![]() ![]() I happened to be an ocean and a continent away when I saw Musk’s now-infamous tweet about Paul Pelosi. Ex-President Donald Trump has endorsed them.Īnd one person lent one of these malicious theories his huge (100-million-plus-followers) platform: the new mayor of Twittertown. A member of the House, a likely subcommittee chair in the next Congress, shared them on a personal social-media account. And thanks to Twitter, they quickly migrated from the far-right QAnon fringe to the mainstream of the GOP. Those Republicans who identify with Trump and his MAGA movement either kept silent, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis did, or found ways to suggest that Paul Pelosi was no innocent victim, that he was somehow to blame for the attack. But these three men are themselves targets of murderous pro-Trump hatred, almost as much as Speaker Pelosi herself. Some prominent Republicans did speak out: former Vice President Mike Pence Senator and former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell. This awful incident should have united all Americans in condemnation. The intruder fractured Paul Pelosi’s skull with a hammer. She was not at home, but her husband was. He allegedly hoped to kidnap the speaker, and interrogate and torture her. A man reportedly in the grip of QAnon-style delusions forced his way into the San Francisco home of the speaker of the U.S. political system was shaken by a vicious crime. Within hours of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, the U.S. But now the city has a new mayor-and it’s as if Oswald Cobblepot (a.k.a. ![]() Maybe policing it effectively was never possible. Its streets and lanes are crowded with fascinating characters, crammed with treasures of knowledge and culture.īut like any big human agglomeration, Twitter attracts predators: crooks and fanatics and bullies, who deceive and abuse people for profit, power, or perverted fun. It’s large and dense and thrillingly cosmopolitan.
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