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TRUTH: Christians Should Not Rejoice at Elon Musk’s Liberty | Steve Berman

TRUTH: Christians Should Not Rejoice at Elon Musk’s Liberty | Steve Berman

Elon Musk tweeted something mostly true and mildly interesting the other day. It’s true in the sense that on Twitter, since 2008 the left has run full-speed from traditional Democrat tax-and-spend into full utopian green hedonism. It’s not true in the sense that in the real world, conservative reactionaries haven’t done the same thing in the other …

HARMFUL: Wearing Trump-Colored Glasses Bad for Your Health | Steve Berman

HARMFUL: Wearing Trump-Colored Glasses Bad for Your Health | Steve Berman

I wonder how many Twitter employees drive Teslas? I wonder how many will sell theirs now that they’ll be working for Elon Musk? Until Musk decided to buy Twitter, he was a green advocate for zero emissions, and a pioneer who almost single-handedly moved EV development decades further than it would have been without him. …

The Everlasting, Poo-Flinging War of the Nutpickers | Steve Berman

The Everlasting, Poo-Flinging War of the Nutpickers | Steve Berman

Until I saw it in Erick Erickson’s daily show notes, I never heard of the Twitter account Libs of TikTok. Then I scrolled through its feed and saw the whole performative cesspool as the sides lined up and unleashed hoses of filth and idiocy at each other. I don’t watch Tucker Carlson or really anything on …