Trumpocalypse: No hanky/lanky

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  1. Prospector

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  2. soulfly

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    This American Life had a great episode detailing how Gingrich turned newly formed C-SPAN into weaponized soap opera )with Limbaugh working as a hype man on the airwaves). Gingrich was for sure the catalyst.

    https://www.thisamericanlife.org/662/where-there-is-a-will/act-one-5
     
  3. Zap Branigan

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  4. soulfly

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    Strong lack of native recognition when talking about this country’s inception, and being treated like subhuman gutter trash, all the while mentioning Asians and Latinos.

    I’m sorry, but I’m always going to have to bring it up, because it’s a routinely glossed over demographic, that is also typically the worst off of all.

    But otherwise, agreed.
     
  5. Henry Blake

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    Limbaugh is a huge reason that we are where we are. Fox piggybacked off of him. Anything and everything librul is pure evil and intended to tear down America.
     
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    You're correct and that's my bad.
     
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    Liberals looking the other way on sexual assault with lightning speed :shocker:
     
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    It’s all good. Not faulting you by any means; they’re just routinely forgotten about so I point it out whenever I see it.
     
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  11. Daniel Ocean

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    Oh fuck off. I am not looking the other way at shit. I just simply said I didn’t understand the fucking “joke”
     
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    Unfunny AND triggered
     
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    Eat shit and die CNN
     
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    At some point shouldn't you accidentally post something good?
     
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    This is a good post
     
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  17. bro

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    let's get ads like this on TV all summer / fall

    bat signal: bloomberg
     
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    Is someone going to tell him?

     
  21. Joe Louis

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    i was wondering why that was trending. it's gonna be hard having a candidate you cannot allow near a microphone :donotwant:
     
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    add YouTube to the shit that needs to be broken up
     
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    The really crazy thing is that YouTube is obviously owned by Google.

    That's how insanely large businesses have become when even a segment of business that would be independent if Google was broken up, also needs to be broken up into smaller businesses. We have achieved double monopoly status.
     
  24. AIOLICOCK

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    Thanks dems. This guy seems great.
     
  25. Prospector

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    Republicans wrestle with conspiracy-theory advocate winning Senate primary
    After denying it in a statement, the candidate is now refuting her own campaign.
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    May 22, 2020, 12:52 PM

    Republicans in Oregon this week nominated a Senate candidate with a deep history of promoting and vowing support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, providing the fringe movement its largest electoral platform yet and roiling Republicans over having a candidate who openly embraces baseless conspiracy theories.

    In a now-deleted Twitter video, insurance agent Jo Rae Perkins, who bested three other candidates in the primary to face Democrat Sen. Jeff Merkley in November’s general election, expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, which casts President Donald Trump as a crusader against a web of deep state conspiracies and that the Federal Bureau of Investigations has deemed a potential domestic terror threat.

    “I stand with President Trump. I stand with Q and the team. Thank you Anons, and thank you patriots. And together, we can save our republic,” Perkins said in a video posted on Tuesday, while holding up a sign with a popular QAnon slogan on it.

    Her primary win has forced Republicans to grapple with having a state-wide nominee who openly embraces the conspiracy theory.

    When asked about supporting Perkins in the general election, the Republican National Committee did not comment.

    The Oregon state Republican Party issued a lukewarm and seemingly reluctant statement saying, "By virtue of being the GOP nominee, this is what we do - support them in winning the general election."

    The National Republican Senatorial Committee would not express support for Perkins and instead responded when asked with a list of unrelated allegations against Democratic Senate candidates before saying “and THIS is what ABC News is focused on.”

    The Trump campaign and White House declined to comment.

    Perkins’ own campaign on Wednesday tried to distance the candidate from QAnon, writing in a statement that she “would never describe herself as a follower.”

    But speaking to ABC News on Thursday, Perkins did just that.

    The Senate nominee said she was “literally physically in tears ” after reading the statement posted by her own campaign to her personal Twitter account and bucked her own campaign by reiterating support for QAnon.

    "My campaign is gonna kill me,” Perkins said. “How do I say this? Some people think that I follow Q like I follow Jesus. Q is the information and I stand with the information resource.”

    Perkins said she misread the line in the statement that walked back her support for QAnon before it was posted and that she would have told her campaign to “fix it” if she’d realized what was being said on her behalf.

    “I scanned it and said, yeah, it looks good to me and out it went. And then I saw it afterwards and I am like, literally was in tears, literally physically in tears because I'm so blown away. Because I went, crap, that’s not me. And I don't back down.

    “I'm not backpedaling and I'm frustrated. I feel like I'm having to backpedal and that's like torn me up because that's not me,” she said regarding her support for QAnon.

    While Perkins said that her campaign has told her “not to worry” about fixing the statement rejecting her support for QAnon, she said “I'm the candidate and the buck stops with me.”


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    Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest during a rally to re-open California and against Stay-At-Home directives on May 1, 2020 in San Diego, California.Sandy Huffaker/AFP via Getty Images
    The QAnon conspiracy theory, which has spread debunked and baseless ideas like John F. Kennedy Jr. faking his own death and returning last July 4th, started in late 2017 after an anonymous post surfaced on the online message board 4chan with someone claiming to have access to top-secret government information.

