GOP slouches into the Crazy -IMMIGRATION | Trump Firehose of anti-immigrant posts and rhetoric
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Ddseddse
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Remember when Glenn Back tried to grift from the Left for a hot minute and then realized that Dems weren't stupid enough to fall for it, and then he went right back grifting from the right? Ah... Fun times.
ZenMode
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Anger and fear sells....and motivates people to get out and vote.
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These people need a Harris to win. There is a lot more money to made complaining about her everyday.
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Glenn Beck was kinda correct with his prophecy about America being destroyed if Obama was reelected. He was just wrong about who would destroy America. The right wing was so distraught over a black man being in the White House they wound up nominating race-baiter Donald Trump as a reaction. Trump proceeded to violate every norm and undermine every institution, leading to a massive beach of faith between the people and their government. We are still in the ‘will we recover?” phase of the post-Trump era, with millions of fools wanting to go back for more.
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I don’t know if as many sane and rational people are buying it anymore.
I know people are easily manipulated but they can only cry wolf so many times until a some people realize what is going on. We don’t need all of them.
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I think anger and fear does still sell at least to 40% or so of the population. The problem is the pure chaos that we saw with Trump as president turned people in the middle so far away from him. I do think someone would do well basing their message on fear but blending it with a calmer competence and convincing people they can actually solve problems instead of wildly flailing around and rambling about grievances.
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It always works on the uneducated and most gullible which are often one in the same.
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A breath of fresh air. So invigorating. I don’t think I would like, at first. A real treat. Excite your breath and awaken your mind.
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Didn't feel like starting a thread for George Santos so let's just throw this in here. I believe he will see time behind bars.
Oh wait …..
I thought you said mentos
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I think anger and fear are still a big factor. From what I saw of either parties convention, there was plenty of fear being sold. A lot of the political ads try to play on people's fear. Even a lot of the commentary you hear from cable news stations (though many of the talking heads are opinion, not news) are selling fear.
Biden is going to end democracy. Trump is going to end democracy. Oh wait, now Harris is going to end democracy. And this was all after Obama was supposed to have ended democracy a decade ago.
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“Officials in a North Texas county debunked claims made by a Fox News host that migrants were registering to vote outside a state drivers license facility west of Fort Worth — an unsubstantiated claim that appeared to spark an investigation by Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office.
Both the Parker County Republican chair and election administrator said there was no evidence to support the Aug. 18 social media post made by television personality Maria Bartiromo, who previously promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
Paxton’s office announced it was opening an investigation into “reports that organizations operating in Texas may be unlawfully registering noncitizens to vote” Wednesday. …”
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In a growing universe of awful MAGA elected officials, Paxton remains one of the absolute worst.
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Trump Weirdos Spread Conspiracy Theory That Tim Walz's Dog Is Fake
MAGA has built quite an echo chamber of cruelty and ignorance.
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Trump Weirdos Spread Conspiracy Theory That Tim Walz’s Dog Is Fake
Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert and got dropped by every major newspaper in the country after he publicly advocated for racial segregation, shared the conspiracy theory, writing “AI or real?” Adams is a far-right kook who also believes he “hypnotized” himself recently with ChatGPT.U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt from Missouri joined in. “Why would Tim Walz do this? It’s Creepy™ and Weird™,” Schmitt tweeted, apparently trying to play reverse Uno with the “weird” allegations Walz helped popularize against Republicans.
But what’s actually going on in these photos? Let’s break it down. The first tweet was sent in June 2022 and shows Walz with a black dog.
“Sending a special birthday shoutout to our favorite pup, Scout,” Walz tweeted.
The second tweet in the viral screenshot was sent in October 2022 and shows Walz petting a brown dog, with the message, “Couldn’t think of a better way to spend a beautiful fall day than at the dog park. I know Scout enjoyed it.”
Is this some kind of strange attempt on Walz’s part to swap out his dogs while using the same name? No, obviously. As some commenters have pointed out by looking at Walz’s Instagram page, Walz was with Scout at the dog park that day in October and that was just another dog he was petting. The Minnesota governor was not claiming that the brown dog was his dog Scout.
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Another Dumbass Arrested for Online Death Threats Against U.S. Election Officials
The Colorado man made his threats on Gab and Rumble, two sites very popular with Trump supporters.
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Anyone who’s been making death threats against election officials in the U.S. should probably start looking over their shoulders in the lead-up to Election Day. The U.S. Department of Justice is cracking down on the most unhinged posters these days, providing them with a quick knock on the door and even new government-funded housing in federal facilities.
A Colorado man made an appearance in court on Monday after being arrested for making death threats online against election officials, judges, and federal agencies like the CIA, ATF, and FBI, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. It is not wise to issue threats against agencies like the FBI, just in case it wasn’t clear.
Teak Brockbank, a 45-year-old man from Cortez, Colorado, made the threats on the right-wing social media platforms Gab and Rumble, two sites known for being safe spaces for Trump supporters, anti-semites, white supremacists, and other dipshit extremists. Brockbank made the threats between September 2021 and August 2022, according to the DOJ but was only arrested on Friday.
As one message allegedly written by Brockbank and directed at election workers in Colorado an Arizona read: “Once those people start getting put to death then the rest will melt like snowflakes and turn on each other. . . . This is the only way. So those of us that have the stomach for what has to be done should prepare our minds for what we all [a]re going to do!!!!!! It is time.”
Another message was directed at the CIA, FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, which the DOJ quotes as saying, “ATF CIA FBI show up to my house I am shooting them peace’s of s*** first No Warning!! Then I will call the sheriff!!! With everything that these piece of shit agencies have done I am completely justified to just start dropping them as soon as they step on my property! justified.”
Still another message was directed at a judge in Colorado, reading, “I could pick up my rifle and I could go put a bullet in this Mans head and send him to explain himself to our Creator right now. I would be Justified!!! Not only justified but obligated by those in my family who fought and died for the freedom in this country. . . . What can I do other than kill this man my self?”
The threats have been investigated by the FBI Denver Field Office and the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force.