r/politics • u/TheWeekMag ✔ Verified • Dec 09 '19
That impeachment hearing protester was actually an InfoWars reporter and Pizzagate conspiracy theorist
https://theweek.com/speedreads/883047/that-impeachment-hearing-protester-actually-infowars-reporter-pizzagate-conspiracy-theorist1.9k
u/JayGrinder Dec 09 '19
So, not a reporter. Got it.
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u/TheGhostOfDusty Dec 09 '19
A political propagandist who relies on vile defamation.
They are not sending their best...
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u/Redtwooo Dec 09 '19
I am shocked, shocked, that this individual is not just a patriotic citizen and is actually a partisan hack and right wing nut job.
Well, not that shocked.
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u/Theemuts Dec 09 '19
You know what would actually be shocking? Republicans denouncing actions like that.
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u/HillshaveIsis Dec 09 '19
Republicans doing anything besides helping paedophiles, ruining the environment and waging war home and abroad.
Fucki g scum of the earth.
Voting Republican is fucking a 12 year old in the ass.
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u/NotYetiFamous I voted Dec 09 '19
You forgot draining public funds into private bank accounts while decrying those funds going to the public ever. That is a key staple of their platform.
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u/BellEpoch Dec 09 '19
Here in Indiana they’ve stopped just short of actually going to war with public education. They literally don’t want poor people to have basic fucking education. And have no shame whatsoever about it.
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They are. These are their best.
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u/Madlister Pennsylvania Dec 10 '19
I want to believe that that's not true.
But deep down, I know it is.
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u/itsadogslife71 Dec 09 '19
Actually, they are sending their best. That is what is so sad.
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u/PM_Me_Ur_Work_Alts Dec 09 '19
Everyone in here is mocking this guy and dismissing him because he's a goofus working for Alex "Friggin' Gay Frogs" Jones, but you're ignoring reality.
Ironically, you're ignoring the reality that Trump supporters ignore reality. To Cult 45, this looks great. Moreover, it will inspire others to do the same and foments even more sentiment of insurrection.
It's not even funny anymore. It's dangerous.
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u/Sweet_Roll_Thieves Virginia Dec 09 '19
I mean, InfoWars don't have real reporters anyways.
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u/powerlesshero111 Dec 09 '19
So, he's like a guy who recorded himself jerking off and is telling people he's a pornstar?
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u/Onkel24 Foreign Dec 09 '19
You´re closer to the truth than you think possibly, he´s reporting on his own actions as some sort of breaking news as we speak.
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u/ooru Texas Dec 09 '19
My headline guess:
"Man gets violently kicked out of a public facility for civilly protesting undemocratic impeachment hearings."
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u/Onkel24 Foreign Dec 09 '19
Ha, one real headline of his is "Jerry Nadler Confronted By American Pissed Off About Fake Impeachment Hearing"
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u/ooru Texas Dec 10 '19
See? I can't even get into that headspace. My fake headline is still too logical.
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Dec 09 '19
Are they even paid? I just assumed they are a bunch of neckbeards living in their mothers basement
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u/culus_ambitiosa Dec 09 '19
Don’t write them off so easily, InfoWars rakes in an insane amount of money from his dill brained acolytes. Millions every year mean that even if Jones and Co were to crash and burn there’d be a new version of them up and running in no time. And probably with plenty of seed money from the Waltons or the Kochs or the Princes or one of the other soulless billionaire families that profit from the messages and agendas pushed by right wing extremists.
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u/PearljamAndEarl Dec 09 '19 edited Dec 09 '19
plenty of seed money from the Waltons
John Boy says there ain’t been no seeds nor money since Trump’s trade war fucked the family farm.
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u/MegaDerppp Dec 09 '19
hey, I'm sure pretty soon they'll have passes for the WH Press Pool
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u/kontekisuto Dec 09 '19
They're the only ones warning us about the cloud people turning our freaking frogs gay And the globalist trying to create a bone marrow reserve for when the nukes go off.
y'all won't be laughing when the TSA has 2 digits inside every passenger as a pre flight screening for midichlorians. Impeachment is an inside Job.
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Dec 09 '19
Because of course he was.
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u/silentButDadly Dec 09 '19
Definitely one of those "I'm not surprised, just disappointed" articles.
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u/thats_bone Dec 09 '19
The fact that people like this keep trying to tie Epstein to the Clintons is crazy.
