Right wing nuts thread (2 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but we need a thread for the wing nuts. Lauren Boebert.

 

[DaveXA]

Mofo, you'll miss it when you're poor and don't get your social security check. What a forking idiot.

 

[Optimus Prime]

yep, so this is a thing

 

[coldseat]

yep, so this is a thing

He's going for all the crazy in one add. I need to wear a t-shirt that says, "I am THE DEEP STATE" to a small town to watch the locals run in fear from me.

"THE DEEP STATE!!! "

 

[Optimus Prime]

He's going for all the crazy in one add. I need to wear a t-shirt that says, "I am THE DEEP STATE" to a small town to watch the locals run in fear from me.

"THE DEEP STATE!!! "

are you sure you want to try that in a small town?

 

[Optimus Prime]

I know Luntz is a well known conservative commentator.

Is he alarmed by the ad because it's so crazy or alarmed because he thinks it's spot on and things are worse than he ever imagined?

 

[MT15]

It’s not an ad I don’t think. It was created by some Q nuts. Luntz has not been helpful at all against them by promoting this meme - he’s boosted it greatly.

 

[DaveXA]

It’s not an ad I don’t think. It was created by some Q nuts. Luntz has not been helpful at all against them by promoting this meme - he’s boosted it greatly.

He's a useful idiot for them.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Father of Uvalde victim posts blistering takedown of Boebert’s ‘bulls*** apology’

Brett Cross attacks Boebert’s explanation for throwing away a pamphlet featuring a 10-year-old Uvalde victim

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

It’s not an ad I don’t think. It was created by some Q nuts. Luntz has not been helpful at all against them by promoting this meme - he’s boosted it greatly.

The comments in that tweet are unsurprising but disheartening all the same

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

What a dipdtick..

Far-right activist Ammon Bundy loses Idaho hospital defamation case, must pay millions in fines​

MSN

 

[brandon]

yep, so this is a thing

Getting in the (Subjunctive) Mood

Everything you need to know about some tricky verbs

www.merriam-webster.com

 

[brandon]

Can somebody explain to me why Ben Shapiro BBQd a bunch of Barbies in this "protest?"

I haven't seen any of the other usual suspects accuse the Barbie movie of being "woke" or making any other kind of political or social statement. Nor have I seen the movie, so....what makes it woke? lol.

*Edit*

Found this article.

The Right-Wing Backlash Against 'Barbie' Is Hilariously Flopping

Right-wing pundits like Ted Cruz, Ben Shapiro, and Matt Gaetz's wife Ginger have come out against Barbie movie, but boycott efforts have been weak.

www.rollingstone.com

So a couple of nights ago, I was trying to figure out what my conservative boomer mom was going on about when she suggested that they should have found someone prettier to play Barbie because Margot Robbie was "just ok." This makes more sense now - someone in right-wing media must be telling her that literally one of the most beautiful people on the planet is "just ok."

I very much wanted to tell her that The Wolf of Wall Street begs to differ.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

So a couple of nights ago, I was trying to figure out what my conservative boomer mom was going on about when she suggested that they should have found someone prettier to play Barbie because Margot Robbie was "just ok." This makes more sense now - someone in right-wing media must be telling her that literally one of the most beautiful people on the planet is "just ok."

I very much wanted to tell her that The Wolf of Wall Street begs to differ.

I genuinely thought the one thing we could get bi-partisan agreement on is that Margot Robbie is smoking hot.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The social media platform X, newly renamed from Twitter, is hosting wild conspiracy theories without evidence claiming that there was foul play in the death of the Obamas’ personal chef on a Martha’s Vineyard pond.

The platform has pulled back many of the rules it once had around misinformation under owner Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter last year while vowing to make speech as free as possible.

The Massachusetts State Police called the death of Tafari Campbell, 45, an accident after divers recovered his body Monday from Edgartown Great Pond, about 100 feet from shore. Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, who own a house there, were not home, police said in a statement.

Right-wing figures cast doubt without evidence on the police statement and found a home for their views on the website X, the new name for Twitter after Musk rebranded it Sunday. A post in which Ian Miles Cheong, an online pundit, asked followers what they thought “really happened” got 5.6 million views on X.

A post from the X account @libsoftiktok noted that the pond is 8 feet deep where Campbell was found and that he had posted swimming videos on Instagram — facts other people said in replies indicated he was killed. That post had more than 14.5 million views.

The influential right-wing account @catturd2, with 1.8 million followers on X, said he did not believe anything the government or the media said about the death.

“I won’t believe a word of it,” @catturd2 wrote. “Why would they start telling the truth now?”

A post from the X account @dom_lucre that got 3.8 million views suggested without evidence that Campbell’s death was somehow related to the potential indictment this week of former President Donald Trump on new charges.

The four accounts did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday. Representatives for X also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the spread of the conspiracy theories.

Massachusetts police said Campbell was paddleboarding when he died. They said a second paddleboarder was on the pond with him and saw him go under the water after he briefly struggled to stay on the surface. Police responded at 7:46 p.m. Sunday, they said. They did not release a suspected cause of death for Campbell or say what factors might have contributed to his death.

Campbell was a chef in the White House before he went to work for the Obamas when they left in 2017. The Obamas mourned him in a statement Tuesday as a “beloved part of our family.”

State police did not immediately respond to a request for copies of any written incident reports.

Posts with conspiracy theories were visible Tuesday with some searching on other social media platforms, such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit, but the conspiracy theories were getting much less traction and viewership on those platforms, most likely because they take harder lines on misinformation than X does..............

MSN

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[Bigdaddysaints]

The social media platform X, newly renamed from Twitter, is hosting wild conspiracy theories without evidence claiming that there was foul play in the death of the Obamas’ personal chef on a Martha’s Vineyard pond.

