#IRLHistoricalFigureMaximilienRobespierre i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre

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Supplementary: #EDUUSUniversityVirginiaTechMattGabriele https://bsky.app/profile/profgabriele.com/post/3kn6qyoo5tq2w "Those claims by the Right, however, seem at first glance to not make sense. They state that they represent the will of the people and want to terrorize those they consider 'tyrants.' And yet, they themselves have tried to overturn a legitimate election and more recently enacted sweeping voter suppression laws across several states in order to cement their own hold on power. In addition, the Right and their enablers rush to stake out absolutist positions related to 'religious liberty' or 'freedom of speech' but then cheer on (or directly use) state power to limit just those liberties and freedoms they purport to support. For example, they assert 'liberty' to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community, and assert 'freedom' to legislate against mask-wearing during a global pandemic or to ban the teaching of history they don't agree with. ...
Over the course of 1792-94, the avatars of the 'will of the people' continued to narrow. It was no longer the legislature as a whole, composed of hundreds of delegates that embodied the 'will of the people,' but it specifically became the Committee of Public Safety led by Robespierre. He vocalized the public will and embodied the public good so that those who disagreed became existential enemies of France herself who needed to be eliminated. Hence, we wind up with the Terror -- denunciations and mass executions of perceived enemies both at home and abroad. The Terror, Furet argued, was only ended when Robespierre lost control of the discourse and no longer embodied the public will, so he himself became a threat and was executed.
Contemporary America hasn't, of course, reached its own Terror. But the parallels between the modes of discourse in the late eighteenth- and early twenty-first centuries are striking. The Right has adopted an authoritarian mode of discourse because they think they embody the will of the people, the nation itself, and so are the only legitimate political actors." https://prof-gabriele.medium.com/on-guillotines-and-the-american-right-de0343b72341 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety #WebsiteFiveThirtyEightNateSilver "'But I have a theory about how they missed the Trump train,' he continued. 'They don't hang out with regular folks like us who like to hunt and fish and pray and actually work for a living. Heck, I don't even know that they know how to talk to people from middle America.' #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionBigLie #EventRepublicanNationalConventionRNC #IRLPersonalityTelevisionWillieRobertson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gg2dTFu2sc&t=105s #CatchcryTrumpTrain #OtheringElitesMedia
There's been a lot of this talk at the RNC, about 'real' Americans and 'regular' Americans and how they're the ones who make America great. ...
These politicians, implicitly and often explicitly, usually have certain people in mind when they refer to 'real Americans.' They often mean white people without college degrees -- the so-called 'white working class.' They usually mean practicing Christians. Their examples usually refer to people in the South or the Midwest -- not East Coast elites or West Coast hippies." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/only-20-percent-of-voters-are-real-americans/ #OtheringLegitimacyRealAmericans #EpistemologyAgnotologyBased #IdentityClassBlueCollarWhite

#BeliefChristianityCrucifix #LiteralWeaponFirearmAR15

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Supplementary: "Republican Charlie Kirk suggests Kyle Rittenhouse is like Jesus
Republican Charlie Kirk suggested that Kyle Rittenhouse is like Jesus Christ while comparing him to 'wrongfully accused' Bible characters.
The Turning Point USA founder said the remark during his organization's AmericaFest conference with Kirk referring to Rittenhouse as a 'hero to millions'.
Kirk said: 'It's a win for due process, it's a win for presumption of innocence--all Biblical values, by the way. Plenty of people were wrongfully accused all throughout the Bible, especially the Old Testament, including Jesus Christ himself.'" https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/charlie-kirk-kyle-rittenhouse-jesus-v23e220d1 #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSACharlieKirk #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSAAmericaFest #BeliefDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #NMUSTheVictoryChannelFlashPointGeneBailey: https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1473647345321615361 #HandleTwitterPatriotTakes i.e. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/patriottakes-and-future-resistance-twitter/619645/

#2020_CapitolSiege #CaricaturistKevinSiers i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Siers

#CatchcryTrumpTrain #IRLPersonalityInternetHollyFisher versus #IRLTerroristReemRiyashi #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych

#MetaphorProtectionHome #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms i.e. #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism

#BrandNBCUniversalChuckTodd, #BrandNBCUniversalMarkMurray, #BrandNBCUniversalBenKamisar, #BrandNBCUniversalBridgetBowman and #BrandNBCUniversalAlexandraMarquez #2020_CapitolSiege
Just 45 percent of Americans say Donald Trump is 'solely' or 'mainly' responsible for the rioters who overtook the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, versus a combined 55 percent who say the former president is only somewhat responsible or not really responsible, according to results from the latest NBC News poll.
That's a shift from the Jan. 2021 NBC poll -- taken days after the attack -- when 52 percent said Trump was either solely or mainly responsible, compared with 47 percent who disagreed." https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/fewer-americans-now-say-trump-responsible-jan-6-nbc-news-poll-finds-rcna32074 #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump

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Context: #OrgUSHouseSelectCommitteeOnTheJanuary6Attack https://january6th.house.gov/

