Musk: Demoncratic party highjacked by extremists

[Simpletruther]

Elon Musk says the 'Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists' | Blaze Media

Elon Musk said in a tweet on Thursday night that the modern "Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.""I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists," Musk wrote. Valerie Bertinelli responded to Musk's comment by tweeting, "I...

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Thoughts? Is he right?

 

[Michael Cole]

Elon Musk, Valerie Bertinelli and Twitter? Hehe. No thanks.

Okay, you got me. I clicked. Musk is a Twittidiot. Cute little stick figures and babbling say-nothing posts.

This is pure idiocy:

 

[Questerr]

The power in the Democratic Party remains where it has been for decades: with the Center-Right moderate neo-liberal capitalists.

There are barely any actual progressives or leftists in any elected position within the party structure or government office.

It’s the Republicans who have move further and further to the extreme right.

 

[tres borrachos]

Elon Musk, Valerie Bertinelli and Twitter? Hehe. No thanks.

Okay, you got me. I clicked. Musk is a Twittidiot. Cute little stick figures and babbling say-nothing posts.

This is pure idiocy:

Valerie Bertinelli is the current host of The Kids Baking Championship on Food Network. You don't care about her opinion? I live and die by it!

 

[Jezcoe]

Musk is ignoring the neo Nazis and the Qanon wackos.

 

[JMB802]

Will someone explain why conservatives are drawn to expensively clothed attention whores like moths to a flame?

 

[bongsaway]

Am I supposed to care about Musk's opinions?

 

[jnug]

Musk is not helping himself here. Though it likely does not matter to him.

 

[Michael Cole]

Valerie Bertinelli is the current host of The Kids Baking Championship on Food Network. You don't care about her opinion? I live and die by it!

RIP Eddie.

I thought she was hot and she's aged well, but I want less Hollywood in Washington, not more. If we could get somebody like Zelensky, sure, but Valerie Bertinelli is not someone I trust with political opinion. Musk seems to be some kind of performance artist. Whatever it is, he's made a lot of money from it. Kinda the inverse of "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit." Musk's intended audience is baffled by brilliance (which Musk undoubtedly has), so he has to dazzle them with bullshit. They respond positively to nonsense.

What's funny is I've been single for about two years and still learning to cook. Kids level sounds good. I might check out the show. Lol.

 

[Callen]

Am I supposed to care about Musk's opinions?

Apparently, he has taken on Hero status amongst the right. I have nothing against him except to say I think he is a bit of an attention loving flake. I do think that some on the right may be disappointed in what he does with Twitter. His money, his business but I don't think he will deliver on their dreams of establishing a place where they can say whatever they want without restraint.

 

[tres borrachos]

RIP Eddie.

I thought she was hot and she's aged well, but I want less Hollywood in Washington, not more. If we could get somebody like Zelensky, sure, but Valerie Bertinelli is not someone I trust with political opinion. Musk seems to be some kind of performance artist. Whatever it is, he's made a lot of money from it. Kinda the inverse of "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit." Musk's intended audience is baffled by brilliance (which Musk undoubtedly has), so he has to dazzle them with bullshit. They respond positively to nonsense.

What's funny is I've been single for about two years and still learning to cook. Kids level sounds good. I might check out the show. Lol.

She was probably the first celebrity crush for many boys my age when she was playing Barbara Cooper on One Day At A Time as a young teen.

HAHA the kids baking show she hosts is only about them making sweet things. Be careful using it to help you. You may balloon up to Trump level obesity too soon.

 

[OrphanSlug]

How this thread is playing out already suggests Musk is more right than wrong on this one.

I have no real interest in supporting Musk, or the right for that matter, but I've made similar comments on this forum about the condition of the Democratic Party.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Elon Musk says the 'Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists' | Blaze Media

Elon Musk said in a tweet on Thursday night that the modern "Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.""I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists," Musk wrote. Valerie Bertinelli responded to Musk's comment by tweeting, "I...

www.theblaze.com

Thoughts? Is he right?

Uh oh. Twitter is gonna become 4 Chan.

The porn should massively increase.

 

[Taylor]

The political divide has no doubt become more partisan. The left especially so. There's a reason they're polling horribly.

