“Charlie Kirk’s [Turning Point USA] Sick Logic | The New Republic” 9/23/21 1/ newrepublic.com/article/163577…
“Kirk’s virulent anti-vax rhetoric reflects his own evolution from campus free-speech warrior to Trump lackey, it also reflects the extent to which the base of the conservative movement has narrowed in recent years.” 2/
“According to one poll, less than a fifth of Americans and fewer than a third of Republicans say they will never get the vaccine.” 3/
“No matter—the principal task for [dangerous extremist] pundit-operatives like Kirk is not so much to create disciples or persuade the undecided as it is to rack up partisan points with a well-placed and intractable minority.” 4/
It is sickly ironic that TPUSA’s co-founder, Bill Montgomery, died of Covid. But the other TPUSA co-founder, Charlie Kirk, persists in his opposition to vaccine mandates and other reasonable Covid mitigation strategies. 5/ politico.com/news/2020/07/2…

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Remember when Ali Alexander, Roger Stone. & Jacob Engels OPPOSED recounts in 2018? These bad faith actors always accuse their opponents of fraud, regardless of facts, bc it is propaganda. It dates back to 2000. h/t ⁦@LeaLovesUSA#narrativewarfare 1/ miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-fan…
2/ Seriously. I know many of us already know they have screamed “stop the steal” since 2000 but it is nonetheless infuriating to see it spelled out so clearly in 2018. Image
3/ Jack Posobiec was involved too. ImageImageImage
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Hasen concerns me bc he has boosted the platforms of people who underplay election security concerns. Even he says that Congress shld require “mandatory post-election audits…”

Why does @amyklobuchar’s voting bill postpone its audit reqmt until 2024? 1/ washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
Hasen, for example, boosted the platform of David Becker, which is unfortunate. Becker is featured in this video that I made with @KateRosenberg4 before the 2020 election. The modems have not been removed, but they should be. 2/
3/ Letter from Stacey Abrams’s group & 13 other voting rights groups to UC Irvine taking exception to Hasen’s speaker invitation to the GA Sec of State bc the GA Sec of State has been threatening to dissolve the Dem-led Fulton county election board. fairfight.com/wp-content/upl…
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@j3669 @AKA_RealDirty @TheBradBlog @JonathanSimon14 Re: Clint Curtis, what Sidney Powell omitted is that Curtis said the request to create a vote flipping program came from Tom Feeney, a FL Republican & ally of G. W. Bush, who has done more than perhaps any other POTUS to empower the CNP which has ties to Powell herself. 1/ ImageImageImageImage
@j3669 @AKA_RealDirty @TheBradBlog @JonathanSimon14 2/ Powell also omitted that Feeney (the guy who allegedly asked Clint Curtis to create a vote flipping had ties to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, & Brett Kavanaugh helped stop an investigation into that. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1038151…
@j3669 @AKA_RealDirty @TheBradBlog @JonathanSimon14 3/ From my thread in post 2. ImageImage
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3/ Link to my full @NoLiesRadio presentation.
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“Operating from the shadows,” the CNP spent “4 decades courting, buying, and bullying fellow Rs, gradually achieving what was in effect a leveraged buyout of the GOP. Favorite sons, such as Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, were groomed, financed, & supported.” 1/ washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
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