Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Elon Musk, Centrist ^{Citation Needed}, and Tucker Carlson, far right disgraced talk show host ^{Citation: Literally Anything He’s Ever Said}, has announced a cooperation deal to give Tucker Carlson his own show through Twitter.

@Dustcan
It’s galvanized his braindead & deplorable supporters.

@Dustcan
Got to love how “centrist” seem to be quick to give the worst of the right a megaphone.

And now NY Representative and serial liar George Santos has been indicted on federal charges, per CNN.

What a day.

A couple important takeaways from Trump’s defense in his trial.

So basically, he never denies that he would rape someone. Just that he would only rape someone if they were hot. And he thought a younger Carroll looked like a younger Maples. Who he married. Because he thought she was hot.

I’ve said it before but let him talk. All you need to do is get him under oath and you have the easiest conviction ever as he confesses not just to his current crime but any other in one statement alone.

@Dustcan
Oh fuck.

That trial went by faster than I expected

I completely lost track of his legal troubles at this point, he has like 18 different legal cases

@Commune
I mean, when the defended refuses to actually appear in court, it’s hard for their side to put up much of a defense.

And yet a minister of Parliament managed to get a job in management at Grab.

Capitalism.

@igotnopicks
@Dustcan

Shocked - shocked! - that a man who benefited from apartheid would give a fellow racist a platform.

@Dustcan
I’ll use this opportunity to ask everyone with a Twitter account a rhetorical question: do you have a plan to eventually exit Twitter?

One thing I miss about the Obama presidency is when liberals were able to make memes like this:

@Background Pony #1D40
Not sure. I’m split 50/50.

I’m only still on there to follow people who haven’t moved to Mastodon (or I can’t find on Mastodon). I’d rather not make a Bluesky account if I can help it.

My plan is to wait for Elon to massively fuck up and get fired from Twitter before ending up like Epstein.

I already have a while ago.

@Background Pony #1D40
I just use it for uploading pics on the switch and find art to upload on the sister site.

@IWTCIEM
If you are not sure you want to stay, you can always try out some alternatives, tell your Twitter friends what are your handles on other websites, but still indefinitely stay on Twitter.

The point is to prepare a plan B, so that you can switch relatively quickly and painlessly when the need comes, instead of being caught with your pants down.

rump was found liable for sexual assault

Santos will be charged in a federal investigation.

“BoTh PaRtieS ArE ThE SaMe!”.

@Background Pony #1D40
I was never really invested in Twitter, so it’s gonna be pretty easy cutting this loss.

George Santos has been indicted on 13 charges, including money laundering, wire fraud, theft of public funds, and lying to the House of Representatives.

@SleepySteve
Time for him to become Lord Dampnut’s running mate.

@Violet Rose in The Rain
Listen we need to pay our MPs high salaries to prevent them from going off the rails and corrupt ok? So that’s why underpaying a section of the population and giving them a gun is acceptable

@SleepySteve
Turns out Mr Santos is also an Italian mobster who knew

What a talented guy

Republicans had a chance to quietly remove him and head this off and they blew it.

@Dustcan
Despite literally everything pointing towards the Texas mall shooter being a neo-nazi/white supremist, of course the far-right are going out of their way to try and deny it and say that this was actually a “government/fed psych-op”.

Of not is that both Tim Pool and the Libs of TikTok account are both trying to make the spin that the guy was not part of the far right… even though his manifesto outright namedrops both of them and says that he was inspired by them and their content.

And of course Elon Musk is also trying to boost accounts promoting this BS instead of activley trying to denounce the shooter and his views. Becuase if he said “nazis are bad”, then half of his fanbase would piss themselves in anger…