Thank you Ann and Mickey for another great podcast! Welcome back to America Ann, and I hope you had a great time on your trip even though it appears that you may have caught a slight cold, perhaps from the recycled air on the plane. Hopefully you'll be able to get lots of rest and will feel better soon, but in the meantime I'm reminded of your speech at CPAC 11 when you were considerably more under the weather than today yet delivered BY FAR the best speech. Just as Rush (R.I.P.) would say he can beat liberals in an argument with half his brain tied behind his back, you can deliver a ROCKIN' speech or podcast even when you might not be feeling your very best.
"...but if you can stand the test, your worst is better than their best."
~The Human League "Open Your Heart" (1981)
Regarding Twitter I fear that Elon may be dragging his feet on removing the scourge of shadow banning because it's his intention to use that as a carrot to attract paid subscribers.
"I'll take the iron boot of shadowbanning off your neck and treat you fairly, but it will cost you."
If true, it will be something like the way phone companies charge you extra for an unlisted number. "We'll treat you with respect and allow you to retain your privacy, for a fee. Failure to pay that extra fee will mean you'll have stalkers and scam callers all day and night. So if you want an actually functional and useful phone service, you had better pay us extra."
Thank you again Ann and Mickey...ALWAYS the best podcast :-)
Thank you Ann and Mickey K. for another well balanced discussion. Completely agree with “When there is more competition it is better for the truth”. Disagreement and debate is healthy especially mentally healthy when presented in the respectful manner as Ann and Mickey K. share their knowledge of current events as they relate to past events and our state of the world. Smart!!
Interesting discussion...perhaps one reason Ann hasn’t seen her follower numbers on Twitter grow as she would expect is that so many hundreds of thousands (at least) of accounts like mine were just shut down (“permanently suspended”) starting in 2018 to effect the 2020 election. Me = consistent Conservative, +/-15,000 followers with about an equal number of follows (including @AnnCoulter) and for no reason one day likes and followers started just disappearing and puff, for no reason, account permanently suspended and despite multiple appeal requests not a single substantive answer as to why and no reinstatement. That equals 15,000 people who each lost 1 follower...multiply by a million and look at it exponentially on a tree diagram.
And to this day, NOTHING has changed.
One would think, at the very least that Musk would want these people back in his base for advertising revenue purposes...and, unlike most liberals, Conservatives buy quality and tip well.
The bot problem that came up here, I had learned Japan had the same problem. Their CNN equivalent tweet account may well have million followers but view count (now available) reveals it's far less than, say right wing influencer that has 100k followers. Elon really must eliminate bots and also shadow banning. As we speak, Ann's followers at 2,111,775, which is higher than say a month ago but the pace of growth appears quite low.
Agreed, Hilliary didn't lose the election of 2016 because of Russian disinformation, she lost the election all by herself (except for a little help from Comey). But then again, why did Trump get so much free advertising from Russian sources in2016? or did he not?
Nicely done today, Ann. Mickey is a pretty sharp guy, a rare thing indeed for a liberal in this crazed and woke age we’re in. Thanks for the interesting discussions.
Thank you Ann and Mickey for another great podcast! Welcome back to America Ann, and I hope you had a great time on your trip even though it appears that you may have caught a slight cold, perhaps from the recycled air on the plane. Hopefully you'll be able to get lots of rest and will feel better soon, but in the meantime I'm reminded of your speech at CPAC 11 when you were considerably more under the weather than today yet delivered BY FAR the best speech. Just as Rush (R.I.P.) would say he can beat liberals in an argument with half his brain tied behind his back, you can deliver a ROCKIN' speech or podcast even when you might not be feeling your very best.
"...but if you can stand the test, your worst is better than their best."
~The Human League "Open Your Heart" (1981)
Regarding Twitter I fear that Elon may be dragging his feet on removing the scourge of shadow banning because it's his intention to use that as a carrot to attract paid subscribers.
"I'll take the iron boot of shadowbanning off your neck and treat you fairly, but it will cost you."
If true, it will be something like the way phone companies charge you extra for an unlisted number. "We'll treat you with respect and allow you to retain your privacy, for a fee. Failure to pay that extra fee will mean you'll have stalkers and scam callers all day and night. So if you want an actually functional and useful phone service, you had better pay us extra."
Thank you again Ann and Mickey...ALWAYS the best podcast :-)
Thank you Ann and Mickey K. for another well balanced discussion. Completely agree with “When there is more competition it is better for the truth”. Disagreement and debate is healthy especially mentally healthy when presented in the respectful manner as Ann and Mickey K. share their knowledge of current events as they relate to past events and our state of the world. Smart!!
Ann, the news has been slow because you haven't been in the country to make content for the media to latch onto.
Interesting discussion...perhaps one reason Ann hasn’t seen her follower numbers on Twitter grow as she would expect is that so many hundreds of thousands (at least) of accounts like mine were just shut down (“permanently suspended”) starting in 2018 to effect the 2020 election. Me = consistent Conservative, +/-15,000 followers with about an equal number of follows (including @AnnCoulter) and for no reason one day likes and followers started just disappearing and puff, for no reason, account permanently suspended and despite multiple appeal requests not a single substantive answer as to why and no reinstatement. That equals 15,000 people who each lost 1 follower...multiply by a million and look at it exponentially on a tree diagram.
And to this day, NOTHING has changed.
One would think, at the very least that Musk would want these people back in his base for advertising revenue purposes...and, unlike most liberals, Conservatives buy quality and tip well.
The bot problem that came up here, I had learned Japan had the same problem. Their CNN equivalent tweet account may well have million followers but view count (now available) reveals it's far less than, say right wing influencer that has 100k followers. Elon really must eliminate bots and also shadow banning. As we speak, Ann's followers at 2,111,775, which is higher than say a month ago but the pace of growth appears quite low.
No one better on the Musk beat than Mickey.
Hey, you forgot to include that whiny little bitch George Will in your list of “Republicans” who get to appear on TV!
Agreed, Hilliary didn't lose the election of 2016 because of Russian disinformation, she lost the election all by herself (except for a little help from Comey). But then again, why did Trump get so much free advertising from Russian sources in2016? or did he not?
Nicely done today, Ann. Mickey is a pretty sharp guy, a rare thing indeed for a liberal in this crazed and woke age we’re in. Thanks for the interesting discussions.