A Jason Miller joint, complete with three grammatical errors in its meta description.

At least they "tried the best."
Hey @AJDelgado13, they're keeping an account ready for you at GETTR, 😆

So not only are they literally stealing Twitter tweets and images, they're even ripping off Twitter user names.
Basically, when someone signs up, it seems that GETTR will scrape and import all their tweets and then create "reserved accounts" of their followers.

That way, Jason and his sockpuppets can pretend to have actual users.
Oh and of course, the "claim" function is broken

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2 Jul
1/x: Far-right elites have totally embraced trolling, but is the rest of America finally figuring out how to respond?

This thread is a summary of my latest @DiscoverFlux article. Please join me or click through here: flux.community/matthew-sheffi…
Since Joe Biden became the president, Republicans consultants and politicians have been desperate to find a way to attack him. But nothing has worked, his approval rating has consistently been above 50%. So instead, right-wing elites have decided to completely embrace trolling. Image
The important thing to realize is that GOP elites are trolling everyone, including their own supporters. This is vital because as Biden has embraced stimulus spending and family support, he's forced the right to defend its greatest weakness: their anti-government views
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28 Jun
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
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23 Jun
1/x How the U.S. Senate filibuster does more than block progressive laws, it's facilitated GOP radicalism

Join me for a summary of my latest @DiscoverFlux article or click through here: flux.community/matthew-sheffi…
@DiscoverFlux As many political observers have noted, the filibuster tactic in the U.S. Senate has blocked many progressive bills from becoming laws.

Its institutional effect is even more pronounced, however, because it's enabled Mitch McConnell to create his own form of "triangulation"
In politics, triangulation means manufacturing a new political position that makes your own look more moderate or reasonable. This is exactly what McConnell's done w/the filibuster. He's convinced many people (incl Kyrsten Sinema) that it keeps the Senate centrist.
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16 Jun
1/x I haven't published anything about growing up in fundamentalist Mormonism until today.

Most people outside the sect have no idea how weird it really is. Here's a story of the day I almost sold my soul--to God flux.community/matthew-sheffi…
In the LDS religion, adherents are forced to give everything they have to the church. My father took things several steps further and made his kids promise to become perfect or be cast into hell. It was a very disturbing experience and the first time I didn't believe.
The idea came to my father on a trip we took to a field in northwest Missouri where Mormons believe that Adam from the Bible lived after being cast out of the Garden of Eden, which was also in Missouri, dontcha know
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6 Jun
1/x: Far-right Christianity's decades of excusing and enabling sexual abuse

Please join me for this summary version of an excerpt from @kkdumez's excellent book "Jesus and John Wayne" which we published at @DiscoverFlux here: flux.community/kristin-kobes-…
Lots of people outside of the white evangelical subculture couldn't believe that the "family values" crowd would be so loyal to a casino owner and habitual adulterer like Donald Trump.

As Du Mez argues, this is a drastic overlooking of evangelical history bookshop.org/books/jesus-an…
In fact, as she writes, "conservative evangelical support for abusive leaders is a feature, not a bug."

This is why evangelicals like Russell Moore who are rightfully calling out sexual assault and abuse have been met with enormous resistance.
Read 9 tweets
3 Jun
1/x. Donald Trump's defunct blog is the latest in a string of far-right media failures. Here's my look as a former conservative media consultant at what it means.

This is a summary of my latest @DiscoverFlux piece: flux.community/matthew-sheffi…
Far-right Republicans have been trying to create their own "alternative to X" platforms for decades. RightBook, ReaganBook, and FreedomBook all come to mind.

I personally was involved w/a Christian YouTube wannabe called EyeBlast. It failed. The domain now directs to a porn site
The one thing all of these ventures have in common is that despite their claims to be against "censorship," they actually were nothing but propaganda sites. Left-wingers or moderate Republicans weren't welcome.

There's a long history of such media failures going to the 1970s.
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