Elon musk cruised into this whole acquiring Twitter thing with the veneer of
independence.
People didn't think of him as a left winger or right winger,
even though if they looked into his history of trying to crush unions and
docks journalists, they might have had an idea.
That's all gone now, everybody knows that he loves the right wing and
more importantly he desperately wants them to like him.
So he's been tweeting out all of these memes designed to appeal to them,
feeding into the narratives that they believe.
Along the way though he's made some claims that while vague hint it's specifics and
that's what we're gonna have to do a bit of debunking in this.
>> You didn't see Republicans when we had control of the Senate tried to rig
the game shows how the green new deal would be a deadly deal for
the United States of America.
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Okay, yes, we are now in the debunker and
we're gonna get to the tweet I was referencing in one second.
Along the way though, we've got to just touch base with a few things.
One is this tweet, a social media platforms policies are good if the most
extreme 10% on left and right are equally unhappy.
Which is what you would get if you took a really dim chat AI bot and
got it to produce both sides Ism after about ten minutes of thinking its so
stupidly shallow and that's the wealthiest guy in the history of the world.
He goes on to say though I strongly supported Obama for president, but
today's Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists, which is a claim,
as many people have pointed out he was totally down for Obama.
That's when the democrats were reasonable.
Now they're extremists, even though the president is Obama's VP.
Three out of the four of the top democrats in the House and the Senate are literally
the same exact animated skeletons that they were back in 2008.
But yeah, no, and along the way, the right by the way,
has gone through the Tea Party and Cunanan and they tried to overthrow democracy, but
it is the democrats that are extreme.
That's not the thing we needed to debunk but
I think it's worthy of giving you guys a chance to weigh in.
>> Okay, really quickly Biden who was chosen because he was more conservative
than Obama because he was the sort of old timey White man face they could
put on the Obama administration, that's all I had to say.
And now we're more extreme.
>> Okay, yeah, no, the right believes a caricature of the left and
Elon musk is apparently getting his news from right wing media and
social media where everything is amplified.
So they will take either something completely made up or find one Rando and
pretend it's the Democratic Party, right?
And so they genuinely believe that that is what the Democratic Party is doing and
the reality is the Democratic Party is doing pretty much nothing, right?
They're not doing any of the progressive policies we wanted,
let alone just centrist democratic policies.
They're not doing anything, can't pass a goddamn thing.
And they're the weakest people on earth.
You got to look, you can do anything.
You should criticize Democratic Party.
Hell, yeah. Have you ever watched the Young Turks?
Right?
But the idea that they're too strong and bullying the right?
I don't know, man, maybe if you're on a different planet, but that planet exists,
it's called the right wing media.
>> Yeah, exactly.
And it's wrong in two very fundamental ways.
One, as you point out, the idea that the democrats are doing a lot when they're
not, but also that the democrats are in charge or the left is nonsense.
So what they're doing is nonsense, it's made up.
Who they are is nonsense, it's made up.
No one on the right seems to have any idea of who is actually on the left and
that is because for decades their default position has been calling literally
anyone to the left of Sean Hannity, a communist.
So it all gets collapsed down to one point, so they have no idea what they're
talking about in the case of Elon musk, I don't know which it is.
Is he dumb enough to believe the thing is he's tweeting or
is he just a right wing liar.
Does he not actually believe it?
But it's convenient and he knows he's got a lot of retweets if he tweets stuff like
this and you might think, well he's got hundreds of billions of dollars,
how could he be possibly motivated just by getting retweets?
Have you ever looked into Elon musk?
Do you understand the person that he is that is really the thing that's
driving him?
But here is the tweet that we need to debunk and
that is this obviously intentionally cartoonish, childish thing.
This is the thing in our culture where Elon must takes a meme someone made and
it's like purposefully like a kid would do and that somehow owns everyone.
I don't understand how it works, but
the idea being that he has been left of center since 2008, but
progressives have gradually gone left her and left her, he hasn't moved.
The right, hasn't moved.
He's the same.
And so now the centers to the left of him again,
what exactly the bonafides he has as having been left of center back in 2008.
I have no idea whatsoever.
But anyway, the idea is that it's the left that has changed.
Now we're gonna waste a couple of minutes together by trying to get through to them,
starting with facts,
which is the weakest weapon to use in modern political discourse.
So for instance, if you I just have a fun nostalgia for it.
It's like making cookies for Christmas, it doesn't really fit with the modern world,
but I grew up on it.
So I'm gonna go with it.
So if you take a look at this, it's a reference to Pew research had done
a statistical analysis of basically every vote over the course of years and
years on the Senate side, the House side, broken down by democrats and republicans.
The democrats I understand that the text is probably too small for
you to see on the Senate side are in this measure,
0.6% more to the left than they were at the beginning of the study.
Whereas Republicans are .28 more to the right and
basically the same exact thing slightly stronger is happening on the House side?
So in terms of actual votes on actual policy, it is not only objectively untrue
that the Democrats have moved much to the left at all, but
he's also masking the fact that the right has become far more radical.
But we've been covering news many of you have been watching it.
You don't need a statistical analysis of Senate votes to know that since 2000 and
in particular, you've had a tea party and the freedom caucus and
the rise of Cunanan and Trumpism and the turn against democracy, why do we
need to make the case that the right are the ones who become more radical.
>> Yeah, so there's a lot of different ways to break this down, first of all,
Elon musk keeps insisting that he's somewhere in the middle, right?
And that he in fact that he was center left just a decade ago, right?
