I am afraid I got off Twitter because everything I wanted to say on Twitter I couldn't say on Twitter. Why? Because it would just be a it's such a minefield to get cancelled.
You know that 99 99% I'm sure you know this. 99% of the people who worked at Twitter, half of them don't. Now Bill Maher brought a few woke idiots on to his show Real Time with Bill Maher and was forced to put them in check.
Bill Maher was forced to check his woke panel for their comments about cancel culture and he had to just let them know, give them a complete reality check on cancel culture and Owen left this culture in general, who started it and who really carries out cancel culture in general. Let's get into this clip here where Bill Maher stuns his panel and his audience by putting these woke idiots on his panel in check, including Roana, the guy that you see and and the other guys that you see on this panel. Let's get into this clip here from Real Time with Bill Maher.
Like, do you really want to make a decision of whether Bill Maher Roana's tweet should stay or not? I couldn't think of a worse possible job. Just appoint some board independently to make that decision.
Well, I think I think he's going to I think that's what he's doing. Well, you know, look, he I I think he had a terrible week, and I'm a big fan of his, but retweeting the gay Pelosi story was stupid. And then advising people to vote Republican because we need divided government at a time when the Republicans were standing for ending democracy was stupid.
But he's a genius. Sometimes geniuses are stupid. [laughter] Uh, and I'm still on his team.
I I think think it's great. I think it'd be so good for the Democrats to unshackle themselves from woke Twitter. This election just proved they do best when they have, [applause] you know, the moderate guy who's not u beholden to woke Twitter.
Twitter does not vote. Sure, Twitter doesn't vote. Uh but I also don't think we need to be afraid of expressing our opinions on Twitter.
I had a No, we should. Exactly. That's what he's standing up for.
We shouldn't be afraid. I am afraid. I got off Twitter because everything I wanted to say on Twitter, I couldn't say on Twitter.
Why? Because it would just be a it's such a minefield to get cancelled. You know that 99% I'm sure you know this.
99% of the people who worked at Twitter, half of them don't now [laughter] uh vote Democratic. Now, even if you're a Democrat, you shouldn't like that. That's not healthy for any company or any country.
[applause] Well, look, I'm I'm not for censoring people on Twitter. I think that if you're going to incite, which you I don't think ever did, but if people are inciting violence, that's different. So, clean that up.
Yeah, of course. If people are inciting violence, that's different. You know who the ones who are the main ones that incite violence that that encourage others to take violent action?
It's the left-wingers. It's people like Destiny, Hassan, Vosch, those sorts of people. Those are the people who say, you know, destiny will say things such as like uh, you know, whenever the the Donald Trump assassination or almost assassination happened where he got shot in the ear.
He was saying that the people who got shot that were behind Donald Trump, a guy died, a firefighter died. He said he deserved it. He didn't say that exactly, but he insinuated the guy deserved it because he went to a Donald Trump rally.
And and Destiny even went so far to say because he was he was questioned on this multiple times and he never backed down from it. Someone asked him if his parents went to a Donald Trump rally, would they deserve to be shot? And he didn't say no.
He wouldn't directly say yes, but he didn't say no. That's such an easy no. Like that that's the easiest no.
If if you can't say no to that, then you basically are inciting violence. You're at least implanting the belief in people's head that it's okay and that some people deserve it for for attending Trump rallies. So for Roana to tell Bill Maher that the the cancel culture, people getting banned off Twitter or X before Elon Musk bought it was, you know, to to try and police people inciting violent.
No, it wasn't. It's the left-wingers that were inciting violence. It's the leftwingers that carry out the violence or, you know, I guess if you look at the voting records, then it would be Republicans, right?
Those obviously just it's all just doctor. It's all made up stuff. If you look at the people who the violence is committed against, it's right-wingers.
It's Republicans. It's Donald Trump. It's Charlie Kirk.
It's those sorts of people. And then if you look at the groups of people who commit this violence, it's Antifa. It's the BLM riots.
It's things like that. So, it's not the right-wingers. It's not the Republicans that are doing it.
It's not the right-wingers that are inciting it. So, why are the right-wingers getting banned if it's all for inciting? If it were just policing, inciting violence.
It's so stupid, nonsensical to even say. Allow a free exchange of ideas. I have no problem with it.
