Twitter C/D

...does desantis and his team think elon musk is...cool?

i'm not ready to confront these kinds of questions before i've had my coffee

that is truly pathetic

why is elon musk in the video so, so, so much? it's bizarre

because he'll be the one calling it for Wisconsin

As much as we all know that Elon sucks, I have to imagine that the DeSantis team sees an opportunity to align their candidate with someone who is in fact popular with a lot of people, many of whom are probably up for grabs politically. As artless as the video is, the play seems to be: "If you like Elon, vote for me."

The gross thing is DeSantis always tying himself to some daddy--remember his ad where's he's reading Trump's book to his kids?

This sounds like it was recorded with a tin can and string.

i'm not sure about musk's level of fame, name/face recognition among the average voter. but i think quite a few people would, upon watching that video, think that elon musk is the candidate. or, if they don't know his name, the guy stepping in and out of vehicles on stage and pointing at things and trying to be cool. the video looks like musk is the candidate and they hired some horrible 3rd rate actor to narrate the video

Does the term "woke mind virus" really resonate with people outside the cult? It's like a Democrat running and talking about "the former guy" or something.

Elon and DeSantis both seem like guys who are somewhat popular until people actually have to hear them speak, they're so much better off letting the media launder their reputation

Does the term "woke mind virus" really resonate with people outside the cult? It's like a Democrat running and talking about "the former guy" or something.

― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, May 25, 2023 10:50 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

gop needs to touch grass lol

Does the term "woke mind virus" really resonate with people outside the cult?

No. And it's worse than "the former guy" etc. - this is the Republican equivalent of a Democratic candidate using "problematic" and "intersectionality" every other sentence.

Musk was at one point the richest person in the world and was Time magazine person of the year a couple of years ago, so I do think a lot of people are aware of him, even if they don't know the extent of his whole deal.

holy cow that DeSantis War Room video is weird

i'm into weird videos and i can't even get through it, it's too weird

the images start repeating about a minute in

maybe the whole presidential campaign is a The Producers-esque tax loss scam?

tho we said that about Trump too

okay, i got through it. i will say that i am amazed that, by the end, i found myself rooting for and eagerly anticipating the FIFTH time they reused the same clips of an airboat speeding through florida swamps followed by elon musk using a flamethrower. however, they only used the clips four times, over the course of 3 and a half minutes, so i was disappointed

xp

Twitter appears to be removing the video view count metric, but Android users still see it in their version of the app

the Ron DeSantis campaign is fudging their view count numbers by more than double the amount https://t.co/aM1SNMVTHt pic.twitter.com/x3nHcoVdxq

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) May 25, 2023

why is elon musk in the video so, so, so much? it's bizarre

donations bruv

ron desantis

https://i.imgur.com/QLw3dBU.jpg

you might be wondering why i included that image of ron desantis commandeering an airboat. it's in there because he was thinking only of elon musk as he did it

his speech, which sounds like a 32kbps voice memo, doesn't even mention Elon, and yet Elon is in the video more than Ron is. the whole thing is so unfathomably bizarre, too weird to even be an AI thing, it's practically an On Cinema bit

hate to hand it to Morning Joe but this was pretty funny in response to the claim that Ron's announcement was "so big it broke the internet"

BREAKING: April the Giraffe takes a commanding lead over Trump and DeSantis in the polls. pic.twitter.com/EvoK9Qfp3R

— Jack E. Smith ⚖️ (@7Veritas4) May 25, 2023

xpost "When you have ads like with Elon Musk in them"

hello, i was wondering if somebody more online than me could tell me if this thread is a joke or not

If you are a fan of Taylor who falls into a marginalized group more intimately impacted by this I would be happy and honored to hear from you.

Thanks for listening & for letting me be human. Sequined romper pictures coming soon! pic.twitter.com/kXIo5DuXMA

— keyvan (@still_oppressed) May 25, 2023

sorry i posted the last tweet only but am referring to the whole thread

It's parody; all the text comes from a much longer tweet thread posted by an ultra-earnest white lady (who runs some kind of culty church?) crying about how it's Bad that Taylor Swift is dating (or so people seem to believe) the singer from The 1975, who is Very Bad because he made racist jokes on a podcast, or something. But she's still gonna go to the Taylor Swift concert, even though she is Conflicted.

its a goof on this thread

Before I leave for NYC, here is my thread on seeing Taylor this weekend while she is dating a racist, Islamophobic, anti-semitic overall problematic white man. While I don't necessarily "owe" anyone this thread, it is important to me to take my public leadership seriously.

— Holly Stallcup (@HollyStallcup) May 25, 2023

You’re welcome https://t.co/4Hz33Bz14Z

— Adam Friedland (@AdamFriedland) May 25, 2023

taylor swift fans are out of control

the upside is that i am listening to the 1975

ew

the whole thing made me like matty healy a little bit more, until i remembered who he was dating

full circle

taylor swift dating matty healy is hannah arendt dating martin heidegger (also MH) for people whose Lacan getting expelled from the IPA is tati westbrook’s “breaking my silence” video

— josef k hole (@poeticdweller) May 25, 2023

also mh 🤨

The Healy Nazi salute thing is literally a plot element from the tv show The Chair

really hate that i understood every word of that tweet :/

"The Republican Party of 2023 is arguably already more online than the Democrats of 2019."https://t.co/Nv5NgvtN2q

— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) May 26, 2023

don't worry mark s, I'm undateable

revulsion in multiple timelines

Whoever controls the media controls the mind. pic.twitter.com/pWGIWDuNGP

— jack (@jack) May 27, 2023

🐦[Whoever controls the media controls the mind. pic.twitter.com/pWGIWDuNGP🕸
— jack (@jack) May 27, 2023🕸]🐦

lol

lmao someone figured out how to get priority over the blue checks

new twitter meta just dropped:
- tag gold check customer support bot in your reply
- the bot autoreplies
- gold check > blue check
- your reply appears above all the blue check replies https://t.co/ej3nLzE8Bc

— botulism dachshund (@grosspointbreak) May 27, 2023

haa

a simple appeal to the platinum check support friend will demote the gold checks

said the ticktock man

Fascinating. Apparently somebody at Twitter still cares at least marginally about not abusing trans folks? I bet whoever it is will be gone by the end of the day and Matt Walsh's hateful film will be given full exposure.

Twitter canceled a deal with @realdailywire to premiere What is a Woman? for free on the platform because of two instances of “misgendering.”

I’m not kidding.

Here's what happened:🧵1/16

— Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) June 1, 2023