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This week in trending Twitter hashtags...

As always, I had some fun with trending hashtags on Twitter over the past couple of weeks. Here are my posts, ordered from the most popular to the least popular (all my tweets can be viewed at this link - https://twitter.com/CraigRozniecki):

1) Kanye West: "I'm being attacked for presenting new ideas."

No, you're being attacked for presenting stupid ideas...
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
7,131 Likes, 1,671 Retweets

2) Future convo
Kanye West: "Slavery was a choice."

Donald Trump: "There were bad slaves on both sides, both sides."
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
2,047 Likes, 411 Retweets

3) Dear Kanye:

Whether an idea is old or new, stupid is still stupid.
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
1,316 Likes, 202 Retweets

4) In the future
Kanye West: "If a guy holds a toilet paper roll to his belly for like 9 minutes, he'll basically know what pregnancy's like."

The Twittersphere lets him have it.

West: "I'm getting attacked for presenting new ideas."
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
845 Likes, 153 Retweets

5) Dear Kanye defenders:

The definition of free-thinker is "a person who rejects accepted opinions, especially those opinions concerning religious belief."

When a person continually rejects facts, they're not free-thinkers; they're just ignorant. Period.
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
231 Likes, 58 Retweets

6) Between complimenting Donald Trump on his presidency and claiming slavery was a choice, it seems painfully obvious Kanye West has chosen to be the biggest buffoon this side of Donald Trump.
#IfSlaveryWasAChoice
188 Likes, 45 Retweets

7) It seems kind of surreal at first to see so many Trump trolls defending Kanye West, but then soon after realizing he recently claimed that slavery was a choice, it all starts making sense.
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
102 Likes, 19 Retweets

8) Kanye West: "Having never been a slave myself, I think I have the knowledge and experience necessary to say that slavery was a choice. I mean, that's just common sense."
#IfSlaveryWasAChoice #Snark
90 Likes, 24 Retweets

9) #IfSlaveryWasAChoice, there would have never been slavery.
79 Likes, 16 Retweets

10) #IfSlaveryWasAChoice, so many people wouldn't have placed their lives on the line trying to end it.
74 Likes, 15 Retweets

GOPers: "Democrats are the party of slavery! Learn your history!"

11) People and ideas change. While Lincoln may have been a Republican and abolished the slaves, 150 years later, the GOP has become the party of slavery.
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
60 Likes, 18 Retweets

12) Kanye West: "We all need to be free-thinkers."

So says a guy who has embraced the cult known as Donald Trump...
#IfSlaveryWasAChoice
58 Likes, 18 Retweets

13) LeBron James: "Some of the president's comments are laughable and scary."
GOPers: "Shut up and dribble!"

Kanye West: "Slavery was a choice."
GOPers: "Shut up and... Wait, no, preach on! Tell it like it is! Yes!"
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
57 Likes, 18 Retweets

14) Kanye: "Slavery was a choice."

He gets blasted by all non-RWNJs

RWNJs: "The left hates being challenged!"

Yes, because contending that victims had a choice and a fault in slavery, rape, murder, assault, etc. is a prime example of thought-provoking. Not.
#IfSlaveryWasAChoice
59 Likes, 16 Retweets

15) Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them."

Kanye West: "Yeah, but that's all a choice..."
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
60 Likes, 14 Retweets

16) Climate-change is proven.
GOPers: "Crazy!"

So too that Obama was born in the US
GOPers: "Whatever!"

& that the earth is round
GOPers: "Says who?!?"

Kanye West claims that slavery was a choice.
GOPers: "Wow, now that's something you have to think about!"
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
56 Likes, 12 Retweets

17) GOPers: "2 + 2 = 7!"

No, 2 + 2 = 4.

GOPers: "You're just afraid of being challenged!"

No, there's challenging and stupid. That's stupid.
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
47 Likes, 9 Retweets

18) Trump/Kanye's 2020 campaign slogan: "Pro-choice for slaves, not women."
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
41 Likes, 8 Retweets

19) Michelle Wolf roasts Donald Trump
RWNJs: "That was out of line! Disgraceful!"

Slavery
RWNJ Kanye West: "Hey, it was a choice."
#IfSlaveryWasAChoice #Snark
34 Likes, 9 Retweets

20) Dear Kanye defenders:

Living in the past & acknowledging the past for what it was are two different things. Admitting slavery existed & wasn't a choice is not to say one is still living in slavery. The first step to solving a problem is admitting it exists.
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
36 Likes, 7 Retweets

21) I find it ironically fitting that the top trending hashtag is #NationalDayOfPrayer, as in light of the new revelations in the Trump investigations, that's all he's got left - a prayer.
32 Likes, 7 Retweets

22) The modern-day GOP: Where the nonpartisan is partisan; facts are biased; conspiracies are facts; and history is flexible.
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
22 Likes, 7 Retweets

23) Huck Sanders: "I'd first like to use this #NationalDayOfPrayer to pray for the journalists that were killed the other day. As Trump has lovingly said, 'Journalists are the enemy of the people.' Again, our thoughts and prayers to these enemies."
#Snark
23 Likes, 4 Retweets

24) Before
RWNJs: "Slavery wasn't a choice."

Now
RWNJs: "Slavery was a choice."

They receive the inevitable blowback.

RWNJs: "Hey, at least we've evolved!"

No, you've just distorted history/reality. Congratulations.
#IfSlaveryWereAChoice
18 Likes, 5 Retweets

25) #IfSlaveryWasAChoice, it'd be more popular than Trump Steaks or Vodka.
8 Likes, 1 Retweet

Totals: 12,714 Likes, 2,751 Retweets (Averages of 508.1 Likes, 110.0 Retweets)

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