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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:13 PM Apr 2018

Roseanne Touts Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Child Sex Rings In Tweet

Roseanne Touts Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Child Sex Rings In Tweet
Twitter didn’t give the actress a pass.
By Mary Papenfuss 03/31/2018 11:00 pm ET

Amid the hoopla over the reboot of “Roseanne” last week, people were scratching their heads over actress Roseanne Barr’s bizarre tweet hailing Donald Trump for freeing “hundreds” of children a month from their pimps.

The president has “broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” Barr tweeted Friday.

President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. He has broken up trafficking rings in high places everywhere. notice that. I disagree on some things, but give him benefit of doubt-4 now.

— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 31, 2018

Barr, who’s no stranger to promoting right-wing conspiracy theories, was apparently referring to a fantasy birthed on the anonymous online message site 4Chan last year. The conspiracy theory claims that Trump is secretly busting satanic child sex rings linked to high-level Democrats. Barr retweeted posts and links backing the “untold story” that shares similarities with the “Pizzagate” hoax that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza shop in Washington.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roseanne-sex-ring-conspiracy-theory_us_5ac01e45e4b0a47437ab8502
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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. She thanks ABC the most
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:18 PM
Apr 2018

Every right wing hater on radio is begging her to come on their shows.

AFAIC, ABC is trying to normalize Info Wars/4chan conspiracy theories and the evil bastards that inhabit those sewers.

Initech

(100,099 posts)
5. We can't let them get away with this shit.
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:43 PM
Apr 2018

Infowars and 4chan should not be normalized. They are the lowest scum of the earth.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
6. I really have a hard time believing that ABC/Disney would want to really be closely
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:43 PM
Apr 2018

affiliated with the infowars etc...ilk. Either she reigns it in right now or they will get rid of her.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
9. ABC/Disney
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:48 PM
Apr 2018

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is too busy counting $$$ and eyeballs on that right wing freaks new show.

Just like the MSM welcomed Trumps circus of hate during the run up to the elections last year and gave him unprecedented free air time.

All they could see was $$$ and ratings, fuck it if Trump destroys the country!

LenaBaby61

(6,977 posts)
14. Every right wing hater on radio is begging her to come on their shows.
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 03:05 PM
Apr 2018

Unfortunately, I have a few friends (Liberals) who told me that they watched her television show because for that one show, they could separate her from her "rhetoric." (That's not rhetoric. It's racist, 4chan, mentally-ill talk) They also justified their watching of the show because they support the storyline and the other liberal actors on the show. Two friends tell me though that the Jackie character was a ranting, liberal, pussy-hat wearing caricature of what a life coach is (Because they know life coaches who don't act like her). These friends tell me they're one and done.

Yeah, I'm not as forgiving as my other friends are who are going to continue watching that filthy, racist, self-hating pig's show.

I never watched her show from decades ago (Knew people who had the unfortunate circumstance of having to be around her, and THEY told me back then that she was bat shit), and I surely won't be watching this re-boot, and I don't care if DJ married a black woman & he has a black daughter or whatever that situation is.

Uh, NOPE.



JUST NOPE.

maxrandb

(15,349 posts)
17. She also thanks all those on DU
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 05:23 PM
Apr 2018

Telling everyone to ;"give it a chance",

Or

"Hey maybe it won't suck so much"

Or... reasons

You don't try to understand crazy people, you try to help them, and if that fails... you take away their dangerous toys.

Thinking that Donnie Shit for Brains voters will become enlightened and think critically when they watch it is like trying to teach a goat to sing.

All you do is waste your time and piss off the goat

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
7. For sure
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:44 PM
Apr 2018

Barr and ABC as well IMO are trying to normalize these sickening right wing conspiracy theories and the liars that make them up.

LenaBaby61

(6,977 posts)
15. I know darn well ...
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 03:28 PM
Apr 2018

That if a liberal actor/actress pushed a television and had a tRumputin character sleeping with his daughter Ivanka, and push the ruskie/tRumputin/tReason angle (Which the Steele diary bears out to the tune of 90% says Malcolm Nance), that show would NOT see the light of DAY (Even though the Ivunka/tRumputin "relationship" is PAST creepy to be honest. What man compares every young blonde woman he meets with his own SEED. And what father would allow another man to call his daughter "A piece of Ass." ).

Wonder WHY so-called "Liberal Hollywood" wouldn't put a show with what's implied below? 🤔

Checking out the merchandise






What father talks about his own DAUGHTER like this:

"If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her." "My daughter is VERY voluptuous."




 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
8. Why do we not think she was talking about the actual breaking up of child sex rings?
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:45 PM
Apr 2018

There has actually been a lot of good work done recently in this area by the FBI - mostly thanks to Obama-era leadership.

One example from last year:

84 Children Rescued, 120 Human Traffickers Arrested Across U.S., FBI Says

The FBI rescued 84 children from the grips of a multistate human trafficking ring and arrested 120 traffickers on Wednesday, the agency said in a statement.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/84-children-rescued-120-human-traffickers-arrested-across-u-s-n812156

Hekate

(90,774 posts)
10. Because this has nothing to do with Trump's "good works"? It was Obama-era FBI & policies...
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:50 PM
Apr 2018

... that broke up those trafficking rings. Whereas Trump is actively destroying everything Barack Obama ever touched, and Trump is also trying to wreck the FBI to save his own skin.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
12. Right but maybe it was her giving Trump credit for something Obama did
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:52 PM
Apr 2018

As opposed to referencing that other bizarre stuff mentioned in the OP.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
11. The same FBI that Trump and the entire right wing propaganda organ/complex have been attacking
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:51 PM
Apr 2018

since he sat his fat ass down in the White House?

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
13. Exactly
Sun Apr 1, 2018, 02:54 PM
Apr 2018

I mean there has been good work done in breaking up human trafficking rings - which I am sure is something everyone here would support.

I think the problem with her tweet is that she is giving Trump credit for it (which he doesn't deserve) - I don't see the tweet as referencing any of that other weird stuff.

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