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Dec 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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It appears that Donald Trump's NFT image of himself as a cowboy comes from an Amazon image that was slightly altered. amazon.com/Scully-Rangewe…
The Trump astronaut NFT image appears to have been a recolored image that was stolen from @benedictredgrov wired.co.uk/article/nasa-a…
The Trump fighter jet pilot NFT seems to be a Shutterstock image. Did they license it? shutterstock.com/image-photo/us…
Here is the image from which the Trump tuxedo NFT seems to have been created.

It's fitting that a fake billionaire would put himself in a tuxedo from Men's Wearhouse. The white bowtie is pitifully constructed. menswearhouse.com/p/pronto-uomo-…
Trump's NFT of him pretending to be a hunter (something he would not be caught dead doing in real life) seems to be derived from this wader set dnwoutdoors.com/banded-aspire-…
There are slight differences with some of the above images and their sources, meaning that it is very possible that the NFT collection is derived from unlicensed images as well as AI-generated copyright infringements. Getty banned AI images for this reason artnews.com/art-news/news/…
Here's my even more detailed writeup about how these crudely made memes managed to sell out, plus some more details on the shady company behind the operation: tyt.com/reports/7015be…

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Apr 6
Flashback lol of the day: Trump's top tariff adviser Peter Navarro made up a LARP of himself named "Ron Vara" which he repeatedly quoted in multiple books.

He even gave himself fictionalized biographical details, including being an Iraq war veteran. cnn.com/2019/10/16/pol…
Peter Navarro is such a crackpot that he has to literally invent economists who agree with him because everyone thinks he's insane.

This is who Donald Trump thinks is smart.
And btw, after Navarro was exposed for citing a fictionalized version of himself, he went and did it again, making up an email address for Ron Vara and circulating a memo during the first Trump term nytimes.com/2019/12/11/us/…
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Apr 3
🧵Carl Sagan wasn't religious, but he was still a prophet.

Working together, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, and countless aids built the greatest diplomatic and economic structure the world has ever seen. This enraged religious fundamentalists.

Humanity was headed for the stars. But not on religious literalism's terms.

The Christian right rallied and began tearing at American greatness while blaming others for their actions.

Carl Sagan saw them coming.
Education investment and regulation was stopped. Superstition was enshrined in schools. Instead of covering health care and adding job guarantees, extreme Republicans cut welfare and outsourced jobs.

The far right created almost all the problems Trump voters are angry about.
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Mar 17
🧵 Republican hatred of Democrats and of separation of church and state has significantly damaged political polling because reactionary Americans are willing to lie about their opinions if they think it helps Trump.

This fact has serious implications for Democrats...
I've written about how Republican voters now evince NPC-level responses to political polls. We're seeing that in particular with how Trump followers falsely thought the economy was in recession during Joe Biden's presidency, only to drastically reverse themselves under Trump Image
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In academic political science, there have now been several studies about "expressive responding" among committed Republicans, especially regarding Trump's obvious lies about his 2017 inauguration crowd size online.ucpress.edu/collabra/artic…
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Feb 2
🧵 The world is on fire. Chaos reigns.

Why is this happening? Primarily because fundamentalist Christianity has become an undead intellectual zombie.

What's even more bizarre and grotesque, however, is that Trumpian Christianity is much more about Nietzsche than Jesus.
Most contemporary fundagelical Christians have never heard of Friedrich Nietzsche, the profane atheist philosopher who died at the beginning of the 20th century. But his ideas are at the epicenter of the fascist Christianity they have embraced.
plus.flux.community/p/the-apocalyp…
Living at the cusp of modernity, Nietzsche saw earlier than most that science and philosophy had totally destroyed Christianity's moral and scientific claims. "God is dead," he proclaimed, eager to establish a new morality based on power.
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Nov 6, 2024
🧵 The election is going to be decided by people who don't like the candidates. Donald Trump always had a core of voters who don't like him but vote for him anyway.

It seems that the Harris campaign wanted to build a group of this kind for herself.
But the two parties' possible voter universes are not the same and cannot be motivated with the exact same tactics.

Historically, speaking, American political parties were multi-ideological. But the right wing activists who took over the Republicans changed the party.
They changed the nature of who was in the party. As the inventors of cancel culture, they kicked out all of the liberal and moderate Republicans who used to be very common.

They did this through relentless media propaganda aimed at Republicans to make them more reactionary.
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Nov 4, 2024
🧵 After 9 long years, it's starting to look like Donald Trump has become overexposed to his fans.

Democrats have been significantly more enthused since Kamala Harris entered the race than Republicans have.

In a base turnout election, Trump loses. Image
Trump lost in 2020 because he failed to get some of his 2016 voters to come back to support him. You can slice who these people were, but demographically it was primarily white men. Trump improved his share among most other demographic groups.
These former voters either chose to vote for Joe Biden or they stayed home.

In 2024, he is trying to bring them back but Trump has not modified his message really at all. So why would they return?

As the race ends, Trump is playing to empty seats
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