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24 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I can confirm from my friends who work in public schools that the last thing they need is more Fox News-addled parents riding their asses about Brainwashing Their Kids With Leftist Claptrap because of some fucking context-deprived MAGA bullshit they heard about on the teevee
The whole point of Fox News outrage porn is to scare people with buzzwords like “Critical Race Theory” so they can intimidate teachers from saying anything that implies institutional racism is a thing that still affects our lives & didn’t end a long, long time ago
The smarter conservatives are finally acknowledging that CRT isn’t actually taught in public schools, so now they’re moving the goalposts to encompass history viewed “through the filter of CRT” so they can continue their horror stories of ideological brainwashing uninterrupted
Even the linked Sullivan column engages in gaslighting (“We all know that CRT isn’t REALLY being taught in our schools; shame on liberals for taking us all so literally!”) similar to “Trump didn’t mean he was planning to build a literal wall and Mexico would actually pay for it”

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21 Jun
A good rule of thumb:

If you or I were genuinely concerned that we were being misunderstood by thousands of people, our first instinct would be to concisely explain our “true” meaning.

If you continue to coyly insist “You misunderstand me” without doing that, it’s gaslighting.
The point of DM’s first Tweet is clearly “The good dog died, while the bad dog lived. Just like Biden’s sons, LOL.”

After thousands of responders rightfully suggested DM was a terrible person, he doubled down on “Those philistines and simpletons failed to read my full column!”
I did read the column. It basically said the same thing, appending “It’s just like a Shakespearean tragedy!” It’s still a flowery “Hunter Biden LOL” joke. There is no other point to the allegory; all it does is rub salt in the family’s recent wounds for a hacky punchline.
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17 Jun
Thanks to Trump, “Who are you gonna believe: me or your lying eyes?” became the actual mission statement of the GOP
Thanks to Trump, the GOP has collectively rejected not just democracy, but the republic, the electoral college, and the U.S. Congress... all because Trump refused to accept that he lost.
Thanks to Trump, the GOP is now infested with a new crop of “rising stars” whose only goals are garnering publicity and triggering the libs
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13 Jun
“Critical race theory” is a very specific doctrine that the Right has demonized and broadened to encompass pretty much anything liberals say about race that they don’t like.

It’s a lot like what they did with “Antifa”.
In the words of Otto von Bismarck, “Politics is the art of arguing with your uncle at Thanksgiving”, so if he believes “critical race theory” encompasses the 1619 Project & rebooting SCOOBY-DOO with a black Velma then our protestations to the contrary will likely mean very little
Conservative media is most effective when they use language that frightens and alarms their audience, so when they say “Antifa” they’re usually not talking about Antifa and when they say “critical race theory” they’re usually not talking about critical race theory
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10 Jun
#StopMeIfYouHeardThisOneBefore

Most Republican politicians and pundits know next to nothing about “critical race theory”, but nonetheless wield it as a dog whistle to denigrate any racially-driven educational content that they find objectionable
#StopMeIfYouHeardThisOneBefore

The January 6 insurrection of the Capitol to interfere with the certification of a lawfully elected President was a far more serious threat to our nation than the collateral damage which occurred during the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests
#StopMeIfYouHeardThisOneBefore

Speaking of which, the aforementioned Black Lives Matter protests were not the nonstop orgy of rioting, looting and wanton destruction that many commentators in conservative media repeatedly suggest that they were
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6 Jun
Several months ago, I predicted that Trump would cease to be a threat when (and only when) the GOP decided to move on without him. I still believe this to be true.

(1/x)
There are three things I expected would greatly hasten this process:

- losing the election
- deplatforming from social media
- prosecution on legal grounds

(2/x)
Things I had not counted on:

- Trump would survive the “LOSER” scarlet letter by successfully convincing the GOP that he actually won the election
- Trump’s post-Presidency life remaining blissfully undisturbed by complications from his legally shady business dealings

(3/x)
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27 May
Yes, because we all know how effective GOP “fretting behind the scenes” has historically been in stopping Trump politico.com/news/2021/05/2…
Answers to the two hypothetical questions “What’s going to stop Trump from running again?” and “What’s going to stop the GOP from voting for him again?” have been far from comforting
We also know that it doesn’t matter how badly Trump loses an election; he and his followers will nevertheless spend months insisting he was cheated out of victory by the Democrats and the Deep State and the Lamestream Media and BLM and Antifa and possibly China
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