The authoritarian government of Turkish President Recep Erdogan, a man of notoriously manipulative and unstable disposition intent on recreating the Ottoman empire, demanded that in advance of their elections Twitter remove the voice of the opposition party. Elon Musk complied:
This decision is interesting because it shows that despite his questions about the need to defend democracy and free speech, Twitter owner Elon Musk is willing to support the removal of opposition political parties during elections.
Musk justifies this decision by saying the choice was between shutting down a political viewpoint or shutting down all of Turkish Twitter access. Musk chose to simply eliminate one set of voices in opposition to the existing government in Turkey.
When Rumble was faced with a similar threat from France, Rumble stood with the principle of freedom and refused to block content the administration of Emmanuel Macron did not like. Rumble left France rather than comply with authoritarian censorship demands. Twitter remains operational in Turkey, willing to support the authoritarian censorship demands. An interesting contrast.
I have fielded many calls in the past few days about this seemingly 180° reversal from Elon Musk in his ‘speech’ positions. The hiring of Linda Yaccarino was one massive datapoint that seemed to indicate the priorities of Musk had changed. The acquiescent to Turkish government requests less than 24 hours later is another datapoint.
The general questions all fall in the spectrum of ‘what has changed’?
I will answer here, what I have answered privately.
When I published my thesis on the background of Twitter called Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop, the essential outline contained two basic cornerstones.
First, the United States government was operating to control the information on the Twitter platform with direct access to the content. Second, the USG was subsidizing it.
Two years ago, people thought I was nuts about government control over content. However, in the last several months the information from within Twitter, specifically the Twitter Files outlining the DHS influence and control, has verified exactly the issue CTH noted in the very first outline of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop.
However, it is the second aspect behind the platform that people have yet to recognize. When the fulsome story is told in hindsight, you will see that I am correct.
The second aspect is that Twitter cannot financially exist as a viable communication platform without government subsidy.
As it is currently structured, including the AWS cloud-based services for data processing, the costs associated with handling 30 million active simultaneous users (24/7) exceeds the business model for self-sufficiency. It simply costs too much without ownership of the metal.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), and other cloud-based services (Microsoft etc), are efficient for platforms who do not then need to employ as many engineers to keep the data processing operational; but they are very costly.
Data processing for 30 million simultaneously active users engaging with the platform is extremely expensive. Every engagement feature makes this issue worse. It is simply an issue of scale. Unfortunately, unlike traditional business models, the per user costs do not decrease as the number of simultaneous users increase.
There is no viable business model for a ‘free’ or low-cost user-based platform that requires data processing for this scale of simultaneous users without a massive amount of money to create the actual servers (metal-based operations). A cloud service (AWS) is expensive, and Musk is on the hook for every penny in data processing cost.
There have also been many reports that AWS is technically an endpoint U.S. government operation. Meaning the actual data processing is done by systems attached to U.S. government operations. While staying away from the granular tech on this issue, it remains most likely that government subsidy underpins the ability of Twitter to exist and function as a platform.
The motive behind the public-private partnership is symbiotic and long precedes Musk purchasing the platform.
The evolution of Twitter from a private to a quasi-public institution under the control of DHS took place over a decade. Essentially from 2012 (Arab Spring), and the first requests of the U.S. government for assistance, to the present day. As the public-private partnership relationship grew, Twitter was viewed as beneficial to the interests of the U.S. government as a controlled communication platform, and the financial subsidy to retain the viability of the platform was predictable as an outcome.
As with all things connected to the deep state IC, over time controlling content on the platform became increasingly obvious. The Twitter files reveal the scale of this issue as it was available to understand via internal communication correspondence. However, as admitted by the journalists requesting the searches of the Twitter database, they really don’t know the full scale and scope of the government involvement in Twitter. My personal suspicions of govt scale greatly exceed those journalistic reviews, driven in part by my experience as a target of the background actors.
