Elon Musk's far-right Twitter gamble backfires
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 27 November 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk makes a new Twitter gamble. Brian interviews FOX LA anchor Elex Michaelson about the Ron DeSantis-Donald Trump feud, whether another round of investigations by Republicans will help or hurt their chances in 2024, and a postmortem on the Karen Bass-Rick Caruso LA mayoral race. And the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, Ben Wikler, joins to discuss the midterm results in Wisconsin, how other states can build out a party infrastructure like WisDems, and what happened in the Ron Johnson race.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, we're going to talk about Elon Musk's latest Twitter gamble and how it's shaking |
| 0:04.4 | out. |
| 0:05.4 | I interview Fox LA anchor Alex Michael sent about the Ron DeSantis Donald Trump feud, whether |
| 0:09.0 | another round of investigations by Republicans will help or hurt their chances in 2024, |
| 0:13.6 | and a postmortem on the Karen Bass Recruso LA mayoral race. |
| 0:16.5 | And I'm joined by the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Ben Wickler, who discusses |
| 0:20.2 | the midterm results in his state, how other states can build out a party infrastructure |
| 0:23.6 | like the Wisconsin Democrats, and what happened in the Ron Johnson Senate race. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm Brian Taylor Cohen and you're listening to No Lie. |
| 0:32.6 | So I've kind of been ignoring the Elon Musk of it all these last couple months because |
| 0:36.1 | I always felt that it was a little too inside baseball, a little too online. |
| 0:39.4 | And I'm online, I'm pretty disgusting amount of time because I have to for work, which |
| 0:44.9 | is half honest and half me just covering for the fact that I'm addicted to being online. |
| 0:49.2 | But one of the biggest talking points on Twitter about Twitter is that Twitter isn't real |
| 0:53.4 | life. |
| 0:54.4 | I never wanted to show it just be this little bubble where only the people who understand |
| 0:58.2 | what I'm talking about are the people who spend 12 hours a day on that app. |
| 1:02.4 | But I broke this week and decided to talk about Elon and Twitter because what's happening |
| 1:06.5 | is a microcosm of what's happening on the right more broadly. |
| 1:09.4 | And that is this embraced by the right wing gatekeepers of anti-Semitism, racism of white |
| 1:14.5 | supremacy, authoritarianism, and violence. |
| 1:17.8 | This past week Trump had dinner with Kanye West, whose latest screed was vowing to go |
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