a direct train from Barcelona, Spain to Paris, France. It takes 6 hours, tops out at almost 200 mph, and costs $40.
Not $400. $40.
That's like NYC to Columbus for the price of a meal.
Before Elon, Twitter was unmatched for major breaking news by any outlet on Earth. Updates from locals were up to the second. Journalists and policy experts were verified and their insights were boosted by the algorithm to maximize their audience. Network news chased Twitter. 1/
Hillary had a bad cold and the media was fitting her for a coffin.
Trump is rushed to Walter Reed on a Saturday, transparently lies about why, then cancels all his events by 9am on Sunday and no one's talking about his health.
This is what institutional misogyny looks like.
GOP: We want a government built on Biblical values.
Dems: Woot! We're feeding the poor!
GOP: Wait.
Dems: Healing the sick up in this motherfucker!
GOP: No, not like that.
Dems: [Grabs the mic] ALL LOANS FORGIVEN AFTER SEVEN YEARS.
GOP: oh no...
Whenever abortion comes up, I have a question I've been asking for ten years now of the "Life begins at Conception" crowd. In ten years, no one has EVER answered it honestly. 1/
You watched a generation grow up on a diet of Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Marvel movies, you stripped away their hope, their jobs, their futures, and then backed the most cartoonish super-villain in history for President, and you're shocked the children are fighting back?
Whenever I see someone wearing a mask in public now, I have three thoughts:
1. They're sick and protecting me.
2. They're sick and protecting themselves.
3. They're perfectly healthy but protecting someone they love who is sick.
And in none of those scenarios is it my business.
Thread time. Here's the thing about
@tesla
. It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits.
Let me explain. Back in 2012, the EPA put out new, strident emissions standards for new vehicles fleetwide. 1/
-Anthony Weiner: Rejected by dems. Removed from office. Jailed
-Harvey Weinstein: Condemned by dems. Fired from own company. Possible charges
-Louis CK: Roundly attacked. Movie cancelled
-Roy Moore: Still up for election
-Trump: Still in the White House
That's the difference.
Since Trump took credit for no airline deaths last year, he must also take blame for the spike in coal mining deaths (where he actually rolled back safety and environmental regs).
Now, at a geopolitical inflection not seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall, all that is gone. Updates are delayed, scattered, and unreliable. "Verified" accounts are just every slack-jawed yahoo with $8 to burn and no professional or reputational incentives for accuracy. 2/
Elon has been obsessed with calling everything "X," Space X, Model X, X AE A-12, now just X, ever since the rest of the PayPal owners told him it was a stupid name. He's going to erase a globally recognized, culturally impactful brand because he was told "No" 25yrs ago.
Moron.
There's a strange belief among older generations that being an adult means you're supposed to slam the door shut on fun and enjoyment at age 18 and turn straight to alcohol-fueled cynicism. You know, like they did.
Gun owner here. There are things we can do, right now, today, to drastically curb gun violence without infringing anyone's 2nd amendment rights. Universal Background Checks have staggering support, even among gun owners. Red Flag laws. Data sharing between agencies. 1/
Which is exactly what Musk and his Authoritarian financial backers wanted. Not to .are Twitter even more reliable, trusted, and useful.
To destroy its ability to disrupt their propaganda, spread real news in real time, and to organize against them.
Mission accomplished. 3/3
First they came for Alex Jones, and I said nothing because the entire point of that poem was a warning against letting fascist assholes like him have a voice in the first place.
To remind everyone, January 6th wasn't Trump's Plan A. It wasn't even Plan B.
Plan A was to steal the 2020 election with Putin's help, just as he'd done in 2016. Blackmailing Ukraine for dirt on Biden was part of that effort.
But it didn't work twice. 1/
This whole "White voters are confused by a rapidly changing world" narrative is bullshit.
What's so fucking confusing? There's some brown people in the neighborhood now and some of the wedding cakes have two dudes on the top. Done. How is this too much for adults to process?
If you're just tuning in, 40,000 Americans in Moore County, NC, are without power and many without water today after domestic terrorists coordinated simultaneous attacks on three electrical substations.
The reason for this attack was to stop an 18+ drag show.
I'm not going to wish Mitch McConnell ill. But I am going to point out a man who has worked tirelessly to deny affordable health insurance to tens of millions of Americans will now receive the best medical care in the world on the taxpayers' dime.
They will never answer honestly, because we all instinctively understand the right answer is "A." A human child is worth more than a thousand embryos. Or ten thousand. Or a million. Because they are not the same, not morally, not ethically, not biologically. 6/
Reminder that Trump will receive the best healthcare available anywhere in the world, for a pandemic he caused, while he is trying to strip health insurance away from 20 million Americans, among 211,000 dead and growing.
