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I don't find Mehdi Hasan trustworthy in the least, based on his past political background and his clout-chasing, but I will commend him in this instance. Matt Taibbi, presumably assuming he'd be friendlier, or easy to roll, went on his show and revealed himself as even more of a pathetic hack. (there are several parts to this)

Similar to when Bari Weiss made the mistake of not contorting herself enough for Elon's whims, he got the unfollow:

Elon, threatened by Substack's plans, also decided to cut off links to Substack...even though many of his biggest sycophants, including Taibbi, make their money by that place.

Taibbi, clearly seeing this as the right time to claim he can leave for some pure reason rather than being humiliated at every turn and finally crushed by the boot he developed such a taste for, is getting the hell out (for now, anyway).

If only those other creeps in the grifter circuit could go with him.

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Yeah, Taibbi's already crumbling and ruined rep will be worse off from this (despite my own many issues with Hasan).

Speaking of indignity, I stumbled upon this not long ago and now you have to watch it too:

 

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He tried another of those, with seizure strobe lighting, to announce his new project. Which doesn't seem to be doing well - didn't see it trend much at all on the latest 'expose' and some of his fans were trying to go around to individual tweets of reporters trying to shill it.

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NPR has long been a propaganda outlet (I still remember their attempts at shaming people who were paid for being off work during COVID lockdowns, and their support for the Iraq invasion), which makes Elon chasing them off even more ludicrous, and delusional. And so many sycophants in the replies cheering him on. Why he has so much love I will never know.

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