Fake Crack Pipes: How The GOP Is Using A Conspiracy Theory To Threaten Gov’t Shutdown

FIFY

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I keep sensing with each uptick of acting out, faux outrage and pure garbage news that something is wrong in Republicanville. It is all becoming so damn over the top it is like a shrieking, wounded animal pulling every stunt they can to throw off their hunter.

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C’mon eh?? Say it never happened to you. /s

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Moby Dick?

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She and her coach cheated. No wonder she can do quads at the end of her long program. I agree she should be barred from competing and her coach be kicked out. From the piece,

…the benefits of such a combination could “be aimed at increasing endurance, reducing fatigue and promoting greater efficiency in using oxygen.

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We’re on it - give us time.

@maximus - TFG would’ve had a harder time with RoJo than he did with the documents.

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But they’re saying somehow the test was “contaminated” with her grandpa’s meds? No one seems to offer a viable mechanism by which her grandfather’s medication found itself in her sample, but you know how it is – people just go around willy-nilly, dropping polonium into tea, heart meds into urine, that sort of thing. Crazy place, Russia.

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She keeps waking up with Crack pipes around her and she is just trying to get to the bottom of what’s going on.

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Pretty much. And looks like they’re just on the next set of doping, finding a new mix of drugs that get around the current banned substance list. As suspected.

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And who is actually challenging her on the fakeness of the news?

It certainly won’t be the MSM, now, will it?

Voice of experience rails away at the dangers of fake crack pipes -

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I have to be honest here.

Farmer daughter has had heart issues since she hit puberty. When my dad (her grandfather) was killed in the car accident in 1998, we discovered that the two of them were on the same heart medication, same dosage. Rather than dispose of them, she used them up when her prescription was completed. Once consumed, she re-upped her prescription with no difficulties.

She’s off those meds now, but have to wonder if something similar happened here.

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Skaters and former skaters interviewed said there was no way she did not know what she was taking was not allowed even though she is only 15 yrs. Makes one wonder how many other Russian skaters are doping and not getting caught.

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I think they test everyone, don’t they? It’s why the medal ceremonies don’t happen within moments of the end of the event.

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Yawn. This has been done before, and with better imagination:

Aldrich was a former Secret Service guy who wrote a 1996 book Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House published by Regnery Publishing(!) in which, among other things, he charged* that the Clintons had decorated one of the White House Christmas trees with crack pipes, condoms, and obscene clay figurines. He also said that an ornament supposedly representing the “five gold rings” from the Christmas song was created out of cock rings.

*Aldrich acknowledged that “many events described in the book came to him second- and third-hand and that he had no evidence to corroborate them.”[2]

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Crack Pipes, Durham and HRC spying on Trump…

One week of fever swamp BS…and we’re supposed to believe they think this shit is true.

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“Crack pipes” is a classic racist dog whistle, which is a step back from the full-throated racism we usually get from the GOP these days.

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All of them, Katie.

That’s how their system works. Get caught on the old set, go find a new thing WADA hasn’t found out about. Buys at least a few years, generally, before they inevitably catch on, then you progress to the next round.

And yeah, if we can try 15-y/o kids for murder as adults, I rather imagine that their cognitive levels are high enough to be able to understand that they’re not following the rules on the playground.

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It’s definitely a weird situation. But given the context and the scrutiny on her, you’d think anything accidental would be extremely unlikely. I just find the claim really weird, given that they offer no further explanation.

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Both you and Don, Jr.

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