Right Wing Extremism
Crazy Racist Asshole Who Used To Be NYC Mayor Can Go F**k Himself
Rudy Giuliani's 'common sense' is just batshit racism.
June 25, 2020 12:35 PM
Rudy Giuliani is the Penguin of Black people's rogues gallery. We have more serious foes, but he's an annoying and persistent threat. Whenever Black people are hurting, he likes to tell us how much we suck and waddle away while twirling his machine gun umbrella. Here's an especially gross remark he made in 2016:
There's too much violence in the black community ... [I]f you want to deal with this on the black side, you've got to teach your children to be respectful to the police and you've got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police; the real danger to them, 99 out of 100 times, 9,900 out of 1,000 times, are other black kids who are gonna kill them. That's the way they're gonna die.
Giuliani wasn't bestowed a white hood and Grand Dragon designation after insulting literally the entire Black community. No, he was still permitted to openly stink up polite society. Giuliani is real mad now because the Black Lives Matter movement, which he loathes, has grown in prominence and respect, while his stint as Donald Trump's hack lawyer has pissed away whatever undeserved reputation he might've had.
<div id="159fb" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="79863eeb4fd2d94f195d6985347ce893"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1275125796294864897" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">HYPOCRISY of the Black Lives Matter movement
Watch Rudy Giuliani’s full essay: https://t.co/tRt8wDxPvX https://t.co/YKn5uFAF6U</div> — Rudy W. Giuliani (@Rudy W. Giuliani)<a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/statuses/1275125796294864897">1592848655.0</a></blockquote></div><p>(Please click the bird to see the whole tweet; our platform is doing that thing again.) </p><p>Giuliani believes Black Lives Matter is inherently racist and hypocritical because it only cares about white cops killing Black people. This isn't true, because Black Lives Matter has opposed police violence regardless of the killer cop's race or even the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/06/us/seneca-teen-dead-police-shooting/index.html" target="_blank">skin color of the victim. </a> Giuliani is also full of shit when he claims that Black Lives Matter specifically or Black people in general don't care about gang violence in Chicago. This is such a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/opinion/black-activists-dont-ignore-crime.html" target="_blank">debunked rightwing talking point</a> that conservatives might as well argue Black Lives Matter doesn't care when Black unicorns kill each other on the south side of Mars.<br></p><p>As <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/tucker-carlson-furious-black-lives-matter-more-popular-than-reads-list-of-white-people" target="_blank">Black Lives Matter's approval ratings</a> rise, Giuliani has gotten so desperate he's suggesting that the movement isn't just opposed to the extrajudicial killings of Black people, it's actually a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNJpa4CFotA" target="_blank">“ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world."</a> </p><div id="10f0d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="7a76b08921729f6a0791b4825307033c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1275254251237801992" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Rudy Giuliani: "Black Lives Matter wants to come and take your house away from you. They want to take your property… https://t.co/u6sAatRYoE</div> — Jason Campbell (@Jason Campbell)<a href="https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/statuses/1275254251237801992">1592879281.0</a></blockquote></div><p>It's quite an achievement to be the most racist, batshit person on Laura Ingraham's White Power Hour, but Giuliani came through Monday when he claimed — without ... what's that word I'm looking for? Oh, right EVIDENCE — that Black Lives Matter was working with antifa and the communists. They're all “executing a plan they'd written about four or five years ago." </p><blockquote><strong>GIULIANI:</strong> Black Lives Matter wants to come and take your house away from you. They want to take your property away from you ...They are anarchists and they are anti-American.</blockquote><p>I know I've missed a couple meetings, but ... really? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0O5OPlDXGg" target="_blank"><em>That's </em>our master plan?</a> If true, Black Lives Matter aren't “anarchists." They're the IRS or mortgage lenders. And Giuliani can hardly complain about <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/11/14/the-terrifying-prospect-of-an-attorney-general-giuliani/" target="_blank">civil asset forfeiture. </a></p><p>Giuliani hadn't calmed down much by Tuesday. It was like he'd spent the night at a racist version of Studio 54, where the McCarthyism is direct from 1954. This is what he posted on Twitter, presumably while in full command of his faculties. </p><div id="95f5d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2f23dbf2535c1dbe5786473af4593689"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1275580089837727752" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">WAKE UP!
