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"They can go jump in the Gulf of Mexico."
And this from a RED state.
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How's the winning feeling?Comment
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I want you to keep saying that. A lot. That's making it all more delicious.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
If you don't think that the two Wsj + lawfare articles don't raise issues of DIRECT collusion I am doubly happy. We will feast on your comeuppance and painComment
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Why don't you just "jump in the Gulf of Mexico"Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Mississippi is a good launching spot i head.
LMAO
Even nutter red states rebel against Benedict Donald's PLAYSKOOL attempts to rig elections further
JeezComment
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Those phones cost the taxpayer a pretty penny. Dems are so dumb, they have more than one company providing phones, some people have two..or more !Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Funny thing about Progressives and History. years ago Clinton disgraced the Office. No big deal, he still has gotten $$$$ for speaking , Dems say " it is only about sex and move on "
Other History and free speech from the past that they would like to erase, just tear the statues down. Build up Bill, tear down history they don't agree with. What if Conservatives wanted to bring Bill down ? Good Luck.
One of the underlying reasons many states will not participate is that they are afraid of being exposed for shoddy voter laws that allow voting without a proper ID. Many of their complaints are based on their fear for a Federal Standard of Voter Identification. They wil scream interference , but the people deserve to know who shows up at the voting booths.
Interesting that the Dems are all worked up about the Russians and their meddling in our elections, but are unwilling to at least give Americans the benefit of the doubt about who is actually pulling the lever.Comment
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And Bedminster it is. I bet he golfs every day he is there.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
At this pace he would almost certainly set a new record for rounds of golf played by a President if he doesn't get impeached first.Comment
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The more reliable account comes from the WSJ. In a nutshell...Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
WASHINGTON—Before the 2016 presidential election, a longtime Republican opposition researcher mounted an independent campaign to obtain emails he believed were stolen from Hillary Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers.
In conversations with members of his circle and with others he tried to recruit to help him, the GOP operative, Peter W. Smith, implied he was working with retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, at the time a senior adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump.
What role, if any, Mr. Flynn may have played in Mr. Smith’s project is unclear. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Smith said he knew Mr. Flynn, but he never stated that Mr. Flynn was involved.
Mr. Smith died at age 81 on May 14, which was about 10 days after the Journal interviewed him. His account of the email search is believed to be his only public comment on it.The operation Mr. Smith described is consistent with information that has been examined by U.S. investigators probing Russian interference in the elections.
Mr. Smith’s focus was some 33,000 emails Mrs. Clinton said were deleted because they were deemed personal. Mr. Smith said he believed that the emails might have been obtained by hackers and that they actually concerned official matters Mrs. Clinton wanted to conceal—two notions for which he offered no evidence.*
Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said in July 2016 there was no evidence the private server had been hacked but held out the possibility it could have been.
In the interview with the Journal, Mr. Smith said he and his colleagues found five groups of hackers who claimed to possess Mrs. Clinton’s deleted emails, including two groups he determined were Russians.
Mr. Smith said after vetting batches of emails offered to him by hacker groups last fall, he couldn’t be sure enough of their authenticity to leak them himself.*
Mr. Smith was himself once a hacking victim. Emails he wrote about the 2015 contest to fill former House Speaker John Boehner’s seat were stolen from the Illinois Republican Party and then made public, in a campaign U.S. intelligence officials attributed to Russian actors.*
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-ope...ynn-1498770851Comment
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Your source brings to mind this Atlantic article. The reference to the New Hampshire professor makes me wonder if he isn't our own "perfesser" also from NH.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...swamps/530736/Comment
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Last month, Democratic Senator Ed Markey delivered what seemed like an explosive bit of news during an interview with CNN: A grand jury had been impaneled in New York, he said, to investigate the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia.
The only problem: It wasn’t true.
The precise origins of the rumor are difficult to pin down, but it had been ricocheting around social media for days before Markey’s interview. The story had no reliable sourcing, and not a single credible news outlet touched it—but it had been fervently championed by*The Palmer Report, a liberal blog known for peddling conspiracy theories, and by anti-Trump Twitter crusaders like Louise Mensch. Soon enough, prominent people with blue checkmarks by their names were amplifying it with “Big if true”-type Tweets. And by May 11, the story had migrated from the bowels of the internet to the mouth of a United States senator.
After Markey’s office apologized for spreading the unsubstantiated story, there was a mild flurry of articles warning of “fake news” aimed at the left, and then everyone moved on. But the episode jarringly illustrated an under-examined phenomenon in American politics.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...swamps/530736/Comment
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It’s a prospect that deserves more serious attention and debate than it’s gotten this year. The Trump era has given rise to a vast alternative left-wing media infrastructure that operates largely out of the view of casual news consumers, but commands a massive audience and growing influence in liberal America. There are polemical podcasters and partisan click farms; wild-eyed conspiracists and cynical fabulists. Some traffic heavily in rumor and wage campaigns of misinformation; others are merely aggregators and commentators who have carved out a corner of the web for themselves. But taken together, they form a media universe where partisan hysteria is too easily stoked, and fake news can travel at the speed of light.
In recent months, some of the most irresponsible actors in this world have proven alarmingly adept at influencing venerated figures of the left—from public intellectuals, to world-famous celebrities, to elected officials.
These days, the tinfoil-hat crowd gathers on Twitter. People like Mensch, Claude Taylor, Andrea Chalupa, Eric Garland, and Leah McElrath feed their followers a steady diet of highly provocative speculation, rumor, and innuendo that makes it sound as if Trump’s presidency—and, really, the entire Republican Party—is perpetually on the verge of a spectacular meltdown. (sound familiar? ) The most prolific of the conspiracy-mongers tend to focus on the Russia scandal, weaving a narrative so sensationalistic and complex that it could pass for a Netflix political drama....Liberals desperate to believe that the right conspiracy will take down Donald Trump promote their own purveyors of fake newsComment
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There is*The Palmer Report, the publication of record for anti-Trump conspiracy nuts who don’t care about the credibility of the record; Shareblue, a viral news site that aspires, according to its founder David Brock (of Media Matter and an ardent Clinton supporter) to become the “Breitbart of the left”; and Patribotics, home to Mensch’s Russia-related rumormongering. Meanwhile, old-school platforms like Reddit and Daily Kos continue to host freewheeling forums that attract the kind of occasionally enlightening, occasionally deranged conversations that tend to thrive in those environments. And the HuffPost contributor platform—an un-vetted, unedited section of the site that operates apart from its professional journalism—has been a vehicle for some of the most bizarre, and outright craziest, content to go viral on the left in recent years. Just this month, editors were forced to delete a contributor post that began, “Impeachment and removal from office are only the first steps; for America to be redeemed, Donald Trump must be prosecuted for treason and — if convicted in a court of law — executed.” (Another that sounds familiarly like a TeeHeeMan post.)
And throughout last year’s primaries, Seth Abramson, a creative writing professor at the University of New Hampshire, used his HuffPost perch to churn out a procession of increasingly delusional blog posts.... He eventually wrote a post defending this shameless play for clicks as a form of “experimental journalism” that embraced “the multi-dimensionality of metanarrative. ”The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien responded viaTwitter: “Area Academic Writes Barely Comprehensible Defense of Lying.”)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...swamps/530736/Comment
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What about Ted Nugent saying Obama and Clinton should be tried for treason and hung?
And later he he gets an invite from Trump to the White House.Comment
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See Trump's latest tweet? What an imbecile. And this man (man-boy) is the freaking President of the United States.Comment
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