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'Empty Q.'

Nice

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First: 'everybody knows' the gummint is up to some hinky shit (and this may well be a case where Both Side Do It actually applies)(I'm a Dem only because there isn't really a better alternative; we're a long way off from functional anarchy)(but I digress).

So given that we get lied to and manipulated by Powers That Be all the time, if you hear a theory that blames that manipulation on people you already don't like, your brain gonna jump on it with all four feet. Or however many feet your brain has. It helps make sense of a world that too often doesn't, and blaming THOSE PEOPLE is a tried and true method for keeping the willies at bay. Did I mix enough metaphors yet or should I keep going?

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Why CAN'T Congress investigate "the murders last summer and BLM", to get facts on the record that the majority of violence was perpetrated by law enforcement into peaceful protesters? I'm so tired of my right wing coworkers using this type of whataboutism as a gotcha to end any discussion of domestic terrorism.

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I know the name; this was a joke.

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Because trumpian fascists couldn’t care less about facts or what’s on the record?

These are the same nazi wannabes who push batshit like “COVID deaths are caused by the vaccine” and “Tom Hanks, Hilary Clinton, and the Pope run a pedophilic organ harvesting ring”; they are concerned with sowing chaos and division through dezinformatsiya, not any regard for the truth, and as long as they have outlets to disseminate like Fox, OAN, and Facebook, your mouthbreather coworkers will keep obediently parroting right along.

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Remember Ben Garrison's classic cartoon comparing beauty queen Mel with Michelle with a crotch bulge?

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All I know about Jewish conspiracies is that you can't find Château Lafite Rothschild with a screw-off cap. Must be a conspiracy.

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Do us a solid next time and bury this atrocity under spoiler tags.Thanks in advance!

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A 2/3 vote in the House to expel her.. Won't happen.They don't have the votes.

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You can produce 10 or 20 thousand cases of exquisite claret each year, and all the anti-Semites ever want to remember you for is one itsy-bitsy little conspiracy to accomplish world domination. Sheesh!

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Still waiting for pix of cities in smoking ruins due to BLM. It’s like voter fraud - they know it’s true because they know it’s true, also they both involve Black people.

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When they start on that, say “Kyle Rittenhouse” over and over as fast as you can. To drown them out.

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Murders over the summer were all committed by police except for the two committed by Kyle Rittenhouse. Jesus Christ drinking a sidecar, next?

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I tried and failed. I do apologize and I will not do it again.

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But lightning is all forked and crooked. Lasers and any kind of particle beams move in ruler-straight lines. You aren't suggesting, surely, that Greene and other batshit right wing conspiracy theorists - sorry, I mean fantasists - would ignore a real scientific fact like that?

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OK what did the Bureau of Land Management do this time?

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