I got this meme from @marionumber4, though I'm not sure if they'll get banned or not for this.
Stonetoss (Nazi comic artist with no chin) got doxxed on Twitter and Elon Musk has been deleting and sometimes banning anybody who says his name.
It was a 99 Tweet long thread of his name, face, town he lives in and I heard it also included his workplace. It detailed how his comics were connected to some right-wing mass shooters and talked about how he's a bigot.
It's been archived on different websites despite Elon's efforts to un-dox (doxx?) him. I'm not going to post any of the archives because i only glanced at it and I don't want to get banned from Tumblr for doxxing, but his info is out there.
The top image is referring to the time Elon Musk unbanned somebody who got banned for posting screenshots of Daisy's Destruction because they're "friends" or whatever the fuck he said.
Right-wing figures mock neurodivergent teen for showing emotion at DNC.
Parker Molloy at The Present Age:
During his acceptance speech as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee on Wednesday night, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz shared a deeply personal story about his family’s struggle with infertility. As he concluded by saying, “Hope, Gus, and Gwen, you are my entire world, and I love you,” the camera caught his 17-year-old son Gus standing up, tears in his eyes, pointing to his father and exclaiming, “That’s my dad!”
It was a sweet display of familial love and pride — a rare moment of raw emotion in the ordinarily carefully choreographed world of political conventions. For many viewers, it was surely a timely reminder of the human beings behind the political personas we see on stage.
However, what should have been universally recognized as a beautiful father-son moment quickly became fodder for cruel mockery from pro-Trump social media accounts. The contrast between Gus Walz’s sincere emotion and the derision it provoked from the right offers a troubling glimpse into the state of political discourse and the depths to which partisan attacks have sunk. This not only highlights the lack of basic human decency in certain right-wing corners of our politics but also raises important questions about how conservatives view emotional expression, particularly from young men, in the public sphere.
Not only is Gus a minor, but he’s also neurodivergent. People recently ran a story about the Walz family and what Tim and Gwen Walz have come to refer to as Gus’s “secret power" — a non-verbal learning disorder, ADHD, and anxiety disorder.
Tim Walz told People:
["When our youngest Gus was growing up, it became increasingly clear that he was different from his classmates," the couple tell PEOPLE. "Gus preferred video games and spending more time by himself."
The statement continues: "When he was becoming a teenager, we learned that Gus has a non-verbal learning disorder in addition to an anxiety disorder and ADHD, conditions that millions of Americans also have."]
It’s a sweet article that makes the attacks that would follow Gus’s display of emotion that much more unacceptable.
Anti-LGBTQ activist Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project mocked Gus Walz, writing, “Tim Walz’ son Gus wears eyeliner.”
Prominent pro-Trump Twitter accounts Dom Lucre, Colin Rugg, and Autism Capital all mocked the 17-year-old.
“Get that kid a tampon already,” wrote a right-wing podcaster Alec Lace.
Trump ally Mike Crispi called Gus Walz a “beta bitch.”
Right-wing radio host Jay Weber called Gus Walz a “blubbering bitch boy.”
Ann Coulter called Gus Walz “weird.”
You get the idea.
Right-wing beta losers doing what they do best: insult people.
From Cracker Barrel to Sydney Sweeney's jeans: How right-wing influencers manufacture controversies, then cite them as proof that "wokeness"
Parker Molloy at The Present Age:
Cracker Barrel changed their logo and conservatives are acting like someone burned down a church.
The restaurant chain dropped the little cartoon guy who's been leaning against a barrel since 1977, went with just text in a vaguely barrel-shaped yellow blob, and suddenly it's the downfall of American civilization. Donald Trump Jr. posted “WTF is wrong with @CrackerBarrel??!” like they'd just announced they were replacing biscuits with kale chips. Rep. Byron Donalds went even further, tweeting that he found Jesus in a Cracker Barrel parking lot during college and that “no one asked for this woke rebrand.”
Found Jesus. In a Cracker Barrel parking lot. And now the logo change is apparently a personal affront to his salvation.
But wait, there's more. Conservative activist and all-around slimeball Robby Starbuck released a 15-minute video claiming the company is “infested with left-wing activists who are more interested in safe spaces, pronouns and virtue signaling than they are in their customers.” The evidence? Well, they removed Uncle Herschel from the logo. Also, one board member used to work at Disney. In the diversity department. Over a decade ago.
Christopher Rufo declared “we must break the Barrel.” YouTuber Benny Johnson said, “White people are about to riot” because they “[erased] the white guy” from the logo. The stock dropped nearly $100 million in value.
