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That’s amazing, there’s some intern on his staff that is really stupid or a fantastic troll. Most likely the former.

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3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Perhaps I'm still too lenient, but there has to be something before that clips starts that explains that.

Regardless of context, the hubris to not immediately abort a sentence that begins "A direct quote from Joseph Goebbels..." in a public setting is amazing.

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5 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Perhaps I'm still too lenient, but there has to be something before that clips starts that explains that.

Yeah, a little context would be really helpful before I blow a fucking lid.

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8 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Yeah, a little context would be really helpful before I blow a fucking lid.

Here you go - in a nutshell, ol' Keith was using the "We're not Nazis, you're nazis ..." defense.

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A Capitol Hill hearing held to explore supposed government censorship under Joe Biden was based on a “fiction”, a leading expert on countering online disinformation told members of Congress on Tuesday.

Nina Jankowicz, head of the American Sunlight Project, a pro-democracy organization, went on the offensive at a House of Representatives foreign relations subcommittee meeting held to examine the existence of an alleged “censorship industrial complex”, which Republicans claim was established to stifle rightwing views on social media, rather than combat foreign propaganda, as officially stated.

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“The premise of this hearing, the so called censorship industrial complex, is a fiction that has not only had profound impacts on my life and safety, but on our national security,” she said in her opening statement at a fractious hearing that exposed the width of the chasm between Republicans and Democrats on the issue.

“More alarmingly, this fiction is itself suppressing speech and stymieing critical research that protects our country.

“I want to acknowledge the irony that we’re having this discussion as we witness an assault on the first amendment we have not seen in decades. The Trump administration has directed far more egregious violations of our constitution than the imagined actions of the Biden administration on which this hearing is premised.”

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Keith Self, a Republican representative from Texas, provoked anger among Democrats by appearing to liken the Biden administration’s anti-disinformation efforts to steps by the Nazi to construct public opinion in 1930s Germany.

“A direct quote from Joseph Goebbels [the Nazi propaganda minister]: ‘It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion,’ and I think that may be what we’re discussing here,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/capitol-hill-hearing-biden-censorship-trump

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

Perhaps I'm still too lenient, but there has to be something before that clips starts that explains that.

Before?  Like years before?

 

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She's so close to getting it

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“They seed hate and teach students that they are starting off behind and have unconquerable disadvantages that they will suffer all their lives,” Blasingame said. “Not only does this teach hate among people, but how could you love a country where this is true?”

Quote from a CFISD board member who voted against teaching kids about Rosa Parks 

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/02/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters/

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2 hours ago, Paul Wesley said:

Just caught the last five minutes of this press conference.  
 

The flat-out lies ("we have virtually no inflation anymore," "groceries are cheap again," etc.) - it's comical.... as bad as any Soviet or North Korean level of dishonesty.  
 

I remember the first week of his 2017 term, and how the media spent a week refuting his "biggest inauguration crowd ever."  It was a huge amount of media coverage for a lie that was pretty inconsequential.  
 

Today he vomits out a whole series of bullshit economic "data," and the news media just moves right along instead of immediately saying "none of that is true."

Apparently the lies won.  I don't know how else to make sense of it.  

I don't really understand what's going on with the media during trump 2.0 but something is rotten in Denmark. 

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2 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

I don't really understand what's going on with the media during trump 2.0 but something is rotten in Denmark. 

Forget Denmark, it's rotten right here in the good ole U S of A!

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1 hour ago, Hookah Horns said:

I don't really understand what's going on with the media during trump 2.0 but something is rotten in Denmark Greenland. 

fify

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Meanwhile Midwest is getting Hammered by tornados. Wonder who won these states.

Trump Tornados? Tariff Tornados from God?

Shit is nasty. Some major cities in the way.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Meanwhile Midwest is getting Hammered by tornados. Wonder who won these states.

Trump Tornados? Tariff Tornados from God?

Shit is nasty. Some major cities in the way.

 

 

Can’t wait to see how Elon fixed FEMA 

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5 hours ago, C-Man said:

Chris Murphy with 11 posts about the tariffs.
 

The problem with that is that tariff exceptions usually are granted on an industry basis, not an individual business basis.

Trump could try that and maybe will, but I don't think so.

He thinks he's punishing trade partners.

Trump really thinks this is sound economic policy because, as brisket says, he has no conception of mutual benefit; that every transaction has a big winner and a big loser.

But, this is a nice counterbalance to the whole erroneous attempt to rationalize it as the "Mar A Lago Accord."  Trump and rationality just don't go together.

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

The problem with that is that tariff exceptions usually are granted on an industry basis, not an individual business basis.

Trump could try that and maybe will, but I don't think so.

He thinks he's punishing trade partners.

Trump really thinks this is sound economic policy because, as brisket says, he has no conception of mutual benefit; that every transaction has a big winner and a big loser.

But, this is a nice counterbalance to the whole erroneous attempt to rationalize it as the "Mar A Lago Accord."  Trump and rationality just don't go together.

Regressive tax, he thinks it will bring manufacturing jobs and other jobs “back” and it absolutely should not be dismissed as - create a crisis - claim the crisis is from the other guy - declare martial law and save the country from the other guy with a third term - scenarios. 

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My congressman, John Carter, used to have someone at least answer the phone and take a message that was predictably never responded to. He has suddenly become more relatable in that he now does not have anyone answering the phone and his voicemail is full. What a worthless piece of shit.

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16 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

My congressman, John Carter, used to have someone at least answer the phone and take a message that was predictably never responded to. He has suddenly become more relatable in that he now does not have anyone answering the phone and his voicemail is full. What a worthless piece of shit.

He’s mine too… his staff/team used to send out these silly email newsletter (don’t even remember how I got on the list). And the fucking spin they would put on some of the items was ridiculous. 

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1 hour ago, HalfSack Horn said:

I’m not a legal guy but know of a couple of lawyers at Mckool Smith.  Now I know they work for pussies 

Shocking and appalling.  Mike McKool, no longer affiliated, was from a long line of Dems.

Fulbright complying in advance.  Baker Botts and V/E no moves.  Susman no moves.

Interestingly, Jones Day, who has repped Trump business interests and GOP, no moves.

Edit to add.  Fulbright doesn't use the dreaded DEI, which I suppose is capitulation enough.  But has a pretty robust affinity page. https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-us/about/people-first

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