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Johnson staged a conspiracy Senate panel of covid vaccine skeptics, anti-maskers, and fake drug promoters just weeks ago. He is avidly pro-covid in addition to spreading Hunter Biden conspiracies and saying Biden stole the election with "voter
Every mainstream news outlet, not just @MeetThePress, books conspiracy theorists because they believe Republicans deserve a platform to spread their misinformation. This is not journalism and @chucktodd does not care one wink about it
Ron Johnson is also an outspoken climate denier. He has spoken about this 40,000 times because it helps him politically. He is a conspiracy theorist.
Yet @chucktodd invites him on MTP despite saying two years ago he wouldn't book climate
Ron Johnson lied about Hunter Biden having child pornography on his computer
Ron Johnson is a guest on Meet the Press on Sunday because @chucktodd does nothing to stop the spread of misinformation
Ron Johnson is on Fox News suggesting there's child pornography on the computer that purportedly belongs to Hunter Biden pic.twitter.com/rwvyL1UH4i
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 18, 2020
Let's be clear: For the far-right groups that carried out Trump's insurrection, the siege of the Capitol was a huge success, a major propaganda coup. I talked to experts in right-wing extremism about what this event really meant to them. Alarming stuff:https://t.co/EzjeGsTlZK
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 8, 2021
Trajectory 1: The attack becomes a signal event like Ruby Ridge or Waco, and extremists use it as a rallying point going forward. They will certainly try to do this, but there are some key differences.
Primarily, the tepid federal response (which is bad on most levels) doesn't compare to those events, where LE screwed up and people died as an unambiguous result of questionable or straight bad LE action rather than the melee situation here.
Also those cases were the result of proactive federal enforcement, as opposed to a clearly defense posture here.
Trajectory 2 is backlash. There's some growing evidence for that in the snap polls from the last couple days. See:
https://t.co/lOi6DCZ9CK
https://t.co/lOi6DCZ9CK
This won't affect the diehards, but it might suggest the event won't bring a lot new blood into the movement.
Support for Trump supporters breaking into the US Capitol via new PBS/Marist poll:
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) January 8, 2021
All Americans:
8% support
88% oppose
Republicans:
18% support
80% oppose
Democrats:
3% support
96% oppose
I can't stress this enough: From the top down, if the people responsible for today's events face no consequences for what they've done, the next time will be much worse. If a political line is crossed, either enforce its existence or accept that the line no longer exists.
— Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) January 7, 2021
The people who raided the capitol last night ought to be punished. But they are foot soldiers. The real threat to the republic is an axis of political leaders (Trump, Cruz, Hawley etc) and right wing media outlets (Fox, OANN on down the line) who have whipped up the storm.
The thing, for me, that is crucial to understand about this moment in American history is how much it is powered by lying. Non-stop lying. The lying, misinformation, and disinformation is *the* salient point.
Because let's do a reverse thought experiment. Let's say, for example, Trump and Co. straight up stole the election. Losing on election night, he makes phone calls to several allied secretaries of state who suddenly announce a bunch of new votes for Trump and he's won GA/PA...
...let's further stipulate these calls get leaked. It leads to more hard evidence. Witnesses, data trail, video etc. It is clearly established the election results are fraudulent. But Trump and the GOP push ahead with Electoral College certification...
Crowds gather as US Congress meets to certify Biden's victory in the US elections
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"They say we lost, we didn't lose" - Trump addresses supporters as US Congress meets to certify Biden's election victory. https://t.co/BGvVUE4vtx
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President-elect Joe Biden selects Judge Merrick Garland for attorney general.
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US Senate majority and minority leaders address joint session of Congress as protesters push past barriers at Capitol building https://t.co/NTwVecwByL
The front page of The New York Times for Jan. 7, 2021 (late edition). pic.twitter.com/enmoNs55vm
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 7, 2021
what they do when they call us rioters and looters (unarmed protestors asking for police brutality to be held accountable) and them mobs and protestors (heavily armed and refusing to accept the election results of a “democratic” process) We need to stop asking why they do this
And understand that it’s a tool. Propaganda and misinformation and rhetoric. They program us to be outraged and stay exhausted and fighting the seemingly arbitrary and “insignificant” uses of words. The media is the picture painter, the visuals released with a single if you will
They are all owned by the same people and then they slightly sqew the POV of their proposed audiences. So something like Fox knows that their main audience (viewer count=profit) is alt-right “conservatives” and CNN knows that it’s main audience is more liberal. All of these news
Sources will give out the same exact messaging with different angles so as to keep their viewers watching as long as possible. THEY MAKE MONEY OFF OF SENSATIONALIZING, CENSORING, SKEWING the truth and making it more entertaining. If y’all look at Ancient Rome and their tactics