Rick Wilson: "I seem to have upset the MAGAe for pondering the question of Fox viewership..."

[Dennis Donovan]

Rick Wilson ✔@TheRickWilson

1/ I seem to have upset the MAGAe for pondering the question of Fox viewership vs eventual COVID fatalities.

First, there is an absolute correlation between support for Trump and intensity of fox viewership. Not debatable.

2nd, their content undeniably downplayed COVID...

3/ You’re upset the fun is over. Pwning duh libs will have to wait while the crisis Fox and Trump ignored does its worst.

Also, for being the “fuck your feelings, snowflake” and “we hate cancel culture because we’re not p.c.” you MAGAs are the most fragile little angels.

4/ You’re humorless, prissy screechers full to the gills with a furious whine of feigned outrage at any criticism of the Imperial Trumps.

12:49 AM - Mar 22, 2020

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[Shermann]

1. I tried to watch Sean Hannity last week

He dedicated the entire opening segment of his show to proving (spinning?) that his message on coronavirus hasn't shifted.

The crux of his argument seemed to be that he interviewed Fauci back in January. Mmmmmmkay.

[denem]

2. Fox - Gaslight by day, Sarin by night.

[machoneman]

7. Good one! Maybe Zyklon-B by night.

[denem]

12. Whatever Fox is pumping out at night, it's pure poison,

and killing the Republic.

[sandensea]

50. He always sounds like he's running out of breath -and he looks like a heart attack waiting to happen

Not exactly someone who should treat this crisis so flippantly - but, oh well.

[brewens]

3. How many of their viewers were totally blindsided when Trump and Hannity decided to

admit they had been lying for weeks, declare a national emergency, and began to at least pretend to take it seriously? By then the stores were already being mobbed and cases were breaking out all over. Some probably learned of the first death in their town on the same day.

I see these memes showing seniors dejectedly staring at empty shelves and I think FOX "News" viewer. Had they been informed, they at least might have had it a little easier. Many of us that were were able to get out earlier to stock up. In my case, almost two weeks before reports of hoarding started.

It's a little difficult not to think, you asked for this by voting for and supporting this guy, now choke on it!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Some of them are preppers and stocked up 5 years ago. Most preppers are trumpanzees. . . nt

[Shermann]

6. They were right for the wrong reasons

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They thought that illegal immigrants were the real threat. They've had the entire national security conversation and focus mired in that distraction for four years.

Will the reich wingers be held to account? Or will they snicker and sneer their way out of it like everything else?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. A stopped clock is right once in a while. . . . nt

[machoneman]

9. The real threats? Fox News anchors, Republican Senators, Republican Governors, Republican.....

...pretty much eveyone and everything they touch, talk about, etc. is tainted by their scummy ideals.

[Pepsidog]

16. Yet according to ABC News poll 55% approve of Trump Covid handling. Shocking.

[Progressive Jones]

28. They're probably polling a bunch of over-65s.

I'm 61. As far as my age group goes, in the location where I live, I'm surrounded by Trumpers.

[karin_sj]

45. Noooooo.....

This can't be for real! I simply can't believe that poll. There can't be that many f***ing morons after all the incompetence, lack of concern, lying, and criminal negligence that has taken place before our very eyes.

[Pepsidog]

47. Let us pray it's not real. I heard it repeated on CNN I believe but it also said that 55% was low

for a national emergency compared to 9/11 etc. Good poll numbers would be around 75% + in times of national emergency. That made me feel a little better.

[napi21]

52. Here's a link to 538 that shows DT's poll #'s. They sho the results from several diff. polsters.

I can't copy & paste the way they have it laid out, but the avg. is 45% approval, 52% disapproval.

Here's the link to see the actual #'s from each poll.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

[Pepsidog]

54. Thank you. That makes me feel better.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

23. Some reporter should have the guts to ask Trump.....

how this latest extremely deadly criminal immigrant got through the border from China and why his wall and border patrol didn't work.

KY...

[LittleGirl]

10. My cousin!

Woke up last Saturday and announced he had cancelled his trip to AK.
I had already sent him a message telling him we were locked down in Europe but he didn’t take it seriously. It was over there.
Now he’s all stocked up, hit the bank for cash etc. I just want to point and laugh because he’s in the high risk group. 71, life long smoker, alcoholic and vet.
I told him to change the channel.