Black Lives Matter wants to destroy law enforcement, end bail, empty the prisons (including drug dealers… https://t.co/90VHS12zcu</div> — Rudy W. Giuliani (@Rudy W. Giuliani)<a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/statuses/1275580089837727752">1592956967.0</a></blockquote></div><p>His all-caps, highly agitated "WAKE UP!" is very young Laurence Fishburne from Spike Lee's <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg8Oq_Sd3Bw" target="_blank">School Daze</a></em>. The so-called president is getting slapped with <a href="https://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/twitter-flags-another-abusive-trump-tweet-drawing-new-complaints-of-bias" target="_blank">Twitter content warnings,</a> so I guess it's not a shock that a failed presidential candidate like Rudy is shouting gibberish at the rain. </p><p>Look, for the billionth time, Black Lives Matter doesn't want to “destroy law enforcement" unless it's impossible for Giuliani to conceive of law enforcement that doesn't specialize in busting Black heads. We prefer guardians to “warriors." We want community policing not <a href="https://southsideweekly.com/op-ed-chicagos-overpoliced-neighborhoods-will-remain-occupied-city-defunds-cpd/" target="_blank">occupied neighborhoods. </a></p><p>I'll admit to wanting to <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/kamala-harris-will-shove-your-electability-up-bill-barrs-ass-which-she-owns-now" target="_blank">end cash bail.</a> I'm not an anarchist. I just believe in due process and don't think someone should lose their liberty until they've actually been convicted of a crime. This doesn't mean I want Hannibal Lecter roaming the streets. If a judge deems you're not a flight risk or a threat to others, like a serial killing cannibal, it shouldn't require a cash settlement to keep you free until trial.</p><p>Giuliani also links the reasonable proposals for <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/ta-nehishi-coates-punches-mitch-mcconnell-in-the-face-with-facts-history" target="_blank">reparations </a>and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/mitt-romney-joins-the-yang-gang" target="_blank">universal basic income</a> specifically to Black Lives Matter, as if violent Black gangs are going to shake down honest white Americans. He's fallen asleep while watching <em>Birth of a Nation</em> again.</p><p>When I lived in New York, a lot of so-called liberals who'd voted for Giuliani told me with a straight face that he was a “moderate." Sure, he was <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18570560/ns/politics-decision_08/t/pro-choice-stance-poses-challenge-giuliani/" target="_blank">pro-choice</a> and had a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-and-rudy-giuliani-playing-adulterous-slut-card-against-hillary-clinton-really" target="_blank">halfway decent drag act,</a> but Black people knew he wasn't shit. We still do, and we're glad the rest of the country is catching up.</p><p><em>Follow Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and entirely supported entirely by reader donations. Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Right Wing Extremism
North Carolina Cops Share Fantasy Of Killing Black People In Coming Civil War, Get Fired
Naturally, they say they're not racist.
June 25, 2020 11:38 AM
Three Wilmington, North Carolina, police officers have been fired after being caught on tape having a wildly racist conversation about how they just can't wait to have a big ol' civil war so they can kill Black people with impunity.
Cpl. Jessie Moore and officers Kevin Piner and Brian Gilmore were recorded on video complaining that their department only cared about "kneeling down with the Black folks" and using a bunch of racist and homophobic slurs. Piner later started talking about his plans to buy an assault rifle for the coming "civil war" because of how he can't wait to "slaughter" Black people. The recording was reported to the brass by a sergeant whose job it was to listen to the tapes.
These are the people who have, or had, been charged with protecting the people of Wilmington, North Carolina, 17.9 percent of which is Black. It's unknown exactly how long they've been on the force (though Moore, being a corporal, would have had to have been there for a while, but given the intensity of the discussion, it seems unlikely that this is the first time their racist bullshit has come up.
