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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
CNN’s @brianstelter suggests the violence in the Capitol was Fox News’ fault
@brianstelter CNN’s @oliverdarcy agrees, saying Fox News “propagandists … laid down gasoline-soaked wood for weeks and Trump lit the match”
@brianstelter @oliverdarcy Honest brokers might ask

— How did CNN condoning & even endorsing political violence contribute to this climate?

— How did the media’s 4 years of false & uncorrected Trump conspiracy mongering contribute?

— What role did TV talking heads calling Trump’s base “Nazis” play?
@brianstelter @oliverdarcy Oliver apparently believes we can censor our way to utopia

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Tom Elliott Profile picture
8 Jan
Hate to break it to you but if Trump had won, there would have been violence on Wednesday, and it most certainly would have been worse. How do I know? Because Democrats have been endorsing violence as a political tactic throughout the Trump Administration.
In 2018, @tedlieu threatened “widespread civil unrest” if Trump fired Mueller. This wasn’t a fluke, either. He repeatedly said people should “take to the streets” if Trump did so (which as we know he didn’t).
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7 Jan
I don’t know what the correct terminology is for those who engaged in storming the Capitol yesterday, but CNN has settled on “terrorists” — having used it 31x thus far this AM.
Strikes me as yet another needless escalation. Terrorists use violence — particularly the mass death of civilians — to seek political ends. These people were anti-democratic hooligans, but they weren’t driving trucks through crowds or flying planes into buildings.
Much of this morning’s news coverage has focused on the role Trump’s rhetoric played fomenting yesterday’s uprising. But as usual, they’re completely lacking in self-awareness as they are themselves employing the most charged, incendiary rhetoric available. Why?
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6 Jan
For those who missed @karol’s tweet last night, Twitter suspended me after I criticized @NYGovCuomo for denying NYC’s request to make vaccines available for senior citizens. Image
@karol @NYGovCuomo .@Twitter falsely claimed I was violating their rules against “abuse and harassment [which] includes wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm.” My tweet was explicitly doing the opposite; trying to protect NY’s most vulnerable from Cuomo’s deadly vaccine rules.
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29 Dec 20
Federal govt opts against revising its obviously incorrect recommendation to consume sugar regularly wsj.com/articles/new-u…
These dietary recommendations — which shouldn’t exist in the first place — are one of the seldom mentioned reasons diabetes, heart disease, and Covid hit harder in minority communities
Just noticed the @USDA doubles down on its usual mistake of discouraging saturated fat — i.e., where vitamins and minerals are most densely concentrated — & encouraging vegetable oils, which cause heart disease. Why is America fat & disease ridden? A: The USDA.
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27 Dec 20
Let’s be clear about what’s happening here:

The Woke Mafia is destroying a girl’s life because of a single word she said when she was 15 — which wasn’t even expressing a racist sentiment. And the NYT’s @globaldan is portraying the asshole orchestrating her destruction as a hero
@globaldan The supposed hero of the story comes across as angry and insecure while the supposed villain appears earnest and well meaning. He attacks his own (white) father, while she’s defended by her own (black) friends.
@globaldan The supposed good guy, Jimmy Galligan, purposefully sits on this 3 second video until he can inflict the most pain; she meanwhile had already apologized before he released it and it’d gone viral. She was even a #BlackLivesMatter supporter!
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21 Dec 20
Lee was long celebrated as the greatest Virginian after Washington. He drew admirers across the political spetrum: Eisenhower, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford. Churchill called him "the noblest American"
“Slavery as an institution, is a moral and political evil in any country.” — Robert E. Lee
Nearly forgot another of Lee’s erstwhile Democratic admirers: @JoeBiden
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