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16 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Things we tell ourselves
History will just magically find 45 guilty he says as I look at Bush's post presidency numbers and a media landscape littered with Bushies
Unfortunately I think Nov 2020-Feb 2021 is the lowest in esteem 45 will ever be and it's all up from here. I think dreams about him being poorly regarded the way liberals want are a fantasy. I hope I am I wrong but I doubt it.
I mostly say this kind of thing not to say "ah ha I was right" (cause who cares) but to try and guide liberals in the right direction. I see you all fawning over Joe Scarborough and David Frum and Lincoln Project every day and I'm not optimistic.
"History will remember." I mean, yeah, sure it will.

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17 Feb
in the early days of mmfa we were the first ones to actually listen to limbaugh and report back to people on it. literally nobody had ever bothered to do it before in a systematic daily way.
and one of the most hilarious (not actually) bits was whenever we would inevitably report on his racism, misogyny, or straight up lying, he and his cult followers would insist you had to be there for all 3 hrs of his horrific show to "get it."
thats actually where he came up with his dumb phrase about the "drive by media," cause he was very upset that mmfa was exposing him and getting him written up by others who didnt bother to slog through hours of his hate.
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to be honest the real disney villain prequel i want is "scar: before the mark."

get into the psychology of why he hates his brother so much he'd kill him, his complicated identity issues where he identifies more with hyenas, how that accent developed. disney i am available.
"Meet your new cubs: Mufasa... and Scar."

SCAR (whispered)
I'm going to kill him some day...
"It's like The Crown, but for lions" - me pitching Disney+ on my Scar series
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They are still doing palace intrigue reporting for 45, even though hes no longer in the palace. What's the excuse now?
"A source familiar tells the Times that Trump took two dumps today, one that could be characterized as 'major,' while the second, though considerably righteous, did not rise to the level of a major bathroom event. I have a Pulitzer."
"Roger Stone, who has been my background source for years, tells the Times that Trump's anal ragers position him as the 'bathroom alpha' ahead of the 2024 primary. This is the kind of stuff I put in the most important newspaper in the world. Amazing, right?"
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"deregulation nation"
"Baby gates as firewood? That's what happens in the deregulated America Republicans want for you and your family" - the opening monologue on my mythical liberal cable news show on Libnet
"In America, baby gates are to protect children, to keep them safe, but when Republicans are allowed to deregulate everything, they become firewood to keep us warm. Because the lights are out. And your family is freezing."

(could do it in that same sing-song cadence as Tucker)
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its like they cut and paste these from 2009 and expect nobody to notice. rinse + repeat bs.
its just always the same shitty take and they just rearrange the words a little bit
heres what happened with the last democratic-led stimulus that republicans and conservatives said wouldn't work. im tired of this. they lost the argument. theyre always wrong.
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"The deregulation death continues to climb as snowstorms hit America's heartland, we tackle the issue... next"
"So you're saying all of this death and disaster could have been avoided with just a few lines of regulation. And Republicans obstructed it. Amazing. *Looks at camera*" - me hosting my 9pm show on Libnet
"It's just a few lines of text, but Gov. Abbott preferred to go to fancy six-figure cocktail party with his friends at the NRA and rock star Ted Nugent. And now Texans are dead. Wow."
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