Elon Musk and Ted Cruz Walk Into A Beer Hall
On Twitter and in West Virginia, MAGA fascists and billionaire robber barons continue their concerted attack on America's fragile democracy.
Two stories today, involving a pair of far right billionaire assholes and a pair of Senate stooges, don’t bode well for America’s liberal democracy.
If you’re reading this you’re probably familiar with the Pulitzer worthy Twitter Files brought to you by brave millionaire scribes Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk selectively served Taibbi and Weiss just what he wanted them to propagandize about purported collusion between Democrats and Twitter. Then Musk, the best case for why abortion should be legal, ordered Taibbi to post the story on Twitter even though Taibbi wanted to publish it on his Substack.
Musk’s writers contend Democrats attacked free elections by requesting that the dick pics of Joe Biden’s fucked up son be removed by Twitter on the eve of the 2020 election. Last year Musk also suggested Twitter interfered in Brazil’s election on behalf of left wing victor Lula who defeated fascist Bolsonaro.
Had everybody been allowed to look at dick pics on Twitter, MAGA claims, Trump would’ve beat Sleepy Joe in 2020. As a result, Musk’s writers want you to be appalled by Democrats’s contact with Twitter. However, we don’t know if they want us to be upset by the fact that Donald Trump—then serving as the world’s most powerful political actor—actually leaned on Twitter to take down a Tweet that called him a pussy ass bitch.
Naturally, one would think, Musk’s writers might be enraged by Senator Ted Cruz’s boasting on the network owned by another billionaire asshole, Rupert Murdoch—the worst immigrant America ever allowed in. Behold:
Meanwhile, in West Virginia—a very poor state ruled by MAGA extremists—a brazen attack on one of the state’s last remaining local news outlets unfolds. Republican Governor Jim Justice is a corrupt billionaire and coal baron, just like the state’s equally loathsome Senator, Democrat Joe Manchin.
Anyway, after one of the state’s last remaining local news outlets—West Virginia Public Radio—aired stories by reporter Amelia Knisely, which exposed rampant abuse of poor folks in state hospitals, Justice instructed the station’s boss to fire Knisely. And Knisely was terminated.
According to NPR, Justice came close to shuttering West Virginia Public Radio, following his seizing the governor’s office, due to the station’s reporting that revealed Justice’s companies owed millions in fines for mine safety violations that put the lives of workers at risk.
Public outcry forced Justice to back down so he did the next best thing: put his far right puppets on the board of West Virginia Public Radio.
If this all sounds familiar it should because the play book isn’t new. Fascists seek to undermine liberal democracy by lying about stolen elections.
What’s more, anti freedom thugs often dismantle free press too—especially if the media holds elites accountable for their theft. For example, Hungary’s pudgy corrupt despot/American conservative hero, Victor Orban, molested the country’s news media on way to securing control.
Far right billionaire assholes and their lapdogs are steadily molesting America.