I think Elon Musk is ridiculous just because someone is smart or thinks that they're smart and also wealthy does not mean that we should look to them for guidance on every aspect of life or politics. We have this really bad tendency to think that wealth means intelligence and that these are the people who should be driving the country forward. I honestly never thought for one single second that he was going to go through with a sale of Twitter. So am I leaving Twitter if Elon Musk buys it? No, of course not. Yeah, yeah, I don't think he will in the end though, and it'll struggle on. But you like it a lot,. You use Twitter a lot, correct?
Roxane Gay joins Kara as guest co-host! They discuss the growing threats of violence following the FBI’s search of Mar-A-Lago and Salman Rushdie's recovery after his on-stage attack. Also, Amazon turns surveillance into reality TV, and Al Franken endorses Liz Cheney. Friend of Pivot Ken Burns discusses his latest work, “The U.S. and the Holocaust.”
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“The U.S. and the Holocaust” premieres September 18th on PBS.
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