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2021-05-01 at 4 PM UTCRudy asks the FBI crooks, aren't you going to take Hunter Biden's hard drives? Hell, no, says the FBI crooks. We were told not to touch those.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-05-01 at 4:05 PM UTC
Originally posted by frala If you don’t quit with those goddamn dumbass wall of text that literally no one reads I am going to walk across this house and fucking ban I swear to Jesus fucking Christ.
Sounds like cancel culture to me.
Stl1 posts current information from traditional news sources in a so-called MAGA thread to dispel the lies and propaganda from the delusional right.
He is a great patriot and even has the ability to speak of himself in the third person.
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2021-05-01 at 4:06 PM UTC
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2021-05-01 at 9:06 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-05-01 at 9:12 PM UTCIf a youngster was in the cradle, stl1 would eat shite out of his hands if the glorious and the good of the jedi press so decreed.
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2021-05-01 at 9:14 PM UTC
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2021-05-01 at 9:43 PM UTChe would swallow there seed
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2021-05-01 at 9:50 PM UTCSadly, stl1 is still obsessed with where Melania shits, even after all those years.
I have found this particularly disconcerting in light of the fact that Melania's shits within camp are put into a small box, tied up with a bow, and auctioned off to the highest bidder each Thursday afternoon. This has raised considerable funds for charity, to which we are grateful to stl1. -
2021-05-01 at 10:06 PM UTCoh, well I now see why he has such a bad tast in his mouf towards TRUMP.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-05-01 at 10:41 PM UTCMore
Anarchists
Going
Away
The Washington Post
GOP lawmaker charged with ‘knowingly’ letting rioters breach the Oregon Capitol
Lateshia Beachum
As far-right demonstrators gathered outside the Oregon Capitol in December in the hope of ending coronavirus restrictions, state Rep. Mike Nearman (R) appeared to purposefully allow entry to two men trying to breach the building as he was leaving.
Nearman, 57, now faces criminal charges for his role in allegedly allowing the rioters to breach the Oregon Capitol, Marion County District Attorney Paige E. Clarkson announced Friday. The GOP lawmaker has been charged with misdemeanor counts of first-degree official misconduct and second-degree criminal trespass, according to court documents.
Prosecutors say Nearman — who was stripped of his committee assignments and has faced calls to resign in recent months — “unlawfully and knowingly” opened the door for the far-right group “with intent to obtain a benefit or to harm another.”
“Rep. Nearman put every person in the Capitol in serious danger and created fear among Capitol staff and legislators,” tweeted Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek (D) on Friday. “I called on him to resign in January and renew my call in light of today’s charges.”
Oregon Public Broadcasting reported that at least three of the men who took part at the far-right demonstration in Salem made the trip to the U.S. Capitol weeks later for the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6.
Nearman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday. In a January statement, the Republican said he was the victim of “mob justice” and reiterated his belief that the statehouse should be open.
“I don’t condone violence nor participate in it,” Nearman said in his January statement.
Although few Oregon Republicans have commented on the matter, the Oregonian reported that state House GOP Leader Christine Drazan said she supports a criminal investigation of the incident.
In a statement to The Washington Post on Saturday, Drazan said that she trusts the judicial process will be fair and objective.
“State legislators are the voices of their community,” Drazan said. “They are not above the law.”
As The Washington Post’s Katie Shepherd reported, Nearman, who represents a district near Polk County located about 60 miles outside Portland, is one of the most conservative members of the state legislature. Now in his fourth term, Nearman remains one of the most vocal opponents of the state’s covid restrictions and has even sued Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) over her emergency orders.
Rioters stormed the Oregon Capitol in December. Video shows a Republican lawmaker let them in.
At around 8 a.m. on Dec. 21, right-wing protesters gathered outside the statehouse as the legislature met to consider the governor’s proposal to distribute $800 million in coronavirus relief.
The scene soon grew violent when rioters attempted to bust through the Oregon Capitol’s doors and journalists covering the demonstration were repeatedly attacked. Authorities were pushed and reportedly sprayed twice with “bear spray.”
When Nearman let the rioters in, dozens more eventually streamed into the building to attack officers and damage property, according to surveillance video.
The far-right demonstrators were inside the state Capitol for nearly an hour before police cleared the area, OPB reported. Police arrested at least five people on an array of charges.
Nearman’s role in letting the rioters breach the Capitol came to light after the surveillance video was made public in January. In response, Kotek said she stripped him of his committee responsibilities and the legislature reportedly sent him an invoice for more than $2,700 to repair the damages from the breach. While he has regularly appeared on Oregon House floor sessions, Nearman agreed to turn in his Capitol access badge and now must provide 24 hours notice before entering the statehouse.