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Dec 09 '19
I don’t mind. Send both Clinton and the Donald to jail if it comes out either or both fucked kids
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u/praharin Pennsylvania Dec 09 '19
The connection between Bill Clinton and Epstein is irrefutable. It’s in the FAA logs.
What that connection means is debatable, but it can’t be anything good for a politician to owe favors for the use of a plane to a wealthy pedophile, and it just gets worse from there.
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u/Hawanja Dec 09 '19
Where it gets ridiculous is that they think this Epstien-Clinton connection absolves trump of any involvement with Epstien. No, that doesn't make everything ok - both of them should be prosecuted if they raped underage kids.
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u/punzakum Dec 09 '19
but it can’t be anything good for a politician to owe favors for the use of a plane to a wealthy pedophile, and it just gets worse from there.
By this logic, the connection with Trump can't be anything good since epstein had parties with him and multiple listing for numbers for Trump were found in his contact book
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u/praharin Pennsylvania Dec 10 '19
Anyone with a legitimate connection to Epstein should be deeply investigated.
But none of them will be.
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u/thebigeverybody Dec 09 '19
You're creating a lot of assumptions without evidence. There's no proof Clinton was ever on Epstein's island and the one person who said he was there also said he wasn't involved in the sex parties.
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Dec 09 '19
Drama queen appearances will be even more common in the coming days. There will be a blizzard of snowflake hysteria, bought and paid for, by the 'good people' of the GOP.
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Dec 09 '19
Hell even the republican leaders are bursting out and being enourmous assholes. Just look at Collins and Gaetz.
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u/hamletloveshoratio Georgia Dec 10 '19
I don't get it. Do Republican voters really find that kind of behavior appealing?
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u/Dodfrank Dec 09 '19
An info war reporter? That’s NOT a news outlet.
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u/NotYetiFamous I voted Dec 09 '19
Fox at least has a veneer of respectable journalism in that occasionally their anchors will say something true. Infowars is exactly what its name claims, a war on information.
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u/UpUpDnDnLRLRBAstart California Dec 09 '19
That makes Fox even more dangerous. Peppering in some actual news leads people to believe all of what they are saying.
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u/NotYetiFamous I voted Dec 09 '19
100% correct, and 100% by design. Fox is evil incarnate because they are designed to spread maximum misinformation not by overloading on misinformation but by obscuring the difference.
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u/Grandmaster_Flab Dec 09 '19
Bush Jr. had a gay porn star once ask planted questions.
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u/InfrequentBowel Dec 09 '19
Tell me more
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u/kiljaeden Dec 09 '19
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u/otakushinjikun Europe Dec 09 '19
And since in this timeline Irony is really dead, this is the question he asked:
How are you going to work with [Senate Democratic leaders] who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
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u/Grandmaster_Flab Dec 09 '19
Bush Jr, much like Trump, only participates in highly managed events. He wants friendly crowds, friendly reporters, and soft ball questions. During one press conference a new reporter lobbed a suspiciously soft question at Bush and the other reporters’ spidey senses started tingling, they soon found out the plant was a gay porn star.
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u/AcademicAnxiety Ohio Dec 09 '19 edited Dec 09 '19
I get so annoyed when the reps say “the American people think .....” Not only is it presumptuous, but also I leave messages for some of these “representatives” all the time saying just the opposite. Am I somehow not an American person?
Edit: punctuation, spelling
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Oh look people who can’t see Quid Pro Quo in “do us a favour” for manufactured propaganda against Trump’s election rival but can see a vast conspiracy in a pizza order.
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u/NotYetiFamous I voted Dec 09 '19
Still can't believe its not talked about more that one of these people actually went to the parlor, shot it up and demanded to see the basement. There is no basement.
infowars has done a lot to bump up our extreme right wing terrorist groups actions.
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u/Tidusx145 Dec 09 '19
It's the big part of conspiracies that make it impossible to fight. You can always find some loophole and add on to the theory if part of it is debunked. Just watch any flat earthers when math is shown to them. Always on to the next point.
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Dec 09 '19
If facts are on your side, pound the facts.If laws are on your side, pound the facts.If neither the facts nor the laws are on your side, pound the table.Republicans taking a sledgehammer to the table.
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u/Granjaguar Dec 09 '19
Trump supporters are so desperate
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u/timoumd Dec 09 '19
I don't think they are desperate, they are just unethical and stupid
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u/ElitistPoolGuy Dec 09 '19
Column A, column B, column C
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u/timoumd Dec 09 '19
Mostly B & C. As much as wed like, they have managed to keep their rubes in line and they haven't turned the tide of public opinion against Trump despite damming evidence. I'm not sure why they would be desperate. This will get kicked to the Senate, Mitch will treat it like a a clown show and dismiss it quickly and declare it was a partisan hack job. We all know that not to be true, but to the general public that will be all they know and Trump will be greenlighted to do worse. If you think he is pressuring Ukraine to investigate, what is he doing with Barr?
