North Carolina freshman Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn added to his litany of odd and disturbing acts Tuesday night when he tried to troll liberals by comparing America in 2021 to the dystopian Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
It did not go well for the far right wing Trump acolyte who just turned 26.
"1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day," Cawthorn tweeted.
Many noted that all novels are fiction, others observed it sounded like he's actually never read the book, and some asked what else would one do with a book but read it.
Translation: "I have never read 1984."https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Tom Nichols (@Tom Nichols) 1628647011
Lol this is how I used to start book reports when I couldn\u2019t find the cliffs notes.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Sam Youngman (@Sam Youngman) 1628647503
1) A "fiction novel."\n2) He didn't read it.\n3) He didn't even scan the Cliff Notes.\n4) He can barely read Twitter and reply coherently.\n4) But here, he is right. And, of course, culpable.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— David Simon (@David Simon) 1628648311
1) A "fiction novel."\n2) He didn't read it.\n3) He didn't even scan the Cliff Notes.\n4) He can barely read Twitter and reply coherently.\n4) But here, he is right. And, of course, culpable.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— David Simon (@David Simon) 1628648311
not only does this read like it was written by somebody who has never read 1984, but it reads like someone who wasn't even sure it's a bookhttps://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1628647892
madison is the kid who didnt do the reading assignment and has to say a bunch of nonsense words to fill up the allotted time for his presentation to the classhttps://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Oliver Willis (@Oliver Willis) 1628648818
"Fiction novel"https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— S.V. D\u00e1te (@S.V. D\u00e1te) 1628648083
Or, well\u2026https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— William Gibson (@William Gibson) 1628650097
Am I the only one who read this tweet in a little kid voice?https://twitter.com/cawthornfornc/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Aki Peritz (@Aki Peritz) 1628647872
He 100% hasn't read 1984.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Matt Murchison \ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc1d (@Matt Murchison \ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc1d) 1628643977
Truly we can all do anything, as this absolute moronic piece of human garbage is a Representative. \n\nYes you see life is such a game, like the game called Life.\n\nYes my voter base, I are smart.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Blake Wilhelm, One Piece Hype Man (@Blake Wilhelm, One Piece Hype Man) 1628650511
The representative\u2019s sophomore copy of the book has been located: https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/aaT88Okh2W— scott andreas (@scott andreas) 1628651473
Tell me you barely passed middle school English without telling me you barely passed middle school English.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Franklin Leonard (@Franklin Leonard) 1628647233
...tell me you haven't read 1984, without telling me you haven't read 1984.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Garrison Anderson (he/him/his) (@Garrison Anderson (he/him/his)) 1628648275
This social media tweet post tells me that this man person has never read an actual book publication.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Nima Shirazi (@Nima Shirazi) 1628651932
Tell me you've never read 1984 without saying you've never read 1984.https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1425253812370083844\u00a0\u2026— Lauren (@Lauren) 1628646984
