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Jun 28, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
1/x If you really want to see how things are in GOP politics, don't listen to talking head shows, just read the articles at Townhall written by party loyalists who want sore loser Trump to go away & then scroll down to the comments.

Let's take a look: townhall.com/tipsheet/rebec…
The article in question, by @RebeccaRoseGold, is a fairly neutral writeup for the crybaby speech the exprez delivered. It was massively triggering to the supposedly "tough" and "manly" Townhall audience.

The #1 voted comment whines that she invaded his safe space Image
"Douglas" gets some pushback but doubles down by implying that anything Trump claims is a "hoax" or a "crime" should be assumed to be so. No quotation marks allowed according to little Douglas.

Right-wing media audiences expect total devotion to the great leader Image
Others chime in as well, angry that Downs dared to quote Sen. Roy Blunt as saying it's time to move on and stop whining and crying about losing in 2020.

Of course, she's correct in this regard. Trump's sore loser response divides Republicans and alienates independents. Image
Later on in the discussion, after scores of offended, pearl-clutching remarks about neutral political coverage, one commenter claims that "real Americans" aren't afraid to state the truth. No one sees the hypocrisy Image
Further on, a Trump opponent who somehow hasn't been banned for political incorrectness gets a dig in at the failed exprez and is promptly told he's "blocked" by a baby who can't handle it Image
I won't quote all of them but the thread is filled with vituperations against someone just trying to do her job. Trumpism has become a cult whose followers demand total absolute obedience. Neutral journalism is not permitted, despite all the fake cries of "liberal media bias" ImageImageImageImage
Townhall and every other conservative site is read by people who hate it. Far-right Republicans hate their own party and have for decades. Here's a comment thread degrading Downs and also Townhall writer Guy Benson for being gay.

The abuse goes on for hundreds more comments Image
This is how the comments on all major right-wing website are.

The GOP will never be rid of Trump until it casts out the vicious reactionaries who call themselves "conservatives."

He & they will gladly take down the GOP along w/them if they cannot destroy America /end

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Sep 14
Remember when Charlie Kirk called for Joe Biden to be executed for unspecified crimes? This was literally last year.
Here is Charlie Kirk fantasizing about having children watch public executions and having them be turned into something like sporting events
Republican leaders spew violent rhetoric that is nothing remotely close to what their Democratic counterparts say.

Right-wingers have to resort to posting of rando leftwingers calling for violence. Meanwhile, Trump's top advisors like Steve Bannon call for political executions.
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Sep 11
During the George Floyd protest, a Minneapolis police station that was shot at. Left leaning demonstrators were blamed for it, but the actual shooter was a right wing extremist. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
The Charlie Kirk shooting person of interest sure looks like a far right person.

It's irresponsible for Republicans to make explicit claims about the shooter until he is apprehended and his background information is released. Image
Steven Carrillo, another boogaloo boi, pleaded guilty to murdering a San Francisco police officer at a BLM protest in 2020.

He had posted on Facebook about wanting to start an anti-government revolution. The right loves pretending to be the left.
apnews.com/article/us-air…
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Aug 7
🧵Right-wing extremists like Libs of Tiktok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage."

The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney never happened. Republicans made it up.

Republicans have been inventing people to rage against for decades… Image
As @kenbensinger and Stuart A. Thompson report, the actual numbers show that almost no one was criticizing Sydney Sweeney for her American Eagle ad.

But Libs of TikTok decided to pretend that lefties were angry. A story that was nothing became huge. nytimes.com/2025/08/07/bus…Image
This tactic, often called nutpicking, is a go-to strategy for RW media. I know this because I was in it for 15 years.

Highlighting random people as supposed representatives of evilness or stupidity is the bit.

Jesse Watters built his career on ridiculing bikini-clad women.
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Jul 19
1/ Donald Trump's obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base.

It's an echo of the last time this happened, when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn't listen.

Link in next post🧵
2/ This episode is also related to Elon Musk's chatbot Grok going into a "MechaHitler" rant.

Reactionaries have built an anti-epistemology and the leaders sometimes can't control it. plus.flux.community/p/epstein-grok…
3/ For years, QAnon and its spinoffs have painted Democrats as part of a secret pedophile cabal. Yet the most documented religious abuse scandals happen within conservative religious denominations.

Data shows 67% of politicians accused of child sex crimes are Republicans.
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Jun 22
🧵 Donald Trump has never been "anti-war."

He supported George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq until it became an overwhelming disaster. Then hey pretended to have always opposed it.

One of only a few things Trump has ever been consistent on was wanting to bomb Iran.
Trump often criticized other presidents' foreign wars, but this was not because he opposes war and wants diplomacy.

The fact that Trump was willing to criticize other presidents for getting into ill-fated foreign wars confused some people....
Donald Trump is not smart enough to have an ideology. His mind is a fetid rat's nest of conspiracy theories, hairspray, and stimulants.

When he criticized Obama or Bush for engaging in wars, he did so because he knew that's what a lot of people wanted to hear.
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Apr 6
Flashback lol of the day: Trump's top tariff adviser Peter Navarro made up a LARP of himself named "Ron Vara" which he repeatedly quoted in multiple books.

He even gave himself fictionalized biographical details, including being an Iraq war veteran. cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
Peter Navarro is such a crackpot that he has to literally invent economists who agree with him because everyone thinks he's insane.

This is who Donald Trump thinks is smart.
And btw, after Navarro was exposed for citing a fictionalized version of himself, he went and did it again, making up an email address for Ron Vara and circulating a memo during the first Trump term nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/…
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