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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 08:14 AM Nov 2020

This is where they are now...tweeting in explicit support of fascism & coups & shit



Going to be thinking about this next time I see GOP figures tweeting out Gateway Pundit links. Cassandra Fairbanks, a prominent figure at the outlet, has been tweeting in explicit support of fascism tonight. Now, she's deleting all her tweets to hide evidence/avoid a ban


Does someone want to break it to her that she did vote for an actual fascist.. and his attempted hostile takeover after the majority told him to fuck right off is going as well as anything he touches... which means thankfully for the rest of the world very badly indeed.

After all, Trump cult be like..



As if on cue, drum roll please ladies and gentleman, for as the fascist in chief as he again reaffirmed his commitment to fascism by going on a twitter war late last night, and a call to action by the DC cops, who he seems to think are his very own brown shirts, to go and crush the skulls of anti fascists.

‘Don’t hold back’: Trump tries to sic DC police on ‘Antifa scum’ in late-night Twitter meltdown

President Donald Trump lashed out at “Antifa scum” after 11 p.m. on Saturday night

“Antifa” is short for “anti-fascist” — and Trump has consistently said he is not anti-fascist — in a seeming double-negative admission.

His comments came after he urged his supporters into the streets of Washington, DC — a city he lost by 87.4 points in the election he lost. The were not warmly received.


[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/dont-hold-back-trump-tries-to-sic-dc-police-on-antifa-scum-in-late-night-twitter-meltdown/|]

The dying wails of a fascist and his fascist cult. Desperately trying to get rid of democracy because it turns out fascists aren't that well liked by people who like freedom and choosing their leaders for themselves. Go figure. 👀

I love the smell of fascist tears on a Sunday morning... hehe

“Are you a communist?”
“No I am an anti-fascist”
“For a long time?”
“Since I have understood fascism.”

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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This is where they are now...tweeting in explicit support of fascism & coups & shit (Original Post) Soph0571 Nov 2020 OP
As the trumpers get still more extreme, they lose still more support. empedocles Nov 2020 #1
The lame duck is trying to foment unrest malaise Nov 2020 #2
If anyone screams "Russian agent", it's Cassandra Fairbanks muriel_volestrangler Nov 2020 #3
"The only thing that can stop ANTIFA is actual fascism." sop Nov 2020 #4

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
1. As the trumpers get still more extreme, they lose still more support.
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 08:47 AM
Nov 2020

Republicans are starting to lean/fall away. Republican judges haven't been impressed - and may get more aggressive. Republican institutions may also lean away.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,264 posts)
3. If anyone screams "Russian agent", it's Cassandra Fairbanks
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 09:56 AM
Nov 2020
Twenty-five months before Fairbanks was celebrating Trump’s election win, she was in Ferguson, Missouri, shouting, “Fuck the police.” She went back and forth to the area over the course of three months, covering the aftermath of teenager Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a Ferguson police officer for the Free Thought Project, a site focused on "the promotion of liberty and the daunting task of government accountability." She posted photos and videos of the protests on Twitter and shared selfies of her red, bleary face after she was pepper-sprayed by a cop.
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In Ferguson, she says, her provocative posts caught the eye of the editor of Sputnik International, a Russian-owned news site. The site hired her in early 2015 and she moved to Washington, D.C., for the position. Soon after, she started to dip her brand of caustic commentary into the emerging presidential race. She reviled Hillary Clinton, tweeting that “the amount of disgust and disdain that consumes my entire body every time someone mentions Hillary Clinton is probably unhealthy.” Instead, she favored Clinton’s rival, Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders. “He is totally punk,” she wrote on Twitter in September 2015.
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As she became more disenchanted with the left, she started warming to Trump. She liked his views on education, particularly his promise to ax Common Core, because she blames the policy for her daughter’s complicated first-grade math homework. She liked that he, like Sanders, promised to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major trade agreement that critics say would have shipped more jobs overseas. She liked that he called the shooting at an LBGT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a radical Islamic terrorist attack, rather than using it as an opportunity to push for more gun control (she has long been, as she puts it, “very pro-gun”; she wears a bullet necklace). She liked that he didn’t advocate for “needless war,” as she thought Clinton did. And during his March 2016 sit-down with the editorial board of the Washington Post, which some considered baffling, one particular sentiment struck a nerve.
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According to a government intelligence report released in January, Sputnik, where Fairbanks worked until last week, “contributed to the influence campaign by serving as a platform for Kremlin messaging to Russian and international audiences.” And along with the news channel RT, the Russian site gave increasingly favorable coverage to Trump, while “consistently offering negative coverage of Secretary Clinton.”

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a9653830/cassandra-fairbanks-donald-trump-deplorable/

So, yeah, she'd vote for a fascist. She used to get paid by Sputnik International, so she worked for one.
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