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“The state of California is a mess,” Trump said in September, using us as a foil, but also as a springboard, casting a global economic powerhouse as a failure, a sanctuary cesspool and a symbol of wretchedly woke excess.

Speaking to Salon in April, University of Pennsylvania climatologist Dr. Michael E. Mann said that “Twitter has become a cesspool for the promotion of misinformation and disinformation; Elon Musk is not an honest actor. By some measures, he has engaged in criminal behavior, and I think it's pretty clear that he has to be reined in and we are going to need much tougher regulatory policies.”

This time around, Elon Musk has turned X into a cesspool of electoral disinformation, which he regularly shares with his 200 million followers as part of a much larger effort to elect Trump.

"Twitter has become a cesspool for the promotion of misinformation and disinformation; Elon Musk is not an honest actor. By some measures, he has engaged in criminal behavior, and I think it's pretty clear that he has to be reined in and we are going to need much tougher regulatory policies to deal with companies like Twitter and Facebook, that are effectively monopolies now."

I first heard about Rollins in late 2023, about a year after Elon Musk had taken over Twitter and began reshaping it into the far-right cesspool it is today.