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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

WOW Review | A deep dive into President Trump’s doublespeak and other rhetorical tricks #DemagogueForPresident

Review | A deep dive into President Trump’s doublespeak and other rhetorical tricks

Studying his language helps explain how he came to power, writes Jennifer Mercieca.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

My 7yo is planning to ask Santa to get rid of the virus for Christmas. You laugh, but her plan is just as good as Trump's.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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4 years

I don't think anyone understands the depths of female rage right now.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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A graduate student who knows how to edit video edited a video for me. I told them to bill me their normal rate & they were all, “nah, that’s ok. I’m happy to do it.” I said state ethics law & my personal ethics require that I pay them for their time. So they sent an invoice.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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I'm fascinated by the seemingly default assumption (made and propagated on the extreme right) that this is their country and the rest of us have to comply.

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You know your democracy is broken when politics isn't about solving problems, but is about creating a string of hate-objects to keep your base engaged and enraged.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

Trump has barricaded himself in the people's house because he's afraid of the people.

Read Let This Radicalize You

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4 years

While we’ve been watching Portland, Trump has been building a bigger wall around the White House. This is what it looks like now. 📸: @RebeccaARainey

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

3 years

Carl Sagan, 1996.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

3 years

We got a Four Seasons Total Lawyering situation here.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

"If he wins this, I think nobody should regard him as having been impeached," Alan Dershowitz on Hannity. HE WAS IMPEACHED.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

10 months

I only mention this because research on ethics, trust, and community shows that when people hear stories of people acting ethically, then they act more ethically. When we hear stories of people acting unethically, we lose trust in one another & democracy crumbles.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

Trump uses ad hominem (attacking the person instead of their argument) to undermine the press. It's an authoritarian strategy of avoiding accountability and delegitimizing legitimate opposition.

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@PodSaveAmerica

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Q: What do you say to Americans who are scared TRUMP: "I say that you're a terrible reporter, that's what I say." Unreal.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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2 years

Can't really both sides this data.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

2 years

I'm an expert on "legitimate political discourse," including protest. I can tell you with certainty that the January 6th insurrection was not legitimate, nor was it "political discourse." It was political violence.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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3 years

9% of my students are now covid+ Week 2 of the semester.

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I analyzed Tucker Carlson's January 6th FBI conspiracy segment. It's a masterclass in how conspiracy theories work, a thread.

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We know better than to take advantage of other people’s time, especially those with less power than us. This student got zero educational benefit from editing this thing for me, yet they tried to give it away. That’s wrong & I said so.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

3 years

um, wow.

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10 months

There is no “news” in telling a story about a person adhering to personal and institutional ethical codes, so we don’t hear those stories. Anyway, build trust. Fight fascism.

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1 year

You'll have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to find Fox here on the actual YouGov survey.

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Fox News full page ad in NYT this AM on public trust as it seeks to settle ten-figure defamation suit on eve of jury trial

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Jennifer Mercieca

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3 years

I understand that Trump claims that people who read his speech thought it was appropriate. I'm an expert in rhetoric. It was not appropriate. He used war rhetoric and incited a violent insurrection against the United States.

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They drew him sleeping 😂

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2 years

@EBHarrington Trump hates taxes almost as much as he hates his wives

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

3 years

The stories of Florida gagging its professors so they won't defend voting rights and Texas police refusing to help the Biden campaign when it was being threatened by Trump supporters last year are both ominous. The political project of our time is to defend democracy.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

About the question: @PeterAlexander was inviting Trump to take on the "priestly role" of the presidency--to act as the nation's consoler. He refused. Not only did he refuse, he attacked Alexander for asking for for it. Trump has never been able to perform this role.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

3 years

Poor Trump, he can't make America sign an NDA.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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9 months

I know what presidential opinion polls show, but I don't think folks realize just how pissed off we are about fascism in this country. Good job doing democracy Ohio.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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2 years

Full text of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley's unsent resignation letter. (via Glasser & Baker in the New Yorker, in case you don't subscribe):

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3 years

@AshaRangappa_ "Traitor Tots" is pure genius. Some day the law will ketchup with them!

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@jenmercieca

4 years

<whispers> Rose Garden story is outrage bait. It serves no other political agenda and isn't "news."

