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Oct 3, 2023 14 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Right-wing media figures are bitterly fighting amongst themselves after Kevin McCarthy is removed as Speaker of the House

🧵THREAD of reactions:
Steve Bannon: "Obviously an incredible day"
Outkick host Tomi Lahren thinks it’s “grandstanding bullshit” Image
Some are attacking Rep. Tom Emmer as a possible replacement Image
Right-wing radio host Michael Savage is attacking Fox News Image
Fox host and former Trump press sec. Kayleigh McEnany seems to think it was ill-advised Image
Tim Pool, hiding in his skateboard compound in West Virginia, is excited
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Conspiracy theorist and Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway seems to be straddling the fence Image
Anti-Muslim extremist bigot Laura Loomer: “VICTORY!!!!! Today is a great day for MAGA and a major blow to the Uniparty.” Image
John McCain's daughter is having a bit of a tantrum, accusing "Matt Gatez" of tantrum-having Image
Hugh Hewitt, who may be poised to be an important right-wing media figure in the 2024 election, calls to expel from congress the 8 who voted to vacate McCarthy Image
Jeanine Pirro is apoplectic on Fox: "Now what we've got is total chaos when the Republicans are playing out their infighting on national television ... I am furious"

snipes at Gaetz for fundraising
Sean Hannity on his radio show: "I guarantee you Democrats are doing backflips, they're loving this ... I quote Donald Trump, 'why'"
Doug Collins: "This is where the yellow brick road ends" 👠✨

Newsmax host Carl Higbie: "This is a shot across the bow of the status quote"

whateeeeeever that means

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Sep 16, 2024
Having a hard time coming to any conclusion besides the obvious one about what Rich Lowry catches himself blurting out here
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h/t @lawton_sophie
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My latest:

Remember when the Project 2025 head said "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"?

Turns out that wasn't an off the cuff remark -- the sentiment is repeated throughout his now-delayed book. Image
@mmfa has a galley copy of Kevin Roberts' Dawn's Early Light. Publication has been delayed amid a political crisis for Trump over his connections to Project 2025.

Roberts casts the modern conservative movement in revolutionary terms.

Full article mediamatters.org/kevin-roberts/…
@mmfa The original sub title of the book was "Burning Down Washington to Save America". It was toned down in July.

But second chapter is still an extended fire metaphor calling for the right to "burn it down"

"It's time for a conservatism of fire" Image
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Aug 7, 2024
New: Heritage president Kevin Roberts is delaying publication of his book amidst Project 2025 backlash.

Unfortunate for him, as media matters already has a galley copy and I'm blogging it as I read through: Image
In Dawn's Early Light, Roberts says the advent of birth control was part of a conspiracy to destroy the American family.

JD Vance wrote the foreword, calling the book an "essential weapon" in the "fights that lay ahead"

Link to full article: mediamatters.org/kevin-roberts/…
Like, why do young people need to look at dead bodies and have children when they don't want to. weird shit. Image
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JD Vance follows a who's who of extremists on Twitter, including antisemites, conspiracy theorists, and white supremacists.

Thread on the weirdos and freaks that the VP candidate follows: 🧵
Pedro Gonzalez is a right-wing influencer who has said "as a group" Jews are "problematic" and advocated for "screening them for movements"

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Richard Hanania wrote on for white supremacist publications under a pseudonym, advocated for forced sterilizations of "low IQ people" who he claimed were mostly Black and opposes "race-mixing". A lot more here huffpost.com/entry/richard-…

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Jul 30, 2024
Project 2025 isn't going anywhere and a rebrand doesn't erase its deep connections to Trumpworld.

Don't take it from me. In June, Heritage Foundation president said Project 2025 will live on “for the next century in the United States”
"Winding down its policy operations" is misleading.

The policy work has been largely complete since they published their 900 page book in April 2023. Project 2025 includes an indispensible concentration of policy proposals in the conservative movement mediamatters.org/heritage-found…
Kevin Roberts on 7/12: “Never before has the conservative movement been this unified around a governing agenda”

Project 2025 is about securing the legacy of Trumpism for the next GOP administration and beyond.

mediamatters.org/project-2025/h…
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I'll be tracking MAGA media's reaction to Trump being found guilty verdict on all counts here:, follow along if interested 🧵

Steve Bannon: "This won't hurt him at all"
Fox News' Jeanine Pirro: "We have been calling it lawfare. I think lawfare is far too soft, it's far too benign. This is warfare."
Internet streamer Tucker Carlson: "This won’t stop Trump. He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first." Image
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