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RT @saya_watts: @webdevjeffus @josh119872 @PeeTapeExpert @singeroftales @Gazza3The @SteveSchmidtSES Here is another that is more the fire w… — PolitiTweet.org

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every day. That is a fact and it is both a condition and an observation. The metastic ideological drift and the demand for submission to fantasies is at the core of understanding what all of this is. I hope enough people can see the totality of it all before we lose it all — PolitiTweet.org

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the power of the few and fabulously corrupt over the common good of the great many. @FoxNews is moving in a new direction and has been for some time. @TuckerCarlson has brought discredited scientific racial theory back to the mainstream. It is getting worse and more extreme — PolitiTweet.org

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that is at the core of a terrible and dangerous mythology. The mythology is fear based and architected around the imagined birthright of one group to feel superior to others. It always leads to subjugation under the power and boot of the state for the purpose of preserving 11 — PolitiTweet.org

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the noxious movements that have long been built on a fetid marsh of lies, grievance, scapegoating, hate, menace, fear and fantasy nostalgia for a world once pure. That fallen world, is the nucleus of a powerful and evil fantasy. (10) — PolitiTweet.org

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confronting it by the people who have the most at stake in the fight. We are talking, of course about an authoritarian Right that is steeped in fantasy, delusion, hate, scapegoating, scientific racial theory, menace, violence and coercion. This AmeriKan Right is cousin to (9) — PolitiTweet.org

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profoundly disorients the user around the actual reality that surrounds them. The “Right”we are talking about here is a very specific variant, that no matter how easily identifiable, seems to induce a blindness in people who should see it clearly and an allergy towards (8) — PolitiTweet.org

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“Right” it is important to pause and look at the measuring system. (ie metric vs imperial). Trying to explain the metastasized Conservative Media by marking a waypoint on a line used to measure ideological distance between Christie Whitman and Orrin Hatch. (7) — PolitiTweet.org

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We live in a three dimensional world. Right-Left, in the tradition of American politics, has long been explicable with a two dimensional rendering, specifically, a horizontal line. It doesn’t work any more. When @brianstelter talks about Fox and moving (6) — PolitiTweet.org

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C. PROPAGANDISTS. All authoritarian movements rely on Propaganda that is sustained by a particular type of lie. THE LIE OF AUTHORITY requires the abandonment of belief, truth, ethics, values and intellectual agency. It demands submission to the lies of the Leader/Party. (5) — PolitiTweet.org

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B. CYNICAL ELITES. @EliseStefanik @tedcruz @HawleyMO @GOPLeader are but a few examples of people who have tried to manage the toxic reverberations from Trump’s cult by manipulating it for power, self interest and vanity. They have aligned with the fringe and Venomous ideas (4) — PolitiTweet.org

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A. The Financiers. “No Bucks, no Buck Rogers” said the PR man to the disdainful test pilots who were to become America’s Mercury Astronauts in one of the all time great movies “ The Right Stuff”. There is no autocratic movement without money and they have a lot. (3) — PolitiTweet.org

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Evaluates @FoxNews along a different axis. For him, it is the drift into fantasy and the unreal. The authoritarian movement in America is real, powerful and present. All authoritarian movements are nourished by an ecosystem that includes three powerful components (2) — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a really good conversation and an important one. The debate below is around how to think and talk about @FoxNews. What is it? @brianstelter thinks about this directionally and ideologically; describing Fox as moving further right. He is correct, as is @jayrosen_nyu who 1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Loved joining my friend @JoeTrippi for this. Listen if you can. — PolitiTweet.org

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Abandoning these people to death is profoundly immoral and will stain our National Honor forever. This should be a subject of outrage in this country and some of our most storied military leaders like McRaven and Petraeus should speak out. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PamKeithFL Compelling case! — PolitiTweet.org

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The 20th Anniversary of the 9-11-01 attack on America should be a major moment of national reflection and mourning. I have a question with regard to the ceremonies that will be taking place in a few months. Is 9-11 profiteer and national disgrace Rudy Giuliani going to be there? — PolitiTweet.org

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theory kills. It killed 100 million people in the 20th century. It’s terrific to see Fox News using it here in the 21st Century. — PolitiTweet.org

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The most dangerous type. It is beyond belief that this is on the most watched Cable News Show in America. Is there no outrage anywhere? What about in the @FoxNews newsroom? Any of the Murdoch NewsPapers? What about the Board of NewsCorps? Nope. All good there. Scientific Racial — PolitiTweet.org

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How can you possibly stay on that Board given the damage the company does to the Republic? If you don’t understand the meaning and political purpose of the Carlson interview then you need to educate yourself. Right now, you are part of all this and that fact is tragic and awful — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SpeakerRyan You are on the. Oars of @newscorp. The host of the most watched Cable news show @TuckerCarlson is giving a forum to radical and dangerous pseudo scientific racist bunk. Below is a passage from a NYT story (85) about Mengele and what he believed. It’s the same stuff https://t.co/B8Yfnay99Y — PolitiTweet.org

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It is a case study in how the truth can weaken an autocrat. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Scientific racial theory” is what is being presented below. It flows from an 1855 essay by a French nobleman named Arthur de Gobineau. It killed 100 million people in the 20th Century. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sprinkles19025 @RexChapman @Ford Saw one this am. The sport? — PolitiTweet.org

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@GiovSalv Multidimensional — PolitiTweet.org

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@ced003 @Olivianuzzi Some people don’t appreciate a dry wit — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow and I literally saw my very first new Ford Bronco drive by early this morning. Coincidence? I think not. This also marks the 27th anniversary of the greatest prank call of all time. The Peter Jennings Baba Booey call. — PolitiTweet.org

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Omg. This is a must read. Once again @Olivianuzzi has delivered. The writing is amazing, otherworldly. really. Nuzzi has established herself as a peerless political writer with a talent for explicating the total fucking insanity of our times with amazing profiles. 👇👇👇read 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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I have just seen this @Olivianuzzi profile of Andrew Guiliani. I am filled with happiness in a way that reminds me of the time I arrived home after a 30 hour International flight, starving and exhausted and found a bucket of KFC in the fridge with biscuits. I will read now — PolitiTweet.org