But I have no problem whoever Elon Musk wants to support politically. I mean it I it it saddens me that he's not supporting reason and the Democrats. Well, it's that that's his first amendment right.
My problem is that you don't want him making decisions over the media forum. He should have an independence. I just like to tweet pictures of my dog on Twitter.
I mean things [laughter] like that. Exactly. Well, I wonder with all of this, especially in Silicon Valley, when did Democrats say that what happens at Twitter, what happens on Facebook is like a utility.
needs to be regulated like a utility. Is that going to be part of the discussion in the coming years in any way? Because it is confusing even as a reporter to track who's in control, who should be in control, where does the first amendment end if it ever ends.
What is the story? Because a lot of people are arguing in on Capitol Hill. It should be like a telephone company.
But it's that's a terrible analogy because the telephone that's this is a free speech issue. Not the a utility is is like gas and power and stuff like that. But they're not television's regulated in a different way than social media.
Is that a utility television? No, we're talking about FCC stuff. The weird thing about the Twitter thing is, you know, Elon Musk has been a brilliant business person, right?
And I I I just don't understand paying 44 billion. I think that a lot of that value is just going to evaporate. I don't see how he turns this into an, you know, a winner from Well, they said they said that about how can you not see how Elon Musk can use Twitter as one of the largest, if not the largest and mo most influential platform to make more money.
Like that is such I don't know who this guy is. Maybe he's not a hater, but that is just like anybody who's saying things like that, it's it's so hater coded, you know? It's like it has the undertone of being a hater because Elon Musk can use Twitter in so many different ways to to make more money to gain more influence.
I mean, the guy basically got into government, a government, you know, position because of the influence that he had on Twitter. He can move markets. He can make any meme coin go to the moon just by tweeting about it.
So, what are you talking about? Like, he can make infinite money with the influence that he has now. He can get in government positions.
He probably gets more funding for, you know, SpaceX and maybe Tesla. He can lobby for more laws to be passed to to make electric cars, you know, more mandatory and, you know, have more charging stations across the country and get him more clearance for his SpaceX launches and things like that. Uh, you know, the what is it?
The his internet thing, whatever the internet thing is called. I don't know why I'm blanking on it right now, but Starlink, you know, all that stuff. He's he's launching satellites and rockets and Of course, having that much influence and having that much connections is going to, you know, get him more influence and make him more money.
What do you mean? The electric car and and reusable rockets. So, I mean, you know, the guy is not exactly he's not exactly without a track record.
And he has plans to make Twitter into something much bigger than it is. Not just a place where you can say whatever it's your picture of your dog. He wants to have it like where you do your banking and like some of these other social apps.
But if he gets rid of the bots, that'll help. And he's doing that. Yes.
Okay. Uh Robert, Democratic strategist James Carville said Democrats would be better off looking harder at Mississippi than Florida following the overwhelming GOP success in the state. I don't know whether that's sarcastic or I Well, the question is, is Florida now out of reach for Democrats in 2024?
Is he serious about Mississippi? that's it's more in reach. It's a challenge for the Democrats, I think, in the coming years, having spent a lot of time in Georgia, a lot of time in Mississippi, in Alabama.
How are they going to win back the South? In some respects, the Clyurn argument that voting rights and redistricting needs to be put front and center has helped the uh Democrats make gains. I mean, to think that there are two Democratic senators from Georgia right now shows the Democrats have made some inroads.
But when you go Yeah, it's it is it's getting a little scary now because I think a lot of people are turning against the the Trump regime. thing. I think a lot of people who are in between the Democrats and the Republicans uh in the last election like they didn't know, but Kla Harris just made such a fool of herself that it was easy to vote for Trump for them.
I think Trump has let them down in many different ways and I think that this time around they probably won't vote for the right-wingers. They won't vote red in a lot of these states that maybe weren't swing states might be a lot closer this time around. I don't know the specifics about Mississippi.
I don't know the specifics on Florida when it comes to the midterms, but it'll be interesting to watch which states do that weren't swing states previously are now swing states and which ones flip. It'll be very interesting to see because I do expect some I do expect some flips, you know, especially for the midterms. I'm curious to see what happens.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think about Bill Maher putting his panel in check when it comes to cancel culture, when it comes to Elon Musk buying Twitter and all that stuff. Let me know in the comments you guys think about Bill Maher versus this woke panel including Roana here live on Real Time with Bill Mer.
