Yeah I have some older coworkers I asked as I was just a baby in the 80s and none of them recognized this at all.

I can’t really speak to Europe in particular as I’m an American and mainly understand American issues, but from the bits that I’ve seen it seems like Russia has been trying to influence the politicians of any country that “dares” to interfere with their intentions.

I would not be the slightest bit surprised to find European NATO countries have their own Russia manipulated politicians either willingly or unknowingly fighting against the release of weapons/money to Ukraine. On the opposite side we in America have a gigantic lobby that is solely focused on helping Israel, again I would not be the slightest bit surprised to find they too are operating in other countries that would help them (not necessarily a bad thing in concept, any country would want to have a lobby to petition other governments to help them. I’m not trying to be antisemitic or anything)

There is also the concept that Isreal helps as a “stabilizer” for the middle east. That’s the geopolitics argument, I’m not smart enough to know whether that actually works as intended or not.

Literally never because they always have some bullshit way to legitimize their actions. It is fraud in the colloquial usage of the word, but not legally if they have specific arguments like “we were just referring to previous (lowest they could find) turnout numbers to save the taxpayers money!”

Very very well put!

I think if you made a word bubble of all the comments I’ve made the largest bubble by far would be “I fucking hate propagandists!!”

Here we go again. This article is just one of many like it - “Maybe” “could” “Fears raise” “warning” etc. etc.

A-fucking-men!

All this if if if is fucking insane!

I get they need to be “impartial” but there’s no way in hell this is “if” or “maybe” it’s fucking plan B! Plan A is just win of course, but this is their actual plan.

I’m normally a pessimistic person so take this with a grain of salt, but I have absolutely 0 hope that we actually win this. I’m 100% convinced the fix is already in.

Still vote! But I completely expect Trump to be handed the election…

I literally just posted comments in 2 other threads expressing this concern.

I absolutely expect if Trump “loses” he’ll not only have lost the popular vote, he’ll have lost the electoral college vote, but they’ll refuse to certify to solidify that fact and he’ll “win” by ratfuckery. Having the election tossed to state votes which the Republicans have the majority of…

I don’t expect Trump to lose this election no matter what happens…

Still vote of course. But y’all better riot when they pull this shit. And unlike J6 crybabies, do it knowing it’s civil disobedience and that we’d deserve the jail time we’d get. Expect it, it’s the “right” thing to do.

Conservative Contradiction! They go hand in hand!

I was very disappointed that this didn’t end with “In nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.”

My weekend has been ruined. :(

I honestly thought this was an AI image or something because what the actual fuck?

“McDonald’s: you’re going to die anyway so eat here!”

What a piece of shit…

That “government efficiency office” is literally the position Trump offered him…

“Trump wants to put me in charge and she doesn’t so wah wah wah!”

As usual: get fucked muskrat.

like a corrupted judge, who can let his buddies off free

US “judge” Cannon enters the chat.

A hateful asshole only has hateful asshole things to say!? Color me surprised!

What color is that anyway?

I feel like this could go both ways though.

“I don’t want to get my ass kicked again.”

Or

“I already won once so why would I risk messing up with a second one?”

I firmly believe he’s going to lose the popular vote, the electoral college, and yet still “win” by having the assholes that filled important election official positions refuse to certify the results and have the election kicked to Congress where the Republicans have a majority of states in their control and so one state one vote means Trump wins…

Every single mother fucker better riot like there’s no tomorrow if they do this

I appreciate the kindness! Hope you have a great weekend!

Yeah, I’m not exhaling until like February… There’s no guarantee that winning this election is actually winning this election…

There’s a very real possibly that Trump loses the popular vote, loses the electoral college vote, and still “wins” because shithead propagandized Karens filled important election official positions in states that really matter… They’ll refuse to certify and create a condition where the votes go to states as representation, giving GOP the boost they need since even though land can’t vote, they have more “red” land than “us.”

Can confirm. From Italian American family, have no shortage of racism here…

My goddamn grandma never forgets to chime in on political conversations with the “and diseases! Don’t forget the immigrats bring disease into our country!”

…ughhh

It’s propaganda.

Everything you listed is a “Democrat lie” if you were to ask a Magoo. Fox news, Newsmax, and the like spend an enormous amount of effort in creating a reality where Republicans are always the victim, and they point to the population to say “you’re next!”

Anything they can’t say is specifically a lie, they’ll say “well you did it too so it’s not bad.” Anything else just isn’t a concern to them since people like Hannity tell them what to think.

I’m not actually sure I agree. Trump has so much support right now because he has formed a cult of personality. If Trump goes the GOP goes. Trump dominated every primary, no one else stood a chance, which means there isn’t another GOP memeber that the cult would move to so easily. Trump has a “strength” in being an “outsider” to his base, anyone else who was in the primaries would just be another “elitist” politician to the magas.

Unfortunately our politics have gotten so fucked by a disgusting form of propaganda that disregards the typical “immoral” stances (racism, sexism, etc) that I actually believe the only people that could continue to keep the GOP going are the absolutely disgusting people like MTG and Bobert… The loudmouth assholes with no regard or respect for anyone but their “tribe.”