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#285801: Jul 26th 2019 at 6:59:27 AM

[up][up][up] There's no way prisoner-on-prisoner violence would be mistaken for a suicide attempt. They don't stage suicide attempts. Those come from crooked cops.

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#285802: Jul 26th 2019 at 7:22:40 AM

wild mass guess - The GOP is blocking election security measures so they can undermine the result if they lose.

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#285803: Jul 26th 2019 at 7:25:15 AM

The GOP is blocking election security measures because Russia supports them. It is to their benefit as a party to allow Russian election meddling to proceed. If Russia supported the Democrats, they'd be doing everything in their power to amp up election security.

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Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 26th 2019 at 8:40:46 AM

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#285804: Jul 26th 2019 at 7:30:58 AM

[up]

I think what [up][up] meant was that, by being lax on election security, the GOP can immediately turn around and accuse the Democrats of getting foreign assistance. Trump has taken the No, You trope to a more blatant level, after all.

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#285805: Jul 26th 2019 at 7:42:59 AM

I think what [up][up] meant was that, by being lax on election security, the GOP can immediately turn around and accuse the Democrats of getting foreign assistance. Trump has taken the No, You trope to a more blatant level, after all

It doesn't really matter if they do, though. As Mueller pointed out in his hearing, foreign election meddling may just be the new normal standard.

Trump's normalized the practice of accepting help from other nations. So in, say, 2024, if Russia backs the Republicans and let's say Germany backs the Democrats, who's to say either party can't accept that aid? 45 abolished the standard of rejecting foreign election-meddling, and Congress has tacitly accepted that abolishment. It's open season now.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 26th 2019 at 8:45:05 AM

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#285806: Jul 26th 2019 at 8:06:11 AM

It doesn't really matter if they do, though. As Mueller pointed out in his hearing, foreign election meddling may just be the new normal standard.

Trump's normalized the practice of accepting help from other nations. So in, say, 2024, if Russia backs the Republicans and let's say Germany backs the Democrats, who's to say either party can't accept that aid? 45 abolished the standard of rejecting foreign election-meddling, and Congress has tacitly accepted that abolishment. It's open season now.

First of all, isn't it common knowledge by now that foreign governments are manipulating voters, which kinda throws a monkey wrench in that whole operation?

Second, if Democrats did accept help from Germany, wouldn't that get found out really quickly and end up just reinforcing the "both sides" mentality?

Third, would Dems accept that kind of foreign aid in the first place?

I feel like it's way too early and overly cynical to say if the practice of foreign meddling is the new normal, and frankly I'd go so far as to say it borders on doomsaying.

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#285807: Jul 26th 2019 at 8:10:38 AM

The whole thing is infuriating. The Russia investigation was initially done for the purposes of determining how much they meddled in our elections, but then it got hijacked by the narrative of "prove collusion or it didn't happen". So when Mueller's team couldn't prove without a shadow of a doubt that Trump colluded with Russia, some people took it to the extreme that Russia didn't even meddle at all, or if they did, it was miniscule and limited to a few Facebook ads.

So mix denial in with willful obstruction because better security might mean the GOP might not win the next election and we've got a huge problem.

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#285808: Jul 26th 2019 at 8:15:00 AM

Yeah,accepting outside help is still against the rules of play,regardless of much the Republicans do it,the fact that everyone now knows Russia is aiding probably makes it harder for Russia,it's difficult to be sneaky when everyone in the room is watching you

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#285809: Jul 26th 2019 at 9:17:55 AM

From the developing What the Fuck Just Happened Today feed:

A pro-Trump Republican congressional candidate aiming to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar was charged with felony theft earlier this year for allegedly stealing 279 items valued at $2,327.97 from a Target and $40 worth of goods from a grocery store. Danielle Stella was arrested near Minneapolis on January 8, where she says she "remembers arriving at Target to purchase items but nothing else" due to PTSD. She faces a punishment of up to five years in prison and a fine of $10,000 if convicted. Stella says she is "not guilty of these crimes." (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/25/danielle-stella-republican-ilhan-omar-charged-felony-qanon-trump

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#285810: Jul 26th 2019 at 9:36:57 AM

[up]Even compared to the petty, corrupt nature of the GOP, that's laughably pathetic. Don't they have dark money for these purposes?

