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2021-05-02 at 9:44 PM UTC
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2021-05-02 at 10:54 PM UTCTheWrap
CNN's Jake Tapper Goes Off on GOP's 'Made-Up Convoluted Crap' About Biden
Rosemary Rossi
"Too many leaders of the GOP are just all in on pure nonsense," Tapper says
CNN's Jake Tapper went full throttle in condemning the Republican party Sunday, saying its leaders spread "made-up convoluted crap," injecting "complete and utter nonsense" into mainstream politics.
On Sunday's "State of the Union," Tapper came loaded with examples of "downright falsehoods, lies, inventions" perpetrated by the GOP just in the last week. First on his list, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy "pushing the lie about Biden as Hamburgler," a GOP invention that President Biden's climate plan would limit Americans to one hamburger a month.
"I would like to imagine a House Republican leader who didn't find it so easy to lie to the American people, but too many leaders of the GOP are just all in on pure nonsense," Tapper said.
Also presented as evidence, RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel's tweet that remains posted featuring attorney Sidney Powell's false claim that "President Trump won in a landslide."
"Lie after lie after lie look," Tapper said. "I'm not talking about opinions. If people want to rail against Biden's border policies or his $6 trillion-worth of proposals or whatever, have at it. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about made-up convoluted crap."
Elected Republicans who have spoken out about the party's habit of spreading inaccurate, misleading or outright lies, have paid a price with the base. Case in point, Rep. Liz Cheney, who holds the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership and was one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump following the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Many GOP lawmakers have since called for her to be removed as conference chair, and the Wyoming Republican Party voted to censure her.
And Saturday, Sen. Mitt Romney, who was one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump at his February impeachment trial was booed at the Utah GOP convention. A motion to censure him failed.
"The Republican party and its media does not punish those who spread bad medical advice or lies. In fact, quite the opposite," Tapper said. "Telling the truth as a Republican official can be hazardous to your political health."
He concluded: "It's my opinion that the United States needs a healthy, thriving, fact-based Republican party. It is difficult to look at these events — all of them just from the last week — and conclude that we have one." -
2021-05-02 at 10:59 PM UTC
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2021-05-02 at 11:34 PM UTC
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2021-05-03 at 3:29 PM UTCMaking
Canada
Great
Again
The Washington Post
Canadian chapter of the Proud Boys, designated a terrorist group by the government, says it has ‘dissolved’
Amanda Coletta
TORONTO — Nearly three months after Canada declared the Proud Boys a terrorist entity, the Canadian chapter of the militant far-right group claims it has “officially dissolved.”
Members of the Proud Boys, founded in the United States by a Canadian, joined the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in January.
In a statement posted on social media Sunday, the group said “there is officially no longer any Proud Boys in Canada.” It cited the financial difficulties of mounting a legal challenge to overturn the government’s terrorist entity designation.
The designation in February did not make it illegal to belong to the group, but it did carry financial and legal consequences. Authorities can add members to the no-fly list. Banks can freeze their assets and police can seize their assets. It’s a crime to knowingly provide assistance to the group, including by purchasing merchandise. -
2021-05-03 at 3:32 PM UTCIt ain't easy running an FBI operation in a foreign countryThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-05-03 at 3:34 PM UTC
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2021-05-03 at 3:45 PM UTCYour Republican Shit Stinks But It Ain't Sticking
Business Insider
Right-wing media keeps trying to force easily-debunked Biden scandals instead of focusing on actual policy
insider@insider.com (Jake Lahut)
President Joe Biden continues to prove difficult for Republicans to attack.
Several recent purported scandals that dominated right-wing media have been easily debunked.
Attacks on Biden are not sticking like they did for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
Ever since the 2020 campaign, Republicans have struggled to land the same kinds of attacks on Joe Biden that worked on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In recent weeks, a series of purported scandals have bubbled up in the conservative media ecosystem only to be quickly washed away.
President Biden's age, race, and gender all insulate him from the kinds of caricatures that Obama and Clinton found themselves portrayed under.
Disciplined messaging from the White House and limited opportunities for Biden to speak extemporaneously have left a vacuum to be filled.
From "Hidin' Biden" to a burger ban
As Insider's John Dorman recently reported, Republicans have admitted they are having a hard time landing attacks on Biden, who enjoys healthy approval ratings as he moves past the 100 day mark of his presidency.
Although there have been plenty of policy proposals, legislation, and executive orders for Republican to seize upon, most of the action in conservative media has centered around culture war outrage stories.
Because Biden has been limited yet strategic in his public appearances, his longstanding penchant for gaffes has not been as much of a problem as some pundits imagined. Unlike during the Trump administration, Biden White House staffers have largely steered clear of leaks and the public infighting that consumed so much of Trump's orbit, as Politico reported last week.
Filling that gap, three easily debunked stories made their way last week from the conservative blogosphere to Fox News.
The first ended with Fox News later correcting a segment on Biden limiting red-meat consumption, which he has no plans to do.
