A mystery roils Florida political Twitter: could it be that the governor’s new press secretary is running bots against her political opponents? Emmanuel investigates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Today's episode is brought to you by that moment when you get to a subway platform and you realize you've just missed a train.
And you think back to all of these moments in your day where you wasted 30 seconds.
Like if you just not played candy crush for five minutes in bed, when you woke up, you'd be on your way already.
Instead, you're sitting there telling your date you're going to be late to a place you picked as far away from where they live.
Yeah, I'm never going to get married if I keep playing candy.
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For the last several months, I've been fascinated by one specific Twitter account.
It belongs to a woman named Christina Pishaw, who in May became governor Rhonda Silence's latest press secretary.
Christina Pshaw is in her early thirties.
Her Twitter bio will tell you that shes here to debunk false narratives about Florida and DeSantis, that shes anti communist.
Shes not from Florida.
Shes lived there less than a year, but you wouldnt know that from the gator next to her display name.
If you put her name into Google, youll see that she has been very busy since starting her job in June.
Busy embarking on an 18 hours plus 200 tweet spree against an AP journalist that led to death threats against him.
Busy tweeting about Kyle Rittenhouse post acquittal, saying, welcome to our free state and enjoy your time here.
Busy tweeting out anti semitic conspiracy theories about vaccine passport apps.
She'd later say she was being sarcastic about that last one.