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2021-06-25 at 3:01 PM UTC
Originally posted by Technologist
If you think I’m going to read this trash when you start out being insulting, yeah you can fuck off.
lol. most never trumpers are never trumpers not because of they disagree with him or anything but it is mainly because they are insulted, either directly or perceived, by trump.
i realize this after i watched the documentary "the art of the insult". apparently trump was very abrasive and offensive to everybody from the moment he came down from the escalator to the moment he left the whitehouse.
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2021-06-25 at 4:30 PM UTCBusiness Insider
A top Trump campaign lawyer called Rudy Giuliani a 'f---ing a--hole' after he tried to ignore Georgia election law to recount 2020 votes, book says
sbaker@businessinsider.com (Sinéad Baker)
Giuliani and Trump's deputy campaign manager clashed over challenging Georgia's results, book says.
Justin Clark reportedly said they had to wait for results to be certified before challenging them.
Giuliani said he was lying, and Clark called him a "f---ing a--hole," per the book.
Justin Clark, the deputy campaign manager for former President Donald Trump, called Rudy Giuliani a "f---ing a--hole" in the Oval Office as they clashed over plans for a 2020 election recount, a new book cited by DailyMail.com said.
Trump and Clark were in the Oval Office and on the phone to Giuliani when Giuliani said the campaign needed to challenge the results that suggested that Joe Biden was going to win Georgia, Michael Bender wrote in his book, "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost."
The episode took place on November 13, days after the election had been called for President Joe Biden but before Georgia's results were certified.
Clark challenged Giuliani and said Georgia's results could not be contested before they were certified, and Giuliani then called him a "liar," the book said.
This turned into a shouting match, with Clark then saying "You're a f---ing a--hole, Rudy!" the book said.
Clark stopped going to the White House after that incident, the book excerpt said, without giving more specifics.
Insider has contacted Trump's office for comment.
The DailyMail.com excerpt came as Giuliani was suspended from practicing law in New York after a court found that he had made "demonstrably false and misleading statements" about the 2020 election. -
2021-06-25 at 4:37 PM UTCPence contradicts Trump on January 6, calling plan to decertify 2020 election "un-American"
By Michael Warren, CNN
Former Vice President Mike Pence rebuked former President Donald Trump on Thursday night on the question of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Pence also said he will "always be proud" of his role in affirming the election results on January 6 following a deadly riot of Trump supporters at the US Capitol.
The former vice president's remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, focused primarily on laying out a pro-Trump platform for a potential White House run of his own.
But Pence also offered a harsh assessment of the former President's claims, in the days and weeks leading up to January 6, about changing the results of the election during the official counting of electoral votes in Congress.
"The Constitution affords the vice president no authority to reject or return electoral votes submitted to the Congress by the states," said Pence, contradicting Trump's claim at his January 6 rally that his vice president could "do the right thing" and reject the vote count.
Without mentioning Trump by name, Pence said there are "those in our party" who believe that "any one person" could select the president.
"Truth is, there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president," he said.
Trump continues to insist the election was stolen, and just this week told an interviewer that he "never admitted defeat" and was "very disappointed that (Pence) didn't send it back to the legislatures."
By contrast, Pence acknowledged the "disappointment" of defeat in 2020.
"Now, I understand the disappointment many feel about the last election," he said. "I can relate. I was on the ballot. But you know, there's more at stake than our party and our political fortunes in this moment. If we lose faith in the Constitution, we won't just lose elections -- we'll lose our country." -
2021-06-25 at 4:39 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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2021-06-25 at 4:41 PM UTCshart of the deal
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2021-06-25 at 4:47 PM UTCPOLITICO
DHS is concerned about Trump reinstatement conspiracy theory, top official says
By Betsy Woodruff Swan
The conspiracy theory that Donald Trump will be reinstated as president in August has sparked concerns at the Department of Homeland Security, a top official there told members of Congress on Wednesday.
The exchange came in a members-only briefing that John Cohen, the department’s top counterterrorism official, gave to the House Committee on Homeland Security. Three people familiar with the briefing described it to POLITICO. They requested anonymity to discuss the private conversation.
In the briefing, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) asked Cohen how DHS is following the spread of disinformation and conspiracy theories, as well as the way that discourse can fuel violence. She specifically brought up the conspiracy theory claiming Trump will be reinstated as president in August — a theory Trump himself has reportedly promoted.
Cohen replied that DHS is not aware of any specific, credible threats of violence linked to the conspiracy theory about Trump being reinstated. But he added that DHS is following discussion of the topic online among extremist communities. And he said department officials are highly concerned about it because it fuels the false narrative that the election was rigged — a narrative that may trigger a violent response from extremists.
