Monday, May 21, 2018

The terrifying folks on Twitter

Sure, the daily lies and threats coming from Trump are scary, especially when he undermines everything from law enforcement to the judicial system, or when he promotes conspiracy theories and (fake) anti-Muslim videos or how racist rally-goers in Charlottesville include fine people.

But Trump doesn't even scratch the surface of the real conspiracy followers--the terrifyingly almost-terroristic tweeters that promote "bringing the pain." Honestly, I had no idea this kind of pointed delusion existed. EVERYTHING is a conspiracy against Donald Trump or America or Conservatism (it is totally possible that such messed-up vitriol exists for liberal-leaning Tweeters, too, but I have not found them in the hashtags of those commenting on my tweets). And, again, horribly scary alert, HUNDREDS of people like or retweet this filth (For example, "Pizzagate," the incredibly disgusting fantasy that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of the basement of a pizza restaurant is still promoted as fact--despite the fact that one of these heinous figures shot up the restaurant, then found there wasn't even a basement).

Here are just three, very randomly chosen--and INCREDIBLY scary--posts from these very twisted people (I will not be including hashtags or Twitter handles so as not to promote them, I just want to share how brutally warped and threatening their posts are):
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Perhaps, WE THE PEOPLE ... 75M Strong w/ 300M+ weapons will take to the streets as well. We’ve had enough of the criminal enterprise of the Lib Left & the high crimes by Obama & his Deep State. We will preserve OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC COME HELL OR HIGH WATER!

These people must suffer and be made examples of so this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. The cries of justice have reached a crescendo. (Accompanied by photos of McCain, Obama, Biden, the Clintons, and Pelosi)  Reply: The pain needs to be excruciating.
Remember, this always happens when bad news about (((Them))) is about to break (Accompanied by a picture and headline from Santa Fe shooting). Replies: Whenever the Dems ...are in trouble, there suddenly appears to be a  mass shooting event. 
The pattern is becoming quite obvious, wake up people.

 And when Donald Trump (intentionally or not) does something that jibes with their completely twisted beliefs, these people take it as a sign that Trump is on their vile side. For example, I guess Catholics are bad news--the Pope is pictured smiling and talking with Obama, and then Merkel, while the Pope is standing stone-faced next to Trump, drawing praise from these scary people that Trump is not friendly with the Catholics.
I'm all for freedom of speech (obviously, since I tweet and write a blog), but this is scary, hate-filled speech--not the garden variety, such as "Trump is a moron," or "Hillary belongs in jail." These are words that promote the most vile, terrifying thoughts of confused and deranged people--even suggesting violence--and make it seem, for some, I'd imagine, normal.
So, maybe I'm the last one to realize there are really people out there like this. Or maybe I just can't believe it. 
I thought Trump's tweets and conspiracy theories were scary.
In comparison, though, Trump's tweets are chillingly tame.


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