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Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
Joined May 2022
This is a thread compiling all of the bad takes from people (many on the left) downplaying the Jan. 6 insurrection that was part of Trump's plan to overturn the election.
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MEHDI HASAN WINS. FATALITY
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Hasan Piker defends China's invasion and annexation of Tibet, and defends China's repression and destruction of Tibet's culture. Hasan compares pre-annexation Tibet to the South during the Civil War.
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Ana Kasparian makes this big statement about how she regrets not reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020. Only to be reminded by Cenk Uygur that they actually did talk about it a lot, on the air, and mentions specific aspects of their conversations.
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Jimmy Dore says that Putin isn't the bad guy and that he's acting rationally, that the invasion was provoked by NATO and the West, Russia wants peace but Ukraine and NATO don't, and that Ukraine has killed 15,000 people in the Donbas because they identified more with Russia.
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Michael Tracey thinks that the Allies continued to run the Nazi concentration camps after the defeat of the Nazis.
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Jill Stein put out a tweet condemning war criminals, including Putin and Assad. Her supporters did not like that.
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I hardly ever do Bill Maher, I don't count him as the "post-left", but rather a cranky old reactionary, but I watched because I like Jim Gaffigan, and this take is just heartless.
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All of the people who are pointing out how his rhetoric is very similar to the justifications given for European colonialism are completely correct.
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Hasan Piker uses the Tenet Media bombshell to complain about "the pro-Ukrainian losers" who criticized Hasan's bad takes on Ukraine, and he claims that they rarely ever criticized Tim Pool or Dave Rubin. I'm pretty sure people criticize them constantly.
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@ndrew_lawrence A fucking hate crime, which Hannity whitewashed over and then started complaining about Kamala Harris. This is sickening.
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Literally everyone who says this is right-wing.
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Cenk Uygur says his purpose in running for president is to get to 20-25% in the polls, at which point he believes the pressure will be enough for Biden to drop out, and presumably other candidates will run instead. He describes this plan as "realistic".
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Bill Maher wants to acknowledge the "big other side" of the writer's strike, and while he says they're getting "screwed a little bit by the streamers", a lot of their demands are "kooky". "They kinda believe that you're owed a living as a writer, and you're not".
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This is simultaneously a new low for everyone involved.
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Hasan Piker explains Taiwan as if the Confederacy ruled America, the Union took it over, but Texas (Taiwan) still remained a Confederate state, and that the world still gives them weapons to use as a stronghold against the Union.
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Will Stancil is racking up some W's lately.
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Susan Sarandon retweeted a video, posted by Kim Dotcom, where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains to Jordan Peterson that Ukraine "provoked" Russia into invading Ukraine.
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Famously likeable and non-snobbish Bill Maher.
Bill Maher Unloads on Liberals: 'You're Brats, and You're Snobs, and People Don't Like That!'
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"Greta Thunberg is an imperialist tool." . Because she opposes Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Somehow that's imperialism.
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I've seen some "leftists" retweeting this account. Fuck you if you do.
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Briahna Joy Gray is mad that AOC is. defending Lina Khan. AOC Derangement Syndrome is real.
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Ana Kasparian says that San Francisco is "terrifying" and that you'll get robbed and your car broken into if you go there. She then says that Los Angeles spent $13 billion on giving crackpipes to people on Skid Row, paid for by California's "incredibly high taxes".
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The experts agree: This is World War III.
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This is literally "Trump, who I do not support". Trump threatened to blow up Iran's cities to "smithereens". All these dumbfucks think Trump has anti-war tendencies because he wants to abandon Ukraine.
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Michael Tracey thinks this is an own.
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George Galloway goes on a racist rant claiming that 5,000 members of the Syrian rebels are "Chinamen" and Uyghurs who "never tasted Syrian hummus or shakshuka, don't care for it." adding "They eat rice for their breakfast, you see".
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
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Chapo Trap House's Will Menaker claims that "the liberals" secretly want to deport Muslim Americans, and they want Trump to do that for them. He says they want Trump to be in office because it can be used as a threat to discipline minorities.
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Scott Ritter also thought the cop he was talking to was a teenage girl. Twice. I wouldn't trust his judgement.
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@BosCityFAN Yeah, he's somewhat good there. Not great, but not anywhere close to his tankie foreign policy takes.
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I saw this one coming.
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Hasan Piker, upon hearing Ethan Klein state that China is a "one-party state", claims that America is also a one-party state.
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Max Blumenthal (semi-jokingly?) refers to America by the antisemitic term "Zionist-Occupied Government", adding "Now I'm forced to see it as a pretty accurate description of the reality we live in as One Nation Under Z.O.G.". Aaron Maté laughs and agrees.