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Supplementary: #IRLFilmmakerSandiBachom #2022_TrueBelieversAtTheInsurrection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQR_H81xFIU https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25503240/ #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSProudBoys #PleaMAGA #2017_UniteTheRightRally #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaCharlottesville #IRLHistoricalFigureRobertELee #IRLConspiracistDavidDuke #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSProudBoysGavinMcInnes #PleaStandBackAndStandBy #CatchcryAmericaFirst #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNewYorkNYCManhattanMetropolitanRepublicanClub #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesShaneGoldmacher https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/nyregion/gavin-mcinnes-republican-club-vandalized.html #ConspiracyTheoryStolenElectionStopTheSteal i.e. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/13/business/stop-the-steal-disinformation-campaign-invs/ #IRLPoliticalLobbyistRogerStone #OrgUSFedAFMArmyMichaelFlynn #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMikePence #IRLFinancierGeorgeSoros #BeliefDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah #WebsiteInfoWarsAlexJones #OrgClassifGrpMilitiaUSOathKeepers #SymbolEmblemFlagUSGadsdenRattlesnakeDontTreadOnMe #OrgUSFedWhiteHouseTheEllipse i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ellipse

#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump

#PhenomnPanicBuyingFormulaMilk #MetaphorVersusSocialismCapitalism #MetaphorVersusSideBySideDiptych

#PhenomnHolocaustShoah #NarrativeWarWWII #OtheringOutGroupAntiVaxxer #PhenomnVirusCOVID19Pandemic

#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyNancyPelosi #PoliticsFascismNazi

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Addendum: whether by intention or not, the image evokes the #PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmNaziploitation film #1975_IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS

#CatchcryTrumpTrain

#CatchcryTrumpTrain

I think this is meant to be the #CatchcryTrumpTrain. #TVThomasTheTankEngine #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump

"DrainTheSwanp" = #CatchcryDrainTheSwamp ? #PleaGreatestOfAllTimeGOAT #SloganKeepAmericaGreatKAG2020 #TauntWokeAF

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Addendum: I assume that the #CatchcryTrumpTrain reference is part of some sort campaign slogan (making use of alliteration). Update, see: http://trigg.gr/t/15739

#PleaMAGA versus #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimes #TVViacomCBS #NMUSMSNBC #NMUSCNN #TVUSABCNews #OrgUSClintonFoundation #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyHillaryClinton i.e. #CampaignLogoHillaryClintonH #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama i.e. #CampaignLogoBarackObamaO #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyDonkey

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Addendum: presumably, an ardent #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump supporter's perspective on #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #LiteralNewsMedia #MetaphorTitanic #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseFakeNews

#IRLBusinesspersonMalikObama i.e. #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSBarackObama's brother.

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Addendum: in this context is meant to symbolically send a message to other #ConspiracyTheoryCabalQAnon conspiracy theory-believers and Trump followers of some sort of 'truth' about Trump (through contrast with Obama). This kind of tweet could be seen as a #MetaphorDogWhistle to #CharacterisationTrumpsBase.

#ConspiracyTheoryTheGreatAwakening #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #HandleFacebookTheTrumpsStormGroup https://www.facebook.com/groups/THETRUMPSSTORMGROUP #MetaphorStormTheStorm #HandleFacebookMrPresidentTrump https://www.facebook.com/groups/MRPRESIDENTTRUMP/

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Addendum: Trump represented as some sort of modern-day #BeliefDeityGodAllahYHWHJesusChristMessiah / beacon of light in the 2020 US presidential race (although, apart from the #BeliefChristianityCrucifix above Trump's name - I have no idea what the steam-train symbolism is meant to communicate - perhaps something about progress?).
I can only assume that the train refers to #CatchcryTrumpTrain - using alliteration as part of some sort campaign slogan, where "Each tweet is referred to as a "train car" and sometimes the train cars have numbers. Users included in each train car tweet are called "riders" and there are "conductors" that organize each train and dedicate a great deal of their time on Twitter to this activity" (Erin Gallagher, 16 September 2019) https://medium.com/@erin_gallagher/trump-trains-84bea1c3170d
"trains" can be used metaphorically to refer to coteries of support: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Donald-Trumps-supporters-call-themselves-the-Trump-Train https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/what-the-end-of-the-mueller-report-means-for-qanon.html
Mention of 'Train' in the Bible: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/words/Train #MetaphorBiblical #MetaphorWarfareHeroSaviour versus #MetaphorThreatGeneralisedNonSpecific #InvectiveBullShitBS #CatchcryEnoughIsEnough

pejorative characterisation #MetaphorWarfareTraitor i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_traitor - used to argue that #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfrican people should support #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump. #NarrativeAbortion #OrgUSPlannedParenthood #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

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Supplementary: #NMUSNationalPublicRadioNPRGeneDemby "People invent new words for emotionally charged referents, but soon the euphemism becomes tainted by association, and a new word must be found, which soon acquires its own connotations, and so on. [...] Even the word 'minority' -- the most neutral word label conceivable, referring only to relative numbers -- was banned in 2001 by the San Diego City Council ... because it was deemed disparaging to nonwhites. ... The euphemism treadmill shows that concepts, not words, are primary in people's minds. Give a concept a new name, and the name becomes colored by the concept; the concept does not become freshened by the name, at least not for long. Names for minorities will continue to change as long as people have negative attitudes toward them. We will know that they have achieved mutual respect when the names stay put." https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/07/362273449/why-we-have-so-many-terms-for-people-of-color #IRLScholarStevenPinker #2002_TheBlankSlateTheModernDenialOfHumanNature i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate