Back in 2018 I wrote an article on moral panics. I collected anecdotes and similarities between today’s moral panic and those of the past - particularly the Satanic Panic of the 80s.
This is my finished product:
Right now, there’s a kid out there whose family can’t afford her insulin because it costs $1,000 per month. The Build Back Better Act would cap their monthly insulin costs at $35. I’m committed as ever to getting it done for them.
Sen. Mitch McConnell on the NBC report that his great-great grandfathers owned slaves:
“You know, I find myself in the same position as president Obama. We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners.”
If you’re thinking of saying something about 9/11 today that insists 1/6 was worse or your preferred victim group has it worse…
Don’t.
Put down your phone. Go outside. Be a human being.
Can someone provide me an honest, sober, non-partisan explanation for why H1N1, which killed more Americans, was not elevated to the level the coronavirus has been?
As in, based on the numbers, why was there not as much panic?
If you didn’t want Bernie then maybe you shouldn’t have cheered as progressive whack jobs infiltrated college campuses and taught young people that America is evil and communism is good.
So-called journalists: OMG LOOK AT THESE IMAGES OF KIDS IN CAGES. TRUMP IS A MONSTER.
Anyone who can read: Those images are from 2014. Obama was president
So-called journalists: Oh, never mind then. There’s no story here. Move along. Delete delete delete.
Denying Dr. Ford an FBI investigation is silencing her. Forcing her into a sham hearing is silencing her. And pushing through Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation is silencing her.
The media is once again claiming Trump said something he didn’t.
Now they say he’s calling the coronavirus a “hoax.”
FALSE: He is calling Democrat claims that his administration isn’t doing enough to fight the coronavirus a “hoax.”
Adam Schiff lectured Mueller and viewers on the immorality of seeking foreign help to hurt one’s political opponent.
Two years ago Schiff eagerly tried to get naked photos of Trump from two Russian pranksters whom he believed were Ukrainian officials
CNN has published just one article regarding sexual assault allegations against Biden.
In the same time span in 2018, it wrote nearly 700 articles about the Kavanaugh allegations:
So are we all totally over the Virginia Democrat’s blackface scandal and the sex assault allegations?
If they were Republicans the media would still be all over this story.
One of my best Twitter followers just got suspended for calling Brian Stelter a “pansy.”
Said he violated Twitter’s “hateful conduct” policy.
Seriously?
It’s pretty simple: This is already the case and the law. Your “chart” does not show pay for equal work, it shows the averages or median EARNINGS of these different groups, which is different due to choices and other circumstances, NOT discrimination.
It's pretty simple: Men and women in the same job should get the same pay. The House has passed the
#PaycheckFairnessAct
to help make equal pay a reality. It's 2019! Let's get it done.
Don’t let anyone say this latest hate crime hoax was okay because it “started a conversation.”
This episode SHOULD start a conversation - about the outright bigotry of the media and those who hate Trump and his supporters so much they will do things like this.
Looking at JUST hours worked diff between men and women:
Man and Woman both paid $20/hr.
BLS stats say man will work 42 hours per week, woman will work 37 hours.
End of week EARNINGS:
Man: $840
Woman: $740
Equal pay for equal work =/= equal earnings
This should be a huge story but it has barely gotten any attention.
A mandate from Cuomo administration required nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients - meaning they brought the virus into the most vulnerable population
Just imagine the media response today if TRUMP made the national guard troops sleep in a parking garage in 38-degree temperatures with one bathroom and one outlet...
Correction: this link, which was going around this morning, is from 2014. Still disturbing, of course, but only indirectly related to current situation. My bad (and a good reminder not to RT things while distracted w family on the weekend).
This is something Democrat’s have really struggled with.
Messages like this and their broader support for illegals show they think all Latinos are either here illegally or came here illegally to start.
Super racist, bro. Super racist.
If you’re Hispanic, there’s nothing
@realDonaldTrump
wont do to break up your family, cage your children, or erase your existence with a weaponized census. And there’s nothing we won’t do in the streets, courts, and at the ballot box to stop him.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
"I am not going to go into the details of a private conversation,”
@PressSec
says when asked about a leaked call in which Biden pressured the former Afghan president to suggest the fight against the Taliban was going well “whether it is true or not”
Can’t ignore how the Left is clutching their pearls over what’s happening at the capitol when all summer they claimed fires, riots, looting, destruction, and violent crime was all “peaceful”
A Black teenage girl named Ma’Khia Bryant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight. Demand accountability. Fight for justice.
