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Elon Musk didn’t just reinstate Alex Jones’ X account over the weekend—he welcomed him back with open arms, joining a friendly “Spaces” chat with the infamous conspiracy theorist that featured a who’s who of some of the worst people on the internet.
That includes Pizzagate conspiracist Jack Posobiec, anti-Muslim activist Laura Loomer, Donald Trump’s disgraced former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, and Andrew Tate, a conservative kickboxer facing human trafficking and rape charges in Romania, among others.
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It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Musk will never return from the right-wing fever swamps that he’s becoming increasingly enmeshed in, according to The New Abnormal hosts Danielle Moodie and Andy Levy—regardless of the business consequences it brings.
“I need a shower,” Moodie said after hearing a list of the names in Musk’s new inner circle. “When you talk about the vilest of the vile, the grossest of the gross, this is all of them.”
“They are a cesspool of, just, toxic white male fragility and toxicity,” she added. “It is just so sick.”
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Then, the hosts talk with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) about his new bill, “End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023”—and why America needs a paradigm shift in the way it thinks about housing.
Plus! A conversation with senior Rolling Stone political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng about his recent investigation titled, “Inside Trump’s Plot to Corrupt the 2024 Election With ‘Garbage’ Data.”
Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher.