Day: July 3, 2018

#secondcivilwar on Twitter is the One You Won’t Want to Miss

Trish
How the other team will likely dress for the #secondcivilwar. It’s a high bar, comrades.

Oh my dears. If you want to have some laughs, head to Twitter now and search for “second civil war” and #secondcivilwarletters. You’re welcome.

It all started with this Tweet from Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, whose Info Wars video channel and website publishes all manner of rumor and speculation under the guise of facts.

The Twitterverse exploded, as Trump resisters professed they were not informed of the war in a timely manner and fretted over what to wear, when the money from George Soros would arrive, who had the sign-up list for the potluck, and whether, like Karen,* to put raisins in the potato salad.

That was the first day. Today, with the hashtag #secondcivilwarletters, it’s getting poignant. Here’s an example, from No Trumper Republican strategist Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson):

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The Shunning of Alan Dershowitz

Buck Banks

“I am a liberal Democrat in politics, but a neutral civil libertarian when it comes to the Constitution. But that is not good enough for some of my old friends on Martha’s Vineyard. For them, it is enough that what I have said about the Constitution might help Trump. So they are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life on Martha’s Vineyard.”

— Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, writing in The Hill, on being discriminated against for defending President Trump.

Legal Immigration Down 12 Percent Under Trump

Buck Banks

12%

“The number of people receiving visas to move permanently to the United States is on pace to drop 12 percent in President Trump’s first two years in office,” the Washington Post reports. “Among the most affected are the Muslim-majority countries on the president’s travel ban list — Yemen, Syria, Iran, Libya and Somalia — where the number of new arrivals to the United States is heading toward an 81 percent drop by Sept. 30, the end of the second fiscal year under Trump.”

Pics of Melania Bring $100k to Trumps

Buck Banks

$100,000

“Since her husband took office Melania Trump has earned six figures from an unusual deal with a photo agency in which major media organizations have indirectly paid the Trump family despite a requirement that the photos be used only in positive coverage,” NBC News reports. “President Donald Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals that in 2017 the first lady earned at least $100,000 from Getty Images for the use of any of a series of 187 photos of the first family shot between 2010 and 2016 by Belgian photographer Regine Mahaux … More problematic for the many news organizations that have published or broadcast the images, however, is that Getty’s licensing agreement stipulates the pictures can be used in ‘positive stories only.’”

Trump Supporters Circulate Fake Tweet about Rep. Maxine Waters

Jon Ponder

From Media Matters: “A fake quote from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calling for an “illegal immigrant” to be selected for the Supreme Court is spreading on Twitter and Facebook. Multiple radio stations have also pushed the quote on air.

“On June 28, a Twitter account that labeled itself as a ‘parody’ of CNN, with the account name @CNNPoltics, tweeted, ‘Rep @MaxinePWaters: “The next Supreme Court Justice should be an illegal immigrant.”’ The tweet also included a fake CNN chyron saying, ‘Waters: SCOTUS Pick Should Be Illegal Immigrant.’ Twitter has suspended the account.”

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