place. sandra: he came out publicly and said produce more oil. we need to help out the american consumer that is struggling right now, and he owns an he appears to say it like he sees it. i ll let you respond to that, and also put his words on the screen here since he took on this role, soliciting feedback on how he should handle his new rule, saying given that twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles undermine democracy. what should be done? i ll let you respond. i would say the one thing, and i don t know elon musk, never met him, i would say he has cultivated this persona of independence, of being a free thinker, and that used to be what intellectuals respected. used to be that people in the left or the right, but people of ideas respected ideas. if you were willing to state your ideas and defend them, but didn t we become more and more
he started his own competing enterprise now, i have a feeling he might not come back even if invited. sandra: is this the big win for free speech that conservatives are touting? i think it is a win. how big it will be will be determined in the future. but we need more competition. i m competing with twitter also. i have liberty tree.com, i m a little smaller than twitter but everybody should compete. rumble.com is competing with youtube. more competition, the freer the speech will be, the more ideas, the more speech, the better. sandra: it is amazing when you think how it has changed politics, social media, not just social media but specifically twitter. the way the former president used it like no other president before him did, how it s being used now, senator, final thoughts. and some is clever and funny. we retweeted a woman who said about putting masks on toddlers in new york, why don t we put stickers on them that says covid be gone, that would be just as
house. mike: to the point you make, if his popularity were transferable, wouldn t we have a president hillary clinton and governor mcauliffe down the willis? and you say how much can that make a difference. it s a speech, he s going to talk about obamacare, affordable care act and talk about what this administration can do as opposed to republicans. but there s not a lot as far as policy or changing what inflation looks like, or changing what people feel like at their kitchen table that president can do. sandra: it makes you wonder, and now the interference that the media was running for the hunter biden story, what that looks like in the month to come as we inch closer to the midterm elections. i think we will see more as it s a drip-drip investigation and more focus on this as there is a feeling something is happening legally, perhaps some of these stories are happening because there may be some action to come.
obviously, surfacing around the world, and i think for all of his description today at the u.n., really almost like a horror film, if you listen to some of the details, it s worse, according to them, inside the city of mariupol in the south. so, we are coming to grips with how horrific this is, a lot of it s on television but some is not, and as more and more of these images get out for the world, i think you will see more and more countries trying to do other things outside of what they have done already, and that may include the united states. mike: bret, no doubt zelenskyy is a very compelling speaker, speaking today at the u.n. but russia has veto power at the united nations. does it change anything there? that s a great question and i think he said that today, mike, to give russia that in the speech today is something that he feels akin to the world turning its back on ukraine. so very stark kind of messaging
on the board. well you know, my hope is it brings a new ethos to the company. this is a company where the c.e.o. not too many months ago said oh, the first amendment does not apply to us, and technically it s true, it does not prevent twitter from regulating or censoring speech, also just the idea of whether freedom of speech, whether open, liberal debate is a good or bad thing and i think that s where many liberals mistake this. they discover it does not apply to private individuals and private companies, that s right, but i think elon musk is a voice out there saying yeah, we need more freedom of speech and it s a good idea to have more freedom of speech. we have seen some on the left wigging out and saying they are leaving twitter if elon musk is coming, i say good riddens. if the left wing crazies trying to censor speech, it s a better