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[If you appreciate my writing you can join my Substack where I am 5 articles ahead, but it does have a free tier. Subscribe now Thanks.] Reposted from My Substack Dealing from the bottom of the barrell, the GOP resorts to the rudest, bases, and most...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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Just a short post. The Trump campaign grows more unhinged by the hour. Trump is holding super spreader rallies. He’s making more outrageous attacks on Democrats with totally bonkers claims. The attempts to fabricate a scandal against...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Nov 01, 2020 at 12:58 PM PST
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Are they going to do it again? The mainstream media helped elect Trump by being participants in Republican smears of Clinton. We know how this worked: Republicans held “investigations” into situations where they knew there was no scandal just so they...
by wren
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on Tue Jul 21, 2020 at 11:54 AM PDT
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So Trump has gone from asking Russia to hack Hillary and the Democrats to extorting Ukraine for dirt on Joe Biden; and now he openly asks China to investigate the Bidens. I guess he thinks well he got away with it once maybe if he does it out loud and...
by Colorado Blue
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on Thu Oct 03, 2019 at 01:20 PM PDT
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Politifact analyzes the following statement about Joe Biden to assess whether it is true or false: When Joe Biden’s son Hunter was serving as "a director to Ukraine’s largest private gas producer," the elder Biden "threatened to withhold $1 BILLION in...
by boblite
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on Sat Sep 21, 2019 at 11:36 AM PDT
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It started in depressing fashion, but the 2020 election season may have officially begun when a right-wing group aired a vicious attack ad last week against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. The spot, which aired on a couple of major-market...
by Eric Boehlert
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on Mon Sep 16, 2019 at 10:12 AM PDT
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I didn't see this when it happened live, and for good reason. Usually if Zerlina Maxwell is on the panel, I change the channel. It's too bad, I thought, because I generally appreciate John Harwood as a decent journalist and, from the little I know of...
by radioornot
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on Tue Jul 23, 2019 at 03:13 PM PDT
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The reasons given for hating and sabotaging Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign—notably in a combined ActBlue/DailyKos fund-raising appeal designed to remove Tulsi from Congress—strike me as profoundly bogus. Her measured, slow, thoughtful explanations of exactly...
by SChelydra
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on Tue Feb 19, 2019 at 12:37 AM PST
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As recently recognized by two prominent New York Times columnists, the right wing in this country is populated by some truly awful human beings. Two of them, Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi, are firmly entrenched in Donald Trump’s “inner circle.” Because...
by Dartagnan
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on Wed Nov 28, 2018 at 04:33 PM PST
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Since I don’t have cable, I’m spared watching Sean Hannity — but I do listen to him during drive time radio, for as long as I can stand. Some days are worse than ever. I listen, because if you want a shortcut to the weaponized stupid the GOP is...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Dec 05, 2017 at 07:36 PM PST
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Earlier today, Keith Ellison tweeted a link to an article titled “If You're Liberal and You Think Hillary Clinton Is Corrupt and Untrustworthy, You're Rewarding 25 Years of GOP Smears”.
The article was written in January and is certainly worth a...
by map
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on Thu Dec 22, 2016 at 10:57 AM PST
with 450 Recommends
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Harry Reid has given numerous examples of just how Democrats should be street-fighting Trump. For example, Reid has called Trump:
“Sexual predator”
“Fraud”
A person about whom the FBI is witholding “explosive information” about his...
by overthetemenos
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on Sun Nov 13, 2016 at 08:31 PM PST
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So I dropped in to the Barnes & Noble in Rockville, MD today (looking for a journal) and this is what I saw. I started to do my usual thing — I do this at Costco also — of covering books by right-wing crazies (e.g., Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, etc.)...
by Tamar
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on Mon Oct 31, 2016 at 03:21 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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I am increasingly coming to suspect that the "untrustworthy" meme so assiduously promoted by our mainstream media, and so totally unfounded, means that someone with very deep pockets is deathly afraid of what Mrs. Clinton might do in office.
The...
by ej heinemann
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on Sun Sep 18, 2016 at 11:10 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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Another presidential campaign means it's time to bring back the "Latest Lie" series.
And here's the latest lie. Campaigning in Nebraska Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said, "Well, we're not going there, my friends. I'm telling you right now...
by davej
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on Mon Aug 08, 2016 at 03:36 PM PDT
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There have been numerous diaries today calling Senator Sanders a “liar” and claiming that he is “smearing” Hillary Clinton and calling her “corrupt.” Yet none of them provide any support whatsoever to back up their claims. I keep asking for a link, a...
by lilbess
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on Sat Apr 02, 2016 at 05:50 PM PDT
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Like any good country doctor, Howard Dean has always had a knack for cutting through half-truths and innuendo and bringing the discussion back down to terra firma. The reports that Hillary has literally dozens and dozens of "fossil fuel lobbyists"...
by ryeland
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on Sat Apr 02, 2016 at 01:11 PM PDT
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Recently, some have attacked Clinton for taking a tiny percentage of her campaign contributions from supposed “fossil fuel interests.” Here, we show how much of a stretch those claims are:
First there are the direct contributions from people...
by Ninox
347 comments
on Thu Mar 31, 2016 at 08:09 PM PDT
with 245 Recommends
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I don’t support Bernie Sanders, I think his proposals are too expensive and the tax hikes it would require would be economically and politically unfeasible. That said, I do not approve people claiming that having him in the White House would mean purges a
by kernals
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on Mon Mar 21, 2016 at 08:50 PM PDT
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Lies go viral. Corrections go unnoticed. Clinton nomination inevitable? Without decisive action, yes UPDATE: When this was originally posted the quotation from Hot Air reproduced here included the whole piece. In response to objections, I’ve cut out most of it, but have not edited my introductory rem
by SChelydra
34 comments
on Sun Feb 21, 2016 at 04:58 PM PST
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