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riversedge

(70,218 posts)
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 04:27 PM Nov 2017

1. So the POTUS recommended http://MagaPill.com So let's talk about MagaPill...

I had read somewhere that Trump had deleted his tweet, but just checked and it is still up.

I think this is a pic from trumps Florida winter white house










Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum
18h18 hours ago

1. So the POTUS recommended http://MagaPill.com today. Compared it favorably to mainstream sources.


So let's talk about MagaPill






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Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum

2. Hours before the Trump endorsement, MagaPill tweeted a video claiming that there is a sex tape with Hillary Clinton and an underage girl on Anthony Weiner's laptop
8:40 PM - 25 Nov 2017

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Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum
18h18 hours ago

Replying to @JuddLegum

3. MagaPill also recently tweeted out a chart which links “false flag terrorism,” “organ harvesting,” “child/human sacrifice,” “weaponize forced vaccination” and “earthquake machines.”

THIS WEBSITE WAS ENDORSED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum
17h17 hours ago

4. MagaPill also has a recent post on "spirit cooking," which is a conspiracy theory linked to the Pizzagate stuff

And some conspiracy theories on the Vegas shooting


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Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum
17h17 hours ago

5. Let's be clear, by endorsing this site, Trump is legitimizing these ideas and energizing the people behind them

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Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum
17h17 hours ago

6. This is not just reckless, it's dangerous. It wasn't so long ago that a guy opened fire on a pizza parlor in DC












Trump recommends reading this insane website
MagaPill gets the POTUS seal of approval.


https://thinkprogress.org/what-is-magapill-1fb18b6f2ed0/


Judd Legum
Nov 25, 2017, 9:25 pm


In a Saturday night tweet, Trump attacked CNN, saying the network’s international division “represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly.” A few minutes later, Trump tweeted an alternative: MagaPill.com.

The name MagaPill is a riff on “red pill,” a term popular with white nationalists and others on the far right. A metaphor based on a plot line from The Matrix, it refers to the process of normalizing extreme views. MagaPill is also active on Gab, a social network favored by white nationalist and banned from the Google app store violating its hate speech policy.

But while Trump presents MagaPill as the antidote to “fake news,” the site regularly traffics in unhinged conspiracy theories.
Just a few hours before being endorsed by Trump, MagaPill posted a video from Liz Crokin, a fringe figure best known for pushing the Pizzagate conspiracy. In the video, Crokin claims there is a sex tape of Hillary Clinton with an underage girl on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.........................................
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1. So the POTUS recommended http://MagaPill.com So let's talk about MagaPill... (Original Post) riversedge Nov 2017 OP
k demtenjeep Nov 2017 #1
He's absolutely fucking barking mad! longship Nov 2017 #2
Ignore it/the fucking moron. BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #3
Activism is always at the top. longship Nov 2017 #5
I can do both and multi task/resist. BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #6
Of course, but please do not malign people who choose ridicule on top longship Nov 2017 #8
Point taken. I DO love to ridicule him BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #15
Well put, BmPm! nt longship Nov 2017 #17
From Dotard's twitter ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #4
This is the behavior of someone who's cornered and flailing wildly. Snarkoleptic Nov 2017 #7
This is the behavior of someone.... SergeStorms Nov 2017 #11
Excellent analysis. Trump IS insane, but like some classic paranoids, he ropes in believers. VOX Nov 2017 #20
If only Trump fans were smart enough to comprehend the real meaning of The Matrix.., Initech Nov 2017 #9
So this means there is a sex abuse tape of DT and underage girls. 58Sunliner Nov 2017 #10
Hmmm, sounds like it. dhol82 Nov 2017 #13
Next up matt819 Nov 2017 #12
The list of accomplishments include many that are not accomplishments. Surprised? Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #14
good point. Thanks. riversedge Nov 2017 #18
I'm so tired of this crap, there is nothing surprising about this at all disalitervisum Nov 2017 #16
Its true, and exhausting, but it does serve a purpose. VOX Nov 2017 #21
This is freaky. Corvo Bianco Nov 2017 #19

longship

(40,416 posts)
2. He's absolutely fucking barking mad!
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 05:25 PM
Nov 2017

There's no other way to interpret this.

We are in deep, deep Doo-Doo.

BigmanPigman

(51,591 posts)
3. Ignore it/the fucking moron.
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 05:37 PM
Nov 2017

Focus on Dem priorities like the Tax Scam vote and resisting it by calling the senators who are on the fence like McCain, Heller, Moran, Young, Collins, Flake, Murkowski, Corker and Johnson. (202)224-3121...the Senate.

