Twitter is a fun website because it ’s the pure mix of word mass medium , comedians , livid nationalists and ISIS — meaning jokes , appal Pepe meme and existent pieces of break news share the same system of weights in your feed .
consider the conservative warriors of the alt - right wing have a taste for troll , you ’d intend that the conservative medium would at least be able to distinguish a joke from a left - leaning invoice from a piece of actual news . But you ’d be wrong . In the thick of Trump - induced hysteria about potential voter fraud , a jokester make Raandy twitch :
https://twitter.com/embed/status/787747220267278336
A deep - nosedive into thebiographical informationon Raandy ’s page reveal two things :
1 . Raandy is “ the cool and chill guy of online . ”
2 . Raandy inhabit in California .
Here are some other definitely actual things Raandy has tweeted :
the north carolina gop accidentally combust their office down lighting a cross on flak inside like kkk three goat
— raandy ( @randygdub)October 17 , 2016
gentlewoman please do n’t intend ' footlocker way lecture ' is us men take down woman . what we really do is make play of the guys who are n’t circumcise
— raandy ( @randygdub)October 13 , 2016
https://twitter.com/embed/status/786319547175346176
The conservative media , nevertheless , had a field day with Raandy ’s tweet . Scott Baio citation - RT’d it . A web log calledthe Gateway Punditwrote it up as fact , later adding an update that just learn : “ So this Twitter drug user now says his tweet was a joke . Because voter shammer is funny ? I ’ve seen people get ostracise from Twitter for less than this . ” The Drudge Report — which get down one billion views in May of this year — posted a linkto the Gateway Pundit ’s blog .
I hope you get burn down ! cheat is the only mode she ’ll win.@realDonaldTrumpHey@JohnKasichis this okay with you?https://t.co/9mgk11KZHk
— Scott Baio ( @ScottBaio)October 17 , 2016
Rush Limbaugh also ranted about it on his show , say ( as transcribe bythe Daily Beast , emphasis ours ):
have me call for you this . If a postal worker go on social media — I do n’t care what it was , Facebook Twitter , LinkedIn , Reddit , you name it — and was bragging about destroying Hillary absentee ballots , do you think they ’d be trying to hunt this cat down and put him in jail with the guy rope who made the picture about the started Benghazi . They would n’t be stop . They ’d observe this hombre , they ’d hunt down him down , they ’d give him to Marilyn Mosby and say “ Have at it ” …
What happens when he opens one for Hillary ? He ’s convey ta reseal it , make it — I judge they do n’t care , it does n’t weigh , as long as it says Hillary on it , the Democrats do n’t wish . Could be postmarked from Mars , they ’ll take it .
Even Ohio ’s bally Secretary of State Jon Hustedtweetedout a reply designate he was taking Raandy ’s tweet seriously , admonish , “ if true , have anyone guilty accountable . ” He send that tweet out four hour after the USPS had issued astatement , say it had “ fill in an initial investigation of the mention tweets and does not believe these tweets were made by a postal employee . ”
Gizmodo asked Raandy what he had learned from this experience . “ Nothing , ” he write in a DM . “ Really , I already recognise conservative media was extremely stunned and the rubes who understand it consider whatever they say . ”
Anyways Drudge , here ’s your next scandal :
https://twitter.com/embed/status/788166098067881984
[ Daily Beast ]
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