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wackyteen
03/29/24 9:57:16 AM
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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-illegals-1234995954/

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On Friday, the fifth-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs take on the top-ranked Purdue Boilermakers in the Sweet 16 round of the mens NCAA basketball tournament in Detroit. It should be an epic showdown for a dominant pair of teams, but Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock apparently had issues more pressing than college sports in mind when he posted an alarming tweet on Wednesday night.
Happening right now, Maddock wrote. Three busses [sic] just loaded up with illegal invaders at Detroit Metro. Anyone have any idea where theyre headed with their police escort? Attached to the tweet were grainy photos of white buses at Detroits airport and a plane. He tagged Pete Hoekstra, a former representative for Michigan in Congress and Ambassador to the Netherlands under Donald Trump.
Maddocks pointed question, which has apparently been viewed 4 million times on X (formerly Twitter), is of a piece with a far-right conspiracy theories about how the Biden administration is secretly flying thousands of migrants into the country. These unfounded claims have fueled belief in the so-called Great Replacement theory, which holds that the population of white Americans is being overwhelmed by non-white demographics with the help of Democrats and other nefarious actors. That racist ideology has inspired mass shootings and found proponents in the likes of Elon Musk and House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Maddock tweet, then, might have been no more than the usual paranoid ravings of a rank-and-file GOP politician who denies the 2020 election results and believes the U.S. is headed into civil war. Except in this case, he had identified transportation for Gonzagas basketball team they had arrived for their Friday game with Purdue as evidence of an influx of undocumented migrants. Even when confronted with this likelihood, he dismissed it as a kommie talking point. Maxwell White, a producer for Detroits WXYZ Channel 7, confirmed that the buses were for Gonzaga, while Rep. Eric Swalwell of California ridiculed Maddock for the mistake. On Thursday, X appended a Community Note correcting the original post.

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The Gonzaga teams own account on Wednesday shared images of players deboarding in Detroit from the Allegiant Air plane visible in one of the pictures that Maddock shared. Nevertheless, Maddock continued to push his lie on Thursday, tweeting that 100,000s of illegals are pouring into our country and that Michigans Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is offering money to take them in! He also retweeted a post from right-wing talk radio host Jesse Kelly, who wrote that red states should seize control of immigration systems from federal authorities in order to deport individuals. Kelly was responding to an X user proclaiming the need for a leader like Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco.

As yet, Maddock appears to have taken no notice of the thousands of replies mocking him for the false identification of celebrated American college athletes as invaders from across the border, and at this point, it doesnt look like hell be backing down. Whether he turns up at Little Caesars Arena tomorrow to confront the Gonzaga Bulldogs in person remains to be seen but either way, he must be rooting for Purdue.

This can be all 'haha point and laugh at dumb fuck' until someone takes it seriously and lights one of these buses up.

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famfam
03/29/24 9:59:20 AM
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wackyteen posted...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-illegals-1234995954/

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https://twitter.com/MaxWhiteWXYZ/status/1773341946829836715

This can be all 'haha point and laugh at dumb fuck' until someone takes it seriously and lights one of these buses up.

sadly, the GOP doesn't have a good track record for how they treat buses filled with black people

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Rowdy54
03/29/24 9:59:41 AM
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So when confronted with the truth he doubled down. Yikes.

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CADE_FOSTER
03/29/24 10:00:58 AM
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he double and triple downed after that then the head of the gop in detroit agreed with him
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PeteyParker
03/29/24 10:05:27 AM
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My favorite was after being revealed to be a complete idiot, he became the "Kevin Bacon wasn't in Footloose" mule from the Family Guy joke.

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CADE_FOSTER
03/29/24 10:06:46 AM
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oh and the projection is real with them cuz the gop is def bussing immigrants to every dem city
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LeoRavus
03/29/24 10:07:42 AM
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He probably thought Gonzaga was some small African country

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Revelation34
03/29/24 10:10:47 AM
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wackyteen posted...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matt-maddock-gonzaga-basketball-illegals-1234995954/

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https://twitter.com/MaxWhiteWXYZ/status/1773341946829836715

This can be all 'haha point and laugh at dumb fuck' until someone takes it seriously and lights one of these buses up.


Cite one news article where this has ever happened because of the reasons you stated.

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wackyteen
03/29/24 10:13:30 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
Cite one news article where this has ever happened because of the reasons you stated.
God willing, I won't ever have to

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Robot2600
03/29/24 10:30:48 AM
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do you mean cite one news article about a person being radicalized from false information and conspiracy theories?

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CADE_FOSTER
03/29/24 10:32:28 AM
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Do you not remember when alt right extremists were shooting up power grids FBI stopped a plan that they were gonna take down Balitimores power grid they are easily manipulated into terrorism
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CableZL
03/29/24 10:32:29 AM
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Gonzagastan needs to pay for sending their basketball invaders

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Revelation34
03/29/24 10:33:34 AM
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Robot2600 posted...
do you mean cite one news article about a person being radicalized from false information and conspiracy theories?


No.

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ClayGuida
03/29/24 10:34:50 AM
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Should be forced to resign.

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mario2000
03/29/24 10:35:34 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
No.

A man shot up a single-floor pizza joint because right wing media told him that there were kids being held prisoner in the basement.

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Revelation34
03/29/24 10:37:08 AM
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mario2000 posted...


A man shot up a single-floor pizza joint because right wing media told him that there were kids being held prisoner in the basement.


That's not what I asked for.

