2022 needs to be like 2018, if only because of previous guy.
2018
mid-term results
Six months on from the mayhem on 6 January, when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the heart of American democracy to disrupt the confirmation of Joe Biden’s election victory, Republicans and rightwing media have variously attempted to downplay the attack or blame it on leftwing infiltrators and the FBI.
Interviews with diehard Trump fans suggest that the riot denialism is working. Many refuse to condemn the insurrectionists who beat police officers, smashed windows and called for then Vice-President Mike Pence to be hanged. The swirl of conspiracy theories, combined with Trump’s deluded claims of a stole election, raise fears of a replay that could be even more violent.
“Rightwing media and some Republicans, including Republicans in the Senate and the House, are trying to make it seem as though what was a siege on the Capitol was not actually a siege on the Capitol,” said Monika McDermott, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York.
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The new Trumpist social media platform got hacked on its first day.
And in an apparent bid to lure users from other platforms and grow its user base, Gettr allows Twitter users to import their content onto the platform. But Miller’s new site is already facing growing pains. Some new users reported that the site had encouraged them to follow a user named “Hitler” that used the German dictator’s face as its profile picture.
Gettr has also grappled with the appearance of at least one Miller imposter. Shortly after Gettr’s launch, an account called “Jason Miller” amassed hundreds of followers and claimed that Trump would soon join the social network. The account was later suspended.
Guo has also courted President Trump’s then-personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
In the runup to the 2020 election, pro-Guo pundits teased the existence of a Biden laptop “bombshell” weeks before news that Giuliani had obtained Hunter Biden’s device. After social media networks suspended or limited the reach of materials taken from Hunter Biden’s laptop, Guo’s social media platforms became one of the few places hosting materials from the laptop, including revenge porn of Hunter Biden, while Guo posed for pictures with Giuliani smoking cigars.
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hackers inserted new data
Jason Miller, who once was a spokesperson to the former President, had his page taken over, Insider reported.
The accounts of Steve Bannon, Mike Bannon, Harlan Hill and Sean Parnell were also hacked.
All of the profiles were changed to the one message which read: "@JubaBaghdad was here :) ^^ free Palestine ^^."
According to reports, the accounts were first hacked around 8:30am EST and the majority of the profiles returned to normal by 10am.
Insider spoke with user @JubaBaghdad who allegedly claimed responsibility for the hack via a Twitter DM with the outlet.
When asked why they decided to target GETTR, they said it was ""just for fun".
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