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Feb 9 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
MTG is not stupid. She knows what the Gestapo is, and that it's not cold soup. She does this on purpose to draw mockery and derision from liberals who she can turn around and say are trying to cancel her.
She's done it before. Misspelling "Columbus Day," not knowing the difference between "your" and "you're." Boebert does it too. Remember "imeach Biden"?

They're shitposters. They thrive on being mocked and insulted, because it makes them feel alive and drives up their engagement.
Like Trump, some typos are probably the result of just not giving a shit. But come on. "Gazpacho police?" You're being played for clicks and feigned outrage.
I can't stress enough how badly people like MTG want you to underestimate them, deride them, and think they're stupid. The liberal press did the same thing to Trump for years in the runup to 2016 - write him off as a moronic clown. That didn't go the way we wanted.
Anyway, remember when the Huffington Post spent six months covering Trump's presidency in the entertainment section, because it was a "sideshow"?

That turned out ok, right? Underestimate these people at your own peril.

huffpost.com/entry/a-note-a…
One more thing, then I swear I'm going to stop. Yes, we're all laughing at MTG's "gazpacho police" gaffe. What are we missing? That she just accused the Speaker of the House of having a *secret police force* on her payroll. That feels like the bigger story. But it's not as funny.
For someone who doesn't know the Nazi secret police from soup, Marjorie Taylor Greene sure seems to make a lot of knowing Nazi references. It's almost like she does, in fact, understand what words mean. ImageImage
I waited a respectable amount of time, and now I'm going to do the soundcloud thing and plug my book about why shitposting is such a compelling form of communicating with people who desperately need enemies to fight and dark forces to blame.

amazon.com/Storm-Upon-Us-…

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Feb 6
Rogan signing with Spotify is the media equivalent of Albert Pujols going to the Angels, right? An ill-advised huge money contract for a superstar that quickly becomes a millstone around the neck of everyone involved.
Pujols couldn't play up to the expectations of the deal, and the Angels kept spending more dumb money to justify what they had already spent.
Likewise, Rogan not only hasn't brought new subscribers to Spotify, he's cost them more money - and prestige in justifying what they already gave him.
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Feb 2
Mel Mermelstein is one of the only people to ever successfully take a bogus "I'll pay you to prove me wrong" challenge and get his money - only because he sued the IHR, winning both the "challenge" and additional damages. An absolute hero in every sense of the word.
Such "I'll pay you to prove me wrong" challenges are a hallmark of cranks. They dangle big money to prove things that have already been proven, like evolution or the Holocaust happening. But the "proof" is judged by the crank. And weirdly, they always win. Except this time.
in 2017, RFK Jr. and Robert De Niro teamed up to offer $100,000 to anyone who could "prove vaccines are safe." Well, vaccines are safe, so that's easy money, right?

To my knowledge, they never paid a dime out. But they got plenty of PR for their bogus stunt.
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Feb 1
I'm not debunking every lie and mistake in Jim Stewartson's new manifesto. But since he brought this old blog post up AGAIN, it's clear he didn't actually read it. He calls it proof I "hate Hillary Clinton" because the title is "End of the Line for the Clinton Gravy Train."
If he'd read it, he'd know the post is about how HRC leaving politics and Dems retaking the House meant that the giant grift industry around fake Hillary "scandals" would have to focus on something else. Which it did, in the form of QAnon, and later COVID and "stop the steal."
Uranium One was a huge driver of RW media. To think my mention of it in an obscure blog post was "predictive programming" for a virulently anti-HRC conspiracy launching a few days later, while CLEARLY not having read it, is a perfect example of the sloppiness of Jim's "work".
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Jan 31
Some news! I'm curating another class for Chapter, featuring articles and videos I've put together, along with my own insights and access for Q&A sessions.

This time around, we're doing pop culture conspiracy theories, focused on four big ones:

getchapter.app/@rothschild/po…
#1 is the persistent theory that Tupac Shakur is still alive and hanging out...in a bunch of different places. We'll talk about why we love dead celebrity sightings, other supposedly still living musicians, and of course, Elvis.
Conspiracy theory #2: Kurt Cobain was murdered on the orders of Courtney Love because he was going to disinherit her. Or maybe it was the CIA. Or someone else. Why do "mysterious deaths" fascinate us, even when there's no real mystery about them?
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Jan 27
I wonder where kids who have spent their entire life on the internet are going to find their nudity and profanity now that they can't read MAUS.
When I was in grade school you had to put some work into finding nudity. Someone had to have a magazine, or you babysat and went looking for the stash when the kids were down. You dumpster dived for a skin mag. Now? Tsh. These crusty ninnies have no idea what kids are doing.
This is exactly the "trigger warning/safe space" hysteria that conservatives think liberals wrap themselves in - and they're the ones wrapping themselves in it. Teaching the Holocaust without "depictions of violence"? Are you fucking kidding me? Get out of your pillow fort.
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Jan 26
I'm so used to conspiracy theories about the health/death/retirement of SCOTUS justices that it's shocking to see one that's just sort of normal and predictable.
There will, of course, be conspiracy theories. But Breyer is old and wants to get out while Dems still technically have a majority. It's not outlandish at all.
RW infotainment claimed Antonin Scalia was murdered. Liberals thought Anthony Kennedy conspired with Trump and the Federalist Society to pay Brett Kavanaugh's mortgage and get him on the court. Q believers thought RBG was both dead and being kept alive by secret drugs. Fun times.
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