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From the CPAC twitter thread.

 

 

Beck says in the second video he collects the bad things from history to truly appreciate America. Yet he opposes teaching CRT and the 1619 Project. 🤔

 

Methinks he's just a racist pos who likes to collect KKK and Nazi memorabilia. 

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19 hours ago, China said:

Andi Zeisler The question keeping Trump-loving men up at night: Why won't women date us?

 

Former President Donald Trump’s ascendance as the face of present-day Republican politics has been a study in the power of cognitive dissonance. Nowhere has this been more clear than in the rhetoric of conservative pundits. The same people who argue that “identity politics” has curdled public discourse refuse to acknowledge their own worldview as one predicated on white identity as the “natural” order. They decry gender-neutral toy potatoes as liberal overreach but see no problem with demanding the resignation of someone who admitted to feeling emotional about an inauguration.

 

The occasional Republican might bravely step forward to draw the line at violent insurrection, but on balance conservatives have ceased articulating actual policy platforms in favor of simply adopting the cartoon villainy that animates their leader. It’s a turbulent time. Yet the key question that seems to be keeping many conservatives up at night is: Why don’t people want to date us?

 

In 2018, Washingtonian magazine reported on young D.C. conservatives who found that working in the Trump White House or for right-wing media outlets were dating-app dealbreakers. A 2017 piece in The Federalist argued that dating sites that allow for “associative mating” — also known as “selecting partners with interests and beliefs in common” — were in fact the reason Trump was elected in the first place. The New York Times’s Ross Douthat applauded the British economist Robin Hanson for advocating the “redistribution” of sex as a remedy for the murderous misogyny of incels.

 

The newest entry in this pantheon of conservative lonely hearts comes from Eric Kaufmann, whose piece this week in the National Review, “Political Discrimination as Civil-Rights Struggle,” argues that college women’s disinterest in dating Trump supporters doesn’t just hurt their feelings, but is in fact discrimination. This, Kaufmann maintains, is evidence of a “progressive authoritarianism” that’s compelling “young elite Americans” to be turned off by “conservatives' resistance to racial, gender, and sexual progressivism.”

 

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Well, maybe if they're unable to breed there'll be fewer of them in the future.

 

Good lord.  :ols:

 

Maybe...just maybe...most younger women these days don't tend to go for ignorant assholes who back openly misogynistic and chauvinistic candidates and platforms. Shocking idea, I know.

 

Also, basically insinuating that women not having sex with you is discrimination and that they should give it up if you want it just might be another mark against you. 

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2 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

…Or, alternatively, 45 represents the average IQ of a Trump supporter. 

Since this is the 245th year of America's reign it represents 2 Trump supporters having a combined IQ of 45.

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That's another in a long line of "conservatives" repeating a variation of the idea that "well...slavery happened in other place too, so...we should just forget that we did it". Or something like that; the argument makes no logical sense, it's just them throwing **** at the wall.

 

Though I have to admit that seeing a Black man claim that American slavery "was never a race thing" or racist is...mind boggling. I really do wonder if @Llevronis right and the dude is just making bank to say that stuff, or if he actually legit believes it.

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It's a dumb point he tried to make anyway.  Most slavery is predicated on being superior to those you are enslaving, yes?  So....why were Africans specifically targeted, surely not because they were to  be welcomed to the great land of opportunity.

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2 minutes ago, NoCalMike said:

It's a dumb point he tried to make anyway.  Most slavery is predicated on being superior to those you are enslaving, yes?  So....why were Africans specifically targeted, surely not because they were to  be welcomed to the great land of opportunity.

 

I've read that Africans were originally targeted because white settlers were **** at farming in the Southern climates. 

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Modern renaissance man. Conservative Trumper radio guy. Has a radio show in Illinois I think. Big youtube personality known for doing reaction videos and such. Yeah he get's taken to task a lot and is accused of doing this kind of stuff for the $$$. Got some good publicity last month for going to a PTA meeting and slamming Critical Race Theory. Video went viral. 

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One of the first conservative "think tank" guys who showed up on Fox News to interject the anti-CRT narrative into the public square has an old tweet where he straight up admits the strategy from the beginning was not to have an honest critique about it, but instead to just make the CRT a toxic subject by attaching every random whacky race-related incident they could dig up and throw it under the CRT umbrella.    

 

Sadly, it worked.   This has basically been the pattern of right-wing media for quite some time.  Go back and look at the "Why Kapernick is kneeling" coverage for 10 minutes.

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52 minutes ago, NoCalMike said:

One of the first conservative "think tank" guys who showed up on Fox News to interject the anti-CRT narrative into the public square has an old tweet where he straight up admits the strategy from the beginning was not to have an honest critique about it, but instead to just make the CRT a toxic subject by attaching every random whacky race-related incident they could dig up and throw it under the CRT umbrella.    

 

Sadly, it worked.   This has basically been the pattern of right-wing media for quite some time.  Go back and look at the "Why Kapernick is kneeling" coverage for 10 minutes.


Well, they can't just call everything "communism" now. 
 

Russia is their biggest ally now. 

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PAC For Murdoch Company Donates To Democrats

 

Consumers of Rupert Murdoch's vast media enterprise may be dismayed to discover some of the politicians benefiting from gifts of his News Corporation’s political-action committee this year.  

 

While the PAC backed Republican stalwarts like Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Mike Lee (Utah), according to a report it filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, the News Corp PAC also supported Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), one of the more-prominent Trump critics in Congress. 

 

 

 

The mid-year report for the PAC of Murdoch’s Fox Corporation—the parent company of Fox News—has not been filed yet. But in 2019 and 2020, it also contributed to Kinzinger’s re-election. Other beneficiaries of Fox PAC’s generosity in those years include recipients of Fox News’s scorn Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.). 

 

One politician who hasn’t received money from the Fox Corp or News Corp PACs: Donald Trump. 

 

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