Devin Nunes makes an appearance on Fox News, begging hosts to sign up for Trump's failed social site
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I don’t know if you heard: Elon Musk has spent—checks notes—$44 billion on the social media application Twitter. Where Musk is leveraging this extraordinary amount of money is predictably shrouded in mystery. That’s how our economic system works! This is something of a bummer as Musk has a long history of being like every other oligarchical wealthy person in the history of the world in regards to his intense interest in himself. The South African Musk, born and raised during the height of apartheid, has a history of running a successful avant-garde electric vehicle business you may have also heard of. That business has a very troubling history of allegedly being run like an archaic white supremacist plantation.
The fact of the matter is that our media, social media, and general forms of news and communication mediums have been consolidated into the control of a few extremely wealthy and powerful hands for some time now. Musk’s acquisition of Twitter isn’t the end of the world in any specific way—just an omen of what has been happening and what will continue to happen without general intervention in our marketplaces by government.
There is a silver lining here: Musk’s continued flirtation with the libertarian-cum-conservative misguided free speech warriors has the potential of stifling an enormous swath of the consumer base that Donald Trump’s Truth Social app was hoping to pull away from the blue tweeting bird. Do I care what happens to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assets? Only insofar as it would be nice to see those assets distributed back into the pockets of people who need it more. Other than that, I’m here for Truth Social CEO and GOP thin-skinned lapdog Devin Nunes begging for Fox News on-air personalities to join Truth Social.
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Nunes came on Fox News to try and remind viewers that Truth Social is still a thing and definitely not a disaster where two of the technological architects of the application have quietly resigned after the launch was a nightmare and faktriots were complaining of being “censored” within days of signing on. The CEO of Trump Media & Technology group (TMTG) told Fox host Brian Kilmeade that he was happy that Kilmeade had signed on to Truth Social, “but you need to send out some truths if you want to get more people.”
It seems that while many right-wing media celebrities like Steve Bannon have yet to even sign up, the ones who have are not using their accounts—or likely even looking at Truth Social ever. In fact, a big problem over at Truth Social seems to be fake right-wing accounts that Truth Social keeps verifying in the hopes of finding out that they are real accounts. This happened with a fake Fox News account on Truth Social a week or two ago.
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In the clip below, Nunes even references the sad state of affairs over at Truth Social, attempting to jokingly-not-jokingly implore Kilmeade to both use the app more and post things. “We’re so excited that you’re on Truth—you’re getting followers very very quickly—but you need to send some ‘truths’ out if you want to get more followers.” You see what he did there? He is pretending that Kilmeade is a big part of Truth Social while also saying Brian clearly isn’t using Truth Social. Also, if your business model is based on Kilmeade sending out “some truths out,” you’re in big trouble.
Nunes then transitioned to some MacGuffin about how now that they are on Rumble “cloud servers,” Truth Social cannot be “canceled by any tech tyrants.” This, of course, remains to be seen, as tech billionaires like Musk’s buddy Peter Thiel have spent a lot of money to support Rumble.
Circling back, Nunes reminds Kilmeade to use the app and also puts in a plea for help getting at least one of the Doocy dunces onboard. “But also, Brian, you’re on Truth, we need you to truth, but Doocy—I gotta talk to him. So, he’s got to turn his phone on and click on the app, he’s been let in. Either that or he may be a bot.”
Is there a difference?
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