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“Verbal waterboarding” — Vitriol, contempt, dishonesty: Remembering the worst of right-wing Twitter in 2015

From the State of the Union to Ahmed, shootings and Cecil the Lion, the right-wing was just as awful, as usual

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President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)
President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Some are narcissists, some are psychopaths, some are sadists and some are just plain mean trolls with inferiority complexes.

When the right wing takes to Twitter it isn’t to be funny or relevant it is just to spread hate, racism, xenophobia or stir up the rest of the internet. Here are the worst examples of their tweets this year:

The most disgusting tweets after the State of the Union
https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/557736703969230849

Haters hate Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s politics


https://twitter.com/GinoTheBeagle/status/663863823342960640

Right wing goes after Baltimore uprising on Twitter
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/592791243924611073


https://twitter.com/MelissaTweets/status/592789709832724480
https://twitter.com/ellencarmichael/status/592789200161878016

The right wing cannot handle Caitlyn Jenner’s revelation.
https://twitter.com/Neal_Dewing/status/605411998558502915

Conservatives on Twitter say Cecil the lion is like Planned Parenthood
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/626111724068868096

#IStandWithAhmed but the right wing certainly doesn’t.
https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/644210535379111936
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/644214459477663745
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/644213988247642112

Charleston massacre happens, President Obama speaks, and the right wing loses its mind.

#NotAllWhitePeople: Twitter racists react to news of Dylann Storm Roof’s killing spree with delusional denial


https://twitter.com/RexMonaco/status/611531144085962753
https://twitter.com/nobodynose/status/611543783621197824
https://twitter.com/ChristianTalour/status/611548621742280704

Conservatives on Twitter react to Oregon shooting with calls for more guns, of course.
https://twitter.com/NolteNC/status/649671905457360896

President Obama un-renames Mt. McKinley to Denali and right-wing twitter loses its mind.


https://twitter.com/2robhayes/status/638344690534735872

After the Paris attacks, the right wing lashes out and blamed President Obama and called for war


https://twitter.com/DanJoseph78/status/665299109553659906
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/665295900340715520

By Sarah Burris

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