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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!