The List of the Worst Tweets of the Week [Nov. 30, 2021]
The top ten for the List of people who need their phones taken
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Friday 11/19
-@meralee
Offense: “1. Brian Laundrie murders his girlfriend and the police are somehow unable to find him. He is able to evade capture and commits suicide.
2. Kyle Rittenhouse murders two people and is acquitted.
3. An awful video is released of Zac Stacy beating his ex. Arrested within 24 hours.”
Monday 11/22
-Jennifer Rubin
Offense: “Even if his poll numbers are down, the potential to run against a hyper-flawed candidate like Trump may well keep him in the race. (Carter ran in 1980 despite approval numbers that had dropped to 28 percent in 1979)”
-ABC7 News
Offense: “Experts caution use of 'looting' in describing rash of Bay Area smash and grabs”
Tuesday 11/23
-Josh Trebach
Offense: “if you’re at Thanksgiving and someone says their decision to not get vaccinated doesn’t affect anyone else, cut your slice of pie like this to demonstrate how that is very untrue”
-Pat Burke
Offense: “I'm introducing a bill that allows insurance providers to deny coverage for Covid related treatment to those who refuse to be vaccinated. Do your part or pay your own way. Freedom isn't free.”
-Zeke Emanuel
Offense: “With holiday travel kicking into gear, think about how much safer we’d all feel if there was a vaccination mandate for travel. As families gather and the weather gets colder, we are in greater danger of another surge. More on this in my recent oped:”
-Women’s March
Offense: “We apologize deeply for the email that was sent today. $14.92 was our average donation amount this week. It was an oversight on our part to not make the connection to a year of colonization, conquest, and genocide for Indigenous people, especially before Thanksgiving.”
-Axios
Offense: “No one really wants this job, but millions of households may need their own: a Thanksgiving bouncer.
The cover charge? A negative COVID test, done ahead of arrival or outside the front door.”
-CJ Werleman
Offense: “Turns out the Taliban is far more progressive and democratic than the Indian and Israeli governments.”
-Joy Henningsen
Offense: “My family will have an #emptychair at our Thanksgiving table this year. 🪑😞
Not because we lost someone to cancer or trauma. Or violence or war.
But because we lost someone to #misinformation.
Only the vaccinated may attend for safety. Many families will feel this pain. 😔”
-Shane Ferro
Wednesday 11/24
-Tim Pool
Offense: The question in the Arbery verdict was whether the citizens arrest was justified, this is why it was felony murder
I dont understand how so many people are claiming it was the right verdict when this issue is so incredibly nuanced and complicated
It could easily get appealed”
-Howard Dean
Offense: “America is turned upside down. A Nearly all white Jury in Georgia returns a guilty verdict against three white men who chased down and killed a Black man. A Wisconsin jury and good old boy judge let a young white man armed with an illegal gun go free after killing two white boys.”
-Stephanie Ruhle
Offense: “Just bc input costs go up...that does NOT mean a business must raise prices to customers.
It is not automatic”
-Washington Post
Offense: “Here's what we know so far on the sequence of events that led to the Waukesha tragedy caused by a SUV.”
-Claire Lehmann
Offense: “One graph which explains American anti-Australianism.
ourworldindata.org/explorers/coro…”
-Luke Malone
Offense: “I'm not familiar with #AllynWalker's personal wishes but... it's a sorry state of affairs when a professor's groundbreaking research is grossly misrepresented online and the end result is that the professor ends up leaving their post instead of being supported by their university”
-Bill Kristol
Offense: “Thanksgiving is about gratitude. In 2021 it’s Biden supporters and liberals who seem grateful for America, for American institutions and ideals, for the American way of life. It’s Trumpists and today’s conservative movement who seem to be bitterly lacking in gratitude to America.”
Thursday 11/25
-John Ziegler
Offense: “I don’t claim to know the truth of what crimes Ghislane Maxwell may have committed, but there are elements of her case which are very consistent with a political/PR/social media witch hunt…”
-Julie K Brown
Offense: “Unbelievable that there appears to be just ONE Black Rockette (hiding in the back). Omg. WTF. Horrible. 😣”
-WKYT
-The Washington Post
Offense: “Wild boar. Kelp salad. Crickets in your pie crust.
These are just a few things that may end up on Thanksgiving menus as climate change takes its toll on the planet. wapo.st/3FQgIKJ”
-@__notswaylol
Offense: “Nah one of my aunties ovulating I can smell it lol”
-Fox News
Offense: “Kamala Harris reportedly spent over $500 on cookware in Parisian shop amid US economic uncertainty”
Friday 11/26
-Robert Reich
Offense: “Let me ask again: Why isn't the media reporting that oil companies chose to raise prices rather than increase supplies?”
-Robert Reich
Offense: “White privilege is refusing to get a proven vaccine while millions of Black and brown people around the world still can’t get access.”
