twitter to instagram which we are most concerned about when it comes to disinformation. i m really concerned with two things. a one, that the qanon conspiracy can get us supercharged here. and the reporting, we encountered that he s promoted qanon more than 400 times on his social media platform. he s only increasing it. after the last midterms, 50% have undermined the election or promoted qanon. i think that ties in with the extremism, some of the think clint was saying. the greatest this groomer narrative, and this idea that democrats, the news media are engaging in massive amounts of pedophilia. it s no longer limited to the fever swamps. you now have an increasingly mainstream republicans making this argument, validating it. coupled with that, you have an emboldened christian nationalists movement now which acts like sandpaper, it smoothes at the edges of that hate. i think that conspiracy alone, once trump gets involved and adds more fuel to that fire because it validates the
after the fbi. they re going to look into these investigations into donald trump. a lot of this stuff grew out of the kind of fever swamps of right wing television. some of them are conspiracy theories. in so many ways this is now a committee that has lots and lots of money. we don t know what members are going to be on there. they re going to be able to sort of investigate these conspiracy theories and try to essentially make them true. that s what we re going to see. this is where it gets difficult. we re trained to have an open mind about these things. we know a lot of the things the republicans said during the campaigns. some of the investigations, hunter biden, the origin of covid, china. a lot of bipartisan support for this china committee. the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan, the southern border. those are legitimate issues, all of them in some way, for legitimate oversight. the question is is it oversight or is it politics? right.
nearly a month after election day, the only place where arizona s gubernatorial election results remain in doubt are in the fever swamps of truth social. where former president trump continues to call for a new election in between posts, feuding with ron desantis. defending his friendship with kanye west. it is too early to declare democracy completely immune to the threat of election denialism. but it is becoming clear, voters are tiring of the when it comes to republicans like former president trump and kari lake who continued to fan the flames of conspiracy theories. it is time that they realize they are playing with fire. and are likely to get burned. i gotcha.
ago? for me, that thing i would emphasize for people is that four years ago, five years ago, the right-wing really started to organize power, it used to be considered the fringes. and now they are no longer the fringe is. and they are increasingly in the center. what s new is we have operationalized extremist part and parcel with the mainstream republican party, mainstream right-wing media. the kinds of conspiracy theories that ben was referencing before are actually on fox & friends this morning as well. five years ago, that would have been on the fever swamps in the chance, fox news would ve been right-wing out there for with misinformation. there wouldn t have been a now they are. that s what s different. it s much closer to the center. and they are better at it, is what you re saying to. way better at it. they are much more insight. you have twitter going through changes right now which could be putting gasoline on the fire or super charging a radicalization that already ex
said on a nightly basis that come from the true fever swamps of the american are you serious? i m serious. but this issue, i mean, it s hard enough for elementary school teachers to get them to line up in the hallway, to nobody, nobody is allowing children to use the bathroom kitty litter in the classroom. it s unsanitary. will further pretending that it s because these kids identify as cats . i mean, with something like this, you have to get us and the fact that these two people running for governor in colorado and minnesota, that they fall for it. the lability is stunning. what s really crazy is, who would identify the? if you re going to identify as an animal, dog is really superior. just saying. just thawing it out there, if you re thinking of doing it. the dog? yeah. you go outside. they ll treat the schools. i see this has gone off the rails. bring it home, kevin. you ve got 60 seconds, go.