You know what this is? It's the same minimalist corporate rebrand virtually every company has done in the past decade. Dunkin’ dropped “Donuts.” Mastercard simplified their overlapping circles. Even KFC has been messing with the Colonel for years. Companies hire expensive consultants who tell them their logos need to work on apps and that nobody under 40 knows what a barrel is anyway, and boom, here's your new simplified design. That'll be $3 million, thanks.
But sure, it's probably about pronouns.
How to manufacture a controversy in 30 minutes or less
Here's where this gets genuinely stupid. The outrage wasn't even organic. These influencers literally A/B tested whether to be mad about it.
According to Adam Bumas at Garbage Day, the logo change was announced on a Monday and completely ignored until Wednesday, when a bunch of aggregator accounts all posted about it at once. Including Dom Lucre, the QAnon guy who's been to the White House multiple times. His initial post? Totally neutral: “🔥🚨DEVELOPING:: Cracker Barrel just updated their logo for the first time in 47 years.”
Two hours later, after checking his engagement numbers, he pivoted to “They need to add the Cracker and the Barrel back.”
Two hours.
The account @ClownWorld_ was even faster. They went from asking “Thoughts?” to screaming about “woke agendas” in exactly 30 minutes. Half an hour to decide whether this was worth being furious about. These people are running opinion focus groups on themselves.
And then there's Christopher Rufo, the guy who brags about manufacturing the CRT panic. Wednesday: “I don't care about the new logo.” Thursday: “We must break the Barrel.” But here's the beautiful part. He actually admitted what he was doing. In his barrel-breaking post, he wrote: “It's not about this particular restaurant chain—who cares—but about creating massive pressure against companies that are considering any move that might appear to be ‘wokification.’”
He literally said "who cares" about Cracker Barrel while demanding we destroy Cracker Barrel.
The timing on all this is surgical. You can track the exact moment when accounts like @EndWokeness and Alex Bruesewitz (described as "Trump's podcast guru," which sounds like a job you'd make up at a party) realized this could be a thing. They remembered conservatives tried to boycott Cracker Barrel in 2023 for supporting Pride month. They saw some TikToks from earlier this year complaining about restaurant remodels. They did the math on potential engagement.
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About that Sydney Sweeney thing. I wrote about this a couple weeks ago. The “massive liberal backlash”? It was maybe a few dozen TikToks. But those dozen comments got screenshot and shared and quote-tweeted until suddenly JD Vance was on podcasts talking about how Democrats hate beautiful women. Ted Cruz was defending a jeans commercial. Someone made a fake apology from American Eagle joking about not realizing “how big her boobs would be” and people shared it like it was real.
The whole controversy was faker than a three-dollar bill, but Gasparino cites it as proof that “anti-woke messaging sells.”
She made a dad joke about genes and jeans. That's it. That's the anti-woke messaging that supposedly drove the stock up 20%. Not the fact that they got massive free publicity from a manufactured controversy. Not the fact that Sydney Sweeney is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood right now. Nope, must be the brave stand against wokeness of... putting a hot woman in a denim ad. Truly groundbreaking stuff, guys!
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The perfect circle of bullshit
So here's the grift in all its glory: Create a fake controversy, point to the fake controversy as evidence of a real problem, then sell yourself as the expert who can solve the problem you just invented.
Gasparino wants Wall Street to start pricing in “woke risk.” He wants analysts asking companies on earnings calls about their DEI policies. He wants shareholders demanding that companies “extricate wokeness from corporate decision-making.” He's trying to create a whole new consulting category where guys like him can charge Fortune 500 companies to evaluate their “woke exposure.”
Think about how crazy this is. Right-wing influencers openly admit they don't actually care about Cracker Barrel. They decide whether to be outraged based on engagement metrics. A right-wing financial columnist then uses their manufactured outrage as market analysis. And that analysis gets used to justify a new investment framework that just happens to require his expertise.
And Gasparino keeps saying stuff like “shareholders must demand” and “Wall Street must now consider” like he's some kind of markets prophet. My guy, you're citing TikTok drama. You're treating Dom Lucre's engagement bait like it's a Bloomberg terminal readout.
He even claims in his column that “some savvy Wall Street types” are already adding woke risk to their models, “just not using that exact terminology.” Oh really? They're not calling it that? Maybe because they know how ridiculous it sounds to tell your investors you're making decisions based on whether a restaurant logo has a cartoon character on it.
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Reality check at the old country store
You want to know Cracker Barrel's actual problem? Their CEO Julie Felss Masino literally told investors last year that the company is “not as relevant as we once were.” That's not some interpretation. Those are her actual words.
They're a highway restaurant chain that serves comfort food to travelers and retirees. Their whole vibe is “remember when things were simpler?” except things were never actually simpler, you were just nine years old. And now their core customers are aging out of road trips or, you know, dying.
