Managing Editor, Internet. https://t.co/oZpMf9h23s He could have just paid the billion dollar breakup fee. But instead, this.
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Jul 9, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
1/ I boycotted Twitter the day they accepted Elon’s offer to purchase the company. Now that I’m back I’d like to provide a brief overview of how Twitter users and investors were betrayed, what makes me think this was all a set up, and why the current CEO and board must go.
2/ First, I'm glad the deal fell through and Elon won't turn Twitter into his latest personal dating app. His every utterance is front page news and our current system has made him the richest person alive, yet he wanted to buy Twitter because he's a victim with limited speech.
Dec 20, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1/ How, after four years of this, can many Americans keep finding themselves shocked by Donald Trump’s behavior?
A psychoanalyst friend Dr. Michael Levin helped me explain.
“This disconnect exists because we’re living in a world that is grounded and checked by reason…
2/ His is grounded only in his emotional needs and fantasies. I think this is a useful framework to understand why we all have repeatedly been shocked by his behavior for years. It’s just a bridge too far for most of our psychological imaginations …
Jul 29, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
At the hearing with tech CEOs, Apple should demand 30% of all American taxes.
Bezos should show up in a cardboard box.
Jul 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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Fuck it, I’ll be president:
My fellow Americans:
We’re in a fight for our lives. We need to flatten the curve, we need schools open, we need to save our economy.
For the next four weeks, everyone who can stay home must. Anyone who must leave their house, must wear a mask.
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I know you’re frustrated. I know our health workers and first responders are exhausted. I know our grandparents feel trapped and scared.
But if we can take in this challenge together, we can awaken to a new reality a month from now. It won’t be over, but it will be better.
May 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Everything else aside, and there’s a lot, politically, the Minneapolis protests are Trump’s dream come true.
Trump tweeted, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Those are the words a sick monster.
Just like the birther stuff, just like the kids in cages, just like the wall, just like the Muslim ban.
This is the brand he ran on the first time, and won.
Apr 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I have total authority.
- Where are the tests?
It’s WHO!
- Where are the tests?
It’s China!
- Where are the tests.
Mutiny on the Bounty!
- Where are the tests?
I’d give myself a 10 out of 10.
- Where are the tests?
I never downplayed the virus.
- Where are the tests?
It’s a media hoax
- Where are the tests?
I take no responsibility.
- Where are the tests?
It’s a Democratic plot!
- Where are the tests?
Obama left the government unprepared.
- Where are the tests?
We’re gonna open up by Easter.
- Where are the tests?
Mar 26, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Today I bought 2K masks for hospitals and spent thousands to feed health workers.
I’m not bragging. I’m making a point.
Trump can keep the back-patting, faux-patriotic, MAGA bullshit to himself. This liberal, science-loving, clown ass mother fucker is doing his job.
#SadTruth
I’m don’t deserve thanks. Compared to most people, including my parents, my life has been a revolving door of lottery wins. I just don’t want to hear any more bullshit from this pathetic Trump clown posse.
No more conferences, no more babysitting.
Do something or STFU.
Mar 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/ My brand is humor. I’ll use to lighten the mood in coming weeks. But please believe me when I say that everyone in healthcare and at the government, at the highest level, is very concerned right now. Do not be distracted by the president’s antics. The military is worried.
2/ Your movement will be more restricted in coming hours and days. Start hunkering down now. People you know are likely to die. Anything you can do to lighten the load on others and on the health system needs to be done.
Jul 1, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1. Let me explain political tribalism using sports as an example.
If I’m watching basketball and one player grabs another player’s genitals, my feelings about that offending player are likely to trend negative.
But wait…
2. When my home team player Draymond Green repeated yanks on some nuts, I’m like, “Well, in the grand scheme of things, what’s a little genital pulling.”
Maybe its part a broader strategy. Everyone knows the way to dude’s head is through his crotch.
