11-15-24 - 8am - They Are Quitting Twitter

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, if I had some bacon that had bacon and
eggs this morning, if I had some eggs, you know,
we've only had resources.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
If we only had resources. Uh. Real quickly a text
message from goober number zero zero four two with respect
to apparently we're gonna UH Bobby Kennedy Jr. Is going
to shut down all the rural UH health centers and
UH people out in the rural health communities are all
upset zero zero four two, rights, Michael is because us

(00:35):
peoples out here's in the real world don't have interweb
or even one of those AX machines. We can't even
get id out here. Is why it would decimate our
health system out here in you Ma, Colorado, poor people
out in Yuma that wouldn't do with you. Well, I'm

(00:55):
gonna quit Twitter or x or or whatever it is.
I'm just I'm going to delete my account. So what

(01:18):
you were waiting for? But I was waiting for something.
I was hoping for some reaction. I guess I did
get a reaction. I got no reaction, which I guess
is a reaction. No, I'm not going to quit X.
I not gonna quit X. I just wanted to get
your attention. But apparently apparently they failed at doing that

(01:40):
because he doesn't care. He doesn't care about what I
do about anything. Oh but liberals are so stupid and
insane that they're forcing me to defend Elon Musk. Not
that I need to, and not that he needs defending,

(02:02):
but I feel like I ought to. I don't know
if it's a delayed reaction from the election, or it's
Musk's kind of weird new job in the administration, or
it's Musks. I mean, is he still with Trump? He's
like the He's like the relative that comes in and says, hey,

(02:26):
I need a place to stay for just three nights,
just just three nights, and then three months later they're
still there. I mean, everything I read about Elon Musk,
he's still at mar A Lago. It's been it'll be
what two weeks next week, two weeks. He hasn't left
his side. I wonder if it's I mean, I do
wonder sometimes if Trump gets up and he's like, can

(02:50):
I breakfast by myself? Could I could? I? Could I
have like a meeting without being around.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Probably one of those friends too, that would make the breakfast.
So you really don't want to tell him to leave
because he's doing something for you.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
You know, he probably you know, you come to think
he probably is that kind of guy, isn't he probably?
You know, because he probably doesn't sleep. But what two
hours a night?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
It looks like he doesn't sleep much, right, so.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
He probably gets up, you know, at four am and
he's already got the well, I mean, if he had
the resources, he could buy some you know, real eggs,
not cage free eggs. But all these libs have decided
they're gonna quit quitter, quick quit, quick, quick fit. They're
gonna quit X.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Easy for you to say.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah, well, you know everything's easy for me to say,
what's the point of finally quitting X and going away?
If they don't make a whole big drama out of it.
Stephen King is the latest. Oh Stephen King on Twitter,

(03:56):
he announces I'm leaving Twitter. I had to stay, but
the atmosphere has just become too toxic. Follow me on
threads if you like. Have you looked at do you
do threads? Dragon?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's the Instagram.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's the Instagram. When I I.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Think my Instagram account is tied to it, so I
think it when I post to one, it goes to
the other.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
But you never look. Okay, yeah, I think I think
it is automatically tied. They're tied to each other. But
I haven't looked. I don't know. I haven't been on
Instagram in a while. I need to look at Instagram.
There might be something on there that might interest me.
Now he's not leaving because Twitter is toxic. All Stephen

(04:42):
King does if you go through and read his timeline,
all he does is he spews toxins. He's the guy
that leaves, leaves the turn in the punch bowl, and
then complains about the taste. He's just upset. He's pissed
off that his team lost and he can't do a
damn thing about it. So he's he's going to project

(05:08):
that thwart, thwarted rage under the people that he hates
and then proclaim himself above all of it. This is
how they are, This is how these elitists are. It's
just silly. But then our society is lavishly rewarded someone
like Stephen King for spending most of his life in

