Liberals are clawing for ways to throw conservatives back off of Twitter after Elon Musk’s buyout of the social media company. Whoopi Goldberg on ‘The View’ Thinks she knows how liberals can take Twitter back over from the free-speech-loving patriots.
First, the cast spoke with Alyssa Milano who recently embarrassed herself by trading in her Tesla car for a Volzwagaon, claiming her reasoning was because Tesla supports ‘white supremacy’. Little did that airhead know, that VW was founded by Nazis and Hitler. Obviously, Twitter turned her into minced meat, so naturally, the clowns on ‘The View’ wanted to hear from her.
Milano vowed to stick it out on Twitter claiming that there is now some strange turf war on the social media site. That’s when Goldberg jumped in and laid out the left’s plan to get control back”
“No, no. Not that. There’s other ones you can come and grab, leave that to them because that is what that is meant to be now. It’s not meant to be any better than what we’re seeing.”
Joy Behar complained that liberals would be just ‘handing it over’ but Goldberg argued, “I’ll tell you, some things you have to walk away from until you can get the control you need of it. Right now there’s no way to get this control. And so find the ones that you can get and fix and then come back and run that run over.”
Personally, I think this is the first bright idea Goldberg has had since she decided to ditch the white dreads. Liberals should leave Twitter but if they think they’re somehow going to come back and take it over, I think they’ll be sorely mistaken.
JOY BEHAR: So, Sam, you’ve also been known to clap back at politician or two in your day, which I enjoy. What do you make of what’s happening now that Elon Musk has taken over Twitter? I’m a little frightened for Twitter, frankly. What about you?
SAMUEL L. JACKSON: I just quit it.
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JACKSON: But there are so many more important things that we have to deal with. Like we’re busy trying to get —
LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON: Raphael Warnock!
JACKSON: Raphael Warnock elected.
RICHARDSON JACKSON: Please go to the polls and vote!
JACKSON: As opposed to an idiot who probably doesn’t even have a Twitter account that can’t use Twitter.
BEHAR: Yeah, but that’s a big audience, these Nazis can come in on those social media outlets. I don’t like that.
JACKSON: People need to understand, everything that happens, Twitter is not a real world.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You can actually not look at it.
RICHARDSON JACKSON: You can. And Brittney Griner lives in the real world. She lives in the real world.
JACKSON: Those are real world things that we need to do.
RICHARDSON JACKSON: Tweet that!
JACKSON: Elon Musk is Elon Musk. I have no idea what he is. I don’t even know if he is a real person.
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ALYSSA MILANO: I’m kind of like – like I’m so annoyed with all of these billionaires, with like the exception of a few, but especially with Elon Musk. Like, you buy Twitter to destroy it for $40 billion, right, $40 billion, Elon Musk – imagine if he donated that money to UNICEF. He would change the world. There would be no hunger.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: He could go in his pocket and donate that money.
MILANO: He could go in his pocket and it wouldn’t cost 40 billion, but these guys—
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SUNNY HOSTIN: What happens if things continue the way they are on Twitter? I think it’s become a hellscape. But its’ been a hellscape for a minute.
MILANO: I mean, I was always on the receiving end of trolls. Right? So like, to me it doesn’t feel any different. But you know, I always open Twitter with like – such – with like helmet on, because I’m so scared like something’s going to come out and hit me.
HOSTIN: Do you think you’ll stay only it?
MILANO: Yeah because we can’t cede that territory. It’s like turf war now. That’s how I look at it.
GOLDBERG: No, no. Not that. There’s other ones you can come and grab, leave that to them because that is what that is meant to be now. It’s not meant to be any better than what we’re seeing.
MILANO: If we’re not representing our side of – of the political discourse, aren’t we just saying, you know what you can have Twitter?
BEHAR: You’re handing it over.
GOLDBERG: I’ll tell you, some things you have to walk away from until you can get the control you need of it. Right now there’s no way to get this control. And so find the ones that you can get and fix and then come back and run that run over.
MILANO: Right.
GOLDBERG: But, do yourself.
MILANO: I know, it is about self-care.
[Crosstalk]
BEHAR: Well, don’t read the comments, for one thing. Do not read the comments.
HOSTIN: Never read the comments.
MILANO: I always read the comments.
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MILANO: Who doesn’t read the comments? Everybody reads the comments.
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HOSTIN: Whoopi and Joy taught us when we each joined the show.
MILANO: Do you turn the comments off?
BEHAR: No. I just don’t read them. I’m not interested unless it’s someone that I respect.
HOSTIN: I have another question.
GOLDBERG: I left.
HOSTIN: She left.
GOLDBERG: Because I can’t take it anymore.
MILANO: I respect that. Listen, I spent many, many days with my therapist talking about Twitter and social media.
HOSTIN: What so anonymous person said about you.
MILANO: Right. And it’s hurtful.
GOLDBERG: Someone who doesn’t know you. Someone who doesn’t know you, hasn’t met you, doesn’t know your family, doesn’t know your – doesn’t know anything about you. But we let them – We let them in and say you have that power. Oh, no!
MILANO: It’s the accessibility.
HOSTIN: It is. I stopped reading it when people came after my kids about the way that I mothered. And I stopped. I was like, because I’m going to go out there and I’mma find these people.
[Crosstalk]
SARA HAINES: Liam Neeson those people.