War is peace. Ignorance is truth. Freedom is slavery. Republican hacks are honest. And I’m from the Trump Organization and I’m here to make you rich, and I’ll respect you until Shark Week is over.
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This reminds me of the scene in Animal House where Flounder trips up the ROTC with a huge bucket of marbles. Doug Niedermeyer watches the Pershing Rifles tripping all over the ground and starts yelling “get up and fight you pussies! F-----s! Get up and fight!” That would be a thinner, healthier version of Trump.
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Don’t ever forget the yuuuuuge influence of the Russian disinformation campaign, spread through social and mainstream media alike.
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Yeah all you Republicans kiss his ass, you know when the chips are down for you Donald will…well he’ll most likely make up a nasty nickname, like Nutjob Nunes, jackass Jordan, for you and say you deserve whatever it is, but still kiss his ass.
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Trump wants the Republicans to say the call was perfect because 1) he’s done this with other countries and that is likely to come out; and 2) he wants to do it again.
Also thank you Adam Schiff for calling out Nunes stupid attempt to get the house committee to do what Trump was trying to get the Ukraine to do - investigate the Bidens. No - Hunter Biden will not testify.
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Translation: “Get FULLY On-Board with MY BATSHIT INSANE DEFENSE THEORIES or I take every single one of you down with me!”
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Trump is the G.O.P guru, teaching them all how to lie properly.
Big things Trump got away with that I can think of offhand:
Paying off 2 Porn Stars and one other paternity suit
The Mueller Report (thanks Barr)
Access Hollywood tape
Attempt to co-opt Jim Comey
Sitting alone with Putin for over 1 hour w/o public record of what went on
Stepping in front of the Queen
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Firing Marie Yovanovitch
and much much more
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Niedermeyer. Shot by his own troops, as the story goes.
Parables for $500, Bob.
He’s a naturalized US citizen, he may be concerned that’s at risk. (Not sure how, don’t think there’s a mechanism for revoking citizenship as a consequence of criminal acts.))
FIFY
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Heard part of NPR interview with her yesterday. Not impressed, though that’s a re-affirmation, not a realization.
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Dumber than a cold hamberder with a side of covfefe.
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There is a direct correlation between the rise of social media, the growing stupidity and inability to think critically of average people, the diffusive nature of news and entertainment delivery and dumbing-down of their content, the perfection of online manipulation, and the rise of Trump. It’s like a perfect storm of ignorance, idiocy and brainwashing. There’s a reason that your average Trumpie is a clueless racist moron. They’re the ones most likely to fall for his nasty carny act. In fact almost the only ones.
You’re right but the time scale is much wider than you think. The major difference between Facebook conservative groups and KKK parties in the 1920s is that the former are easily disseminated. Most of the underlying ideology and stupidity are the same, but there was a lot more physical separation. (I did a summer in Dallas and, while it was definitely more right wing than Mass., I did not realize how many homicidal batshit crazy maniacs were right outside the Dallas SMSA.)
Lev has been thinking about Mr. Epstein. It probably ocurred to Lev that Epstein died because there were further things he could reveal.
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Agreed. And the House should refuse to replace him.
It has occurred to me that the Republicans know Pence better than we do. It is possible that he is Trump’s impeachment insurance .
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I’m hoping that both she and Pompeo have succeeded in destroying whatever slim chances they had of becoming President.
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It’s not that hard to recruit, I’m guessing, if you know where to look, who is a likely target, and how to lure them in, whether it’s via social media, traditional one-way media, pamphlets, or face to face. Social media just makes it somewhat easier and faster. It’s ultimately about culture and psychology, no different from mass marketing or politics.
The Nazis had no problem transforming much of Germany into obedient Nazis in just a few years, before computers. Popes raised vast Crusader armies way before the technological revolution. So, same basic methods, different medium.
It also works both ways, in that the medium that makes recruiting easier and faster also makes it easier to uncover and interdict such efforts and the groups that engage in them. Yes, there’s strong encryption, but there are ways of overcoming that, less in breaking ciphers than in manipulating encryption codes to proved back doors to law enforcement, as well as pattern detection and analysis. And wingnuts tend to be stupid and make mistakes. If anything technology will help us deal with these movements more than they help them harm us. But most of it is about effective law enforcement methods.
Trump’s tantrums work less well with women: instead of seeing absolute strength they see someone who never made it out of the Terrible Twos.
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