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      It’s such fucking childish bullshit… Every goddamn time someone on the right is called out on something they just pull a “I know what you are but what am I?”

      Everything is just flipped: Trump is the fucking crime family… Now apparently Boebert is too.

      They pull this shit with everything so that they level the playing field, when BoTh SiDeS are the same you can stick with voting for your asshole of choice because “the other one is just as bad so my dude says I’ll get free cookies, I’ll go with him.”

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        Now? You know both boebert and her ex-husband have criminal records, right? You know how they met? She was a minor, hanging out at a bowling alley and he, an adult, was walking around flashing his dick at children. I can’t remember exactly what hers was, but I’m pretty sure it was an assault related charge or something

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          From the article:

          Her ex-husband – and Tyler’s father – Jayson Boebert was famously arrested in 2004 for exposing his genitals in a bowling alley where minors were present. Rep. Boebert, who was 17 and not married to him at the time, was one of the witnesses in that case. He got four days in jail and two years probation for lewd exposure and public indecency.

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        The worst part, following your colloquialism to “level the playing field,” is that while the Republicans are pointing to distract their constituents, they’re stomping down tons of mounds of shit and trying to use some of the shit to fill in divots. When people look back at the Republicans’ field after just scrutinizing the Dems’, they’re craning their necks to see the Republican side of the field because it’s dozens of feet higher and filled with compacted poopie.

        Then, they have the audacity to look down on the people from their hill of shit and start crowing all indignantly “but is my field not as level as theirs???”

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      It’s funny until one recalls how many times they’ve accused the left of being pedophiles.

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    Yeah, but unlike with Biden it is unfair to judge her by the crimes of her children! /s

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        You realize there has not been one single piece of credible evidence provided suggesting that he was at all involved, right? If there was, don’t you think it would be on Fox nonstop?

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          Sure there is, but you guys dont hear about it because you listen to the lefts corporate media. People that listen to Fox dont do this kind of social media, if you want to insult them use Ben Shapiro, or Larry Elder.

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            Didn’t Fox literally claim in court that no one would ever take them at face value? (Or was that just Tucker Carlson?) Why would you want to take anything Fox News says seriously?

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              I dont know, I think both MSNBC and Fox have said something like that as a legal argument. But if it were not clear, I dont listen to Fox or watch cable television, I am in my 40s not 70s.

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                I think your (pretty solid) point got swallowed whole by your unnecessary “the lefts corporate media” spiel.

                Next time just make your point clear and let it stand on its own.

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                  You dont think its important to point out that the left will miss out on facts if they only listen to their news sources?

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            You’re saying there is evidence that Biden was involved, correct? Could you provide an example/source?

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              It would be what was on the laptop and what he has been doing for and with his son. For example there was “10 for the big guy” thing. And then there is Joe lying about interacting with his sons associates. And then there is why they were all paying his son so much but not getting the influence they were obviously buying. And then Joe getting the prosecutor that was investigating the company his son was getting money from. And a bunch more. There are all kinds of podcasts that will lay it all out and list it if you are actually wanting to know.

              The main problem is they should have an extensive investigation like trump had with russia. At best Joe would have a series of conflicts of interest, but they would need to look into all the things.

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                  They are only as trustworthy as they are. I think that most corporate news sources mislead at best, and lie directly if it is in their interest. I think there are many podcasts that are not always correct, but they are trying to tell the truth. Do you think mainstream sources are trustworthy?

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        And the source of that whole line of bullshit admitted it was a lie and is now facing charges.

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            They make it up as they go along and spout so many bullshit lies one after another that it’s impossible to counter them all in a single conversation. Then since you can’t they disingenuously say that because you can’t then they’re right. Which is utter bullshit.

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          That was a single person, not the whole thing. The laptop was completely independent of that guy.

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            If there was such good material on that laptop then why was the focus on nude pics of Hunter? Because there wasn’t shit, the GOP knew it and they are morally bankrupt so the only play they was to hurt/embarrass the Biden family. Oh, that and they’re all in the closet and wanted to show a dick pic they liked to their other closeted christian fundie buddies.

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              I think republicans are mostly cowards and I am not here to defend the things they do.

              There are lots of things in the laptop that show at best there is a conflict of interest. There is a reason the Bobilinsky guy had a press conference, because he knew it was a big deal, and thought it was important to let people know.

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                Like what? Holding a press conference doesn’t mean shit. You could hold a press conference tomorrow about how much you like hotdogs. The whole thing was projection from Republicans because Trump had a bank acct in China. As a criminal, Trump knows the best defense for one is a good offense and falsely accusing everyone else of doing what he is actually doing takes the heat off of him. His weak-minded cult eats it up.

