Speaking as someone who has never used twitter, there might be a silver lining to this. I have always wondered who in their right mind would get their news from twitter (or Facebook for that matter). Sure twitter might be the place where some story is initially broken but if it’s important the press is going to cover it. And cover it …
Speaking as someone who has never used twitter, there might be a silver lining to this. I have always wondered who in their right mind would get their news from twitter (or Facebook for that matter). Sure twitter might be the place where some story is initially broken but if it’s important the press is going to cover it. And cover it better and more completely. But clearly I don’t live in the real world. So maybe if twitter implodes, that would be one less source of non-news.
One other unrelated comment for Charley…
I just listened to your Friday podcast with Bill Kristol. You talked about the upcoming midterms, but your characterization of the Arizona election process wasn’t accurate. You lumped Arizona in with the states that don’t allow processing of mail-in ballots to start until election day when in fact Arizona starts processing those ballots two weeks before election day. So the first batch of released results includes a significant number of mail-in ballot results. Thus, the “red mirage” characterization doesn’t apply to Arizona.
That’s was one of the truly bizarre things about the 2020 election. In Arizona, Biden had a (relatively) big lead on election day and it was Trump that gradually whittled the lead down as the results from the more rural areas started coming in. That led to the demonstrations in front of the vote processing center here in Phoenix with the protestors chanting “count all the votes”. So in the states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, Trumplicants are demonstrating to “stop the counting” because Trump is ahead at the time while in Arizona where he is behind, the chant is just the opposite. But then logic has never been the Trumplicant’s strong suit.
Speaking as someone who has never used twitter, there might be a silver lining to this. I have always wondered who in their right mind would get their news from twitter (or Facebook for that matter). Sure twitter might be the place where some story is initially broken but if it’s important the press is going to cover it. And cover it better and more completely. But clearly I don’t live in the real world. So maybe if twitter implodes, that would be one less source of non-news.
One other unrelated comment for Charley…
I just listened to your Friday podcast with Bill Kristol. You talked about the upcoming midterms, but your characterization of the Arizona election process wasn’t accurate. You lumped Arizona in with the states that don’t allow processing of mail-in ballots to start until election day when in fact Arizona starts processing those ballots two weeks before election day. So the first batch of released results includes a significant number of mail-in ballot results. Thus, the “red mirage” characterization doesn’t apply to Arizona.
That’s was one of the truly bizarre things about the 2020 election. In Arizona, Biden had a (relatively) big lead on election day and it was Trump that gradually whittled the lead down as the results from the more rural areas started coming in. That led to the demonstrations in front of the vote processing center here in Phoenix with the protestors chanting “count all the votes”. So in the states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, Trumplicants are demonstrating to “stop the counting” because Trump is ahead at the time while in Arizona where he is behind, the chant is just the opposite. But then logic has never been the Trumplicant’s strong suit.