It has been 11 days since Donald Trump lost the presidential election and his supporters, including his Canadian admirers, are continuing to take the news poorly. 1/23 
As the reality of his loss has become apparent, the most extreme continue to retreat into a fantasy world where their echo chamber is their truth. 2/23
If it is at all possible, the claims being made by those who have not, and likely will never, accept Trump's resounding defeat have become even more outlandish. 3/23
Today in Washington DC, the impotent rage has culminated in the Million Maga March For Trump which appears to have missed the million mark by a mere 995,000 people. 4/23
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1327668601827037184?s=20
That of course hasn't stopped supporters of the event from lying about it.
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Or just pulling numbers out of their derrieres that sound impressive but which have no basis in reality. 7/23
In any case, the few Trump supporters who did show up were quite often exactly the sort of people you would expect to find at a Trump rally. 8/23
https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1327649870774231040?s=20
And while Trump is claiming that the rally is an organic, grass roots, affair... 11/23
https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1327340791799320576?s=20
And it also doesn't seem that Trump especially cares at this point. 13/23
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1327653808785166336?s=20
One person who was impressed by this... er... alpha display was one Faith Goldy. 14/23
For someone who professes to be holier than thou as a good thing, her rhetoric has sort of strayed into idolatry territory. 15/23
As a friend of Roger Stone, Goldy was an early #StopTheSteaI adherent. 16/23
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For days she has been promoting this and other rallies in support of Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election. 17/23
However, the mask accidently slips when she tweets and retweets these. 18/23
If the election is being stolen from Trump, why is she suggesting Trump made mistakes trying to appeal to non-white voters? After all, according to Goldy etal he won so there must not have been any mistakes.
Unless... she doesn't actually believe her own lies? 19/23
Unless... she doesn't actually believe her own lies? 19/23
Perhaps there is another reason, besides Ms. Goldy's own attraction to authoritarianism, that she is pushing the lie that Trump won the election?
To understand a possible motive let's take a look at Goldy's former co-worker Lauran Southern. 20/23
To understand a possible motive let's take a look at Goldy's former co-worker Lauran Southern. 20/23
As a result of her infamy, Southern claims to be, de facto, barred from the United States (she is absolutely barred from the UK, but that is another matter). 21/23
https://twitter.com/DefenderToronto/status/1327644997181726720?s=20
No far be it for me to suggest that Goldy (who thinks herself a big fish in a small pond) is concerned about her continued ability to monetize herself to her fans, but being barred from her biggest market would likely put a damper on her reach and thus her income. 22/23
In any case, I expect the histrionics to continue for some time.
Also, a gentle reminder to people that Trumpism isn't dead so maybe don't sit back in the belief that is is over. As we have seen for decades, the struggle against authoritarianism is never over. 23/23
Also, a gentle reminder to people that Trumpism isn't dead so maybe don't sit back in the belief that is is over. As we have seen for decades, the struggle against authoritarianism is never over. 23/23
Just noticed this as as it is related I figured I would share.
They continue to insist that there were more than a million people in Washington DC and provide photos as evidence. 1.0/1.5
They continue to insist that there were more than a million people in Washington DC and provide photos as evidence. 1.0/1.5
Now at least one, perhaps two, of those photographs of very closely cropped images that are from the event that cut out the empty areas where no one is located. 1.1/
The true believers however aren't ones for fact checking 1.4/1.5
And when someone DOES call them on the lies, they cry "fake news." 1.5/1.5
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