Blake Filippi tweets up a storm

He's still strange

By Will Collette

Charlestown's former state representative Blake "Flip" Filippi has been relatively quiet since he decided to forego a reelection bid so he could pursue an obscure lawsuit on an arcane procedural matter. He did emerge briefing for a flurry of tweets calling for the killing of local seals because, he claimed, they were luring great white sharks to our coastal waters.

But since Donald Trump's election win, Flip has come out of his shell to begin posting again on Twitter/X with some pretty bonkers stuff such as calling for the Mexican drug cartels to be declared "terrorist organizations" presumably to allow Trump to carry out his threatened air strikes in Mexico.

He also dumped some smarm on Joe Biden for protecting his family from MAGA attacks through pre-emptive pardons.

But this one really caught my eye:

First, Flip, if you're going to attack a national hero like Dr. Anthony Fauci, at least spell his name right - that's "Fauci" not "Faucci."

Since Flip posted his tweet, Donald Trump has pulled federal protection for Fauci and his family after years of death threats. I am waiting for Flip to tweet his approval for Trump's act of putting a bulleye's on Dr. Fauci's back.

During Filippi's eight years in the state legislature supposedly protecting Charlestown's interests, Flip did virtually nothing to help our community. 

He represented the violent militia group, the Oathkeepers, who just received Trump pardons for their criminal acts during the January 6 attempted coup.

He introduced a series of half-baked Constitutional amendments to support his own bizarre libertarian beliefs. He filed frivolous lawsuits, such as the one he promised the Copar Quarry victims would solve their problems. He made promises he couldn't or wouldn't keep.