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Ruben Gallego

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
383 total appearances

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Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

Who's in charge of Twitter right now?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

Who's in charge of, you know, all the other social media?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

TikTok.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

All these other... Who's in charge of some of the...

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

Who's in charge of some of these massive media conglomerations.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

We have seen anti-Trump messaging being throttled by social media already.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

We have seen pro-democratic messaging being throttled already by social media.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

We're about to go into another election

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

And we have to put it within our brain that it is entirely possible that these massive corporations that feel that they owe it to Donald Trump will listen to Donald Trump if he says, like, I want you to stop Democratic messaging in this upcoming election.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

I want you to, you know, meter what's happening.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

That's entirely a possibility.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

Now, we don't actually have control because we have no power as elected officials right now.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

We don't have control of the FCC or anything else like that.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

But we have the power of, you know, future repercussions.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

And as you know, you have a lot of, one of the most important areas to do is have these corporate boards that are

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

you know, have a lot of shareholders.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

And as a CEO, you have to look out for the betterment of your, you know, company, or you can be held responsible.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

We need to start basically socializing that.

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

So is it the thing I'm worried about?

Plain English with Derek Thompson
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?

No.