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    Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

    The Founders on Twitter Washington: -never tweets himself -account curated by staff -usually Hamilton using the account -doesn't follow anyone -only tweets official statementspic.twitter.com/C6Xx8f9mND

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      2. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Hamilton: -fights with everyone in lengthy threads -always somehow the first person to show up in Jefferson's replies -dunk tweets his haters through sock puppet accounts -sometimes accidentally tweets from the Washington account -thirsty on main, but only in DMspic.twitter.com/0y9hYPpGwG

        25 replies 343 retweets 3,567 likes
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      3. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Adams: -thinks he's he's a Trump-tier poaster, is actually the Lincoln Project -blocks people for petty reasons -obviously writes his own tweets bc they're all so obnoxious -gets ratioed every week -even other Federalists don't RT himpic.twitter.com/Xeo7lyqFC8

        25 replies 142 retweets 2,285 likes
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      4. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Jefferson: -claims he doesn't doxx people but 100% doxxes people -master of the subtle subtweet -periodically tweets random stuff about science -runs a block chain on anyone who mentions Sally Hemingspic.twitter.com/5ZMSks1MCf

        19 replies 229 retweets 2,703 likes
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      5. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Franklin: -king-tier poaster -comms director schedules Poor Richard tweets every day from the account -savage quote tweeter -boosts his engagement with French bot accountspic.twitter.com/QRm0NGSxU2

        27 replies 214 retweets 2,705 likes
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      6. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Patrick Henry: -used to be normal but now rage tweets in all caps -got really into Q -all the other Founders ignore himpic.twitter.com/qaamZwGCHN

        12 replies 130 retweets 2,051 likes
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      7. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Madison -every day is thread day -RTs threads from obscure wonk accounts -actually engages thoughtfully in the repliespic.twitter.com/nUcKdUZEbW

        22 replies 159 retweets 2,444 likes
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      8. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        John Marshall: -mostly RTs Federalists -Nukes his account after ascending the federal bench -all of his tweets after becoming Chief Justice are carefully crafted subtweets of Jefferson and Jacksonpic.twitter.com/5cLS0jbFHE

        2 replies 79 retweets 1,413 likes
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      9. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Samuel Adams @Herr_Wunderbarr -lots of gun posts and motivational quotes -reviews craft beers -super into gold and cryptopic.twitter.com/JX4gwh2iBh

        10 replies 119 retweets 1,934 likes
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      10. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Paul Revere -his main account is for his business -runs an alt called "Daily Updates on the Location of British Regulars"pic.twitter.com/DN8hCbsRxJ

        18 replies 83 retweets 1,566 likes
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      11. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Because he's my avi: Rufus King -mostly RTs other Federalists and official Federalist Party tweets -has to fight off southerners in the replies when he tweets against slavery -doesn't tweet that often because of his diplomatic assignmentspic.twitter.com/4zvWgZCFC4

        4 replies 45 retweets 1,075 likes
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      12. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Even though he's not technically a founder Andrew Jackson -viciously dunk tweets his own cabinet, ESPECIALLY Calhoun -name searches and challenges his haters to duels -constantly @ s the British embassy -relentlessly retweets and tags his own haters -sometimes yells in all capspic.twitter.com/EuNFUKLQGa

        18 replies 132 retweets 1,626 likes
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      13. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Lafayette -RTs the Washington and Hamilton accounts all the time -constantly @ s Louis XVI trying to get him to send more aid -subtweets Jefferson and the Virginians about slaverypic.twitter.com/xqUKgOEyq1

        8 replies 82 retweets 1,379 likes
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      14. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Pretty much all of the Virginians will privately DM you that they're against slavery, but with lengthy explanations about why they can't do anything about it at the moment

        7 replies 162 retweets 2,490 likes
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      15. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        John Randolph of Roanoke -Tweets about anime, probably has an anime avi -RTs links to his Moldbug/NRX fan blog -yearns on main about wanting a based trad bridepic.twitter.com/72YIE3BI4N