(05:30):
a fantasy world of his own concoction. Now, I'm not
a Stephen King fan. I don't read Stephen King books.
Do they make movies out of Stephen King, Yes.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I mean they just redid it so that.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
So then I guess I have seen a Stephen King
novel on the big screen. Yes, okay, but I don't.
I don't read his books.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Books are far much worse. I'm very I wouldn't say
I'm very concerned, but I am concerned as to how
many people seem to like them when there is so
much child porn, child sex. Yeah, in the to those
who don't know, oh wait a.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Minute, now you've suddenly you have my my curiosity.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
To those who don't know the ending of it, the
eleven year old children, the group of the Losers Club, Yeah,
they all get down and have sex after they kill
the monster, or they think they kill the monster. So
I remember that. Well, it's not in the movie.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, it's not in the movie the movie, it's in
the book. Oh.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
But and then there's multiple books like that where they
have adults doing things to children and children doing things
to children, and he's the one writing them. But we're
supposed to be okay with Stephen King. I mean, I
get it is a fictional universe, but you're writing.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
It there, you're coming up with that in your head.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yep, but he's okay, but Stephen King must be okay.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Wow. Well, then maybe there's a novel somewhere about a
writer who is tormented by a really sick, perverted demon
that he creates for himself, a dark individual, you might say. Oh,
then there's the distinguished journalist, and of course the women's

(07:20):
rights activists. Don themon, done, lemon. He stomped away in
a little hissy fit away from X so hard. It's
taken him three tweets to do it. Three tweets to
do it. The first one is a video in which

(07:40):
he announces his leaving of X, and then he does it,
let me go back. I don't want to look at
this Hi. Everyone that goes on gives a little speech
about it. And then he writes a letter and post

(08:01):
it on X. I'm gonna leave you, and I'm gonna
leave you three times. He writes, I've loved connecting with
all of you on X, but it's time for me
to leave the platform. I once believed it was a
place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free speech,
but I now feel it does not serve that purpose. Now,

(08:25):
before I read the rest of it. There was a
time when I really did think about leaving X myself
because it was not a place for honest debate and
discussion or transparency or free speech. Before Elon Musk bought it.
And then Elon disclosed he gave to Matt Tayibi, Michael Schellenberger,

(08:49):
and somebody else, a woman I can't think of her
name now, but he gave him the Twitter files. He said, here,
here's all of our end dig through it, point out
everything we've been doing wrong. And then and then Elon
made a horrible mistake by allowing people to actually say

(09:13):
what they wanted to say. Now there's still people to
get caught occasionally, and there's still a little bit of
I wouldn't call it censorship. I think the algorithm still
is getting cleaned up and still maybe I'm just trying
to rationalize it, but it's not entirely free speech yet.
Don Lemon continues. In addition, starting this Friday, November fifteenth,

(09:37):
that would be today, EX is implementing new terms of service, which,
among other things, states that all disputes be brought exclusively
in the US District Court for the Northern District of
Texas or state courts located in tarant County, Texas. The
full terms of service can be found here, and he
puts in a link to the terms of service. So

(10:01):
that's one of the reasons. Every TOS term of service
that I've ever read states the legal jurisdiction in which
any disputes must be brought. Sometimes it's you know, they're
they're incorporated in Delaware, so it's a it's the Delaware

(10:21):
Federal courts, or it might be the Colorado State Court,
or it might be very specific like here in any
court located in Tarrant County, Texas, because Musk is moving
his stuff to Texas, and that's a reason to leave.
How many of you, at first, I'd be curious how

(10:43):
many have ever actually read the terms of service of
any platform or any product or service that you use.
Nobody reads the fine print, and even as a lawyer,
I don't always read the fine print. Sometimes I do,
sometimes I don't, But because there's always a clause in

(11:04):
there that says, by continuing to use the service, you
accept these terms of service. So if I'm going to
use the service, I've accepted the terms of service. And
even if I wanted to change the terms of service.
Let's say I wanted to change it. Hey, musk, hey, elon,
can we make a deal for me? Could we change
the terms of service so that the court's a competent

(11:27):
jurisdiction for any disputes or arbitrations that we might have
a dispute between X and me? Could we do that
in Colorado District Court Colorado Federal Court. Do you think
you'd agree to that? No, of course he's not going
to agree to it. So in order to use the platform,
I must agree to the terms of service. So I just,
you know, okay, well whatever. Now. The thing I do

(11:50):
do I do almost incessantly. I'm pretty obsessed with it.
And that's cookies. Anytime I go to a new website
and accept, you know, it says across the bus them, hey,
we use cookies, and you know you can. You can
set your own settings. All I go through to idle,
I I other other than uh maybe sometimes functional or

(12:10):
technical cookies. I block the marketing and the all the
personal identifying information, the piis I delete all of those.
You can't. You can't. You can't track me on any
of those. I suggest you do the same thing. Anyway.
Back to Don Lebon, Don Lemon continues in his letter
on X about leaving X. As The Washington Post recently