The other two were false stories about Vice President Kamala Harris' children's book being put in "welcome packs" for migrant children at a Department of Health and Human Services shelter in Long Beach, California, and the other was about Virginia eliminating advanced math courses to promote "equity," even though the state wasn't eliminating any advanced classes for kids.
Republican attacks on Biden during the campaign were similarly unsuccessful.
Former President Donald Trump popularized the "Hidin' Biden" nickname, which he pivoted to during Biden's so-called basement campaign amid the pandemic. "Sleepy Joe" didn't quite have the same ring to it as "Crooked Hillary."
Then came the cognitive decline attacks, which backfired by setting expectations inordinately low for any Biden public speaking appearance.
Last Friday, both Fox News and the Fox Business network featured stories on Biden struggling to find his mask at a recent event in Georgia, marking one of the only returns to the cognitive decline line of attack since the debates.
The fact that Biden - a Washington veteran of more than four decades - has been able to keep all of these purported scandals from sticking to him says less about his record than where Republicans are looking.
Cancel culture wars are at the center of the conversation on the right as policy takes a backseat.
Biden has taken heat from across political ideologies on his handling of immigration and refugees seeking asylum, but his low support among voters on immigration has not bled too far into his overall approval ratings yet.
Somewhat ironically, the same week all of these debunked scandals were coming from conservative media many prominent Republicans were at an actual policy retreat in Florida.
For a president looking to enact a sweeping agenda and keep the drama to a minimum, Biden's ability to keep these stories from sticking not only saves him time, but also reveals what a precarious place the GOP has found itself in with messaging post-Trump. -
2021-05-03 at 3:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Your Republican Shit Stinks But It Ain't Sticking
President Joe Biden continues to prove difficult for Republicans to attack.
Several recent purported scandals that dominated right-wing media have been easily debunked.
It's impossible to attack when the left runs all the media. Nothing sticks, like Biden's crack head son or dirty dealings in the Ukraine, because there is an army of journalists making sure it doesn't stick. -
2021-05-03 at 3:50 PM UTCHey what if we got a latino and used them to infiltrate the alt right! It's perfect, they will never see it coming!
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2021-05-03 at 3:52 PM UTCAll the Trump stuff, which was all made up, stuck. Election hacking, injecting bleach, Russia-Trump, piss-gate.
You sad old fucker stl1, you live in a fantasy world.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-05-03 at 3:57 PM UTCBoth elections got hacked. First by the Russians and then by the Democrats. Americans just don't give a shit anymore, do they?
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2021-05-03 at 4:01 PM UTCPiss on me Ghosty.
Then after we'll go shoot some American soldiers and collect the bounty from my good friend Vlady Putin. -
2021-05-03 at 4:04 PM UTCNYET, COMRADE ! ! !
Intelligencer
Giuliani Proves Republicans Think Russian Collusion Is Fine
Jonathan Chait
Last week, several mainstream-media outlets reported that the FBI had given Rudy Giuliani a defensive briefing in 2019, warning that he was being used by Russian intelligence. Shortly thereafter, it retracted this report. It turned out the FBI had merely “planned” to warn Giuliani, but the actual briefing may not have taken place.
Giuliani’s media supporters immediately seized on this episode to reiterate their favorite defense of the scandal: It’s just more Russia collusion hoaxery. “You would think, after the journalistic failure of the Russia collusion hoax, that they might be wary of sinister interests in Washington who peddle misinformation about Trump and his associates under cover of anonymity,” scolded a New York Post columnist. “The Russia Collusion Smear Returns,” proclaims a The Wall Street Journal editorial.
What makes this story so surreal is that Giuliani was obviously colluding with Russian intelligence, in flagrante delicto. There were no clandestine meetings on park benches or dead drops involved. Giuliani traipsed through Ukraine, meeting with a series of Russian-linked figures, cameras in tow. His primary partner in the enterprise was Andrii Derkach, a graduate of the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in Moscow, who was widely known to be a Russian intelligence agent, and who was described by the Trump Treasury Department in 2020 as “an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services.”
Whether or not the FBI went through with its intention to officially inform Giuliani he was being manipulated by Russian intelligence is politically interesting. Telling Giuliani his well-known Russian intelligence-agent partner had a Russian agenda would be like informing him that his hair appeared to have been treated with coloring. The point wouldn’t be to let Giuliani know, but to let him know the FBI knew — and that his undisguised work was being taken seriously as a counterintelligence threat.
To understand how an episode in which Giuliani’s completely undisguised collusion with Russia could become more evidence in the right-wing mind of a “Russia collusion hoax,” it is worth understanding how the term evolved in the Trumpist lexicon.
Beginning in 2016, the news media began noticing the Trump campaign’s cooperation with Russia’s efforts to assist his election. The Mueller report became the locus of this story, even though Robert Mueller never set out to investigate collusion, per se. He set out to prove crimes, and collusion is not a crime. “We did not address ‘collusion,’ which is not a legal term,” Mueller told Congress.
