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Judd Legum
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Remember when Trump appeared on Alex Jones' show in the middle of Jones' deplorable smear campaign against Sandy Hook parents and Trump said "your reputation is amazing" and then Trump became president and it was like it never happened?
A Sandy Hook parent, harassed by Jones' acolytes, killed himself last week.

The role of Trump and other powerful figures in elevating Jones has gone down the memory hole.

I'm going through all the receipts in my next newsletter.

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"Your reputation’s amazing – I will not let you down – you will be very very impressed I hope and I think we’ll be speaking a lot" - Trump to Alex Jones, 12/2/2015

This was after years of Jones claiming the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax and the grieving parents were actors
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Judd Legum
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1. One of the things about politics these days is we forget about stuff way too quickly.

Remember last year when a bunch of companies announced bonuses and said it was all due to the Trump tax cut?

Well, we finally have the data to evaluate those claims popular.info/p/penny-ante
2. As it turns out, bonus compensation increased by ONE PENNY in 2018

In other words, all those flashy bonus announcement were BS. Companies didn’t spend substantially more on bonuses last year than any other year

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3. Of course while each bonus announcement generated headlines, the actual data is virtually ignored

This isn’t an accident. The corporate world knew people wouldn’t bother to check. The announcements were a reward to Trump for cutting their tax rate

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Judd Legum
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1. My friend @lukeoneil47 got a bulls-eye on his back when he wrote an extremely powerful piece in his Hell World newsletter about people who lost family members to the Fox News vortex

@BostonGlobe is now helping Fox get their revenge

luke.substack.com/p/i-hate-what-…
@lukeoneil47 @BostonGlobe 2. Luke also has been writing op-eds for the Boston Globe and wrote one about how Kirstjen Nielsen is not a good person.

This is not an extreme view -- it's shared by many.

Luke can't publish in the Globe on his own. He has editors and they liked and tweeted his piece.
3. I didn't get a chance to read Luke's piece before it was yanked but apparently it included a reference to pissing on something. This does not surprise me because many of Luke's pieces include a piss reference.
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Judd Legum
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1. I looked at thousands of Trump's Facebook ads for 2020 and discovered the campaign is (again) exploiting the platform to manipulate and mislead voters popular.info/p/inside-trump…
2. The Trump campaign has run hundreds of ads featuring testimonials from voters. One features "Howard from New Mexico." He's depicted as an elderly African American man.

"Sir, you have really inspired me and brought back my faith in this great nation"

popular.info/p/inside-trump…
3. But in many other versions of the ad, "Howard" is no longer an older African-American man. He is a young African-American man, engrossed in his cell phone.

"Sir, you have really inspired me and brought back my faith in this great nation"

popular.info/p/inside-trump…
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Vic Berger IV
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What a sad shame this shitbird couldn't eat his fried chicken in peace and quiet. Guess there are consequences for those that incite the harassment of parents of murdered children. Glad he is being sued and I hope the Sandy Hook parents take everything.
From July 2018: "Alex Jones tries to get $100K from parents of Sandy Hook victim who had to go into hiding over his conspiracy theories"

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From: August 2018: "Alex Jones’ Lawyer Seeks To Make Sandy Hook Parents’ Home Addresses Public"

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Oliver Willis
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the thing that pisses off people about alex jones the most is always sandy hook, but as someone who covered him for a long long long time, its always his giant piles of bullshit about 9/11 that did it for me
im probably going to end up watching all this video. ive followed alex jones stuff too long not to.
ive been listening to his nonsense for years, before he was on the radar of most. then trump launched him into the mainstream big time.
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A few reflections from our reporting on the death of Jeremy Richman, Sandy Hook dad who turned his loss into a foundation fostering brain science as a means for understanding violence. nyti.ms/2U0r7jh
Mr. Richman, like many Sandy Hook parents, was targeted by hoaxers who insisted his daughter, Avielle, didn't die on Dec. 14, 2012.
One of these hoaxers, Wolfgang Halbig--whose Twitter account was suspended ONLY LAST MONTH--spent years insisting that Avielle Richman was alive, living in alias as another girl in Newtown, a child he repeatedly named online.
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Sleeping Giants
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We don’t tweet about Trump a lot, but this is bullshit and is intended to have a chilling effect on private businesses attempting to finally enforce their Terms of Service. Banning racists, harassers and conspiracy theorists should have nothing to do with political beliefs.
If the president wants to conflate those types of accounts with conservatism, that’s his business, but ultimately, rules are rules, we all signed up for them and they should be enforced equally. If they are influenced by politics, that’s admitting that rules mean nothing.
This is the reason why everyone is rightfully giving @jack hell about Alex Jones. It’s not because he has certain political beliefs. It’s because he has waged harassment campaigns against Sandy Hook parents and Las Vegas shooting victims and that breaks @Twitter’s Terms.
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Sleeping Giants
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Once you get past all of the yelling and carrying on, there are some really interesting discussions going on in our mentions about Alex Jones and, if we’re being honest, we’re all saying the same thing. Kinda.

Allow us to explain (in a disgustingly long-winded tweet storm):
Ultimately, what happened yesterday was dumb. All of these platforms (@facebook, @Spotify) decided to simply follow the leader (@apple) to make the call they should have made years ago according to their Terms Of Service. That’s why it looks, to Jones fans, like “collusion”.
@Facebook, just a week ago, said that threatening to kill Robert Mueller was not a violation of their Terms. Then they did and gave him a time out. Then they banned him. No wonder Infowars fans think it’s fishy. In reality, they should have banned him immediately after the video.
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