(12:33):
reported on x's decision to change the term, this ensures
that such lawsuits will be hurt in courthouses that are
a hub for conservatives, Tarren County, Texas a hub for concerns.
I don't not really think that I agree with that. Uh,

(12:53):
that are a hub for conservatives, which experts say could
make it easier for X to shield itself from li
gation and punish critics. I think that speaks for Itselfie writes,
you can find me on YouTube. I won't tell you
what it is on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and blue Sky.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah you know TikTok, that app that we're gonna shut
down here in a few months.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, we're gonna keep shutting it down because the Chinese
are spying on us all the time. Uh. I went
over to blue Sky yesterday and opened an account. I
haven't done anything, but I just was curious. I want
to see what I want to see what it looked like.
That's where all the cool kids are going. And by
cool kids, I mean that's where all the celebrities and

(13:37):
people like Don Lemon and people like Stephen King are
all going so I get it, But how can we
miss you if you won't go away? You keep posting
on going away. I'm sure you know today's Friday. I'm
sure next week Don Lemon will post again. Hey I'm
leaving X Okay, we got it, go go. And then

(13:58):
they're the several others. Professional lunatic Joyanne Reid. She changed
her her handle is at Joyanne Read and of course
then you have your name and her name is Nope,
n Ope. And then the poop yogurt saleswoman Jamie Lee Curtis,

(14:24):
she tweeted, she posted on eggs, God grant me the
serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to
change the things I can, in the wisdom to know
the difference. You know, Dragon, we havet to write that down.
That's that's kind of that's a clever saying. We can
make millions from it. We can make million we have

(14:45):
to trademark that. That's a brilliant saying. And then below
that she but a screenshot which I don't know how
she did this. Your account is deactivated. Sorry to see
you go, hashtag goodbye, and then Dragon's fa British band
the Last Dinner Party. You ever heard of them? Totally?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
They got that one song about the thing.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Whether it be in serious or or you're jacking around
with me, I don't know what you're doing here? Did No,
I've never heard of them? Okay, good because I had neither.
But they they have penned on their account. I've found
a whole list of these attention in all caps. We
will surely be deleting this account due to the platform's
continued spread of misinformation and right wing political bias, particularly

(15:34):
in light of the US election. Well you're a British band,
so we don't care. Go away. And of course The
Guardian is no longer a Guardian Twitter. The Guardian is
no longer going to post any news on X now.
I don't know how many see how many users does.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
X?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
This is show prep on the fly?

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Hey, you get what you pay for?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Boy? You do, don't you? It doesn't. I just want
to know here. Oh. As of early twenty twenty four,
according to Statisticia, there were an estimated four hundred and
twenty nine million X users worldwide, with more than one
hundred and six million of those users being in the
United States. So the Guardian, who you want If I,

(16:36):
if I were the owner of The Guardian, I would
want a platform that has four hundred and twenty nine
million users, one hundred and six of which are one
hundred and six million of which are in the United States.
I would want to be posting my news articles there
to drive traffic to my website. But no, they're not
going to do it, and they're not going to do
it because because of the election. Because of the election,

(17:01):
these people are nuts. They're absolutely nuts, Michael. Those leaving
X are voting with their pocketbook.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Hell, I mean, they're unless they pay for the verified function.
It's a free service.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, and it's actually costing them. For example, the I
just mentioned the Guardian, So so the Guardian, a British paper,
obviously has US a US presence, is a British tabloid,

(17:50):
and their presence on X, just like the New York
Times the Washington Post, I don't. For example, the one
newspaper that I read religiously every day is the Wall
Street Journal, while I subscribe to the New York Times
and the Washington Post and the La Times and bunches

(18:13):
of others. The London Telegraph and others. I don't always
go to them every single day. It just depends on
how show prep's going, or kind of what I'm doing,
or you know, just if I'm looking for something in particular.
But what will send me to the Telegraph or the
Guardian or the either the Times or the Post will

(18:38):
be a post on X where they'll post a story
and it'll catch my attention and so I will click
and go over and read the story on the website.
So they're getting that click now. Other days they won't
get any clicks because there'll be days when there's enough

(19:00):
stuff in the news. Let's say that's coming out of
d C that I want to go read because you know,
because for six years, actually for longer than that, because
I read the Washington Post long before I went to
d C. Same with the New York Times. I would
I would go to those anyway and read them. But
now because there is such a flood of information coming

