{"id":46484,"date":"2020-08-30T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46484"},"modified":"2020-08-30T23:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:03:31","slug":"fear-and-loathing-in-trumps-america-a-tweetstorm-of-lies-and-desperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46484","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Loathing in Trump&#8217;s America: A Tweetstorm of Lies and Desperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday, so it&#8217;s time for another episode of <em>Donald Trump&#8217;s Sunday Morning Tweetstorm<\/em>. The rest of America is enduring the hardships of a deadly pandemic made worse by Trump&#8217;s negligence and incompetence. They are suffering through the Trump Recession, replete with record bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and unemployment. And they are watching scenes of civil unrest incited by Trump&#8217;s craving for violence to justify his neo-fascist aspirations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Twitter\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41063\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday&#8217;s Tweetstorm is jam-packed with Trumpian assholery. Beginning before sunrise at 5:49 AM, and for two hours and fifteen minutes after, Trump unleashed an avalanche of triggered tweets. There were 89 by 8:04 AM, when he had to quit in order to make his tee time (Really! He went from this to his golf resort). That&#8217;s one tweet every 1.5 minutes. Many of those 89 tweets were retweets (69) of sycophants and random Twitter trolls. <em>[UPDATE: By day&#8217;s end Trump had tweeted a grand total of 110 times. Most of the later tweets were about Portland\/violence or infantile attacks on Biden]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The most prominent subject for this morning&#8217;s Twitter tantrum was violence in the streets, particularly in Portland, Oregon. These tweets accounted for 41% (37) of the total tweets. Trump&#8217;s thinly disguised message to his cult disciples was that violence is good for his campaign so feel free to go out and stir some up. His Senior White House Counselor, Kellyanne Conway, literally <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46434\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said just that this week on Fox News<\/a><\/strong>. Trump himself praised the actual instigators, who came armed for confrontation with peaceful protesters, as&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GREAT PATRIOTS! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BWGxVoBTmI\">https:\/\/t.co\/BWGxVoBTmI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1300019849540886528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Coming in second in Trump&#8217;s Tweet tirade (at 30%) was a parade of polling posts that purported to place Trump in the lead against Joe Biden. However, the 27 retweets were all from <em>&#8220;PollWatch2020,&#8221;<\/em> an unverified Twitter account and right-wing propaganda mill. The only polls they cited as sources for their data were the Trafalgar Group and the Democracy Institute. Both are rabidly partisan servants of conservative candidates and issues. Trafalgar has a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/pollster-ratings\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">C- rating<\/a><\/strong> by the analysts at FiveThirtyEight. And Democracy Institute isn&#8217;t even rated because they are considered to be a <em>&#8220;fake&#8221;<\/em> pollster. This blast of bullpucky is refuted by virtually every other poll available from credible survey organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these putrid postings, Trump also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1300031851554242561\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">retweeted an article<\/a><\/strong> from the Babylon Bee headlined <em>&#8220;Biden: &#8216;If You Thought The Republican Convention Was Good, Just Wait &#8216;Til We Have Our Convention!&#8221;<\/em> The purpose of this posting was to ridicule Biden for allegedly not knowing that the Democratic convention was held the previous week. However, the Babylon Bee is a wholly fictional, satirical website. It isn&#8217;t known if Trump was aware of that or not. However, it&#8217;s clear that many of his cult followers didn&#8217;t know. They replied to his tweet with laughter at what an idiot Biden must be. Who wants to tell them they are the idiots?<\/p>\n<p>Trump also posted three tweets that falsely reported fatalities due to the coronavirus. All three tweets cited the conspiracy crackpot website, Gateway Pundit, run by Jim Hoft, the <em>&#8220;stupidest man on the Internet&#8221;<\/em> (seriously, Google the phrase). They made the claim that there have only been about 9,000 deaths. That number is drawn from the website of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid_weekly\/index.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">where it says<\/a><\/strong> that only 6% of the reported fatalities were due <em>&#8220;solely&#8221;<\/em> to COVID-19. Most of the deaths had comorbidity factors like pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the presence of contributing factors doesn&#8217;t mean that COVID-19 wasn&#8217;t the cause of death. But that&#8217;s the asinine assertion by Hoft. And now Trump has joined in that idiocy with these retweets, one of which was by Jenna Ellis, the Senior Legal Adviser to the Trump campaign and personal attorney to Trump. <em>[UPDATE: The original tweet making this false claim was removed by Twitter for having violated the rules regarding spreading misinformation. But the Ellis retweet by Trump is still live]<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">????????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kcbyFcxoEL\">https:\/\/t.co\/kcbyFcxoEL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JennaEllisEsq\/status\/1299946852544999424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The upshot of this cavalcade of dishonesty and hostility on Trump&#8217;s Twitter feed is that Trump is determined to inflame tensions and encourage hateful and hurtful confrontations. He has cheered on violent agitators as <em>&#8220;great patriots.&#8221;<\/em> He has maligned Democratic leaders as supportive of atrocities. And he is affirming the position that Conway made with regard to such violence as being beneficial to his reelection campaign. It&#8217;s despicable and dangerous and it needs to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we cannot rely on Trump to abandon these abhorrent tactics. Se we need to be cognizant of his nefarious scheme and resist giving in to his cynicism and purposeful destruction of civil society. If we are to prevail, we need to keep justice in our heads, peace in our hearts, and our eyes on the prize. The only blood will be on the hands of Trump and his racist, hate mongering Republican accomplices.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday, so it&#8217;s time for another episode of Donald Trump&#8217;s Sunday Morning Tweetstorm. The rest of America is enduring the hardships of a deadly pandemic made worse by Trump&#8217;s negligence and incompetence. They are suffering through the Trump Recession, replete with record bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and unemployment. And they are watching scenes of civil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1200],"tags":[1397,554,1140,859,377,1183,1163],"class_list":["post-46484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-jim-hoft","tag-joe-biden","tag-kellyanne-conway","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-baby-twitter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-c5K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39745,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39745","url_meta":{"origin":46484,"position":0},"title":"Tweetstorm MMXVIII: A Total Witch Hunt Like No Other, Starring Donald &#8216;The cRock&#8217; Trump","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/15\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As the holiday season approaches, the entertainment industry begins to trot out their best bets for Oscar worthy attention. 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