Which brings me back to the question that everyone asks me about the motive for Musk’s ideological reversal. Surprise, it’s the money!
There is only one force more powerful than the firmly committed and espoused ideology of an altruistic mind, ECONOMICS.
The economics of the thing always supersedes and overpowers the other issues related to the thing. If the U.S. government wanted to shift the full scale of cost to operate Twitter onto the shoulders of Musk, the platform would not survive.
Tap Musk on the shoulder, or allow Musk to discover this financial dependency organically, and suddenly the reality of the thing changes. Nothing changes espoused opinion faster than money, just ask Steve Cortes.
It is a simple truth in everything: if you see a person change opinion quickly and radically, look at the money behind them.
There are two vectors for economics to change things. First, the gain of money as an enticement. Ex. you do this, you get paid. The second vector is more powerful, the removal of money as an enticement. Ex. you do this, or the existing payment stops.
If you look at the financial background of an abrupt change, almost every time you will find the answer to the motive that puzzles you.
DeSantis Approved. So glad we can all stop pretending pretty soon.
Annnnd it starts……..I wouldnt be surprised if twitter starts removing opposition to desantis around june or july…….if not before.
Whatever the Club tells him to do. Here we go again
But is the party GOOD for them?
Don’t care, because the (U) Party has proven it is not good for the citizenry.
If not already!
How do we know accounts are not being suspended or throttled?
No names (you know, we deplorables) who want to say something that wouldn’t register with the public. Some who may be new or just timid and don’t fight back.
to be fair it was 6 months ago,not sure date when Trump announced.
lol. DeSantis hasnt even announced hes running yet. Why would he support someone for President who says ” Im not even a candidate” ?
No lukewarm defenders here.
Maybe he already knows and HAS for a while.
Hey Mass, love the handle, and so so true:
“It is becoming more and more obvious that it is not starvation, it is not microbes, it is not cancer, but man himself who is his greatest danger: because he has no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating in their effect than the greatest natural catastrophes.”
– C. G. Jung, “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”
thats good.
Yeah I know, he was Sigmund Freud’s colleague.
He was just as good but wasn’t nuts like Freud.
Carl Jung, at 81 years old, in the now quaint and simple year of 1957, published his autobiography, “Memories, Dreams and Reflections”. The final pages of the book, organized under the chapter of “Late Thoughts”, visits the aged Jung at the endpoint of all his theorizing.
In these final conclusions, he refers to Christianity as a “myth.”
He may have been smart and learned, but I wonder about his wisdom.
It usually takes desperation, with humility and the ability to admit that you aren’t God.
Yeah it is.
Well read and/or educated. Got my attention talking about statistics (academic version) the other day.
Jung is the only “psychological professional” I have read that actually understood the mind thus far.
Here’s another gem from Jung:
“The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our superior judgment will make it disappear). It is the time-hallowed archetypal dream of Golden Age (or Paradise) where everything is provided in abundance for everyone, and a great, just, and wise chief rules over the human kindergarten. This powerful archetype in its infantile form has gripped them, but it will never disappear from the world at the mere sight of our superior points of view. We even support it by our own childishness, for our Western civilization is in the grip of the same mythology. Unconsciously, we cherish the same prejudices, hopes, and expectations. We too believe in the welfare state, in universal peace, in the equality of man, in his eternal human rights, injustice, truth, and (do not say it too loudly) in the Kingdom of God on Earth.
The sad truth is that man’s real-life consists of a complex and inexorable opposite – day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that goodwill overcomes evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”
Carl Jung; Man and His Symbols; Page 75.