(19:23):
in that I have to be somewhat discerning. I mean,
if all I did was sit down and read thoroughly
the Wall Street Journal, Washington Posts, New York Times, the
LA Times, the London Telegraph, the Denver Gazette, I don't
read the post at all. In the Denver Post, I

(19:43):
don't waste my time at all with it. And who
else i'd have to I'd have to go look if
I read all of those religiously, that that would take
up a couple of hours. I don't have a couple
of hours to do that. So instead I rely on
aggregators or services like X to you know, whatever their

(20:08):
story is that they're pushing that they think is is,
you know, their topic, a story that will lead me
to their website to read. So it's actually costing them money.
They're they're they're they're cutting their nose off despite their
face because they are upset because now conservative voices actually

(20:30):
have a presence on X. Now there always was a presence,
but you either got shadow band or you got pushed down.
Your reach wasn't very large. And and and they don't
like you. They don't like it on Musk, particularly since
he came out and supported Donald Trump. So they're actually
costing themselves. They're they're not voting with their dollars there

(20:54):
if they're If they are, they're doing it in the
opposite direction. They're doing they're doing it the wrong way.
But along these lines, this is all an example of
how just an election where Donald Trump comes back from

(21:15):
the wilderness and then he in a much more serious
way than he did in twenty sixteen, starts appointing a
cabinet that is causing liberal Marxist heads to explode. Their
hair's on fire, They're beside themselves, and so one way

(21:40):
that they think that they can, like Don Lemon, is
obviously begging people to follow him over to Blue Sky, TikTok, Instagram,
were all the other platforms. Well, I never followed Don
Lemon in the first place. He just popped up in

(22:02):
a story about all these liberals and these Dufus's leading
x which got me down the rabbit hole of who's
doing this? And I find it hilarious because let's think
about just thinking about it in several contexts. Who's the

(22:24):
threat to democracy? Well, I would say they are, because
this is an example of how they are anti free speech.
They can't stand the idea that conservatives might actually have
a voice. They can't stand the idea of being exposed
to a different opinion. That's why I'm fascinated by the

(22:45):
whole Bobby Kennedy thing. Bobby Kennedy look for someone like
me who is who believes in mostly believes in modern medicine. Now,
I think some stuff has gotten way out of control,
transgender surgeries, puberty blockers, all of that. But I believe
in vaccines. But I certainly don't believe the stars CoV

(23:09):
two that shot. I have said numerous times that I
honestly sincerely regret having gotten that shot, or those two shots.
I think it is part of their and I think
it's part of the reason. And I've had a certain

(23:30):
ideologist that you know that sponsors this program confirmed that
she too, has heard from many of her patients that
post starscov two shots that their tendatist seems to have
gotten worse. And I can tell you that mine got
horribly bad until until I got as I say in
the spots, they got so bad I went to see

(23:50):
doctor Julie, and I'm getting it back under control again.
Camera has had a couple of medical issues that her
physicians have intimated, if not directly said to her, Yeah,
it's probably a direct result of the COVID shot. What's
wrong with being a skeptic? I thought that's what science

(24:14):
was about, was skepticism. Prove your thesis, prove your hypothesis
and if it doesn't work well, then guess what, you
go back and try again. Don't you want to be
a skeptic about modern medicine? Don't you advocate for yourself
when you go see your doctor. If your doctor suggests

(24:36):
that you start doing something, don't you ask? Why don't
you ask? You know, like, what are the ramifications one
of the unintended consequences if I start taking this pill?
Or what are the consequences if I don't take this pill?
There was a chiron. They had doctor Siego up on
Fox News earlier talking about Bobby Kennedy's appointment, and the

(24:57):
chiron said that forty percent, almost half, forty percent of
children in this country have at least one chronic illness.
How can that be in the most in the richest
country on the planet. How is it that forty percent
of children have at least one chronic illness? And how

(25:19):
many times before I want you to go back and
go back in your own head, in your own time machine,
and how many times did you hear incessantly about the
childhood obesity crisis? So now you've got a guy that
wants to address that. Does he have other things that

(25:39):
we disagree with. Yes, that it gets back to they
can't stand free speech. They're the threats of democracy. They
can't stand descent, and they certainly cannot stand the idea
that somebody might have, you know, they might have a
different opinion about something they have. They're the least tolerant

(26:06):
of any group of people that I know of anywhere.
These Marxist progressive Democrats are the most intolerant group of
people in the face of the earth. And this whole
thing about x is a great example of that. As
I was digging through the story about these celebrities leaving,

