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2. We will have two more months of this bad-faith fuckery; be ready
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 12:13 PM
Sep 2020

There will be a story or two every day from now until election day about some Democrat somewhere perpetrating some heinous act. One or two of them might even be true; there are some bad apples in the Democratic big tent.

But when you see a story like this one, give it the smell test. Is a high profile Democrat involved? Hard to get a Democrat in a higher office than Nancy Pelosi. Is Pelosi the sort of person, given what you know of her public persona going back decades, who would recklessly and publicly break the rules? No? Your skeptical meter should be pinging. Is someone else involved that you've never heard of before, but who turns out to be a Republican partisan of long-standing? Does the grievously wronged person go to a responsible authority for redress, or does she go on the Tucker Carlson show?

Oh, and when the "scandal" blows up like a cheap novelty cigar, be sure to throw it back in the faces of your conservawhacko asshole friends and relatives proportionate to their initial gloating. If you don't catch 'em in the act, they'll never learn.

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