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2021-04-22 at 6:23 PM UTC in Anybody else always 10min early?
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson What's the % of people who have been proven categorically beyond doubt to have died from the covid vaccine? (and cite your source of course)
The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many. If even one healthy person dies from an experimental concoction with no safety studies on them that's premeditated first degree murder. Plain and simple. It doesn't matter if it's one or a million. You can't sacrifice lives for the benefit of the herd. It's like pagan worship. It brings bad omen. Bad karma. Remember, the Elishians prayed fervently for rain during an especially long drought, and then they were almost immediately wiped out by torrential flooding. You ever read The Monkey's Paw? Murdering one person to save the rest is just plain wrong, and no one should play Russian Roullete with their life. -
2021-04-22 at 5:58 PM UTC in Anybody else always 10min early?
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2021-04-22 at 5:56 PM UTC in Anybody else always 10min early?
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2021-04-22 at 5:54 PM UTC in She was killed for this
Originally posted by Ghost if I was a police officer when I arrived on scene I would shout "PEPPER! PEPPER!" and spray everyones shins with an assault rifle so they drop to the floor and then zip tie them all together in a giant bundle and throw a flash bang and get some distance and cover and call for EMS.
I would periodically fire volleys of rubber bullets at the bleeding and restrained pile of suspects and then probably forget what the original call was and get the fuck out of there actually it kinda sounds like a messy situation but now it's safe because they can't fuck around.
I would be a good national guard troop
They're trained that as soon as they see a weapon they must empty their entire clip on the perp and reload and fire as many rounds as they can from that one as well. The training says never shoot to wound or injure, always shoot to kill, meaning they want to see head shots and chest entry holes, not leg wounds. -
2021-04-22 at 5:31 PM UTC in Chauvin's Going to Walk
Originally posted by Worf, son of Mogh You can't prove he's not real. You don't get to decide.
That's exactly why appeals exist, son. Because some people decide wrong. No, they are not the final word. Not by a long shot. And new evidence may very well surface, to add to the process and the result. Just because 12 idiots decide someone murdered someone does not necessarily make it so. -
2021-04-22 at 5:29 PM UTC in Anybody else always 10min early?
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2021-04-22 at 4:51 PM UTC in Chauvin's Going to Walk
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2021-04-22 at 4:50 PM UTC in Anybody else always 10min early?Showing up too early could be translated as being needy and/or desperate.
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2021-04-22 at 4:47 PM UTC in Chauvin's Going to WalkHe asphyxiated from the fentanyl he swallowed.
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2021-04-22 at 4:45 PM UTC in Imagine if something could bring George Floyd back
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2021-04-22 at 4:43 PM UTC in Imagine if something could bring George Floyd back
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2021-04-22 at 4:42 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by stl1 Making
America
Goofy
Again
Inside the Pro-Trump Conference Where COVID Denial and Calls to Kill Political Enemies Reign
The Daily Beast
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, this past weekend, thousands gathered at the Health and Freedom Conference—maskless, of course—to bask in the glow of Trumpworld luminaries and scheduled speakers such as pillow magnate Mike Lindell, MAGA attorney Lin Wood, and the actor who played Jesus Christ in the Mel Gibson movie. The crowd was there to reaffirm their fealty to twice-impeached former President Donald Trump, the QAnon conspiracy theory, coronavirus denialism, their religious faith, and the belief that their high-profile political enemies deserve to be executed.
And Fever Dreams co-host Will Sommer was on the ground in Tulsa to take it all in.
“[It was] sort of a confluence of COVID denialism, QAnon, evangelical Christianity, all this kind of stuff, gathering outside of Tulsa, 4,500 people,” Sommer told co-host Asawin Suebsaeng on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast’s Fever Dreams podcast. “They were ready to throw down and talk about how much they love both Trump and QAnon, no masks, [of course]… I didn’t see a single mask… I, too, had to go sans mask to fit in.”