From the perspective of working with people from a law enforcement aspect, I have to agree with Jung. It is a dog eat dog world and no amount of happy thoughts will change the human experience. The BEST one can hope for is to be left alone, otherwise you are in the arena of survival. Our forefathers understood human behavior and tried to create a society where everyone had a level playing field. They knew psychopaths and sociopaths (not yet defined as such) would attack society on a daily basis and everyone else needed to fight back. Much has changed and the playing field is no longer level and we are subjected to the same psychopaths and sociopaths our government was created to stop. Thomas Jefferson understood hence his quote about the tree of liberty needing to be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants. People who fail to see this are doomed to be controlled and farmed like animals.
This is the “subject to content moderation” precursor to 2024?
elon be gone.
Yes! Along with Bed Bath Begone! Someone needs to come up with a Target slogan. There’s a log of brain power here so someone can nail it.
We’re over the Target.
That’ll do, LOVE the double entedre, or what ever it is (as in “We are SO over Target).
For a guy who wants us all to think he’s some sort of a genius, he sure has a depressed learning curve in some areas.
Musk, like Gates, teeters on a spectrum of idiot and idiot
‘Idiot Savants”
So, missed out on the Savante part, huh?
And the “morals” of an alley cat.
Was wondering just how long it would be for Musks true colors and ideals would surface. Not long as money is his deciding ideal. Not free speech nor fairness.
Elon’s always been a good gubmint man. Now he works for Turkey.
Ummm….Turkey, via U.S. gov’t.
Didn’t the U.S. instigate a coup in Turkey?
Jello: Edrogan had himself a fake coup, so that he could crush it and release his inner thug.
He’s a very dangerous man.
So, what do we call someone that jumps in bed with anyone, for $?
Whoooor, as they say.
And what do we call someone that jumps in bed with any Gummint?
Gummint Whoooor.
nuff said?
So, what happens to Twiiters business model, if EVERY one of us, withdraw?
NO conservatives posting anything, at all.
It would read like the “libs of tik tok” as they would have it ALL, all to themselves, and no one to argue with.
“I die my hair purple” could be #1 “trending” for weeks,…WHO CARES.
Granted, those with monetised accounts or whatever, WOULD lose revenue, and even those without would lose,audience, so it would not be without cost.
However, and not saying if everyone will, but just asking what happens to elons business model, with NO “Conservative content”?
CAN Twitter survive?
Head over to Truth Social, perhaps?
The only reason to check in with Twitter will be to see who is advertising so we know who to boycott.
That could be a possibly good political ad campaign if they’re caught censoring or throttling en masse on Trump or supporters or significant news affecting MAGA nation.
“Hey MAGA, if they advertise on Twitter, boycott them!”
Depends on the definition of survive…
I’ve come to the opinion most conservatives are like most liberals….they are compelled to constantly engage in the ego centric pretend world of social media. (I’m posting here on social media so I’m not excempt either).
We all think our opinions are the right ones and we seek confirmation of that, and then fight like 12 year olds when we’re not affirmed as right. I’ve seen this reality of the unreality play out time and time again.
Twitter is just another form of delusional addiction IMHO and I stay far away from it. The Tree House and ACE OF SPADES are the only spaces I bother to post an OPINION and I hope everything I share is also taken with a grain of salt, as it should be.
From G Men to G Hos!
Hang on Duchie.Thats an insult to whoooors.I know plenty of whoooors and love all of them.
Dang, Dutch, I thought the answer to “What do we call someone that jumps in bed with any gummint?” was a well paid whore. But I guess that it rhymes with gummint whore.
This thing with Twitter all seems …so…schizophrenic.
“That’s some catch that Catch-22.”
Elon got an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Exactly.
All of Elons businesses are subsidized by our government, which is run by the Fourth Branch, which in turn would prefer Erdogan in power.
This is a precursor to our own elections forthcoming.
I disagree as far as ‘it’ wanting Erdogan in power.
I believe it doesn’t want any opposition to its intentions.
Erdogan is all over the map, a wildcard.
It would be pleased to take that wildcard off the table.
