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January 31, 2022

Stop using Facebook (meta?) altogether / Manchin's campaign received contributions from Facebook

Manchin got paid $300,000.00 (Manchin is 74 he will be 76 or 77 in 2024) that money isn't going to any campaign.

Manchin’s campaign received contributions from companies such as Facebook (now known as Meta), CVS Health, Lowe’s, Anthem, Cigna, Boston Scientific, Cheniere Energy and Emergent BioSolutions.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216305734

Facebook (or whatever they are calling it now) and Jeff Zuckerberg suck dead dog dick.

Facebook already quietly paid a $5 billion fine for rat fucking the 2016 election and now they are giving space to anti vaccine right wing idiots, helping to stop the BBB program which would help the American people and would help in our fight for green energy, green jobs, and protecting the earth’s atmosphere. People need to stop using Facebook (meta?) altogether.

January 31, 2022

Better then sex .... Butter Biscuits

Really easy

https://www.thekitchn.com/butter-biscuits-recipe-23228287

Except I melt the butter in the cooking pan, I add the mixed ingredients over the melted
butter, I don't add the sugar, and I bake 'em for 20 minutes @ 450 F.

January 31, 2022

"Cancel culture" Russia's agents also hyped "allegations of social media censorship," as Trump did.

Both TFG and Fox News work for Vlad Daddy .... At least that is what I think and I'm

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Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy / He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. elections
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy. That was a major goal of Russia’s 2016 and 2020 operations, the report explains: “Throughout the election, Russia’s online influence actors sought to amplify mistrust in the electoral process by denigrating mail-in ballots, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of voter fraud.” Trump peddled the same fears. After the election, as “Russian online influence actors continued to promote narratives questioning the election results,” Trump duplicated that message. Russia’s agents also hyped “allegations of social media censorship,” as Trump did.



https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

January 30, 2022

Rafi!

January 29, 2022

Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy / He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. elections

He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy. That was a major goal of Russia’s 2016 and 2020 operations, the report explains: “Throughout the election, Russia’s online influence actors sought to amplify mistrust in the electoral process by denigrating mail-in ballots, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of voter fraud.” Trump peddled the same fears. After the election, as “Russian online influence actors continued to promote narratives questioning the election results,” Trump duplicated that message. Russia’s agents also hyped “allegations of social media censorship,” as Trump did.


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The republicans have always known about the help that they and Trump have gotten from Russia. Release the Mueller Report Now!
And I know I am nuttier then a squirrel turd but I have no doubt that there is a connection between Russia/Vlad and Fox News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

January 29, 2022

March 2021 report: A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset

A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. That’s been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s assessment of the 2020 election. The report, drafted by the CIA, the FBI, and several other agencies, was released in unclassified form on Tuesday, but it was presented in classified form on Jan. 7. In other words, it was compiled, written, and edited during Trump’s administration. It destroys his lies about the election, and it exposes him as a Russian asset.

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During the campaign, Trump, his national security appointees, and his allies in Congress insisted that China was meddling in the election to help Joe Biden. They even claimed that China’s interference was more dangerous than Russia’s. The report shreds that fiction. China “did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US Presidential election,” says the assessment. It finds no attempt by China to “provide funding to any candidates or parties,” and it challenges the Republican spin that China feared Trump because he was too tough. It argues, to the contrary, that Beijing saw Trump as a weaker adversary because he “would alienate US partners,” whereas Biden “would pose a greater challenge over the long run because he would be more successful in mobilizing a global alliance against China.”

As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, “President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations” to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, “Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party.” Then, in late 2019, Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, “conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden’s family.” Throughout the 2020 election, agents “connected to the Russian Federal Security Service,” FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote “Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.”



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Every time TFG said, "fake news" as per the trump campaign and Russia he was lying and the republicans have
known the truth for years.

BTW How deep into Fox News is Russia?

January 28, 2022

Neil Young's "Thrasher." Love that song.



I hope Spotify likes Joe Rogan, "because it was then I knew I had had enough and burned my credit card for fuel."
January 27, 2022

And in Switzerland ZERO deaths for vaccinated and boosted through age 70.

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1486418991463628801

In 2022 we have to link the GOP as being the pro C-19 party. The have been actively working
to spread the disease and deaths in order to blame President Biden for failing to stop the pandemic.
January 27, 2022

Joe Biden is the best President in my lifetime. He protected this yesterday. (BWCA)

President Biden is the best President of my lifetime he protected this yesterday. (boundary waters canoe area)



https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/01/26/biden-administration-cancels-twin-metals-leases

The Biden administration has canceled two federal mineral leases held by Twin Metals Minnesota, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the company’s bid to build an underground mine for copper, nickel and precious metals on the doorstep of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Those leases, located along Birch Lake in the Superior National Forest, about 7 miles east of Ely and just south of the BWCA, are critical to Twin Metals’ plans. They’re required for the company to access the valuable minerals underground.

The Department of the Interior took the action after determining that the leases were improperly renewed by the Trump administration in 2019.

“The Department of the Interior takes seriously our obligations to steward public lands and waters on behalf of all Americans. We must be consistent in how we apply lease terms to ensure that no lessee receives special treatment,” said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in a statement.

January 26, 2022

Fox, Tucker, and those who write his "shock statements"

.... have no shame. Staying in a motel in beautiful Akron, OH last night and I couldn't fall asleep so I turned on the TV. Before I could change it Tucker was blaming the Ukraine situation on Nancy Pelosi's "weak leadership."


2 things:

Who on God's earth would believe that crap?

Tucker does not write that shit himself it is written for
shock value.

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