        8 replies 41 retweets 827 likes
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      16. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        John Qunicy Adams -constantly fighting off people trying to @ his dad who @ him by mistake -blocks anybody who says he engaged in a corrupt bargain -tweets insanely long threads that nobody actually bothers to readpic.twitter.com/1w6chcjK4W

        16 replies 47 retweets 1,133 likes
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      17. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        with appropriate credit to @TheDonStein , who is far too modest to take credit for these things -has tweeted maybe 5 times in his life -pins a Hamilton tweet to his page -links to his legal philosophy blog that he clearly doesn't update that oftenpic.twitter.com/Pn1mModIz0

        5 replies 19 retweets 718 likes
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      18. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        John Jay

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      19. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        James Monroe -not a good enough poster to produce truly solid oc -mostly just tweets whatever Madison and Jefferson tell him to -original tweets based on stuff he reads on Jeffersonian blogs, but it's just not the samepic.twitter.com/4RHYXdUAqR

        4 replies 33 retweets 742 likes
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      20. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Mason Weems -runs a George Washington fan account that people engage with thinking it's actually GWpic.twitter.com/iQYkAS24XN

        5 replies 29 retweets 643 likes
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      21. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

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      22. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Aaron Burr -would really rather you not mention The Incident, may even block you for it -blocks Jefferson -nukes his tweets every week to make it harder to quote tweet dunk him later -definitely boosts engagement with a bot farmpic.twitter.com/0h7T524e0E

        12 replies 80 retweets 1,277 likes
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      23. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        For those asking, Gouverneur Morris is just thirsty on main, Luther Martin drinks too much to be a good posterpic.twitter.com/JjshQTCYjS

        6 replies 15 retweets 522 likes
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      24. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        John Dickinson -Thoughtful, but not a particularly entertaining follow -hates dunking, and doesn't like to pick fights with peoplepic.twitter.com/7hoHV6UAOq

        5 replies 14 retweets 501 likes
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      25. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM Retweeted James Wilson Institute

        https://twitter.com/JamesWilsonInst/status/1360346008182480899 …

        Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM added,

        James Wilson Institute @JamesWilsonInst
        James Wilson: -tweets just as insightfully as Madison, gets rarely retweeted outside of Federalist circles -tweets incessantly about western land speculation 🚀 🚀 🚀 to the 🌝 -in charge of first @SCOTUS handle, but bitter after Jay gets to run @ChiefJustice https://twitter.com/CrankyFed/status/1360261575735672845 …
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        1 reply 4 retweets 306 likes
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      26. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        George Wythe and John Witherspoon mostly hang out on academic twitter. They retweet other academics and aren't as involved in the partisan political stuffpic.twitter.com/iR6czcvE4i

        6 replies 14 retweets 442 likes
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      27. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM Retweeted argyriou

        https://twitter.com/argyriou15/status/1360335377941241862 …

        Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM added,

        argyriou @argyriou15
        Replying to @suzania @CrankyFed and 2 others
        Hancock has found the unicode characters which are the large versions of normal letters, and has remapped his keyboard to them.
        2 replies 10 retweets 418 likes
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      28. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Elbridge Gerry Has some opinions he'd like to share on legislative redistrictingpic.twitter.com/c7U5leLsCG

        6 replies 25 retweets 551 likes
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      29. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM Retweeted Daniel Franke

        https://twitter.com/dfranke/status/1360340125163679754 …

        Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM added,

        Daniel Franke @dfranke
        Replying to @CrankyFed
        Thomas Paine: - Picked up a ton of followers with a few super-viral tweets but ended up pissing most of them off - Retweets Richard Dawkins a lot - Keeps threatening to delete his account and move to Gab
        2 replies 12 retweets 389 likes
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      30. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Pinckney and Rutledge -Republicans rage tweet at them for being Federalists -other Federalists have them muted because they won't stop defending slaverypic.twitter.com/3r2G75sNvo

        4 replies 9 retweets 371 likes
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      31. Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM‏ @CrankyFed Feb 12

        Cranky Federalist, LL.D, D.Litt, STM Retweeted

        https://twitter.com/j_a_cornelius33/status/1360376922140667904 …

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