<p>Via <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article243779512.html" target="_blank">The Charlotte Observer:</a></p><blockquote>According to documents released by the police department, a sergeant was conducting a video audit as part of a monthly inspection and was reviewing footage from Piner's car that had been classified as "accidental activation." After the sergeant listened to the conversation and determined comments made by Piner and Moore were "extremely racist," she contacted the department administrator for the camera system.<br><br>At the 46-minute mark of the video, Piner and Gilmore began talking from their respective cars, at which time Piner criticized the department, saying its only concern was "kneeling down with the black folks." About 30 minutes later, Piner received a phone call from Moore, according to the investigation, a segment in which Moore referred to a Black female as a "negro." He also referred to the woman by using a racial slur. He repeated the use of the slur in describing a Black magistrate, and Moore used a gay slur to describe the magistrate as well.<br><br>Later, according to the investigation, Piner told Moore that he feels a civil war is coming and that he is ready. Piner said he was going to buy a new assault rifle, and soon "we are just going to go out and start slaughtering them (expletive)" Blacks. "I can't wait. God, I can't wait." Moore responded that he wouldn't do that.<br><br>Piner then told Moore that he felt a civil war was needed to "wipe them off the (expletive) map. That'll put them back about four or five generations." Moore told Piner he was "crazy," and the recording stopped a short time later.</blockquote><p>Naturally, they all claim that they are not racist. Because this is definitely the kind of conversation it would occur to a "not racist" person to have. The officers are blaming their comments on "stress" over the increased scrutiny on law enforcement officers following the murder of George Floyd and the protests thereafter. </p><p>That seems fairly unlikely. Stress can cause a lot of issues, but it's not gonna make anyone go from zero to fantasizing about a racist killing spree — and if it does, that is definitely not the kind of person who ought to have a job as a police officer or to ever be near a gun again. </p><p>Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams agrees, and to ensure that they never work in law enforcement again, has notified the N.C. Criminal Justice Training and Standards Commission of their behavior. </p><p><span></span>You know, I hate to disappoint these officers, and all the other people on their side gearing up for another civil war or what have you, but it's just not going to happen. Not just because it's a ridiculous idea, but also because if you just start killing people, that's not a war, <em>that's mass murder</em>. Like, what do they think is going to happen? They're gonna take up arms against us and just kill as many of us as it would take to make their racist bullshit socially acceptable? Are they gonna announce that they're leaving and we beg them to stay because of how charming and pleasant they are ... and <em>then</em> they kill us? Are we, too, supposed to take up arms in hopes of convincing them to stay? </p><p>Or is it that they're going to "overthrow the government," except for all of the idiots they voted into the government? </p><p>Clearly, they haven't thought this through, and that ... probably makes them more dangerous. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article243779512.html" target="_blank">Charlotte Observer</a>]</p><p><strong>Wonkette is independent and fully funded by readers like you. Click below to tip us! Also if you are buying stuff on Amazon, </strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl2&tag=wonkette0f-20&linkId=e6057399a4696aad6e79c000ca483f54&language=en_US" target="_blank">click this link</a>!</p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Congress
Let’s Watch Kamala Harris Slap John Cornyn Upside The Head For Five Minutes
Senate Democrats block Republicans’ BS police ‘reform’ bill.
June 24, 2020 02:35 PM
Senate Republicans offered a piddly-ass bill that gently, but not too strongly, encouraged police departments to “revise their practices," which in a total coincidence keep resulting in dead Black folks. The police have proven no more capable of voluntarily reforming themselves than Keith Richards in the 1970s, so Senate Democrats blocked the bill today. Republicans are aghast: “But we thought you wanted meaningless reform that changes nothing but will make us look slightly less racist during an election year?"
The gentlewoman from California wasn't having it. Kamala Harris said the Senate can't pass a “police reform bill" that doesn't reasonably address the concerns of Black people, who the police are killing ... a lot. If Kamala's a cop, this was some hardcore “cop-on-cop" crime.