The US is NOT supporting Erdogan. They are heavily supporting his opposition. See what you can here (behind paywall), but at least the title should tell you that the US and EU are wanting to get rid of Erdogan just like they did in his last election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-russia.html
Yes, likely because he’s an unreliable NATO ally and is mucking up their plans.
How dare he support Russia!
The Mean Girl Club hates non-compliance with who-to-hate edicts.
If it’s in the NYSlimes, then it must be true. /sarc
The NYT? Really?
You can learn so much from the NYT but only as long as you know how to read between the lines. That and the Amazon Post are information hubs……just be judicious and wise with your interpretations.
I am glad Belle hasn’t gouged her eyes out to avoid seeing into enemy territory.
Such a rebel.
Forthcoming….seems like it’s forthwith.
I guess for those who were hoping/wondering if Elon was the real thing and good for MAGA— we now have our answer. So happy when the wolves in sheep’s clothing reveal themselves.
I have withheld any ‘trust’ in Elon for some time. His ‘words’ and ‘presentation’ of himself to the outside world is not consistent with what he actually does behind closed doors. Double-mindedness comes to mind. I can’t help but wonder what Tucker will do in light of these things.
It’s always an illusion of choice.
Yep.
Research BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street for details.
‘And the hits just keep on coming!’
‘The love of money …….’
Does anyone really not think that when Mr/Mrs DS agent comes knocking on Musk’s door and says “do this” or “don’t do that” he’s not gonna comply.
There are ‘trillions at stake,’ and homey gotta get his cut.
SD, you just made my day more than you can ever imagine with your updated 8:30 reposting. Maybe the last 6 months.
Your detailed research, analysis, and conclusions just completely erased what infinitesimally small doubts I may have ever had about my thoughts, beliefs and constant exclamations in this comment section on Musk and TWITTER!
Stuck on a feeling!
Another example of NATO’s irrelevance.
The enemy only understands strength. It’s the only way forward. Anything weak will get eaten up.
https://truthsocial.com/
Yes, for me thats the final straw.
Never got too far IN the musk train,correct me if I’m misremembering my position.
Said I liked the transparency of the twiiter files confirming what we all knew, and with details.
Now, lets see what Tucker do; if he stays with Twiiter after this, he’s a fool or controlled op.
WHY would he go with Twitter, knowing that if Joe orders him to shut Tucker down, that he will comply?
It may take Tucker a little while to figure out what he IS going to do, but since he announced he was going WITH Twitter, he needs to announce “plans changed”.
We know he had a # of offers from various outlets, some appearing quite generous on control of content and overall authority.
He should go with Truth Social, IMHO.
Anyway, whats Tucker gonna do, up the ante or fold?
Rumble is another option.
Who cares about Tucker, anyway? He only had 3m viewers.
Obviously you do.
I with back on Twitter because of Tucker. If he switches I’ll drop them like a hot rock.
I was thisclose to finally seeing up a Twitter account so I could watch and support Tucker. NOPE! I am not a person who needs this for my career so I’m not creating an account after all after this, the new CEO and similar decisions. .
Exactly what I have gone through.
Mari & Belle – good for you ladies.
You can still view without setting up to what are enemies are up to though. Just saying.
I’m not on either, never have been. But I do view certain personages for recon purposes.
At the end of the movie “Run The Wild Fields” the character Tom Walker said that “democracy was his religion” he was a member of the Lincoln Brigade who were communists from America fighting the anti-communist/nationalists/Christians in Spain. The movie writers never tell you that the Lincoln Brigade were communists and were being assisted by the Soviet Union who mass murdered tens of millions of “dissenters” most of them Christians/middle class just like those the Democrat-liberal -communists-globalists label “deplorables” here.
The Gary Cooper classic, For Whom the Bell Tolls is also pro-communist propaganda from the same civil war.
Ty for the reminder. The guys I admired from the foreign nations who went to fight the Wall St/Soviet Backed communist terrorists were from Ireland and joined Franco & the Nationalists. Slainte mate
Cut Elin some slack. Everybody who had a parent, children or a significant other can be “reasoned” with.
