What are the wingnuts talking about today?
MSNBC’s Ben Collins writes it up:
For those asking how the extremist forums/chats are looking 12 hours after the 1/6 hearings.Users are aware the hearings broke through to “normies,” but they’re not worried about it. Far-right extremist spaces have moved onto full-time anti-trans panic. It has consumed them.
Some Telegrams have just uploaded Tucker’s show and pointed to him. But they’re still in that cognitive dissonance dance: was 1/6 a riot put on by the feds, or a regular protest by “J6 prisoners” who must be freed? After 18 months, extremists comfortably live in that limbo.
The difference is now, fealty to Donald Trump isn’t the primary goal of extremists anymore.The culture war is now the main goal. The main target is the LGBTQ+ community, specifically trans people. They simply want a fight, and are looking for whoever will start it fastest.
The 1/6 riots were planned on TheDonald. Users posted maps of the Capitol.
But the top post on TheDonald today is a DeSantis quote. “You have to stand in that fire and you fight back.” Trump’s face is everywhere, but he’s not their world anymore—even on a site named after him.
If you think that’s just fringe, think again. Here’s the latest from Trump 2.0. He is 100% riding the trans-panic wave:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested Wednesday that he might urge the state’s child protective services to investigate parents who take their children to drag shows.
When asked by reporters whether he would support proposed legislation from a Florida state representative that would punish parents who take their children to such performances, the governor said he has asked his staff to look into the idea.
“We have child protective statutes on the books,” the governor said. “We have laws against child endangerment.”
“It used to be kids would be off-limits. Used to be everybody agreed with that,” DeSantis continued. “Now it just seems like there’s a concerted effort to be exposing kids more and more to things that are not age appropriate.”
The debate over whether minors should be allowed to watch drag performances began Saturday after videos showing young children attending a Dallas drag show, and tipping performers with cash, emerged on social media.
The event, “Drag the Kids to Pride Drag Show” — which was held at the gay bar Mr. Misster — was advertised as a “family friendly spin off” of the bar’s “Champagne Drag Brunch” show.
Note that the offending event wasn’t even in Florida. It was in Texas. I’m sure Greg Abbot will jump on the bandwagon too in good time. Tight now he’s doing everything he can to avoid responsibility for allowing 19 little kids and 2 teachers from being mowed down in their classrooms with an AR-15. But he’ll get to it.
Update: There are still “hardcore” true believers. Lol: