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I can see this coming from a 100 miles away. If Musk does end up buying Twitter the right, who are already praising him despite the purchase not even close to being finalized, will flip on him the nanosecond he puts the kibosh on some horrible thing a person from the right tweets out. That WILL happen. Then he'll be called a liberal shill and part of the child abusing cabal who's really a lizard man from beneath the Denver airport wearing an itchy skin suit.

I have a question for The Banter team.

In the podcast it was mentioned that at some rally it was stated that people were expressing their desire to kill off liberals that enjoyed baby milkshakes and so on. Given the trajectory of politics and ultra right wing groups and their cultish adherence to shockingly awful disinformation, do you think it's fait accompli that there will be an incidence of sever violence across the U.S. or an incident that is so undeniably egregious (assassination, bombing, gassing, etc)- as if the terrorist attack on the Capitol wasn't enough- it really does snap people back to the reality of facts...that even the likes of Fox "News" is shamed into sobriety?

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I agree with your assessment of the Republican Party that is now so extreme, it's pathetic! It's a cult party, nothing else. I agree also that Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter should set off some alarms if he's allowed to be its owner. I feel he's going to allow so much disinformation to inundate the platform that it will contribute to the chaos already out there. I'm very worried about the midterms and how Democrats could lose the House. Republicans should never be reinstated ever again since their support of the January 6th insurrection, that's for certain. I can't believe people would vote for this traitorous party so early after the attack on the Capitol. I do hope Democrats will carry the day in November; they have to get their message out about this anti-American party. The Republican Party is definitely the gatekeepers of "cancel culture" these days.

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