I've literally never heard him say one left wing thing, not one, right?
So now Rogan for example, used to do things that were left wing populist and
right wing populists over the last two years.
He hasn't said one thing that was left wing,
he hasn't said one thing that's pissed off his right wing audience.
Elon musk same thing hasn't said one thing that's pissed off his right wing audience
has said dozens, if not hundreds of things that the right wing audience loves and
his looney tunes, right?
They're getting captured by their own fans, they're so
obsessed with their vanity and they know that if they say anything left wing,
their fans will turn on them, the zombies will turn on their creators.
And so it's a fiction.
It's a fantasy.
And by the way, I challenge him on Twitter, that's hilarious.
He's not gonna respond to me, but I'll tell you guys right now,
you can challenge, it doesn't matter.
I said, okay, then prove it, say one thing against the right way because you keep
saying, I don't like the far right either.
Okay, then name one thing they're doing wrong.
Never, not once, the whole thing is propaganda.
He's never been left wing, he's not left wing?
He's never been center left but more importantly,
to John's point, it's a childish view of American politics.
Look, the right wing got so insanely right wing,
they dragged the Democratic party to the right with them.
Reagan did amnesty, flat out amnesty, not pretend amnesty.
Hey, every illegal immigrant in the country, you're now welcome to stay here.
Okay.
He negotiated with terrorists.
He ran from Lebanon.
He raised taxes 11 times.
I can go on and on.
I did a segment about this on MSNBC a decade ago, okay?
Where Reagan's positions at that time, he would have gotten
kicked out of a Democratic primary for being too liberal.
Okay, that's how much the overturn window has moved to the right in this country.
Not in terms of the American people.
I could show you polling that shows you definitively that the American people
are progressive.
But Washington has become maniacally right wing and I did that segment ten years ago.
Now since then Tea Party Q&A, 23% of republicans believe
that the democrats are led by a satanic cult that is kidnapping
children leading a pedophile ring and drinking their blood.
I'm not joking.
23% of the Republican Party believes that.
That is Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
One side has lost their freaking mind.
The other side says, hey, can we get health care for everybody,
like every other developed nation, can we get a livable wage?
We want higher wages and more health care for everybody and we're nuts.
No, no Elon Musk either your gigantic liar or your intellect is that of a child.
>> Well yeah both of those things I think can be true Jake, but I think you're
very first point was right on, Elon Musk is a severely online billionaire.
Everything else about him trickles down from that.
This is someone who just finds a tweet of like a trans person being like hey I'm so
happy I got chest surgery man, I'm really living in the body that I wanna live and
it'd be great if the government could cover this cost because it cost me
thousands of dollars.
And it's like my God, you living your life and
being who you wanna be is crushing my soul.
Is it raising your tax rate?
No, not yet, sadly.
I wish that the LGBTQ Plus community could magically do that to you but we can't.
But so it's just insane that if you spend all your time online and you get mad and
you talk to right wingers and they're like well this person wants to that and
that person is a kitty litter and that person is like hey hey hey quick question,
did you read that online?
Yeah that's not true.
None of that's true.
So why don't you close your laptop?
Why don't you stop looking at Twitter?
Why don't you stop with the outrage and actually go out and talk to people and
you'll realize that none of this far left stuff for
the things that you think are far left our reality whatsoever.
So that's exactly what he's doing here.
And it's really sad.
I mean what 2012 Obama is reelected.
That's when we got a giant shift to the left reelecting Obama.
What the hell?
Like that?
Cool.
The same guy for four years.
Yeah, yeah, I definitely see that.
>> But I partly see what he's saying about Obama.
Obama was a friend to the bankers and to the billionaires and
he was a corporate democrat extraordinaire.
So people like Elon musk was like, this guy's never gonna touch me,
this is perfect.
It looks like he's doing something, but he's doing nothing and
I'm getting away with anything I want.
Now it's still the same thing, Biden's the same exact thing as Obama.
Maybe even worse.
But there's now a wing of the Democratic Party that says,
hey, maybe we should tax the rich.
Now we haven't yet, he's still paying almost no taxes.
He's getting loans based on his stock and avoiding taxes altogether.
But he's like, my God democrats at some point might raise my taxes to $1.
So extreme extreme, bring back Obama and
the fake democrats who were basically republicans.
And he's not overly wrong about that Obama and
Romney in 2012 election is basically the same exact person.
So he was thrilled either way.
They were both serving the rich.
>> He's exactly and he's doing the exact same thing.
I know people wanna give him some sort of magical nobody's got a cybertruck and
he's in the crypto.
No, it's the same thing that all rich republicans do.
They give you this imaginary idea of what the left is and
they can't point to anything.
Once again they're poison to Randall's on Twitter.
A random person they hearsay heard about.
Every single day on TYT we talk about how like Marjorie Taylor Greene
thinks that space laser was funded by the Rothschild is like beaming,
I don't know whatever CRT into our hearts.
Every day we talk about the math books that are being banned,
every day we talk about the conspiracy theories, we have proof.
Where is the proof that the left is so crazy.
And if you say defund the police, my God, I'm gonna strangle you.
It is not at all crazy.
It is not all left and we're gonna talk about how far right this country's gone
when it comes to the criminal justice system.
>> And it also didn't happen.
They love to just take that and pretend it's like where did the police get?
Exactly? It's like Abbott talking about how
the green new deal wrecked the power grid in Texas.
>> The idea of it, though.
>> Yeah. >> Ideas are strong.
But why why tell the truth when a lie is more effective and
your base is never gonna check it either way.