They are lying to you to try and evoke an emotional response, a paternal response, using false-equivalency.
No one believes life begins at conception. No one believes embryos are babies, or children. Those who cliam to are trying to manipulate you so they can control women. 8/
@DavidRo14403980
He's not a genius in either of those fields, either. In business, he overpaid for this bird app by something like $30 billion and has since driven away more than 40% of its revenue.
Because he's an idiot.
The most alarming thing to me about living through an illegitimate proto-fascist coup of American democracy is how mundane it is.
I still have to pay rent on time. There's still baseball on TV.
But everything is... wrong. Like an Instagram filter over every second of every day.
The consensus that a Democratic nominee for President has to be completely free of baggage or controversy after spending years in public service, while the GOP can nominate a man accused of serial child rape, is the worst, laziest, most damaging kind of false-equivalency.
It's funny how Jim Jordan expects Peter Strzok to have perfect recollection of email conversations when he can't remember dozens of boys being sexually assaulted while he watched.
Panasonic has turned down a second multi-million dollar deal to open a battery plant in Oklahoma. This marks the third company to stray away from the state, as lawmakers work to figure out why Oklahoma can’t land these large deals.
Been losing followers in direct proportion to saying true things about Bernie lately. Sorry kids, ignoring them won't make them go away.
Here's my concerns about Bernie:
-He's unvetted in a national election. Yes, really. In 2016 the GOP left him untouched because he was... 1/
This question absolutely evicerates their arguments, and their refusal to answer confirms that they know it to be true.
No one, anywhere, actually believes an embryo is equivalent to a child. That person does not exist. They are lying to you. 7/
Nazis: We demand a pure white ethnostate. The blood of the impure will run the rivers red until the cleansing is complete.
Everyone else: I should punch you in the face.
Nazis: Whoa, what's with violent threats over a difference of opinion? You're the real Nazis.
If we can automatically register 18 yr olds for a military draft we haven't used in more than 40 years, I think we can automatically register them to vote in elections that happen every other year.
No.
No Trump.
No The Rock.
No Oprah.
Just, fuck no.
Experienced. Politician.
Want a woman of color? Awesome. I'm right there with you.
Tammy Duckworth is a combat veteran, double amputee, US congresswoman.
Kamala Harris is a multi-racial, former prosecutor, US senator.
And they do. In Q1 of last year, Tesla's entire profit came from selling half a billion dollars of carbon credits to other carmakers.
Which hey, good for them, but in reality it means driving and owning a Tesla hasn't actually reduced global emissions at all. 6/
The people who laughed when we said they had to vote for Hillary or we would lose Roe are now laughing when we say they have to vote for Biden or we'll lose literally everything.
My following has demanded my story about 1,000 baby praying mantises. So, here we go. About fifteen years ago, I lived in Tampa Bay. If you've ever been, you know it's hot, humid, and grows bugs big enough to mug you for drug money. 1/
This man was killed in a shoot out today as the FBI tried to arrest him for threatening President Biden hours before he visited UT.
He's already being labeled a "lone wolf" by media.
He was not. He was part of an extensive network of people radicalized by rightwing propaganda.
Thank you to everyone in the comments twisting in the wind to find a way to avoid answering the question, just as I said you would. Your help proving my point is greatly appreciated.
Elon Musk pushed the "Hyperloop" scam to kill the momentum for high-speed rail in California, the largest domestic market for Tesla.
He never intended to build it. He just wanted to kill investment in public transit so people kept buying his curb jumping exploding cars.
As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to admit that the Hyperloop was never meant to be built.
Its goal was never to transform transportation for the masses, but to stop or delay high-speed rail from reaching North America. And sadly, it succeeded.
Fun fact: None of the previous men barred from office under the 14th Ammendment were convicted of anything. Disqualification from office is not a criminal penalty, and does not require a criminal conviction under the Constitution as a matter of law and 150+ years of precedent.
Really? You followed the damned script to a T. You pumped up millions of kids, for two decades, to believe they and their friends could make a difference. Then you thrust them all into a dystopian nightmare of violence and persecution.
And NOW you're shocked they're all Katniss?
Don't let them. Use this question to call them out. Reveal them for what they are. Demand they answer your question, and when they don't, slap that big ol' Scarlet P of the Patriarchy on them. The end. 9/9
Do you A) save the child, or B) save the thousand embryos? There is no "C." "C" means you all die.
In a decade of arguing with anti-abortion people about the definition of human life, I have never gotten a single straight A or B answer to this question. And I never will. 5/
A hand primer to contemporary dog whistles:
-Globalists = Jews
-Deep State = Rule of Law
-Voter Fraud = Black people voting
-Economic anxiety = Racist hillbillies
-Thoughts and Prayers = Go fuck yourself
@vanguard_pod
Reminder that when GOP lawyers working for DeSantis were forced to define "Woke" in a court of law, under oath, their definition boiled down to "The belief discrimination exists in America, and should be addressed."
