The key to Charlie Kirk& #39;s logic is making you forget what he just said. Case in point: his newest @NewsweekOpinion piece on Georgia& #39;s new election law. This oped also should show how far Kirk has wandered into anti-democracy. A thread 1/x https://www.newsweek.com/georgias-voting-law-doesnt-go-far-enough-opinion-1581740">https://www.newsweek.com/georgias-...
First illogic: Kirk says election law expert @marceelias is racist for asking whether voters can enter correct license number for absentee app. Kirk says E implies "black people are not smart enough to find" number. E& #39;s tweet doesn& #39;t mention race: 2/x https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1377752717951655941?s=20">https://twitter.com/marceelia...
After defending smartness of black voters, Kirk then calls first time absentee Georgia voters stupid: "one would expect that, with so many more people voting absentee for the first time, the rejection rate would go up" due to "user error by first-timers." 3/x
Second illogic: Kirk praises the expanded early voting days in Georgia but then calls for their elimination: "Georgia& #39;s leadership should have returned the state to a single voting day, as opposed to the insanity of weeks and months of early voting." 4/x
Kirk cites as evidence for his claims the New York Times @UpshotNYT who rightly points out Georgia& #39;s new election law forces "large precincts with long lines to add" machines & staff or split the precinct. That "could be a big win" for state& #39;s "urban areas..." But... 5/x
the context from @UpshotNYT is "provisions" of new law "cut in both directions." The next sentence after Kirk& #39;s quote: "Cutting in the other direction is the gratuitous and probably ineffectual limitation on handing out food and water..." 6/x https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/upshot/georgia-election-law-turnout.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/0...
Kirk also compares Georgia to Colorado. He even tries to use @Newsweek to do that: "In fact, as Newsweek reported, Colorado has stricter voting laws than Georgia itself. Talk about hypocrisy." But.... 8/x
But the hypocrisy is all Kirk& #39;s. It seems he relied on earlier version of Newsweek story with an inaccurate headline. Current version notes: "This headline has been changed and the story updated to clarify that there are nuanced differences between the states& #39; voting laws." 9/x
Then there is Kirk on HB 1, #ForThePeople act which to him would rob states "of the ability to run their own elections" and ensure "mass mail-in voting with zero voter ID requirements whatsoever becomes the status quo..." But... 12/x
On latter @PolitiFact: "The bill does not mandate voting by mail, but it aims to make it easier for voters to cast ballots by mail if they wish." And remember Kirk said Colorado - which votes largely by mail - is more secure/restrictive than Georgia. 13/x https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/feb/03/fact-checking-misleading-attacks-hr-1-democrats-vo/">https://www.politifact.com/article/2...
At the end, Kirk continues to spread the big lie through ruse of election integrity: conservatives "should go the whole way and fix all of the issues that made the 2020 election a chaotic national embarrassment." 14/x
Check out my fact checks on Kirk and election issues: 15/x
https://medium.com/@mboedy/debunking-charlie-kirk-on-2020-election-shenanigans-7bac8525aaa5

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