People are going to move on and forget how fucking crazy Trump's comments about Rob Reiner are, but we shouldn't. He's legitimizing violence against his critics on an issue that has nothing to do with himself and where he can't show basic common decency. RE:
Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case. [www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/]( ) RE: [own plot – Techdirt]( )
Since it looks like we're going through the "liberals who stayed on X/Twitter trying to convince others to go back there," I'll just remind folks I already wrote a long article pointing out how that makes no sense and is, in fact, an incredibly dumb idea. [www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s...]( ) [Stop Begging. Start Building]( )
Tyler Cowen interviewed Sam Altman... and what a weird thing to bring up. "They read Twitter less" as if it's a condemnation? https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreie4bwq4r7jlsfk5pgjxejvofrhy3ddxtkwx2ta5uqbnpwbnh5oqk4