strong words. i m going to have to call hyperbole flag. vader was a bad egg. he was murdering people in the black universe. i m calling the hyperbole flag. jay, a repeat guest on the beat. elizabeth, your first time. helping us understand tech. i hope you ll come back. thank you for joining us. thanks for having me. absolutely. appreciate it. coming up, it got worse for this republican center who is accused of pushing the coup and then basically lying about it on the senate floor. we ll explain. we hit the bike trails every weekend shinges doesn t care. i grow all my own vegetables
comenduri and elizabeth nuoskin. elon musk wants a free speech utopia as technologists clap back. jay, we quoted you because of your points about this. what is important for people to understand about this story even if they don t consider themselves techies, they don t have a twitter account but they might care a little bit about democracy? if you care about democracy you must care about this story. twitter is essential to understanding donald trump s rise, donald trump s power, essential to understanding republican power and how they operate and why twitter has always been so central to that. donald trump desperately needs twitter. it s no coincidence, i would argue, that elon musk is doing this after truth social sort of became the hindenburg of social media apps. the need for donald trump to get back on social media is extremely important. he used twitter on a regular
being used, exploited and lied about, but at large what disney is saying is what most americans are saying and it s like what people and desantis and cruz are very upset over. new attacks from the right trying to fire up a very specific part of the right. it s not all republicans. it s not all conservatives. it s a much narrower subset they think they need for a future presidential election, everyone needs to pay the cost, disney with money and a lot of other people with a lot more on the line. let s get to it. i m joined by jay comenduri and lids plank, the author of for the love of men which explores feminism and masculine knit at this. welcome to both of you. thanks, ari. good to be here, ari. good to have you. i can divide this up in a number of ways. i m not going to assign who has
influencers are on it, politicians, it s a fraction of a size as facebook and youtube. google and salesforce has been interested in buying it. you can see in the masters of the universe world conversation buying twitter is a parlor conversation. you have a person who is a master marketer and twitter is a marketing mechanism. wouldn t you want to own it? yeah. yeah. no, you make a very fair set of points. 30 seconds, jay. if he prevails, who benefits in american politics? republicans benefit in american politics. elon musk is doing this because he wants to give donald trump and the gop a more powerful platform than they currently have. he s doing this not because he s daddy war bucks, he s doing this because he s darth vader and twitter is the death star.
to defend pluto against ted cruz s accusations. jay, i cite the numbers because there are other issues, certainly some racial issues where we do see real big divisions in our society, especially when you get to the details of look at the racism in policing. how do you fix it? why disagree? we cover that a lot. what s striking is a lot of americans, a vast majority when asked point blank do you want this discrimination, they say no. what do you want out of the politics coming out of florida and ted cruz? first let me say i would be happy to represent pluto. great dog. very loyal. wonderful. great character, but i do think politically this is a bit of a mystery based on glenn youngkin s victory where he used culture war attacks and based on ron desantis and his pole