By Hal Brown
I first made this without Nick Sandman (right) but then noting he would be an RCN speaker added a cartoonized version of his picture which I made using a program called Be Funky.
I did the same thing with a photo of Mark and Patricia McCloskey who are prime examples of xenophobic, aggressive, and belligerent white privilege and bigotry.
I often amuse myself by working on illustrations to post on Twitter with trending hashtags. It is easy construct illustrations while watching television. It is also far more fun than actually writing a diary where I have to write coherent, hopefully original, prose and pay attention to grammar.
I stumbled across the Australian TV series McLeod’s Daughters a few days ago and am now on episode 19 of the first season. It ran from 2001 to 2009. It is a story about how five women succeed by overcoming many obstacles in running a ranch in Australia after the father of two of them dies. It is inspiring in the era of Trump. It is also a great escape from an unrelenting onslaught of Trump inspired news.
Here’s what my Twitter page looks like:
All of the tweets below are clickable.
This is my tweet from last night.
I thought that I depicted two major themes, perhaps the two central themes of Trump’s campaign in the picture: racism and his magical thinking that he can take credit for a cure or vaccine for Covid-19 before the election.
Here are the recent tweets that had more than 500 people look at them. Their images were much easier to make than the one I put together yesterday.
Twitter enables account holders to see how many impressions a tweet has. Many of mine manage to get 20 to 60 times as many eyes on them than read one of my typical diaries here. Click each to enlarge.
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I put Stormy Daniels in the following tweet and it got 1000 impressions (click to see full image on the story it links to). Thanks to Donald Trump she has 1.1 million followers.
Tweets are often featured in articles everywhere from HUFFPOST articles to RAWSTORY, the later where they are sometimes the primary part of the story with tweets showing how people reacted to various things Trump and his minions say.
For example: ‘I almost fell out of my chair’: Widespread shock over Melania’s claims about Trump and CNN graphic hilariously undermines RNC Convention claim — and viewers can’t stop laughing feature numerous tweets. This is from Newsweek: Kimberly Guilfoyle's RNC Speech Inspires Wave of Twitter Memes. When you see phrases like “widespread shock” or “viewers can’t stop laughing” you can expect that the article will have lots of tweets, some by people you’ve heard of and some seemingly by ordinary people.
Obviously somebody working for these and other websites has the job of scouring Twitter for relevant, generally snarky, tweets to put in the articles. I keep hoping to get one of mine posted though if it ever happens I may never know about it unless I stumble on it.
If I get one posted I’ll take it as a personal point of privilege to brag about it in a diary, but if you see one I miss please send me a personal message.