The GOP lawmaker, citing the advice of his attorney, has declined to comment about the riot to local media. In January, he agreed to abide by state House safety precautions in a letter he read on the floor.
“I, Rep. Mike Nearman, voluntarily agree to the following interim safety measures,” he said. “I will not allow any unauthorized personnel into the Capitol.”
Nearman is scheduled to appear in Marion County Court on May 11, court records show. Documents indicated that his failure to appear will result in an arrest warrant. -
2021-05-01 at 10:56 PM UTC2020 VOTER ELECTION FRAUD PROVEN ! ! !
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DEAD (WO)MAN VOTING ! ! !
Newsweek
Man Pleads Guilty to Illegal Vote for Trump, Blames 'Stupid Mistake' on 'Too Much Propaganda'
Natalie Colarossi
A 70-year-old man from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to casting an illegal ballot for former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election and was sentenced to five years of probation on Friday.
Bruce Bartman, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, admitted to casting the illegal vote in his dead mother's name and told a court Friday that it was a "stupid mistake."
"I was isolated last year in lockdown," Bartman said to Common Pleas Court Judge George Pagano, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. "I listened to too much propaganda and made a stupid mistake."
Bartman pleaded guilty to two felony counts of perjury and one count of unlawful voting after investigators discovered that he used the driver's license of his dead mother to register her to vote online, and filled out an absentee ballot in her name.
At the time of voting, his mother, Elizabeth Bartman, had been dead for 12 years, the Philly Voice reported.
Bartman also attempted to do the same for his deceased mother-in-law, Elizabeth Weihman, using her Social Security number. However, he did not cast a ballot for Weihman.
The state's voting system flagged Elizabeth Bartman's registration after noting she had been dead for several years, but Bartman signed and sent back a letter asserting she was still alive, the Inquirer reported. Investigations slowly revealed that Bartman had successfully committed voter fraud after a rumor circulated on social media and a formal complaint was brought to the county's Board of Elections.
On Friday, Bartman admitted that he registered both deceased women as Republicans in August, and apologized for his actions. His attorney Samuel Stretton echoed the apology in court, and called the actions "a very misguided political mistake, and very stupid."
Rather than giving him a jail sentence, Pagano sentenced Bartman to five years of probation, stripped him of his right to vote in an election for four years, and made him ineligible to serve jury duty.
"There's not public benefit to him being incarcerated," District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said of the case, according to the Inquirer. "This defendant from the beginning has accepted responsibility for his actions, and he has paid the price for them."
Bartman was one of three men in Pennsylvania accused of committing voter fraud by casting illegal ballots for Trump. Two others, Ralph Thurman of Chester County and Richard Lynn of Luzerne County, have criminal cases pending, according to the Inquirer.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to push the false narrative that the election was "stolen" from him due to widespread voter fraud committed for President Joe Biden.
In Maricopa County, Arizona, Republicans are currently attempting to overturn Biden's electoral win by performing an audit of some 2.1 million votes. On Thursday, Trump appeared to suggest to crowds of his supporters that several other states—including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Hampshire—could face recounts as well.
"Let's see what they find. I wouldn't be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes, so we're going to watch that very closely," Trump said to a crowd of supporters in Mar-a-Lago.
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2021-05-02 at 11:10 AM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 2020 VOTER ELECTION FRAUD PROVEN ! ! !
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DEAD (WO)MAN VOTING ! ! !
Newsweek
Man Pleads Guilty to Illegal Vote for Trump, Blames 'Stupid Mistake' on 'Too Much Propaganda'
Natalie Colarossi
A 70-year-old man from Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to casting an illegal ballot for former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election and was sentenced to five years of probation on Friday.
Bruce Bartman, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, admitted to casting the illegal vote in his dead mother's name and told a court Friday that it was a "stupid mistake."
"I was isolated last year in lockdown," Bartman said to Common Pleas Court Judge George Pagano, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. "I listened to too much propaganda and made a stupid mistake."
Bartman pleaded guilty to two felony counts of perjury and one count of unlawful voting after investigators discovered that he used the driver's license of his dead mother to register her to vote online, and filled out an absentee ballot in her name.
At the time of voting, his mother, Elizabeth Bartman, had been dead for 12 years, the Philly Voice reported.
Bartman also attempted to do the same for his deceased mother-in-law, Elizabeth Weihman, using her Social Security number. However, he did not cast a ballot for Weihman.