There were, naturally, “a lot of people who are big deals in Trumpism. I mean, it was Lin Wood, and Michael Flynn, and Sidney Powell. Jim Caviezel, who you may remember from The Passion of the Christ,” Sommer said. “These were people who were fringe in a way, but who still have a lot of sway in the Republican Party… Look, the chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party was at this thing.”
According to Sommer, one of Wood’s addresses to the audience included a moment when he blathered on about “people [who] are torturing children,” and how “the punishment for treason is a firing squad”—at which point the crowd of roughly “5,000 people just explode, like standing ovation, all this stuff. So, I mean, it was really something to see.”
Later in this Fever Dreams installment, Suebsaeng and Sommer welcome guest Sara Kenigsberg, a veteran video producer for the 2020 Democratic presidential campaigns of both Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. On this episode, she opens up about what it was like when the Trump re-election campaign, conservative media, and MAGA icons aggressively went after her last summer… for her past tweets about pigs.
That’s right: Last summer, as the United States was engulfed by the COVID-19 pandemic, a tumultuous presidential race, a torpedoed economy, and mass protests, the Trump campaign found time to devote considerable messaging resources to denouncing a mid-level Biden 2020 official over her love of pigs, yoga, and adorable piglets.
Kenigsberg, who at that point had recently assumed the position as a producer on Biden’s presidential campaign, had shared a meme spreading the message of: “Please stop calling cops pigs. Pigs are highly intelligent and empathetic animals who would never racially profile you.”
It wasn’t long before MAGAland declared her a new public enemy, with the Trump campaign putting out multiple statements about her. Kenigsberg recalls what happened behind the scenes, as she and the Biden staff responded to these salvos, and the torrent of threats and hate mail that followed. “It was just such a ridiculous controversy when so many other important things were happening in the world,” she said. “It was really pathetic on the part of the Trump campaign.”
Originally posted by stl1 KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE ! ! !
(and on life support)
The Daily Beast
The Last Scheme to Discredit the 2020 Election Is On, and It’s Even Crazier Than You Think
Kelly Weill
When a Republican-led coalition gathers to “audit” Maricopa County, Arizona’s 2020 election results on Thursday, the motley crew will include a former lawmaker who previously lost a police job for lying about a stolen iPad and a technology firm helmed by a proponent of election conspiracy theories.
Joe Biden won the presidential election in Arizona, including in hotly contested Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. Although multiple bipartisan reviews have upheld those results, and Donald Trump has long since exited the White House, a new effort to recount all of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million votes is kicking off this week. The scheme is led by actual elected officials with power, including the leaders of Arizona’s state Senate, which has tapped a Florida-based cybersecurity firm to oversee the audit.
But from kooky fundraisers to a conspiracy-minded tech CEO to an auditor who lost the very 2020 election he’s auditing, the recount has eyeballs rolling.
On Monday, former Arizona state representative Anthony Kern tweeted that he would be involved in the recount. “#Electionintegrity,” he wrote in his announcement. Arizona’s House Democrats had a less sunny response: quote-tweeting Kern with a picture of him standing in a crowd of Trump fans at a Jan. 6 rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “One of Arizona’s election auditors reporting for duty,” the House Democrats tweeted. “#ShamAudit.”
Kern, who did not return The Daily Beast’s request for comment, maintains that he did not enter the Capitol or participate in the riot, and has not been charged with a crime related to the day’s events. Still, the specifics of his actions are the subject of a legal spat in Arizona. On the day of the riot, he was serving his final days as a state representative, having lost re-election the same day as Trump. He and another Arizona representative who attended the pre-riot rally have declined public records requests for their messages related to the event, with their lawyer stating that “the threat of criminal prosecution gives rise to certain Constitutional rights that may overcome the duty to disclose otherwise public documents under Arizona’s public records law.”
The two Republicans have also filed a defamation lawsuit against an Arizona lawmaker who signed a letter asking the FBI to investigate their Jan. 6 activities.
