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  It's interesting that they say that, it's the same thing Putin said when Russian agents were caught poisoning people in the UK, or when soldiers were seen in Ukraine in 2014.
context: Explain it to a grand jury, asshole. >
  
  Well he’s in luck because it seems that he’s above the law at this point >
  
  That was with slowpoke Merrick Garland, who has thankfully handed it off now.  I'm still hoping for a better ending to this bullshit. >
  
  He should have never been in the public zeitgeist. He was a fraud when he was milking a constructed image in the 80s and 90s. The apprentice was a propoganadisized mirror of society’s worst inclinations. He rode a wave of our worst angels. He’s a shell of a human, a textbook of everything wrong, and I’m tired of seeing his stupid face. >
  
  He still has a cult of maybe 40+ million braindead followers.  It won't end until he either dies or flees the country, unfortunately. >
  
  He got over 70 million votes in 2020. >
  
  There were a lot for republican fellow-travelers who voted for him, but they were not in the cult.   And the cult has gotten smaller since 2022. >
  
  A lot smaller. Republicans bought all that bs about him being a winner, even though he lost by 3 million votes and was just flat lucky to get appointed. But now after losing by 7 million to another weak opponent and then Jan 6, top secret docs, and various other stuff they are finally seeing him for what he is. >
  
  “The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
  - H.L. Mencken >
  
  But in this case I think it’s just a fellow idiot preaching to the choir. We lucked out that the Republican party didn’t nominate someone with some real intelligence in 2016. >
  
  someone with real intelligence couldnt pull off what he did - be the king of fools. he didnt win despite his ignorance he won because of it. its his appeal to his base. >
  
  Kind of agree with this. A really intelligent person would have never thought they could get away with the massive lying and shit he has pulled. >
  
  Intelligent people tend to think others will behave as rationally as they believe they themselves would. >
  
  Why did his cult smear their poo on the walls? >
  
  It makes their willies hard. >
  
  Hey woah woah, we may be scat fetishists but at least we aren't trump supporters. >
  
  It's like comparing a candle with the sun. >
  
  That's weird, Marjorie Taylor  Greene says that there was an insurrection and it would have succeeded if she had been leading it. >
  
  She actually said both. She said there was no insurrection. She said it was antifa. She said if she'd been leading them they would have been armed and would have "won."
  
  Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
  
  - Jean-Paul Sartre >
  
  I love this quote >
  
  “I’m not getting in the car,” Pence told the Secret Service detail on January 6. “If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off.” 
  This was the plan...this was an attempted coup... >
  
  Pence refused to get in the car because trump had sent agents from trumps own detail to pick up Pence, and Pence thought if he went with them he would be assassinated. 
  And considering the massive purge of USSS messages and call logs from j6 he may have been correct. >
  
  Not even assassinated necessarily.  Just takes away for a day or so and kept for his own safety.  Congress would then be unable to certify the electoral votes, which was the root of the whole plan.  If they can't certify, the vote goes to the House, and Trump wins, "legally". >
  
  That's not quite true. If the vote is interrupted... it resumes the next day, and the next, and the next. After 12 days congress is permitted no recess or breaks until certification is completed. If Jan 20 arrives and certification has still not been completed, the Speaker of the House assumes the powers of the presidency and oversees a special session of congress, while all other congressional business is barred. 
  Congress patched up the loophole Trump hoped to exploit around the year 1860. Delaying certification one day, or even several isn't "One Weird Trick to Seize Fascist Control of America" >
  
  
  That's not quite true. If the vote is interrupted... it resumes the next day, and the next, and the next.
  
  And if Pence is off the grounds, Grassley takes over and would have been potentially willing to seat the fake electors, or at least refuse to seat the correct ones as a result.  Now no one gets to 270 and the vote goes to the House.  Trump wins. >
  
  I await him flip flopping next week when he'll say "It was the greatest insurrection in the history of America and it was all for me." >
  
  Something something meddling kids >
  
  
  George Orwell — 'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.' >
  
  I read 1984 when I was young, and read it again recently. Fuck me, it's some scary shit. The last chapter where he explains newspeak is chilling. >
  
  I don’t think he was close to correct with newspeak though, what is happening in the real world has to do more with the destruction of complex emotional states through slowly making everything a synonym of it’s more distant associations IMO but nonetheless a terrible and terrifying concept. >
  
  There is a subtle difference - newspeak prevented people from elaborating ideas because there was no way to express them. Today stupid apps like TikTok prevent people from thinking - we have only zombies endlessly scrolling through stupid short videos. That which is not used, atrophies. >
  
  He said on reddit >
  
  I practice “word smithing” on reddit all the time. I believe it at least engages my brain. I go back and edit alot. I learned much about using a paucity of words to convey a thought by writing commercials for radio. >
  
  Brevity is the soul of wit. >
  
  Why is that? >
  
  Timing >
  
  So pray tell, what would you call it? A demonstration? Or a standard Trump rally? >
  
  I think the right calls it "just a bunch of tourists."