A great find by @dappergander - both MTG and Boebert dropped obvious typos in the last line of ridiculous tweets that went viral. It could just be that they're bad spellers. Or they know how to get you to share their shitposts and spread their message.
MTG and Boebert were trolls before they were in Congress. And they're still trolls - good ones. They know that a typo in the last line will generate RTs and replies dunking on it. And they thrive on your mockery and derision, because you spread their message for them.
The points you score on them don't matter. But them getting free viral traction for their hate and conspiracy theories - that matters. And while it could be a coincidence, it could also be two notorious trolls manipulating their haters into getting them free engagement.
Here's Dapper's thread going into more details. It's worth a read.
800,000 dying people is a city the size of Seattle or Denver dying. Either you care about that or you don't. If you care, you got vaccinated and still mask indoors. If you don't care, you aren't doing that. There's nothing else to say.
If you don't care that 800,000 Americans have died of COVID, you wouldn't care if that number was 8 million. You're too special and important to care about what happens to other people. As long as it's not you. Which it won't be. Because you're special and important.
I've already had a verified "bodybuilder/jazz enthusiast" and a former Daily Wire writer get mad at me about this tweet.
Think back to the joy we felt at this moment, now co-opted by antivax cranks, "health freedom" grifters, "concerned moms" living fat off far-right dark money, social media influencers lying through their teeth, and an endless parade of fake horror stories and conspiracy theories.
Margaret Keenan is now 91, and has gotten two shots and a booster. She hasn't puked black blood, become magnetic, dropped dead of a heart attack, gotten eaten by nanobots, or had their brain explode from a clot.
Meanwhile, countless antivax shock jocks and grifters died gasping for air as COVID annihilated their lungs, accompanied only the buzz of machines soon used by someone else, and the exhausted sighs of medical professionals who wish they'd just gotten the vaccine.
I joined the #Negative48 live chat and it still astonishes me just how their tone and content is identical to the NESARA/dinar community. They talk about vibrations and energy and "great things" coming and to hold on and fight evil.
Those scams have been running for DECADES.
There's a lot of talk about people falling off and losing faith, and being real vs. fake. It does seem like some people are drifting away from the group - but many are digging in deeper.
I didn't hear it, but apparently Protzman was on the chat and someone violated etiquette in some way and displeased him, and he left. So now they're falling all over each other to praise him and go through all the things that please and displease him.
Re: Tucker Carlson/Hunter Biden. Why, as a journalist who exposes frauds, did I write about emails that haven't been confirmed as real?
Because when you report on fringe characters, you might not get the confirmation you want. So you trust your experience and your instinct.
Everything in these emails fits with what we know about the friendship between Tucker and Hunter. The timing matches. The chain of custody is a mess, but again, these are fringe characters. Their doings are never clean, so you go with what you have.
The email addresses are confirmed as belonging to both parties. And the source of the leak, Lin Wood, is a crank, yes. But that doesn't mean he's lying about this, or intentionally spreading a fake document. To do so would he inviting a massive lawsuit from Tucker.
Reposting with more redaction: Lin Wood doxxed both Hunter Biden and Tucker Carlson's contact info as of 2014. Yikes.
Lost in the crazy of doxxing the son of the president and a major TV infotainer: TUCKER CARLSON ASKED HUNTER BIDEN TO WRITE HIS SON A COLLEGE RECOMMENDATION LETTER.
Buckley Carlson didn't end up going to Georgetown, BTW.
I don't plan to talk about Jim Stewartson after this, but I truly hope the people clamoring for his return and praising him as a fearless truth-teller have read at least a little about his abuse and conspiracy theories toward journalists who criticized him. It's not okay.
He worked with a number of independent journalists, and I haven't seen any acknowledge the abusive and paranoid lies he told about those who ran afoul of him or questioned his methods. I hope at some point they think hard about when and how he'll turn on them.
I'm not tagging anyone here because I don't want to get into endless circular arguments that won't solve anything. Finding out the truth about someone you admire is difficult, and everyone needs to process it at their own pace.