True, but its easier to reason with a poop throwing zoo monkey than a liberal.
I would rather have seen Elon Musk shut down both sides. Picking sides in politics is not a wise move for any business. Promote your business…not politics or social issues.
I believe tomorrow Turkey is having elections.
I must admit that I am very uninformed about Turkey and Erdogan.
The most information I have ever received is from our media.
And I do NOT trust our media and narrative spinners at all.
There is good news in the geopolitical area!
Taiwan has finally started to find out what our politicians are about…..
Taiwan official made tweet earlier this week after statements by our Government officials concerning our bombing of chip making plants in Taiwan should a conflict with China happen.👏 Taiwan is not happy with US. Good.
Musk should have called Erdogan’s bluff by refusing to not shut down either side. If Erdogan had then blocked access to Twitter in Turkey, he would have owned the political outfall. Musk’s decision puts the outfall on Musk.
As to Taiwan and the chip plant, that is a big story which has gone under the radar. Taiwan was responding to comments made by Congressman Seth Molton at a think tank conference.
This means US policy makers are actively discussing sabotaging critical assets and infrastructure in Taiwan in the event of a PRC invasion.
The US government is actively developing operational plans for a Chinese-Taiwan conflict, and there is no reason to assume this is mere war-gaming.
Remember when COOTUS promised to “bring an end” to Nordstream II in February 2022…
Agree about Turkey and Musk. Either way- and multiple ways-this is not a good thing for Twitter. Stay out of politics!
Regarding Taiwan….I don’t watch MSM or cable news….so I guess they haven’t reported on the Taiwan response. It really-really would mess up their propaganda. 🤪 people may start to ask questions…..
I saw where other think tanks in DC did studies quite awhile ago–end result of studies…
Win Lose or Draw….there will no longer be a Taiwan or Taiwan people. It will be decimated. Gone. Not much of an “Independence ” in my opinion.
And people think it is worth the destruction…because of micro chips and/or a chance to poke the Dragon?
It’s evil.
No War
Trump 2024
“ Musk should have called Erdogan’s bluff by refusing to not shut down either side. If Erdogan had then blocked access to Twitter in Turkey, he would have owned the political outfall. Musk’s decision puts the outfall on Musk.”
This is the political right call.
Musk has a business to run and within that context and what he Twittered was his call.
Kind of a strange move because the US government is anti-Erdogan.
Thus Twitter (Musk) deciding to ban a Turkish opposition party, aiding Erdogan, works against the interests of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop (Fourth Branch). Therefore it seems unlikely Musk would have acted on instructions from US government assets embedded within social media platforms.
Whatever the explanation is does not make the action less sketchy, just sketchy in a different or additional way.
Incidentally, the latest polling shows Erdogan down anywhere from 4- 8 points and likely headed for a run-off.
Well it does put an9ther spin on this. Autists generally pick a side based 9n their deep consideration. IF the change sides that means they werd wrong, a very 7n omfortable position for autists ussually causing them to actout. Right now I beleive Elons world.is in termoil. It is a target rich enviroment and it is possible he is trusting and listening to no one. He may simply be watching to see which piggie squeels.
In the end self preservation becomes the game.
If i were Mr Musk I would offer the deepstate this deal
Ds keeps acess to all the personally identifiable data as it comes.in to sort filter analyze and wipe.their butts with if they choose. In return the DS pays the bills. Elon maintains the coffee shop and twitter becomes a free speech platform. Ds loses the Psy ops value of twitter but maintains its data and psyops collection of data and sentiment.
The DS does.not want Twitter to fail it is too valuable as a data collection tool allowing them to tweak the rest of there psy ops systems of letered agencies media and corporations
maybe turkey offers premium ad and marketing revenue to twitter…kind of hard to believe, but maybe just maybe turkey is home to some high density ad and marketing companies that sprawl over several other countries.
elon isn’t a stupid business guy…well not consistently he isn’t…but prone to making some bad decisions (refused to address due diligence negotiations before making a hard off to purchase twitter has to be one of the most incredibly dum dum moments.).
