Why the Republicans shouldn't use new media

Play stupid games...

Twitter has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for one week after the company labels a tweet about Covid-19 vaccines "misleading" https://t.co/bNfPRupzzF

— CNN (@CNN) August 10, 2021

 

The evidence, what evidence?

Mike Lindell says they have enough evidence to convict everyone in the country. pic.twitter.com/X6M4XSSh0k

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 10, 2021

 

And yet they can't seem to be able to produce it

 

The Republican leader of the Intelligence Committee 👇 https://t.co/AAHTub2dSV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2021

 

Because we lack a REPUBLICANS SHOULD NOT START NEW MEDIA COMPANIES thread . . .

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/02/trump-gettr-social-media-isis-502078

So far, GETTR has been the highest-profile pro-Trump platform launch, given the names behind it: Jason Miller, former Trump spokesperson, is its chief executive, and the site is partially funded by Miles Guo, the business partner of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon. Trump, himself, is not directly involved in the operation, nor has he officially signed up to the platform. The social network has touted a “free speech” policy that, purportedly, would allow users to fully express themselves without the censorship of tech giants.​

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Okay, so far, so good. But the next paragraph says, not long before NOT GOOD!

. . . this MAGA exodus to fringe social networks that champion unfettered speech has also caught the attention of supporters of Islamic State and other jihadist groups.

In response to questions about jihadi material being shared on GETTR, Miller told POLITICO that ISIS was attacking the MAGA movement because Trump had destroyed the group militarily. “The only ISIS members still alive are keyboard warriors hiding in caves and eating dirt cookies,” he said in a text message.​

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And yet, Jason, they're using your platform to post beheading videos and to recruit new members to the dirt-cookie club. Though to be fair . . .

The overall amount of terrorist propaganda that POLITICO found on GETTR represented a mere fraction of the mostly right-wing content — which also includes the promotion of the Proud Boys white supremacist movement. More mainstream conservative influencers and policymakers like Sean Hannity and Mike Pompeo also regularly post on the platform.

Still, the fact that such jihadi material was readily available on the social network, and GETTR’s failure to clamp down on such extremism, underlined the difficulties that the company faces in balancing its free speech ethos with growing demands to stop terrorist-related material from finding an audience online.​

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I've written it before, will write it again ... these people are destroying the future of U.S. Christianity. The percentage of young Americans who describe themselves as Christian is plummeting, and will continue to do. as long as aggressive evangelical Christianity is the face of the American version of the religion.

 

It is a real shame that what ultimately constitutes a small, yet very vocal and visible minority, represents the whole in the face of many.
It's the same with Islam and those who believe that religion is about fanaticism, violence and hate...

 

Very small, very vocal... and because they are most likely to generate clicks, very visible. Good call.

 

Rand Paul deserves more hits. But not in social media.

Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has been suspended from YouTube for seven days https://t.co/61f64nPJOF

— CNN (@CNN) August 11, 2021

 

Is that why Mike Lindell didn't present any evidence that the election was stolen, as promised?

Mike Lindell says that he was attacked last night when he got to his hotel. He didn't expand much more on this. pic.twitter.com/btjVEhXZvR

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) August 12, 2021

 

An antifa dog ate the evidence.

 

Eerily similar to a political ideology close to home...

The Taliban has announced their political agenda for Afghanistan includes:

- Abortion is banned
- Gay marriage outlawed
- Rejection of science
- No vaccines (against their religion)
- No separation of church & state
- Religion taught in schools

— LeGate (@williamlegate) August 15, 2021

 

MTG endorsement in 3...2...1...

 

Governments that the GOP admires -

Taliban
Russia
China
Saudi Arabia
Israel (Bibi version)

 

North Korea? The former asshole in chief seemed to be a fan, in some measure...

 

A fan? They wrote love letters to each other...

We can add the Philippines to the list too

 

Yes I left out a few. Brazil too.

 

Nimrata is terrible at revisionism:

https://t.co/RaDxPMONoX pic.twitter.com/Hqj6kGlKAB

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 18, 2021

 

Another remake:

On July 29, AL GOP Rep. Barry Moore put out this video, calling Nancy Pelosi “a tyrant” for requiring masks. He closed by saying, “Y’all stay tuned. This is going to get interesting in the next few weeks.”

He was right. Barry and his wife Heather now have covid. Interesting. pic.twitter.com/ubTWa7WTYw

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 22, 2021

 

Once again you remind us of how much of an American hero your neighbor is.

— ForUrCommonKnowledge You (@thedealershouse) September 8, 2021

 

You should have been fired a long time ago #KellyanneConway #ByeFelicia pic.twitter.com/t7xUGedYkT

— Bernita Blunt (@bluntfurpy) September 9, 2021

 

"Honorable" Kellyanne Conway?!?