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Remember the Gish Gallop technique used on Joe Biden in the so-called debate? The Republicrats are now using another tactic known as DARVO most often used by abusers to blame their victims. They are telling us who they are and trying to evade mention of their plans for us after their victory in November. Ignore the rhetoric, pay attention to the tactics used and choose to vote accordingly. YMMV.

Of course, if the Demopublicans continue flounder it will not matter. Here in Oklahoma Kevin Stitt and Ryan Walters are already implementing their version of Project 2025 in part by mandating release time for any student to receive religious instruction off-campus and cancelling the license to teach in Oklahoma schools for any teacher not injecting the Holy Bible (theirs, not yours) into all aspects of the curriculum. If you don't live in Oklahoma be very afraid, otherwise, the future is now.

Remember to vote, and wave as you fly over the Oklahoma swamp.

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“On Election Day, America will hold these lawfare jackals accountable.”

The party of unity, with criminals.

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Jul 19·edited Jul 19

Those 70,000 police officers who were assaulted...could someone explain the through line that makes it Biden's fault? We heard this in 2016 too, constantly-that Clinton supported cop killings, and Trump would stop them. It's baffling that people believe this crap.

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Looking at the pic of the boys in their Trump uniforms, didn’t Vance get the memo, red tie, dumbass!

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Trump and his MAGA supporters are clearly lawless and seek retribution but are the American public wise enough to see that through the Goebbels propaganda?

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The assassination attempt on Trump has completed the memory-holing of Trump's incompetence (e.g., his handling of Covid) and criminality (e.g., his central role in the phony state electoral college slates that were intended to subvert the lawful transfer of power to Joe Biden after the 2020 election and Trump's total dereliction of duty as Commander-in-Chief on January 6th as he watched gleefully for hours as the Capitol was attacked). The fact that Trump likely will again be elected president in November is the real "American Carnage" because it demonstrates that a huge swath of Americans care more about culture wars and the price of eggs and gas than about putting an incompetent criminal back in the White House.

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It’s pretty clear that the Dems are the party of Law and believe that Order will naturally follow so long as the Law is just and fairly applied. Republicans care only about Order as defined by their patriarch while the Law is merely a tool to be wielded in furtherance of achieving and enforcing that Order.

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Peru’s General Óscar Benavides:

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

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Jul 18·edited Jul 18

"And yet he has never backed down,” as Lara Trump boasted about her pa-in-law.

He can't afford to back down. If he backs down, the donations dry up and he ends up broke and in jail.

Defiance is what was drilled into him from his baby years. It's his DNA. It's his entire brand. It's the only thing he knows.

Also, it's mostly other people paying the price for it.

He's got to + it's his comfort zone anyway --- so, unremarkable.

Still, to people facing hardship (real or perceived) and feeling powerless, it's a powerful image.

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Jul 18·edited Jul 18

Every time I think I have the Biden mess figured out the facts change. This time it’s Pelosi and her protege Schiff turning up the heat. Pelosi doesn’t make mistakes: she must have word that Harris is willing to run to help down ticket races. Not that she’ll win—betting markets have her losing to Trump 80/20 as opposed to Biden’s 90/10—but she could motivate voters (including yours truly) who at this point feel a visceral disgust with Biden. Imagine a Harris/Buttigieg ticket. Winners? Unlikely. But all around good eggs? For sure. Whatever else, they project fundamental decency, and it would be a positive pleasure to vote for them. Please dear God let it happen, I would so love to eat my most pessimistic words.

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Basicly the position is that white collar crimes are persecutions and blue collar crimes are prosecutions. But that is white collar is with the regime otherwise against Biden and Hunter it's of course legitimate

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