-Claire Lehmann
Offense: “This is what ISIS think too, it doesn't make you special. twitter.com/ZubyMusic/stat…”
-TransportationGov
-Karen Tumulty
Offense: “When I went for my booster today, the pharmacy had a bowl full of lollipops. A lovely reminder of my childhood, when that was what you would get if you didn't cry. Except I wanted to cry because I was so grateful for science.”
-New York Times
Offense: “With 6,000 residents, a McDonald’s drive-through, bars and ball fields, the Guantánamo Bay Navy base is more than one big prison. It has the trappings of small-town America and the amenities of a college campus.”
-Tony Shaffer
Offense: “If the suicide vest fits…”
-@From Alberta
Offense: “The USA has no gun control at all.
You can buy a gun at a convenience store and carry it around with bullets in it.
They are the bottom of the barrel when comparing countries.
#canada #USA #cdnpoli #USPoli”
-Michelle Beckley
Offense: “Why should we have to pay to support the insanity of those not getting vaccinated? You think all these hospital stays are free? All of our insurance premiums are going up because of people acting like they are more important than everyone else.”
Saturday 11/27
-Jake Flores
Offense: “Dude is just literally posting swastikas now”
-Slate
Offense: “Readers love this fanfic so much, they’re printing out their own copies.”
-Steve King
Offense: “Pelosi changed House rules for @IlhanMN to allow her to wear her turban on the floor. First day, a Member said to me, “Four pounds of C-4 under that would wipe out half of Congress.”
-Kathy Hochul
Offense. “The First Gentlemen selected the holiday tree which arrived yesterday — Bob’s Trees in Hagaman has some of the finest trees in New York State!
Can’t wait to see all the decorations from @rockcenternyc all the way to the State Capitol 🎄”
Sunday 11/28
-Amy Siskind
-CNN
Offense: “Waukesha will hold a moment of silence today, marking one week since a car drove through a city Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring scores of others.”
-Libs of Tik Tok
Offense: “Ok groomer”
-Kyla In The Burgh
Offense: “Sometimes I sit back and ponder how great America would actually be if a new COVID variant wiped out every single unvaccinated person in the US leaving only the caring, educated, selfless people with common fucking sense.”
-Vox
Offense: ““Invasive species” is a nativist concept so ingrained in American consciousness that it’s taken on a life of its own, @mbolotnikova reports:”
-Esther Choo MD
Offense: “What if anti-racism were a foundational competency in medical school. And you didn’t move on if you failed it.”
Monday 11/29
-Bloomberg
Offense: “Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial is set to be one of the biggest of the #MeToo era. But the jury may have to grapple with a unique question: is Maxwell herself a victim?”
-Charlie Crist
Offense: “A brighter future in 2022!”
-Dakota Willinik
Offense: “Who the fuck cares if Chris Cuomo helped his brother??? I don’t know anybody who wouldn’t help family. The New York media needs to find a hobby. Their obsession with the entire Cuomo family is ridiculous. They can’t even call themselves journalists anymore. They are paparazzi.”
-Brian Stelter
Offense: “For what it's worth, when Chris Cuomo addressed his actions on the air back in August, he said "this will be my final word on it," and he hasn't addressed the matter on TV since.”
-Amy Siskind
Offense: “Engaging with the freedumb anti-vaxxers, is like trying to convince a person with a gun pointed at their own head not to shoot. It's time to walk away from the scene.”
-CBC Ottawa
Offense: “Words and phrases you may want to think twice about using ift.tt/3o4kmup #ottnews #ottawa”
-Ian Millhiser
Offense: “I think the most disturbing thing we’ve learned this year is that swing voters care much more about the price of gas than they do about whether fascism should be stopped.”
-Charlotte Clymer
Offense: “It's so good to have a family in the White House again who understand how to decorate for Christmas.”
Tuesday 11/30
-Twitter Safety
Offense: “Beginning today, we will not allow the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private individuals without their consent. Publishing people's private info is also prohibited under the policy, as is threatening or incentivizing others to do so.”
-Greg Kelly
Offense: “SHE MIGHT BE INNOCENT!”
-Jim Cramer
Offense: “Getting a lot of hate now for advocating President Eisenhower's view on polio. How can they live with themselves. ?”
-Jonathan Chait
Offense: “Exactly right. Republicans get news from media that is always favorable to their party. Democrats get news from media that often portray Democrats harshly. nymag.com/intelligencer/…”
Projected top 10:
Bloomberg
Claire Lehmann
Brian Stelter
Twitter Safety
Tony Shaffer
CNN
Women’s March
New York Times
Joy Henningsen
ABC7 News
Top honorable mention: CBC Ottawa, Greg Kelly, Amy Siskind, Robert Reich, Jim Cramer
Actual Top 10
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