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Originally Posted by EVOLghost

are you using ‘freethinkers’ as a pejorative?

he’s into blind belief, so... yeah

[Skuj]

I know this has been mentioned many times, but it cannot be mentioned enough:

With the splintering of the media these days, millions upon millions of Magabillies actually believe what they hear at Fox, Breitbart, etc etc etc....

Byteme actually believes all of this shit.

I'm not letting him off the hook. Fuck him for not expanding his "sources".

But this is the world we live in. Does anybody actually expect him to see the light? He is so far up Trump's ass, you'd need one of those special lights that Trump was talking about for that to occur.

[Bytor Peltor]

26 Pennsylvania House Republicans and 8 Pennsylvania Senators are calling for withdrawing certification of presidential electors......

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

NOT SO FAST


Judge McCullough issues TRUMP campaign a favorable opinion:


- Commonwealth barred from taking ANY further steps to certify results
- Issues raised found to be of "statewide and National concern"
-"likelihood to succeed on the merits"

 

[tw2113]

of course a bunch of Pennsylvania Republicans dangling of Trumps dick want a recall.

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Originally Posted by Skuj

I know this has been mentioned many times, but it cannot be mentioned enough:

With the splintering of the media these days, millions upon millions of Magabillies actually believe what they hear at Fox, Breitbart, etc etc etc....

Byteme actually believes all of this shit.

I'm not letting him off the hook. Fuck him for not expanding his "sources".

But this is the world we live in. Does anybody actually expect him to see the light? He is so far up Trump's ass, you'd need one of those special lights that Trump was talking about for that to occur.

From Paste (too many images to post, so follow the link for the full set of pics and links - by the way, a bunch of those ultratrumpians look rather "normal", which is... pretty fuckin' scary):

Fox News Is Terrified of Trump Supporters (and They Should Be)

First off, you have to watch this clip from ghoulish Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham, attempting to communicate the fact that Joe Biden has won the election and the Supreme Court ain’t gonna do a thing about it:

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1331071997913100288

A few things to notice from that clip, which is littered with mini apologies surrounding a piece of truth that has been accepted by every sane person in America for about a month:

1. Immediately, she leads with “as unpleasant and disappointing as these past three weeks have been to so many of us…”

2. After delivering the Biden news, she goes into full apology mode, citing “potential fraud” and a host of other unspecific “problems” with the election.

3. Next, she has to defend herself as “not a sellout.”

4. “Trump should challenge! Trump is good!”

5. “I'm just doing my job! We have to live in reality! You know me, I'm your honest truth-teller friend!”

My friends, this is some extremely embarrassing content right here. Liberals constantly get called snowflakes by their conservative pals, but this is the kind of Loyalty Oath chest-beating you'd see in the Soviet politburo. The undertone of that two-minute monologue is achingly clear: Ingraham, who is legitimately one of the most psychotic zealots Fox News has to offer, is absolutely down-to-her-bones terrified of the people she's speaking to. It's her job as a pseudo-newsperson to admit that Biden is going to win, but she knows the MAGA wackos watching are going to hate her for it, and that they're too foaming-at-the-mouth nuts to distinguish the message from the messenger. She has two options here, the first of which is to just give in a join the baying yahoos, the second of which is to try to retain some professionalism and make gestures at respectability. She chooses the latter, but she's so shook by her audience that she issues a million and one disclaimers, even apologies, for stating the obvious. She knows she must do fealty to Saint Donald or risk the wrath of of his blood hordes.

And the really sad part? Even as she's doing it, you can tell she knows that it's not going to work. When she tweeted it out, with yet another disclaimer (“Trump will remain the most compelling voice in American politics,”) here's a sampling of the most-liked, most retweeted responses she got:

donald wilson
@wilsondrkw
Now that you and Tucker Carlson have thrown in the towel, I’m totally done with Fox News.

Lee Jackson
@Stonewall_77
Turncoat.

Daisy
@flowerzmyname
Oh wow Laura! When I listened to you I really thought President Trump gave up and you never mentioned that he's still fighting for America i was so disappointed in you :-(

Gary Howe
@gp2howe
Enjoy your ratings

Allisa Blue
@AllisaBlue
Holy craaaaap.
Did you just sell out?? :-(

Pessimistic earthlings
@Isabel84335106
Fox is dead

president-elect, Eunice
@withlove8888888
Nope! Trump will succeed in reelection! Don't dare to patronize us! Very disappointed!

