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Twitter is now "X". Josh Marshall:
Not sure how much this matters, but if you do a Google search for x, on the front page you’ll get X (a movie), X (a band), X-Games, X-Box, Radio X, Fast X, Fragile X Foundation, Venture X, X chromosome, IBM X-Force, X-Men, Pro Pilot X, Title X, Fragile X, X streaming, X plane, Pro X II, x (album by Ed Sheeran), Bio X, X Prize, Ten-X, X (video by Jonas Bros), x.org, Musk’s own Tesla Model X, and X (the moonshot factory).
Mind you, this is only the first page out of about 25 million hits.
He also got quite a bit of media coverage out of the rebrand, but once that fades I’ll very much question if he’s heard of SEO.
My Google search for Twitter got about 23 million hits and the first page was almost exclusively directly Twitter-related.
It makes more sense if you think of it as not to remake a company, as it is to diminish it. Removing a tool for liberal organizers
I've definitely thought about that, and would say he's had very good success diminishing things in a few short months.
Also just read on Twitter (I will still call it that, like I still say Mile High Stadium) that Musk tried to start rebranding PayPal by starting with X-PayPal. People disliked it, oddly, because PayPal had a recognizable brand name that was already being used as a verb (PayPal me the money). The focus group in part said X reminded them of porn.
Guessing that Musky will now want royalties paid on any use of the 24th letter of the
englishMerikan alphabet?Space-X
Elon MusX
He might want royalties, but I'm being told my post four posts up from here will be used in court to prove he didn't get to X first.
"X" as in X-tube?
Neither has much to offer in the socially redeeming value department.
Hat-tip to MahaBlog.
Theory: I could whip enough conservatives to protest TBD as to create a moral panic that TBD is a threat to conservatives.
"To Be Determined"? You're going to market that as a moral threat to conservatives?
TBD so deeply intertwined in the liberals disgusting lives that they openly put it on their agenda!
I'm slow … my understanding and several dictionaries say TBD means "To Be Decided" or "To Be Determined." It is a placeholder term,
I think it would be more ironic if you could convince "conservatives" that TBI is the threat to conservatives, and begin to have them rallying against American football and military troops having boots on the ground where they are exposed to explosives.
You’re not slow it just sounds like you have been brainwashed by ETC!
The 9-dash line is Commie Chinese propaganda.
Or is it rich satire too difficult for conservatives to understand?
Have you seen an image of the map, and do you jnow what the line represents? I couldn't contort a vision of SE Asia out of that map if I tried, and it's supposed to represent a journey line according to the producers. I suppose maybe it could be SE Asia in all its crayon glory, and Barbie could have travelled the very edge of China's proclaimed sea border… or, yeah, it's just a fake movie "map" of an inter-reality journey of a toy.
Someone really needs to administer a Rorschach test to Teddy Cruz. In every ink blot, he will see aggression by Communist China and/or a transgender woman trying to urinate.
Communist China is in fact trying to claim some territory in the south China Sea. That is the 9 dash “cow tongue ” line.
It’s controversial because the US, the Phillipines, Indonesia, and other countries all want to maintain full access to territory China wants.
The South China Sea is also where China is building artificial islands, and militarizing them. There is reason to be concerned.
Your guess as to whether this is the territory on Barbie’s map, even a crude crayon map, is as good as mine. Like Phoenix, I can’t tell.
You didn't see the movie so you are just talking out of your ass. Besides you aren't offended that Canada is part of the US or that territory previously part of the confederacy isnt included as land. You are just worked up because you were told to be. Go see Barbie then we'll talk.
Who are you talking to, John N o D? Why would any of us actually see the Barbie movie?
Do your American Girl dolls make globe—trotting journeys?
Good News: Republicans are Dying Off. Celind Lake.
QED. WaPo.
Another look at the partisan impact of COVID comes from Charles Gaba.
March (Likely FINAL) Update: County-Level Red/Blue COVID Death Rate Divide Widens Again
That analysis also overlooks the “new voters” by way of naturalization / becoming a citizen, about 750,000 per year (2016-2020), and under the Biden administration [and the reduction of COVID impacts], even more.