The briefing’s topic was domestic terrorism. But Cohen also fielded a significant number of questions from members about violent crime, which has surged in 2020 and 2021. Cohen said DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has directed officials there to look at factors fueling the violence that fall in the department’s mission. And earlier this week, the Biden administration rolled out a strategy to combat violent crime.
Conspiracy theorists — notably including Mike Lindell, the pillow magnate who appears frequently in commercials on Fox News — have claimed in recent months that Trump will be reinstated as president in August, The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and National Review reported earlier this month that Trump himself has told acquaintances he expects to be reinstated as president by the end of the summer. Lindell told The Daily Beast that Trump probably reached that conclusion because he has been promoting it. Commentator Charlie Sykes wrote for MSNBC that the August date is “based on guesswork and conspiratorial theories tied to nonexistent election fraud in Arizona and a delusional hope that the Supreme Court will invalidate the election.”
“If Trump is saying August, that is probably because he heard me say it publicly,” Lindell said.
A DHS spokesperson sent POLITICO a statement after this story published highlighting the department's emphasis on disinformation.
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is focused on the nexus between violence and extremist ideologies, as well as hateful and false narratives," the spokesperson said. "DHS is enhancing its ability to prevent acts of violence inspired by disinformation, conspiracy theories, and extremist narratives spread through social media and other online platforms.”
And Sidney Powell, who did legal work for Trump as he tried to overturn the 2020 election results, told a QAnon conference earlier this year that he “can simply be reinstated.”
A Morning Consult/POLITICO survey from earlier this month showed that almost one-third of Republican voters have bought into the conspiracy theory. It traffics in the same themes of election-rigging that fueled the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Republican members of Congress blocked an effort to establish a 9/11-style commission to investigate that attack. So this morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she will set up a select committee to probe the event.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has made combating domestic terrorism a priority. The White House released a strategy document earlier this month detailing their approach to the problem. And the Department of Homeland Security has set up a dedicated team of intelligence analysts focused exclusively on the topic. But the work has generated concerns among civil liberties advocates, who say they worry about expanded government surveillance of activity the First Amendment protects — along with potential disparate impacts on marginalized communities.
Polecat and Speculum, which one of you do you think has the largest file at DHS? I think it is probably Poley. I know I've tried to keep him and his whackadoodle conspiracy theories front and center here on this very thread. -
2021-06-25 at 4:50 PM UTC
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2021-06-25 at 4:53 PM UTCA Republican-appointed judge just smacked down GOP deniers on January 6
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 was a dark day in American history. The attempted rewriting of what actually happened that day -- when more than 100 police officers were injured and five people died -- by former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies is even more noxious.
On Wednesday, a federal judge named Royce Lamberth had had enough. Lamberth used the first sentencing hearing for a defendant charged in the attack on the Capitol to blast Republicans trying to cast January 6 as anything other than a violent riot aimed at stopping the wheels of democracy from turning.
"I'm especially troubled by the accounts of some members of Congress that January 6 was just a day of tourists walking through the Capitol," Lamberth said. "I don't know what planet they were on. ... This was not a peaceful demonstration. It was not an accident that it turned violent; it was intended to halt the very functioning of our government."
Lamberth, who was appointed to his judgeship by the late Republican president Ronald Reagan, added that newly released videos from inside the riot that day "will show the attempt of some congressman to rewrite history that these were tourists walking through the capitol is utter nonsense."
The likes of Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde have actively attempted to suggest that the media coverage of January 6 has painted an inaccurate picture of what happened that day.
"This didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me," Johnson said in February. Clyde said in May that the insurrection looked like a "normal tourist visit" to him.
Even House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has gotten in on the whitewashing of that day -- and Trump's role (or lack thereof) in it.
Here's McCarthy describing what happened on January during an interview with Fox News Channel in late April:
"What I talked to President Trump about, I was the first person to contact him when the riots was going on. He didn't see it. What he ended the call was saying -- telling me, he'll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that's what he did, he put a video out later."
Which is, uh, not exactly what happened. Here's what did happen, via reporting in February from CNN's Jamie Gangel, Kevin Liptak, Michael Warren and Marshall Cohen:
"Speaking to the President from inside the besieged Capitol, McCarthy pressed Trump to call off his supporters and engaged in a heated disagreement about who comprised the crowd. Trump's comment about the would-be insurrectionists caring more about the election results than McCarthy did was first mentioned by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from Washington state, in a town hall earlier this week, and was confirmed to CNN by Herrera Beutler and other Republicans briefed on the conversation."
Lamberth made clear this week that he wouldn't stand for that junk -- blasting as "conspiracy theories" the idea that the FBI was somehow involved in the riot. (He also had a warning for those future defendants in the cases being brought by the Justice Department for the violence on January 6; "Some of my defendants in some of these other cases think there's no consequence to this, and there is a consequence," he said. "I don't want to create the impression that probation is the automatic outcome here, because it's not going to be.")