Because a lot of people are missing the point, it is not being argued the embryos are not alive. Nor is it being argued they are without value.
All that is being demonstrated is their value is not equal to that of a human child.
That's it. That's the point.
So hey, buy a car that hasn't actually helped the environment, might catch fire, can't open the rear doors if it does, and funds a cut-rate Bond villain trying to turn Twitter into a Nazi toilet if you want.
Just know what it is you're actually buying. 11/11
@GOP
A Nazi won the GOP primary in IL.
@SteveKingIA
keeps quoting Nazis and refuses to apologize. You're running concentration camps for children you stole from their parents.
Comparing you to Nazis is entirely appropriate.
A pillow magnate just had his phone seized by the FBI at a Hardee's in connection to a fired reality TV host trying to steal the White House and I'm begging the writers of America: Season 246 to stop drinking for even one day.
@SanicBushpig
@MaliaDArnold
Their storage container is suitable to preserve the embryos indefinitely. It weighs, ironically enough, exactly as much as the 5 yr old child.
A.
Or.
B.
Answer the fucking question, or shut the fuck up.
The people who were SUPER UPSET Hillary Clinton ran a legal, secure server out of her home are now completely silent on Donald Trump letting his son-in-law, who is under FBI investigation for corruption, access thousands of classified documents without a security clearance.
BREAKING — The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote as soon as next week to issue subpoenas as part of its Supreme Court ethics investigation, Chair Durbin announces.
Subpoena targets:
—Harlan Crow
—Leonard Leo
—Robin Arkley II
Significant escalation of Dem-led probe. More TK.
TODAY: Egg producers LIABLE for price fixing scheme, per new verdict by federal jury.
The 2 top egg producers, Cal Maine and Rose Acre, and 2 top industry groups, were raising and fixing egg prices.
Case now moves to a damages phase.
YES, inflation was partly price gouging.
Many in the media misattribute J6th as an isolated act of desperation instead of what it was: The 3rd act of a carefully coordinated conspiracy between a sitting *President, an army of domestic terrorists, and hostile foreign governments that came only 40ft from fruition. 5/5
After watching Madison Cawthorn get wrecked in less than a month by oppo research leaked by other Republicans, I think it's a good time to remind everyone that Putin hacked the RNC's emails in 2016 and can destroy any Republican politician at will.
So, funny story, stop me if you've heard it. Turns out Mueller has been interviewing members of Trump's transition team for months without any of them knowing he'd already seen all their emails.
Hahaha. The joke is they all lied to the FBI and are facing charges.
Just a quick reminder that after failing to remove the US from NATO and losing yet another election, Trump unilaterally removed us from the Open Skies Treaty which allowed for surveillance overflights of Russia that could have given us far better intel of Putin's military buildup
No, Trump has not appealed the NY fraud judgment. He has filed a "Notice of Appeal," which simply signals his intention to appeal. He has not come up with the $400,000,000 bond he needs to put in escrow with NY to actually start an appeal.
Media needs to do better.
From Paris, for another $40 you can take the chunnel train and be in London in less than three hours. You can literally do a daytrip. Wake up in London, pop down to Paris for lunch, some shopping, a museum, and dinner, and be back in London before bedtime.
Got just a whiff of "red-pilled" incel culture today when I called out someone for having an "Age of Consent" map on his meme rapid response list. Peeled the curtain back, really wish I hadn't.
There is something deeply wrong with "men" today. And we've ignored it for too long.
They're in one corner of the room. In the other corner, you spot a frozen container labeled "1000 Viable Human Embryos." The smoke is rising. You start to choke. You know you can grab one or the other, but not both before you succumb to smoke inhalation and die, saving no one. 4/
Because Tesla is basically selling indulgences to other manufacturers so they can continue building and selling fleets of ICE vehicles that don't meet standards, delaying the day the rest of the industry commits to investing in decarbonization. 7/
And you're doing it all without the ridiculous security theater of airports, the growing delays and cancelations, the lost luggage, the climbing costs, or of course the environmental damage.
Planes will always be needed for Intercontinental travel, but really, what are we doing?
@UpOnlyLFG
@DavidRo14403980
I've published half a dozen books and written for multiple national platforms including the NYT three times despite no family industry connections or inherited wealth, sir.
Now fuck all the way off.
This is why I say Tesla isn't a car company.
When you buy a Tesla, you're not the only, or even the primary customer. Actual car companies are. Which would help explain why Teslas are notorious for poor build quality. Their fit and finish is abysmal, and there's so little... 9/