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red dog 1
6 hrs ago
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Maybe Rep. Jack Kimble is trying a little *too* hard not to appear smarter than Trmp.
eppur_se_muova
4 hrs ago
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eppur_se_muova
(42,931 posts)1. Maybe Rep. Jack Kimble is trying a little *too* hard not to appear smarter than Trmp.
Three dumb typos in two sentences ? C'mon !
Emrys
(9,228 posts)2. Rep. Jack Kimble is a satirical account impersonating a GOP rep.
He even has his own Wikipedia article:
Jack Kimble, also known by his Twitter username @RepJackKimble, is a fictional and satirical character active on the social media websites Twitter and Bluesky. Presented as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, his character has also been used as a novelty candidate. Several of the account's posts have gone viral and mistakenly thought to have been posted by a legitimate American politician.
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In his Twitter bio, Kimble is called a "co-sponsor of Poe's Law", which is an adage about how parody is perceived as sincerity when without a clear intent.
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In 2010, a HuffPost article included a Kimble tweet on an article regarding the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, with Kimble being assumed as a real congressman. Also in 2010, Kimble's account tweeted that the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan were costless to taxpayers. Journalist Jonathan Capehart cited the account in an opinion piece for The Washington Post, believing Kimble to be a real congressman. That year, The Christian Science Monitor deemed the account a competitor for "best candidate-for-fun in the 2010 election landscape," and compared its tweets to the persona of Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kimble
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In his Twitter bio, Kimble is called a "co-sponsor of Poe's Law", which is an adage about how parody is perceived as sincerity when without a clear intent.
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In 2010, a HuffPost article included a Kimble tweet on an article regarding the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, with Kimble being assumed as a real congressman. Also in 2010, Kimble's account tweeted that the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan were costless to taxpayers. Journalist Jonathan Capehart cited the account in an opinion piece for The Washington Post, believing Kimble to be a real congressman. That year, The Christian Science Monitor deemed the account a competitor for "best candidate-for-fun in the 2010 election landscape," and compared its tweets to the persona of Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kimble
eppur_se_muova
(42,931 posts)3. AHA ! Did not know that.
Well, it's working, obviously.