The state's voting system flagged Elizabeth Bartman's registration after noting she had been dead for several years, but Bartman signed and sent back a letter asserting she was still alive, the Inquirer reported. Investigations slowly revealed that Bartman had successfully committed voter fraud after a rumor circulated on social media and a formal complaint was brought to the county's Board of Elections.
On Friday, Bartman admitted that he registered both deceased women as Republicans in August, and apologized for his actions. His attorney Samuel Stretton echoed the apology in court, and called the actions "a very misguided political mistake, and very stupid."
Rather than giving him a jail sentence, Pagano sentenced Bartman to five years of probation, stripped him of his right to vote in an election for four years, and made him ineligible to serve jury duty.
"There's not public benefit to him being incarcerated," District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said of the case, according to the Inquirer. "This defendant from the beginning has accepted responsibility for his actions, and he has paid the price for them."
Bartman was one of three men in Pennsylvania accused of committing voter fraud by casting illegal ballots for Trump. Two others, Ralph Thurman of Chester County and Richard Lynn of Luzerne County, have criminal cases pending, according to the Inquirer.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to push the false narrative that the election was "stolen" from him due to widespread voter fraud committed for President Joe Biden.
In Maricopa County, Arizona, Republicans are currently attempting to overturn Biden's electoral win by performing an audit of some 2.1 million votes. On Thursday, Trump appeared to suggest to crowds of his supporters that several other states—including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Hampshire—could face recounts as well.
"Let's see what they find. I wouldn't be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes, so we're going to watch that very closely," Trump said to a crowd of supporters in Mar-a-Lago.
Newsweek contacted Trump's office for an addition
I thought there was no election fraud?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-05-02 at 11:16 AM UTChe he heeee.
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2021-05-02 at 4:56 PM UTCMaking
All
Giuliani like
Afraid
Business Insider
Former members of Trump's inner circle are living in fear after Rudy Giuliani raid, report says
sankel@businessinsider.com (Sophia Ankel)
The Rudy Giuliani raid has Trump allies feeling uneasy about what could come next, CNN reported.
A former Trump advisor said the raid is proof that officials are willing to pursue his inner circle.
Several Trump allies also said it "wouldn't shock" them if Giuliani turned on the former president.
Trump allies are growing increasingly concerned about the future after former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's office and apartment were raided by federal agents this week, according to CNN.
On Wednesday, Giuliani, who acted as Trump's former attorney, was the target of two raids in which investigators seized several of his electronic devices as well as a computer belonging to his personal assistant. The searches were in connection to a criminal probe into Giuliani's dealings in Ukraine, The New York Times reported.
Trump's allies and former members of his inner circle are now reportedly becoming increasingly worried about further raids and upcoming FBI investigations.
"This was a show of force that sent a strong message to a lot of people in Trump's world that other things may be coming down the pipeline," an advisor to the former president, who wished to stay anonymous, told CNN.
The advisor also described the Giuliani raid as "overkill" and said the raid was a worrying sign that investigators were more willing to pursue investigations than previously thought.
"I can't for the life of me think why you would need to send seven FBI agents to go and collect a cellphone and laptop," the advisor said.
Two other people close to Trump echoed these sentiments, according to CNN, but declined to be quoted.
The former New York City mayor has not been charged and denied any wrongdoing. His attorney said in a statement this week that it was a "corrupt double standard" that feds didn't execute a search warrant against Hunter Biden as well.
"Republicans who are prominent supporters and defenders of President Trump ... are subjected to false charges and procedures used in the past, if at all, in cases involving terrorists and organized criminals," the statement said.
Some people, including ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, have since come out to predict that Giuliani will turn against Trump if prosecutors tightened the screws on him.
Another person who is close to the former president said that this outcome "wouldn't shock" them at all.
"Even the most loyal people have their breaking point," the person said, according to CNN. "I think we've seen some more surprising instances of things like that happening, especially with Michael Cohen."
Cohen is serving a three-year prison sentence under house arrest after pleading guilty to multiple counts of campaign finance violations and tax evasion. He also pled guilty to lying to Congress as part of Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election. -
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2021-05-02 at 8:22 PM UTCNEVER FORGET ! ! !
The Washington Post
The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won’t let anyone forget it
Margaret Sullivan
The journalists at WITF, an all-news public radio station in Harrisburg, Pa., made a perfectly reasonable decision a few months ago.
They decided they wouldn’t shrug off the damaging lies of election denialism.
