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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1468305
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Frist11!!1!
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Rudy Giuliani is such a nice young man. And so handsome! No wonder women can’t keep their muddy paws off of him. I love that he always places the good of the nation above himself and above his political friends, who are legion.
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Welp, we’re coming up on a month since U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued any meaningful orders or rulings in the Mar-a-Lago documents case – and frankly that’s a generous application of the word “meaningful.”
Quelle surprise.
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"Prepare yourself for a wild ride, my friends! Deep within the labyrinthine corridors of sheer madness, I unveil a conspiracy that defies not only logic and reason but dares to trample upon the very laws of physics themselves. What we’re delving into today is the sort of nightmarish fantasy that could only emerge from the darkest corners of a fevered imagination.
Picture, if you will, the all-powerful and enigmatic Deep State. They are the puppeteers, the architects of a diabolical symphony so twisted, it would make Shakespeare’s Macbeth look like a bedtime story. Their nefarious plot? To unleash the unstoppable fury of Jewish space lasers upon the unsuspecting cities of the United States and Canada. But hold on to your tinfoil hats, for their motives are far more sinister than mere destruction.
Their malevolent objective is nothing short of the creation of what they ominously dub “woke smart cities.” These dystopian metropolises will be governed by the iron fist of the Deep State, controlling not only the electrical grid and internet access to OANN and other legitimate news sources but also the very souls of their inhabitants. Picture every citizen behind the wheel of a Tesla, cruising through neon-lit streets, exposed to fake news, oblivious to the sinister forces at play.
Yet, the horror doesn’t cease there. In these Orwellian metropolises, innocent children will be subjected to an indoctrination so insidious it could curdle your blood. They’ll be force-fed literature about Latinos, inundated with black history to make them feel bad about themselves, and be compelled to attend drag brunches, where their pronouns willl be scrambled like eggs on a Sunday morning.
And for those brave souls who dare resist this malevolent regime? FEMA reeducation camps await, where their minds will be mercilessly scrubbed clean of their cherished absolute 2nd Amendment rights, and will be taught that they will only able own as many guns that they can cram into a gun safe, each gun rendered useless by trigger locks.
The minds of these political prisoners will also be washed of their knowledge of 1st Amendment freedoms to teach Jesus in public schools, to talk freely of stolen elections, and merely even speaking to their lawyers on Twitter and Truth Social about Deep State crimes and crooked and lying special counsel and racist DAs and their evil-intentioned “witnesses” to crimes that don’t even exist.
But wait, there’s a twist in this wicked saga! These Jewish space lasers, we’re told, aren’t of earthly origin but are the twisted handiwork of interdimensional space aliens. With the complicity of none other than Nancy Pelosi herself, these cosmic entities have harnessed the dark powers of artificial intelligence to wreak havoc on unsuspecting American patriots. And where do they draw their power, you ask? From the very heart of Africa, where solar farms act as unwitting accomplices to their infernal operations.
But who oversees this sinister solar empire, you inquire? None other than US Congressman Eric Swalwell, who, in a deal that defies comprehension, has traded highly classified secrets about the DoD’s “Deep Earth Seismic Trigger Initiative” project with his enigmatic Chinese sex partner. It’s all part of the Deep State’s grand scheme, a plot so audacious that it rivals the most outlandish tales of alien invasions and government cover-ups. The conspiracy I’ve uncovered today seems the stuff of fevered dreams and wild imaginations, a rollercoaster ride into the heart of sheer madness! But, alas, the veracity of this narrative is as dark and tangled as a labyrinthine maze of spaghetti, with each twist and turn revealing another layer of even more spaghetti.
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My money’s on the cat.
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Hey Ghost, you were lots of fun when you mixed up the capitalization and used lots of !!!. Now your screeds have become over long and no longer worth reading, even for humor. Lighten up!!!
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Cannon and the bloated idiot (h/t Joel Cairo) will both drag their feet until said bloated idiot has been convicted and imprisoned in one or more of the other cases.
Nothing to see here, really.
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Mine too!
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Leo Brent Bozell IV was convicted Friday after a bench trial of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Yeah, I’ve been following the Bozells by the numbers.
I think the blood looks a bit thinner, omg, and they were bozos, from the get go.
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I don’t think the CIPA hearing will be on the public docket, CIPA hearings are not held in public. Which is why Cannon took it off the schedule for Aug 25th, she screwed up and made it a public hearing.
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Musk got punked by the Russians. He’s not a smart man.
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Other parts of the show, especially its morning news show spoof “Today Now,” leaned much harder into the satire, with truly ridiculous segments that had you laughing immediately because of how over the top they were. Or at least they did in 2011.
But in 2023, the right-wing mediascape — and the TV news world in general — has changed dramatically. The right-wing mainstream has shifted drastically rightward, so that viewpoints and language once considered taboo, or even outright abhorrent, now seem to be becoming standard political boilerplate, or at least commonplace.
Take, for example, a Labor Day rally outside Disney World in Florida, where supporters of Republican Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis proudly waved flags emblazoned with swastikas and other Nazi imagery along with posters bearing DeSantis’ face.
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We knew Cannon would delay. We knew she was all in for Trump. Now we know she’s brazen.
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I am a citizen of the United States and have only that passport. No matter what happens, I will fight for and die in America. The United States Congress has not declared war on Russia. If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such. Please tell them that very clearly.
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Maybe just like Trisha, Judge Aileen Cannon is sleeping on her decisions in the box she created for herself with her earlier rulings.
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Well, small ones, anyway. I’m pretty sure “bozell” is the diminutive of “bozo.”
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omg, look what you’ve let in. is there an exorcist in the house?
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FYI
Opinion | Polls are ruining our politics. Stop paying attention. - The Washington Post
First, the polling field is broken. Or, if you listen to pollsters’ complaints, it is consistently misapplied and misinterpreted. Polls didn’t come within shouting distance of the right result in either 2016 or 2020. And they misled voters about the fictitious red wave in 2022. Whatever the reasons — call blocking, excessive hang-ups, incorrect modeling of likely voters — even polls taken much closer to elections have consistently turned out to be far off base.
Second, voters tell us utterly contradictory things. Around 60 percent tell pollsters that four-time-indicted former president Donald Trump should drop out. But then nearly half say they’ll vote for him. Which is it?
Third, even if you think polling is somewhat reliable, there’s no evidence that polling more than a year (or even eight months) before a presidential election is accurate. Democratic consultant Simon Rosenberg (one of the few to debunk the red wave in advance of the 2022 midterms) recently wrote: “At the end of the day polling is only a snapshot into a moment, and cannot predict anything.
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