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. Activism is always at the top.
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 05:43 PM
Nov 2017

But Drumpf is still fucking barking mad!!!

Saying so does not detract from the activism. In fact, they go together. Otherwise one is treating Drumpf as a normal presidency, which he clearly is not.

I respectfully reject your premise that one cannot do both.

Drumpf deserves only ridicule. The more, the better.


BigmanPigman

(51,591 posts)
6. I can do both and multi task/resist.
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 05:46 PM
Nov 2017

I just want us to focus more of our energies on the emergency at hand right now...the Tax Scam. We must delay the vote as our priority for this moment in time.

longship

(40,416 posts)
8. Of course, but please do not malign people who choose ridicule on top
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 05:52 PM
Nov 2017

of things.

Your presumption that ridicule is all one is doing doesn't make much sense. Sorry.

Thanks for your response.

My best to you.

BigmanPigman

(51,591 posts)
15. Point taken. I DO love to ridicule him
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 06:50 PM
Nov 2017

since he is such a self proclaimed idiot and is an easy target. Usually my own preferred form of ridicule is the 4 letter word form....sometimes 5 or 6 letters followed by hand gestures.

Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)
7. This is the behavior of someone who's cornered and flailing wildly.
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 05:47 PM
Nov 2017

In the coming weeks/months, he will display some bizarre and shocking behavior, all driven by fear.
Robert Mueller has the goods on him and, as Hunter S. Thompson would say, "The fat is in the fire and the hog is in the tunnel. Ho Ho"

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
11. This is the behavior of someone....
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 06:21 PM
Nov 2017

who is attempting to totally undermine Democracy. This is an attack on the 1st amendment, the basis of our system of government. His attacks of "fake news" are designed to push people away from honest journalism and steer it toward hard core, right-wing, conspiracy theory bullshit sites that further rot the minds of Americans. They serve to further bolster the public's confidence that anything other than these ridiculous right-wing websites is not worth their time.

Some may call it Trump's madness, but there's method to his madness, and it's not only dishonest, it's extremely dangerous. Trump is not stopping his full out assault on our Democracy, and he won't, right up until he's removed from office. He sees himself as someone who's greasing the rails of Steve Bannon's grand plan to turn our country into a right-wing dictatorship.

I - for one - will do anything in my power to make sure they're not successful in their endeavors. All it will take for them to succeed is for people to do nothing.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
20. Excellent analysis. Trump IS insane, but like some classic paranoids, he ropes in believers.
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 09:24 PM
Nov 2017

That’s precisely why he does so well with middle-aged white men with no higher education. To them, he “sounds” smart, and he “must be smart” to do this and that, etc. And he is their mouthpiece, spouting white rage at POC on his supporters’ behalf.

His psychopathology is maddening. He hangs onto just enough threads to keep his shtick going. No doubt he’s spent most of his life covering his ass against legitimate grievances, to the point where it’s an auto-mode for him.

The most sobering question: Is there ANYTHING he could do that would make his supporters abandon him? Anything at all? I fear the answer is “No.”

matt819

(10,749 posts)
12. Next up
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 06:36 PM
Nov 2017

An actual MAGA pill, an all-in-one viagra-style, weight loss pill. Order today.

Then there's MAGA gold.

MAGA prepper foods.

It's only a matter of time.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
14. The list of accomplishments include many that are not accomplishments. Surprised?
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 06:45 PM
Nov 2017

When you look at the archived list (http://archive.is/ibrI7 , not the dog awful site) it includes half-baked stuff like "House passes tax bill" and unbaked stuff this one:

Trump: 'We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values' which links to https://archive.is/erPx5 (archived CNN article) ...

... in which it is revealed that tRump made a statement. Yes, a statement ... in a speech.

 

disalitervisum

(470 posts)
16. I'm so tired of this crap, there is nothing surprising about this at all
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 07:35 PM
Nov 2017

for anyone who's been paying attention. This piece of shit is right in your face for over a year, telling you exactly how he is going to fuck us all. If you continue to be incredulous, you deserve what you get.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
21. Its true, and exhausting, but it does serve a purpose.
Sun Nov 26, 2017, 09:39 PM
Nov 2017

There are some who are slower to wake up, and there are others who drift into a numbed state when they have to stay sharp. Let the message be blasted continuously from every electronic device ever created. (And hang onto your sanity.)


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