Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk ‘s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory, maintaining Sunday that he wasn’t familiar with the post despite it prompting major companies to pull advertising from the billionaire’s X social media platform.
“I did not see the comment,” DeSantis, the governor of Florida, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And so, I know that Elon has had a target on his back ever since he purchased Twitter because I think he’s taking it in a direction that a lot of people who are used to controlling the narrative don’t like.”
Musk has sparked outcry with a recent tweet responding to a user who accused Jews of hating white people and for professing a general indifference to antisemitism. “You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in a reply Wednesday.
Exactly! Since when is it their job to keep track of political debates and news around the world? Politicians have their own shit to handle, we cant just keep pestering them with public worries.
Are you really equating knowing about a widely reported, highly inflammatory statement by one of the most influential people in America with sitting around all day reading tweets?
The fuck is this news story?
DeSantis walks into a bar and sits at a table with 5 Nazis. The table now has six Nazis.
That is a fine stance however it means he then has to go seek it out and update people after he has seen it
No he doesn’t. He doesn’t owe anyone that. He simply didn’t see the tweet. we aren’t all obliged to succle at the teat that is “X” at all hours of the day like rabid squirrels. “I didn’t see the comment” is a legitimate answer and should bar no further investigation. Get over it.
If you don’t know something then you should learn it
If you don’t care to learn it then the answer should be that you don’t care
It’s a brief comment. He has spent longer talking about how he hasn’t seen it than it would take to see it, this is disingenuous theater. He’s intentionally deflecting so he doesn’t have to choose between alienating the fascists that comprise his base, and alienating the moderate R voters that he needs to supplement the fascists if he wants any chance of electability.
No it’s bullshit. He knows what it said. He’s giving Musk cover. Fascists always give other fascists cover.
