Which is a #TantonNetwork lie that he is using in an apparent attempt to change the subject from the fact that the federal gov told him yesterday that if he keeps stealing COVID-19 relief funds to use for fascist anti-masker bullshit they won't give Arizona any more money
https://twitter.com/elpasotimes/status/1445830302715113472
You do notice the pattern, right? Whenever somebody gets into trouble for doing corrupt shit, about fifteen like-minded electeds put on camo and head for the border like they're doing some Nam bullshit. Here's yesterday's story apnews.com/article/corona…
Like when Ted Cruz got mocked for trying to flee the country when a bunch of his constituents died thanks to horrible decisions he had a hand in so he had to do a documentary theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…
Mexico is so scary and corrupt that he had to.... try to sneak out of the country to go there for a vacay with the fam in the middle of a devastating freeze and power grid failure texastribune.org/2021/02/18/ted…
I'm just saying that scarelore and optics from the border has been a reliable distraction for shitty politicians for decades. How do I know this? I was a border reporter. truthorfiction.com/how-to-fight-d…
Hahaha. I only just now saw this. What did I tell you? It's always the same people.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1445792712351838214
And of course their vicious little messengers have to pile on, just like always. This has been reliably changing the subject for decades. Don't let them get away with it.
https://twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1445922437133127683
And THAT is the #TantonNetwork and how it has always worked. It's a massive distraction and disinformation machine, and it has gotten away with it by operating in the shadows. So of course they benefit from the destruction of the journalism industry. We're the ones outing them.
Further reading (2015): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26026333/
Further reading (2020): bridge.georgetown.edu/research/facts…
Further reading (2018): nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
Further reading (2018). This is just a press release about the report but the report is linked within and well worth a read. Its release was overshadowed -- by atrocities (teargassings) at the border adl.org/news/press-rel…
They're talking about the #TantonNetwork. 
Hahaha. What a shit-show. In case you were wondering which governors are part of this network:
https://twitter.com/wfaa/status/1445799785676505095
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