(26:32):
you know, why don't you keep your promise? You promised
to leave the country. Why don't you something called the
Clifton Suspension Bridge and Museum. Uh, it's an outfit again.
It's in the UK. They're leaving Twitter X formerly known

(26:55):
and here's their announcement on x X formerly known as Twitter,
has been a wonderful place to engage with our audience
over the past fifteen years, but the changes made to
the platform in recent times has caused us to reconsider
our use of it. With the rise in inappropriate content
and decrease in meaningful engagement with our followers, we have

(27:20):
chosen the longer post to this account. You will always
be able to stay up today with what is happening
at the Clifton Suspension Bridge, including bridge closures and maintenance
through our website Clifton Bridge dot org dot UK. If
you'd like to continue following us on different social media platforms,
we are active on Facebook and Instagram using at Brunelle

(27:40):
Bridge or something. I don't know what it is, I
don't care. As of earlier this week that it had
four point one million views. Now, what a stretch and
what a joke, What an absolute joke that a bridge,
some bridge in the UK decides to leave X because

(28:00):
of an election in the United States. Jennifer Ruben, Washington
Post columnist a nut job if thereerever was one, has
claimed that she's going to quit X. Now what's funny
about Jennifer Ruben is you know you can lock down

(28:22):
your account, you can protect your account, and a lot
of people when they post something that they end up
getting in trouble for or that causes them an embarrassment,
what will they do. They'll go lock their account, They'll
protect their account. So that unless you're already a follower,
you can't see what they're doing. Well, that's what she did.

(28:43):
And this article that I found about these people leaving
took a screenshot of it. Think about this, though not
a single one of those people have been oppressed, nobody's
stopping them saying whatever they want to say. You know
what they're you know what they're really mad about. They're
mad about being proven wrong over and over and over

(29:06):
and over again. And so now they find themselves all
standing alone, and so now they're cold. It's getting cold
and icee in there, and so now they're trying to
find shelter of their comrades and they're trying to find
shelter in a break. Michael, how dare you think logically

(29:27):
while talking about democrats? I know, stupid um me, isn't it?
So back to my point about none of these people
are oppressed, and there's nothing stopping them from saying whatever
they want to on X, unless, of course, you know,
it's it's pornographic or it's you know, inciting violence or something.

(29:47):
They're just sick of being wrong and being called out
for it. You know, there's there's something on X that
I that I've actually fallen in love with, and it's
called community notes, and not everybody gets to it, and
I don't know how. I don't know how it happened
for me. But community notes is a way of other

(30:09):
users providing context that might show that something that somebody
posted is incorrect, or it lacks context, or it doesn't
really mean what it says. I mean, it's it's a
way to annotate, and that's the best word for it.
It's a way to annotate something that I might post.

(30:29):
So if I say something on X and people disagree
with it, or they think it's wrong, or they think
it needs more context, they can post community notes. Well,
somehow I got a notification I don't know, maybe a
month or two ago that I now have the ability
to rate community notes. So if I see someone's posted

(30:53):
something and there are lots of community notes, I'll go
through and look at those notes because that might provide
additional context about what they're really saying, or it might
give me information. And I use a lot for show
prep that shows me that, oh, this is a great story,
and here's some you know, Hollywood actor lying about it.
So it might lead to a story that I might

(31:14):
do on the radio program. But for whatever reason, X
has given me the ability to go in and rate
those notes and I and I can. It gives me
a drop down menu where I can say, Yet, this
note is is a good note. I'm just generalizing here.
It's a good note, it's a bad note, The note

(31:35):
is not needed, the note is the note itself is incorrect.
I mean it's it's a great way for people to
annotate and interact with people. Things that people say. Well,
a lot of these Hollywood people, a lot of these
Marxists really get they get ratio, they get community noted,

(31:56):
and it provides really good context to what they're trying
to say. And I think they're sick of it. Well,
I think it's a great it's a brilliant way to
make the platform much more effective. Prow much you think
about this, They're not leaving because they're being silenced. They're

(32:18):
leaving because their enemies are not being silenced. And if
free speech hurts you or hurts your cause, if you're
afraid of speech a free speech, maybe you're not the
good guy. And so maybe you're leaving because actually, maybe
it tells us a lot about what we need to
know about you. Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Brothers, Discovery. They're

(32:43):
all back advertising on there again. That's interesting.