Lamberth's frank talk is a reminder -- or at least should serve as one -- that there isn't a factual debate about what happened at the US Capitol on January 6.
A group of people, egged on by Trump and his loyalist allies, attempted to block the certification of the Electoral College vote. They did so because they had been fed a lie -- by Trump and other GOP leaders as well as conservative media -- that there was some sort of valid claim that the 2020 election had been fraudulent. They overwhelmed the US Capitol Police, often using violent means, and marauded through the home of the US Congress.
These are FACTS. They are NOT in dispute. We need to keep saying that because truth matters. -
2021-06-25 at 6:07 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 A Republican-appointed judge just smacked down GOP deniers on January 6
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6 was a dark day in American history. The attempted rewriting of what actually happened that day – when more than 100 police officers were injured and five people died – by former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies is even more noxious.
On Wednesday, a federal judge named Royce Lamberth had had enough. Lamberth used the first sentencing hearing for a defendant charged in the attack on the Capitol to blast Republicans trying to cast January 6 as anything other than a violent riot aimed at stopping the wheels of democracy from turning.
"I'm especially troubled by the accounts of some members of Congress that January 6 was just a day of tourists walking through the Capitol," Lamberth said. "I don't know what planet they were on. … This was not a peaceful demonstration. It was not an accident that it turned violent; it was intended to halt the very functioning of our government."
Lamberth, who was appointed to his judgeship by the late Republican president Ronald Reagan, added that newly released videos from inside the riot that day "will show the attempt of some congressman to rewrite history that these were tourists walking through the capitol is utter nonsense."
The likes of Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde have actively attempted to suggest that the media coverage of January 6 has painted an inaccurate picture of what happened that day.
"This didn't seem like an armed insurrection to me," Johnson said in February. Clyde said in May that the insurrection looked like a "normal tourist visit" to him.
Even House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has gotten in on the whitewashing of that day – and Trump's role (or lack thereof) in it.
Here's McCarthy describing what happened on January during an interview with Fox News Channel in late April:
"What I talked to President Trump about, I was the first person to contact him when the riots was going on. He didn't see it. What he ended the call was saying – telling me, he'll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that's what he did, he put a video out later."
Which is, uh, not exactly what happened. Here's what did happen, via reporting in February from CNN's Jamie Gangel, Kevin Liptak, Michael Warren and Marshall Cohen:
"Speaking to the President from inside the besieged Capitol, McCarthy pressed Trump to call off his supporters and engaged in a heated disagreement about who comprised the crowd. Trump's comment about the would-be insurrectionists caring more about the election results than McCarthy did was first mentioned by Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from Washington state, in a town hall earlier this week, and was confirmed to CNN by Herrera Beutler and other Republicans briefed on the conversation."
Lamberth made clear this week that he wouldn't stand for that junk – blasting as "conspiracy theories" the idea that the FBI was somehow involved in the riot. (He also had a warning for those future defendants in the cases being brought by the Justice Department for the violence on January 6; "Some of my defendants in some of these other cases think there's no consequence to this, and there is a consequence," he said. "I don't want to create the impression that probation is the automatic outcome here, because it's not going to be.")
Lamberth's frank talk is a reminder – or at least should serve as one – that there isn't a factual debate about what happened at the US Capitol on January 6.
A group of people, egged on by Trump and his loyalist allies, attempted to block the certification of the Electoral College vote. They did so because they had been fed a lie – by Trump and other GOP leaders as well as conservative media – that there was some sort of valid claim that the 2020 election had been fraudulent. They overwhelmed the US Capitol Police, often using violent means, and marauded through the home of the US Congress.
These are FACTS. They are NOT in dispute. We need to keep saying that because truth matters.
Facts, like that Selnick was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by vicious MAGApedes?
Those sort of facts?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-06-25 at 6:18 PM UTC
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2021-06-25 at 8:59 PM UTCMaking
America
Go nuts over President Biden
Again
The Washington Post
Fox News polling shows majority approval for Biden — not that you’ll hear about it much on Fox News
Philip Bump
Some good news for President Biden from an unexpected source this week: Polling from Fox News put his approval rating at 56 percent. That’s above the president’s current average, as calculated by FiveThirtyEight, and, while not historically jaw-dropping, it is noteworthy in a deeply polarized political moment.
It’s largely a function of three things. The first is overwhelming support from Democrats, 60 percent of whom approve of him strongly and more than 9-in-10 who approve at least somewhat. The second is that a majority of independents at least somewhat approve of his performance. The third, and perhaps most unexpected, is that a fifth of Republicans say they at least somewhat approve — including 13 percent of those who also say they voted for former president Donald Trump last year.
