‘Writer, critic, editor’, Maud Newton, tweeted that Governor Ron DeSantis’s use of the term ‘biblical’ to describe the storm surge on Sanibel Island was nothing less than ‘an evangelical dog whistle’.
Yes, that’s right, using common idioms is now a dog whistle. The next time you hear someone say ‘go the extra mile’, understand that what you’re actually hearing is a dog whistle against the metric system. ‘Let the cat out of the bag’? Yep, you guessed it: a pro-cat dog whistle against … dogs … we think. We don’t exactly understand how all this works.
Newton’s frustration largely seems to be that she wants a common weather event to be blamed on climate change, despises Ron DeSantis and evangelical Christians, and just wanted to feed all those passions in one fiery, nonsensical tweet.
Bless her heart. Fortunately, Maud realized the tweet was a bit over-the-top and decided to delete it. Ok, that’s not exactly what happened. LOL.
Sometimes I stand by a tweet but delete it because I have spent enough of my life amid the rantings and abuse of Rapture-obsessed evangelicals. Good time for a Twitter break. See y'all ✌🏻
— Maud Newton (@maudnewton) September 30, 2022
Always remember one of the foundational rules of Twitter: You can delete it, but it ain’t going away. Twitter remembers. Twitter always remembers.
This was no exception, users of Twitter were quick to respond to the tweet and also shared the now-deleted original.
We’ve got some of those responses for you. Yes, the tweet is deleted, but we at Twitchy have a certain set of skills.
This is stupid on a number of levels, but the idea that a Catholic is blowing an *Evangelical* dog whistle is hysterical. https://t.co/w0fH7kzcoE
— Bryan O'Nolan 🇺🇦 (@BryanONolan) September 30, 2022
For heaven’s sake.
Are you going to be ok, Maude?https://t.co/ZVvPRs4PnT
— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) September 30, 2022
God willing and the creek don’t rise.
Imagine being so out of touch with reality (let alone the Bible) that you think storms only started happening due to climate change… nice one, Maud… https://t.co/zpglg7wkA7
— Tweet Police (@pairodoxx) September 30, 2022
Right? How the devil did she come up with that one?
She should really be charging for this kind of analysis. https://t.co/JsTKL6tKrV
— Foster (@foster_type) September 30, 2022
From your mouth to God’s ear!
"Everybody who disagrees with me is the same person" https://t.co/EbV31KKfMI
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) September 30, 2022
Twitter’s crazy, y’all. Thank God, it’s Friday!
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