Starship, RFK Jr, Substack Beef
Twitter News Digest for the week of 4/5-4/11
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This week’s news digest covers Starship’s impending launch, RFK Jr’s Presidential campaign, and the beef between Twitter and Substack. Don’t miss Dogey Treats and Memes of the Week at the end.
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Starship Launch
SpaceX’s Starship is set to launch this month.
On Thursday, Elon posted photos of Starship stacked on a rocket booster. Then, on Sunday, he tweeted that Starship is ready to launch.
Starship is a reusable rocket capable of carrying 100 people and 100 tons of cargo per flight. It is expected to be the primary vehicle SpaceX uses to colonize Mars.
In 2021, SpaceX did four Starship test flights: SN9 crash landed, SN10 landed smoothly but exploded shortly after, SN11 exploded on the way down, and SN15 stuck the landing.
Since then, space aficionados have been waiting for another Starship flight. Now it appears to be just days away.
Elon has repeatedly hinted at a possible April 20th launch. On Monday, he said launch was “trending towards near the end of third week of April.”
Starship could change civilization by speeding up intercontinental travel, lowering the cost of access to space, and seeding humanity in the stars.
Keep an eye on this one—it’s gonna be big!
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RFK Jr’s Presidential Campaign
Robert F. Kennedy Jr is running for President
Last Wednesday, Kennedy filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Committee. He plans to challenge Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic Party nomination
RFK Jr is known for calling out the way American corporations have infiltrated the federal government.
His crusade against agency capture started with the EPA, before moving to health regulators like the CDC and NIH. In recent years, he has became a vocal critic of the federal government’s response to Covid.
Kennedy has argued that the medical-industrial complex scuttled cheap early treatment options for Covid in order to justify granting emergency use authorization for novel mRNA vaccines, which generated tens of billions in profits.
He’s also taken aim at mainstream media, which he has called “an extension of the pharmaceutical industry.”
His book The Real Anthony Fauci enjoyed several weeks as a #1 bestseller despite library boycotts and blacklisting from mention by media outlets. The book was turned into documentary last year.
Last weekend, clips circulated on Twitter of Kennedy explaining his stance on vaccines, including one in which he argued the relationship between health regulators and pharmaceutical giants was “agency capture on steroids” and anotherwhere he linked vaccines to the rise in chronic diseases in American children. He also called out US government bioweapons programs.
Over the past few days, he has turned his attention to big money, using Twitter to highlight the influence of banks on government.
On Wednesay, he posted a long-form tweet about the dangers of a CBDC/digital dollar, warning that it could infringe on financial privacy and be “the first step in banning and seizing bitcoin as the Treasury did with gold 90 years ago.”
Monday, he posted another long-form tweet accusing the Biden administration of “colluding with the banksters” to attack crypto and keep people trapped in the government money system.
Together, the tweets instantly made him the most visible pro-crypto US Presidential candidate in history.
For his controversial views, RFK has attracted a steady stream of negative media attention.
No sooner did his campaign launch than it came under coordinated attack by the media, which accused him of running against Biden at the behest of Steve Bannon as a “chaos agent.” Kennedy said the claim was invented.
RFK is no stranger to controversy. He is routinely assailed by media as the black sheep of his family.
He has said of the attacks, “I feel like there is a cost, but I don’t feel like I have anything to complain about. We’re all given a job to do and that having a difficult life or having these challenges is ultimately a gift.”
In 2023, the most important question for any public figure is not whether they’re left or right, but where they stand in relation to the political and media establishment. Kennedy, like Trump and Elon, stands firmly opposed to it. For that reason alone, RFK’s campaign is worth watching closely.
Substack Beef
Twitter and Substack are beefing.
It started last Wednesday when Substack announced the creation of a Twitter clone called Substack Notes.
Two days later, links to Substack started being throttled on Twitter: users lost the ability to interact with any post containing a Substack URL.
The beef spilled into the relationship with Elon and Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi, who publicly left Twitter after learning about the throttling.
Elon responded to Taibbi’s claims by stating that links to Substack weren’t blocked. He also explained Twitter’s reason for throttling Substack posts.
Later that day, Twitter removed restrictions on Substack-linked posts. Substack’s Twitter handle acknowledged the change.
Two days later, Elon reiterated his accusation that Substack attempted to steal Twitter’s data.
The dust seems to have settled for now, but the two companies will probably cross paths again.
Twitter is expected to roll out its own long-form platform to compete with Substack. It may also try to acquire Substack at some point.
Whatever happens, hopefully attention returns to the amazing independent journalism happening on both platforms.
Elon Roasts BBC
Late night, Elon did a Twitter spaces interview with a tech reporter from the BBC.
The reporter asked him about hate speech on Twitter. His response was priceless:
Elon’s Memes
Here are all the memes Elon posted to his Twitter feed last week—enjoy!
Dogey Treats: News Bites
Tesla
Tesla is opening a Megapack battery factory in Shanghai capable of producing 10k Megapacks per year.