Kamala Harris schools John Cornyn on police reform www.youtube.com
<p>Republicans wanted to slap South Carolina Senator Tim Scott's smiling face on their raggedy-ass bill <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/just-look-at-this-fool-talking-about-aunt-jemima-at-trumps-az-klan-rally" target="_blank">like it's a pancake syrup, </a>but the bill didn't even remove the "qualified immunity" that shields police from murder-related lawsuits or impose new federal restrictions on lethal force (like, please stop doing it so much). The most it could muster was a "penalty" of <em>less</em> free money for police departments that don't require the use of body cameras. I think cops would gladly pay you Tuesday for not incriminating themselves today.</p><p>From the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-democrats-block-gop-policing-bill-stalling-efforts-to-change-law-enforcement-practices/2020/06/24/4ad24fbc-b625-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>:</p><blockquote>The [bill] withholds federal grants to state and local law enforcement agencies that don't proactively bar the practice of chokeholds. It also calls on states and localities to report to the Justice Department when so-called "no-knock warrants" are used, and it would punish those that do not do so by withholding federal funding.</blockquote><p>Neither of those proposals would've saved the lives of <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/derek-chauvin-killed-george-floyd-there-we-said-it" target="_blank">George Floyd</a> or <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/ky-cop-suffers-career-setback-after-killing-breonna-taylor-in-her-own-home" target="_blank">Breonna Taylor. </a> Police departments are still free to shake down states for their Star Destroyers, and what amounts to a “fine" doesn't hold the officers accountable. I don't consider it a “victory" that one of Taylor's killers lost his job. That's the bare minimum. He should also face prosecution for murder because he murdered someone.</p><p>When John Cornyn grossly claimed that Democrats were “blocking <strong>their </strong>own lynching bill," which shows you how much he cares about the lynching bill, Harris informed him she wasn't falling for the Republicans' <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HktV2yGtLv8" target="_blank">banana in the tailpipe.</a> </p><blockquote><strong>HARRIS: </strong>I think it's important we not get distracted. We cannot pull out a specific component of this bill and leave everything else in the garbage bin. And that is the logical and practical and actual conclusion of where you are going with the suggestion that we would sacrifice issues like no-knock warrants, issues like national standard for use of force, issues like the need for independent investigations for police misconduct, issues like pattern and practice investigations with subpoena power for the United States Department of Justice ... <strong>It's like asking a mother, save one of your children and leave the others!</strong><strong></strong></blockquote><p>Damn, girl.</p><p>Cornyn asked Harris if she'd yield for a question, and Harris said, “Absolutely," but she cocked her hips as she said it, as though she was preparing to skin him alive. Never ask a Black woman a question under those circumstances. Let your curiosity remain unsatisfied. </p><p>He asked if Harris was “familiar with the rules of the Senate that allows senators to offer amendments to improve legislation." Yes, she is, asshat, and Harris reminded the Texas senator that they both serve on the Judiciary Committee, where Democrats had asked for a meaningful discussion but none occurred. Cornyn kept digging.</p><blockquote><strong>CORNYN:</strong> What I'm trying to fathom ... is why the senator would rather have these negotiations occur behind closed doors as opposed to here on the floor of the Senate to see broadcast on television. Don't you think that sort of interaction and debate and negotiation out in front of all 330 million Americans would be beneficial to healing our country?</blockquote><p>If you too were having trouble figuring out what Cornyn's damned point was, he was annoyed that Democrats were blocking the bill rather than letting it pass and then offering amendments to it later. Because they should trust Mitch McConnell. Harris responded like she was talking to simple-minded kids watching "Ms. Kamala's Neighborhood."</p><blockquote><strong>HARRIS:</strong> Indeed. That is the beauty of the Judiciary Committee. Our meetings are public meetings.</blockquote><p>She paused to give Cornyn a chance to recover and respond, but it was cold without his skin, so he just slunk away ... like a nerd.<br></p><p>Scott tried to save the useless bill with an even more useless speech about how it was an opportunity to say "not only do we hear you, not only do we see you, we are responding to your pain." I'm not into kink shaming, but I know few Black people who are into having salt poured into our police-inflicted wounds.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/kamala-harris-silences-gop-senator-on-live-tv-for-orchestrating-distraction-on-police-reform/" target="_blank">Raw Story</a> / <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-democrats-block-gop-policing-bill-stalling-efforts-to-change-law-enforcement-practices/2020/06/24/4ad24fbc-b625-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>]<br></p><p><em>Follow Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and entirely supported entirely by reader donations. 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Conspiracy Theories
Oh Look It's The 'Paul Is Dead' George Floyd Conspiracy Theory :(
And this lady's running for Congress!