Trump memorialized this finding, falsely, as “No Collusion.” The “Russia hoax” became a pretext to justify all manner of lies and misdeeds by the former president and his inner circle. Some of those misdeeds included outright collusion with Russian intelligence.
Giuliani himself grasped the illegal versus improper distinction when he began working in Ukraine. Weeks after the Mueller report’s release, he was working with Russian-linked figures to smear Joe Biden, boasting to the New York Times, “There’s nothing illegal about it … Somebody could say it’s improper.”
When conservatives invoke the “Russia collusion smear,” what they actually mean is that they believe colluding with Russia is perfectly fine. Russia and Trump have a shared interest in helping Trump win reelection and pumping damaging stories about Biden into American media. They think Russia’s efforts are laudable, and it’s fine for Trump to cooperate with them. -
2021-05-03 at 4:06 PM UTC
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2021-05-03 at 4:06 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 NYET, COMRADE ! ! !
Intelligencer
Giuliani Proves Republicans Think Russian Collusion Is Fine
Jonathan Chait
Last week, several mainstream-media outlets reported that the FBI had given Rudy Giuliani a defensive briefing in 2019, warning that he was being used by Russian intelligence. Shortly thereafter, it retracted this report. It turned out the FBI had merely “planned” to warn Giuliani, but the actual briefing may not have taken place.
Giuliani’s media supporters immediately seized on this episode to reiterate their favorite defense of the scandal: It’s just more Russia collusion hoaxery. “You would think, after the journalistic failure of the Russia collusion hoax, that they might be wary of sinister interests in Washington who peddle misinformation about Trump and his associates under cover of anonymity,” scolded a New York Post columnist. “The Russia Collusion Smear Returns,” proclaims a The Wall Street Journal editorial.
What makes this story so surreal is that Giuliani was obviously colluding with Russian intelligence, in flagrante delicto. There were no clandestine meetings on park benches or dead drops involved. Giuliani traipsed through Ukraine, meeting with a series of Russian-linked figures, cameras in tow. His primary partner in the enterprise was Andrii Derkach, a graduate of the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in Moscow, who was widely known to be a Russian intelligence agent, and who was described by the Trump Treasury Department in 2020 as “an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services.”
Whether or not the FBI went through with its intention to officially inform Giuliani he was being manipulated by Russian intelligence is politically interesting. Telling Giuliani his well-known Russian intelligence-agent partner had a Russian agenda would be like informing him that his hair appeared to have been treated with coloring. The point wouldn’t be to let Giuliani know, but to let him know the FBI knew — and that his undisguised work was being taken seriously as a counterintelligence threat.
To understand how an episode in which Giuliani’s completely undisguised collusion with Russia could become more evidence in the right-wing mind of a “Russia collusion hoax,” it is worth understanding how the term evolved in the Trumpist lexicon.
Beginning in 2016, the news media began noticing the Trump campaign’s cooperation with Russia’s efforts to assist his election. The Mueller report became the locus of this story, even though Robert Mueller never set out to investigate collusion, per se. He set out to prove crimes, and collusion is not a crime. “We did not address ‘collusion,’ which is not a legal term,” Mueller told Congress.
Trump memorialized this finding, falsely, as “No Collusion.” The “Russia hoax” became a pretext to justify all manner of lies and misdeeds by the former president and his inner circle. Some of those misdeeds included outright collusion with Russian intelligence.
Giuliani himself grasped the illegal versus improper distinction when he began working in Ukraine. Weeks after the Mueller report’s release, he was working with Russian-linked figures to smear Joe Biden, boasting to the New York Times, “There’s nothing illegal about it … Somebody could say it’s improper.”
When conservatives invoke the “Russia collusion smear,” what they actually mean is that they believe colluding with Russia is perfectly fine. Russia and Trump have a shared interest in helping Trump win reelection and pumping damaging stories about Biden into American media. They think Russia’s efforts are laudable, and it’s fine for Trump to cooperate with them.
that seems more like an opinion than proof -
2021-05-03 at 4:07 PM UTCthe author of that article getting DUNKED on twitter
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2021-05-03 at 4:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by Ghost that seems more like an opinion than proof
During the Iraq War the Pentagon would give misinfo to the jedis in the New York Times, who would print it, and then the politicians would be able to point to the paper and say "This article in the New York Times proves we need to invade Iraq".
https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/how-iraq-war-still-haunts-new-york-times
The idea that the legacy media still has credibility, even if just to sad old boomers, is an obscenity and an insult. -
2021-05-03 at 4:14 PM UTCstl1 is a victim of smith mundt.
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2021-05-03 at 4:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump During the Iraq War the Pentagon would give misinfo to the jedis in the New York Times, who would print it, and then the politicians would be able to point to the paper and say "This article in the New York Times proves we need to invade Iraq".
https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/how-iraq-war-still-haunts-new-york-times
The idea that the legacy media still has credibility, even if just to sad old boomers, is an obscenity and an insult.
The fact that you can point this out only gives credence to newspapers veracity in that the exception proves the rule. In other words, if this had not been so out of the norm, it would not have been newsworthy.
