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Showing Original Post only (View all)Mark Jacobs: This is not normal [View all]
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Mark Jacob
@MarkJacob16
This is not normal.🧵
A candidate for president is explaining how a worm ate part of his brain while a rival whos an ex-president is cursing audibly in court while listening to a porn star describe lousy sex with him while a key supporter who wants to be the ex-presidents
10:21 AM · May 10, 2024
running mate is bragging about shooting her dog in the head in a gravel pit and saying the current president ought to execute his own dog. Meanwhile, a Supreme Court justice whose wife plotted to overthrow the government is ruling on cases involving
the coup and whether the guy who led the coup had the right of immunity to order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his rivals if he felt like it. And while the court is considering that, its also deciding whether pregnant women in Idaho must wait in a
hospital parking lot until they get sick enough to convince emergency room doctors that theyll definitely 100% die if they dont get an abortion. Meanwhile, the ex-presidents party is accusing college presidents of antisemitism but not accusing the
ex-president himself even though he dined at his Florida resort with a Holocaust denier who jokingly compared the murder of Jews to cookies being baked in an oven. And the ex-president is selling Bibles while his supporters in Congress wear pins
in the shape of a rifle often used in school massacres, and his backers include a lawmaker who felt up her date in a theater while they were surrounded by children, and another lawmaker who showed photos of the president's sons private parts
during a congressional hearing, and another supporter who said the president should deny baby formula to migrant infants at the border, and another supporter who said the deadly assault on the Capitol was a normal tourist visit. And this same
Bible-selling ex-president is a law and order guy even though hes charged with 88 felonies, joked about a home invader using a hammer to fracture the skull of the House speaker's husband, and wants to pardon thugs who beat up 100+ cops at the Capitol.
Whew. Im out of breath. For more about how media normalizes these absurdities, check out my free Stop the Presses newsletter.
https://www.stopthepresses.news/
@MarkJacob16
This is not normal.🧵
A candidate for president is explaining how a worm ate part of his brain while a rival whos an ex-president is cursing audibly in court while listening to a porn star describe lousy sex with him while a key supporter who wants to be the ex-presidents
10:21 AM · May 10, 2024
running mate is bragging about shooting her dog in the head in a gravel pit and saying the current president ought to execute his own dog. Meanwhile, a Supreme Court justice whose wife plotted to overthrow the government is ruling on cases involving
the coup and whether the guy who led the coup had the right of immunity to order Seal Team 6 to assassinate his rivals if he felt like it. And while the court is considering that, its also deciding whether pregnant women in Idaho must wait in a
hospital parking lot until they get sick enough to convince emergency room doctors that theyll definitely 100% die if they dont get an abortion. Meanwhile, the ex-presidents party is accusing college presidents of antisemitism but not accusing the
ex-president himself even though he dined at his Florida resort with a Holocaust denier who jokingly compared the murder of Jews to cookies being baked in an oven. And the ex-president is selling Bibles while his supporters in Congress wear pins
in the shape of a rifle often used in school massacres, and his backers include a lawmaker who felt up her date in a theater while they were surrounded by children, and another lawmaker who showed photos of the president's sons private parts
during a congressional hearing, and another supporter who said the president should deny baby formula to migrant infants at the border, and another supporter who said the deadly assault on the Capitol was a normal tourist visit. And this same
Bible-selling ex-president is a law and order guy even though hes charged with 88 felonies, joked about a home invader using a hammer to fracture the skull of the House speaker's husband, and wants to pardon thugs who beat up 100+ cops at the Capitol.
Whew. Im out of breath. For more about how media normalizes these absurdities, check out my free Stop the Presses newsletter.
https://www.stopthepresses.news/
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The Republican media cracks the nutshells and piles up a bunch of nuts.
live love laugh
May 2024
#24
Jacobs' opening line was a big DUH. But his map that follows gets five stars. Thanks!
ancianita
May 2024
#5
There are Americans that read that and think "that's absurd!" and there are others that think "WHITE NOISE...ZZZZ".
Mr. Ected
May 2024
#22
Wow. 290 recs in 24 hours. I knew when I ran across this on Twitter that a lot of DUers would want to
highplainsdem
May 2024
#31