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I figure Melania and Ivanka are hiding in the closets. Together? It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

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Excuse the fuck out of me for not keeping with every last detail about every last thing.You should try to be more condescending next time. Ass.

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Mensch was pimping a version of this story before they published it and she discovered that it wasn't true.

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Yeah, I wondered that too. That Thomas Frank would like to keep the focus on white men and their discontents to the exception of all else—there's a reason the WSJ hired him—but he's not this Thomas Frank

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I think people were more up in the air about how credible they were until Mensch made up some truly bizarre stories about how tyrolean guards from the Supreme Court were going to drag Trump out of an airport to secret impeachment prison or some equally ridiculous thing, but lately she's gotten really bad.

She's doxxing people, & pretty much everyone who's not her (including Joy Ann Reid, BLM and the woman's march) are "deza" (which apparently means "no, it is YOU who are the russian spy, kamrad Boris, and my friend Rupert says so too").

In general I think it's pretty safe to say that it's a good idea to look for a Mensch connection on stories before moving on them.

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Thank you.You explained that nicely with no condescension.

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Also, other tweets were linked in the main post and the comments that as far as I know have no ties to Mensch and her minions.

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You'll want to spend the rest of your brightsDown at the house, the house of blue lights!

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Let me fix that for you:

99.99999% of shit Mensch says is not true.

Or do you believe Don the Con is being impeached "as we speak" and we're just gonna wake up one morning and he's gone? OMG they did it! We didn't have to do anything, wow how convenient!

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Yeah, how dare I expect people to bother to do some research into things before they parrot them to others.

There's been no lack of coverage about what a fraud Mensch et. al. are but here:

Vox: Democrats Are Fall For Fake News About Russia

New Republic: Stop Promoting Liberal Conspiracy Theories

Louise Mensch, The Palmer Report And The Dangers Of Fake News On The Left

How A FBI Raid Fed A Rumor That Orrin Hatch Was About To Become President

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Woodward and Berstein had to retract an early story on Watergate they couldn't properly source too. Minor setback.

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Um.

I agree with you. I've put a fair amount of time into expressing that over the last few months. Maybe dial it back a bit?

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Apologies but I don't visit here all that often - I am relieved you are on the same page. Unfortunately, a lot of people are not, and blindly parrot this shit. It's incumbent to push back. There is legit stuff Trump can be investigated over, we don't need fairy tales.

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Hard to argue with that.

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You're right, but ya don't gotta be a condescending asshat about it.I knew about Mensch and Palmer, but not about the other two.

So again, excuse the fuck outta me for not being on top of everything.

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Well a friend went full down the rabbit hole, refusing to listen to reason. I am glad you are not that.

One of the guy's featured in those DU tweets was lecturing a constitutional lawyer the other day, insisting that "impeachment is happening" because a Newsweek (clickbait) headline said so.

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