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

We are pissed that no problems are being solved. Women are exhausted & full of rage that we are this exhausted. Every woman I know, despite race, class, or partisan id is full of rage. And Trump is the worst kind of entitled, bullying, abusive doofus who can't solve anything.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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3 years

Shelby v Holder will go down as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions made in the history of the US. Obstacles on top of obstacles to voting does not sound like a properly functioning democracy.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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2 years

The extreme right has been defining what "America" is and which policies are and are not "American" for decades. Why let them? Why cede that very important ground? So doing cedes them the nation, effectively.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

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And, they did a great job! Someone asked me once if I have a "sizzle reel"--lol, what?--and I mentioned this to the grad student who knows how to edit and they made this! (please make "lunch at the Sizzler" jokes bc I am)

Jennifer Mercieca Promo

Edit of Jennifer Mercieca on Reliable Sources, We're Speaking, The Lincoln Project, and Zocalo's "What Does It Mean to Be An American?" event.

www.youtube.com

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

And it's not just RBG's death. It's an accumulation. We are pissed about kids in cages, women with forced hysterectomies. We are pissed about people being killed for no reason except for the color of their skin & protestors being silenced with force.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

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Trump thinks that a national crisis is good leverage to strong-arm states into compliance. That's authoritarian.

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Trump says he wants blue states to give him "sanctuary-city adjustments" in exchange for federal financial relief

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We are pissed about the false choice of sending our kids to school to get sick or quitting our jobs. Or teaching them from home while doing our jobs. We are pissed about fires & hurricanes & no where safe to go. We can't breathe inside or outside.

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2 years

I would really appreciate it if someone could please just tag me when we find out why Trump is in DC so I don't have to spend my whole day refreshing the tweets. TY!

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If you're drinking your own pee, then urine a cult.

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2 years

Ouch

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4 years

@waltshaub Today I saw Kaitlan Collins become more powerful than the President of the United States.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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5 years

I see a lot of framing from news orgs that are reporting that "Trump is at war" "White House declares war" & etc. I get it. It tells a neat story. It's compelling. But, it's Trump's framing, so let's take a minute to say why that's bad for the democratic process.

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Mods/left are like, "that's cool, you do you, but liberal progress is natural/guaranteed" (the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice). That's totally not true. Liberal progress is not at all guaranteed. It has to be fought for and defended.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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This is exactly how it works.

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Every dictator who ever seized power justified his coup as an official act for the good of the state.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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2 years

Shout out to all of the Trump fans who are feeling a lot of cognitive dissonance right now. If you've got one in your life--even if you haven't talked in a while cause things got weird, send a note. Invite them out for a coffee. Talk about anything other than Trump. Call them in.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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3 years

Well done Michigan Republicans! Extremely good.

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The MI GOP leaders told Trump they desperately need coronavirus relief money and that they’re not going to mess with the election result. Seems like the pretty blunt implication here that the president’s focus on the latter issue is distracting from the former.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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America is democracy. America is a nation that includes all & guarantees their rights. America is a place for hopes & dreams. America is a place for ingenuity & problem solving. America is a force for good, and right, and justice. America is always striving to be more American.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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3 years

Should there be a 1/6 Commission? Yes. How far back should it go? At least to July, 2016. As I show in my book, Trump learned to say "stop the steal" from yahoos like Alex Jones & Roger Stone. It was always a plotline.

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2 years

I can't quite put my finger on why

Texas Tribune

@TexasTribune

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Brazos County won't restore the on-campus early-voting location at Texas A&M University for the 2022 elections. For months, A&M students fought against county’s removal of the early-voting site — a decision students say would suppress the youth vote.

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They've been able to do this so effectively because they've been determined to do it. It's been a central part of their plan to roll back rights & freedoms since the 1960s. But they've also been able to do this because the moderates/left have let them.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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This is a wild ride: It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

“At what point does this get to the ridiculous?” a judge asked of election complaints.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

4 years

U Crane, amiright @TheRickWilson ?

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@markknoller

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On South Lawn, WH seeks to make a political point by setting up a crane lifting the weights of regulation from the bed of a "red" truck, while showing the burden of regulations weighing down a "blue" truck.

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Jennifer Mercieca

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He did a fascism

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4 years

You aren’t stuck at home, you’re safe at home.

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Trump must have been bored in church this morning.

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Over 70 post and it’s barely lunchtime and Easter Sunday…

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Jennifer Mercieca

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2 months

Autocratic leaders don't put themselves in positions where they look weak. That's why we only see Trump in friendly interviews & on stage surrounded by true-fans. This is what Trump in the real world looks like. The least popular person to ever run for president in US history.

