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16 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

 

     I won't be surprised if some of these prosecutors and judges are attacked by MAGA Bomber types.

    

W.,

This goes all the way back to Cesar Sayoc, the pipe bomber in 2018.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pipe-bomb-mailer-cesar-sayoc-who-targeted-trump-critics-sentenced-n1039261

"The Florida man who pleaded guilty to sending more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent critics of President Donald Trump last year was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison.

Cesar Sayoc, an ardent Trump supporter, sent homemade bombs made of PVC pipe and glass shards to prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama, as well as the actor Robert De Niro and CNN headquarters in New York, according to authorities."

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GET KICKED OFF A PLANE FOR AMERICA!

Lauren Boebert tells her MAGA mob to disrupt flights, even if it gets them kicked off a plane

by Carla Sinclair 11:07 am Thu Apr 27, 2023

https://boingboing.net/2023/04/27/lauren-boebert-tells-her-maga-mob-to-disrupt-flights-even-if-it-gets-them-kicked-off-a-plane.html

"I will do what's right. I don't care if it costs me an election," the unhinged Colorado Qongresswoman shouted. "I don't care if the school principal gets mad at me, or the county commissioners get upset with me, or if the flight attendants kick me off the plane. I will do what's right and answer the call."

 

I have no idea what “call” she is answering.

The call of nature, perhaps?

She is full of it, after all.

Wait till a few of her followers get thrown in federal prison. Maybe people will stop listening to her.

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- Donald Trump on Special Counsel, Jack Smith -

 

“He's a Trump hater. His wife's a Trump hater. His family's a Trump hater. They all hate Trump. They hate him with a passion," Trump whined of the Smiths. "They'll do anything they can to hurt Trump. But he's a harasser and an abuser of our people. In order to obstruct and interfere with the 2020 presidential election, that's why they're doing it. We're leading by a lot in the polls. If I weren't, I believe it would all stop, or if I weren't running, I believe it would all stop immediately, but that's not gonna happen. The public will not stand for this unequal treatment. Joe Biden is guilty. I am not at all. Thank you very much."

 

Um… Donnie?

2020 was three years ago.

 

“Hate him with a passion”? No, sorry, that was Tucker Carlson.

 

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32 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:

This storm is what pulverized my skylights and tattooed my truck yesterday evening.  Note, the cow made it to the shed.

Holy cow! Massive hail storm brings udder chaos to Texas backyard (msn.com)

Ron,

Sorry to hear about the damage to your house and truck.

My wife just flew home from a family funeral in Fort Worth on Tuesday afternoon.  She narrowly missed that storm.

I was playing golf in the wind up here today with some other old guys from Denver, and we were talking about the noticeable increase in severe windstorms and hail up here in recent years-- presumably from climate change.

Everyone on our block had their roofs replaced, due to hail damage, about three years ago, and we had more hail damage last summer, despite using hail-resistant shingles.

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NARRATOR: "But alas, the facts did indeed demonstrate that she was most certainly not a journalist."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-host-harris-faulkner-miffed-at-guest-calling-her-far-right-im-a-journalist?ref=home

 

Fox News has had a rough couple of weeks, so that could have been weighing on anchor Harris Faulkner on Thursday when she snapped at one of her guests for suggesting she’s a “far-right” advocate for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.“I’m a journalist,” Faulkner lashed out after Democratic politician Desiree Tims said “you guys”—i.e., Fox News—want DeSantis to beat Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. During her morning news program The Faulkner Focus, the so-called “straight news” anchor moderated a debate between Tims and GOP strategist David Avella on President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.

At one point, Faulkner brought up that fringe Democratic candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson collectively have 28 percent support among Democrats in a recent Fox News poll. “There are also polls that came out recently that show President Biden absolutely crushing former President Donald Trump,” Tims noted. “Look, the reality is we’re gonna have another match-up in 2024 between likely President Biden and President Donald Trump and I think the results are gonna be the same.” Faulkner quickly interjected, snarking, “I know you want it to be [Trump].” “I know you guys on the far right really want Ron DeSantis to be the nominee,” Tims shot back, adding that she doesn’t think DeSantis has the “personality” to take down “entertainer-in-chief” Trump. “I don’t know who you are talking to in terms of ‘You guys,’” a miffed Faulkner groused. “I know that wasn’t meant for me. I’m a journalist!”

After Tims wrapped up her remarks, Faulkner circled back once again to verify that her guest was clear about her supposed journalistic bonafides. “I’m sure you heard what I said,” Faulkner declared.

While Faulkner often presents herself as a beacon of hard-nosed, objective journalism on the right-wing cable giant, she has long openly carried the GOP’s water while diving headlong into touting conservative culture-war grievances du jour. She’s also shown a tendency to berate and lecture guests and colleagues who question her motivations on air. Besides recently complaining that Lego and M&M’s are “going woke,”

Faulkner has literally broken fake news during an interview with Trump, credulously claimed Biden “hates at least half” of Americans, and chastised colleagues for citing Fox’s own polling that reflected poorly on Republicans.

Other goofy ways she’s sounded more like a conservative radio host than a “straight news” anchor: She’s refused to accept that Hillary Clinton, Fox’s top bogeywoman, is not somehow scheming to be president; she’s pushed the unfounded right-wing theory that Biden is a puppet who doesn’t actually control his office; and she fully freaked out over an artist’s depiction of a trashed Oval Office upon Trump’s exit, exclaiming “that picture isn’t real!” But what most undercuts Faulkner’s claim to the mantle of “straight news” journalism is her repeated willingness to parrot some of her primetime colleagues’ most extreme positions. Specifically, last fall, she echoed Tucker Carlson’s infamous “dirtier and poorer” attack on immigrants by saying migrants “make our country look like what they left.”

Carlson was fired by Fox News this week, prompting a MAGA freakout that has resulted in plunging ratings for the network.

 
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