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I called it. It was quote:There has been a great deal of speculation as to why retired Judge Michael Luttig spoke so slowly at Thursday's hearing of the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. https://www.rawstory.com/michael-luttig-speaks/
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Dr. Faustus posted:I called it. It was I can't believe this is loving real https://twitter.com/judgeluttig/status/1538266501530234881 https://twitter.com/judgeluttig/status/1538266513433673729 https://twitter.com/judgeluttig/status/1538266523520880640 I thought for sure it was a parody, but if that Twitter account is fake, then someone's been pretending to be Luttig for a very long time
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 17:41 |
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edit: oops wrong thread
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 17:49 |
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Lol, I think whoever said he does it so the media can't use his quotes as soundbites is correct.
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 17:55 |
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Judge Luttig, irritating people throughout history.
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 18:37 |
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Yup, he may be on our side on this but he's still a Conservative, so in the end, he still had to own the libs.
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 19:13 |
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Main Paineframe posted:I can't believe this is loving real thats loving weird, i assumed it was a stroke or something. my dad was sorta like that (not that slow and he is fine now) after his stroke.
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 22:25 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:thats loving weird, i assumed it was a stroke or something. my dad was sorta like that (not that slow and he is fine now) after his stroke. The dude just writes like a Victorian House of Lords member. Its an affectation. Also, I thought I used too many commas jesus h. christ lol
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 23:44 |
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In Water is Wet news https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-ivanka-trump-biden-voting-elections-1ccfd89df6868911d934529b9e47d6c8 quote:One by one, several of Donald Trump’s former top advisers have told a special House committee investigating his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection that they didn’t believe his lies about the 2020 election, and that the former president knew he lost to Joe Biden. RWM consumers and MAGA's ignore reality.
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 23:45 |
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Trust the plan, pedes
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 23:48 |
Oracle posted:The dude just writes like a Victorian House of Lords member. Its an affectation. I know. I write like this guy. I also am deeply, fully aware that you cannot speak that way, much less extemporaneously. Good god. 😂 I'll remember that for sure
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# ? Jun 20, 2022 23:59 |
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So the next one is tomorrow, right?
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 00:02 |
Silly Burrito posted:So the next one is tomorrow, right? Yep, 10am PST, 1pm Eastern.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 00:06 |
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BiggerBoat posted:In Water is Wet news This is great though, right? It splits the Republican vote between those who understand trump is a grifting criminal and those who believe he's the puppet master. Surely that has to hurt the numbers just enough to lose the next election, right?
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 03:52 |
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Judge Schnoopy posted:This is great though, right? It splits the Republican vote between those who understand trump is a grifting criminal and those who believe he's the puppet master. Surely that has to hurt the numbers just enough to lose the next election, right? Narrator: "Those who understand Trump is a grifting criminal" voted for him anyway.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 04:59 |
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Charliegrs posted:Narrator: "Those who understand Trump is a grifting criminal" voted for him anyway. how'd that work out in 2020?
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Herstory Begins Now posted:how'd that work out in 2020? almost good enough; which is frightening
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Herstory Begins Now posted:how'd that work out in 2020? his approval among republicans never wavered and he almost won the most votes of any presidential candidate, losing only to biden
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 05:42 |
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Only the last 4 words of that matter.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 06:13 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Only the last 4 words of that matter.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 07:00 |
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He lost by 7+ million votes and 80 electors. If anyone wants to argue that trump bleeding off republican support didn't matter by all means by my guest, but that's a very hard case to make when 1) he lost badly and 2) the republican party is currently eating itself over the Trump stuff.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:He lost by 7+ million votes and 80 electors. If anyone wants to argue that trump bleeding off republican support didn't matter by all means by my guest, but that's a very hard case to make when 1) he lost badly and 2) the republican party is currently eating itself over the Trump stuff. He didn't bleed off Republican support. He galvanized a historic number of democrats and independents to come out and vote against him.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 07:28 |
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He pretty clearly did both.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 07:32 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:He pretty clearly did both. He got 10 million more votes than in 2016.
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And was it enough?
