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 @f884fa2b 

I’d be cool with this if I knew they were going to ask hard questions, pressure him with followups, and shut down his lies….

Unfortunately, the for-profit infotainment industry that replaced the American media has been a willing accessory in the rise and promotion of American fascism since the get-go, so we all know they’re just going to spinelessly toss him softballs without any pushback and grovel before him as he spews his lies and conspiracy theories with impunity. 
 @a33bc735 

Tommy GooberShill is an un-American traitor whose sole allegiance is to Doofus Chump.

When you look up the word “treason” in the dictionary, his face should be prominently displayed 
 @a33bc735 

The #GOP is REALLY playing with fire here. When there’s no longer any lawful recourse to rectify grievances, that’s when non-democratic means of adjustment not only become necessary but also legitimate.

And if that does come to pass, the GOP will have no one to blame but themselves. There is only so much suppression of the public will that can be tolerated before the masses feel compelled to resort to all necessary means to restore their rights, their autonomy, their self-rule 
 @94ee12b4 @ab25e353 @e396cd52 

The Big House at Michigan has a maximum capacity of ~115,000, so in fact Chump’s 2016 “margin of victory” (for lack of a better term—since technically Clinton DID win by a margin of 2 million votes) would be equivalent to only 2/3s the size of the crowd in that pic! 
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 @f884fa2b 

The most disingenuous part of Silver’s argument is the fact that the ONLY reason anyone is concerned about Biden’s age is precisely because the media won’t shut up about it.

The laws of physics preclude us from being in two places at once, so literally ALL of our information about the world beyond our immediate experience is necessarily relayed to us second-hand. If the media weren’t incessantly bleating about it, no one would have a reason to be concerned about it! 
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 @e814e036 

This is good because it reminds the voting public in a timely manner that Trump is indeed still under indictment 
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 @872ab8e1 

ShitLon Mush-for-Brains has just entered the “finding out” phase of his temper-tantrum 

Remember: Fondled Chump skated for 8 years because bureaucracies like to take the well-trodden path and there was no prior path at all when it came to a president running a full-on criminal enterprise out of the Oval Office

On the the other, the US government has plenty of experience bringing down criminal CEOs. Musk’s companies may be valuable to the US government; Musk himself isn’t

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