The Gallery of Trump-Inspired Assholes (Part 1)

I can see him slowly going tankie over the next four years if Biden wins and his “the worse the better” dreams of hastening a revolution don’t come about. He’ll go looking for an American Hugo Chavez figure to promote but will settle for a Maduro.

From there, who knows? Maybe he’ll go beefsteak or maybe (if he gets funding from one of Putin’s pet oligarchs) he’ll start promoting National Bolshevism.

That’s the Old Glenn Greenwald, too. But it works for me as well.

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I stopped reading GG years ago when he gladly went full late career Hitchens, but at the time the less hyperlinks his paragraph had the less accurate it was to whatever he was talking about. That and he got very broad with accusations of the problems Jews caused in the world when I stopped paying attention.

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Oh and to be fair and balanced ™️ I mostly stopped consuming content from The Intercept since the lack of transparency around Reality Winner leak and landing her in jail. There have been many stains to make it seem a lot less like a fearless source on investigation journalism and much more like a bog standard personality driven pundit site like most things I stopped reading. I still read articles linked to me from there, it’s obviously not easily dismissed for accuracy like say The Gateway Pundit or Daily Caller or all cable news and half of YT - but they were still managing to put out less engaging punditry than breadtube or even just intelligent commenters in social media I spent my time elsewhere for thought provoking material.

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Germane to the Greenwald story. And why he only quotes WSJ etc

“ Most mainstream news organizations, including NBC News, have not been granted access to the documents. NBC News asked by email, text, phone call and certified mail, and was ultimately denied.”

Sounds like Rudi isn’t releasing them elsewhere?

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Playing a magician’s force?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cybersecurity-expert-says-hunter-biden-email-about-former-vp-meeting-burisma-official-is-authentic/ar-BB1awJxR

Rudy Giuliani => Daily Caller => Errata Security.

As far as I know, Errata Security is legit, but I haven’t read their direct statement yet.

The problem is which emails did Errata Security verify. I expected that at least some of the emails were legit, and would be used as cover for other that might not be.

Also, DKIM is only secure so long as the private key stays private. Apparently this was signed using Burisma’s key, and wasn’t Burisma heavily hacked? If so, spoofing a legit signature shouldn’t be a problem for actors with state resources.

If Errata Security didn’t include those caveats in their release, then they’re lying for hire.

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Midshipman’s lawsuit claims Naval Academy violated Trump’s order barring racial sensitivity training

Also, you guessed it, freeze peach.

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Crappy slug. Cornyn is the one now exposed for padding his resume.

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How and what was verified and the limits of that verification:

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I agree. I wish they had a more progressive platform, but it’s a start, at the very least. I don’t believe it’s good enough, but it’s a jumping off point for more, I hope.

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A Tale of Two Grifters: The Winding, Parallel Careers of George and Kellyanne Conway

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Trump supporters camped in a caravan by the side of the interstate in Texas and ambushed a Biden GOTV tour bus they knew was going to be driving through.

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Get out the tear gas and less lethal ammo! Oh wait, Trump supporters? Umm…

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:roll_eyes:

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Grifters gotta grift.

This Poundshop Enoch Powell getting called “king of Europe” is a delightful chef’s kiss of irony.

Nigel was brought on stage in Arizona by Donald, where the latter introduced him as “the king of Europe”. In fairness, he could just as easily have got away with passing Farage off as the duke of Ruritania or the sultan of Jupiter. Still, in for a penny, in for a pound, and Trump went on to hazard that Farage was “one of the most powerful men in Europe”, even though Nigel’s an unemployed radio DJ and has spent a good part of the past four years hanging round the old US-of-A hoping to get a 40-minute 6pm “dinner” invitation to eat a well-done steak with a self-confessed sex offender.

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Had this in my memory as Maine, but no, Vermont. So, totally different, right?

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It’s so on point that all the Trumpsters can do is complain about “white SUV vs Black Pickup”, and completely overlook the road rage harrassment and gun brandishing.

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WTAF?! I don’t get it. Bannon just wants to see the whole world burn, doesn’t he?

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