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Oct 17 7 tweets 3 min read
Amazing long con work by those who suckered in Kanye and unloaded this company on him for a premium.
If you're keeping track, the order of operations here is:
1) Candace Owens and Kanye West do their "White Lives Matter" stunt.
2) She spends the week defending him and his anti-Jewish rants.
3) He buys the third-tier social media company her husband runs.
What's the point of befriending a billionaire with mental health issues if you can't grift him out of some money?
Some really amazing bullshitting here about West's anti-Jewish rants but hey that's how you get the $$$.
The grifters who cozied up to Kanye are going to be bleeding him dry for quite some time.
I'd feel worse for him if not for all the antisemitism.
A reminder: Right-wing media con artists build connections with their audience, teach them "that mainstream information sources that present contradictory narratives can’t be trusted. And then they bilk those marks for all they are worth." mediamatters.org/fox-news/iverm…

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You’re supposed to just say “Soros,” one of the right-wingers he’s hanging out with really should have told him.
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