The Runover 4/27/22 Edition

The left's insults and protestations are getting even more pathetic than usual.

Apr 27, 2022

Biden*:

Biden Snapped at Kamala Harris So Hard Even Republicans Couldn't Believe It»»

According to the book, “This Will Not Pass,” last year, when Biden was dealing with lawmakers on the infrastructure bill, Harris wanted to put more into the bill, including more social spending. But Biden snapped at her when she tried to intervene.
She ‘began to make the case for a larger package than the one Republicans seemed to have in mind.’
‘Biden dismissed her comment immediately,’ the authors wrote, in so harsh a tone ‘that even the Republican senators were taken aback.’
That’s probably not surprising, given what a quick fuse Joe Biden seems to have. We’ve seen him flip out often when he is challenged, even on voters. Harris was also likely wrong, as the infrastructure bill barely passed as it was. If they had added more social spending into it, it never would have passed.

Harris is even more embarrassing than Joe—her only claim to fame.

Biden’s Transport Czar Recently Bought Stock In a Chinese Company Singled Out for Forced Uyghur Labor Use.

Biden* Hunter’s:

House GOP Now Demanding Answers From Hunter's Business Partner About Joe's Connections

Musk:

BREAKING: Project Veritas Releases Leaked Audio From Twitter's 'All Hands' Meeting»»

An internal all-hands call was held late Monday in which CEO Paral Agarwal and board member Bret Taylor fielded questions from staff. The call lasted approximately 45 minutes, and the audio was leaked to Project Veritas. In an email, Project Veritas listed some of the highlights of the call (emphasis mine):
Bret Taylor, Twitter Board Member: “I also just want to acknowledge all the emotions of today. It is an emotional day. I want to acknowledge it.”
• Taylor: “By law, we are required to act in the best interest of our shareholders.”
• Taylor: “I can’t speak to why people leak [information to journalists], but people do. I can’t imagine how disruptive it was for all of you.”
• Parag Agrawal, Twitter CEO: “It’s important to acknowledge that all of you have many different feelings about what is happening.”
• Agrawal: “Many of you are concerned, some of you excited, many people here are waiting to understand how this goes and have an open mind.”
• Agrawal: “The role of our policies and the capabilities we’ve built around content moderation are fundamental to keeping Twitter safe and growing.”
• Agrawal: “We’ll be finding a way to have Elon talk with all of you at the soonest possible opportunity.”
• Agrawal: “As you’ve heard from all of us, we don’t have all the answers.”
Agarwal’s comment about the content moderation policies indicate that he might be prepping to challenge his new boss’s views on free speech. How this all plays out will be very interesting and will likely have implications far beyond Twitter.

(Full 45 Minutes)

It's all about their feelings.

Elon Skewers the Liberal Meltdowns and the Suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Elon Musk @elonmusk

@esaagar Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate

Liberals Throw up One Last Hope Against Elon Musk's Takeover of Twitter

They are saying the above tweet and over tweets violate violate the agreement to not disparage twitter. Yet twitter has come out saying suppressing the laptop from hell story was wrong. You can almost taste their desperation.

Hey, Elon Musk, Twitter's 'Moral Authority' Vijaya Gadde Has to Go

Solid Take from Glenn Greenwald on Elon Musk Motives and Purchase of Twitter

Adam Schiff Gets His Clock Cleaned After Expressing ‘Concerns’ to Elon Musk About ‘Disinformation'

Sean Davis @seanmdav

You fabricated text messages from Jim Jordan. You lied about Russian collusion. You fabricated emails from Don Jr. You are the last person on earth who should be whining about “disinformation.” YOU are the biggest source of disinformation in the country.

Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff

Here's my take on the world’s richest man buying Twitter: He makes a great car and rocket. But I’m concerned his personal views will stop the fight against disinformation on social media. The problem on Twitter hasn't been too much content moderation – it's too much hate.

Sean Davis was polite and factual. Stay tuned for Schiff to call Davis a hater.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper

JUST IN - FCC was asked to block Musk-Twitter deal. The Commissioner said it has no authority to block @elonmusk's purchase of Twitter

Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan

Democrats control: -Big Tech -Big Media -Congress -The White House -Hollywood -And sports We get free speech on Twitter, and they lose their minds.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper

NEW 🚨 After Elon Musk struck deal to buy Twitter, the number of followers of some of Twitter’s most-followed accounts, including that of Barack Obama, singers Katy Perry and Taylor Swift dropped by thousands. Twitter says it is organic, The Independent reports

Twitter will pay Elon Musk $1 billion if it terminates takeover deal, Musk will do the same

Elon Musk Is Not a ‘Racist’ Because He Supports Free Speech on Twitter

Josh Hawley calls on Elon Musk to reveal number of Twitter accounts banned, suppressed, or throttled

The Need for Elon - Clear Evidence Exists of Near Uniform Support for Democrats Inside Twitter

Update: Based Week Gets Even Better as Elon Musk Confirms He Gets It

Twitter:

Project Veritas Appears to Catch Twitter in a Big Lie About 'Shadow-Banning'»»

Now, Project Veritas has dropped another very interesting piece of information, this time on Twitter’s alleged practice of “shadow-banning,” which essentially just means throttling an account’s reach and visibility. I’ll get to why this is important in a moment, but here’s the video Project Veritas put out of Twitter employees discussing the practice and its existence.
What’s fascinating about this is that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey once testified before Congress that shadow-banning was a “bug,” and that the accounts that were targeted were done so unintentionally. The then-CEO made those claims back in 2018.
Twitter’s supposed account shadow banning, which the company says was a bug, was “unfairly filtering 600,000 accounts, including some members of Congress” in search auto-complete and results. CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed the figure during his opening statement to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday; he shared the statement in a thread of tweets.
Dorsey explained that the shadow banning occurred due to algorithms that take into account how the people following those filtered accounts behave on the platform. Ultimately, Twitter determined that wasn’t a fair way to assess accounts, and changed course. “We’ll always improve our technology and algorithms to drive healthier usage, and measure the impartiality of outcomes,” he said.
Yet, the leaked Slack conversation posted by Project Veritas exposes the fact that shadow-banning is not an inadvertent “bug,” but that it exists as an offensive capability of Twitter. Did Dorsey lie to Congress? Certainly, he’s not going to be punished for it if he did (only Trump associates have to play by those rules), but it’s still fun to see this stuff brought to light.