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Every time Norman Finkelstein trends, usually for debating some moron (this time it's Destiny), he trends and people post clips of him dominating the debate. People forget Finkelstein is racist and transphobic, and how he supports Russia invading Ukraine.
Norman Finkelstein calls Mehdi Hasan a "low-life", "sewer rat", "you woke", and "woke avenger" over his interview with Matt Taibbi, and says Taibbi is "such a nice guy", "principled and decent", and laments that Taibbi didn't call Hasan a "sack of shit" and "sewer rat".
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Russell Brand was starring in movies 10 years ago. Now he's doing promos for gold and silver investments on Peter Thiel's Rumble site. He's fallen very far.
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God damn, Emma Vigeland drew some blood.
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George Galloway says that Russell Brand, Tucker Carlson, RFK Jr., and Lauren Boebert are/will be framed for sexual assault by the establishment for criticizing the COVID vaccine and Ukraine, and then says Jan. 6 wasn't an insurrection and implies a conspiracy behind it.
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Cenk is taking the Greenwald path, where he wants you to believe that the right is more open to ideas and is nicer to dissenting opinions than the left is. This is just 2019 Greenwald.
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A bad Hasan Piker take about Russia's war in Ukraine, where he calls Ukraine bombing a bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia that brought Russian weapons a "war crime", and compares it to Russia deliberately targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.
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Ana Kasparian praises Ron DeSantis and Florida for passing an anti-squatter bill, and criticizes New York and California for "sitting on their asses and doing nothing about it". She undercuts the premise when she says "We don't know how widespread squatting really is".
you probably dont know this if you dont consume conservative media but theyre really hyped up on "squatters" as an election issue right now for some reason.
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Briahna Joy Gray retweeting Elon Musk replying to Glenn Greenwald, as a defense of Matt Taibbi.
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@noctis_nix Not to mention obviously the tens of millions who were killed or starved to death in the 30 years that followed the P.R.C. taking over.
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Jackson Hinkle understands warfare, because "I've played enough Call Of Duty". "Call Of Duty does abide by international law, the Israeli military, the U.S. military do not."
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This is normalization in action.
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There's flashing lights and arrows pointing to Brie while buzzers and airhorns are sounding, but Matt Bruenig can't figure it out.
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Writer for The Grayzone.
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Matt Taibbi's brain is completely fried.
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CODE PINK and Marjorie Taylor Greene have joined forces. Whatever perceived leftist credibility CODE PINK still might have had is completely gone.
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I'm just numb right now. I don't know what to think or feel, only that this feels even worse than 2016.
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This is not the right situation for you to feel "happy" and vindicated.
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No, I don't think I will.
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If PragerU is endorsing you, that means you're doing something wrong. Now there's a possibility of her videos being shown as educational materials in Florida schools.
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The Grayzone 100% serves foreign enemy interests. This is not a hit piece.
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Trump was ALREADY PRESIDENT. We saw how fucking corrupt and pro-corporate he was. He gave the rich a massive fucking tax cut!.
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These people went on Tucker Carlson: Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal, Michael Tracey, Russell Brand, Dennis Kucinich, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Oliver Stone, Matt Taibbi, Roger Waters, Lee Fang, Tara Reade, Jimmy Dore, Cornel West, Ro Khanna, Krystal Ball.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest podcast episode is with Russian propagandist and convicted pedophile Scott Ritter.
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Bellingcat does great investigative work, and some of that work has gone against the narratives set by various ghouls. Right now they really seem to be pissing off Glenn Greenwald, Elon Musk, and The Grayzone.
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Actor John Cusack is endorsing Cornel West for president. Not even endorsing Jill Stein, who's on more ballots, but instead endorsing West, who is on 16 ballots and whose campaign is a grift.
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Ana Kasparian, on Patrick Bet-David's PBD podcast, is complaining about being called a "birthing person" again, and this time she compares it to the n-word.
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Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian criticize a Kamala Harris ad where she says "They not like us", Ana says "Speak like a normal human being" and Cenk says "Is that how you speak when you're in a debate?". I don't think they know she's referencing a Kendrick Lamar song.
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Vivek Ramaswamy has a new Fox News show called Truths, his guests are Anna Khachiyan and Matt Taibbi. Brace yourself for a record-breaking level of vocal fry.
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. Is Cenk Uygur aware that Stonetoss is a white nationalist cartoon?
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This is gonna go into "the Jews are bad because they killed Jesus" territory but he'll somehow implicate Ukraine in it too.