#BlackLivesMatter
.
How do you apologize for being in the picture and turn around the next day and say it wasn’t you in the picture?
Someone must have told him it couldn’t be proven, so now he’s changing his story.
“What we see here is essentially an increasing mob-like scene of self proclaimed ‘poll watchers’ who say that they want to get access to the building,”
@HeidiNBC
on the poll watching protests in Detroit.
So we’re just going to ignore how those “sources familiar with the matter” were completely wrong throughout the whole Russiagate hoax?
Do the media really expect us to believe their anonymous sources are different this time?
The Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963.
Women are not paid less than men for the same job.
Women and men work different jobs, for different hours, which leads to differences in pay that are not the fault of the employer.
In America today, women are paid 80 cents on the dollar. It is an outrage and has to change. Tomorrow, I will announce a plan to close the pay gap and hold corporations accountable. There will be penalties if they don’t.
San Francisco, where you CAN’T:
-Drink from a plastic straw
-Smoke e-cigs
But you CAN:
-shit in the streets
-discard your free drug needles wherever
-Knowingly infect someone with AIDS with out repercussions.
Never ever flirt with a woman. All flirting is now sexual harassment. All compliments are sexual harassment. Everything is sexual harassment (against women).
Over 1/3 of American young adults think it's "always/usually" sexual harassment if a man who not a woman's romantic partner compliments her looks.
About 1 in 4 young women say it's always/usually SH if he asks her out for a drink.
Doomed.
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she will vote against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
"I’m ready to work with the President to confirm a nominee who is suited for the honor and distinction of serving this lifetime appointment.”
For three years I have wanted to write an article on moral panics. I have collected anecdotes and similarities between today’s moral panic and those of the past - particularly the Satanic Panic of the 80s.
This is my finished product:
Two years ago today a man opened fire from a Las Vegas hotel room and killed 58 people attending a country music concert nearby.
We still don’t know why he did this.
The
@washingtonpost
actually included Khasoggi - Qatar-funded propagandist we now pretend was a journalist - in its ad about journalism.
Pretty much tells you everything you need to know about “Democracy Dies in Darkness”
Trump didn’t tell the Russians what was being done but needed to inform them due to airspace.
Congressional leaders should be told, but given Schiff’s sieve-like ability to keep secrets, can we really blame him?
Pelosi out w statement on Al-Baghdadi death:
“The House must be briefed on this raid, which the Russians but not top Congressional Leadership were notified of in advance, and on the Administration’s overall strategy in the region.“
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The shift from “Kavanaugh can’t compete with Dr. Ford’s sincerity” to “HE HAS WRONG TEMPERAMENT FOR SCOTUS” happened really quick.
His sincerity must be showing more than they anticipated.
CBS News just interrupted college football to report anonymous sources on Trump’s condition before saying what Trump’s actual doctor said and making the whole thing seem really dangerous.
More irresponsibility from the media
Cuomo now flirting with a law that says women can’t consent after voluntarily drinking alcohol.
I’m sorry but no. This is both infantilizing to women and a dangerous legal precedent.
The giddiness among Trumpsters over the Smollett news is gross. This story is awful. He allegedly abused police resources, exploited raw divisions in this country, and made it harder for every victim of a hate crime to report. This is sad no matter your politics.
Former Pres. Obama: "Unfortunately, too much of politics today seems to reject the very concept of objective truth. People just make stuff up...we see the utter loss of shame among political leaders where they're caught in a lie and they just double down"
Brave? She tweeted asking women to slam Musk fans and put them in an article so she could slam a man who hurt her feelings.
She did next to no work, had nothing actually happen to her, and you call her brave?
CNN named Ford’s ex-boyfriend, whose name was redacted in his sworn statement.
They’d never do that to someone supporting the “Kavanaugh did it” narrative:
Oh hey remember when Dems filibustered Miguel Estrada because they thought Bush would nominate him to SCOTUS and they didn’t want a republican to nominate the first Latino to the bench?
Just an amazing story about a woman in a coma for 27 years who woke up.
She cradled her 4-yr-old son just before the accident to protect him. The first thing she said when she woke up was his name.
PERSONAL NEWS: On Monday I start as a Senior Editor at
@realDailyWire
. In addition to using my editing skills again, I’ll also be returning to daily reporting on campus issues as well as covering Capitol Hill.
MS-13 (which Trump was referring to) slaughters people. Do you really hate Trump so much you’re sympathizing with violent gang members.
Good luck in the midterms...