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Kyle Becker tweet (w/video)

“DOMINION.🚨

"Results are loaded directly from the encrypted Memory Card"...

This is the first of SIX Dominion Training Videos leaked from a NON-PUBLIC SOURCE. They reveal just how *shockingly* vulnerable the voting system is.

Dominion does *not* wants us to see this. Watch:🔻”

Cope. Go sign that change.org petition, it has slightly more chance of making a difference.

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Originally Posted by CNN

Chris Krebs, the fired Department of Homeland Security official who had rejected Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud, tweeted that Giuliani's press conference was "the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest."

Fact checking Giuliani and the Trump legal team's wild, fact-free press conference
(this page will probably get a lot longer as it's still being updated)

CNN is slam-dunking on Trump's legal team, in this 8 minute video:
Keilar: This is 'crack team' representing Trump campaign ...
Oh my, they sure like Jenna Ellis, here's why:
Trump Legal Adviser Previously Called Him an ‘Idiot’ and a 'Bully’ but Now Says ‘I Was Completely Wrong’
One quote from that:

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"I could spend a full-time job just responding to the ridiculously illogical, inconsistent, and blatantly stupid arguments supporting Trump. But here's the thing: his supporters DON'T CARE about facts or logic. They aren't seeking truth," she wrote in March 2016. "Trump probably could shoot someone in the middle of NYC and not lose support. And this is the cumulative reason why this nation is in such terrible shape:We don't have truth seekers; we have narcissists."

FLIP

FLOP

uncle joe, in georgia, twice, this time by hand.

SUCK IT

cry me a fucking river, trumper snowflakes in the middle of a meltdown.

The New York Post reports that Biden tapped Richard Stengel to take the “team lead” position on the US Agency for Global Media, including Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, all propaganda voices for the US Government and everyone knows VOA is a CIA front.

Copium hookup needed for Trumpies.

what’s that? your dinner?

you’ll need at least 3 more

Meltdowns don't get more literal than this.

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Originally Posted by Skuj

I'm getting Obama's book in a couple of days. (Take that, Magabillies!!!) In excerpts and interviews so far, you begin to realize the magnitude of the completely different "set of facts" that the two halves of the country are exposed to. (Or let themselves be exposed to.)

SPOILER ALERT (if you haven't read the book yet...)

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“The first time I met Barack Obama, he struck me as different from any other politician I had ever met,” Fareed Zakaria writes in his latest Washington Post column—and the former president’s uncommon curiosity “comes through clearly in his new book, ‘A Promised Land.’ It is well written, certainly the best-written presidential memoir I have read.”

But Obama’s new memoir does not dwell on what Fareed calls “the central political dynamic in his years in office—the rise of an enraged, utterly obstructionist, Manichean opposition to his presidency, and himself personally, that eventually culminated in the election of Donald Trump.” Despite his conservative, compromise-inclined temperament, Obama’s centrist proposals were met with grassroots hostility and rage.

In the book, “Obama talks about these hysterical reactions to him intelligently but briefly, never offering deep analysis or passionate anger,” Fareed writes. “He admits he wasn’t focused on the ominous undercurrents that were growing in strength. ‘My team and I were too busy,’ he writes. But it might also be that it would take him into deep and dark waters that are so different from the hopeful, optimistic country he so plainly wants to believe in. America remains for him a promised land.”

i haven’t read it, likely won’t, not for lack of appreciation for the man but due to a lack of time and brainspace at the moment.

so thanks for the reviews and highlights etc.

anyway. we’re going to hell. 67 million trump voters prove this.

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Meltdowns don't get more literal than this.

GHOULIANI indeed

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

It’s a bet!

From the moment one of them are sworn in on January 20, 2021 until the end of the day on February 20, 2021......a gentleman’s agreement to refrain from posting in Non-Sonics.

Two months from today, h8kurdt, post while you may!

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Originally Posted by tw2113

cry me a fucking river, trumper snowflakes in the middle of a meltdown.

It’s The Media Who Is Melting Down

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Two months from today, h8kurdt, post while you may!

did you read where i upped the ante where you vs i would exclude each other permanently from the whole board? or did you just pretend not to notice?

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

did you read where i upped the ante where you vs i would exclude each other permanently from the whole board? or did you just pretend not to notice?

YES - I saw it, I don’t block people!

Did you notice where h8kurdt and I had a gentleman’s agreement?

In a response to, h8kurdt, the first thing you say about me is, “he won’t.”

Symbols, I don’t enter into agreements with someone whose history of posting proves them anything but a gentleman.

So keep slinging your poo, it’s what you’re best at!

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

In a response to, h8kurdt, the first thing you say about me is, “he won’t.

if you’re anything like your false prophet, you’ll look for any way to cheat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so i thought the only way to make worth the filth that is engaging you was to make the bet absolute.

pity you found 2 ways to weasel out lolololol

o well

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

It’s The Media Who Is Melting Down

How are those tear soaked recounts going for you? Not well last I saw.

I. Am. So. Fuckin'. EXHAUSTED of these idiots. Please, motherfuckers, if you have a microshred of humanity left, fuck off this board for good once Biden is certified president. Fuck the fuck OFF. Maybe we'll even find time to discuss, y'know, music or summat after that...

