Trump Asked For Probe Into Whether China-Made Thermostats Hacked Election, Book Says | Talking Points Memo

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Then-President Donald Trump asked Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to investigate a truly wild conspiracy theory in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, according to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl’s upcoming book, “Betrayal.”

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The T**** White House obviously had a tinfoil hat designer on retainer.

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I have a Nest thermostat, and my wife and I BOTH voted for Biden. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

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So you’re now a thermocouple?

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Jeffrey Clark: A fucking moron in service to a fucking moron.

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Well once we learned that Obama was spying on us via a microwave oven it kind of all makes sense.

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“Trump asked DNI John Ratcliffe to look into a bonkers conspiracy theory alleging that voting machines in Georgia may have been hacked by wireless thermostats made in China…”

Out of respect for human dignity, I’m not going to mock this.

It’s just terribly sad to watch someone’s mental faculties fail in the grips of Stage 4 Windmill Cancer.

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Better than a thermopile.

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I’m not so sure. You know, grass being always greener, and all that.

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Raphael Warnock employed a group of 100 Easy Bake Ovens™ wired in a series to steal his Georgia Senate seat.

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Maybe if we injected Chinese thermostats it would work even better than injecting disinfectant to kill Covid.

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I just completed my research.

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LOL. It says right on the label. Never wire Easy Bake Ovens in series.

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So Trump’s an expert on wireless networks now? Has he ever actually sent an e-mail, or turned a computer on and off to fix a glitch?

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I’m sure he uses Lewandowski for that, but he is a toilet bowl Twitter expert.

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True but little kids text and so forth. I think his actual experience with and understanding of the stuff that makes it all work is pretty slender.

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It’s all magic to them. Wireless technology cannot be explained by the bible.

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Smart thermostats . . . and the dumb theories they give rise to.

There’s plenty to be dismayed about re the Internet of Things, but this one ranks pretty low on that particular totem pole.

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It’s a series of tubes.

I know that wasn’t him but it could be.

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Do you ever think these Dunning-Kruger types like Clark and TFG get jealous and upset when they hear things like thermostats referred to as “smart”?

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