to keep elon musk at bay. first, twitter is enlisting the help of corporate media. corporate media stands to lose at least as much as the democratic party will lose if twitter is liberated. competition is terrible for the mediocre and the illegitimate. so msnbc understands this intuitively even they were the first to answer the call. what did they do? you know exactly what they did. they did what they always do. they called elon musk a racist. watch. fear not, right-wingers. another fascist is waiting in the wing to sean: bile online and that s coming up next. he is building at tesla a document only racist company that perhaps reminds him, give some nostalgic memories of the apartheid south africa where he grew up. he is more than that. an embodiment of what i would say is twitter s biggest strategic problem which is a hostile, cruel, dangerous online environment especially for
elon musk could enlist the public, the pro-free-speech public in his hostile takeover of twitter so anyone who is against censorship could buy twitter stock and then pledge his or her proxy votes to elon musk and that would give him control of the company and the company would be free and that would also be the single most revolutionary event ever to take place in the history of finance. it would be pretty thrilling to watch and it might work. our guest has thought a lot about what elon musk should do to save this nation s public discourse. he edits a website. thank you for coming on. what you think elon musk will do? what should he do? first of all i think he needs to understand exactly what he s getting into. he is stepping into the war zone in a way that he might not even be able to imagine at this point. as you point out, the entire regime depends on holding a
we could see a return of free speech to the united states and nothing should give you more hope than that possibility of free twitter would mean an open debate about ideas on the single most important incubator of elite opinion in the world. it would mean a return to free and fair elections in the united states, a system in which both sides are allowed to make their case to the public and then the public can decide it s called democracy and above all, a free twitter would mean a direct challenge to the people in charge of our country s institutions, many of whom are incompetent for the first time in years we will be able to talk honestly about our leaders . we ll be able to have the kind of conversations that make democracy possible. we can t have those conversations now and there s a reason for it. the point of censorship is never to shield the weak no matter what barack obama may tell you the point of censorship always and everywhere is to protect entrenched power. that s why it s th
but it turns out there s no hiding the price of meat and gas. the value of the dollar has dropped off a cliff even as the value of the russian ruble is rising. so ponder that for a moment and chuckle bitterly to yourself. and then in new york city this morning, sixteen people were shot on the subway in brooklyn by some lunatic wearing a hoodie and yet somehow none of the many surveillance cameras in the subway station happen to be working at the time. so the guy got away. we do know he was not a white supremacist who are begging the media are not going to dwell on this. there s nothing to gain from covering this particular atrocity, just another mass shooting in a big city. it s also but mayhem and economic decline are not for once. but we are opening the show with tonight. no, we have genuinely good news and here it is. it looks possible that elon musk will seize control of twitter and end censorship on that platform. now why should you care about that ? it s like a tech story, right?
0 protect yourself. identity theft protection starts here at liveblog .com. serious dangers to your breathing. give up your most ultra pure steam inhaler. it turns destroyed just pure effective steam happy sinuses blow breathing again my poor must do it. good evening and welcome to tucker carlson . tonight has there been look back a single 24 hour period since joe biden became the president when you haven t been horrified by something you saw on the news? probably not. the cascade of absurdities has been relentless. it s like nothing any american has ever seen. and today we re sad to say it was especially depressing. inflation hit another record high and that s according to the cook government statistics our leaders have devised to hide inflation. but it turns out there s no hiding the price of meat and gas. the value of the dollar has dropped off a cliff even as the value of the russian ruble is rising. so ponder that for a moment and chuckle bitterly to yourself. and then in new york