I have a sneaking suspicion that this wasn’t a decision made purely to support erdogan as a primary reason. It was more likely a money deal that helps twitter pump up some revenue.
but then again..as stated…elon musk has done some really tremendously dubious decisions before. While I admire his overall success, there is no doubt he behaves like an infant at times.
I mean really..a full grown man, smokes pot eats mushrooms and names his child after some weird password convention?
howard hughes aint got nothing on this weirdo.
God Bless America
A really excellent gaming company that produces the excellent Mount & Blade games is based in Turkey.
Who is Elon’s master?
24“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Tucker might want to think about Rumble after this.
tucker is accustomed to large well established networks. If rumble was an option, we would be hearing about a 100 million dollar deal…that’s the reality with twitter and rumble.
as it stands, as I understand it, even twitter is not offering tucker or anyone else for that matter a huge paid salary for “media” …what they offer is a platform with users already established, and tucker can monetize that…similar to how matt taibbi monetized his work and was not paid nor was an employee of twitter….until matt effed around and found out. You don’t take and copy sensitive corporate intellectual property to make mastodon more competitive. (or at least indirectly allowing others in his circle to pull that shit). As much as I admire Matt, and what he has done with the twitter files, it really pisses me off he will not be honest about that little fiasco that resulted in him getting the faucet turned off…even if it was not deliberate…he has to come clean about what his financial stake in mastodon is…and why he was willing to risk his twitter files research and journalistic integrity by ripping twitter source code for his beach friends. It kind of sucks. Again, the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. Right now, Matt could still be doing great research and working with twitter to continue his journalism. That was the result of that little fiasco/scandal.
and here I am still reminiscing a time when wikileaks and assange could release falsifiable material and there was no one to stop the ultimate gold standard of journalism: we steal secrets, and publish them.
such a great time to be alive. This timeline…a shell of what could have been.
This is why I appreciate sundance and team CTH. It’s about as close as you can get to wikileaks…
in a time when people are afraid to speak truth to power…Here at the last refuge, you find it common to hold that beer and examine all of it under the strength of sunlight.
God Bless America
Foreigners _can’t_ understand our constitution. It’s in our DNA, their DNA tells them to do something else.
A snake slithers and a crab crawls. It’s what they do.
The CIA is pushing to unseat Erdogan, so maybe Musk is trying to level the playing field.
Ya, I was watching this go down earlier. IMO Musk chose his companies reach and profit over freedom of expression. He chose to allow one party to utilize his platform while denying another. When my children were fighting and trying to undermine each other I denied them both the pleasure of winning and punished them both for not working together by denying them the ability to stand over the other for petty reasons. IMO Musk chose poorly. His actions continue to prove my doubts about him and his platform. He will likely do no differently when pressed to do the same here. He has shown that profit > freedom when it comes to his business model. His recent CEO hire reinforces this by enabling this further and by distancing himself from being directly responsible when that day comes. Also an interesting note is the support from those like Posobiec and ALX.. I smell something foul in the air.
Gab may have a number of ill tempered, narcissists, literal Nazi and otherwise national socialists that try to gaslight history but that can be found anywhere you go. It’s honest reality even if I and others don’t like what someone says.. they have every right to say it. My great aunt was racist but she had her reasons (raped 3x) Can I fault her even if I’m not racist? It gives those who would otherwise never know each other a chance to learn about the other and grow as a person if they are willing. And if they are not willing that’s fine too. That too is reality. Some people are just POS sometimes and you can’t fix it. Sometimes you have to learn how to move along and accept things as they are.. Not as you wish them to be… Now I’m starting to sound like you Sundance.. lolz
I think Gab is great, but I also agree with those national socialists that try to as you say “gaslight history” Isn’t it funny how the good guys always win the wars? Isn’t it odd how the people who control all the nations that fought against Germany also control all media, banks, academics and more you just name it. This is a bit off topic, but you are right, you can learn a lot from people on Gab. I do not mean offense with this post, and you seem to be big enough to disagree humbly. Andrew Torba himself posts interesting things all the time and it is true free speech. People can take the information and do as they wish with it. Some people use too much harsh language for my liking, but that is the least of my worries.