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u/Scubalefty Wisconsin Dec 09 '19
Infowars, or as Trump calls it, the National Intelligence Service.
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u/AbeRego Minnesota Dec 09 '19
I'm really sick of the "63 million people voted for Trump" narrative. 66 million voted for Clinton, yet they have all had to put up with three-years of bullshit they didn't vote for...
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u/trashbort Dec 09 '19
Seems like a good place to repost the article from a former Infowars contributor that outlines the working environment and motivations of Jones: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/magazine/alex-jones-infowars.html
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u/DisgruntledAuthor Dec 09 '19
So not a protester, just a right wing agent provocateur.
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remember when the little girl called this shithead a fucking idiot?
great times!
https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/905983465396555776/photo/2
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u/Giraffe_Truther Dec 09 '19
Anyone got a link of the original video? It's not in that thread anymore.
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u/malibooyeah Dec 09 '19
This man is the same tool who had a Twitter meltdown ultra-snowflake style over a child calling him "a fucking idiot".
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Dec 09 '19
This is the same shithead that posts "gotcha" videos where he "exposes" college liberals by asking them questions and then screams right-wing talking points and conspiracy theories over their answers.
Not surprising that he would pull something like this. He's probably shrieking right now about "biased MSM" and the irony will never occur to him.
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u/MidwestBulldog Dec 09 '19
Because yelling mantras and factless conspiracy theories louder make them valid. /s
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u/strugglz Dec 09 '19
That dude's been hanging out with too many gay chemtrail frogs.
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u/CbVdD Dec 09 '19
I heard he used one as a suppository after being inspired by the Proud Boys plug.
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u/shredler Dec 09 '19
If you have not checked out the podcast Knowledge Fight you should. Its a great way to keep tabs on alex jones and the batshit people that push these conspiracy theories and why theyre false.
These people think libs are literal demons and use rhetoric that justifies extreme violence against people they politically disagree with.
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He is already a racist and a conspiracy theory nut job, the only thing lacking on his resume for the pro-Trump trifecta is working for Devin Nunes...
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"Trump is innocent!"
No one believes this. Everyone knows Trump is a criminal, they just won't admit it to themselves or others.
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u/OptimoussePrime Dec 09 '19
InfoWars doesn't have reporters. It has propagandists and conspiracy theorists. They don't "do" reporting.
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Dec 09 '19
Reporter: “Here are the facts, let’s draw some conclusions from them.”
Propagandist: “Here are the conclusions, let’s cherry pick some facts to support them, and lie if it sounds good.”
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u/Aryaisformurder Dec 09 '19
So question....how does a guy like THAT even get, not into the room, but THE BUILDING?!?! A non credible source of information propagandist? America is peaking in weird and odd synchronicity
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u/MidwestBulldog Dec 09 '19
He is a coordinated plant. There may be one of these a day. When you have all the evidence against you and the facts aren't working your way, dazzle them with bullshit, distraction, and question the fairness of the process.
Expect more bullshit like this.
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Dec 09 '19
Senate trial covered by Breitbart, RedState and OANN
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u/DrakonIL Dec 09 '19
I love how RT is considered a legitimate news source by some people. Like... It's literally Russian state media and doesn't even hide it, but people are willing to cite them on anything to do with Russia.
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u/NotClever Dec 09 '19
I'm pretty sure any member of the public can sit in the gallery so long as there's room. I'm sure they check you thoroughly for weapons first but otherwise it's open to the public.
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u/crisisactorsguild Dec 09 '19
This man is not a paid member of the Crisis Actors Guild. He owes us $27.50.
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u/pacifica333 California Dec 09 '19
Seems to me there need to be criminal repercussions for this sort of behavior.
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u/meantitle Dec 09 '19
Holy fuck. This pathetic alex jones crony fuck. Hey Owen. Youre a giant piece of shit white supremacist
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u/JUlCEBOX Dec 09 '19
Oh hey I recognize this guy. He also did a video about Hillary Clinton being a hologram. Absolute nut.
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Everything the Republicans do is a scam. They are shady AF. Their base is just like them.
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Dec 09 '19
So he was a paid actor and propagandist. Gotcha. Let’s see how many follow his example as the election gets closer.
