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8 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Holy crap there is already a Das-Ashli-Babbitt-Lied
It wasn't so very long ago that Trump supporters enthusiastically championed police who shot unruly protesters. This is from November 2020 tampabay.com/news/florida-p…
Governor DeSantis's proposed law would have authorized deadly force against people who engaged in criminal mischief that resulted in the "interruption or impairment" of any place of business.
Likewise President Trump urged police to shoot looters in the summer of 2020 - but is now aghast that it proved lethally hazardous to try to abduct or assassinate the Speaker of the House and the Vice President of the United States

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8 Jul
To write this piece, I had to plunge into the fetid swamp of Clinton Foundation paranoia online. Yikes.
Something else I'd forgotten: how many journalists bought the story that Trump made huge inroads into Haitian-American vote in Florida in 2016. Best studies indicate that Hillary Clinton won over 80% of that vote. And yet so much this huffpost.com/entry/did-trum…
The "Haitian-Americans voted for Trump" fiction illustrates how ultra-progressives helped insert far-right conspiracizing into mainstream reporting in 2016. They hated the Clinton family's efforts to promote market-friendly reforms in Haiti as "disaster capitalism." So ...
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1 Jul
Contra to what Trump supporters are saying on Twitter, these are real crimes, if convicted.
Earlier this month, the guy below got 57 months for tax evasion akin to that charged against Weisselberg justice.gov/opa/pr/georgia…
This Michigan man will also face many years in prison if convicted of Weisselberg-like offenses justice.gov/opa/pr/michiga…
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29 Jun
A short thread about another Tucker Carlson fabrication
The United States has a long history of racist provocation on the radio: Father Coughlin to Bob Grant to Rush Limbaugh
Local TV programs in the 1960s and 1970s could also enflame: future US senator Jesse Helms got his start reading ferocious editorials on the local NBC affiliate in Raleigh, NC. history.capitolbroadcasting.com/people/icons/j…
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27 Jun
By early afternoon Saturday, November 7, there was no longer any shadow of doubt that Joe Biden had won the election of 2020. That was the time for every responsible stakeholder in US politics to congratulate the next president and begin the transition process.
Instead, to quote @jonkarl

"[T]he week after the election, he [Barr] gave prosecutors the green light to investigate 'substantial allegations' of vote irregularities that 'could potentially impact the outcome' of the election."
Barr was not a co-conspirator in the outright violence of January 6, 2021.

But Barr *was* a co-conspirator in propagating the lie that inspired and mobilized the violence of January 6.

And as @jonkarl reports, Barr propagated the lie *knowing* it was a lie.
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25 Jun
Dinesh D'Souza got a 5 year prison sentence for organizing straw donations like those at the center of the below scheme
Step 1: concoct wild fantasies about your political opponents;

Step 2: devise crazy schemes in response to your own fantasies;

Step 3: commit major felonies to advance your crazy schemes;

Step 4: feel supremely sorry for yourself after you are indicted for your felonies.
That's the story of Project Veritas, but also of the January 6 attacks, also of those recurring incidents of Republicans arrested for voter fraud, and also so much else.
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25 Jun
Best way to understand Tucker Carlson's abuse of General Mark Milley tonight is as confirmation of the accuracy of the stories Gen Milley told about rebuffing ex President Trump's order for a massacre in Portland, Oregon.
Here's the story Milley told. cnn.com/2021/06/24/pol…
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"Just shoot them," Trump said on multiple occasions inside the Oval Office ... When Milley and then-Attorney General William Barr would push back, Trump toned it down, but only slightly ....

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