Twitter Troll Gets Republicans To Salute Lee Harvey Oswald For His Service
Intercept reporter and Twitter prankster extraordinaire Ken Klippenstein has pulled off his latest troll with terrific results, getting prominent Republican congressmen and TCOTs, including Matt Gaetz and Dinesh D'Souza, to salute Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassin, on Twitter.
Klippenstein has been pulling off the ruse annually for several years and has gotten Steve King and Richard Grennell in the past. However, this is by far his most successful troll, as Lee Harvey Oswald trended on Twitter yesterday.
This was aided in part by conservative provocateur Candace Owens, who was not a mark of the troll but chimed in with disgust that Klippenstein would photoshop Oswald into a marine uniform. The issue is that Klippenstein did no such thing: Lee Harvey Oswald served as a marine from 1956-1959.
Apparently @RealCandaceO thinks that Lee Harvey Oswald's military photo is photoshopped lol pic.twitter.com/gDKCUPi3XK
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) June 1, 2021
This, in turn, caused Klippsentein to heighten the prank, claiming Owens got him fired from his job (she didn't; Klippenstein still has his job). Friends of his joined in, claiming Klippenstein was "Fired for Truth."
I think I made Candace Owens short circuit lmao pic.twitter.com/tHDCtcZ051
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 1, 2021
Tell Candace Owens I hope she’s happy I’ve been let go from my job
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) June 1, 2021
i stand adjacent to ken klippenstein who was fired by candace owens in a vile act of censorship
— art criminal (@artboypolitico) June 1, 2021
And so passed yet another day on Twitter in which conservatives got trolled very publically and owned online. See you next year, Ken.
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Unfunny and cringe
mandrac
"These mens died the majority on foreign soil so we could be free" Ah yes invading other country make you more free
Kenetic Kups
Dick move
and holy shit owens is retarded
HardcoreHunter
There are people who are glad this child is dead. I bet he won't even get one like.
Dolan
Damn, Hitler is cute.
Concerned Troll
There's nothing funny about taking advantage of good intentions like this. "Haha, you commemorate Memorial Day!" What?
William The Brit
Wow I can't believe these STUPID Conservitards can't immediately recognize JFK's killer out of context! This really proves that… well it proves something I'm sure.
Quiet_boi
That the American education system is a joke made in poor taste?
Concerned Troll
Lee Harvey Oswald is known for just one thing, and when he did that one thing his face wasn't exposed. His isn't a face that should be expected to be memorized, and certainly not years before his one moment of infamy.
GamerDLM
I mean, it's more of a lesson to not blindly follow instructions on social media just because some guy put a bunch of low hanging political buzzwords for them to try to capitalize on.
Or in a more basic sense, check if an image has a source with a simple reverse image search. Because any modern person has access to google and most of these prominent figures explicitly have staffers who handle their social media feed who should be doing that anyway.
Or they could look into the person who made the post considering it's a verified Twitter user they have to have some level of online presence. If it was some anonymous rando they would have an excuse but for verified users they really don't, it's just a dumb move.
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