This isn’t Kern’s first time facing legal scrutiny. Prior to becoming a lawmaker, he worked as a code enforcement officer for the El Mirage Police Department. In 2014, he was fired for misleading his supervisor about a computer tablet that went missing, the Phoenix New Times revealed in 2019. As part of his termination, he was placed on the state’s Brady list, a compendium of law enforcement officers with known credibility issues. (In fact, as the New Times noted, even Kerr’s claims to being law enforcement were dubious: He was a civilian officer throughout his employment, and though he represented himself as holding a "law enforcement" certification in financial disclosures in 2014, 2015, and 2016, he did not receive peace officer certification until 2017.)
In 2019, while serving in the Arizona House, Kern helped push a bill that would make it easier for people like himself to remove their names from the state Brady list. Colleagues told the New Times they had not been aware that Kern was on the list. The bill did not pass, but a similar one is currently being debated.
Arizona Democrats called Kerr’s participation in Thursday’s audit inappropriate. Rep. Athena Salman, a Democratic member of the state House’s Government and Elections Committee, noted that Kern was also in D.C. in January in his capacity as a Trump elector. (Kern promoted a bogus theory that “dual electors” could throw the election to Trump.)
“You’ve got this former lawmaker who lost his last election,” Salman told The Daily Beast of Kern. “You’ve got someone who was an elector for Donald Trump. You’ve got someone that’s literally on the Brady list because they have a well-documented history of lying… This is one of the guys that they bring in and say, ‘That’s who we need looking at these ballots and determining whether or not these are quality votes’?”
But Kern is far from the only controversial figure involved in the audit. The recount is being led by a business called Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based cybersecurity company led by Doug Logan.
Following Trump’s defeat in November, Logan became a prominent Twitter voice casting doubt on the election results via multiple debunked conspiracy theories. An Arizona Republic report found that Logan frequently retweeted Sidney Powell, the former Trump campaign lawyer whose theories about election fraud were so outlandish that, when Powell was sued for defamation, she argued in court that no reasonable person could have taken her seriously.
Logan’s Twitter involvement with pro-Trump fringes went even further. Archived tweets from Logan’s now-deleted account reveal that he frequently tweeted at Ron Watkins, the former administrator of the site 8kun. Watkins is a vocal proponent of election fraud claims and in a recent documentary appeared to accidentally admit that he was “Q,” the author of the lurid QAnon conspiracy theory. (Watkins now denies that he is Q.)
“I’d love to chat if you have a chance,” Logan tweeted at Watkins on Nov. 12. The following day, he tweeted at Watkins after tweeting about hacking voting machines. “If you have any ‘original source’ documents you're basing your info off of, I'd love it if you shared the links ;-),” Logan tweeted. Later that day, he tweeted at Watkins with “source material” on voting machines.
In December, in a reply to a now-deleted thread from Powell and her colleague Lin Wood, Logan tagged Watkins again. “Haven’t you been working on this?” Logan asked him.
Elsewhere, Logan quote-tweeted Wood to promote a hoax about voting machines supposedly being seized in Germany, which would somehow prove Trump to have won the election.
Via a spokesperson, Logan declined to comment for this story. “We are not commenting on the politics swirling outside of the audit,” the spokesperson said. “The transparent and accountable audit process will speak for itself.”
But Wood previously told Talking Points Memo that he knew Logan personally, claiming that Logan had come to his house late last year to join a group of people investigating voter fraud.
“He was there working on the investigation into election fraud,” Wood told TPM, claiming that Logan had joined a coalition of people in the house. “I opened up my home to allow people to work on the election fraud investigation.”
Of course, the audit’s very existence is a victory for Arizona Senate Republicans, who spent months embroiled in court cases and logistical battles over how such a recount would take place.
Although the Republican-led Maricopa County Board of Supervisors did turn over voting data that upheld Biden’s victory in a previous review, the group argued against turning over the county’s 2.1 million physical ballots, citing rules on voter privacy. Then, in February, the Arizona Senate won a court ruling enabling them to examine the ballots by hand.
Their next challenge was figuring out how to conduct the audit. Initially, Senate President Karen Fann tapped the “Allied Security Operations Group” to head up the recount, but backtracked after critics noted that that group was pro-Trump and had made false claims about voter fraud in Michigan. After the partnership crumbled, a colorful assortment of Trump supporters, including MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and supposed Satanism expert Lyle Rapacki, stepped in to promote the audit, The Daily Beast previously reported.