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Oh my, a large crowd of thousands just booed the shit out of Trump, wouldn’t let him get a word in, and started chanting “lets go Biden.” #NoTrumpAbortionBan

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@jenmercieca

5 years

Perhaps instead of letting Trump frame himself as a victim of irrational aggression, it would be better to frame him as a criminal who is trying to avoid investigation.

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4 years

Hey @TheRickWilson , seems like you might be having a bad day. Sorry about that, maybe folks can lovebomb you? I only got to meet you in real life for a few minutes, but you were super nice to me. And I think that you're smart and funny. Look, aren't we cute?

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@jenmercieca

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@hforder This grad student is paid poorly by the university and could use the money. They're also doing dissertation research and could use the money to fund that. Besides, it's the right thing to do. And, there are actual ethics rules that instruct me to do it.

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@jenmercieca

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What Rick is saying here is obviously true. Dems are playing normie politics (as if it still exists) and Trump's Republicans are playing infowarrior politics. The old rules of political performance are dead. Wake up.

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1/ This is outrageous contempt. It isn't just that this scumbag Lewandowski is slapping the committee with it. This is a test, and the Democrats are going to fail it. They're so bad at this it makes me cringe.

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Poor, sweet hubs all day yesterday: "are you OK?" "you don't feel well?" "did I do something wrong?" No sweetie. I AM JUST SO PISSED OFF.

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3 years

This is a really interesting interview with @TheRickWilson about the @ProjectLincoln ad strategy. Will be of interest to political comm/campaign folks!

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson on the ads that actually worked

Part 1 of our Q&A with the veteran political strategist.

adage.com

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😂

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What if...and hear me out...July 4th and Junteenth celebrate different historical things, but are unified by one common American value: liberty.

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Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping day to all who celebrate!

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OMG #DonPoorleone IS SO BRILLIANT! WHO DID THIS? 😂😂

Republicans against Trump

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#DonPoorleone is now trending on Twitter. 🤣

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

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First, TC activates his audience members' "flight or fight" response. This is key because it activates the body's natural responses to fear--adrenalin & cortisol flood the brain, which "hijacks" the rational part of the brain, preventing critical thinking.

Amygdala Hijack: What It Is, Why It Happens & How to Make It Stop

Amygdala hijack happens when your brain reacts to psychological stress as if it's physical danger. Learn more here.

www.healthline.com

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An interesting thing about the Meadows text messages is that Trump's inner circle wanted a bloodless autogolpe (self-coup), with the appearance of legality. The appearance of violence triggered all kinds of "this looks bad" from the coup plotters:

READ: The Meadows text messages from January 6 | CNN Politics

CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over to the January 6 committee that were sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe...

www.cnn.com

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@jenmercieca

2 years

We need a "whole of society" approach to defending democracy. Defending democracy has to be the project of every sector of society. Every corporate decision has to be made asking, "will this help strengthen democracy?" Every media decision the same. Edu, gov, etc. etc.

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@jenmercieca

4 years

oh, Lordy. There are tapes. Notice also that Trump has good information and actual facts and is able to convey them clearly. He acts like a buffoon and denies facts in public & acts serious in private (esp with Woodward, who he wants to impress).

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Here are the tapes. #TrumpKnew

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I’m watching the Trump MTP interview online. His first answer about why he wants to run for president is fascist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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You guys. Trump Rallygoer From Viral CBS Video Who Warned of 'Second Civil War' Is Actually an InfoWars Host via @mediaite

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3 years

Updated now with blogs + pods. Amazeballs that these fringe sites on the right set the nation's agenda.

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Scientists think that we can actually get addicted to outrage, fear appeals, and other emotion-baiting language that sets our adrenalin and cortisol responses in motion. We seek it out, wondering "what should we be afraid of today?" And everyone has a form of PTSD.

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A teacher saw my kid in the bathroom wiping down the messy/wet sink. When asked why she was doing it, my kid said "I don't want Mrs. X <lady who cleans> to have to do extra work, so I'm helping her." Friends, the principal pulled my kid out of class & gave her a little prize.🥹

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Hello friends! I'm a little surprised to see so much interest in this thread, but I'm glad for it. I see some of y'all are debating ethics, carry on! 🥰

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Mods/left Americans need to decide that this is their America. (maybe their America too, if you're feeling charitable). Then they need to define the sh*t out of what America means, who/what is American, and which political practices and policies are American. Like, now. 😳

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@jenmercieca

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@froomkin @NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood Wow, this is really shocking from CNN. @JohnJHarwood spoke the truth about Biden's speech, journalism, and the threats to American democracy.

