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Mar 2 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I see Kim Reynolds opted for the George Wallace approach to the GOP SOTU response.
"Parents matter." "Local control of schools." "To hell with those out of touch intellectuals determining what kids should learn in school."
I appreciate Kim Reynolds' broad minded support for biofuels which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that federally subsidized, agribusiness production of corn dominates her state's economy.
I can't believe she just referred to "Iowa nice" as "the best of America" which is pretty much peak passive aggressive whiteness.
I'm all in favor of civility and interpersonal kindness, but to invoke a distinctively rural, midwestern version of that ethic can not be detached from that region's history and demographics.
Anyway, let's hear it for fiscally responsible Republicans who advocate for the most effective use of federal funds.

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Mar 3
Read this thread about the right’s use of targeted attacks on journalists. It’s part of the broader effort to undermine the free press.
It's worth remembering that this has been a tactic long used by the US far right. Here's an example from 1959. Robert Edmundson, one of the US's most virulent antisemites & Nazi sympathizers died in Bend, Oregon (pop 12,000). The paper printed a critical opinion piece about him. Image
Over the next few weeks the paper received hundreds of pieces of mail from across the country attacking them for their decision. One of the nation's leading antisemitic periodicals had encouraged readers to write to the editors of the Bend Bulletin. Image
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Mar 1
To those who live outside the right wing media echo chamber, this will just sound like mindless and vestigial, McCarthyite word salad...but Rubio is giving a shout out here to a decades-old, far right BS narrative about "cultural Marxism" that is pretty widespread.
To an alarming extent, the basic framework of the "cultural Marxism" narrative is the same as the "Judeo-bolshevism" narrative that informed fascist rhetoric in the 1930s.
David Neiwert, who's been studying and writing about the far right for decades, sums up the history very well here.
dailykos.com/stories/2019/1…
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Mar 1
Are they called ICBMs because when you see them coming you shit your pants, or is that just a coincidence?
I was 15 when The Day After aired. I remember debating this question around the cafeteria lunch table. If you knew the bombs were coming, would you drive towards a primary target to die faster, or drive away to try to live (but possibly die a slow painful death)?
Related question: If your parents weren’t around, was it ok at age 15 to grab the keys, get in the car and start driving in one’s preferred direction? I seem to remember that this was a fairly unanimous “yes.”
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Feb 28
Remember the LMAO!
I would love to read an essay on the theory and understanding of US History that animates contemporary conservative political culture. Time is both flat (Don Jr. and Eric as Texas freedom fighters) and also something that has alienated us from past "greatness."
As a starting point, I think Svetlana Boym's concept of "restorative nostalgia" helps get us some way toward understanding the nature of MAGA historical thinking (or ahistorical thinking, as the case may be).
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Feb 28
We’re closer to nuclear war than we’ve been in decades while the Ukrainian President who Trump unsuccessfully tried to roll to win the 2020 election is valiantly defending his country, & all conservative Twitter wants to talk about is Hunter B & what a failed POTUS his dad is. Image
These people want voters to trust them to handle dire geo-political crises like the present one, and all they can think to do right now is come up with new ways to “own the libs.”
Such “patriots” these folks are.
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Feb 26
This is from last June. This is the person who hosted the “America First” conference at which close Trump allies MTG, Gosar, and Wendy Rogers spoke. This is not complicated. It’s also not a new problem for the GOP.
This thread links to an excellent article on Fuentes’s Nazi proclivities written by @janecoaston in November of 2019.
If you want to get really old school with the “Nazi who is trying to take over the GOP” theme, may I introduce you to MAGA-Nazi Arthur Jones who won a GOP primary in Illinois recently?
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