Sarah and I met on Twitter, so we had a lot to say about Elon Musk now owning the site.

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Thank you.

And don't forget to vote.

We have elections coming next week. And after those elections, there undoubtedly will be violence.

There's going to be debate, to put it generously. There's going to be mini-vergents of January 6th and of the months beforehand, where, you know, various losers,

and I'll be surprised, honestly, if this happens on the Democratic side, like a, you know,

a claim that they actually won that then leads to violence. I would be surprised

if it led to violence. On the Republican side, they see January 6th as a model. And the only thing

wrong with it is that Trump left. That's the only thing that they don't like about it. So they

want to replicate that because, of course, you know, Mayor Garland didn't punish anybody up at the top.

They feel like they can get away with it.

One of the things that was effective, at least initially,

in showing people how pre-planned and not organic and horrific,

the rolling coup and the attack were in 2020 and 2021 was Twitter.

It's the fact that we were all able to in real time observe it happening and

track when we realized things were happening and announce it to the public.

They wanted to bait people.

They wanted to bait the left into going there on January 6th than having a brawl. But people,

you know, knew that this was the setup. And so they restrained. Like, how did they find out

that information? Often through Twitter. It was at least one key vector. And so what Musk and his

backers seek to do is destroy that nexus of information, the way that people who oppose

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