BUSTED: Musk Deletes Conspiracy Theory About Pelosi When Cops Speak Up. But the Damage Is Done

There’s an old expression, begin as you intend to proceed. We have seen how Elon Musk has begun since he bought Twitter. If this is how he intends to proceed, then the dark internet has just been elevated to mainstream, if not showcased on mainstream, and we are in for one hell of a ride. I fear this more than I can tell you.

Elon Musk took over the helm of Twitter on Thursday. On Friday we had the tragic story involving the break-in at the Pelosi residence. Naturally, that was picked up by right-wing media and twisted into something vile, i.e., that an allegedly drunken Paul Pelosi brought somebody home from the gay bars and the situation went south.

The Dark Internet went to work and the bozos who are still on Twitter chimed in. It was even depicted comedically, har de har har. An 82-year-old man is viciously attacked with a hammer by a lunatic who came there to kill his wife, but in 2022 that can be made humorous, evidently.

Moderate voters just checking in for the first time since 2020, THIS is the 2022 Republican Party. pic.twitter.com/WQNHK33S0I

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 30, 2022

That is beyond ugly, but everybody knows the source. D’Souza is a felon. D’Souza is a flake. This is bad, but it’s not in the same ballpark as what Elon Musk did the next day.

The owner of Twitter retweeted this earlier this morning, and his post is being reposted by QAnon and right-wing accounts all over multiple social media platforms. The owner of Tesla and Twitter posted it. The dark corners of the internet are now mainstreamed. pic.twitter.com/cthjLrpcWi

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 30, 2022

If indeed this is how Elon Musk intends to proceed, then the dark corners of the internet are indeed mainstreamed.

And unfortunately, it does get worse. Truly, I despair for news and information in this country anymore. This tidbit particularly annoyed me.

Statement from the only reporter who said the Pelosi assailant was in his underwear. A report which is now gospel across all of right wing media, elected officials, and MAGA candidates. pic.twitter.com/VIPJQ9tOPl

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 30, 2022

The tweeter is an “investigative reporter” for KTVU Fox 2, the Bay Area Fox Affiliate. He says he previously worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, so apparently he was a real journalist at one point and then the lure of money took him away from ethics and away we go.

Here’s where it got sane.

According to @NBCNews’ @anblanx: Police say on the record that Paul Pelosi and his suspected attacker did not know each other prior to the attack. It was a break-in.

This directly contradicts conspiracy theories pushed by (and since deleted by) Twitter owner Elon Musk.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 30, 2022

And then the sanity didn’t last, naturally. The spin meisters got into action and here is the newest spin.

The MAGA conspiracy theories will now shift to “police cover-up.”

And the owner of twitter will tweet those. He won’t tweet these ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/5TXiCV7ZwQ

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 30, 2022

This is how it works. This is the spin cycle. This is the force which undermines our culture in this day and age.

Our morality as a people has gone completely to hell due to the trivialization of tragedy and the utter lack of simple decency, which you find on social media. As you saw when the Pelosi attack happened, a few individuals in government on the Republican side came forward with sympathy and support. I will give Mitch McConnell the credit he is due, he was one of them.

Likewise, Ted Cruz and Matt Gaetz put on a good face, for once, and came forward. But the silence from all the others screams volumes. What that silence says is “this is war.”

It used to be that members of congress were members of the same profession, lawmakers, and they had a unity in that. Of course they disagreed. But the disagreement didn’t destroy the unity and when one member suffered a tragedy other members offered support as human beings.

Now, that sentiment is a rarity. In this tribally divided civilization in which we live, nobody cares what happens to anybody on a human level.

And fueling all this egregious bad taste is a sick media eco system. Yes, we have the First Amendment, but I’m not sure that that piece of writing was ever intended to address a time in history when moral bankruptcy became the order of the day and people no longer knew the difference between right and wrong.

The First Amendment is designed to keep the government from censoring critical viewpoints, not to address a world where there are no more adults, only children slinging disinformation and insult at other children they don’t like, for attention and big bucks.

And I don’t see this stopping. There’s simply too much money in disinformation and sowing chaos. Rupert Murdoch has made billions. You think he’s stopping?

As for Elon Musk, again, this is how he began in his first weekend as the owner of Twitter. If this is how he intends to proceed then I honestly fear for the days ahead.