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The rightwing response to the Chinese balloon shows how they can twist a story to frame it as an American humiliation if it suits their propaganda needs. Pay attention when they do that, claiming we are weak & humiliated is fascist. Trump ran on it in 2016.

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Honestly surprised at how many texts the WH Chief of Staff receives, apparently. How many people have direct access to our government officials and what records are kept of those communications? Are they public or confidential?

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🤭🫶

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If you deny the plot, the conspiracist accuses you of a cover-up, of trying to suppress the truth or free speech. If you deny the facts, the conspiracist says "they won't tell you the truth."

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He's activated his audience's flight/fight response, he has their attention, but not their reason, and now he deploys his conspiracy narrative. Remember what I've explained about why conspiracy is so powerful & effective: it is a "self-sealing" narrative. It can't be disproven.

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I teach argument & debate, I used to coach debate, I once worked to get a presidential debate on my campus, I don’t think Biden should debate Trump.

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

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The candidates-should-debate letter is out – it is signed by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, The AP, C-SPAN, Univision, NewsNation, NPR, PBS NewsHour, and USA Today

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Everytime I hear Jack & Diane "life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone" I think--this HAS to be the saddest pop song. Why did we skate to it? What's your vote for saddest pop song?

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America is your nation. You are America. The policies you want are American.

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Another reason why the mods/left don't engage in the battle to define "America" is because they're ambivalent about what "America" is, what it means, what practices are/not American. That's totally natural, but obviously a weakness here.

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I think it's really important that we all understand how this is done. It's so irresponsible to communicate in this way. It's effective, but unethical. Remember how it works when you try to talk to people who've been fooled by TC & his conspiracy theories and fear appeals.

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Also, thinking about how the very clear fascist plan to take over America has made me feel less steady/secure in my place in the nation/world this week. If you're feeling this way too, then I think this thread explains why. This is our nation. We are America. Keep saying it.

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This is how to report on Trump’s use of reification, fear appeals, and infestation rhetoric: don’t quote his words, state his strategies. Quoting his words helps him, but describing the strategies doesn’t.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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Trump pushes crime porn and collective guilt on undocumented immigrants. He then dehumanizes MS-13 members as "animals" and ridicules Nancy Pelosi for objecting to that characterization.

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Very interesting data, huge decline in right-wing media consumption and traffic. (via @oliverdarcy )

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Trying to work at home and also homeschool your kid is basically impossible Shoutout to all the parents out there right now trying to do what is not possible. ❤️

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TC activated the f/f response by telling the story of a supposedly racially motivated shooting spree in which an African-American man targeted white men. He uses evocative language that puts his viewer in the place of the person shot, reaffirming they are in real danger.

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Please note that the right claims the right/power to define "America" while also claiming to be "strangers in their own land." See how that works to empower an entire agenda? And how media reporting on disaffected rightwing Americans plays into those definitional assumptions?

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Trump is a con man and his supporters are his marks. What a shame.

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Trump Spent $50 Million in Donor Money on Legal Bills Last Year: Report More:

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@jenmercieca

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This is what every Republican would sound like if it had been Democrats who attempted a coup against the United States. We would have heard this non-stop since Jan 6th.

Republicans against Trump

@RpsAgainstTrump

29 days

🔥Karl Rove: “What those people did when they violently attacked the Capitol…is a stain on our history…Every one of those sons a bitches who did that, we ought to find them, try them, and send them to jail.”

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

3 years

The Capital Police threatened me with arrest for cheering in the Capital Rotunda while some nice old ladies unfurled a banner and read a speech about why we needed campaign finance reform. They let the insurrectionists run free today. SMH.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

2 years

Every Fox, OAN, Newsmax, Infowars--especially Tucker--story has this as its default assumption: this is your America and they are taking it away from you. You've probably internalized that message too. Think about how that disempowers the mods/left.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

8 months

Consuming fascist propaganda like this makes you even more vulnerable to fascist propaganda. It is engineered/designed to create the conditions under which fascism flourishes. You cannot put Trump on tv without normalizing fascism in America.

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Jennifer Mercieca

@jenmercieca

5 years

Shorter: the legitimate and legally required impeachment inquiry is not a war against Trump, it is necessary to hold the president accountable to the rule of law.

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