Robert Mackey connects the dots that form a deadly triangle.
Indeed, the steady drumbeat of invasion rhetoric from the network and the president over the past two years suggests that they are locked in a feedback loop, working together to generate an ever-intensifying level of paranoia and frenzy in their shared fan base.
Brandon Friedman looked at the El Paso shooter’s manifesto and draws straight lines between his words and Fox News and Trump.
Using the El Paso terrorist's manifesto, I connected the dots for folks still having trouble doing that.
This is just the first page. pic.twitter.com/mQcW3doGNF
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 4, 2019
Apparently, despite using the same rhetoric, the El Paso shooter was careful to say it wasn’t because of the Hamberdler. Instead of seeing this as a clear attempt to make sure his actions didn’t affect Orange Yeller, the online troll brigade is out there replying with that quote to every tweet that mentions the terrorist and Cheezwhizallini in the same breath.
I found this interesting.
Uruguay Issues US Travel Warning After Mass Shootings
The Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a travel warning Monday cautioning its citizens against going to the United States “in the face of growing indiscriminate violence.”
One comment I found interesting in that pile o’ twits was:
Except it was quite the other way around. Hitler took many of his ideas from America:
The only thing that America really objected to was Hitler’s choice of fascism over democracy; that’s the reason America went and conquered Germany with an army where black and white people weren’t allowed to serve in the same units.