The company has been trying to modernize for over a year. New menu items. Remodeled restaurants. Updated pricing strategies. They're desperate to attract anyone under 60 who isn't just stopping there because their bladder's about to explode on I-80.
But according to Gasparino and the anti-woke brigade, the real issue is that they simplified their logo. As if millennials were just waiting for Uncle Herschel to disappear before they'd start eating chicken-fried steak at 10:30 AM.
The right-wing obsession over manufacturing faux outrage to prove their point about “go woke, go broke” is pure whininess. Some examples: the short-lived redesign of the Cracker Barrel logo, Sydney Sweeney jeans ad, and the Bud Light ad with Dylan Mulvaney.
Multiple far-right figures — including Stew Peters and Enrique Tarrio — have launched crypto coins since President Donald Trump launched his
Alex Kaplan at MMFA:
Multiple far-right figures — including Stew Peters and Enrique Tarrio — have launched crypto coins since President Donald Trump launched his official coin in January. Some of the figures have directly invoked Trump and his coin as inspiration for launching their own.
Trump launched his crypto coin in January
In January, just days before taking office for his second term, Trump launched his own meme coin, $Trump. By early February, the coin had earned “close to $100 million in trading fees.” In April, the site for the coin announced that some of the coin’s holders could win an “unforgettable Gala DINNER with the President” in May, seemingly causing the coin’s value to go up “by more than 50%, according to CoinMarketCap.” According to an analysis from The Washington Post, “The holders of 27 crypto wallets … each acquired more than 100,000 $TRUMP coins, stakes worth about a million dollars each” after the announcement. [BBC, 1/18/25; Reuters, 2/3/25; CNN, 4/24/25; The Washington Post, 4/24/25]
During Trump’s second term, he has instituted policies friendly to cryptocurrency. In one executive order, Trump reportedly established “a strategic bitcoin reserve for the United States, putting the cryptocurrency on par with petroleum and gold as strategic assets that Washington stockpiles.” [Foreign Policy, 3/7/25]
Right-wing media figures copy Donald Trump’s lead and launch their own crypto coins.
President Donald Trump has been openly courting MAGA media figures — giving them significant access to his new administration and even appoi
Gideon Taaffe and Jack Winstanley at MMFA:
President Donald Trump has been openly courting MAGA media figures — giving them significant access to his new administration and even appointing former Fox News hosts to prominent positions in the government.
The Trump administration has simultaneously welcomed MAGA influencers into the White House, Cabinet departments, and other federal agencies while restricting access of mainstream media that have long covered those institutions. Many of these right-wing media figures have previously spread outright misinformation and hateful conspiracy theories — and now some of them appear to be giving policy cues to the new administration.
The Trump White House has become increasingly hostile to mainstream media as it favors right-wing influencers
Trump terminated The Associated Press’ access “in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and at other White House events” because the outlet refused to update its style guidelines after he changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” Politico reported, “President Donald Trump personally decided to bar The Associated Press from some White House events and spaces, the White House said in court documents Monday.” Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on February 25 that the White House will now directly control which outlets are in the press pool, a task historically managed by the White House Correspondents’ Association. [Politico, 2/24/25; The Hill, 2/25/25]
The Pentagon announced that NBC, The New York Times, NPR, and Politico will “rotate out of the building” to make space for the New York Post, One America News Network, Breitbart, and others. The switch is the first iteration of the Pentagon’s new “Annual Media Rotation Program,” which The Washington Post reports “will swap news outlets from print, TV, radio and online news for other organizations that have not had the opportunity to report from the office space, according to the memo.” [The Washington Post, 2/1/25; The Daily Beast, 1/31/25]
The White House began using the “new media” seat at the White House press briefings to let in far right-wing voices. The “new media” seat was established to “welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators” to the White House. [White House, 1/29/25; Columbia Journalism Review, 2/19/25]
Trump’s first administration fostered a feedback loop between the White House and Fox News. The first Trump administration regularly relied on Fox News talking points and hired at least 20 former Fox employees. This feedback loop seems primed to continue in his second term, with Fox News recently hiring the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to host a weekly show. [Media Matters, 11/19/24; MSNBC, 2/6/25]
Trump has already appointed many members of right-wing media to high-level positions in his second administration. These appointments include former Fox News personalities Pete Hegseth, Sean Duffy, and Tulsi Gabbard as Cabinet secretaries. Other Fox News personalities like Leo Terrell and Dan Bongino have similarly been appointed to high-level positions. Trump has also included more fringe members of right-wing media like Darren Beattie and Kash Patel. [Media Matters, 11/14/24, 1/17/25, 2/24/25, 1/28/25; CNN, 2/12/25; CBS News, 1/28/25; Reuters, 2/4/25]
