Compare this to how quickly and fervently Republicans chimed in on other shootings, how the RNC opened with a prayer for Jacob Blake within hours of the incident. There is no excuse. Republicans are just cowards.
The argument against state intervention or control of platforms like Twitter or FB encounter a problem: these are basically non-state actors that perform functions similar to a hostile state. The Russians tried to meddle in our elections? What do Twitter and FB do everyday?
However, there's a valid objection that being out of power, state control of social media would be weaponized against us. But the argument from "the state can't get involved in the affairs of corporations!" falls apart because these corporations function like little CIAs
Tucker Carlson once asked Charlie Kirk, who knows more about your personal life, Google or the CIA? The answer is obvious
We were told antifa is a set of ideas, an ideology. But now that it's clear the Denver shooter embraced some or all of those ideas, as indicated by his social media posts and tattoo, suddenly it's not that simple, you can't just embrace antifa's ideas to be antifa!
You see, to be antifa, all of the different chapters must first unanimously approve of your admission into their organization, I mean idea. After which point antifa notifies its contacts in the media that "so and so" is a card-carrying member of the organization, I mean idea
Only when there is concrete evidence of your membership, beyond social media posts, political views, tattoos, murdering people you think are fascists, etc -- all that stuff is totally inconclusive of what ideas you hold -- can you be said to be antifa
The plot against Whitmer that will become yet another narrative with which we will have to struggle looks like a creation of the federal government. The FBI is literally a domestic terror threat, egging people on, then praising itself for thwarting something it helped plan.
This is pretty standard. Comes the joke about most of the remaining members of the KKK being feds.
Conservatives will at once buy into this FBI narrative while denouncing the coup and color revolution against Trump and not feel any itch of shame.
The problem Trump's most devoted followers have now is that a lot of other people who either will or may vote for Trump don't see him the way they do. Whereas the former see 4D chess and a "master" everywhere, the latter see a politician 1/
So when a politician says, "if you want direct aid vote for me or you get nothing," that's all the former hears: a politician making his victory a condition for the aid some families need because Republicans and Democrats both have embraced the COVID narrative to some extent 2/
The 4D chess stuff -- whether it is millions of sealed indictments to art of the stimulus deal now -- has the most currency with Trump's devoted followers. If the kneejerk reaction to the other group, who is less fervent than they, is to chew them out for not trusting the plan 3/