June 24, 2020 11:24 AM
A no-chance Republican congressional candidate in Missouri would like America to calm down and stop it with the protests against police brutality, because you see George Floyd wasn't actually murdered by a Minneapolis cop kneeling on his neck. Nope, according to Dr. Winnie Heartstrong, Floyd actually died in 2016, which means the cellphone video showing Floyd's killing is nothing but a computer simulation! Doesn't everyone feel a little silly about all that unnecessary fuss, now?
Heartstrong, who's running against William Lacy Clay, the Democrat who since 2001 has consistently won his St Louis-based district by upwards of 70 percent of the vote, has even published a very professional looking scientific "report" of her "findings," cobbled together out of random facts, internet truther conspiracy theories, and pure speculation, all held together with a lot of Occam's Duct Tape.
<p>Heartstrong's "report" has all sorts of lovely flourishes, right down to the obligatory invocation of the Constitution of the United States of America (please stand and place your hand over your heart): </p><blockquote>Today, on June 14, 2020, on behalf of "WE THE PEOPLE," I present evidence that suggests that Mr. Jackson and other actors participated in a videographic false flag event using deepfake technology to stoke racial tensions between black and white Americans which reinvigorated the flailing radical Black Lives Matter movement.</blockquote><p>You may be seated. </p><p>The central contention, that George Floyd really died in 2016, comes from a now-deleted Facebook post that Heartstrong assures us is "a reliable source." The author claims to have played college football against Floyd in the 1990s, and then to have become his attorney and guardian ad litem shortly before Real Floyd's death in Corpus Christie, Texas, and subsequent burial in a potter's field. (For good measure, the guy also claims he's seen "vacant tents set up around the hospitals for the sick that never came," so you know he's in on the real truth.) </p><p>Why is this such a credible account? Well, it's "written testimony of his client-attorney relationship with George Floyd," so that's pretty solid! More impressive, though, is the observation that the video of George Floyd's arrest can't possibly be Floyd, because the man in the video doesn't have a tattoo on his chest like the real Floyd had. The report explains, "The real George Floyd's tattoo is visible in a video of him on a pornography website." You know, from George Floyd's porn career that none of us knew about. The works cited list includes this source: "Pororgraphy video of the real George Floyd," so you know Heartstrong did her research. </p><p>Still more crowdsourced "evidence," consisting of someone drawing a red circle on a video screenshot, indicates that the makers of the fake video were too lazy to have put an actor on a gurney, so instead they put a legless mannequin in an ambulance. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Heartstrong cites "YouTube video of George Floyd without legs" as her source, and offers this astute analysis:</p><blockquote>It would have been impossible for Floyd to suddenly lose his legs during the arrest altercation. The discrepancy in the absence of legs can be explained by the probable use of a mannequin during a certain portion of the arrest video production.</blockquote><p>She doesn't explain why an elaborate plot to stir civil unrest would go to the trouble of using a mannequin instead of just having their fake George Floyd stand-in lie on the gurney. Maybe a clever production assistant did it to tip off truth seekers! </p><p>But sure enough, the report shows a social-media photo of an African-American male medical training dummy, which <em>has no legs! </em><span></span></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Just to add to the intrigue, 7-Sigma, the Minneapolis-based company that made the dummies "has confirmed that they will leave Minneapolis after their facility was burned down during city riots"!!!!!!!! (<a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/06/09/7-sigma-manufacturer-burned-in-riots.html" target="_blank">Factcheck true</a>!!!!) The report calls on the CEO to be questioned about his involvement with making the fake video. Bit of a problem for this theory: Not only does the pictured dummy have no legs, it also <a href="https://www.healthysimulation.com/medical-simulation/vendors/7-sigma-simulation-systems/" target="_blank">has no abdomen</a> below the chestical area, because it's used to train clinicians on