Posted on 04/28/2022 5:43:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Enjoy these 100 facts that censorious Democrats might not like but a free-speech Twitter should let people tweet.
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It’s only been a couple of days since Elon Musk officially took the Twitter reins completely, and already notable conservative accounts are seeing a remarkable spike in followers. But there’s a long road ahead if Musk wants to make the website a haven for free speech, starting with reinstating the account of the 45th president and releasing Federalist Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson from Twitter jail.
“Free speech haven” appears to be precisely Musk’s goal, though, so we have hope things will keep looking up. Here’s to no more “hateful content” warnings for pointing out the Y chromosome or saying the 2020 election wasn’t perfect.
To that end, I’ve compiled 100 facts that censorious Democrats might not like but Musk-owned Twitter should let people tweet.
1. Boys and girls are different.
2. Ivermectin works.
3. Cloth masks aren’t effective.
4. Lockdowns caused more harm than good.
5. Hunter Biden’s laptop is real.
6. Black Lives Matter is a grift.
7. Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s sketchy foreign business.
8. Rachel Levine is a man.
9. The 2020 election was rigged.
10. People who teach gender identity to kindergarteners are groomers.
11. Preborn children are living humans.
12. “Gender affirmation” is child abuse.
13. AR-15s aren’t assault weapons.
14. Shotguns kick harder than semi-automatic rifles.
15. Gas prices are Joe Biden’s fault.
16. Inflation isn’t Vladimir Putin’s fault.
17. Covid vaccines don’t keep you from getting the WuFlu.
18. Covid vaccines don’t keep you from spreading the WuFlu.
19. Covid vaccines were a success of the Trump administration.
20. Peaceful protests aren’t fiery.
21. Donald Trump didn’t collude with Russia.
22. Barack Obama spied on the Trump campaign.
23. Covid probably escaped from a lab.
24. Communist China is committing genocide.
25. Roe v. Wade is bad case law.
26. College is overrated.
27. “Government-funded” means taxpayer-funded.
28. The world is not ending from climate change in the next decade.
29. Clean energy isn’t clean.
30. Fauci lied. People died.
31. Murdering babies in utero isn’t “eradicating” Down syndrome.
32. “Latinx” is not a real word.
33. The 1619 Project is historically inaccurate.
34. Drag Queen Story Hour is not a blessing of liberty.
35. Stacey Abrams has never been governor of Georgia.
36. Donald Trump never incited an insurrection.
37. “Mainstream” doesn’t define the corporate press.
38. Children have a right to a mother and a father.
39. Jack Phillips did nothing wrong.
40. Trans policies are hurting women.
41. Critical race theory is ideological poison.
42. Public schools are corrupted by critical race theory.
43. Conservative parents aren’t “domestic terrorists.”
44. Transition regret is real.
45. Paper straws suck.
46. Minimum wage isn’t supposed to be a “living wage.”
47. Obesity shouldn’t be celebrated.
48. The United States should not go to war with Russia.
49. Joe Biden is a plagiarist.
50. Declaring a no-fly zone over Ukraine would be declaring war on Russia.
51. Abortion isn’t health care.
52. Wrong-sex hormones aren’t health care.
53. Covid is no longer an emergency.
54. Jobs recovered after government-induced lockdowns aren’t “new jobs.”
55. Mask mandates didn’t work.
56. Vaccine mandates didn’t work.
57. Parents should have a say in what their children learn in taxpayer-funded schools.
58. Brett Kavanaugh isn’t a gang rapist.
59. You can define “woman” without being a biologist.
60. Taylor Lorenz is a doxxer.
61. Satire isn’t hate speech.
62. Common Core is a failure.
63. The deep state is real.
64. “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” was a lie.
65. Strong borders matter.
66. The Jan. 6 Committee is a sham.
67. The first impeachment of Donald Trump was a sham.
68. The second impeachment of Donald Trump was a sham.
69. Censorship by non-state actors is still censorship.
70. Pornographic books are not appropriate for elementary schoolers.
71. Hatred for white people based on their skin color is racism.
72. Children don’t need smartphones.
73. Masculinity isn’t toxic.
74. Feminism lied to women.
75. Student loan forgiveness advantages high-earning doctors and lawyers most.
76. Disney hates your values.
77. Joe Biden wrecked the economy.
78. Joe Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was deadly.
79. Careers don’t bring women more happiness than motherhood.
80. Ketanji Brown Jackson went soft on child porn offenders.
81. Hunter Biden lied on a federal background check form to illegally buy a gun.
82. Trans bathroom policies put girls in danger.
83. Jan. 6 rioters didn’t kill anyone.
84. Black Lives Matter rioters killed dozens of people.
85. Florida’s Parental Right in Education Law still allows people to “say gay.”
86. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home policies killed people.
87. Silence isn’t violence.
88. Speech isn’t violence.
89. Border Patrol agents didn’t whip migrants.
90. Joe Biden hasn’t apologized for lying that they did.
91. Lia Thomas is a man.
92. Rochelle Walensky colluded with teachers unions to keep schools closed.
93. Children have never been at significant risk of death from Covid-19.
94. This inflation isn’t transitory.
95. Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee funded the Steele dossier.
96. The Steele dossier was bogus.
97. Rep. Eric Swalwell hasn’t denied sleeping with a Chinese spy.
98. Biden’s director of the Bureau of Land Management is an eco-terrorist.
99. Mark Zuckerberg paid to staff government elections offices with Democrats.
100. The corporate media are fake news.
Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter @kyleezempel.
107 - Kneeling during the National Anthem is disrespectful and anti-American.
“Musk doesn’t control Twitter. Bezos could come in and outbid him. He won’t because Twitter isn’t worth 44 billion”
So you’re a better businessman (or woman) than Elon Musk?
