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The same guy who sicced rabid Texas nutjobs in trucks on Kamala Harris campaign bus wants to give the treatment to a kind-hearted young woman via his daddys bankrupt social media.
Donald Trump Jr shares meme accusing Greta Thunberg of Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Johanna Chisholm
Yahoo News, Fri, September 30, 2022
Donald Trump Jr shared a meme accusing Greta Thunberg of being behind the Nord Stream pipeline explosions, echoing a conspiracy theory that has been picked up in conservative circles in the last week since the natural gas lines erupted.
The meme, which shows the young climate activist photoshopped in front of Nord Stream with explosives strapped around one of the pipelines, was shared by the former presidents son on Truth Social on Thursday night.
I could be wrong but my understanding is this is not photo shopped, wrote Mr Trump Jr alongside the meme, which has since gained traction on Twitter.
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https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-shares-meme-123719832.html
Greta Thunberg is a great human being.
Sad to be a Trump.
Really sad.
ck4829
(35,076 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)I dont follow Truth Social, but I like to point out fascists when I see one.
ck4829
(35,076 posts)The "other side of the aisle" folks.
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)Don Jr greeted the Russians to Trump Tower in summer of 2016.
Country seemed a more civil place then.
ck4829
(35,076 posts)It's ridiculous, it's cuckoo.
And it's madness that they have so much influence over the country.
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)Ill try to be more sensitive in the future.
GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)Can't wait to see you striking that pose in your prison cell, Junior.
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)They can spend their remaining years in hard labor and reminiscing about testicle tanning.
Donald Trump Jr shares meme accusing Greta Thunberg of Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Johanna Chisholm
Yahoo News, Fri, September 30, 2022
Excerpt
While the US has outrightly denied any involvement in the leaks, conservatives in the country have begun picking up the Russian line that the West played a role.
Blow up the Nord Stream pipelines? OK, weve entered a new phase, one in which the United States is directly at war with the largest nuclear power in the world, said the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson on his prime-time programme this week.
Echoing those claims was far-right activist and radio talk show host Charlie Kirk, who suggested that the rupture couldve been staged by the US as part of an alleged midterm election operation.
If this was an act of the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA -- which, again, is just speculation. Its very important. How does that get us closer to peace? Is this a potential midterm election operation? asked the host before noting that he was just asking a question.
The intelligence agency theyre guilty until proven innocent in this situation. Theyre going to have to prove to us it wasnt them given the evidence that they were, basically, saber-rattling and threatening that they were going to do it, he said before noting that he prayed it wasnt the CIA and preferred that it was instead Greenpeace.
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-shares-meme-123719832.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
The years will just fly by.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)Donald Trump Jr. made a dick joke to show his disdain for the redacted FBI affidavit that triggered the search of Mar-a-Lago, but he seems to be saying in the process he doesn't care if national secrets or the lives of people mentioned in the redactions are compromised.
Junior posted a pic of his dad on a golf course with a big black bar over his groin, with the caption, "redact this!!!" He had posted e
Source: https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/27/donald-trump-jr-dick-pic-redacted-affidavit-documents/
Ohio Joe
(21,756 posts)She has no fear of them and that scares them.
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)And here comes a teen-ages who sets the planets rich and powerful to shame.
ETA:
How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation
Activists say Democratic climate proposals wont be able to pass until lawmakers put a stop to oil companies trying to rebrand themselves
by Emily Holden
The Guardian, January 8, 2920
Americas oil companies are trying to rebrand themselves as part of the solution to the climate crisis, launching a campaign to counter top Democrats proposals to rapidly cut pollution from the power plants and cars that run on the industrys petroleum and natural gas.
They say natural gas a fossil fuel that emits heat-trapping carbon dioxide is helping to slow climate disruption by providing an alternative to coal.
Were taking our message of energy progress to every corner of the country to show just whats at stake in Washington and in state capitols around the country, said Mike Sommers, CEO of the oil trade group the American Petroleum Institute (API), on a press call announcing the plan.
The campaign is part of a strategy in which the oil industry has funneled billions of dollars into its defense, threatening to outpace climate action advocates, say frustrated environmental activists who are increasingly calling on Democrats in Congress to take a tougher line on the sector.
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Geoffrey Supran, a research associate who studies global warming politics at Harvard University, is urging House committees to demand more information from oil companies about their influence over public policy. Supran said obtaining corporate documents is one of the most important actions Congress could take to address the climate crisis.
The reality is that as much as we know about fossil fuel interests denial and delay, weve really found those skeletons in the closet just by looking through a tiny keyhole everything we know is based on just a few hundred documents scrounged from various sources, Supran said. From my perspective every indication of this evidence is once that closet door gets blown open, the skeletons are going to come tumbling out.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/08/oil-companies-climate-crisis-pr-spending
Greta is fearless.
NBachers
(17,110 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)Kelly McLaughlin
Business Insider, Nov 2, 2020
* Donald Trump Jr. told supporters of President Donald Trump on Wednesday to give Sen. Kamala Harris a "Trump Train welcome" in Texas.
* "Get out there. Have some fun. Enjoy it," Trump Jr. said in a video. "Don't forget to vote and to bring all of your friends. Let's show them how strong Texas still is as Trump country. Get out there, guys."
* On Friday, cars with MAGA flags surrounded a Biden campaign bus near Austin. A truck with Trump flags was filmed hitting a car accompanying the bus.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-told-supporters-give-biden-campaign-train-welcome-2020-11
Guys all about fascism.
H2O Man
(73,537 posts)It says a lot about that poodle's lack of character.
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)As the world starts to take note of the teen climate activist, her critics have launched increasingly personal attacks.
by Andrew Mitrovica
Al Jazeera columnist, 1 Sep 2019
Excerpt
She disdains celebrity. She makes no claim to heroism. She rebuffs efforts to idolise her. She isnt calculating or preoccupied with fame or ego. There is no artifice about her. She speaks plainly, without affectation or embroidery.
In words and deeds, Thunberg is the embodiment of philosopher Howard Zinns admonition: We dont have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.
Of course, the marauding swarm of vitriolic right-wing climate-change deniers see Thunberg not how the prophetic Zinn envisioned her but as a tiny, pretentious zealot who threatens the existing order. Their order. Their comforts. Their traditional way of life.
De rigueur, they have set out to discredit and, if possible, to destroy Thunberg with their, by now, familiar and crass modus operandi.
They have mocked her. They have belittled her. They have denigrated her. They have insulted her. They have dismissed her. They have questioned her motives. They have suggested she is anti-democratic. They have, in the fetid recesses of the internet, even threatened her.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/9/1/who-is-afraid-of-greta-thunberg
I Googled Why are people afraid of Greta Thunberg? and got an eyeful. Of course, Big Oil, Rupert Murdoch, and all the assorted and monied toadies are sore afraid.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,320 posts)I suppose it's all in the details, but I would think she has one foot in the door already. Get him Greta.
EndlessWire
(6,531 posts)#gethimgreta
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)When the libel is done for malice, thats another thing. A good lawyer might make the case.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1010/public-figures-and-officials
Don Jr has learned how to toe the line from Sr, a world-class smear artist.
And traitor.
VGNonly
(7,491 posts)No scuba, pool clear water, a bomb that looks cartoonish...
Try not to think so much little Donny, you might strain your tiny brain.
JanMichael
(24,887 posts)He is useless while she is amazing.
He is a punk she is a star.