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Pluvious

(5,453 posts) Sun Feb 16, 2025, 12:35 PM Feb 2025

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A message just posted on Twitter from political cartoonist Mike Luckovich [View all]

Last edited Sun Feb 16, 2025, 09:39 PM - Edit history (2)

Just...

Too too funny

I received this email. This was the last cartoon I posted on twitter

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Link to tweet

Edit to add: George Takei had his own take this morning...

Captures it perfectly.
— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-02-16T13:19:47.637Z

Edit 2 to update: Mike was pranked, see reply 41 (thx Randy)

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A message just posted on Twitter from political cartoonist Mike Luckovich [View all] Pluvious Feb 2025 OP

Wow, the bitter truth about the Repube BastardMen - Thanks for posting BoRaGard Feb 2025 #1

Snowflakes. spanone Feb 2025 #2

It's times like this i wish there would be a day of reckoning but I've given up on that. dem4decades Feb 2025 #3

its coming - study the dynamics of yin & yang... no one escapes bluboid Feb 2025 #7

What? I thought Twitter was an "Absolute Free Speech" zone? Shipwack Feb 2025 #4

as surely as Fox News is fair and balanced eShirl Feb 2025 #22

Speaking truth to money and power is forbidden. Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #5

Thin-skinned billionaire assholes... MiHale Feb 2025 #6

The "six feet deep state" awaits them. rubbersole Feb 2025 #9

At the moment COL Mustard Feb 2025 #16

So much for Free Speech, eh? johnnyplankton Feb 2025 #8

Heard a saying yesterday, not a new one, apparently: jeffreyi Feb 2025 #10

I was flagged on Twitter NewEnglandAutumn Feb 2025 #11

Some States have "Forget me" laws dickthegrouch Feb 2025 #20

I have 157 followers on Twitter. KentuckyWoman Feb 2025 #26

If this was Biden, it would have been allowed. ... aggiesal Feb 2025 #12

Agreed about BlueSky. mwooldri Feb 2025 #24

The alternative to social media is real life. Oliver Bolliver Butt Feb 2025 #27

In real life, I would not come across this cartoon. I found it on social media (i.e. DU) n/t aggiesal Feb 2025 #29

maybe Oliver Bolliver Butt Feb 2025 #49

Maybe, but our high-quality local paper is a RW rag, owned by the same person that owns the RW TV & Radio stations n/t aggiesal Feb 2025 #50

Fogged 3auld6phart Feb 2025 #31

Behind the children should be a bunch of gravestones for all of the children Musk will kill. TheBlackAdder Feb 2025 #13

And Musk goes on and on about free speech. surfered Feb 2025 #14

The cartoon needs to have Musk's kid all healthy hanging on Musk picking his nose Ohioboy Feb 2025 #15

And donnie's head firmly up his ass. rubbersole Feb 2025 #19

And yet some here continue to rationalize linking to the Nazi's site JoseBalow Feb 2025 #17

I'm serious. If we start a huge EAT The RICH multigraincracker Feb 2025 #18

Musk wants free speech Happygram Feb 2025 #21

He wants HIS speech free isitreal Feb 2025 #40

He also wants to be sble to decide whose speech is free and whose isn't. ShazzieB Feb 2025 #43

I think Brezhnev or somebody in his crew figured out Turbineguy Feb 2025 #23

Kick dalton99a Feb 2025 #25

If I were on Xwitter (and I'm not) I would repost this daily - to embarrass the shit out of them FakeNoose Feb 2025 #28

And it was dead on. sinkingfeeling Feb 2025 #30

I posted & said things FAR worse Pas-de-Calais Feb 2025 #32

I want to know three things. Jeebo Feb 2025 #33

That tweet describing the deleted tweet is also on xtwitter so it will probably disappear too. Norrrm Feb 2025 #34

its called xitter now moonshinegnomie Feb 2025 #35

And "tweets" are now "Xits". nt eppur_se_muova Feb 2025 #45

Yeah ... Godot51 Feb 2025 #36

A few hours ago he said the email was fake More_Cowbell Feb 2025 #37

What? I thought Twitter was about free speech???? Iris Feb 2025 #38

Love him malaise Feb 2025 #39

He confirmed it was a fake email. RandySF Feb 2025 #41

E-loon in that pipe plumbing cartoon doesn't even remotely look like him!... electric_blue68 Feb 2025 #42

So it was fake? 264 recs right now, and it's fake? flvegan Feb 2025 #44

Doesn't matter that it was a prank. The cartoon is true. Scrivener7 Feb 2025 #46

Oh, a prank. Kid Berwyn Feb 2025 #47

number 8 poozwah Feb 2025 #48