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New Irregular co-host Molly Jong-Quick continues to be confused by Elon Musk’s want to purchase Twitter and turn out to be its CEO, however she and Media Issues President and CEO Angelo Carusone got here up with a idea on Tuesday’s episode: He desires to make the right-wing trolls who're good to him pleased.
“Worship is a powerful phrase, however there’s slightly little bit of like a fetishization. They usually hype him,” says Carusone. “I imply, they've been interesting to him to purchase a social media platform for a few 12 months and a half now, possibly slightly longer, and he’s always dabbled with it. However the concept they run to him to kind of as, like slightly little bit of a savior is part of it. As a result of when he says free speech, what the viewers that offers him essentially the most engagement and optimistic suggestions hears is just not free speech. They hear free-for-all.”
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She agrees: “Lots of these guys are fairly good at being good and sucking up they usually’ve been doing that. I believe Elon’s like very, very wealthy, however fairly insecure, and so he’s fairly proud of that.”
Carusone additionally breaks down Tucker Carlson’s “pleased” response to the New York Occasions’ items detailing his evolution right into a white nationalist mouthpiece.
“He’s a monster. And but his life is sort of unhappy and I don’t suppose it portrays him in the way in which that I believe he would wish to be portrayed,” he says.
Talking of Tucker, TNA co-host Andy Levy has a reasonably in-depth rationalization for why Tucker Carlson does what he does.
Plus! Robin Marty, communications director for the West Alabama Ladies’s Heart, makes predictions on what’s subsequent relating to abortion bans: plenty of felony expenses.
“There isn't a higher solution to goal all of the folks that you're most frightened of gaining access to vote than saying, ‘OK, let's make abortion and abortion entry a felony,’” she says.
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