David LaPell
@DaveLapell
Laura, between her monologue the other night telling the GOP they need to play nice with AOC & now this, tells me that she's now falling in line with #FoxNews new programming, sell out the base, make it look good.

Those represent the “nice” replies, and believe me, you don't want to wade deeper into that bog.

Here's the problem with Ingraham's hedge: you know that Mobb Deep lyric, “no such thing as halfway crooks”? Well, there's no such thing as a halfway cult, either. What makes this situation so delightful is that Fox News is caught in a trap of its own making. For decades, Rupert Murdoch's soulless far-right propaganda outlet has altered the tenor of American life by demonizing liberals and stoking the fires of culture war. No entity has done more to push the polarization that is currently ravaging our country. What's clear now is that they wanted to drive ideology, make money, and assert control over the direction of our country. In other words, they wanted to create a monster, but keep the monster on a leash.

The monster isn't just off the leash; the monster is ravenous, and it has a taste for blood. Trump saw to that. And what the aftermath has revealed is that Fox News never wanted the rabid, pure-cut, unadulterated state of chaos. They wanted, needed some veneer of respectability, and now that the base they created is demanding the full-throated vicious hate that they themselves dog-whistled until they were blue, they're quaking. To go in that direction means to go into the wilderness of batshit aggressive populism, and aside from a Sean Hannity or two, they're not willing to enter the madhouse. These are rich, professional people who live in cities and send their children to private schools, and they prefer to commandeer the howling wolves from a distance.

Well, the wolves aren't having it. They're mad at stooges like Ingraham, they're mad that Fox News was the first to call Arizona, and they're made at anything but total adherence to the Trump-as-god complex that has re-routed the wiring in their brains. And good for them! If you're going to be tortured into a psychological frenzy over years of classical conditioning, you may as well kill the masters when all hell breaks loose.

Trumpism, as a political doctrine, is incoherent, but as an aesthetic doctrine it makes total sense. Randy Quaid, more than anyone else, got the spirit of it just right in this piece of Twitter theater:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1327043884082409474

That, right there, is the stuff. Fear, power, derangement, commitment. That's the conservative death urge personified, and Fox News just doesn't have it in them. There's no more dangerous person to be than the moderate in a cult, and folks…well, damn, you hate to see it.

This is the American Trump voter of today, and while you shouldn't watch this if you're not up for the frequent f-bombs, it's worth noticing who she name-drops at the 50-second mark:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1331057739485810689

Fox News can’t talk its way into a managed retreat. There’s an old Russian proverb that applies: “If you call yourself a mushroom, jump in the basket.” It’s about putting your money where your mouth is, and all across the country, Trump backers who have spent their lives being transformed by Fox News propaganda have done just that. But now it’s Fox News’ time to jump in the basket, and they can’t do it. It’s too much for them—they can’t become OAN and lose the last of their credibility among their cultured neighbors. But Trump has captured the souls of his people, which means that Fox News will suffer. The last people watching them will be a few retired CEOs, while everyone else does what they’ve been trained to do in an increasingly polarized country—head to crazier territory.

What Fox News’ hesitancy at the critical hour proves is that they never really wanted to destroy America. They just wanted to strangle it half to death and ride the wheezing body to success and power. Their influence was predicated on remaining in control of the forces they wrought, but that’s not how these things go. Now that their viewers have become a little too radicalized, the result is worse than being left behind: they’re now the target. No matter how bad it gets for Fox News, never forget the hideous impulses they helped unleash, and never forget that they deserve every bit of what’s coming. These are the people who tried to destroy our country from the inside-out, and even if the sabotage isn’t working the way they intended, it’s still working. Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude; if nothing else, enjoy the spectacle as these halfway fascists get roasted on a spit in the hell they’ve made.

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by Skuj

I know this has been mentioned many times, but it cannot be mentioned enough:

With the splintering of the media these days, millions upon millions of Magabillies actually believe what they hear at Fox, Breitbart, etc etc etc....

Byteme actually believes all of this shit.

I'm not letting him off the hook. Fuck him for not expanding his "sources".