how to insert breathing tubes for patients:<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>My God. George Floyd <em>keeps disappearing more and more </em>as we go along! And what about his white twin, who nobody wants to talk about, huh? <br></p><p>The expert report also raises this skeptical note about the validity of the autopsy, pointing out that whatever cause of death the medical examiner released, "It is possible that a different corpse was presented for this autopsy since the real George Floyd died in 2016." That's some pretty sharp thinking. We bet the M.E. would have made a note if the body were four years in the grave. </p><p>We're told it's impossible for George Floyd to have lived at the rental property that was his last known address, because that particular address is listed in the landlord's name on property records, not Floyd's. Yes, really, that's supposed to be a telling "discrepancy." </p><p>The report goes on to add that there's <em>no evidence at all</em> that George Floyd ever left Texas for Minnesota. Citation: "With a $2 subscription to Spyfly, public records can be searched and viewed by anyone." The report doesn't bother dismissing<a href="https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/07/friends-colleagues-remembering-george-floyds-work-with-salvation-army/" target="_blank"> friends and coworkers</a> who knew Floyd in the Twin Cities, because duh, of course they're either lying, or were entirely made up by the media. </p><p>But wait! The evidence keeps coming! How do we know the video of George Floyd's murder was a computer-generated deepfake, and not genuine? Here are some images of George Floyd and of NBA star Stephen Jesse Jackson, who told the media he was an old friend of Floyd's and even called himself Floyd's "twin"! Jackson obviously pretended to be Floyd in the fake video, and if a bunch of red and green lines on photos don't prove everything you know is a lie, then you are clearly beyond help, you science denier. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>The report also found a <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/05/25/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared/#2cbc0dcb7494" target="_blank">Forbes article</a> about deepfake video technology that JUST SO HAPPENS to have been published on May 25, 2020, the very day George Floyd was killed in Milwaukee. I mean, it's so OBVIOUS, but the report bravely spells out the inescapable logic, because everything is stuck together with krazy glue.</p><blockquote>Based on the timing of this article which coincides with the alleged date of Floyd's death, Stephen Jackson needs to be questioned about his role in the deepfake video released on May 25, 2020.</blockquote><p>No, the name "Darnella Frazier" — the teen who recorded the video — appears nowhere in the report, because she too must be a crisis actor. Derek Chauvin, the cop charged in Floyd's murder, is also supposedly a computer simulation, probably played by "actor and comedian Benjamin Ray Bailey who features in Cash Cab."</p><p>Most telling of all, maybe, is that The Schemers trotted out a woman who's supposed to have been Floyd's second-grade teacher, one Waynel Sexton, whose name, if you delete some letters, is actually aYNEL sEX, indicating that a conspiracy of preverts is behind all this. Everyone knows that junior high school dirty name jokes have a deep political significance, and you can trust me on this, since my name sounds like "Farty Smelly," indicating I am secretly a gastroenterologist. </p><p>How's this for convincing?</p><blockquote>Sexton was interviewed by other media outlets where she repeated the same story, yet no one bothered to research her claims of being a school teacher or whether she is even a real person. A search into public records reveals that there is no one named Waynel Sexton and there is no evidence that this person taught grade school anywhere.</blockquote><p>Also too, she is apparently a famous crisis actor because she looks a bit like other women with her general build, and she did the Pulse Nightclub hoax, the Las Vegas massacre hoax, and maybe had something to do with the cancellation of "She's The Sheriff." She just might be the key to EVERYTHING! </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>In conclusion, please Mr. Trump find out the truth and put the perpetrators of this hoax in jail, sincerely, Lady Running for Congress who hopes to make it big in the conspiracy grift circuit. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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