CLAY: That Alex Berenson conversation, Buck, which we really didn’t follow up to a large extent with, but people say, “Okay, I don’t know who that guy is. Why should I care? Here’s the bullet point on why you should care, the headline. This is the first guy, to my knowledge, Buck, who has ever sued Twitter for being banned and been allowed to return, basically won. So every situation on a suspension is different.

And he even mentioned, “Hey, you know, if you’re advocating for the assassination of a government official, hey, that’s probably something that they don’t have an obligation to share.” But in terms of covid policy in terms of contentious issues that are out there in our marketplace of ideas, Alex just beat Twitter and proved that they aren’t the final arbiter of being able to apply policies to ban people for life.

BUCK: Well, I’m also happy just because now in that — in that Twitter ecosystem where so many — particularly so many lib journos — get all of their covid information, Berenson is going to be dropping the stink bombs of data that make everyone on the left so upset. They’re like, “Oh, my gosh! Why?” You know, I mean, it’s amazing how people have just stopped talking about it.

How good were those vaccines? Things like that. And I think it is so important going into this election, the Democrats want everyone to forget that Biden a year ago almost to the month — I think it was maybe August or December — a year ago was saying, “It’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated. If you won’t get the shot, you’re a bad person who’s going to kill people by breathing on them.”

CLAY: The winter of death.

BUCK: Yeah.

CLAY: Winter of death is here. Elon Musk tweeted to Alex Berenson earlier today:

Can you say more about this: “… pressures that the government may have placed on Twitter …”

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2022

Elon Musk obviously in the process, at least in theory, of potentially coming back and buying Twitter. Alex Berenson, after being suspended for nearly a year, came back guns blazing. This was his first tweet back:

It doesn’t stop infection.
Or transmission.

Don’t think of it as a vaccine.

Think of it – at best – as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS.

And we want to mandate it?
Insanity.

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 6, 2022

So, he’s not tiptoeing back into the Twittersphere as it pertains to the debate surrounding covid shots. He’s cannonballing into the pool, and he’s right on everything.

BUCK: Do we know what’s the latest on Elon’s purchase? Do we know where that stands right now? Because, obviously, for those of us who work in the media, this has a whole resonance. For everyone else out there, think of it like Twitter is like the Slack channel for journos. So, it’s almost like where everyone goes to fight it out, get their talking points — yada yada yada — in the Democrat corporate media.

CLAY: So, the latest update that I have seen on Elon is he requested effectively all of the data sets from inside of Twitter on the accounts there. Twitter has argued that only 5% of its accounts are bots — that is, spam, basically, artificial accounts — and Elon Musk has said he thinks it’s more like 20%. So, Twitter just shared with him a voluminous amount of data. And my expectation would be that all of his super technology data geek nerds are analyzing all that data to see whether Twitter’s public pronouncements are reflective of what the actual numbers show.

BUCK: I just hope that it goes through, ’cause that will also put pressure on the other social platforms to be less tyrannical libs. But we’ll see. We’ll see.