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Hasan Piker describes the War In Donbas as .1. Having started in 2004. 2. Calls the war "mass shelling on both sides" instead of Ukraine responding to Russia seizing territory. 3. Says it was "another instance of proxy war, 100%".
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Ana Kasparian is actually the voice of reason, criticizing Cenk Uygur's rationale for running for president. "I really fail to understand how any potential Democratic candidate would see your run as a sign that they need to enter the race, I really do, I don't see it."
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I wish there could be a Community Notes for Matt Taibbi that says "News outlets are not doing stories on the Twitter Files because this story is bullshit."
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Hey guess what these two have in common.
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Krystal Ball on the Maui wildfires: "I can't help but think, you know, if this happened to some part of the country that Joe Biden had more connection to, cared more about, there would be a totally different response from him."
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Matt Taibbi wrote a book in 2017 criticizing Trump called Insane Clown President. Look at what he's become.
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Michael Tracey is following a young woman around in New York City while ranting.
I went out to Columbia to share some thoughts with you guys on the events that took place this week. Then this weird, hairy man started following me around. I thought I had lost him, but he came back to stalk me 25 minutes later and then wouldn’t leave me alone!
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Jimmy Dore: "Joe Biden is a bigger fascist than Donald Trump, and I'll debate anybody on that. That's just a fact." "He's a worse President than Donald Trump. And again, by any metric he is worse." . "They couldn't discredit [John F.] Kennedy like that, so they just killed him."
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Incredibly stupid take.
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That's right, Russia was actually trying to discredit Tim Pool and Dave Rubin and make them look stupid, something that never would've happened without Russia's help.
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Something that's gone somewhat unnoticed is Elon Musk becoming a Glenn Greenwald reply guy. He spent $44 billion to become Redsteeze.
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A new low for Ana Kasparian.
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Cornel West did Gavin McInnes's show twice, after McInnes started the Proud Boys, and didn't call him a fascist. So I don't think Cornel West is a good arbiter of who is or isn't a fascist.
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Jimmy Dore is haranguing Cornel West over vaccines (which he calls "forced medical experiments") and lockdowns, which Dore thinks is the biggest issue (and makes a transphobic comment) and West is not taking his bait. This video is unbelievably cringe.
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He used to work behind-the-scenes at The Young Turks.
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Cenk is trying to beat Ana in the right-wing speedrun, and I think he's got some momentum.
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Contrapoints has taken a lot of shit today from Twitter leftists for speaking out against a phrase with blatant white nationalist origins.
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Two years ago Glenn Greenwald retweeted a Stonetoss comic calling Ukrainians nazis. And now all of the other people in his circle regularly retweet similar far-right accounts like Censored Men, Jake Shields, and Anastasia Maria Loupis. This shit just keeps getting worse.
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Karen Bass was running against Rick Caruso, a real estate billionaire who was a Republican until 5 minutes before the election.
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What kind of people are at today's Rage Against The War Machine rally? The kind who would make a giant sign that says "Ukraine Out Of Donbass".
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Trump supporters are garbage, though.
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Former Democratic Congresswoman (lost a primary because she's crazy) and former Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney is endorsing a fascist propaganda film that claims Jews are behind every evil in the world.
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Jimmy Dore: "He [Putin] didn't invade to start a war, Putin invaded to end a war. And I don't--and I totally support that, that's what he shoulda did, because they woulda kept killing people until he did that.". "Putin is not the aggressor, the aggressor is NATO."
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Note the use of the word "before". Matt Taibbi voted for Trump.
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Jill Stein's closing campaign message.
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The following people paid for Twitter Blue: Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal, Michael Tracey, Briahna Joy Gray, Matthew Stoller, Nina Turner, Cenk Uygur, Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Orfalea, Anya Parampil, Caitlin Johnstone, Sabby Sabs, Aimee Terese, Lee Camp, George Galloway.
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@Johnnybeesknees Up until now, everyone thought Dave Rubin was a brilliant thinker and a great comedian, and everyone thought Tim Pool was a philosophical voice with a full head of hair and skateboarding skills that rival Tony Hawk.
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@UniversalMath51 I expressed no opinion pro or anti Kamala Harris. I'm criticizing the massive tone-deafness shown by Cenk and Ana.
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Ana Kasparian is stanning for transphobic pile of garbage Jesse Singal.
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Jackson Hinkle would claim to be an expert on vehicular combat, because he's really good at using the Warthog from the Halo games.
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Bill Maher is just straight-up saying that immigrants cause crime. Fuck this smug racist asshole.
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