While those voters are NOT a cohesive group, they can be particularly important to a winning coalition. The new citizens are concentrated in the US, and most swing states are among the states with higher numbers of new voters.
More Good News.
College towns have always been much more liberal than random mid-sized towns. As creative hubs, I think they are growing faster as well. In the article they talk about UM (Ann Arbor) and UW (Dane County, Wisconson)
These mid-Western & Prairie swing states, had moved away from the Democrats after the 1990s – diminished turnout from labor & bachelor-norwegian-farmers, I guess.
Case in point, My home town:
Hmm. Boulder was always quite liberal- both on campus and off.
The college part of Fort Collins of my youth was fairly liberal, even though CSU was an Ag school with lots of rancher and farmer kids. But, Larimer County was all farm & ranch agricultural (like Weld County is to this day). Loveland was well known for being a sun-down town into the 1960s – within my memory. Subsequently we had LOTs of suburban-style growth: college-educated extreme middle-class, but I wouldn’t say they were universally liberal; Lots of Texas and California refugees. “Dear, next time let’s move somewhere ‘nice'”.
The re-alignment after Trump has been to collapse the college-educated suburban vote to the Democrats, and the rural small-town, and non-college voters to MAGA.
I don’t think that has anything to do with college imparting socialist-values to students, which is what MAGA-ites are claiming. More like revulsion against TRUMP and Christian Nationalists.
BoBo walks it back with another word salad.
It literally turns my stomach to listen to her spew her lying bullshit.
Anyone who ever voted for this vacuous piece of garbage owes the rest of us an apology.
You probably aren't her target audience.
I disagree. In that MAGA-addled mind of hers she probably thinks the Dukes of her district might fall for it. Her true believers were popping tents over her little trash can stunt.
Thanks for posting, Michael. With minimal regret, I couldn't force myself to turn on the sound. Meanwhile, "back at the ranch," I mailed my first contribution check to Adam Frisch this past Friday.
Website is Adam for Colorado.
Meanwhile in CD-3 we get NOTHING substantive from her position holding. Like Trump and the rest of the 88 million brain dead please majority CRUSH THEM.
Unfortunately, there are Lauren "Bim" Boebert backers. Politico headline:
Club for Growth readies $20m fund to boost Boebert, Gaetz and other McCarthy antagonists
The "Dead Ron Bounce". Josh Marshall at TPM.
The Spanish elections didn’t go as planned (by the über right)
No clear victor in Spanish election as results defy predictions
From Twitter…or “X”… or whatever it’s being called today? Some MAGA’s are losing their *hit over the election results:
So, the Popular Party won the popular vote. Big deal. Tell that to Presidents Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.
It’s not a matter of getting the most votes but in getting them in right combination of districts or states.
The Spanish election reminded me of the US House last November. A big right-wing wave is a comin’, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda, followed by a big yawn.
The really interesting thing was the collapse of the two extremes. Sumar (formerly Podemos) on the far left went from 35 to 31 seats. The center-left socialists went from 120 to 122. Vox, the neo-fascists, went from 52 to 33 seats. The center-right PP went from 89 to 136 seats.
The important result is that Vox lost seats.
Yes, indeed. And that was after they received the coveted endorsement of Georgia Meloni (i.e., Madam Mussolini) in Italy.
No word from SNL's Weekend Update reporters on whether the still-gravely-dead Francisco Franco weighed in with his support for Vox.
Keep doubling down, MeatHead…
I'll bet his staff was up nights for months on end consulting with climate experts to come up with a deep policy like that.
You mean the climate experts at the API?
It’s going just like Exxon scientists predicted it would back in the 70’s.
Not to be alarmist but…this is what’s called a six-sigma event, now unfolding in Antarctica.
Otherwise known as a once-in-7.5-million-year event.
Hang onto your hats.
#ExxonKnew
That is scary stuff, Michael. If I understand…and I think I do.
So far, our locale has been spared the intensity of heat that is killing people a couple hundred miles to the south. And…saints be blessed, we have altitude.
I fear the upvalley traffic will be steadily increasing for a long time…🤨
Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha. via Josh Marshal.
And then there was this …..
Paul Gosar’s Newsletter Features Website That Calls for Readers to ‘Stand up for Hitler’: Report (msn.com)