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

GHOULIANI indeed

After so much SHIT we've been through, let's just have some fun: fact-checking the meltdown! From Snopes:

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Did Rudy Giuliani’s Hair Dye ‘Melt’ During a News Conference?
While we're not sure exactly what this substance is, these images are real.

Claim: Photographs show U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, with hair dye melting down his face during a news conference.

Rating: Mostly True

What's True: The photographs are genuine.

What's False: The makeup of the substance is unknown.

Origin: On Nov. 19, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who was hired by Trump’s reelection campaign to file legal challenges to the results of the 2020 election, gave a conspiracy theory-laden news conference alleging widespread voter fraud. While Giuliani urged viewers to take his evidence-free claims seriously (BBC’s Americas Bureau Chief Paul Danahar called it the “most unsubstantiated diatribe” he had ever witnessed), much of the conversation on social media dealt with some odd images of New York City’s former mayor that reportedly showed dark streaks of hair dye running down his face:

This is a genuine photograph of Giuliani during his news conference that was taken by Tom Williams. The image is available via Getty Images along with the caption:

UNITED STATES – NOVEMBER 19: Rudolph Giuliani, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee, on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

There are several additional pictures of Giuliani from this news conference with dark streaks running down his face. The following photo, for example, was taken by Sarah Silbiger of The Washington Post:

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES – NOV 19: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference about lawsuits related to the presidential election results at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Thursday Nov. 19, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

While these photographs are undoubtedly real, there is some debate over what caused the dark streaks down Giuliani’s face. While most social media users presumed that it was melted hair dye, some hair care experts disagreed.

David Kholdorov of the Men’s Lounge Barbershop and Spa on Manhattan’s Upper East Side told The New York Times: “Hair dye doesn’t drip like that, unless it’s just been applied.”

Mirko Vergani, the creative color director at the Drawing Room, said that the streaks may have been caused by mascara that was applied to the sideburns: “Sideburns are more gray than the rest of the head … You can apply mascara to touch the gray side up a bit so it looks more natural.”

Slate also launched an investigation into the strange streaks. With the help of Nicole Wingo from Washington D.C.’s Barber of Hell’s Bottom, they concluded that it was likely some sort of pomade with a semi-permanent coloring effect:

WINGO: The hair journey that these guys are on is definitely a wild one. I think something like that is probably the result of a tinted product. I wouldn’t think that that was a demi-permanent or semi-permanent color. I would think it’s a topical product, like a pomade or a tinted gel that got really … gooey.

SLATE: So this is not a product you’re familiar with or use with your clients? Would this be the kind of thing you’d buy at the drug store?

WINGO: This is not something that I’ve seen on my clients. The only products I can think of that offer a color payoff in addition to a styling component are gray products that you see at the drugstore or darker gels or pomades. As far as higher-end things go, I don’t know of any topical products that have pigments in them for just like a day on the town, you know? I would guess that something like this is the $8 to $15 range.

While Giuliani’s streaks stole the show at this news conference, the event also gave reporters plenty to discuss. For instance, Giuliani, at one point, invoked a character with notoriously bad eyesight from the movie “My Cousin Vinny” to make a point about observing poll watchers from an appropriate distance. As for the rest of Giuliani’s news conference, Fox News reporter Kristin Fisher said that most of what Trump’s personal lawyer alleged was “simply not true”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXvYjUNKCBE

The extraordinarily hilarious part is that fact-checkers really took the time to investigate this pathetic shitshow in depth, and in the process they interviewed people like "Nicole Wingo from Washington D.C.’s Barber of Hell’s Bottom" who says, "The hair journey that these guys are on is definitely a wild one" and that the mook put on some shitty ten-buck goo on his fucking head - YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP!

Here's some more fun: Trump got trolled by a fake twitter account claiming to be his sister's

Trump Thought His Secretive Sister Finally Joined MAGA Twitter. So We Called Her.

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

SHENANIGANS in Cobb County, Georgia

Those are envelopes, you weird fellow

But I did just print out a bunch of pieces of paper that say, “Dead Democrats let’s steal the election” and put them in a box, so maybe there is something sinister going on :cool:

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Agreed.

Who was it who floated the idea of expelling motherfuckers from the board for spreading misinformation and being fascists?

Not sure I was on board with it initially, but now — shit, I’d be down.

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Meltdowns don't get more literal than this.

This man has become a sick fuck, like some people at SNY. (I see the requotes in various threads from time to time.)

I also see that around 80+% of Repukes actually believe that Biden will be an illegitimate POTUS.

How much did Mexico pay for the wall?

I cannot say it enough: Trump needs to go to fucking JAIL for this. This is treason. And the fucking GOP, with the exception of a few mild rebukes here and there, still have not grown any balls.

I'd like to think that this travesty will hurt Repukes in the Jan 5th Georgia run-off, but I should know better.

I love the Obama book.

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

SPOILER ALERT (if you haven't read the book yet...)