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#285811: Jul 26th 2019 at 9:48:53 AM

$2000 worth of goods from a Target? That couldn't possibly have been all at once. Either that or the employees were incompetent and the security was malfunctioning that day.

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#285812: Jul 26th 2019 at 10:02:17 AM

The article said she paid for a few items then just... didn't scan the rest at the self checkout. She probably thought she was being sneaky. That and it seems like she was arrested right then, because the grocery store thing was second and she got arrested that time for failing to appear in court for the Target theft.

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#285813: Jul 26th 2019 at 10:07:08 AM

Ah, that does explain things. Still, not a good look. The Target thing for being utterly ridiculous and the grocery store for being utterly petty. And for trying to dodge the court date for the Target thing.

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#285814: Jul 26th 2019 at 10:55:24 AM

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#285815: Jul 26th 2019 at 11:03:10 AM

A pro-Trump Republican congressional candidate aiming to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar was charged with felony theft earlier this year for allegedly stealing 279 items valued at $2,327.97 from a Target and $40 worth of goods from a grocery store. Danielle Stella was arrested near Minneapolis on January 8, where she says she "remembers arriving at Target to purchase items but nothing else" due to PTSD. She faces a punishment of up to five years in prison and a fine of $10,000 if convicted. Stella says she is "not guilty of these crimes." (The Guardian)

[lol][lol][lol] That awkward moment where you're too white trash to even make it to your racist coup! [lol][lol][lol]

Even compared to the petty, corrupt nature of the GOP, that's laughably pathetic. Don't they have dark money for these purposes?

Sure, the big-name billionaires do, but Random Aspiring Political Hopeful #4729 still has to make a living.

EDIT: OH MY GOD IT GETS BETTER

Her defense:

“I am not guilty of these crimes. In this country I am innocent until proven guilty and that is the law.”

That is her defense. She's not guilty because she hasn't been convicted yet.

Technically a true statement! Albeit a completely useless one!

Also, she supports QAnon because of course the white trash shoplifter Trumpeteer supports QAnon, don't be ridiculous.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jul 26th 2019 at 12:10:52 PM

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#285816: Jul 26th 2019 at 11:15:27 AM

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Something to keep in mind here - allegedly, her PTSD is the result of "a violent assault" in 2008, when she'd have been around 20, so... yeah.

Edited by ironballs16 on Jul 26th 2019 at 2:16:32 PM

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#285817: Jul 26th 2019 at 11:20:01 AM

[up]Since there is no correlation between egregious criminal behavior or supporting Trump with PTSD so I simply do not see the relevance.

Frankly, I think it's rather unfair to sufferers of PTSD to implicitly link them with her. She's just a bad person who happens to have PTSD.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Jul 26th 2019 at 11:20:56 AM

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#285818: Jul 26th 2019 at 11:24:29 AM

[up]

I meant in regards to her defense of why she did the Target shoplifting. The other one - where she blatantly hid items under her purse - is a different story.

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#285819: Jul 26th 2019 at 11:38:10 AM

I think you can make an argument there's a correlation between Trump Support and people thinking that as white people, they no longer have to obey the law.

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#285820: Jul 26th 2019 at 11:43:13 AM

I've never heard of PTSD causing someone to shoplift.

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#285821: Jul 26th 2019 at 11:55:15 AM

I think you can make an argument there's a correlation between Trump Support and people thinking that as white people, they no longer have to obey the law.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was saying that neither criminal behavior nor supporting Trump are connected to having PTSD.

They're most certainly compatible with each other.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Jul 26th 2019 at 11:55:45 AM

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#285822: Jul 26th 2019 at 12:21:50 PM

At the risk of coming across as insensitive, I find it funny that the cause of her PTSD stems from an incident in 2008, considering Obama being elected in 2008 seems to have caused the Republican Party traumatic stress.

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#285823: Jul 26th 2019 at 12:30:40 PM

So... What happened to the redacted portions of Mueller's report?

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#285824: Jul 26th 2019 at 1:22:07 PM

I think everyone has seen everyone now. It's just that Trump strangling a baby is something he's allowed to do as long as the Senate is controlled by the GOP.

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#285825: Jul 26th 2019 at 1:28:17 PM

Here's something I haven't heard from here: three Republican Representatives have announced this week they will not be seeking reelection in 2020: Martha Roby of Alabama, Paul Mitchel of Michigan, and Pete Olson of Texas.

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