Ding Dong.....the US Politics Thread (Part 2)

https://x.com/willsommer/status/1831411629017461017

Here is me pretending to be shocked.

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“unwittingly”

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So, the Democrat “Russian interference” election narrative can be reborn from the ashes! :ghost: :ghost: :ghost:

Well…

Everyone on that list is 100% a dimwit.

Throw in Jimmy Dore and Steven Crowder and you’d have a Royal Flush.

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Think through the implications here…

So far, everyone embroiled in this indictment (just the tip of the iceberg) is claiming to have been set up and retained independent control of their content. That is not believable, but is the predictable argument. This warning, from someone who wades in the same fetid swamp, is saying “dont make that excuse because they know you are not and it will make it worse for you” and positioning it, somehow, as a furtherance of these guys being the victims and the Feds being the bad guys.

The indictment that came out this week made a clear if under the radar acknowledgement that this case is just one of many active influence operations they have under investigation, and you have to imagine its tentacles go far deeper into our politics than just moronic podcast bros.

Keep in mind that in 2016 shortly after the election Paul Ryan was caught on a hit mic openly acknowledging the belief within the party that at least one member of their house caucus was bring paid at time by the Kremlin. Rand Paul, who has taken many pro-Russian positions supposedly in the interest of US isolationism, has had two different senior aides jailed for being on the Russia payroll, one of whom acted to get Russian money into the Trump 2016 campaign fund

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/18/trump-campaign-jesse-benton-russia

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1831939781380730950

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By the way…

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We are now close enough the election that people who have insisted a good economy is actually a bad economy will start describing good economic news as being because of anticipation of a Trump presidency.

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Sigh
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1833867513660080421

Wont someone think of the white male founders!

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This guy is the perfect example of why cops cannot be expected to be in charge of policing

https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/1835469925126644145

He responded to fear mongering rather than data in massively increasing police presence in the subways at significant tax payer cost. Once down there they focus on fare evasion, and now they are using the fact that cops and bystanders were shot in an incident to justify their existing presence while trying to obfuscate that it was the cops doing the shooting…because of a $3 fare someone tried to evade.

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American policing needs to be burned down and started over. There is just no way the use of lethal force can possibly be justified in that situation - if only due to threat of hitting bystanders, which they did. The fact that they also shot one of their own just underscores the ineptitude.

It isn’t just the ‘red states’ that are warped.

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And also gun culture?

That police officer needs to go to prison. Getting the handgun out to stop someone for avoiding a subway fare is demented.

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Apparently other passengers intervened in stopping him fare jump and the police responded to the scuffle…by drawing their weapons and firing.

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I had two stents put in last year. The cost to the insurance company was 3,000 Euros. The same procedure in the US would cost about $20,000. It’s a scam , there’s no other way to describe it.

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This guy is already incredibly well characterized as being a total lunatic. Even with that context this take is astonishing.

https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1836856157895352608

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How the fuck did he ever get to be a candidate?

How long before Trump denies ever knowing him.

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Everyone in and associated with the GOP already is.

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“I think you are Martin Luther King times 2.”

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