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Gorgeous VIVEK to Suspend Social Media Poasting!
| AZNgirl in Caracas waiting for Delta Force | 01/05/26 |
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Date: January 5th, 2026 2:12 PM Author: AZNgirl in Caracas waiting for Delta Force Are you happy now, Birdshits? Literally the only guy in shithole US with pragmatic ideas and you cancelled him cause he's Turd colored?
Richard Hanania @RichardHanania Vivek in the WSJ on why he's getting off social media this year. As he points out, politicians themselves are often getting a distorted sense of reality. He compares how people react to him in real life versus on the internet.
My experience at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in December was a case in point. I delivered a speech arguing that the U.S. is a nation defined above all by ideals, not shared bloodlines. Based on social-media comments beforehand, I expected to be booed. If you scrolled through them after, you’d believe that’s what happened. But in reality, I received a standing ovation from a politically engaged audience of well over 20,000 attendees.
In 2025 I saw a spate of shocking racial slurs and worse on social media. Yet that same year I visited tens of thousands of voters across all of Ohio’s 88 counties—from inner cities to farms, union halls to factories, Republican rallies to one-on-one discussions with protesters—and I didn’t hear a single bigoted remark from an Ohio voter the entire year.
Social media’s warped projection of reality is reinforced inside modern government. Political staffers on both sides of the aisle skew young and hyper-attuned to social media. Twitter was built to imitate real-life conversations, but in modern younger political circles, real-life conversations are imitating Twitter.
As political commentator Richard Hanania observed last year, young political aides now compete to be the most “based,” one-upping each other with increasingly unhinged positions on race, sex and who the good guys were in World War II. If you’ve ever winced at a social-media post by an official government account, remember that the person who wrote it is often a young employee who takes most of his cues from the internet. Over time, the state itself begins to sound like X.
A positive development, and hopefully more people in politics follow his example.
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/2008244795408609296 |