They wouldn’t do what too many in Big Journalism have done in recent months: shove into the memory hole the undemocratic efforts by some Republican elected officials to delegitimize or overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Too many Sunday news shows repeatedly book the likes of Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson without reminding viewers how these members of Congress tried to undo the results of the election — and encouraged the Trumpian lies about election fraud that led to the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol less than four months ago. A rare exception is CNN’s “State of the Union,” which hasn’t booked a single member of the so-called Sedition Caucus since January.
“There’s a kind of clubby atmosphere on these shows, part of the Beltway Bubble mentality, in which it’s become almost impolite to raise the topic of the insurrection,” Princeton University history professor Kevin Kruse told me.
“CBS This Morning,” for example, sent out an email alert last week touting its exclusive interview with Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), one of the seven senators who voted against certifying the election results in Pennsylvania. Scott blasted President Biden for “spending us into oblivion” and mocked him for not achieving bipartisanship — yet interviewer Anthony Mason never mentioned that Scott had literally tried to overturn Biden’s election.
“109 days after Jan. 6, ‘history will remember’ is a complete joke,” Matt Negrin of “The Daily Show” tweeted last week. He added: “These media outlets want you to forget.”
But Harrisburg’s WITF has gone a different route: They want you to remember.
Months before the election, the station’s reporters and editors were already deeply alarmed by what they saw unfolding. “We could see the disinformation really taking hold, this idea that the only way President Trump could lose is if the election were rigged,” Tim Lambert, the station’s news director, told me last week.
[The pro-Trump media world peddled the lies that fueled the Capitol mob. Fox News led the way.]
The deadly culmination of that anti-democratic lie, the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, solidified their thinking. In late January, the station — whose newsroom includes six reporters and two editors — posted an explanatory story stating that they would be regularly reminding their audience that some state legislators signed a letter urging Congress to vote against certifying the Pennsylvania election results, and that some members of Congress had voted against certifying the state’s election results for President Biden, despite no evidence to support their election-fraud claims.
These elected officials, WITF reminded its audience, either knowingly spread disinformation or flat-out lied in an effort to keep Trump in office.
“This was an unprecedented assault on the fabric of American democracy,” the statement said.
The station has stuck to its pledge in its day-to-day coverage ever since, by simply and without fanfare including boilerplate language about how lawmakers conducted themselves during the attempts to overturn the election whenever they are mentioned in the course of regular news coverage.
For example, a recent story about a state legislator’s efforts to get Pennsylvanians vaccinated was accompanied by a sidebar of text about the lawmaker in question.
“State Sen. Ryan Aument (R—Lancaster) was one of 17 Republican state senators who signed a Jan. 4 letter that asked Congress to delay electoral college certification because, it said incorrectly, SCOTUS ‘is to hear Trump v. Boockvar in the coming days.’ On Jan. 11 SCOTUS refused to fast-track the case. The election-fraud lie led to the attack on the Capitol.”
On-air stories use similar language as a tagline at the end of news segments.
The station’s effort has been generally well-received, said Scott Blanchard, editor of StateImpact Pennsylvania, a public-media collaboration, who joined in the planning.
[So you’re being held accountable? That’s not ‘cancel culture.’]
“We struggled because this is not the normal thing,” Blanchard told me. “We had to ask ourselves, ‘Does this mean we are not independent journalists?’ ” But ultimately, he and Lambert — and the WITF reporters — felt that sustained accountability was paramount.
“We’re out on a ledge here,” Lambert remembers thinking. Both he and Blanchard hoped other news organizations would join them. “But it’s been radio silence,” Lambert said.
To be sure, other news organizations, including The Washington Post, are covering the aftermath of the election fraud lies and the insurrection, sometimes in innovative ways, as NYU professor Jay Rosen recently wrote. ProPublica has established a “democracy beat,” and a nonprofit news organization, Votebeat, focuses on election integrity.
But I’d like to see more accountability. So would Princeton’s Kruse. “There’s a tendency in the political media to get caught up in the story of the day and not dwell on the things that need to be reckoned with,” he said.
If it were up to him, Kruse would prescribe a simple rule for network TV producers thinking about putting election denialists on-air: “Don’t book them, as long as they haven’t publicly retracted.”
The Harrisburg station expects to continue its practice at least through the 2022 elections and possibly through 2024. If legislators change their minds, the station will reflect that in their language, but it won’t simply wipe the slate clean for them.
“Elected officials are going to run on this,” Blanchard said. “This is an example of their judgment.”
In other words, no memory hole. No “let’s just move on.” And, sorry, no amnesty.