James Earl Jones in the 1982 Conan the Barbarian film.
He played an excellent Thulsa Doom.
He did. I really enjoyed the movie, especially as a kid.
That and Road Warrior were my favorites.
Twitter is not worth 44 billion.
It is entirely possible that IF Musk doesn’t have a secret hidden agenda (like with Starlink) that he may end up in a master troll move. Expose twitter and bail. Either by paying the billion dollar penalty or finding something to kill the deal.
My point is that so many people in the media AND HERE...don’t get that Musk isn’t in control yet and a myriad of things could go wrong..INCLUDING Twitter invoking the disparagement clause. Musk is pushing the boundaries on that one. Probably intentionally.
If Libs are so opposeD to Musk they can join together and outbid him. HE DOES NOT OWN TWITTER YET.
101. White Supremacy is not the #1 threat to the Homeland.
102. Doctors who use “Gendering affirming” drugs or surgery are criminals in the same league as Dr. Mengele.
103. All cultures are not equal.
I’m sure that we can also come up with dozens more things that should be openly talked about, and not just on Twitter.
It isnt hard to outbid Musk. You just have to be willing to do it. Find the financing. Get the people together.
Musk was pretty clear he wasn’t going to get into a bidding war.
So if the libs want twitter they can have it. Just get the big dogs together. The problem is that Twitter isn’t worth 44 billion and they probably don’t want to spend their money to buy it.
Musk thinks it is.
7 other investment firms think it is.
Maybe Twitter isn’t in its current state, but Musk is a visionary. He looks forward.
Musk put up $21 billion, the remainder are independent loans.
I’m well aware things are not completed yet.
Capital letters don’t prove your point.
I don’t think so. He is more worried about where he is going to yacht to next with his girlfriend.
Musk put out a bid that was higher than the current stock price. It doesn’t mean he thinks it’s worth that amount.
It’s the amount that forced the Board’s hand to go from Poison Pill to being worried about DeSantis and others suing.
Why is Musk risking an invocation of the disparagement clause?
I am not so sure he is going to buy Twitter. He can accomplish a lot without buying.
We will see what ends up happening but is nowhere near even a 90 percent chance this is a done deal.
It could blow up after he gets access to critical info.
107. Vaccines are synthetic snake venom peptides.
For everyone that is spouting that twitter is worth 44 billion just step back and think about this for a minute.
Libs are in a panic over Musk buying Twitter.
Twitter adopted a poison pill strategy to prevent Musk from getting his hands on it.
They tried to find a White Knight to save them from shareholder lawsuits...like from DeSantis . NO ONE..and I mean NO ONE wants Twitter at 44 billion plus one dollar...even when libs are in a panic they can’t find a White Knight for it.
So SOLD to the highest bidder that they hate and are traumatized over.
It’s not worth 44 billion. Maybe Musk has a plan..maybe it’s a troll..or maybe he doesn’t care about 44 billion. Who knows. He is eccentric.
Whatever the case..so far...no wants this company at 44 billion but Musk
And the key is, Twitter would be worth 44 billion, and perhaps more, if they hadn’t been restricting free speech which caused many people to stop using it.
Their editorial policies are what caused their company’s valuation to be low enough that no one was willing to outbid Musk for it.
how many subscriptions do you have to sell at what price over how many users over what time frame to recoup your 44 billion with no ads.
Musk is eccentric enough to waste 44 billion to free speechify twitter and lose his money.
Just not sure that is really what’s happening. Hidden agenda.
The whole kneeling thing was a cynical co-option of a traditional lowkey but decidedly Christian reaction on the part of coaches and players during a game or at a practice to a situation in which a player was apparently hurt, was laying on the ground, and was receiving emergency medical attention, a prayerlike posture demonstrating collective concern about the player’s welfare and a recognition and respect for the things that are really important in life (e.g., good health, demonstrating empathy etc.).
He seems to have already said he doesn’t care as much about the overall economics of the deal so much as the positive impact he sees it as having upon the health if in free speech in the U.S. (and presumably elsewhere as well).
Nobody disputes that Twitter is overvalued at 44 billion. Every financial analyst I've heard concluded Twitter was a dying platform before Musk showed any interest.
What you are unwilling to accept in your arguments is that Musk submitted his bid with complete understanding of Twitters slow slide into financial oblivion.
When Musk was told by the naysayers buying Twitter was no way to make money his reply was, But yeah, I don't care about the economics at all.”.
If Libs are so opposed to Musk they can join together and outbid him. HE DOES NOT OWN TWITTER YET.
Lots of investment firms have already looked at Twitter's financials. All of them passed because they care about the economics. Libs are very opposed to Musk but you are asking them to lose their money to make a political statement for nothing in return if they were successful. I think they would prefer to lose a lot less by donating to the DNC and getting something later. At this point any attempt to stop Musk by Twitter would probably lead to legal action against them by their shareholders led by Musk. 38% ROI wins a lot of arguments.
Charles Gasparino nailed it. Suggest you read this
nypost.com/2022/04/23/elon-musk-in-battle-to-slay-twitter-naysayers/
So...not worth 44 billion....it will be hard to recoup his 44 billion unless he has a hidden agenda..which he might.
I honestly do not believe this is a “let me lose 25 billion dollars just to free Twitter”. Something else is at play.
But he is eccentric enough to be willing to lose his whole stash..it just doesn’t seem likely.
And there is quite the possibility that this deal never goes through. I put it at 60/40 at the moment that he will pull the trigger with about a 20% chance that the disparagement clause comes into play.
If and/or when the deal is successfully closed I would expect nothing but a serious effort to record a profit on Twitter's balance sheet by Musk within an agreed upon time-frame.
We will know soon enough if the deal is a fait accompli. Lots of info on terms of the deal at Tech Crunch.
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