tycho1572
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Is Candace Owens also a scam artist? lolbrandon is a performer as a side kick..... he's looking for money, he's collected $15,ooo in his go fund me account so far, from right wingers like you, I suppose?Brandon doesnât have his own show or blog because he is solely focused on talking with Democrats about why they should leave and listening to testimonials inspired by his movement.
be careful of scam artists!
The Rightâs New Viral Star Is âRed-Pilledâ Hair Stylist From New York
Two months ago, Brandon Straka was a New York hair stylist with $300 in his savings account and a struggling side job as a performance artist.
Now, thanks to his starring role in a video telling Democrats to ditch their party, heâs the head of a movement thatâs been embraced by a wide swathe of the pro-Trump internet and earned him shout-outs from some of conservative mediaâs biggest names.
Brandon Strakaâs fortunes started to turn in May, when he released a video chronicling his decision to leave the Democratic Party. In the video, Straka urged Democrats to â#WalkAwayâ from their party over issues like political correctness and left-wing âantifaâ activists.
âOnce upon a time, I was a liberal,â Straka says in the video, which details his path from the left to the right.
Strakaâs video is filled with the kind of vague âfree thinkerâ platitudes that have already been a hit with conservative college students, Kanye West, and fans of âintellectual dark webâ figures like Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. In his video, Straka says he became a Democrat because heâs gay, only to be turned off by attacks on free speech.
âIf youâre a white person, youâre not supposed to talk,â Straka told The Daily Beast. âIf youâre a man, youâre not supposed to talk.â
In other words: Itâs exactly the kind of conversion narrative primed to go viral on the right. Strakaâs video has earned nearly 2 million views on Facebook and YouTube, and scored him shout-outs from the likes of Fox News host Charles Payne, Trump superfan Bill Mitchell, Turning Point USA head Charlie Kirk, and Candace Owens, Westâs guide to the right-wing internet.
The #WalkAway push has been written up on sites like Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit. On Facebook, hundreds of people have shared their own â#WalkAwayâ narratives.
As is common for political tags, Strakaâs #WalkAway enjoyed a boost from fake accounts, identical astroturfed tweets, and a legion of bots. Itâs not yet clear how big a role such accounts played in pushing the hashtag up Twitterâs trending chart. Over the weekend amateur tweet detectives zeroed in on one user purporting to be a Latino voter with her own jewelry design business, whoâd chalked up thousands of retweets. The account was found to have a fake name and photo, and the web address of her ersatz jewelry business did not exist. By Monday afternoon Twitter had suspended the account.
Straka insists he isnât receiving outside funding for his campaign, aside from a GoFundMe drive thatâs received more than $15,000 so far. And he, obviously, is a real person. âIâm not a Russian bot,â Straka said. âIâm just a concerned individual.â
This isnât the first time Straka has tried to get attention with his changing political convictions. In October 2017, Straka staged a âjukebox musicalâ called âRESIST: A Rock Revolutionâ that shares a lot in common with his viral #WalkAway video, albeit with far more jarring aesthetics.
Why does your type struggle with the thought of people walking away after realizing how fucked up your ideas are?