[Dixc]

15. I am glad you are stocked up.....

You won't be there to see me trying to restock. Don't put me into a FOX "News" viewer box. I find your comment offensive this morn as I face the fact I need to go to a grocery store this week to get some perishables, as I don't live out of a can or box. I did not vote for or support this guy. I and others are stressed enough, without you loading a guilt trip on us because we need fresh supplies. How about you try to think of a way to help others? This is going to last awhile. I doubt you have immunity.

[Mariana]

18. If the post wasn't about you, then it wasn't about you. nt.

[MarcA]

27. Agreed.

A stereotyping of the other. Interesting to see the I got mine it's your fault
you didn't get yours attitude on a supposed liberal site.

[oldsoftie]

33. You should know everyone has to fit in a category here!

Just dont categorize the wrong group or you're in trouble

[mitch96]

5. Now they are gonna wine how the "libs" bought up all the supplies!! Oh the horror!! nt

[TheBlackAdder]

21. Yes! The first time I'll say this. . .

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[SWBTATTReg]

30. How very true. I was restocking my items in lower inventory numbers when this first came out...

Note, my inventory is not massive and I took the duration of years to build...for two of us, (wife and hubby), not one day like apparently a lot of these hoarders (at the last minute ones obviously) who finally woke up. Unfortunately I think that you'll see hoarder A (too late in realizing, and a maga) and hoarder B (too late in realizing, and also a maga) will start fighting amongst each other. I hope I'm wrong, but I think all of us here on DU have seen these maga and their behavior, despicable in their treatment of others who are Americans too.

[oldsoftie]

34. We're not running out of food. It continues to be produced. Its the stupid panic buying

Where the hell these people are putting all that meat i have no idea

[DENVERPOPS]

41. Anyone notice

that in this picture, his left thumb is much browner than his right??????? No, I'm being serious........

[subana]

11. yes

they're just as immature as their dear leader!!

[trusty elf]

13. To the "fuck your feelings" people I say....

[czarjak]

31. They think that and "Go fuck yourself" are one-way streets.

[certainot]

14. most of the pundits and political and media leaders mistakenly blame fox when

they should be blaming talk radio. all the way to the end of the week of march 13-14 limbaugh was telling 15 mil a day that it was all exaggerated by dems and 'liberal' media to bring down trump and force big govt socialist solutions on us (undoing 30 years of his work)

but most of those 'leaders' live in cities and would not have time to listen to that crap anyway.

talk radio is the only medium that can do the unchallenged repetition needed to sell this alternate reality that has enabled this disaster, and it can be locally coordinated

the excuses and blame shifting to democrats (reps, senaators, especially governors) at eh local election level will be coordinated to RW radio stations - like katrina.

and in emergencies those radio stations get louder and more important

wilson is either afraid of going directly at limbaugh or he has spent too much time in the big city

hannity, carlson, etc are basically limbaugh buttsniffers. while hoping they all slither away when /if limbaaugh croaks from lung cancer (he said he was gaining weight), there would be great value in destroying the talk radio monopoly, which would force GOp senators to abandon trump

[Grasswire2]

25. I had to listen to hate radio for a couple of hours...

...riding home from the beach with my cousin a few years ago.

It was sickening. Un-American, but everywhere in America.

[certainot]

29. it's got a built in defense system - it hurts thinking people's heads - but

the faithful suck it in then repeat it as truth to neighbors friends and coworkers and filling the country with a more palatable reinforcing repetitious buzz

[DENVERPOPS]

43. A growing number of Psychiatrists

are thinking that the Trumphumpers, only watching Fox News, and only listening to Rush has had a brainwashing effect.
Same as the North Korean & Chinese "re-education camps" they have for dissenters.........

