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1st December 2020, 11:37 AM | #81 |
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1st December 2020, 11:52 AM | #82 |
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At least one Pro Trump group is openly saying Trump should overturn the election by force of arms:''
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/politics/...-new-election/ Not surprised at all. |
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1st December 2020, 11:55 AM | #83 |
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1st December 2020, 12:00 PM | #84 |
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I love one exchange from Deadwood about this. There was a running gag of hiding all the homicides by feeding the victims to Mr. Wu's pigs.
Al Swearengen: I will profane your mortal remains! E.B. Farnham: Not my remains. Al Swearengen: Gabriel's trumpet will produce you from the ass of a pig. |
1st December 2020, 12:34 PM | #85 |
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Trump Tweets
Michigan voter fraud hearing going on now! Hope everybody is watching @OANN right now. Other media afraid to show. People are coming forward like never before. Large truck carrying hundreds of thousands of fraudulent (FAKE) ballots to a voting center? TERRIBLE - SAVE AMERICA! |
1st December 2020, 12:38 PM | #86 |
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Does one have feelings laying rat poison or stepping on a roach? Then why would one feel much when a sociopath monster is offed, by whatever means.
When my thieving drug addict nephew was offed in a street shooting all most of us really felt was relief we didn't have to deal with him anymore. When he was jailed we relaxed on home security. Because the roach is a bug and the other human doesn't mean we want these problems in our lives and homes. There lies the issue. |
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1st December 2020, 12:41 PM | #88 |
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Barr says no evidence of widespread voter fraud
Trump will be pleased with him.
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1st December 2020, 12:49 PM | #90 |
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Recent news:
Barr: No evidence of fraud that’d change election outcome https://apnews.com/article/election-...&utm_medium=AP Cheeto Benito is not going to like this. Barr was also spotted arriving at the White House within the last hour. I wonder if the Toddler in Chief is going to fire him now? |
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1st December 2020, 01:13 PM | #93 |
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1st December 2020, 01:30 PM | #94 |
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1st December 2020, 02:06 PM | #98 |
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1st December 2020, 02:08 PM | #99 |
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1st December 2020, 02:09 PM | #100 |
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1st December 2020, 02:34 PM | #101 |
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Krebs, Barr, it seems Trump can't even pay people to be loyal to the cause.
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1st December 2020, 02:56 PM | #102 |
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1st December 2020, 03:05 PM | #103 |
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1st December 2020, 03:06 PM | #104 |
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I'm opposed to capital punishment as a rule. But here in Utah, firing squad has always been an option for those sentenced to death, and it has been employed. I'm told, but cannot confirm, that the reason is because Mormon religious teaching says that murder can only be atoned for by shedding the murderer's blood, which does not always literally occur with other modes of execution.
Anyway, in a firing squad, one rifle out of the four or five designated for the job is randomly loaded with a blank, the so-called "conscience round." This gives the rifleman the option to believe that he fired the blank and so did not contribute to the execution of the condemned. |
1st December 2020, 03:12 PM | #105 |
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Was Barr ( supposedly ) going to provide the smoking gun of massive fraud to the trump camp? It sure seems like he would be the one worth waiting for.
It's good to see these guys step up and do the job the nation paid them for. Even if some seemed toadies to the end it's clear some have hope. |
1st December 2020, 03:16 PM | #106 |
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I'm glad Darat moved this thread to the Conspiracies Theories
section, because I started listening to one of the podcasts listed here — The Michael Cohen Podcast — and heard this line, "He's capable of killing the hostages, burning the down the building, and start shooting outside." |
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1st December 2020, 03:19 PM | #107 |
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Oh I get wanting to exterminate people. My concern is not for the sociopath. I don't like what executions do to the rest of society.
Trump and Barr made it a mission to resume federal executions. IMO we did just fine without them. Life without parole is good enough for me. |
1st December 2020, 03:23 PM | #108 |
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A couple decades ago I was listening to a Catholic radio station, pretty much by accident. They were discussing resurrection. A speaker said, in effect, that on the day of the Second Coming, believers would be physically raised from the dead. Even if cremated. He went on to say, “I don’t need to understand how, I just need to believe.”
I remember this because I mentally weighed it against Carl Sagan’s words: “I don’t want to believe. I want to know”. Seemed to crystallize two diametrically opposed world views, which is why I remember it. |
1st December 2020, 03:32 PM | #109 |
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The U.S. Dept. of Justice and the FBI (i.e., what Barr controls) can only investigate violations of federal law, and there is precious little federal law governing how elections take place within each state. So the fine line that Barr seems to be trying to walk is to say that the investigations he has jurisdiction over have uncovered no evidence to support Pres. Trump's claims. But he also notes that civil action in the states -- which he doesn't have anything to do with -- are where the action is. And also, in my state, voter fraud is a felony, but it's a state-law felony, which would have to be investigated by the state attorney general, not AG Barr.
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1st December 2020, 03:43 PM | #110 |
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Thanks JayUtah. Now it's clear for me.
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1st December 2020, 05:00 PM | #111 |
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They shouldn't have a problem with it, since, in fact, "Swing-state counties that used Dominion voting machines mostly voted for Trump" (Washington Post via MSN):
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1st December 2020, 05:27 PM | #112 |
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Trump Retweeted
RedState @RedState Watch: James O'Keefe Calls Into CNN's Morning Conference Call, Tells Startled Jeff Zucker He's Going to Release Two Months of Calls Tonight; Then LOL Sara A. Carter @SaraCarterDC @JamesOKeefeIII: We're going to release 'hundreds of hours of CNN' calls 7 pm ET Tonight. Do any of you want to take a guess at what CNN President Jeff Zucker told his employees on those calls? Gregg Jarrett @GreggJarrett SURPRISE! James O’Keefe pops into CNN staff call, tells Jeff Zucker he’s been recording calls for months Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow James O’Keefe strikes again, CNN’s Zucker exposed with recorded phone calls. James will be on my radio show at 7:20 PM eastern. |
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Very unlikely, given Barr. Also, as JayUtah just said, Barr doesn't actually have much that he even can do on the subject. With that said, Barr's specialty, really, has been killing investigations and generally impeding justice being done, much like fairly certainly happened with Iran-Contra. That's just not as applicable here.
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Apparently Sidney Powell filed a lawsuit that included Derrick Van Orden, without his permission to do so. That will get you disbarred.
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1st December 2020, 06:09 PM | #116 |
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1st December 2020, 06:17 PM | #118 |
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Here is the tweet and link.
Derrick van orden "I learned through social media today that my name was included in a lawsuit without my permission. To be clear I am not involved in the lawsuit seeking to overturn the election in Wisconsin" https://www.google.com/search?q=derr...hrome&ie=UTF-8 |
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1st December 2020, 07:27 PM | #120 |
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I love that a Trump thread has been relegated to conspiracy theories. It just feels like an example of how he's becoming less and less relevant.
(I know the accusations of election fraud are a conspiracy theory, and of course I also support the move for that reason ) |
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