Did Elon turn off the twitter back door?
Of course not.
Elon drank the Bud Lite!
Maybe Elon should focus on South Africa…..Just sayin’…..It’s interesting Elon says nothing about what’s going on there….
Interesting indeed…
….and he won’t comment on that train wreck or any other communist wreck that is occurring under his nose.He knows which side his bread is buttered on.
“Just followings orders … now get on the train.”
Note that Mr. Musk is sporting his Baphomet costume in his official Twitter photo.
What does that signal to everyone?
Boy I missed that I thought it was a Flash Gordon or the planet.of amazons hollyweird costume
It is definitely a hollyweird costume.
When push comes to shove, Musk doesn’t have to be shoved, but meekly complies with every gentle push by government authorities.
Either he was very naive or mostly just bluster and big talk about free speech.
To give him the benefit of the doubt, he may have had good intentions, but self interest and maybe fear seem to have prevailed.
Biden and the Neocons want Erdogan to lose and his opponent to win! Figure that one out! LOL
Of course they do. Erdogan straddles Russia and NATO. The US and multinational corporations want a weaker leader who turns his back on Russia and continues the war in Syria.
Exactly! It’s much better for Russia and Ukraine that Erdogan win so the killing stops and the Neocons lose!
Im coining a new expression today: Red Carpet Conservatives
As far as Turkey goes, the U.S. deep state wants change, and is helping the opposition. Just another color revolution in the making. They fear Erdogen is too much of a wild card and likely to side with Russia going forward.
And keep an eye on Thai elections too.
Here’s the view from a Russia friendly site.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/regime-change-watch.html#comments
Like Google did
facial recognition, ETC (!!!)
in China.
-where does it end
This is also strong evidence that Musk is actually an overrated and privileged dumb ass with lots of money.
Who will be purchased next.
By Jove, I think he’s got it. Taxpayer money at that for years – every endeavor!
Playing with rockets is expensive.
If the Turkish govt demands censorship of the opposition, Twitter could level the playing field by censoring the Turkish government.
Yea, me thinks this thought escapes the mighty Elon. GO DEI!!
I think we’re back to at least ‘all about the money’, if not government control of Elon’s purchase.
I accidentally published this before I was finished writing it.
Please note, the article is considerably different than before 8:30pm EST
If journalism has one primary ethical reason …it is to correct itself.
You have aced the test.
Keep up the excellent work.
God Bless America
Your writing is top shelf mate. I wouldn’t be surprised if you have had your articles printed in Chronicles/New American/American Conservative under another name. Pat Buchanan would love your writings!
There’s a whole ‘nuther world out there. Why chase the so-called prom queen when she’s just going to always be a spoiled b_tch?
Truth, GETR, etc.
Then why is Elon not sharing how here in the U.S. the Feds still have people embedded and cancelling people? He lies again.
I have much respect for Andrew Torba.
Will Tucker rethink the direction he wants to go? Can you imagine this government controlling Twitter and tolerating Tucker?
A government controlled press is by definition not free.
( after an tw offer )
The deci$ion ( by agent / tk ) to put out a video
mentioning the intent of joining tw…
would be difficult to alter.
