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 Champion of the little guy! Blue collar billionaire! Hero of the working class!

https://bird.makeup/@thomaskaine5/1710259904299045072 
 Fresh from boosting the far-right Germany party, the AfD, Elon Musk is now engaging with convicted criminal Paul Golding, head of the far-right UK party and hate group, Britain First.

But sure, New York Times, tell me again how Musk’s politics are ‘complicated.’

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 We have just normalized the fact that the former president, and GOP presidential frontrunner, is basically a mob boss.

https://bird.makeup/@katiephang/1706410631920844967 
 77-year-old Trump last night was so confused and incoherent that he suggested Obama was his opponent in 2024, also suggested he beat Obama in 2016, and seemed to think we were on the verge of Word War *2*. 

I can only imagine the headlines if 80-year-old Biden had said this. 🤷🏽‍♂️

https://bird.makeup/@acyn/1702866508693618997 
 I don’t care how much Republicans try and normalize it, I’m not going let anyone forget that the ‘invasion’ rhetoric in relation to immigration originally came from the far right and from neo-Nazis, and was used by the El Paso shooter to ‘justify’ his mass murder of Latinos.

https://bird.makeup/@rondesantis/1702764860449153303 
 Hunter Biden indicted. Wow, that would be so bad for him if he was running for president. 

Imagine running for president and getting indicted. 

Just imagine. 
 He’s spent weeks inciting/amplifying antisemitism, liking tweets denying anti-Black racism, restoring accounts of Nazis & Holocaust deniers, he also spread a homophobic conspiracy about Pelosi’s husband, & yet here he is being hosted by the Democratic Senate Majority Leader. 🤦🏽‍♂️

https://bird.makeup/@scottwongdc/1701958600036397361