But this is the world we live in. Does anybody actually expect him to see the light? He is so far up Trump's ass, you'd need one of those special lights that Trump was talking about for that to occur.

Him and Wobert did expand their sources when they resorted to posting links of publications that are famous for being derogatory and many other deplorable iniquities but above all else best known for being basically full of shit: The Sun and the Daily Mail.

[h8kurdt]

A Donald Trump supporter who donated $2.5m to help expose and prosecute claims of fraud in the presidential election wants his money back after what he says are “disappointing results”.

Fredric Eshelman, a businessman from North Carolina, said he gave the money to True the Vote, a pro-Trump “election ethics” group in Texas that promised to file lawsuits in seven swing states as part of its push to “investigate, litigate, and expose suspected illegal balloting and fraud in the 2020 general election”.

But according to a lawsuit Eshelman filed this week in Houston, first reported by Bloomberg, True the Vote dropped its legal actions and discontinued its Validate the Vote 2020 campaign, then refused to return his calls when he demanded an explanation

Trump supporters really are the gift that keeps on giving.

Also the news is that republican supporters are saying not to bother voting in the Georgia run-offs as they're sayt what's the point is it's rigged. It's led Trump jr. to desperately tweet not to listen to them and to get out and vote. Even though he's spent the last few weeks banging on about rigged elections.

[_tunic_]

Trump latest tweet

Two bickering housewives blahblahblahing from their kitchen sink via Zoom
That's the news media he prefers watching over Fox

Lol, he even says it himself :

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@FoxNews daytime is virtually unwatchable, especially during the weekends. Watch @OANN, @newsmax, or almost anything else. You won’t have to suffer through endless interviews with Democrats, and even worse!

Jeez! Oh no, interviews with Democrats!! They may be even be telling the truth!!

[Bytor Peltor]

Speaking of FOX, Maria Bartiromo to interview President Trump on Sunday morning......his first since Election Day

09:00 CST
10:00 Eastern

[_tunic_]

But he just tweeted not to watch Fox ...

Now I'm confused!

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Trump supporters really are the gift that keeps on giving.

Also the news is that republican supporters are saying not to bother voting in the Georgia run-offs as they're sayt what's the point is it's rigged. It's led Trump jr. to desperately tweet not to listen to them and to get out and vote. Even though he's spent the last few weeks banging on about rigged elections.

I hope that boomerang hits him in his tiny dick.

After the Georgia run-offs, Joe, put Stacey Abrams in charge of voting rights at the DOJ. DO IT.

[Skuj]

Let's face it: The GOP will hold the Senate, and we will have to endure more of Moscow Mitch.

[_tunic_]

Isn't the President supposed to know what his secret services are working on? Probably skipped the last meetings again to play golf ...

From the FOX interview:

Trump accuses FBI, DOJ of 'maybe helping rig the vote'... and doesn't stop there in Fox News exclusive

[Skuj]

I still feel that Trump needs to go to jail for what he is saying.

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

Isn't the President supposed to know what his secret services are working on? Probably skipped the last meetings again to play golf ...

From the FOX interview:

Trump accuses FBI, DOJ of 'maybe helping rig the vote'... and doesn't stop there in Fox News exclusive

I can't copy -> paste the Washington Post investigation on Trump's last 20 days because it's paywalled (for now), but it shows, with facts, a guy not just evil anymore but COMPLETELY out of his mind, fully believing his own bullshit. (Which, of course, is the difference between bullshit and a lie.) So, what, a fascist like Bill Barr fucked him over? Barr is "Deep State" now? And what the fuck is Trump doing talking to Fox anyway after shitting all over them on Twatter?

This is Trump on CRACK. And to think Biden was "supposed" to be the one with cognitive issues...

[Bytor Peltor]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

Isn't the President supposed to know what his secret services are working on? Probably skipped the last meetings again to play golf ...

From the FOX interview:

Trump accuses FBI, DOJ of 'maybe helping rig the vote'... and doesn't stop there in Fox News exclusive

YES - lots of Democrats and Republicans will be going to prison, it’s going to get ugly!

[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showpost.php?postcount=503&p=1407031

Do you not get tired of announcing nonsense that won't ever happen? Because we're fucking tired. Of you. So MAN UP, stop being a never-wronger, and accept a deadline, after which:

 

I did say please.