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GW Hayduke

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  1. Nobody fucks with Mike Pence and walks away from it. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/11/politics/mike-pence-gridiron-dinner/index.html Nobody fucks with Mike Pence and walks away from it. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/11/politics/mike-pence-gridiron-dinner/index.html
  2. Yes. Those videos of cops intertwined with the protestors, the videos of cops opening barriers, etc. is not evidence of complicity. Those videos are used by propagandists (Tucker, Twitter trolls) to make it look like they are complicit and to sow discord and division. Barriers were opened and abandoned when protestors had breached behind the barriers. There isn’t a point in battling protestors if they can just walk around. It would have been extraordinarily dangerous to try and do that. Once an area had been breached, once a part of the capital was breached, the cops were outnumbered and all they could do was keep the peace - I.e., be present and wait for the clear out activities to commence.
  3. Because the police weren’t being complicit. That is just a dumb narrative pushed by Tucker Carlson, right wing trolls, and those gullible to their propaganda.
  4. Ok. The Stop the Steal folks also don't have evidence. I perceive that theory to be anti-democratic, dangerous to the US, and exactly what our foreign adversaries want. Is there a reason I shouldn't perceive your theory as the same?
  5. Is there evidence supporting this theory? Seems dangerous. I understand Hillary was considered the favorite and she lost the electoral vote. Other than that, is there anything else? I understand the 2016 nationwide results were mostly within the margin of error. 538 gave Trump an overall 3/10 shot at winning. I don't discount the Russian meddling at all and believe their involvement contributed to Trump's narrow win - but that would likely have been generally captured in polling. I also wouldn't discount Comey's unprecedented meddling when he publicly announced his investigation 11 days before election day, which was during early voting. The polling leading up to that time wouldn't have factored Comey's meddling. Here is a good video on how "wrong" the polls were in 2016 - i.e., not very wrong. https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/polling-101-what-happened-to-the-polls-in-2016-and-what-you-should-know-about-them-in-2020/
  6. China stated it was a civilian scientific balloon that was blown off course. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/03/china-tells-us-to-remain-cool-headed-over-suspected-spy-balloon.html
  7. You still seem to be assuming that he should face consequences just for being targeted. Just because Trump, Trump Jr., and McCarthy say Swalwell acted inappropriate, doesn’t mean he actually did. Just like we shouldn’t kick reps from committees just because they are targeted by our adversaries, we also shouldn’t expect our political process to remove them either.
  8. Why should someone deserve consequences and be booted from the house intelligence committee for being targeted? Isn’t it possible for anyone to be targeted? Should we give our adversaries total control of who is on that committee? They can just target anyone they don’t want it and then not target those they do.
  9. It is possible this might be the desired effect of the potential misinformation about the ex's baby mama and pic taking twitter rumors. Move the opinion of a few from "this is an instance indicating reform is still needed" to "this is just a bad apple who had a personal grievance."
  10. I recommend you ponder the concept of red lining. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
  11. Yeah. That was generally what I’ve seen from other outlets.
  12. Because Biden's team didn't publicly announce the discovery within 7 days after making the discovery, there could be a cover up? They notified NARA and provided them with the documents. NARA then informed the DOJ. That appears to be the textbook, exact way to handle a situation like this -- and the exact opposite of a "cover up." Plus, the DOJ has an apparent policy that they don't announce major investigative steps close to an election, so they aren't covering anything up. And we know they never fuck that up.
  13. I agree the situation is problematic for the admin, but why are people pointing this out?
  14. This isn’t true. Bernie lost a primary. It was simple. Right wing propaganda and bernie bros on the lower end of the critical thinking spectrum pushed that false narrative. I find it interesting to look back and see how similar it is to today’s big lie pushed by trump. I get that you may be influenced by right wing propaganda but ideally you would move past it.
  15. I can see him filing a civil lawsuit against Twitter for trying to influence the 2020 election, and then Elon has his attorneys in court confess to Twitter doing just that. Trump is able to show the world that he is indeed, officially, without a doubt, a victim. Elon gets to continue and overhaul all the safeguards at Twitter, and when Elon is accused of putting his thumb on the 2024 election the incel crowd and Anastasia get to chant Both Sides.
  16. An attorney should probably weigh in, but I understand an indictment comes from a grand jury and a charge comes from a prosecutor. I may be wrong, but I thought we only had an arrest and that a prosecutor hasn’t decided yet whether to press charges
  17. I agree. But IMO Elon is highly likely a bad actor (and thus twitter will be if it already isn't) and I doubt he would hesitate to use twitter's algorithms to influence elections. I doubt he would hesitate with providing user info of dissidents to authoritarian states. He may even have an in-house Cambridge Analytica - make those services available to the highest bidder.
  18. "The end game is engagement." "It boils down to money." This is more dangerous than that. The end game is power. It boils down to influencing US elections. To controlling who appoints SC justices, who decides whether we oppose Russia's territorial expansions or leave NATO, who decides whether we tax the rich, who decides whether we erode US institutions. Elon has clearly come out on the side of the GOP. It might have started out just with engagement clicks and money but that isn't what is at risk now.
  19. Evaluating a situation and seeking to understand a person’s methods and purpose shouldn’t be equated as supporting that person. Try and be less sensitive.
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