The disinformation is weird this morning as Trump suborning perjury is the main message of the morning and Individual-1 truly is running out of insults and memes. He repeats some now tired dog whistles to frighten people with caravan fears with more nonsense cribbed from RW media.
Ever mindful of his base, Trump makes an oblique reference to Laura Loomer’s Napa trespassing stunt and demonizes farm work, as though Trump was well versed on the history of American braceros.
Conservative provocateur Laura Loomer’s latest stunt included bringing a trio of self-described illegal immigrants to set up a “sanctuary” on House Speaker Nancy’s Pelosi’s lawn in California.
Ms. Loomer live-streamed the stunt on Periscope on Monday as a protest against the Democratic Party’s opposition to President Trump’s proposed southern border wall and Mrs. Pelosi’s characterization of the wall as “immoral.”
Ms. Loomer and her “amigos” reportedly from Mexico and Guatemala are seen in the video jumping over a small wall at Mrs. Pelosi’s Napa home and setting up a white tent on the lawn painted with the word “immorality.”
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The morning has lots of meta, as the same “prayer rug” rancher was doing a shout-out to the year 1968 and Prague Spring:
The tweets are now more absurd, repeating messages to the Trumpian base in an attempt to divert attention from the distractions’ main target: #TrumpRussia.
Trump doubles down, quoting Fox News yet again:
And in other oligarch news:
For those unaware of the history of “America First”:
We cannot hear a dog whistle if we are not in its range. We cannot understand the subtexts of our own slogans if we do not understand their contexts; we risk misreading our own moment if we don’t know the historical meanings of expressions we resuscitate, or perpetuate. We are all asking urgent questions about the present, but there are far more surprising answers than many think to be found in the past. The backstory of loaded phrases can help us understand how we found ourselves facing these problems today – and even, perhaps, how to stop them from detonating into violence once more •
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