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.
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I have no idea what the comment was even though I’m up to speed in general on the backlash. Difference is that I’m already convinced Elon is a bigoted prick so I never felt a need to check? I’m not sure that makes me any better to be honest. For all I know it was something mundane and taken out of context, I just don’t think that’s very likely and even if it was I already think he’s absolute scum for enough other bs he’s said and done.
The first one in this specific instance, is that someone said “Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”
Musk replied with “You have said the actual truth”
The second one in this specific instance is that someone else said “Everyone is allowed to be proud of their race, except for white people, because we’ve been brainwashed into believing that our history was some how ‘worse’ than other races."
Musk replied with “Yeah, this is super messed up. Time for this nonsense to end and shame ANYONE who perpetuates these lies!”
Both of these are a little dog whistle-ly, and I could see someone who hasn’t been in the corners of the internet, or has never heard of things like “straight pride month” not hearing what’s actually being said.
Wow, it’s incredible to me how much hatred that asshole spews. It would be sad if it wasn’t so destructive. He couldn’t be punching down from any higher of a perch than he sits atop. What a miserable and pathetic way to live.
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He doesn’t think endorsing a nazi post will be particularly popular, but he can’t afford to alienate his base of nazis, so he pretends he has never heard of it forever until people stop asking. Classic republicans.
As close MM. jamming fingers in his ears and screaming lalalalalalalala over the question.
If Rhonda and the rest of the GOP weren’t so dangerous, they’d be funny to watch.
To be fair, he’s extremely busy plotting the destruction of LGBTQ people, and doesn’t really have time for much else
The article goes on to point out that DeSantis was shown Elon’s comment and then still refused to condemn it. Rhonda’s statement against antisemitism rings very hollow when he refuses to denounce antisemitism that’s shown to him.
The guy’s actual supporters wave nazi flags. He won’t risk disenfranchising them.
Here it is. What do you have to say about it now?
I need more time to process the comment
Is it up for debate whether desaintis is bigoted?
Only for his supporters
I’m pretty sure most of them support him because he’s a bigot.
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It is, but they also have to keep trying to say he’s not one when people point out all the reasons he is one
Has there ever been a more unlikable Presidential candidate? Seriously. Everything about this guy is unpleasant.
I mean, a rapist actually became the President, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And a mass murderer.
all presidents become mass murderers anyway
Name a United States president since the 1930s that WASN’T guilty of at least one war crime. You can’t!
I was going to say William Henry Harrison, but that was 1841.
Cruz in 2016?
Santorum in 2012?
I think what makes DeSantis different right now, is the circus he’s putting on in FL to try to demonstrate how extreme he can be. So these despicable and see-through shenanigans are fresh in our memory.
DeSantis walks into a bar and sits at a table with 5 Nazis. The table now has six Nazis.
Something that someone pointed out to me several years ago, when there was some scandal in the US Congress and everyone the press contacted was like “I haven’t read it so I don’t know anything about it”: it may or may not be true that he hasn’t read it. But he certainly has a staff member who has read it and informed him about it.
“I haven’t seen it” is the equivalent of Yes, I know about it, but it would create difficulties for me if I condemn it, so I’m just very conveniently going to avoid ‘seeing’ it until this blows over. Also, if you continue to press me about the matter, I’m just going to respond that I haven’t seen it because I’ve been focusing on , so there.
He did nazi the comment.
And hypothetically doesn’t want to see it, and refuses to look for it.
What a useless dumbass.
The political equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and yelling LA LA LA LA LA at the top of your lungs when they get asked a question they don’t want to answer.
This is why the #Nazi’s line up for #DeSantis at #Disney.
Are we really condemning a politician for not spending their time on Xitter?
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.
My point precisely.
You did get the /s in my comment tho right?
Oh yes it was very subtle 👌
Thanks
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?
No? I’m saying politicians are generally very busy people and it’s not even slightly unrealistic to suggest that it’s possible that they hadn’t heard about it in the last 24 hours.
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How do you know that?
He sure seems to have a lot of opinions about something he claims to know nothing about.
The fuck is this news story?
see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing