Elon Musk Buying Twitter

America will suffer because of it.
But that is what we have come to expect from somebody who became 293 billion dollars richer due to the pandemic and hasn’t paid taxes on it.

The Democrats will turn to TikTok…

Within an hour of the Twitter Board announcing they had accepted Musk’s offer, the Trumpkopf announced he would not return to Twitter and will post on his own new social media site whose name he couldn’t remember at his motzi shabbos rally in Ohio (He finally referenced it as “Truth Central” which is not its name). While Twitter has made some questionable decisions on postings (aka allowing Iran leadership to continue to threaten EY) it is still the most useful and functional political blog as compared with the garbage on right-wing sites such as Gab, Gettr, etc. Trump himself has only posted ONCE on his own new Twitter alternative site.

With Elon closing in on acquiring all of twitter, how will Democrats deal with losing their biggest and most powerful propaganda weapon?

They’ll attempt to “cancel” Twitter. The leftist media will ignore it, ridicule anyone who uses it, and use all their influence to get people to use a different place for expressing their deranged viewpoints.

Will the Coffee Room condemn Musk if he lets the antisemites run free on Twitter?

Syag: On a serious note, it would be political malpractice for any Dem to “forget” about Trump since he has become the central focus of the Republican party. Even historically “normal” Republicans have now reached the point where they are obligated to assess every word/action in terms of a Trump response. There is no longer any principled approach to policy or voting…just whether or not it will please Trump. I wish more were obsessed with this evolution in our political system and respond as they see appropriate. While Biden is clearly a disappointment to many of us, we truly believe (and thus our “obsession”) that another 4 years of Trump would be an existential issue for our democracy.

There are sensible FCC-regulated limits on cross-ownership by a single entity of a newspaper and television or radio broadcast station operating in the same local market. Social media companies that have overwhelming national coverage like Twitter and Facebook/Instagram should be subjected to similar regulation, unless their lobbyists/PACs are more powerful than the old media ever were, or they get displaced by the next new toy first.

I’d like to think Musk will mitigate pressure for regulation by having a truly non-partisan approach to governance. Kind of like the moderation we have here (cough, cough) ha ha.

“Will the Coffee Room condemn Musk if he lets the antisemites run free on Twitter?”
When only the anti semites are allowed to run free on twitter it is a problem. When everyone is allowed to run free there is nothing to complain about.
My fervent wish is that nobody with any sense of religious morals visits twitter, or any other sight affording them to exposure of things not spiritually healthy, and if they can’t help themselves, then they shouldn’t bring it here.

OCC: Great point on the ill-fated and obsolete FCC guidelines on media holdings/cross-ownership. As we know, those guidelines have proven almost possible to apply in terms of defining the “relevant products” and “relevant markets” (in antitrust jargon) as new modes of communications seem to evolve quicker than economists can categorize them. Does Twitter compete with just other social media
sites or do we throw in computer gaming which now incorporate real time blogging. How about traditional news (Fox, NYT, WSJ and even “The Forward”, which now have online presence and blogging. And of course where do interactive podcasts fit in.
My only point is that no Federal judge would side with the FCC or DOJ/FTC if they tried to block the Musk takeover of Twitter on some vague “market power” issue.

I hear you. I am saying that they will not admit to it. I have NEVER heard anyone but you say that. Listen to the crazy things people are writing. They don’t say that some things are a problem but it’s still wonderful. They don’t even ignore the problems and say it’s still wonderful. They actually list the problems as accomplishments, pretend things never were said or happened etc. I am not here to call out what is fake and what is not, my claim is that dems are NOT listing any disappointments. Zero. They are still living in trumps head, thinking that if they acknowledge any of the real damage, someone may put donald back in office. So they don’t budge. Just listen to the crazy way they spew full sentences of insults towards someone who isn’t even in office anymore anytime Biden is called out. It’s not normal.

And I’m saying that I know you think that, but I disagree. The dem narrative of what Republicans are thinking is about as authentic as my view of kollel life was when I was in bnei akiva.

Guess it doesn’t serve as the public town square in my town.
I polled fellow active members of town government and the party Town Committees. None have active accounts. Some used it in the past but gave up on it because of overload.

Much more going on in the 40 or so town specific Facebook groups. Don’t know many using Instagram, I gave up my account 3 years ago. I used it to follow friends, never posted. The under 25 crowd seems to like Tik Tok, but I have never viewed it, and probably won’t.

Now that government meetings and public hearings in our town are live, I am seeing loads of townspeople I haven’t seen for 2 years. Nothing like sitting over a cup of coffee and discussing the local government, schools, budget, etc

Guess it doesn’t serve as the public town square in my town.

I don’t have a Twitter account. Once in a while I’ll read a “tweet” that’s referenced in a news article.

The issue is whether Twitter has a significant effect on national/state/local elections or governmental decision making, directly or indirectly.

GH and Syag:
We have to differentiate between political figures and the average american. The average republican is over Trump. They appreciated his policies while he was in office but don’t think about him much. The average democrat is obsessed with Trump (don’t know why, GH help me on this)
Political figures are obsessed with Trump on both sides. Democrats want to show how bad he was compared to Biden, how much worse things would have been and how their rival is just like Trump. Republican political figures- some just try not to alienate Trumps base and some are true hard Trump fans.

“In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall law,” Greene texted Meadows, misspelling the word “martial.” “I don’t know on those things. I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else!”
This text was written on January 17th . Eleven days after January 6th.
Republicans are traitors.