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In reply to the discussion: Amazon Court Filing Includes Chilling Death Threats Published on Parler [View all]John1956PA
(2,654 posts)19. As pointed out by another DUer, the Ginni Thomas accusation is false.
From https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ginni-thomas-buses/ :
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The rumor stems from the unproven assertion made by Talking Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who claimed on Twitter two days before the riots (before deleting the tweet after they turned violent) that he and his organizations both Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action USA would be sending 80+ buses full of patriots to DC to fight for this president. The link to Thomas gained prominence online when it was promoted virally in a user-submitted blog post on the left-wing site DailyKos. That posts argument stems from tweets tying Thomas to Turning Point USA and other right-wing political organizations involved in the rally.
While we point out that Kirk, no stranger to false claims, has provided no evidence of his organizations funding of 80 buses to the rally, the link to Thomas based on her work with Turning Point USA is out-of-date even if Kirk is telling the truth. It is true that Thomas was once on the Advisory Council for Turning Point USA, a body that has at times included over 75 people, but she has not served in that role since at least early 2019, according to Turning Point USAs website.
Thomas is indeed a well-known right-wing organizer and conspiracy theorist. She provided Trump with several memos outlining what she believed to be government officials unfaithful to Trump, lobbied successfully for appointments of Trump loyalists to government posts, and along with other activists met with him in 2019 to discuss appointments that they accused the presidents aides of blocking, for example. In 2016 as Snopes reported in an October 2020 investigation, she was also part of efforts to promote false talking points regarding illegal voting by immigrants in the 2016 election.
However, as Stern, the Slate reporter, tweeted: even if [Turning Point USA] funded transportation to the insurrection (and we should not automatically believe Charlie Kirk), Thomas had nothing to do with it. As such, the claim that Ginni Thomas organized 80 buses for the Save America Rally is false.
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The rumor stems from the unproven assertion made by Talking Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who claimed on Twitter two days before the riots (before deleting the tweet after they turned violent) that he and his organizations both Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action USA would be sending 80+ buses full of patriots to DC to fight for this president. The link to Thomas gained prominence online when it was promoted virally in a user-submitted blog post on the left-wing site DailyKos. That posts argument stems from tweets tying Thomas to Turning Point USA and other right-wing political organizations involved in the rally.
While we point out that Kirk, no stranger to false claims, has provided no evidence of his organizations funding of 80 buses to the rally, the link to Thomas based on her work with Turning Point USA is out-of-date even if Kirk is telling the truth. It is true that Thomas was once on the Advisory Council for Turning Point USA, a body that has at times included over 75 people, but she has not served in that role since at least early 2019, according to Turning Point USAs website.
Thomas is indeed a well-known right-wing organizer and conspiracy theorist. She provided Trump with several memos outlining what she believed to be government officials unfaithful to Trump, lobbied successfully for appointments of Trump loyalists to government posts, and along with other activists met with him in 2019 to discuss appointments that they accused the presidents aides of blocking, for example. In 2016 as Snopes reported in an October 2020 investigation, she was also part of efforts to promote false talking points regarding illegal voting by immigrants in the 2016 election.
However, as Stern, the Slate reporter, tweeted: even if [Turning Point USA] funded transportation to the insurrection (and we should not automatically believe Charlie Kirk), Thomas had nothing to do with it. As such, the claim that Ginni Thomas organized 80 buses for the Save America Rally is false.
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Amazon Court Filing Includes Chilling Death Threats Published on Parler [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Jan 2021
OP
OP I posted in GD about this last night. Parler CEO admitted to backlog of 26,000 violations
highplainsdem
Jan 2021
#3
Inorance as a defense. Novel. If you signed it, you bought it - read or not.
marble falls
Jan 2021
#7
Edit: People, please. I was being facetious. I was also slyly pointing out that Parler had no other
Rustynaerduwell
Jan 2021
#33
So they got extra warnings the rest of us don't get. And they still committed violations
AllyCat
Jan 2021
#31
Told in November and not a subsequent lick of improvement, that I've heard of.
BobTheSubgenius
Jan 2021
#37
Edit: People, please. I was being facetious. I was also slyly pointing out that Parler had no other
Rustynaerduwell
Jan 2021
#34
Amazon did right by rights. Deaths threatened & people died. Lawmakers nearly killed
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2021
#8
Thank you for facts. It really irks me to fall for rumor posted here; DU is supposed to be better...
Hekate
Jan 2021
#40
The MAGAs have done more damage to America than Al Qaeda or ISIS ever would or could.
Initech
Jan 2021
#15
They violated Amazon's Terms of Service, therefore Amazon is on solid standing in removing them.
iluvtennis
Jan 2021
#23
College professors. Librarians. Go full Pol Pot & shoot all the people with glasses.
Hekate
Jan 2021
#42
sounds like healing words all right..... Violent, murderous, insurrectionists. nt
Evolve Dammit
Jan 2021
#43