 

[Michael Cole]

She was probably the first celebrity crush for many boys my age when she was playing Barbara Cooper on One Day At A Time as a young teen.

HAHA the kids baking show she hosts is only about them making sweet things. Be careful using it to help you. You may balloon up to Trump level obesity too soon.

Yep. Horrid show. Pat Harrington was great and Valerie was hot, so I watched it. Lol.

I've lost lots of weight recently - gall bladder and other intestinal issues - that's why I'm cooking. My appetite is gone. Food has to be good or I won't eat.

 

[Jezcoe]

The political divide has no doubt become more partisan. The left especially so. There's a reason they're polling horribly.

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The right pushed the center so far right that people like me who are moderate center left are now seen as commies.

One of the current political attacks right now is on the recognition of gay people’s existence… an issue settled quite a while ago.

We have abortion bans that are passing without carve outs for rape… that was something that everyone used to agree that forcing a woman to carry to term the product of her being raped was cruel… now no longer.

It is the right who has become ever more extreme and those extremists are the ones gaining power.

The progressive caucus of the left has been neutered by the moderate corporate wing of the democrats.

It is the right who are extreme in this nation.

 

[Michael Cole]

The political divide has no doubt become more partisan. The left especially so. There's a reason they're polling horribly.

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Parties and ideologies change over time, so those graphs on their own don't tell the whole story.

But let's look at the graphs.

From '94 to '04, both parties shifted ~1 to the left (median, I assume). From '04 to '17, the left shifts 2 and the right >1.5. I don't think that's a meaningful difference (<5%).

The divide is what counts. The movement has been fairly symmetrical.

 

[Taylor]

Parties and ideologies change over time, so those graphs on their own don't tell the whole story.

But let's look at the graphs.

From '94 to '04, both parties shifted ~1 to the left (median, I assume). From '04 to '17, the left shifts 2 and the right >1.5. I don't think that's a meaningful difference (<5%).

The divide is what counts. The movement has been fairly symmetrical.

Not true. The median is provided for both. There is currently a lot more diversity in views among those on the right.

 

[JMB802]

Not true. The median is provided for both. There is currently a lot more diversity in views among those on the right.

I think the 2022 "data" would show a very different result.

 

[Jezcoe]

Not what the data says.

What data? There where charts with the words “liberal”/ “conservative” without any context to the issues.

It used to be broad agreement that in the case of rape a woman should not be forced by the State to carry the baby to term if she did not want to.

No longer

Now which side changed and took the more extreme position and are currently passing laws to that effect?

 

[Jezcoe]

Not true. The median is provided for both. There is currently a lot more diversity in views among those on the right.

The median has been shifted by the right to ever further right.

What used to count as normal border enforcement in the 90’s would now be considered open borders policy because Bush and Clinton refused to catapult Mexicans into the sun.

 

[Michael Cole]

Not true. The median is provided for both. There is currently a lot more diversity in views among those on the right.

I just gave you the numbers. The only variance is less than 5% in the third graph. That's insignificant, especially across all three.

You'll need to post the legend before I can see diversity. If you're referring to the breadth of the graph sections, you may be correct, but I have no idea what Pew is measuring here and how they're quantifying it.

 

[j brown's body]

Elon Musk says the 'Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists' | Blaze Media

Elon Musk said in a tweet on Thursday night that the modern "Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.""I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists," Musk wrote. Valerie Bertinelli responded to Musk's comment by tweeting, "I...

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Thoughts? Is he right?

He's the world's greatest shitposting troll.

If FDR is the definition of liberal, and I think he is, the Democrats are right in the center of liberalism.

 

[bongsaway]

Apparently, he has taken on Hero status amongst the right. I have nothing against him except to say I think he is a bit of an attention loving flake. I do think that some on the right may be disappointed in what he does with Twitter. His money, his business but I don't think he will deliver on their dreams of establishing a place where they can say whatever they want without restraint.

I agree.Brilliant man, sadly he's an attention whore.

 

[PoS]

Elon Musk says the 'Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists' | Blaze Media

Elon Musk said in a tweet on Thursday night that the modern "Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.""I strongly supported Obama for President, but today’s Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists," Musk wrote. Valerie Bertinelli responded to Musk's comment by tweeting, "I...

www.theblaze.com

Thoughts? Is he right?

More like their true nature was revealed.