False Rumors About Antifa Starting West Coast Fires Follow Months-Long Conservative Hysteria | Talking Points Memo

They can throw a Porsche through my windows.

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In last year’s Australian fires it was right-wingers spreading rumors that arsonists were starting fires (main vector - Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper The Australian) to deliberately downplay climate change as a contribution.

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To be fair, what he really did was to ask if “they” are “giving [Biden] something so that he can appear even a little bit lucid or coherent.”

Maybe drugs, maybe something else!

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We arrived at this place of lies and conspiracies because of Trump and Face Book and Climate Deniers.

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Or it’s just that the echo chamber of the internet makes things seem worse than they really are, because of the instant access to news from distant places that we’d never have seen in our local rags a few decades ago.

A couple of months ago, I ended up in the lions den of trumpia, and aside from some token flags here and there, had a totally normal experience, even when I knew I was interacting with total cult members.

The demise of society is greatly over-rated, IMHO.

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Hey, what about Sarah Palin??? Don’t you remember her, too? She started all of this!

Sone of the old coots near me are high on Ginko biloba extract.

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Well, come one…aren’t they a lot like witches?

Thanks for the link to the sobering article. I see you and raise you one Zombie Fire article:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/arctic-wildfires-have-already-emitted-more-carbon-entirety-2019-180975747/

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Yep. The fat motherfucker could still resign or drop dead too.

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Cockroaches will never die, and Coronavirus and the rest will just have to lump it.

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UGH!!! NOOOOO!!! :confounded:

If by “Sarah Palin” you’re including Bill Kristol, Steve Schmidt, Nicole Wallace, et al.

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And once he does, a lot of his followers will just fade back into obscurity to live out their pathetic lives.

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They’ll whine about how their 1st A rights are being violated, or that they’er being censured.

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And a lot will still follow him anywhere.

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I never noticed before that she is wearing a Burberry scarf in that photo. Has to have been one of the things they bought for her when they tried to make her look like a candidate instead of a meth head.

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Didn’t work.

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