Those are striking results in the details. But if you are an avid consumer of Fox News’s programming and online content, you’d be forgiven for not having heard about them.
On Thursday morning, I noticed that the results, released Wednesday evening, didn’t appear on the Fox News homepage. Instead, there was a text link to a story about the poll generally, focused on a different question that dealt with the coronavirus pandemic. That story by Fox News’ Dana Blanton does include the Biden approval number — literally the last line in the story.
Blanton, whose title is senior vice president of public opinion research, is often the byline on Fox polling stories. She has another one from this same poll, focused on the public’s concerns about inflation and the economy. In the middle of that story was a more detailed breakdown of Biden’s approval numbers, as well as a quote from one of the pollsters who conducted the research.
“In looking at public opinion data on recent presidents, Biden’s approval numbers are fairly average for someone at this stage of the first term,” said Daron Shaw, the Republican pollster from Fox’s bipartisan polling team. Shaw added that Biden “scores slightly better than George W. Bush and Donald Trump,” which somewhat downplays that Trump was polling at 45 percent in Fox’s June 2017 poll.
The headline on Blanton’s article then? “Fox News Poll: Record approval of Trump on economy, optimism on North Korea.”
Again, though, to learn about this number you’d have to dive deep into one of the site’s articles about its poll. In its last approval poll conducted during Trump’s presidency, it was easier to figure out what the poll said. Blanton wrote an article predicated on public opinion about Trump’s time in office. There’s certainly a difference in the newsworthiness of an assessment of a lame-duck president’s administration and a new president’s first few months, but the difference is still worth noting.
Of course, most Fox News fans get their information from the outlet’s television coverage more than its web content. And on that front, the odds that they heard about the Biden number at all are low.
Fox polling is often released in concert with Bret Baier’s evening news show, as was this week’s poll. Guest host Bill Hemmer walked through the numbers at the top of the show and then quickly transitioned to an interview with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that centered on criticism of Biden’s approach to crime.
On Thursday afternoon, the approval number came up again — to point out that Biden’s approval on immigration was underwater (meaning that more disapprove than approve) by 13 points. This was centered on Vice President Harris’s visit to the border on Friday.
There was another pointed mention of the approval polling. On the popular morning program “Fox & Friends,” the hosts asked one of the network’s contributors about Biden’s apparent popularity.
“How do you explain his approval rating, according to Fox’s poll, is 54 percent?” host Brian Kilmeade asked, getting the number wrong.
“I mean, I truly don’t believe that,” she responded — referring, just to put a fine point on it, to Fox’s own poll. “I don’t think that is a legitimate number.”
She went on to argue that Biden is getting “coddled” by the media, arguing that “people who tune into those outlets are not getting the full picture on Joe Biden.”
Oh, the contributor, by the way, was Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law. -
2021-06-25 at 9:01 PM UTCsti1 doesn't address points others make, just copypastas paid propagandaThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-06-25 at 9:53 PM UTCAll the polls, Fox News included, insisted Hillary had a 97% chance of winning in 2016. But we all ended up seeing how accurate they were. Nothing has changed since then.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-06-25 at 10:01 PM UTCRump is no longer the president.
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2021-06-25 at 10:02 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ All the polls, Fox News included, insisted Hillary had a 97% chance of winning in 2016. But we all ended up seeing how accurate they were. Nothing has changed since then.
They said that election was hacked.
Now they say anyone who suggests the election wasn't free and fair is evil. Not just wrong, evil.
The bullshit these people come out with would embarrass Satan.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-06-26 at 12:43 AM UTC
Originally posted by Technologist So Pole
Did you hear that there’s no chance of Michigan or Georgia doing a recount? Sounds like your plan is falling apart. I bet this Arizona audit is the last. These people are viewed as conspiracy freaks, and the general public know it’s a farce. Can you tell me why they took the ballots to Montana? They’re just asking for trouble.
well I'll ask you to show me where in any of the 51 constitutions it gives the government the power to tell the people they cant have an audit. -
2021-06-26 at 12:43 AM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump They said that election was hacked.
Now they say anyone who suggests the election wasn't free and fair is evil. Not just wrong, evil.
The bullshit these people come out with would embarrass Satan.
2016: "The election process was rigged."
2020: "The election process was the fairest and most secure in history."The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-06-26 at 12:46 AM UTCJune 24, 2021, 7:50 PM EDT
By The Associated Press
ATLANTA, GEORGIA — A judge on Thursday allowed a lawsuit alleging fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the November election and seeking a review of absentee ballots to move forward. -
2021-06-26 at 10:55 AM UTCgood morning motherfuckers!!!!
AUGUST BITCHES
