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  1. 7 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    i suspect that the nra going broke has had quite a chilling effect on the laundered russian nra money, tho

    Maybe it's always been relatively close, discounting what the NRA would contribute.  With that curtailed greatly, combined with the GOP's 19th century stance on social issues as a party, things have changed.

  2. Please, drink bleach to counteract the Coronavirus:

     

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-conspiracy-theorists-magic-cure-for-coronavirus-is-drinking-lethal-bleach

     

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    As the global death toll from an alarming new coronavirus surged this week, promoters of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory were urging their fans to ward off the illness by purchasing and drinking dangerous bleach.

    The substance—dubbed “Miracle Mineral Solution” or “MMS”—has long been promoted by fringe groups as a combination miracle cure and vaccine for everything from autism to cancer and HIV/AIDS.

     

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    The Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned consumers not to drink MMS, last year calling it effectively a “dangerous bleach” that could cause “severe vomiting” and “acute liver failure.” But those warnings haven’t stopped QAnon devotees—who believe in a world where Donald Trump is at war with shadowy deep-state “cabal”—from promoting a lethal substance as a salve for a health crisis that speaks to the darkest recesses of fringe thought.

    “I’m going to have to get home, and MMS the whole state,” prominent QAnon promoter Jordan Sather told his audience in a recent video. “MMS the whole shit out of everything.” 

     

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    “Chief Police 2,” a prominent anonymous QAnon account on Twitter, also pushed MMS as the coronavirus spread. On Friday, the account’s operator urged its nearly 18,000 followers to buy “20-20-20 spray,” an MMS concoction.

    “New followers protect yourself with the 20-20-20 spray,” the tweet read. 

     

     

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    QAnon, a conspiracy theory reminiscent of Pizzagate that started with a series of online posts in October 2017 from an anonymous figure called “Q,” imagines a world where Donald Trump is engaged in a secret war with a cabal of pedophile-cannibals in the Democratic Party, the finance industry, Hollywood, and the “deep state.” 

    Despite or perhaps in part because of such outlandish ideas, the theory has taken root with a segment of Trump’s base, with QAnon believers regularly appearing at the president’s campaign rallies. Trump has also routinely retweeted QAnon content, even though apparent devotees have been charged with murder and linked to other violent incidents. 

    Coronavirus’ spread was a perfect fit for QAnon conspiracy theorists and others on the fringe right, who have already adopted the idea that the disease has been manufactured by shadowy forces. Sather, for example, has cited a 2015 patent for a potential avian coronavirus vaccine to suggest that the human form of the disease was deliberately created. Conspiracy-theory hub Infowars, meanwhile, has promoted the false idea that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates’ philanthropic efforts are just a cover for a “depopulation agenda” centered on the virus. 

    “In the conspiracy-theory community, Bill Gates is seen as this sort of budding eugenicist,” Mike Rothschild, a journalist who tracks the QAnon movement, told The Daily Beast.

    While conspiracy theorists may disagree about what cabal is behind coronavirus, many of them agree on the “cure”: MMS. The substance, which becomes bleaching agent chlorine dioxide when combined with a citric acid like lime juice, has perhaps most prominently been promoted by a website linked to Jim Humble, a self-proclaimed archbishop who says he found MMS while on a gold-mining expedition in South America.

    Through a Mexico-based church, the “Genesis II Church of Health and Healing,” MMS is offered for sale for $45. The church’s website claims it will eliminate coronavirus, among other ailments.

    “ALL KITS HAVE THE 20-20-20 ESSENTIALS THAT CAN KILL THE CORONAVIRUS, OR ANY OTHER VIRUS JUST SPRAY YOUR MOUTH TWICE A DAY,” the church’s website reads.

    Humble didn’t respond to a request for comment. 

    Despite the obvious dangers of consuming bleach, MMS has also been embraced by a wider non-QAnon fringe eager for various miracle cures. On Facebook, for example, mothers desperate for a cure for autism promote the baseless idea that MMS will cure the disorder.   

    Rothschild said QAnon personalities promote MMS in the same way that other right-wing figures sell vitamin supplements. 

    “It’s lucrative,” he said. “You can sell this stuff to people and make a mint off of it.”

    In August, the FDA said it was “not aware of any scientific evidence” that MMS has medical properties. In 2009, a woman who took MMS to avoid contracting malaria died almost immediately after swallowing it for the first time. 

    “Ingesting these products is the same as drinking bleach,” FDA Acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless said in an August 2019 statement. 

    Meanwhile, more than 2,700 cases of coronavirus had been confirmed as of Monday, while the United States told travelers to “reconsider” Chinese travel. Despite the dangers associated with MMS, and despite the IRL consequences of the coronavirus outbreak coming into sharper focus, new Twitter accounts continued to pop up pushing MMS as the disease spread. One tweet advocated a bizarre anti-coronavirus regimen of MMS bleach and colloidal silver, a substance known to give people who take it a bluish tint to their skin. 