I think Obama has done a good job of summarizing Trumpism And How It Came To Be in this first volume, and I suspect he will have more to say about it in volume 2. I think the deep analysis is best left for others.

Reading about how he worked and what his daily schedule entailed, then looking at Trump, offers two completely alternate Universes. Obama seems like 100 years ago.

I worry about reading that book for worry of lack of self-criticism. His presidency wasn't without faults. Does he talk about his rapid increase in drone bombings, Syria, and so on. Admittedly he spent most of it fighting against a republican senate(?) that made it their mission to stymie and cock block every positive movement Obama made. What he does have unlike most Presidents is a level of dignity that politicians don't have.

I have only perused it, and then started reading proper...just a couple of chapters in now. I think he is quite self critical on certain things. Drones?? I dunno yet.

Imagine doing 8 years and then, at the end of it all, Trump gets in. How can you not be self critical? In a sense, the final verdict might be failure.

Obama was not perfect by any means. But imho he had a soul, and a moral compass. Trump? Not so much.

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Originally Posted by Skuj

Obama was not perfect by any means. But imho he had a soul, and a moral compass. Trump? Not so much.

Don't get me wrong I agree with you 100%.

I read a review that mentioned that in the book he talks about how the whole birth certificate thing was something thatt went way out of hand and should never have done. Fox banging on about it he could understand. What he felt most let down was all the other news channels also talking about it and in turn giving Trump a platform that he should never have had. He's totally right. Imagine if CNN and co had just ignored Trump and never even bothered giving such a pointless and nonsense idea any oxygen. Any oxygen to grow and grow to the point where Obama actually relented and released this birth certificate.

I guess in the end it doesn't really matter (my god, is that a linkin park lyric?). Fact is Trump got in and now he's on the way out. Main thing now is the democrats need to start planning now for it to not happen again in four years. Complacency is the killer.

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Imagine if h8kurdt and co had just ignored beauregard and never even bothered giving such a pointless and nonsense individual any oxygen.

ftfy :D :D :D

Yeah, sorry if I sounded like I was arguing with you.

I read the Trump/Birther section, and basically, as you alluded, after ignoring it for a while, Obama decided that he had had enough, when the press were spending so much time on it. So he saw his relenting as basically a dressing down of the press.

Those were the days! When Trump was just some racist clown, howling into the wind, destined for nothingness.

you guys saw the court dismissal in pennsylvania yeah?

“... In other words, Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated. One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens.

That has not happened. This Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more. At bottom, Plaintiffs have failed to meet their burden to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Therefore, I grant Defendants’ motions and dismiss Plaintiffs’ action with prejudice.”

https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.c...17c4c5.#page=1

Did Giuliani lower his per diem rate yet?

In a way I love all of these lawsuits: They just keep on losing.

(What are The Magabillies saying about all of this losing?)

Did anyone happen to catch the footage of the guy crying on the phone to Rush Limbaugh, saying he and Trump were the only ones looking out for America, and that he’d die for his president?

Lol, yum yum Republican tears

fuckit. i’ll pm ya.

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Originally Posted by Severian

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

you guys saw the court dismissal in pennsylvania yeah?

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Originally Posted by Skuj

In a way I love all of these lawsuits: They just keep on losing.

For the uninformed freethinkers, dismissals and “losing” are working parts that are actually paving the way to victory for President Donald Trump in the 2020 Election.

Spend 20 minutes with Sidney Powell: November 21, 2020......”it will be Biblical!”

The newest bit of info from this interview is that Bernie Sanders beat Crooked Hillary in 2016, but the Dominion System switched enough votes to keep Bernie out......you will need to listen to the interview to see what Bernie Sanders chose to do when presented with the evidence of voter fraud in 2016.

I’m concerned about Sideny Powell’s safety!

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

It really doesn't matter, as Biden is, indeed, the President-Elect, even though not a single Presidential Elector has yet cast a vote! (That won't happen until 14 December, 2020.)

***

Therefor, allow me to welcome President Biden, Greatest Leader and Teacher in the History of the World, the Grand Colussus who has bestrode the World, Best Friend of all the Children of the World, and, most importantly, the Great Helmsman of the Ship of State:

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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

Therefor, allow me to welcome President Biden, Greatest Leader and Teacher in the History of the World, the Grand Colussus who has bestrode the World, Best Friend of all the Children of the World, and, most importantly, the Great Helmsman of the Ship of State:

(this is for the hypothetical communist, not Biden himself)

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

I watched that video. What she's basically saying is that every election in the recent past has been fraudulent and every politician knows about it. So that means that Trump's victory over Obama was a fraud too!! Did Trump or any other Republican complain back then? Did they say "oh no, we shouldn't have won because we rigged the voting machines."

Also it's very scary to me to use the term biblical or any other religious term in relation to politics. Politics and religion should be separated, which it isn't. Your religious leaders are promoting Trump and the Republican party, at least many of them are.
See also this blog: https://thewayofimprovement.com/cate...-and-politics/

Also: Jericho March??? https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/J...=hashtag_click

As an addition to the above:
I was actually looking for this footage. It scares the hell out of me:
https://youtu.be/OnMQbJCbr4Y