I.e.
got tempted during that short period after going off air at fx…
The tempting created the motivation to make video
( millions of people have seen, and some miss celebrated – without knowing the whole story )
The public airing of video:
– indicates a promise ( which ties to character )
– to alter the direction, could damage the virtue of a character ( since mu$k is known to tease
– and be teased
– by money
…at the cost of liberty, freedom ( even though a combination of words and actions can by u$k can be tempting – and have been tempting by users ).
– to stay with the intent mentioned in video…
partial truth might be allowed again ( not full truth ..similar to time at fx)
Imho
So…, Elon must not have gotten true/accurate financial statements prior to his purchase?
Or,
did he know
Uncle Sam’s costs?
That’s the question I have.
If Twitter runs on AWS then the data processing cost should be well known internally. There should be a contract.
So which part, if any, of Twitter is subsidized by the 4th branch? And how is the payment made?
Did Musk lay off all those employees because they were being paid by the 4th branch?
Or, did the gov just “look” like another advertiser as a subsidy, altho the scale of the payment would stand out.
I’m not seeing how this is easy to hide from accountants who are well versed in IT matters.
They must know or be involved with the alleged Gamma option manipulation of Tesla’s stock price via overseas servers, which, drove Tesla to heights when it was, is, and always will be, a losing financial proposition.
Accused not conclusively proven. But, if true, well that’s a Trump card for blackmail. And, that’s if he’s not a charlatan anyhow. Cough Cough. Look at his track record.
Well it was nice while it lasted.
Our problem is that most of us here live in what Rush used to call Realville
Did Tucker make a mistake? Seems like he would have been better off with Rumble…
I don’t see how anyone can be confused about who Elon Musk is.
If you are conflicted, it’s because you’re allowing your brain; with what he says, to over rule your gut or intuition.
This was how Obama got elected. Anyone tuned into their intuition could smell this con artist a mile away.
Plug in Elon Musk. He loves government money making him susceptible to bribery, extortion or whatever the cabal chooses to use to get the results they want.
Hes a member of the World Economic Forum.
He supports DeSantis for President, a corrupt globalist.
He never released the promised information on Fauci.
He quit cleaning up Twitter.
He withheld deep state players info as they came through the back door.
Taibbi had to quit working with him.
He talks one way and does another.
Now he hires a radical WEF member as CEO of Twitter.
And he censors the opposition in Turkey.
President Trump is brilliant. He knows who Elon Musk is and he’s not going to give Jacks Coffee Shop business.
How many more examples does one need to know Elon Musk cannot be trusted.
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Twitter used to routinely challenge Turkey’s takedown requests
Erdogan actually had Twitter banned in Turkey in 2014 for refusing to comply. (the courts later ended the ban.)
but that was on the “censorship” version of Twitter, not this new “free speech” one
And
I agree that money may be behind Musk’s CEO choice except that this CEO is going to deplatform lots and lots of conservatives on meaningless grounds. That’s a lot of ad money that will be jettisoned.
Michael Jordan once said, “Even Republicans buy shoes.” In other words, if you are in business, you maximize profits by not targeting half or more of your potential buyers for elimination.
In addition, Sundance mentioned from the beginning that he didn’t trust Elon Musk. From the beginning Sundance raised the likelihood that Musk would talk a good line about “free speech,” but the government’s back door into Twitter wouldn’t change.
Thus following Sundance’s own thinking, Musk has not changed in hiring the DEI, WEF fascist for CEO, he is just behaving the way he has always behaved: more interested in his own profits than any high minded ideal like “free speech.”
With this hire, you can kiss free speech on Twitter goodby for good.
Musk is a real “piece of ongoing work”.
So much for free speech.
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In light of these developments,,,is Tucker truly on the right,,or a sell out as well ???
Tucker announced his intent to post his shows on Twitter before the hiring of WEF-linked Linda Yaccarino was made known. IMO, best to hold up judgement of Tucker until he addresses this and if it changes his strategy.
What happened to the public square Elon?
It was privatized — by the deep state — they own the money printers.
DON’T BE A TWIT!
I Twit you not!