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Where did you get "republicans don't stand up for poor people?"

Welcome to today's edition of "Incoherent Thoughts of the Resident Board Jester".

That's on page one of the Lefty Handbook. ALL republicans hate poor people. Just like all gun owners eat babies. Get with the program, Arch!

Pleeeese tell me how I made something up?

After belting out his complaints about welfare recipients eating fudge rounds and making QAnon-adjacent allegations about politicians sex trafficking children, conservative darling Oliver Anthony has come under fire from his right-wing fan base for allegedly faking his accent.

Mr Anthony's song Rich Men North of Richmond — a reference to politicians living in Washington DC — became a viral hit among conservative audiences last week. After right-wing commenters on social media praised it for its raw and "real" messaging, they seem to have turned on Mr Anthony after a video emerged showing his "real" accent is not a twangy Appalachian one.

Infuriating conservatives even further is the fact that Mr Anthony also praised diversity as the US's main strength.

During a Fox News interview, Mr Anthony — who grew up in North Carolina — speaks with what sounds like a typical American accent.

“I mean, we are the melting pot of the world,” Mr Anthony told the interviewer in the video, “and that’s what makes us strong, is our diversity, and we need to learn to harness that and appreciate it, and not use it as a political tool to keep everyone separate from each other you know?”

An X user, whose pinned tweet has links to videos praising a leader of the American Nazi Party called Mr Anthony an "algorithm boosted 'based' red beard hillbilly song guy" who was "faking his accent."

The user also took offence to the fact the singer said that "diversity is our strength."

And they were not the only one lashing out at Mr Anthony. One user said he was trying to "become a rich man north of Richmond," while another came to a conclusion that many of Mr Anthony's left-wing critics already voiced; that he was an industry plant meant to enrapture Republican consumers starving for conservative media.


“These companies are testing the waters to see if they can create fake Republican singers to make more money off the Republican demographic,” user LomzLomz wrote. “And it works people don't see the bigger picture there is no invisible hand of the CIA only corporate string.”

Popular Twitter commenter KrangTNelson found the conservatives' swift reversal entertaining.

"Conservatives got a hold of a clip of the astroturfed country song guy saying America is a 'melting pot' and now he's f****** cancelled. Also potentially a CIA agent," they wrote.


Another user pointed out how conservatives insisting there was nothing inherently classist or racist about Mr Anthony's song immediately turned on him for not being racist enough.

“I love how they’ve spent the last couple weeks insisting there’s nothing racist about the neo-Confederate welfare queen song but the moment the singer expresses support for a racially integrated society he gets cancelled for being woke,” a user with the handle Capricoda said.

Despite the song's number 1 status on country charts that take in streaming numbers, the song is getting virtually no airplay, according to an analysis conducted by Variety Magazine.

The immediate success, however, led to skepticism about Anthony as an organic success, with some suggesting he was the product of “astroturfing,” aka a coordinated PR campaign, rather than a grassroots movement. Right-wing marketing guru Jason Howerton was an early champion of Anthony’s, which was soon followed by conservative media figures singing the unknown artist’s praises, leading to accusations that he was an “industry plant.” (Howerton, after saying he’d “offered to cover the cost for Oliver to produce a record” earlier this month, later told The Washington Post he is “not working with Oliver in any official capacity.”)

That post on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, appeared to be the impetus for the alt-right backlash against Anthony. Soon after, a number of other prominent figures on the fringe right launched antisemitic conspiracies about the singer’s sudden fame, alleging he is being used to push anti-white messaging.

Owen Benjamin, an openly racist comedian who recently purchased an Idaho compound that neighbors worry could be the next Ruby Ridge, ranted that Anthony was a “fake” while using an antisemitic symbol to describe the song.

“The #1 way the (((rich men north of Richmond))) undercut the wages of the people Oliver Anthony is impersonating is mass migration,” he wrote on X. “The fact he said America is a melting pot and ‘diversity is our strength’ means he’s fake. And by fake I mean he’s an ad campaign. An actor. Not authentic. Kind of like Mickey Mouse at Disney. It isn’t ‘white supremacy’ that makes the demographic [he’s] impersonating hate migrants, it’s the fact the migrants destroy their ability to make a living.”

Benjamin, who was banned from Twitter before current owner Elon Musk reinstated him, continued: “The [song’s] first line is ‘I’ve been selling my soul.’ If you people don’t get better at recognizing this stuff, according to their religion they have a right and duty to turn you into cattle and cull you if they want. No one who’s ever changed ‘build the wall’ would ever say ‘diversity is our strength.’ It’s physically not possible.”

The platform Anti-White Watch, which has been described as “a sinister new effort from white nationalists to co-opt the language of social justice,” praised @Black_Pilled and others for realizing that Anthony was “repeating zionist ‘melting pot’ ethnocide narratives.” Another account was even more explicit, merely saying “[g]ood goy” while sharing a video of Anthony’s comments.

The commentary only seemed to grow more unhinged and apocalyptic from there.

“‘We are the melting pot of the world, and that's what makes us strong - our diversity.’ This is far from merely failing to Name Them. It is abject prostration before the false gods of this dark age,” another far-right account shared. “If you're defending this guy after this pathetic display, you need to repent.”

Other alt-right trolls with large online followings demanded to know if the singer had gotten a call from or already sold out to “the rich men north of Richmond.” One “manosphere” influencer with 13,700 followers, meanwhile, called Anthony “yet another conservafraud” who “sounds like Obama with this crap.”

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You're an odd person to be asking that question.

So you are denying that you complained about people that receive benefits having nice cell phones or nice clothes? That you've seen them at stores and how it upsets you and how you say they should be investigated? Please don't say you're going to tell that lie. So yes, "certain people".

You know you did. But you expect me to search for things you posted years ago to prove the things you're simply in denial of now? What a joke.

They are not lies. And sadly you know you posted those things.

You sound exactly like trump. He knows when he's lying too.