    Since then the random and anonymous posts have ignited followers to pore over each line and word looking for strands and clues into the wild alleged conspiracies.

    “People who believe are believing things that are not true and don't have evidence to back them up. That leaves them in a place where they're holding a lot of beliefs that are disconnected from our shared reality,” said Joseph Uscinski, a political-science professor at the University of Miami whose research focuses on fringe beliefs.

    "And further than that, they hold a set of beliefs that scapegoat particular people for all the world's evils and accuse them of engaging in horrific crimes. And when you put that together, those are the sorts of things that can motivate people to act and we have seen some isolated incidents where people committed violence. based on this considered conspiracy theory,” Uscinski said.

    Last August, the FBI identified the QAnon conspiracy theory as a domestic terrorist threat, as Yahoo News reported on a document saying for the first time that the agency is labelling “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists” as a growing threat.

    “The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts,” the document states and goes on to say that the agency believes conspiracy theory-driven extremists will likely increase amid the 2020 presidential election.

    The conspiracy has grown popular at Trump rallies across the country, with followers wearing and selling merchandise, waving signs to get popular QAnon slogans and internet links on camera with for people to search and learn more about the alleged conspiracy.

    The president, who elevated to power after pushing a debunked conspiracy theory of his own that President Barack Obama fabricated his birth certificate and was not born in the United States, has promoted and encouraged QAnon followers since taking office by regularly re-sharing their tweets to his nearly 80 million followers to the celebration of believers in the conspiracy theory.

    However, Trump’s promotion of QAnon followers is not bound to the internet, the president has also invited them to the White House as part of a “social media summit” and has taken a photo with a follower in the Oval Office when right-wing conspiracy theorist and QAnon-believer Michael Lebron visited back in 2018.

    According to Uscinski, while the president may not be personally responsible for QAnon’s rise given he has not publicly commented on it, Trump’s anti-establishment and “deep state” talk has created a space for it to thrive and the president has not proactively looked to shut it down either.

    “I think what Trump has done is create a space for people who are anti-establishment to come out of the woodwork. And to feel like they are taking part in mainstream politics,” Uscinski said.

    “It's in [Trump’s] favor to not denounce it either. There have been lower level officials who’ve said we're not endorsing this. But he hasn't. So the status quo is what works best for him. He can keep these people in his camp without saying something they disagree with. And then he doesn't have to do anything that would make him look more of a conspiracy theorist that he already looks like. By outwardly endorsing it.

    The day after Perkins’ primary win this week, she appeared on a popular QAnon YouTube channel to celebrate the victory.

    Perkins said on the live stream posted on Wednesday, hours before her campaign tried to distance her from the conspiracy theory, that “most of the people who were at our election night party were Q people.”

    She also said she’d "absolutely" use the information she’s learned from the QAnon conspiracy theory in the U.S. Senate if elected.

    And prior to her election win on Tuesday, Perkins regularly tweeted promoting the conspiracy theory, sometimes welcoming converts to the “QArmy” and as early as January this year she shared posts claiming to have proof of “coordination between Q and President Trump.”

    Perkins, with or without the support of her own party, will have an uphill climb in November. Democrats largely win Oregon state-wide elections and Merkley, the incumbent, is considered a strong favorite in the Senate race. The state has gone blue for every presidential election since 1984 and hasn’t elected a Republican governor since the 1980s.

    Perkins said despite Republican officials slow start supporting her candidacy publicly so far, she doesn’t believe there will be any issues moving forward since she says she’s friends with Oregon Republican Party Chairman Bill Currier.

    Currier did not return a request for comment.
     
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  26. bro

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    the fuck?

    A spokesperson for YouTube says they reviewed the video and it does not violate their policies against harmful misinformation related to COVID-19, nor does it violate their other community policies against hate speech, spam, or violence.
     
  27. Daniel Ocean

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    I am sure that Biden clip wasn’t cut off to make him look worse.
     
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  29. AIOLICOCK

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    Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves for what's coming.
     
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    Don't know if I can take 4 more years of this shit

     
  31. Daniel Ocean

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    not a democrat but I’ll blame all the racist idiots that vote for trump but that’s just me.
     
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  33. Duck70

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    "Clip from the trump campaign, better take this at face value!" - You, an idiot
     
  34. AIOLICOCK

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    Damn, so he didn't say that? :ohdear:
     
  35. Daniel Ocean

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    i forget the guy’s name from the morning show (charlamagne tha god ) was about to say something and they cut him off. Obviously if it was bad for Biden they’d have let it continue.
     
  36. Daniel Ocean

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    context how does it work you fucking moron. You're not some enlightened individual you’re being a fucking moron.
     
  37. AIOLICOCK

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    jfc
     
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  38. AIOLICOCK

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    There is no context that makes that not a stupid ass thing to say.
     
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  39. Daniel Ocean

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    My bad I literally didn’t know his name and remembered “the” in it . I also don’t know who chance js.
    Lol
     
  40. bertstare

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    That wasn’t chance the rapper lol talk about racist
     
  41. Daniel Ocean

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    I edited my post to show my mistake.

    congrats AIOLICOCK great bed fellow you got.
     
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  44. slogan119

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    You could have used Stephen Miller’s name. We all know it was him.
     
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    Can you imagine the level of discourse between Mike and Brian? :donotwant: