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A lawyer no less!
Trump is just lulling people in to a false sense of security apparently. Space Force are coming! Brian Anderson tweets @magalawbrian DO NOT go to the capital or anywhere in DC for Inauguration Day! If Trump wanted us there he would have attended himself. He needs us at home for the Space Force GBS address. Mass arrests will be filmed so no need to be there live. Antifa wants us to look violent! #SpaceForceCard As I have said repeatedly, Trump needs to lull criminals into a false sense of security for mass arrests on January 20th. He even gave us a wink with “no law-breaking”. Of course, he will announce real end to “law-breaking” by attendees, using Space Force’s GBS to tell the world. https://twitter.com/magalawbrian |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Pretty clear this was not a protest that go tout of control but a planned, attack. Question now becomes just how high was it plotted?
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Too bad the Global Broadcast Service only transmits to specific military receivers. I'm guessing this is what people were talking about elsewhere when they seemed to believe that Trump could override and broadcast to every TV in the world. |
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NWO Kitty Wrangler
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That's the down side of relying on the Useful Idiots as their cannon fodder. Most of them didn't really expect to get that far, or to face actual deadly force in opposition. They collapsed under fire, and by the time the serious ones got to the front lines to try to salvage the mess, the primary targets had already made it to safety. By that point, this battle in the coup was lost, and a strategic retreat in hopes of keeping their forces alive and out of jail was probably the best call they could make. |
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Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert Heinlein. |
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Tsk... you haven’t been keeping up with the latest technology... Trump will be using a particle beam....
“...It fiddles with the screen itself injecting a state of the art particle beam to override the screen and project new content.”.... And that appears to be a serious answer..... |
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They're not all there
See how far you can watch this interview with the Q-Anon shaman, before giving up. I made about 40 seconds. He starts with moderately conventional conspiracies (yada yada world bank yada yada and then... um... what the no-longer updated crank.net website would have classed as illucid
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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Every timeline I can find gets really murky after 2:44pm (when the woman was shot by police). There seems to be 3 hours or more after that before the building was considered secure again, but I can find little detail of what occurred during that time. There is tons of video online, but most seem to be before the shooting.
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Apparently due to the coup failing, Trump is refusing to pay Giuliani - not even travelling expenses
Who could possibly have foreseen this? |
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In other words, the usual Trumpian incompetence, concerning any organization.
Still. One would think ex-military would be more competent than this, but even they, zip tie guy for instance, were more interested in fooling around, as opposed to staying focussed on what their perceived mission was. And a good thing to it was, that none of the participants had the conviction like what was shown on december 21st, 1989 in Bucharest. This was their chance, slim as it was, and I don't think (hope) they will get another one quite like this again. |
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Yahtzee: "You're doing that thing again where when asked a question you just discuss the philosophy of the question instead of answering the bloody question." Gabriel: "Well yeah, you see..." Yahtzee: "No. When you are asked a Yes or No question the first word out of your mouth needs to be Yes or No. Only after that have you earned the right to elaborate." |
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Of the thousands of people gathered for the rally and subsequently marching up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol, it would be absurd to suggest that all of them planned to burst through police lines and go into the Capitol building to threaten or attack legislators, and it would be absurd to suggest that none of them did.
There were plenty of people in that mob who didn't expect to be in the Capitol building, and plenty more who hadn't given any thought to how people might react once they got inside. Most of the members of that mob were totally clueless. I'm sure that they are baffled even now as to why anyone was so upset. The sudden sight of a dead or dying woman caused an awful lot of people to wake from their fantasy. Even then, I don't think most of them could actually process what was happening. They were a bit stunned. The fact that they were stunned, though, just goes to show the depth of their denial of reality. |
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If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set. "...just as a magnet attracts iron filings, "[shemp is] a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality." - Shakespeare |
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Yahtzee: "You're doing that thing again where when asked a question you just discuss the philosophy of the question instead of answering the bloody question." Gabriel: "Well yeah, you see..." Yahtzee: "No. When you are asked a Yes or No question the first word out of your mouth needs to be Yes or No. Only after that have you earned the right to elaborate." |
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I remember, not long ago at all, when that was the appeal of interviewing Alex Jones. He would start of reasonable and quickly devolve into ranting and yelling, spewing conspiracy theories, waving papers around, more yelling and ranting about conspiracies. A fun crazy man for comic relief. He seemed so unhinged and crazy as to seem actually harmless.
I guess that behavior has wider appeal than we realized, and not as comic relief. |
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Yahtzee: "You're doing that thing again where when asked a question you just discuss the philosophy of the question instead of answering the bloody question." Gabriel: "Well yeah, you see..." Yahtzee: "No. When you are asked a Yes or No question the first word out of your mouth needs to be Yes or No. Only after that have you earned the right to elaborate." |
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Global Broadcasting System. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Broadcast_Service
Fodder for conspiracy theoriest because they think it can be used to take over all the airwaves and broadcast the order for the uprising or the video from the Ring or the brown note or whatever. |
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Global Broadcast Service.
(I had never heard of it, either, but I guessed at the acronym, and it's a thing.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Broadcast_Service |
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"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." -- Sherlock Holmes. "It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." -- Mark Twain, maybe. |
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Дэлво Δελϝο דֶלְבֹֿ देल्वो
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Global Broadcast Service
I'm not sure why they keep specifying "Space Force", though. It seems to be equally associated with all of our military branches. |
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Дэлво Δελϝο דֶלְבֹֿ देल्वो
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OK, so apparently there are several of us who get up & check in here before going out for the day all at about the same time...
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There is truth and there are lies. - President Joseph R. Biden, January 20th, 2021 |
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#1151 |
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Recently resigned D.C. chief has pointed to the bomb threats at RNC and DNC HQs as a major component of how things unraveled.
Fingers are pointed every way over the national guard issue, but that salient detail of the timeline is a huge sign of coordinated action. |
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I was listening the other day to some yapper give a list of Donald Trump's accomplishments, and Space Force was way up high on the list. Trump himself has bragged about it. I think the MAGAs somehow really believe that the establishment of Space Force was a truly magnificent accomplishment, so they would want to include that as part of their bragging at every turn.
All he did was take the Air Force Space Command, and reorganize the chain of command a bit. It was probably a good idea, but it was hardly a major accomplishment. A clown like the one who gave us that prediction about using GBS would no doubt attribute it's amazing abilities as one of Trump's superpowers. |
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Lackey
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But it’s SPACE Force!
Since last week I’ve read a lot of the nonsense these nutters have written and you are right, Space ForceTM is a big thing for them. Must be the association with lasers and light sabers and all that futuristic stuff the government got from the Roswell aliens. |
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Either that or it's because so many of them are space cadets.
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"Is Space Force in the room with us now?"
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You read some of the stuff and you have to wonder how they manage to live in the real world, we thought some of the 9/11 “truthers” were nutters with their holographic planes and what not, these lot make the truthers seem sensible. ETA: Mind you many seem to be truthers as well.
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One thing they were right about - the media di stop having Covid as the number one story!
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Sufficiently advanced Woo is indistinguishable from Parody "There shall be no *poofing* in science" Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Force ***** on reasons back" Ben Franklin |
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