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                  Like that Joe was involved in his sons business which involved a foreign country, and Joe said he was not involved in any of his sons business things. Bobilinsky confirmed that it was true and that the code name was Joe. Other things are open knowledge that they dont even hide.

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    Bobo is a walking advertisement for planned parenthood and contraception of all kinds.

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      So is Sarah Palin. From her kids’ class schedule names (Track, Trig, Physics, etc), to all the divorces in her family (her and Todd, Track and his ex-wife, Bristol and her two ex-husband’s), to Bristol Palin’s kids’ goofy names (Tripp, Sailor, Atlee, Cocoa Krispies, etc.), to all the kids conceived out of wedlock (Track’s then-wife of only a few months, Bristol and her three kids with two different fathers)…

      …all of which would be absolutely fine is the lot of them didn’t preach “traditional family values” and shit. Hell, Bristol Palin surrounded her work as an ambassador for Candice’s Foundation preaching abstinence with having three kids out of wedlock while she and her mother criticized Obama for being in favor of same-sex marriage.

      Fuck the whole lot of 'em.

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        Isn’t it pretty likely that Trig was actually Bristol’s kid anyway lol? Or is that just a half remembered 2008 conspiracy theory.

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          Living in Alaska the rumor was she pretended the kid was hers. She never showed, hid her daughter, and handled it all through a private doctor. The fact that she called the it her little retard is pretty unsettling.

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    It doesn’t make a ton of sense to argue that Biden is incompetent and somehow magically running a crime family. Those opinions do not jive with one another.

    Also, yes, Boebert probably isn’t someone who should comment on criminal activity, especially after deciding to fuck someone in a crowded theater.

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      It doesn’t make a ton of sense to argue that Biden is incompetent and somehow magically running a crime family. Those opinions do not jive with one another.

      Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

      Definitions of fascism, Wikipedia

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    It’s so frustrating that she’s 100% in the wrong, but this is still going to legitimize her complaints about Hunter Biden. I can already see the responses complaining that her son got arrested, therefore so should Hunter.

    I hate it here.

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    Five felony counts? Jesus christ, that boy’s going to prison. I mean, the parents kind of explain it, but christ can’t you learn to cash in on your mom’s political idiocy instead of stealing cars? (Not that she’s going to get re-elected. She’s sunk. She’s going to lose this primary and it wouldn’t surprise me if her son’s charges are part of small town cops suddenly deciding to not turn a blind eye at JUST the right time.)

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    So? Jesus NEVER said your CHILDREN can’t commit crimes! Unless their name is HUNTER! It’s in the Bible!

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    The thing I like about Bogurt is that she just cant help but be hillariously unhinged and corrupt. If life was a comedy movie and not a tragedy reality she would be my favorite character for being too stupid to get anything right and just failing upwards anyways. Her and Marjorine Turning Greene would be good as co-antagonists (theres no good guys in this hypothetical movie) in an american pie style movie focused on gross cougars trying to reclaim their lost feelings of youth and relevancy

    Sadly in reality she represents the rot of our society

    Edit: forgot to add, they are so tone deaf they keep making Biden sound cooler and cooler. Why not just call him the Godfather at this point?

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          Because what it’s in response to is so high class?

          They took the let’s go Brandon meme, added some actual humor and cleverness, and rolled with it. Sure, I would love to live in a world where you didn’t have to lower yourself to play someone else’s game, but when you’ve got millions of people who think they’re being clever by saying “Let’s go Brandon” instead of “Fuck Joe Biden”, I think Dark Brandon is the perfect response.

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            I saw somebody wearing a “Let’s go Brandon” shirt at an Incubus concert and I was really confused.

            Like…is he a Trumper, or is his shirt just cheering for the singer? 🧐

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            It’s Pokémon Go to the polls level of cringe.

            Guess what, when people say lets go Brandon, you can just say fuck Trump. You don’t need cringe coded phrases to show how cool your pick is, they don’t give a shit. You’re not going to convert a Trump voter because you tried to force a dark Brandon meme.

            There’s nothing funny or clever about it, it’s just lame and it makes people who say it look like as much of a deranged cultist as a Trump supporter.

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              You’re not going to convert a Trump voter because you tried to force a dark Brandon meme

              They’ve already shown that nothing up to and including Trump literally murdering their family members would convert them. Of course a meme isn’t going to, it’s not about that. It’s about taking something they think they’re being clever about and turning it back on them in an actual clever way. If the Dark Brandon memes were started in a void, I might agree with you that they were dumb, but as a reply to the LGB meme, I think they’re excellent.

              There’s nothing funny or clever about it

              I mean, humor is subjective, but I gotta say you’re most likely in the minority of people with average or above average intelligence (aka non-Trump voters) with that opinion. To be honest, I checked your post history to see if you were one of them because you are giving off that iq-is-slightly-lower-than-room-temp vibe here.