Kagro in the Morning - July 24, 2023

<p><strong>David Waldman</strong>’s famous nom de plume, “<a title= "" href="https://www.dailykos.com/blog/Kagro%20X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kagro X</a>”, suddenly doesn’t have the cachet it once held, now that <a title="" href= "https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/24/2183043/-Elon-Musk-officially-kills-Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon is pasting “X” on everything</a>. The old bird social media site is now <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/swimmerbr78/status/1683453586557083653" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an X media site,</a> and its tweets are… Well, whoever cared what <a title="" href= "https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1683388022652272641" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an X ever had to say</a> anyhow?</p> <p><strong>Greg Dworkin</strong> shows up with not one, but TWO Rafts O’ Stories™ The Gop is <a title="" href= "https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/22/2182703/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Doubling-down-on-doing-it-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doing it wrong and doubling down. </a>Ron DeSantis leads that effort, but <a title="" href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/24/2182992/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-More-on-the-steep-slide-of-Ron-DeSantis-homophobe-and-slavery-apologist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that’s all he will be leading.</a> Ron is <a title="" href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/politics/desantis-staff-campaign-shakeup.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">burning through donations</a> and <a title="" href= "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ron-desantis-2024-presidential-campaign-fires-staffers-fundraising-spending-rate/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign staff</a> in order to maintain the lifestyle <a title="" href= "https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1683124729425657862.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he’s accustomed</a> to. The DeSantis reboot aims to be <a title="" href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/16/us/politics/desantis-staff-campaign-shakeup.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaner and mean