Soon thereafter, a group called “Voices and Votes” took up the cause of fundraising for the audit. That group was led by One America News host Christina Bobb, who had promoted voter fraud conspiracy theories, TPM reported. Wood told the outlet that his foundation had chipped in $50,000 to the cause.
Ultimately the audit’s outcome is irrelevant. Multiple bipartisan reviews have upheld the state’s election results and Biden’s Arizona victory has already been certified in the state, in a process that involved the state’s governor, secretary of state, and state Supreme Court chief justice—all of them Republicans. Also: Biden is president and not going anywhere.
But what remains is a worrying precedent, Salman said.
“They can’t de-certify the election results for 2020,” she said. “I wholeheartedly believe that they're testing the boundaries to see whatever they can get away with, so that they can do this whole performance again, and manufacture the results that they want coming into the 2022 election cycle.”
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2021-04-22 at 2:01 AM UTC in PentagonHere's one for ya, Beige...
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2021-04-22 at 1:29 AM UTC in Why don't "defund the police" arguments use more statistics?
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2021-04-22 at 1:26 AM UTC in Why don't "defund the police" arguments use more statistics?
Originally posted by CandyRein You post that like the exact thing can’t be found done by every ethnicity
Too old to be so dumb
I posted it because the cop had to shoot her because she was going to stab the other girl. Nothing to do with race. And I was only joking with Captain Falcon and Vinny, and they know it. We have a long-standing... errr... relationship. -
2021-04-22 at 1:03 AM UTC in Why don't "defund the police" arguments use more statistics?
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2021-04-21 at 8:38 PM UTC in is captain falcon actually rich?
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2021-04-21 at 8:37 PM UTC in I'm getting sued for 6 grand...
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready that is a silly misnomer. if someone has their serial numnber stamped in the bike still or has a GPS on it, it makes it easier for the person owning it to be holding stolen property. but usually that person just gives the bike up. or the person goes to court and says I purchased it at a flee-market and the judge will decide if they're full of shit. This is why people who have a history of stealing things, especially bikes would almost have a real chance of being believed if they IN FACt purchased a bike at a flee-market even if they had a receipt showing they purchased it. so a judge would not believe them regardless.
nothing is black or white. depends on the judge you see and the defender’s skills and the day the judge or defence woke up and how much case loads they have in front of them. the system by far is NOT PERFECT.
AI sounds insane to have robots judge people fairly because they can in fact be program or hacked to give certain advancements to certain groups (Soros or the programming community) but in all honestly, It would for the most part be way more fair than humans. not saying Judges are all corrupt but they might have a bad day they dont realize made them chose differently.
That's why it's only 9/10ths and not 10/10ths. -
2021-04-21 at 8:35 PM UTC in Chauvin's Going to Walk
Originally posted by mmQ Everyone was making public statements regarding the case, lol. All the jurors were already well aware of the case to begin with, and well aware of it's high profile. They listened to the facts and the experts, and made their decision, based on the application and writing of the laws and charges filed against Derek.
They concluded that despite heart disease and drugs playing a role in his death, George would not have died if not for the collective restraint on his body against the pavement, and the drastic reduction in oxygen as a result of it, as well as a complete lack of (Nelson's favorite word:) reasonable regard for Floyd and offering zero medical assistance of his own, due to his own arrogance. Nobody reasonably thinks he and the 3 other officers were really so terrified that they couldn't stop restraining him.
It's not complicated at all. The entirety of the Chauvin supporters just keep regurgitating the same things (yeah but the drugs) and dont account for how the law actually works. Its actually pretty embarrassing to see these people and their blinders trying to justify how it was ok.
Thankfully the jury actually understands how the law works, how the charges work and are defined, and what Chauvin was, by definition, guilty of.
The "President" weighed in on national television and social media to the effect Chauvin was guilty, directly during ongoing jury deliberations. Fact. -
2021-04-21 at 8:33 PM UTC in Imagine if something could bring George Floyd back
