Benjamin Wittes, probably best known on Twitter for his “BOOM!” tweets accompanied by a video of his tiny cannon shooting off a round whenever there’s a new development in the Russian investigation, has quite the hot take on what the Pilgrims would think of Donald Trump:
A frank confession: I’m not thankful this year and I’m not going to pretend to be. I’m defiant. If the Pilgrims had come all this way to find on our shores America’s current domestic politics, they would have vomited all the food at the first Thanksgiving dinner. #sorrynotsorry
— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) November 22, 2017
Yeah, that didn’t go over well:
I too find strength in what white settler religious fanatics from 400 years ago hypothetically think of Trump. I am normal.
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 22, 2017
In your alternative history would they still have initiated a genocide against indigenous people and stolen their land? https://t.co/8tU1SGuOxa
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) November 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/933333080877694976
PILGRIMS *arriving in America 2017*: why is it illegal to beat your wife https://t.co/NKvY7x1Igh
— lou garak (@Phylan) November 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/anATLcommunist/status/933337390147604480
https://twitter.com/DOGGEAUX/status/933334215499816960
Screenshot for posterity:
jesus what a train wreck pic.twitter.com/eauVHrfIWu
— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) November 22, 2017
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