Share this page!

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
Twitter logo
19 Jan, 18 tweets, 7 min read
Viral #TrumpsNewArmy Video Is Liberals At Their Craziest And Scariest

"So if you were hoping that maybe liberals would chill out and get a little less crazy with Trump out of the White House, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/viral-trumps…
A new viral video calling on liberals to form "an army of citizen detectives" to gather information on Trump supporters and report their activities to the authorities has racked up thousands of shares and millions of views in just a few hours.
The hashtag #TrumpsNewArmy is trending on Twitter as of this writing due to the release of a horrifying video with that title from successful author and virulent Russiagater Don Winslow. As of this writing it has some 20 thousand shares and 2.6 million views on Twitter.
"On January 20th Donald Trump will become Commander-in-Chief of a different army: this army."

Viewers are then shown footage from Trump rallies while being told that they are looking at "radical extreme conservatives, also known as domestic terrorists".
"They are hidden among us, disguised behind regular jobs," Winslow warns. "They are your children's teachers. They work at supermarkets, malls, doctor's offices, and many are police officers and soldiers."
The viral video is being loudly amplified by popular #Resistance accounts with frighteningly paranoid and HUAC-like rhetoric:
So if you were hoping that maybe liberals would chill out and get a bit less crazy with Trump out of the White House, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

This is as insane and scary as I have ever seen these people get, and I was in the thick of peak Russiagate hysteria.
An aggressively manufactured push to get an army of citizens spying on each other calls to mind the Stasi informants of East Germany, the patriotic digital "digging" of the QAnon psyop, and the NatSec LARPing of Louise Mensch Twitter, all rolled into one great big ball of crazy.
This comes out as we are being bombarded with mass media punditry from literal CIA veterans like Sue Gordon and Elissa Slotkin forcefully hammering home the message that domestic terror is the new frontier for combating violent extremism.
Winslow himself spent six years traveling and doing research for a novel about a former CIA operative, and if some government agency didn't recruit him during that period they clearly should have.
This will get frightening if it keeps up. Just as a relatively low-profile lefty blogger I routinely get liberals online claiming I'm a Russian agent and saying they'll report me to the FBI, and that's without an aggressive campaign urging them to join a powerful digital army.
In fact just following the trending hashtag I'm noticing Twitter users saying this means targeting all Trump supporters, so clearly that is the message that's being absorbed.
Well maybe that's because Trumpers are half the voting public, Don?
Winslow mixes in these generic comments about "Trumpers" with comments about "white supremacists", about whom he tweets "1. We expose them. 2. We identify them. 3. We notify law enforcement. 4. We notify their employers."

Their employers.
In case there was any doubt that this message is being taken as a directive to regard anyone who isn't a Democrat as a literal terrorist who must be spied on for the feds:

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @caitoz

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
21 Jan
The Next Two Years Will Be The Democratic Party At Its Most Transparent

This period will provide ample opportunities to highlight the fact that the Democratic Party exists solely to kill all leftward movement in the most powerful government on earth.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-next-two…
Joe Biden is now the president of the United States of America. His day one executive orders should have prioritized ending the single worst crisis in the world in Yemen, a war he campaigned on ending US involvement in, but they did not.
archive.is/QvCGj
Ending US participation in the Yemen genocide could and should have begun on day one. In These Times reported the following back in November (emphasis added): Image
Read 16 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
20 Jan
Joe Biden. Joe Biden. Joe fucking fucking motherfucking Biden. In a country of 328 million people the guy that gets elevated to the top is literally one of the very worst human beings in the entire population. That's the "democracy" you're being told is under attack.
And this isn't even prime Joe Biden. This is coming out of retirement for a half-assed exhibition match Joe Biden. This is way past sell-by date Joe Biden. This is Joe Biden with missing pieces. That's the sort of animal that rises to the highest elected office in US "democracy".
"We are led by the least among us. The least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary."
~ Terence McKenna
Read 4 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
19 Jan
Just tell the truth. Just tell the truth. You will never out-manipulate a manipulator, either in personal relationships or politics. You can't "capitalize on" this or "leverage" that; they'll beat you every time. In the battle against the manipulators, truth is our only weapon.
I see socialist groups get behind this or that mainstream liberal agenda like "Hey we can ride the momentum of this to socialist revolution!" No you can't you sweet precious lamb. You're swimming with sharks. They'll take everything you put in and then let you have nothing.
When you're not a manipulator it's hard to understand how much better at manipulation a manipulator is than you. They're SO much better. If you're a truth teller then you need to drag the battle kicking & screaming into truth like a BJJ black belt taking the fight to the ground.
Read 4 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
19 Jan
Psycho Pompeo Exits With Nary A Scratch Of Media Criticism On Him

"This is because Mike Pompeo's depravity is the 'normal' kind. The kind we're all meant to be used to."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/psycho-pompe…
My news feed looks odd as the hours count down to the end of the Trump administration. Westerners are largely celebrating the exit of Trump himself, whereas with those I follow from areas targeted by US imperialism, the man they're happiest to see the back of is Mike Pompeo.
It looks very bizarre, as this part of our weird collective adventure comes to an end, how Pompeo's tenure first as CIA Director and then Secretary of State were almost entirely unmarred by criticism from the political/media class.
Read 16 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
18 Jan
When you realize that corporations are America's real government, the whole "it isn't censorship if it's a private company doing it" argument is seen for the joke that it is.
It's also completely specious, because the government is directly involved in the censorship.
Narrative managers keep calling on corporations (who again are America's actual government) to enact more and more censorship. Now they're pushing cable companies too.
Read 4 tweets
Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ Profile picture
17 Jan
No, the Capitol riot was not "karma" for America's international coups and regime change interventions.

Karma would be the US actually reaping what it sows.

Karma would be the US government toppled and replaced with a foreign puppet regime, and millions of Americans killed.
Karma would be tens of millions of Americans displaced by widespread violence.

Karma would be the US becoming a failed state where people are again sold as slaves.

Karma would be nuclear bombs dropped on US cities.

Karma would be America's forests soaked with Agent Orange.
Karma would be mass executions of Americans in sports stadiums.

Karma would be massacres of entire towns.

Karma would be foreign soldiers raping and killing civilians with impunity.

Karma would be foreign-backed extremists mutilating civilians and displaying their corpses.
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @caitoz has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @caitoz!

Read all threads by @caitoz