Not to mention that he/she identified himself as such. Very helpful.
Russia-linked Facebook ads and Twitter accounts from 2016 campaign released by House Intel Committee
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I’m going to get that coloring book, and color Bernie surprised, too.
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Definition of hysteria - exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement
Thank you ‘Merriam-Webster’; is Captain Obvious with you, by any chance?
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Speaking of “useful idiots”:
All-purpose camouflage for any and all bastardry.
I’m at work now, but I’ll probably get back to this thread this evening.
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Hillary vs. Jesus? I wouldn’t pay $40 for the PVP, but if I was going to place a bet, my money is on Hillary. From the illustration she has Jesus beat by a good 2 inches and 25 lbs.
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that we have a president who apparently worked with Russia to hack the servers of his political opponents during the campaign and placed what was found there on Wikileaks in exchange for an ending of Obama’s economic sanctions for their deliberate takeover of parts of the Ukraine.
There’s a word for this: treason.
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I hope you’re not lumping Sarah in with the rest there.
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Nah, Sarah’s a good 'un. She just inadvertently provided the platform for that explosion of daftness.
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speaking of Allahu Akbar:
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Had I seen the Bernie stuff, I would have assumed someone was engaged in some goofy, self-mocking fun; the ones aimed at conservatives are just deranged malevolence. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess the latter got traction…
Given that they did, to some degree, get picked up the the right, there is no difference.
I’m constantly thinking that about the actual output of the Trump administration and Republicans these days. Lately, I literally see at least one bit of news coming out the White House that I refuse to believe isn’t satire until I see at least several news articles confirming it’s real, because it’s so fucking insane.
I believe these days that’s known as “reality.”
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shhh, if we call him a misogynist he fills up the last square on his libturd bingo card.
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That’s reason, with a silent T, like in tsar, or Tzuckerberg.
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Nothing? Nah, there’s something there. As I’ve been saying for quite a long time:
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Trump’s alliance with Putin was clear from early in the primary, and that was later confirmed by the Steele dossier.
My objection to the Russia scaremongering by the Establishment Dems is not based in an assumption that the Russian government was not involved. They very obviously were.
Instead, this:
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The characterisation of the Russian interference as an “attack” is misleading and dangerous. It is also hypocritical to an extreme degree, given the USA’s well established habit of constantly interfering in elections across the world.
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The enthusiasm with which the Dem Establishment jumped upon the attempt to paint BLM, Antifa and NoDAPL as Russian pawns was disgusting. There is a long history of Red Scare bullshit being weaponised against American minorities, and the current context makes that habit particularly dangerous.
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While Russian interference almost certainly had some impact on the vote, it appears to have been relatively minor. Russia did not win the election for Trump, except in the sense that everything that had more than a trivial impact is “decisive” in an election that close. If not for misogyny, Clinton would have won. If not for voter suppression, Clinton would have won. If not for the spectacularly incompetent mismanagement of the Democratic Presidential campaign, Clinton would have won. If not for Russia, Clinton would have won. But that was only one of a thousand factors that created the current mess.
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Putin is not the problem, Trump is not the problem. Fascism, white supremacy, militarism and imperialism are the problem. Trump is just the figurehead of a much larger systemic issue. Framing the situation as “Russia subverts American democracy” is a mistake that misses the real issue. It isn’t Russia vs USA; it’s rising global fascism (of which both Trump and Putin are a part) vs everybody. Remove Putin, remove Trump; the problem remains. You need to pull the weeds by the roots, and the roots of this one go all the way back to the 3/5ths Compromise.
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There is a difference between “scaremongering” and “acknowledging reality”.
Yes, Russia interfered on Trump’s behalf. Yes, Putin is a murderous bastard.
But Putin is not a cinematic puppetmaster, and American fascism is a home-grown product of the USA.
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