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28 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
How gullible is MAGA? Thousands of them are retweeting a false claim that Kayleigh McEnany was suspended from Twitter from an account that *literally says it's fake*
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This is what I mean when I say that for the far right, they don't even get to the point of trying to determine if information is true or false.

If it reflects badly on "the left," then it's true, ipse dixit.
It looks like Twitter finally took action against the fake Kayleigh McEnany account. It's now banned.

Did anyone happen to see how many likes or retweets the post got? I saw 2,100 or so likes and 1,600 or so retweets.

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29 Jan
We don't talk nearly enough about how awful CNBC & Fox Biz are. Both provide nothing of real value.

The programming is propaganda for billionaires delivered by simps like Kudlow & Bartiromo. I hope this is evident now.

Excellent @alex_shephard takedown newrepublic.com/article/161126…
It's been long forgotten but the CNBC that exists today is actually the creation of Roger Ailes. He took over the channel in 1993 and set the template for how it has operated ever since: Happy-talk anchors who know nothing but "bull market is good!"
CNBC has consistently disgraced itself with incompetent on-air interviews of CEOs. It has also contributed immensely to the short-term value obsession that has weakened so many companies, causing them to become takeover fodder for vulture capitalists who pick them apart and sell.
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Matthew Sheffield Profile picture
22 Jan
Antifeminism is the main tie that binds the youthful fringe right the way that Christian supremacism did for Boomer righties & racism did earlier.

The emphasis for each person is different, but right wing inverse intersectionality works by mixing & matching these three elements.
Opponents of far right radicalism sometimes fall prey to making reductionist analyses that suppose only one of these hatreds explains what's happening.

This mistake is especially terrible because it hampers their ability to counter extremism bc they don't fully understand it.
If you think reactionaries are only motivated by racism, you'll miss the radicalizing that's happening rapidly among young minority men who are sexist.

Racism and antisemitism are very common among Christianists. And fundamentalist Christians are almost always misogynistic.
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Matthew Sheffield Profile picture
21 Jan
Conservative elites spent 60 years poisoning GOP voters' minds w/lies about gay militias, terrorist minorities, socialism, & atheist devils.

The net effects were visible on 1/6 but also in the video below.

The people harmed the most by Trump & the GOP are their own supporters.
This point is critical to remember: Trump didn't do this. His response to the QAnon cult which damaged this poor woman was effectively the same as most other Republicans, affirmation.

Kevin McCarthy could have rejected Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert. He didn't.
Likewise, it's marginally nice that Ben Sasse put his name on an essay which also denounced the cult of conservatism. But he only seems to have spoken out after the election.
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Matthew Sheffield Profile picture
19 Jan
Thread: Conservative Policy and the Trump Presidency

On the last full day of the Trump administration, I think it's useful to examine why he accomplished so little legislatively. TLDR version: American conservatism has almost no policy program.
The most important thing to know about conservative politicking is that people do not vote FOR Republicans, they vote AGAINST Democrats.

The GOP is dominated by a minority of far-right activists and wealthy donors who have views that their own voters don't support.
American conservatism is premised on the twin ideas that the New Deal & Great Society were immoral and that God himself created America and that we should honor this creation by establishing full Christian supremacism in which LGBT people, atheists, and Muslims have fewer rights.
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17 Jan
The very worst thing about conservative media is that those that refuse to regularly promote conspiracy theories basically never call out their extremist counterparts who do. A great example of this is that conservative sites have not covered Mike Lindell plotting a coup.
Breitbart's management seems to have turned against the Trump coup efforts after the 1/6 Capitol violence. But the publication does not criticize those continue to believe and promote the coup.

They haven't talked at all about Lindell in the past week.
Townhall has not either.
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15 Jan
Here's an enhanced version of the notes that Mike Lindell was carrying into the White House, as captured by @jabinbotsford.

Trump appears to be getting advice to make Kash Patel the acting CIA director and to trigger the Insurrection Act. From an insane pillow salesman.
As several of you have noted, it's possible that someone else wrote that document up. But that makes it even worse. It means that Trump is likely having multiple people pressuring him to do this.
I'm going to add replies to do a rough transcription of the visible portion. It's not entirely readable:

[illegible] NOW as Acting National Security
[illegible] him with getting the evidence of ALL the
[illegible] in the election and all the information regarding
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