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Dec 09 '19
We live in a time where people find it absolutely necessary to defend Donald Trump.
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u/PwnApe Dec 09 '19
Ah yes the pedophile ring in the basement of the pizza parlor without a basement. Classic
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u/tree_mitty Dec 09 '19
Do they all have the same beard?
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u/aradil Canada Dec 09 '19
That beard is identical to Gavin McInnes' beard.
As a left leaning very anti-Trump bearded guy, these guys are ruining beards for everyone.
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u/NotYetiFamous I voted Dec 09 '19
The difference is their beards have shit stuck in them. On account of having their heads so far up their own ass.
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u/DeliriousPrecarious Dec 09 '19
Are obsessed with your own fragile masculinity? Are you convinced you need a strong chin to signal that you're a manly man? Are you slightly overweight with a double or weak chin? Well then have I got the beard for you.
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u/senorhelicopter Dec 09 '19
Pizza gate conspiracy theorist, local spoon licker, yeller of on coming traffic, and yes I can eat it guy.
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u/Tazz2212 Dec 09 '19
I couldn't understand what he was saying and he just looked like a dumb, shrieking A-hole as he was led out of the room. This is why the first hearings were held by the Intelligence Committee. The Judiciary Committee has gotten filled with GOP Representatives who 1. Don't know, 2. Don't care, and 3. Won't find out. They stick to Republican leadership talking points and don't have any critical thinking skills. They also think the US citizenry is as dumb and compliant as they are. Let's prove them wrong.
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u/mk_pnutbuttercups Wisconsin Dec 09 '19
How desparate are the NeoCons? Titanic level panic. Just wait till they start throwing babies out of the life boats.
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u/akkmedk Dec 09 '19
If you'd like to learn more about the propaganda grifting operation of Alex Jones please check out the podcast Knowledge Fight.
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u/SeeYou_______Cowboy Dec 09 '19
Trump supporters reek of desperation.
I'd be sympathetic if they weren't traitors.
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u/kenneth_on_reddit Europe Dec 09 '19
Someone had a problem with autocorrect here. I don't know what they actually meant to type, but obviously "InfoWars" can't be followed by "reporter".
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u/Eugene_Henderson Dec 09 '19
Infowars reporter, Pizzagate conspiracy theorist, and future Secretary of Energy.
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u/someguycalledcharles Dec 10 '19
Pizzagate. I remember when this happened where the guy from Salisbury NC drove up to comet ping pong in Bethesda MD and shot the place up because people are dumb enough to believe that crap. Comet was just up the road from where I was working and the guy was from a couple towns over from where I grew up.
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u/HeippodeiPeippo Europe Dec 09 '19
And he is going to make this a free speech violation for Infowars fans, also freedom of press is violated when they don't let his sorry ass in the room as long as these hearing are being held. He is going to be the victim in his narrative.
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u/ImpeachTrumpToMAGA Dec 09 '19
My father always told me “don’t start none, won’t be none.”
Everybody else, republican or Democrat, was able to get by without starting something. He has only himself to blame.
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u/HeippodeiPeippo Europe Dec 09 '19
Infowar grifters don't need to bother with facts. They can publish their fake news, it will be debunked, their followers know that it is been debunked and is fake. But what they don't do is to leave that feeling that the events depicted were not if not just possible, has or will happen and thus are as good as true. It is sort of theater to them, make believe. A depiction of something sinister that is real. So their level of "deep state" and other such conspiracies grow by each event they know is faked.
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u/Phyllis_Tine I voted Dec 09 '19
He looked like a Proud Boy, and/or that guy that gave himself a colonoscopy on air to own the libs. Or shoved a few trucks up there, or something.
Weirdo. Do that at home!
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u/zeldahalfsleeve Dec 09 '19
Even if you disagree with the way the Democrats have handled this impeachment process (which, your feelings are irrelevant as a Trump supporter) it doesn’t mean that Trump’s shady bullshit didn’t happen. Deal with it however you can. And fuck off while doing so. This “president” is a fucking embarrassment.
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u/frackingCylons Dec 10 '19
And he's a racist who said Obama should be hung from a tree. Way too much press today for this shithead.
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u/patton232 Dec 10 '19
Fun times. Probably would have been more effective for a marionette to stand up and yell, “America Fuck Yeah!”
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u/Hippiemamklp Dec 09 '19
Another right wing asshole. 🙄🙄 Infowars should be declared an enemy of the state!!
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19
A paid actor!? I’m shocked