Real America’s Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam, Fox News’ Bill Melugin, and conservative personality Dr. Phil (real name Phil McGraw) have all participated in ride-alongs for ICE raids or Border Patrol activities. In one video posted by Dr. Phil, he can be seen standing alongside Trump “border czar” Tom Homan and questioning a detained individual about his background and immigration status. [YouTube, 2/14/25; Fox News, 1/23/25; People magazine, 1/31/25]
White House press briefings have welcomed various MAGA media figures and influencers — some of whom have occupied the “new media” seat. According to Media Matters’ internal data, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski, Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle, Real America's Voice’s Brian Glenn, The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson, and conservative podcasters Sage Steele and the hosts of the Ruthless Podcast have all appeared at the White House briefings. Other attendees have included OAN’s Daniel Baldwin, Newsmax’s James Rosen, Turning Point USA’s Monica Paige Luisi, and The Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese. [Instagram, 2/12/25; WhiteHouse.gov, 1/29/25]
Pavlovski also visited the Federal Communications Commission and met with Chairman Brendan Carr, who said, “His commitment to free speech and diversity of viewpoints serves as a terrific model for all business.” [Twitter/X, 2/12/25]
Former ESPN reporter Sage Steele, who now has a right-leaning podcast, was also invited to the White House for the Black History Month reception. Steele was pulled “off the air at ESPN after she called vaccine mandates ‘sick’ and ‘scary’ and questioned why former President Barack Obama identifies as Black even though he was raised by his white mother.” Failed Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker also reportedly attended the February 20 White House event. [The Associated Press, 2/21/25; NPR, 10/6/21]
During the 2nd term of the Trump Misadministration, the MAGA media influencer circuit has gotten increased access and prominence, while crowding out non-MAGA outlets as part of Trump's war on press freedom.
See Also:
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Since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, right-wing media hav
PAYTON ARMSTRONG, CHARIS HOARD & EMMA MAE WEBER AT MMFA:
Since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, right-wing media have launched sexist and racist attacks at Harris to try to diminish her qualifications. They’ve claimed that she can’t be president because she doesn’t have biological children, labeled her “the ultimate diversity, equity, and inclusion candidate,” fixated on her laugh, claimed that she promotes "the occult,” and likened her to “Jezebel.”
Right-wing media have lobbed racist and sexist attacks at Harris for years, calling her a “DEI hire” who “gets more favorable treatment because of her race and gender.” Right-wing figures have also referred to Harris as an example of ”why DEI doesn’t work" and claimed she “launched her political career in [the] bedroom.” [Media Matters, 7/3/24, 7/11/24]
The right-wing media are already resorting to the tired old playbook of using racist and sexist tropes to attack apparent Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
On November 8, a Fox News “straight news” program interviewed content creator Dom Lucre, referring to him as a “journalist.” Lucre has a history of pushing QAnon-related conspiracy theories, spreading outlandish claims about high-level Democrats, and pushing 2020 election denial.
Dominick McGee, known online as Dom Lucre, has a history of pushing baseless conspiracy theories as a right-wing internet personality. Lucre capitalized on 2020 election denial conspiracy theories to build a platform geared toward the right, and he went to Washington, D.C. to protest the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021. Since then, he has used his platform to push a slew of conspiracy theories, occasionally putting real people in the crosshairs of his claims.
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Last Friday, anchor Trace Gallagher hosted Lucre on Fox News @ Night, introducing and labeling him simply as a “journalist.” Lucre claimed that Democrats ran a campaign that was “false” and “complete propaganda from day one.” Lucre also highlighted Gen Z and the “rise of streamers” made a difference in Trump’s campaign, arguing that Vice President Kamala Harris is the “past, she does not have the future, which we are pushing forward. Trump was the way forward.” Lucre concluded that this space is “controlling the culture, and I believe it is shifting towards conservatism.” Gallagher thanked Lucre for the “great information.”
Appearing on last Friday’s edition of Fox News @ Night, far-right conspiracy theorist Dominick McGee (aka Dom Lucre) was being interviewed by Trace Gallagher.
The show improperly identified Lucre as a “journalist.”
From the 11.08.2024 edition of FNC's Fox News @ Night:
Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, right-wing media figures and s
Alex Kaplan and Payton Armstrong at MMFA:
Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, right-wing media figures and social media users have spread baseless conspiracy theories and claims about the shooting.
They have amplified a 4chan hoax that the Secret Service gave a stand-down order during the shooting; made baseless allegations that Alex Soros was connected to the shooting; falsely claimed a protester at a 2016 Trump rally was the shooter; suggested the shooting could be attributed to the intelligence community, the “deep state,” foreign actors, or an “RNC/Israeli hit job”; and connected the assassination attempt to biblical prophecy and “the hand of God.”
Right-wing media are spinning reality-free conspiracy theories about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