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CADE_FOSTER
03/29/24 10:37:55 AM
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You cant convince right wingers that fear mongering propaganda breeds violence and extremism look at the mall mass shooters shooting up border malls because of Trumps constant anti immigrant rhetoric
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mario2000
03/29/24 10:38:41 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
That's not what I asked for.

Deal with it.

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ScazarMeltex
03/29/24 10:43:46 AM
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At some point we are going to have to deal with the fact that a quarter of the adult population of the US has had it's brain completely melted by right-wing media.

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ItsNotA2Mer
03/29/24 10:47:53 AM
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Even they don't know.

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CADE_FOSTER
03/29/24 10:49:22 AM
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right wing chuds want you to go out of your way providing proof just to fuck with you cuz they will never believe it best to ignore them and move on
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LonelyStoner
03/29/24 10:53:50 AM
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What a clown.

Also, lol @ Little Caesars Arena

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realnifty1
03/29/24 10:59:40 AM
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If we ramped up pushing treason charges and backed those convictions up with the death penalty, would that be enough to get the loonies in line again or have we just gone too far?
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name_unknown
03/29/24 11:01:20 AM
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LonelyStoner posted...
What a clown.

Also, lol @ Little Caesars Arena
Jets Pizza was unable to pay higher for name rights
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Alucard188
03/29/24 11:02:27 AM
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Can we just fucking get rid of Twitter at this point? The only thing it's good for is amplifying misinformation.

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CADE_FOSTER
03/29/24 11:03:01 AM
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Pretty easy to do but for some reason Google and Apple wont delist it deplatform it and watch how fast that fascist idiot cleans up twitter
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Revelation34
03/29/24 11:12:10 AM
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DuranOfForcena posted...

uh, then what do you mean?


What I bolded.

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HashtagSEP
03/29/24 11:25:17 AM
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He's going to claim he "won" the argument by saying the example was somebody shooting up a pizza joint, not a bus.

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wackyteen
03/29/24 11:26:35 AM
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Nah, you see, he's looking for a specific example of a bus being shot up

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LonelyStoner
03/29/24 11:29:31 AM
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name_unknown posted...
Jets Pizza was unable to pay higher for name rights
I feel like naming any arena after a fast food company is just asinine. Especially Little Caesars. Their food is trash.

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C_Pain
03/29/24 11:30:44 AM
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Yeesh, what a numbskull.

CADE_FOSTER posted...
You cant convince right wingers that fear mongering propaganda breeds violence and extremism look at the mall mass shooters shooting up border malls because of Trumps constant anti immigrant rhetoric

You're not wrong at all, and obviously direct calls to violence are clear and documented, but I feel like assigning culpability of one person's violence due to any form of rhetoric of another is a slippery slope.


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mario2000
03/29/24 11:32:37 AM
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Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?

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Heineken14
03/29/24 11:33:13 AM
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LonelyStoner posted...
I feel like naming any arena after a fast food company is just asinine. Especially Little Caesars. Their food is trash.

Do... you understand how arena sponsorship works?

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FolkenRawr
03/29/24 11:35:09 AM
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Heineken14 posted...
Do... you understand how arena sponsorship works?

(x) Doubt

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LonelyStoner
03/29/24 11:35:34 AM
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Heineken14 posted...
Do... you understand how arena sponsorship works?
Yes. Doesnt make the naming sound any better. Reminds me of Jurassic World. Verizon Wireless Presents the Indominus Rex

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CADE_FOSTER
03/29/24 11:37:12 AM
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republicans breed stupidity and racism
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ablegator
03/29/24 11:38:38 AM
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LonelyStoner posted...
Yes. Doesnt make the naming sound any better. Reminds me of Jurassic World. Verizon Wireless Presents the Indominus Rex
The owner of Little Caesars owned the Tigers and Red Wings.

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UnholyMudcrab
03/29/24 11:41:21 AM
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Revelation34 posted...
That's not what I asked for.
No one gives a fuck what you asked for.

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Dakimakura
03/29/24 11:42:36 AM
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The actual truth doesnt matter. Im sure at a later time Fox News will be reporting this as a bus full of illegal immigrants sent by California.

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DD_Divine
03/29/24 11:44:57 AM
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other GOP members speak up on this Gonzaga invasion

lauren Boebert- and where is this country Gonzaga anyways? What the heck language do they speak there anyways?

MGT- we need to strike this shit hole country Gonzaga and wipe them off the planet.


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LonelyStoner
03/29/24 11:46:49 AM
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ablegator posted...
The owner of Little Caesars owned the Tigers and Red Wings.
and?

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hockeybabe89
03/29/24 11:48:58 AM
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Dakimakura posted...
The actual truth doesnt matter. Im sure at a later time Fox News will be reporting this as a bus full of illegal immigrants sent by California.
Yeah, the damage is already done before the notes show up. Thousands of mothers and uncles were likely already sharing this on Facebook and shrieking at their family members that disagree with their conspiracy bullshit.

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ablegator
03/29/24 11:50:48 AM
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LonelyStoner posted...
and?
Sooo when they named it after the owners business.

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The_Popo
03/29/24 11:51:03 AM
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famfam posted...
sadly, the GOP doesn't have a good track record for how they treat buses filled with black people

Its Gonzaga. Not a team of black people, per se.

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LonelyStoner
03/29/24 11:51:27 AM
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ablegator posted...
Sooo when they built the stadium they named it after the owners business.
I understand that. Its still a silly name for an arena.

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