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Sep 30 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
OK, as promised. I'm a rhetoric & political communication prof. I teach classes on propaganda, argumentation & the Dark Arts of communication. I like dogs, democracy & puns. I'm a minor soup influencer. I wrote an award-winning book on Trump & testimony for the J6 Committee. #AMA
In case you missed my soup influencing and you like soup. Try this >>
I'll do this for another 15 minutes, still time to get a question in! Also, I am the undisputed focaccia bread champion of Texas:
Time for one more question. No one asked, but this is my favorite gif right now: Let's do some democracy!
And, democracy is absolutely something that we "do." I think about that a lot.
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Sep 30
this seems like a viable place to look for domestic terrorists
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nah, that didn't really happen. No, it DID
snopes.com/fact-check/cpa…
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Sep 29
This Face Tattoo Phenomenon™ is a perfect example of what I have termed Uselessly Branding Terminology To Try To Sound Smart™: the phenomenon whereby someone says something blaggity glappity goo roo to get attention, appear smart, and to try to control the discourse. Image
It's fascinating that what seems to be a partnership between the LOC & Lizzo to make the public aware of the bounty of the LOC collection (which belongs to all Americans) can only be understood as an attack on propriety/white people/conservatives or whatever. Where's the joy?
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Sep 29
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed." Abraham Lincoln, 1858.
Relatedly: when TR called the presidency a "bully pulpit" he didn't mean bully, like a meanie who uses force to get their way; he meant bully, like "jolly good show ol' chap."

I think about this a lot.
Also, I wrote this in 2019: Fighting words for a New Gilded Age - Democratic candidates are sounding a lot like Teddy Roosevelt theconversation.com/fighting-words… via @ConversationUS
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Sep 27
I'm hearing that the @January6thCmte hearing tomorrow might have something to do with Roger Stone and Stop the Steal >>
OK, hearing is postponed.
Here is the Stone video:
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Sep 27
I can't quite put my finger on why
+26 Dem shift on campus from 2016
source is here, fun to play with! (I couldn't see how to unlock it so hope it works for y'all): nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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Sep 25
One thing that I realized the other day is that pre-bunking only works with your side, because of frame warfare. Let me explain:
During the 2020 election there were tons of pre-bunking/pre-emptive framing attempts to explain how the electoral count was likely to occur: ballots would take time to count in certain places, mail in ballots longer than election day votes, etc.
The goal was to help people understand and predict the process so that they would be more likely to accept the result. Folks knew that the extra time to count the vote would cause concern and would allow Trump, et al to claim victory/claim the vote was rigged.
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