Correspondent, comedian • Host of @BitchuationPod • Newsbroke on AJ+ • The Young Turks • “Red White and Who” on MSNBC• IG: @franifio
Nov 9 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
A thread on news media, and the 'Joe Rogan of the left' discussion as someone with a left podcast & experiences within mainstream news. Rogan is both a celebrity (fear factor, MMA, comedy) and an outsider despite millions of dollars from Spotify. (1)
Rogan is for normies, mostly men, & comes at issues with the childlike wonder of someone who's been hit in the head A LOT. But to his credit, he has in depth conversations the likes of which would make any 24 hr cable news outlet slit their wrists. This is part of the problem (2)
Nov 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Biden may eek out a victory but it will be unacceptably close. Can't even call it bittersweet. It's more like winning at a slot machine and having to accept coins via enema. Democrats have had years to game out an alternative and to offer working Americans a plan. They didn't.
The allure of celebrity fascism is real, but so is a politician unafraid to fight for his vision-- as demented as Trump's is. Dems had every advantage to capitalize on the utter failure of this administration and turn it into a compelling platform, do real deep community building
Apr 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
There is no question that were Joe Biden not Joe Biden, by the rightful standards of #MeToo movement he would have been relegated to a show on SirusXM not the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. (1/7)
The flaw in the #MeToo movement, not by its design, is that it abides by morality Republicans and the right have never agreed to. Rather, the Republican strategy is denial and silencing women. And it actually happens to work. Biden is now following the GOP playbook. (2/7)
Aug 28, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
After my Newsbroke episode on the economy, The Yang Gang thinks I'm not up on the 'miracle' of UBI. Lemme just say, $1000 a month isn't going to stop a runaway free market system that puts people over profit, rather it's trying to buy you out so you'll keep quiet about greed.
Andrew Yang's pitiful response to climate change to "move to higher ground" encapsulates the dangerous cynicism and libertarian fatalism of his politics. He thinks nothing can be done about fossil fuel burning or automation and that we should just build a bunker called UBI.
