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Wookiee Monster's avatar

The media is really frustrated. They desperately want a horse race for the ratings. But the GOP base is still so deeply enthralled with Trump that none of his supposed opponents can manage more than the most tepid criticisms of Trump. Even being sent to prison is unlikely to prevent him from winning the nomination. The only thing that could possibly stop him is trans fats.

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DemoCat's avatar

Never have I rooted so hard for trans fats.

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fuflans's avatar

k i spend way too much fucking time with liberal podcasts - and never trumper podcasts - freaking out, explaining, diagramming, refuting, wallowing in pain, etc. etc. etc. to actually read this article. (sorry michael you are always awesome.).

however i do need to rewatch making fetch happen.

cheers!

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Buz 13's avatar

Does anyone think if Johnathon Karl had asked Haley about Joe Biden that she would have refrained from critiquing him personally? Asking her about Trump is the “media’s obsession” ? She’ll let the judges determine her opinion on if a President is immune for crimes committed whether they’re in or out of office? She’ll let judges determine her opinion? This candidate is too afraid of Trump to be president.

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beb's avatar

The Texas woman went to the court because the law as written does not give doctors final authority as to if or when a woman needs an abortion. And of course the lower court's decision was immediately attacked by a politician who thinks he knows better than some doctor. Which proves why the woman needed the court's permission to get this medical procedure.

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Teddy Barnes's avatar

And the TX Supreme's said, the courts don't have the medical expertise to make this decision.......it's up to the doctors.......who (because of the vague wording of the 'law') could be stripped of their medical license, fined or even jailed for 5-99 years!!!!! What doctor is going to take that risk.......and that's EXACTLY the point of this onerous 'law'.......scare doctors out of helping women make their choices about abortion.....

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Darth Trad's avatar

Wait till some white guy can't get a triple by-pass due to some court declaring it non-vital. 'Our chaplain feels that you need to pray a bit harder. Maybe some horse liniment will fix it - that's the advice we get from our physicians here at the ranch'

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Mr. Minky's avatar

"While Haley tries to look like a viable Trump alternative, her inability to fully commit to attacking the clear frontrunner reminds everyone she’s Vivek Ramaswamy without techbro douchiness and smarm."

Quick, get that woman some smarmalade! Stat!

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Richard S's avatar

Haley's best chance is if TFG is in prison.

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ManchuCandidate's avatar

Does this make the MSM Koch Suckers?

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

I appreciate that Texas went more on the pro-life side, but as we go through this … listen, my heart broke for her because I had trouble having my children.

What Haley fails to mention is that she more than likely would have been dead if the current medical insanity had been in place when she had her children.

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TakingAmes's avatar

Sure, but she got hers, and fuck you.

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

America's Right Wing mantra right there. "I got mine, so fuck you"

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

She is a lightweight. Won't make the cut.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Haley was Trump's ambassador to the United Nations.

As such, she undoubtedly was in a great position to observe the man's utter ignorance and incompetence, especially in world affairs.

And she 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 won't attack him directly? She should be trashing him with one anecdote after another from her experience of working with him.

If she won't go up against Trump with ammo like that, she's incapable of the toughness needed to defend this country.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Wait till he starts talking about she came to him on her knees begging for the job.

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Zap's avatar

No momentum. Lessmentum.

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letinstar's avatar

FAKE NEWS

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Tecolote's avatar

Chuck Todd held the standard for garbage "journalism" for so long but when he finally fell, Jonathan Karl was there to pick up that flag and wave it high.

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tempusfugit's avatar

It is pure emesis. Karl is trash in a CAN.

Of course, Tuck CHOAD isn't exactly gone lol.

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Some kind of Fred's avatar

Someone on the site people hate pointed something out. Suppose there's a Christmas miracle and she beats Trump for the nomination. What happens next? It probably will not be gracious acceptance that a woman beat him and campaigning for her :-)

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

He'll go third party. He has to be a nominee. If not, he can't claim political witch hunt.

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

THAT would be a glorious popcorn moment.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

We can pray for a Solstice Miracle that Donnie finally has an unrecoverable meltdown that requires restraints and a dribble cup?

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Prometheus59650's avatar

Q on Twitter:

Georgia Governor

@BrianKempGA

’s Legal Team has formally notified Georgia SOS Brad Raffensperger

@BradForGASOS

of Recording and Publishing Factually False Results concerning the 2020 Presidential Election, to include 17,852 INVALID “VOTES” recorded from

@FultonInfo

County, ALONE!

17,852 INVALID “VOTES” were more than 4,000 “votes” MORE than necessary for

@realDonaldTrump

to have won the State of Georgia in 2020.

***

For the record Kemp's office has officially debunked this. NO INVESTIGATION.

***

Erik Erikson on Twitter Re: the Q post:

Really important to understand why these guys are pushing this stuff when it is a blatant lie.

First, they need to keep their audience engaged. They have an audience deeply invested in 2020 theft and they have to have new plot twists.

Second, they need to distract from the Rudy Giuliani verdict that happened, surprise, the same day this allegation surfaced.

Third, they need people to connect that the system is fully out to get their side. So by trotting out the allegation on the day of the Giuliani verdict, they can suggest Giuliani got railroaded by a system out to get them all.

Fourth, doing all this undermines trust in the system. The one guy is a big QAnon conspiracist. By undermining the government and trust in the system, they think they can capture that trust.

Fifth, by capturing that trust, they profit off it while trying to undermine the system.

Sixth, many of them actually hope to destabilize the system and have convinced themselves that, once the system collapses, they'll come out on top.

It actually is an evil. They lie, twist the truth, and do so from self-interested motivation.

The underlying allegation has been thoroughly debunked, against by the Governor today, but it does not matter. They'll come up with some new excuse and move on knowing their audience will be more further invested in the plot twists and they can keep their income stream going.

***

It's a nation on the precipice when Brian Kemp is a bastion of democracy.

Finally...

𝐃𝐞𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Nah. Erick, son of Erick isn't smart enough for that. He's just trying to get a date with that cute goat he saw on YouTube.

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Mavenmaven's avatar

That DeSantis quote is true, if one means "National Socialist Democracy"

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SkeptiKC's avatar

And it's only going to get worse going into 2024...

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Mighty Little Dog's avatar

Look, if voters are going to vote for and elect a fascist, running as a fascist, break faith with all previous generations and destroy the nation, then the project is over, that's it. America may have reached that state of decay, I don't think so, but maybe.

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RocktonSam's avatar

Hes not going to win. At some point people are going figure out not every God damn person in this country has conspired against him. He's whiny selfish sore loser who always can't have it his way every time. His people can't threaten or intimated us if we work hard. playing the facist card is his worse mistake. Even foxnewz doesn't know what to do with him now. He's his own worst enemy . It's over. He's a joke. As are the whole repub party.

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Hemp Dogbane's avatar

He should be a lot better at losing by now.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

Also, he refuses to lift a finger to do any work

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RocktonSam's avatar

That's the spirit! Go team Go!

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Prometheus59650's avatar

I think so.

I want to be wrong, but I really am thinking about whether I try walking north or south to get the fuck out.

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EyeQueue's avatar

I want to be wrong, too, but these chuds are just not going to fucking stop.

And the "remain civil" and denialist crowd is going to fuck us.

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