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24th September 2021, 04:38 PM | #2681 |
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24th September 2021, 04:43 PM | #2682 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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24th September 2021, 05:03 PM | #2683 |
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24th September 2021, 05:04 PM | #2684 |
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24th September 2021, 05:20 PM | #2685 |
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24th September 2021, 05:24 PM | #2686 |
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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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24th September 2021, 05:43 PM | #2687 |
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24th September 2021, 09:25 PM | #2688 |
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History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells "Can't you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club. - John w. Campbell |
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27th September 2021, 06:14 AM | #2689 |
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This is the silliest thing about this so-called "audit."
It results in conclusions like, "There are CRITICAL concerns about ballots that are POTENTIALLY bad." Potentially bad? That's all you got? Are they bad? Or are they not bad? What the hell were you doing in the audit if not verifying the legitimacy of the ballots? For cripes sake, they were talking about looking for bamboo in the paper, they couldn't verify addresses and voters? Did they do anything of any meaning at all? What a waste. It was all for show, and it still failed. |
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Gunter Haas, the 'leading British expert,' was a graphologist who advised couples, based on their handwriting characteristics, if they were compatible for marriage. I would submit that couples idiotic enough to do this are probably quite suitable for each other. It's nice when stupid people find love. - Ludovic Kennedy |
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27th September 2021, 06:17 AM | #2690 |
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The job of the Cyber Ninja has always been to justify voter suppression.
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“Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.” |
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27th September 2021, 06:49 AM | #2691 |
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"You have done nothing to demonstrate an understanding of scientific methodology or modern skepticism, both of which are, by necessity, driven by the facts and evidence, not by preconceptions, and both of which are strengthened by, and rely upon, change." - Arkan Wolfshade |
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Nah, Trump MAGAzonians aren't a cult and idiots. Not at all.
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22nd October 2021, 02:28 AM | #2693 |
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Mike Lindell says he's launching his voter fraud case with the Supreme Court 2 days before Thanksgiving so that every person in the world will talk about it for 4 days.
How exactly does a private citizen "launch" a case with the Supreme Court and on a set schedule? Video in link https://twitter.com/patriottakes/sta...46500303343618 |
22nd October 2021, 04:33 AM | #2694 |
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago |
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23rd October 2021, 01:42 AM | #2695 |
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23rd October 2021, 01:43 AM | #2696 |
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23rd October 2021, 02:35 AM | #2697 |
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23rd October 2021, 02:14 PM | #2698 |
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23rd October 2021, 02:36 PM | #2699 |
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23rd October 2021, 03:52 PM | #2700 |
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24th October 2021, 08:09 AM | #2701 |
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Seems to run in the family
Eric Trump at the ‘Truth About Cancer’ conference last night didn’t utter a single word about cancer in his 28 minute speech. Instead, he rambled about how “the entire country rooted against” the women’s soccer team in Olympics because “they didn’t love our Pledge of Allegiance.” Video in link https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/s...50045357637638 The truth about cancer is Eric funneled money from a kids cancer charity in to the Trump coffers. |
24th October 2021, 09:32 PM | #2702 |
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Remember John Eastman? He was a Trump lawyer who wrote a memo giving a strategy repubicans could use to overturn the election. (Basically, Vice President Racist Bannon would claim that the results from certain states are 'disputed' so would be counted.)
He is now trying to distance himself from the memo... From: Raw Story (Eastman) now claims the infamous two-page memo does not accurately reflect his own views or provide legal advice to Trump or former vice president Mike Pence... he claims he told Trump that he did not believe the plan..."Anybody who thinks that that's a viable strategy is crazy,"....The attorney also disagrees with his own argument that the vice president is the only person with the authority to count electoral votes...he now insists those arguments were never meant to be taken literally. |
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24th October 2021, 09:52 PM | #2703 |
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“Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.” |
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24th October 2021, 11:07 PM | #2704 |
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24th October 2021, 11:18 PM | #2705 |
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24th October 2021, 11:23 PM | #2706 |
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“Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.” |
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25th October 2021, 01:12 AM | #2707 |
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25th October 2021, 01:22 AM | #2708 |
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I almost feel sorry for Eric and Donnie Jr. Can you imagine what it was like growing up with Donald Trump for a father where the only attention you received was likely to be ridiculed, insulted and yelled at if you didn't measure up to his expectations? You don't have to be a psychologist to see that they crave his approval and attention and will do anything to get it but fear him at the same time. They remind me of beaten dogs who will still crawl to their abuser in search of love.
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25th October 2021, 01:34 AM | #2709 |
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25th October 2021, 02:34 AM | #2710 |
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25th October 2021, 05:15 AM | #2711 |
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25th October 2021, 11:08 AM | #2712 |
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward - Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so - William of Conches, c1150 |
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25th October 2021, 11:05 PM | #2713 |
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I also posted this in the Tucker Carlson-Caligula thread but it also belongs here:
Someone please send in a team to extract Tucker Carlson from Trump's ass:
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The disgusting trailer:
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28th October 2021, 09:52 PM | #2715 |
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My optimism for the US is being eroded, and a grim fatalism is taking hold. My observation of a country sleepwalking into authoritarianism is daily confirmed. Watching AG Garland take that baseless haranguing by Cruze, Hawley and Blackburn with his mute, deer-in-the-headlights befuddlement, combined with his apparent inaction regarding the bigger fish in the insurrection, induces a sickening feeling that Lady Justice is wearing a selective blindfold. Or pusilanimity has moved into her halls.
The boundaries of free speech, exemplified by the Tucker-Whoppers 'documentary' soon to further poison millions, are being stretched to encompass a nation-destroying cavalcade of incendiary lies. It has now got to the point where people have been radicalized to the level of mooting civil war, and even champing at the bit to take up arms. A grim reckoning is shaping up to take its grievous toll. And the nation sleeps. |
28th October 2021, 10:59 PM | #2716 |
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"To me, Hitler is the greatest man who ever lived. He truly is without fault, so simple and at the same time possessed of masculine strength" -Leni Riefenstahl Wollen owns the stage
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29th October 2021, 02:03 AM | #2717 |
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29th October 2021, 02:08 AM | #2718 |
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My one hope for America is that fact that so many issues are so easy to fix if there was just the political will.
Eventually we will get a generation of Republicans who will want to win elections by making life better for Americans instead of by making life worse for non-Americans. |
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29th October 2021, 02:10 AM | #2719 |
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Garland should have taken a lesson from Fauci and hit back during that hearing.
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29th October 2021, 06:12 AM | #2720 |
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Being the victim of genocidal atrocities does not give you free reign to commit your own genocidal atrocities. When Republican politicians were young, they were the kids who watched James Bond movies and said "I want to grow up to be just like [insert name of villain here]." |
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