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 07:57 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:And was it enough? To reiterate: Sekhmnet posted:almost good enough; which is frightening That it took one of the highest turnouts in our history to keep him from taking power again also has a factor here. By percentage of voter age, the only time the turnout was higher was back in 1960. By eligibility and pure numbers, it was the highest since we started recording it. The fact that he earned 10 million more votes than he did in 2016 is proof enough that he didn't 'split' the Republican party, no matter how criminal he was. If you were to argue that the GOP loses elections due to being unpopular (as they have lost the popular vote in the past four elections) then we have something to go on. But saying that Trump is splitting the party when more people than ever showed the exact opposite is pretty far-fetched. If you have evidence of this, that would definitely help your point.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 08:26 |
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He also only lost by like 43,000 votes in a few states that matter. Lol. So yeah, I think if he really divided the party, two impeachments would've done the job. Mayne it made some traditional voters upset but also picked up some crazies to offset that, who don't care how much he's criming
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J.A.B.C. posted:To reiterate: the dems picked up 20 million votes over 2016 and while no doubt that was in large part because of strong dem turnout, seems bizarre to suggest none of that was because of lean-Rs/business Rs switching sides, which demonstrably did happen according to both polling and exit polls. Not in absolutely massive numbers, but the margins of victory of closely contested state races are rarely large mobby_6kl posted:He also only lost by like 43,000 votes in a few states that matter. Lol. Yeah prevailing understanding of 2020 is basically that: trump activated a ton of longtime non-voting far right people that offset his losses with centrist/business Rs. The compounding thing is that trump also alienated a fuckton of other small but significant groups where any one of which could've pushed him over the line in various states. Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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He's getting bodied by these hearings, which is good for 2024, but it's anyone's guess if it'll be enough. Most of the Conservative talk I'm seeing is pushing DeSantis over Trump but DeSantis is unproven on the national stage whereas Trump's popularity isn't. The polls were off by 3.9% points in 2020, the highest in 40 years, all because Trump embarrassed Conservatives so much they didn't want to be polled and admit to supporting him. But apparently they didn't take that shame as an indicator that perhaps they should reconsider their candidate of choice, they went right on ahead and voted for him anyway. He definitely aliented some moderates but lord does his base love his PT Barnum shtick, and I'm not so sure if DeSantis will really be able to recreate it nationally or what kind of shape Biden and the Dems will be in when we have to face it in 2024. -Blackadder- fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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Today's agenda https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-capitol-siege-biden-donald-trump-presidential-70b3fad9f2b3d990c2e097c3d1143f1a 1/6 panel to hear from Raffensperger, others Trump pushed WASHINGTON (AP) — The House 1/6 committee is set to hear from the caretakers of American democracy — elections workers and local officials — who fended off Donald Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election, at times despite frightening personal attacks. Embattled Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is scheduled to testify about Trump’s phone call asking him to “find 11,780” votes that could flip the state to prevent Biden’s election victory. Raffensperger, with his deputy Gabe Sterling and Arizona’s Republican state House Speaker Rusty Bowers, are scheduled to be key witnesses, along with Wandrea “Shay” Moss, a former Georgia election worker who, with her mother, have said they faced such severe public harassment from Trump allies they felt unable to live normal lives. Schiff, who will lead much of Tuesday’s session, said that the hearing will also dig into the “intimate role” the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had in the plot to pressure Georgia state legislators and elections officials. Bowers is expected to discuss the pressure he faced to overturn Arizona’s results — requests from Trump advisers that the Republican state leader on Monday called “juvenile.” In an interview with the AP after arriving in Washington ahead of the hearing, Bowers said he is expected to be asked about a call with Trump during which lawyer Rudy Giuliani floated an idea to replace Arizona’s electors with those who would vote for Trump.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 12:12 |
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Is there a reason they're not calling Trump himself?
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Automata 10 Pack posted:He didn't bleed off Republican support. He galvanized a historic number of democrats and independents to come out and vote against him. A lot of Republicans split their ballots in the states that mattered. In 2020 the GOP pretty easily won the statewide popular vote for state house races below Trump in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. (WI state assembly 54-45 GOP, PA state house 53-47 GOP) edit: Also Arizona, where the GOP won the state house popular vote 55-45. This was a bit less of a thing in MI with the state house basically tied and Biden winning by 3, but still there. Trump massively underperformed in 2020 with a LOT of Republicans in the most crucial states going "gently caress that guy, but I'll still vote R for every other race below him". A standard Republican would have beaten Biden with the turnout we had. Obviously though, a standard Republican might not have turned out as many of the new deplorable voters who never voted before Trump. Maybe Biden would have still beaten a standard Republican if the MAGA idiots would have been bored with the race and stayed home which is definitely possible and unknowable. Rigel fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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BiggerBoat posted:In Water is Wet news I mean yeah, the chuds are never gonna believe it but the chuds would cheer if trump crushed a white babies skull on stage. Rigel posted:A lot of Republicans split their ballots in the states that mattered. It’s this. There are a lot of moderatish republicans and fence types who are fine with with the gop or want a Romney or etc but hate trump for various reasons both good or petty. My view is a “quiet moderate” would win easy now a days but they would never win the primary. Trump/hardline chud will have a harder time, especially after a 2023 chud house circus gets 24/7 coverage of various horror shows. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 14:07 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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-Blackadder- posted:He's getting bodied by these hearings, which is good for 2024, but it's anyone's guess if it'll be enough. Most of the Conservative talk I'm seeing is pushing DeSantis over Trump but DeSantis is unproven on the national stage whereas Trump's popularity isn't. I don’t think desantis has the charisma or the ability to play “moderate” to get the Fence types and moderates back to the gop voting side. He is just dickhead Florida man with a lot of skeletons in his closet and basically just hides in his safe space to avoid the press. And I don’t think he has what it takes to come at the king and not miss. Trump doesn’t do that, he always attacks. And the chuds love that, he is their god in their cosmology, desantis is maybe a well liked prince.
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# ? Jun 21, 2022 14:01 |
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Xander77 posted:Is there a reason they're not calling Trump himself? My guess is, it's not worth the trouble. If they had tried to call Trump, he would have tried to tie the whole thing up in court for a while, and if he had to testify regardless, every answer would have been a pity filled rant about how the election was stolen from him. Meanwhile, they could have gotten much of the same testimony about the events of that day from more cooperative witnesses.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1539230851711500289 Lol we have poo poo on tape
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1539230851711500289 Lol we have poo poo on tape Wait, isn't this the Proud Boy/ Oathkeeper documentarian? Why would he have footage of Trump talking unless Trump was directly in contact with Proud Boys or Oathkeepers?
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TulliusCicero posted:
no this is the rodger stone film that Rodger wanted.
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TulliusCicero posted:
Because Trump was in contact with OK, through Roger Stone.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1539230851711500289 Lol we have poo poo on tape mycrimes.mov?
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