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Jun 1, 2021, 7 tweets

TELEGRAM ROUNDUP: FLYNN TRIES TO WALK IT BACK

Coming into this, I expected that most followers would simply go along with Flynn’s (patently untrue) claim that he was saying there SHOULDN’T be a coup here.

Some did, but — to my surprise — almost as many did not! Details below:

First, I should note that the single most popular response was to say, “What IS a coup, really?” — that is, to argue that in fact it was the filthy libs who’d done the coup & it would be justified, and certainly NOT a coup, if the military, ahem, stepped in to make things right.

So the most popular response to Flynn’s backtracking was neither to affirm nor disagree with it, but simply to talk around it.

This is, of course, a normal human response to embarrassing incidents.

But there WERE quite a few folks who said: no, you called for it & rightly so.

Probably the strongest statements to that effect came from Nancy here, so I’ll upload her single clearest statement on the issue.

That leaves us with the final category of responses: the ones that come from lickspittles.

These ranged from angry denunciations of people who DIDN’T toe the new party line (which one user called “throw[ing] Gen Flynn under the bus… after all he’s been thru FOR US!!”) to claims that the footage was faked.

P.S. Just so you know that I’m not blowing a handful of dissenters outta proportion, here are some more rejections of Flynn’s walkback.

Note that images 2 and 4 each show *two* users rejecting the walkback, despite Q people worshipping the ground Flynn walks on.

UPDATE: whoops, one of the images I included above *was* in post #1. Apologies.

To make up for my mistake, here’s one I SHOULD have posted:

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