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Sep 18, 2022 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Those spreading hate now worked previous ops too. Chad Prather & CJ LeRose, backing DeSanti's anti-immigrant stunt with a viral song, were inner-circle Stop the Stealers in 2021: here with police-assaulter Nathan Hughes, rally MC Matt Couch, Russian influencer Anna Khait. 1/
It's actually comforting that the same folks are involved, because it means it's not a mass movement. Instead it's highly manufactured, recycling the same faces. Also politically unsuccessful: Prather tried to unseat TX Governor Greg Abbott in 2022... 2/
... but Prather failed miserably, getting just 3.8% of the vote. The ultra-MAGA fascist movement is amplified by stunts and social media, powered by complicit judges and politicians - but actual popular support is not deep. It can be defeated. 3/
ballotpedia.org/Chad_Prather
When influencers switch from die-for-Trump to go-go-DeSantis, pay attention. The organization folks are backing DeSantis. Trump is playing to a shrinking base, forcing him to make increasingly radical references to please the QAnoners left behind. 4/
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
The keynote speakers at the recent "National Conservatism" conference are instructive. DeSantis and Hawley first. Rubio & Scott, maybe just because it's in FL. Mohler heads the main school in the Southern Baptist Convention. And billionaire Peter Thiel. 5/
nationalconservatism.org/natcon-3-2022/…
DeSantis' press sec. Christina Pushaw is also a speaker. American but ties to Russia since 2011. Parachuted into Florida in 2021 from former Soviet republic Georgia, rose to lead DeSantis' comms, now on his campaign. We have to avoid the mistakes of 2016 - with real reporting 6/
Christina Pushaw, whose only major prior employment was in Tbilisi, Georgia, used the role as DeSantis' press secretary to "pick public fights...on social media, amplify right-wing media outlets..and attack individuals." (Politico). Awkward for a taxpayer-funded position. 7/
DeSantis' stunt of flying asylum seekers to MA was not simple - it cost over $600,000, involved transit through 4 airports in 4 states. One month before, Pushaw had abruptly stepped down from her taxpayer-funded position and moved to DeSantis' campaign. 8/
politico.com/news/2022/08/1…
Be alert: MAGA influencers ignored Trump's rally, focused on DeSantis & Martha's Vineyard. Sen. Ted Cruz Tweeted about it 35 times in 2 days, Christina Pushaw even more - & celebrated getting #MarthasVineyardRacists to trend. QAnon & Trump are declining. DeSantis is rising. 9/
We nearly lost the country in 2021. In 2022 we need to be more savvy. And that doesn't mean finally calling Trump dangerous - it means understanding what brought him to power, and who is in line next. We win by fighting tomorrow's war, not yesterday's. 10/
Update: George Papadopoulos is now boosting the script. He's a Trump adviser convicted for Russia contacts (via foreign gf, married in whirlwind courtship). Pardoned 2020; partied in the VIP tent Jan 5 (video). The influence machine is with DeSantis. 11/
Adding another voice on the alarming DeSantis / Martha's Vineyard disinformation operation. Hunter Walker of Rolling Stone calls it "coordinated and organized activity" higher than anything seen in "ages". 12/

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Jan 25
The murder of Alex Pretti is seen in at least 5 videos. The incident unfolded over less than a minute. One agent instigated. One shot. Pretti held only a camera. He had a gun, but never touched. it. The shooter saw him get disarmed, then shot him in the back, point blank. 1/ Image
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As promised, here is a multi-camera timeline, with sources and screenshots. Other people have drawn the same conclusions - that it was murder, that Pretti's shooter saw his gun removed - but this document can serve as a general reference. 2/
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The NYT has a new video analysis of Renee Good's shooting which is careful, accurate, and clear - he walked across the path of a moving car, then leaned in and shot her with his feet well clear of the vehicle. 1/
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CNN posted a new video of the Minnesota shooting but missed its bombshell. ICE agent Jonathan Ross heads to his own car, turning his back on the supposed "terrorist" (L). He then walks back, filming, into the path of her ALREADY moving vehicle, stops and fires (R). Insane. 1/ Image
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Here's the video as posted by X user @GinoTheGhost. Anderson Cooper doesn't notice that Ross was well clear of Renee Good's vehicle when it starts moving. The idiot walked into the path of a moving car while distracted by filming a video. Totally unprofessional. 2/
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What's happening in Venezuela is not war but deal-making (and back-stabbing). As VP Delcy Rodriguez assumes power, remember that she was negotiating with Trump in 2025 for this outcome: new boss, same regime. And that she's alleged to be involved in drug trafficking herself. 1/ Image
It's not war when the only people killed are a few civilians and the president's bodyguards - and Russia barely reacts. The Miami Herald says Rodriguez' reached out in early 2025, less than a year after Maduro stole the election - with Maduro's OK. 2/
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The best take on today's attack on Venezuela is likely the most cynical: that it is staged and transactional. Trump wouldn't attack Russia's ally without permission - but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. @davetroy as usual called it. 2/ Image
Most of our politics today has decades-old roots involving Russia. Putin has tried to take Ukraine since 2014. That's why he needed Trump, why Russia paid the influencers who pushed January 6. Troy: today is not "some new sui generis Trump adventurism" 2/
Trump rehashes old actors and old plans - it's the same people who boosted him into office, who cut deals with Putin in 2019, who pushed Jan 6, who surround him now. Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment is as valid today as it was then. 3/
pbs.org/newshour/polit…
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Since this ominous video about Trump and his pageants is going viral, might as well note that Erika (Frantzve) Kirk competed in at least 5 of those pageants: Miss Colorado 2009 and 2010, Miss Arizona 2011 and 2012, and then, after she finally won at state level, Miss USA 2012. 1/
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It's likely Frantzve became close with Trump during the pageants because 3 years later she reportedly called her former classmate Tyler Bowyer to offer help with Trump's first large rally, in Arizona in 2015. Bowyer was organizing; he placed her right behind Trump. 3/ Image
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