The platform has pulled back many of the rules it once had around misinformation under owner Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter last year while vowing to make speech as free as possible.

The Massachusetts State Police called the death of Tafari Campbell, 45, an accident after divers recovered his body Monday from Edgartown Great Pond, about 100 feet from shore. Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, who own a house there, were not home, police said in a statement.

Right-wing figures cast doubt without evidence on the police statement and found a home for their views on the website X, the new name for Twitter after Musk rebranded it Sunday. A post in which Ian Miles Cheong, an online pundit, asked followers what they thought “really happened” got 5.6 million views on X.

A post from the X account @libsoftiktok noted that the pond is 8 feet deep where Campbell was found and that he had posted swimming videos on Instagram — facts other people said in replies indicated he was killed. That post had more than 14.5 million views.

The influential right-wing account @catturd2, with 1.8 million followers on X, said he did not believe anything the government or the media said about the death.

“I won’t believe a word of it,” @catturd2 wrote. “Why would they start telling the truth now?”

A post from the X account @dom_lucre that got 3.8 million views suggested without evidence that Campbell’s death was somehow related to the potential indictment this week of former President Donald Trump on new charges.

The four accounts did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday. Representatives for X also did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the spread of the conspiracy theories.

Massachusetts police said Campbell was paddleboarding when he died. They said a second paddleboarder was on the pond with him and saw him go under the water after he briefly struggled to stay on the surface. Police responded at 7:46 p.m. Sunday, they said. They did not release a suspected cause of death for Campbell or say what factors might have contributed to his death.

Campbell was a chef in the White House before he went to work for the Obamas when they left in 2017. The Obamas mourned him in a statement Tuesday as a “beloved part of our family.”

State police did not immediately respond to a request for copies of any written incident reports.

Posts with conspiracy theories were visible Tuesday with some searching on other social media platforms, such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit, but the conspiracy theories were getting much less traction and viewership on those platforms, most likely because they take harder lines on misinformation than X does..............

MSN

www.msn.com

RIp Ryback... fought off terrorists on a boat and a train, but couldn't do it at Obamas..lol

 

[Optimus Prime]

so, bald face intentionally lying? or just repeating family history as he's heard and understood it his whole life?
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For nearly a decade, Tuberville has described the World War II exploits of his father, Charles R. Tuberville Jr., in a relatively consistent way — that he was a tank commander, that he earned five Bronze Stars, that he participated in the D-Day landing and that he lied about his age to join the army. News organizations have tended to accept Tuberville’s version and either reprint or broadcast it.

Yet an examination of army histories, newspaper reports and other materials calls into question many of the claims put forth by Tuberville, who sits on both the Senate Armed Services and Veterans’ Affairs committees and is now in a high-profile battle with the Biden administration over a Defense Department policy offering time off and travel reimbursement to service members who need to go out of state for abortions. Since February, he has blocked every senior personnel move in the U.S. military that requires Senate confirmation, stalling the promotions of more than 265 military officers. The Pentagon has said Tuberville’s holds are putting the nation’s military readiness at risk, as 650 general and flag officers will require Senate confirmation by year’s end.

In effect, Tuberville has promoted his father to highly decorated tank commander — but based on our research, that claim is dubious.

Family histories often include myths or stories that become exaggerated as they are handed down from generation to generation. Most of the Army personnel records from World War II were destroyed in a 1973 fire, making confirmation difficult. There is no doubt that Tuberville’s father faced difficult and dangerous combat under trying conditions, including during the Battle of the Bulge, the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes. We are not questioning his heroism or service.

So we will not be issuing a Pinocchio rating but instead will highlight what elements of the senator’s story raise questions or are inaccurate — and which ones appear to be correct. Steven Stafford, Tuberville’s communications director, responded to our questions by quoting from what he described as Charles Tuberville’s “report of separation” from the Army but, except for a snippet, declined to provide a copy for review by The Fact Checker.

Joined the military at 16​

This is false. Charles Tuberville, who was born in 1925, turned 16 five months before the United States entered World War II because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. His draft registration card (front and back) shows he submitted it on July 16, 1943 — his 18th birthday.........

Tank commander​

This is dubious. Charles Tuberville’s tombstone lists his highest rank as “TEC 5” or technician fifth grade, an Army rank at the time that indicated technical skills but not combat leadership. According to a 1944 Army memo, TEC 5 jobs were limited to armorer, cook, tank driver, light truck driver or tank mechanic. Tuberville would have needed to be a sergeant to be a tank commander.

That said, it’s possible that at some point in the war as a TEC 5 he commanded a tank if the unit was strapped for leaders, and he was deemed capable enough by his superiors.
While Tuberville’s promotion record is unclear, the Camden (Ark.) News reported on Feb. 7, 1945, that he had been promoted to corporal. (TEC 5 was at the corporal level.) That makes it even more unlikely that he was a tank commander on D-Day..........

Five Bronze Stars​

This is false. The Bronze Star, the eighth-highest military award, is earned when a soldier “distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service” in combat with an armed enemy of the United States.

Earning five Bronze Stars would be highly unusual; Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier of World War II, earned two Silver Stars and two Bronze Stars, among other medals. About 395,000 Bronze Stars were awarded to the 11,200,000 Army soldiers who fought during World War II, so about three out of every 100 soldiers earned one.......

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/26/tubervilles-tales-about-his-father-world-war-ii-have-false-elements/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

 

[MT15]

This thread has a lot of resources that could explain the RWNJ epidemic/glut we are currently experiencing. There’s a lot more, but these first 2 tweets sort of hit the high points.

 

[Optimus Prime]