Elon tweeted that Tesla is building an internal litigation team to “go after the Wall St short-sellers, certain law firms & (sometimes) corrupt regulators who are the true evil.”
Tesla released its Master Plan Part 3 for transitioning to a fully renewable economy. Tesla delivered 422,000 vehicles in Q1 2023, another all-time high. Reuters was fact-checked for misreporting the data.
Twitter Inc has officially been merged into X Corp—Twitter Inc no longer exists. Wednesday morning, Elon tweeted “X”in seeming acknowledgement of the change. The company also purchased 10k Graphics Processing Units to begin its AI lab.
Global Financial System
Money is draining out of commercial banks and into money market funds at a historic pace. Elon tweeted, “This trend will accelerate.”
Trump claimed China is trying to displace the dollar as the “NUMBER ONCE CURRENCY throughout the world.” After meeting with China’s Presiden Xi Xinping, French President Macron said Europe should reduce dependence on the dollar.
CIA director William Burns travelled to Saudi Arabia to express displeasure with Crown Prince MBS for cooperating with China and Russia on peace deals with Iran and Syria. Did the US proxy war in Ukraine pushed Saudi Arabia toward BRICS?
Hong Kong’s largest bank will work with crypto exchanges, and a Chinese state-owned company launched two crypto funds in Hong Kong. The US Treasury released a report calling Decentralized Finance a threat to national security. Is Dubai becoming the crypto capital of the world?
Texas State Senators introduced a bill to create gold-backed digital currency issued by the state. Three US congressmen introduced a bill to bring back the gold standard to the dollar.
The US Federal Reserve put out a statement that the comnig FedNow service is not a CBDC. FedNow is expected to launch within weeks. The European Central Bank’s said that a CBDC would give government control over payments. Europe is banning cash payments over 1000 Euros.
James O’Keefe asked how many fake/counterfeit shares existed for the company Metamaterials, Inc and compared it to GameStop
Will the US mint a trillion dollar coin to circumvent the debt ceiling?
Blackrock’s offices in Paris were invaded by protestors unhappy with the asset manager’s role in pension reform.
US Politics
A NY Post article went viral claiming that the son of financier George Soros has visited the Biden White House fourteen times. Soros has been a frequent topic online recently, first for his campaign funding of the Manhattan DA behind Trump’s indictment, and more recently for funding Austin Texas DA behind the conviction of an Uber driver attacked during BLM riots in 2020. Elon weighed in, tweeting, “I am told that his son is de facto in charge” and said “ivory tower pseudointellectualism is probably to blame” for Soros’ efforts to make America unlivable. In other tweets, he said, “I don’t understand his goal”, inquired about Soros’ motivations for donating so much money, and agreed that it’s bizarre for Soros critics to be called racist “for daring to notice his role in elections.”
The Biden family’s financial records with Bank of America, JPMorgan, and other major banks were subpoenaed as part of a Congressional investigation.
Documents emerged on Twitter suggesting the Biden White House was behind the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago last August, after telling reporters it knew nothing about the raid until it happened.
A NC Democrat congresswoman switched to the GOP, giving the party veto-proof majority in the House. She said her party “has become unrecognizable to me and others across the state."
A Rasmussen Poll found Trump had gained 10 points on Joe Biden since he was indicted and was leading the sitting President 47-40.
Congress will hold an oversight hearing on Gary Gensler and the SEC on April 18th.
Ron Paul said the CIA killed JFK in a coup d’état.
Covid
Switzerland has stopped recommending Covid vaccination, including for people who are at high risk.
Clips from a debate between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Del Bigtree on medical freedom went viral on Twitter.
Biden signed a bill ending the Covid national emergency.
Ukraine-Russia
Classified documents about the US military strategy in Ukraine were reportedly leaked on social media, according to the New York Times. A spokesman for the Whtie House said the documents have “no bussiness in the public domain” and are “not intended for public consumption.”
Elon allowing Russia back on Twitter despite being called a war criminal by Putin. He explained his decision: “This platform will neither promote nor limit their accounts, but we will rapidly address any attempts at gaming the system. It is a weak move to engage in censorship just because others do so. Letting our press be free when theirs is not demonstrates strength.”
Dave Smith laid out a proposed peace plan for Russia and Ukraine on Tim Pool’s Timcast. Trump warned of “WORLD WAR III” on Truth Social.
Politicians are being discouraged from talking about the Nord Stream 2 bombing.
Misc
Elon tweeted, “I keep telling people I’m an alien, but no one believes me.”
Tucker Carlson spoke to Adam Corolla about Jacob Chansley: “It’s insidious that you realize that they will sacrifice people at the altar of their form of democracy.”
Twitter designated NPR as “state-affiliated media” before changing it to “government-funded media”.
A strange video of the Dalai Lama sticking his tongue at a child went viral. He apologized for the incident.
Are we on the cusp of a global food revolution?
Joe Rogan discussed the conviction of Douglas Mackey for memes.
Memes of the Week
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