[certainot]

48. i think it's they have more sex on the wrong brain and certainty is more important then truth

notice limbaugh and trump have the royal certitude - they're never wrong even though they're always wrong.

more than liberals, their brains divert impatient satisfaction-demanding reproductive energy to brain functions that require patience and objectivity. they need certainty to end the thinking and find closure/finality - like when sex meets logic. but nothing is certain and uncertainty scares them until they or their leaders/religions/talk show host gives them that certainty. to believe it they have to deny reality and limbaugh is the master at rationalizing anything. they get good at denying reality, lying and accepting - or they get stressed and afraid.

trump and limbaugh got it really bad, especially trump, and he lives completely in a fantasy world where he is king

the avoidance of uncertainty is the defining characteristic of most authoritarianism - they need control and order and simplicity and absolutism to help them reduce and judge the world in black and white, right and wrong - to produce certainty

sex on the wrong brain is easy to prevent - get people to stop masturbating with the hand connected to the left side of the brain.

that's why 90% of humans eventually became right handed from chimp type ancestors that were 50-50 right and left. in times of conflict the right handed won - suspicion, fear, competition, and greed won over imagination, creativity, cooperation, and curiosity.

[AllaN01Bear]

17. faux noize downplayed it to the wishes of dear leader .

[erronis]

36. Or the deer leader was prompted by faux. Or they both answer to the same masters

I don't think the combined intelligence of trump-the-loser and all the (r)epublicons are sufficient to create such an intentional calamity.

I do think it requires hands twitching the puppets much higher up. Event the RNC, the FedSoc, the CPAC, etc. are twitched by something else.

trump-the-loser is just a dopey figure-head. The spouting noise from faux are just programmed belches.

[certainot]

49. they were planning to use ebola with russian help this election, like in 2014

whether this was natural or not doesn't fucking matter. it's the delay in acting, and whether trump was aware of that or it was the fucking idiots round him that counts

delaying action on trumpvirus is a minor version of delaying action on global warming

he thinks hes a fucking king, and it's not fox

they are all prompted by unchallenged repetition from 1500 radio stations on which a few hundred professional idiots and liars follow the lead of rush limbaugh on 600 of the loudest of those stations.

the only reason the shits on fox (hanniity, oreilly, what's her name, are or were all talk radio hosts first), as well as most of the current shits in the GOP, can look into the camera and lie like that is they know if they follow the script their lies and stupidity has already or will soon be pounded into the ears of 50 mil a week.

limbaugh had to take last week off for lung cancer but until then he was telling 15mil a day and policing all the other blowhards in repeating that the virus was blown up by liberal media and left to force socialist big govt solutions

[rockfordfile]

39. Fox News lied

[Ferrets are Cool]

19. I wish I could write with such eloquence.

[JHB]

20. As always, Rick has a way with words, but...

...it's still grating that he gets lauded simply for restating what liberals have been saying for 20-30 years.

[DENVERPOPS]

44. Good call JHB

We have just now begun to witness, just how far Republican assholes had to go to finally wake up the "Nuevo Libs"
Some of us have been shouting our heads off since the first month of Reagan's administration......

Now I'm wondering just how much worse it will have to get before his voters wake up and realize they have been taken in by the biggest Con job in world history........

I honestly fear, that by the time they wake up, we all will be serfs and peasants in a Corporate Fascist Country, and will be unable to do anything about it........

After forty years, I gotta tell you, the Republicans are a millimeter away from pulling off their wet dream COUP........

[liberalla]

22. "You MAGAs are the most fragile little angels"

HA!!! Indeed! Love it.

Thanks Rick Wilson!

[Windy City Charlie]

24. Of course now

Of course now many of them are saying the reason Fox downplayed it is because China was covering up and lying to the international community on how bad it was.

[oldsoftie]

35. Trump & China are both liars. Trump just does it for sport

Chinese citizens were the ones who first broke the story

[erronis]

37. I think he does it because that's all he knows how to do. It's not sport - it's reflex.

[yardwork]

26. Props for use of MAGAe

[Hermit-The-Prog]

38. Yeah but he used "MAGAs" instead of "MAGAts".

[Rural_Progressive]

32. I'm sure thoughts and prayers will cover everything

[TheFourthMind]

40. Wish I could select cable channels to ensure Foax could not use me in their count to advertisers.

Although I don't watch that channel, they are in my list of channels which means I'm a "potential viewer" that they no doubt get to cash in on.

[SunSeeker]

42. K & R & Retweeted!

[leighbythesea2]

46. This is amazing

Go off Rick.
Kicked

[mr_lebowski]

51. All of the recs, Mr. Wilson ... every one of them ... nt

[Cha]

53. Retweeted! TY, DD! & RW!