    Coronavirus is just the latest disease to be used to sell MMS, according to Rothschild. There was no reason to believe it would be the last.

    “I don’t understand how people who promote this stuff can sleep at night,” he said.

     

  3. 1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Hilary set up Bolton's home server ?

    No, no.

     

    Bolton set up Hillary's server.  And on the side, served as the accountant for the Clinton Foundation, while simultaneously receiving $115,000 per month personal services fee from George Soros.

     

     

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  4. 12 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

    It's Trump's America, so anything goes now.  Moose out front should have told you.

  5. 7 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    am i the only one who's totally fine if they want to call hunter biden?  what are they gonna ask him, about how he got the spot on the board and call him unqualified?

    tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and i'll have my wife's brother arrested /thebigshort

    It's fine if they want to call a witness that has absolutely nothing to do with the issue here, which is the President's conduct.

    They might as well call Hillary too.

  6. 2 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    Either way they’re screwed because it won’t stop the truth from coming out.  Right now it’s about Senate GOP trying to skirt Bolton and other witnesses without being exposed for perping a broad coverup - now OR later that every Joe can see.  That’s the calculus.  

    What a dilemma.  I don't envy or pity them, because they have chose this.  

    Defend/protect the President at all costs, including their own personal reputations.

    Do the right thing, and risk having the President and his legion of followers in the media and elsewhere threaten to kill them electorally (or other ways).

     

     

     

     

  7. These stupid chucklefucks don't deserve to be a Senator.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/26/braun-trump-impeachment-learn-105262

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    Republican Sen. Mike Braun on Sunday said he hopes the impeachment process will “be instructive” for President Donald Trump’s conduct if he’s acquitted by the Senate.

    In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Braun was grilled by host Chuck Todd on how Trump will react to beating articles of impeachment, which is seen as a near certainty in a Republican-controlled Senate.

     

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    "This president, as you know, he's going to take acquittal and think, 'I can keep doing this,'" Todd said.

    "No, I don't think that," Braun replied. "Hopefully it'll be instructive."

    "I think he'll put two and two together," the Indiana Republican added. "In this case, he was taken to the carpet."

     

     

  8. Gee, what a shame.  

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/27/kevin-mccarthy-war-powers-resolutions-106170

     

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    House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy implored his Democratic counterpart on Monday to reconsider maneuvers that restrict the GOP’s ability to use procedural tactics to shape a pair of war powers resolutions coming to the floor this week.

    In a letter delivered to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), McCarthy (R-Calif.) asked the Democratic leader to reconsider his party's strategy and emphasized how important it is to preserve the limited tools that are available to the minority party.

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    The House will vote Thursday on a pair of measures — led by California Democrats Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna — that would further crack down on Trump’s ability to launch unilateral strikes on nations like Iran.

    But Democrats have taken careful steps to avoid an embarrassing repeat of last year, when Republicans essentially forced the House into a do-over on a similar bill. The fear is that Republicans will use a procedural vote — known as a motion to recommit — to split Democrats and force certain changes to the bill, as the GOP has successfully done on some of the most contentious measures of 2019.

     

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    Last February, the GOP temporarily tanked bipartisan legislation to rein in Trump’s war-making powers in Yemen — a historic vote that marked the first time since the passage of the 1973 War Powers Act that both chambers agreed to halt a military effort.

    At the time, Republicans had seized on tensions within the Democratic Caucus over certain remarks perceived as anti-Semitic by some of their own members. GOP lawmakers eventually secured enough Democratic votes to amend the legislation and add language condemning anti-Semitism, which held up the measure.

     

  9. 1 minute ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    why is triple assuming if Bolton testifies he will tell the truth?  Have we not learned anything about this admin?

    Can't answer for Triple, but to a segment of our population, he will be lying even if he tells the truth.

    Not a defender of Bolton or his ideologies, but at this point, what is his incentive to lie, other than to possibly get rid of Trump (and that is even a stretch given the Senate GOP).

    And there's this.  Nice title (thanks Hamilton!) and imagery on the cover:

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    13 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    [GOP]Bolton is a lying, leftist, liberal hack who can't be trusted on at all. We can't believe we ever listened to him on anything. All he cares about is making money.  He is fake news.[/GOP]

     

     

     

    Like clockwork, Chapter 2:

     

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  11. 7 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Let me ask this:  what was it about some boiling water that got her so panicked she kicked the door in?  What did she think would happen?

    She thought the house might burn down.

    Electric stove.

    I left out a few details; she had went out to the garage to get something out of the freezer and locked that door behind her.  She was not outside the house; she could have opened the garage door in case the house caught fire and walked outside.  Also, she could have walked next door to the retired couple's home who knew us well and would have assisted her as needed.  And it was summer, so she wasn't in danger of frostbite or hypothermia.  

    I've said it elsewhere, but this is the same woman who became incredibly, violently mad at me because I couldn't remove the lock on the water meter when the water was shutoff at our house due to nonpayment and she was the one that had not paid the bill in over two months.

     

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