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lemonade-stand-comics · 10 months
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I procrastinated making one of the next pages so hard I made this instead- how?
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As of December 2023, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has received 59 allegations that Donald Trump or his committees violated the Federal Election Campaign Act. In 29 of those cases, nonpartisan staff in the FEC’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) recommended the FEC investigate Trump. Yet not once has a Republican FEC commissioner voted to approve any such investigation or enforcement of the law against Trump.
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Democratic Vice Chair Ellen Weintraub pointed this out in her December 5, 2023 statement of reasons after the FEC once again failed to garner the votes to enforce the law against Trump after he allegedly violated the law by illegally soliciting or directing money to a pro-Trump super PAC that spent millions on ads opposing Joe Biden in 2020.
Because at least four of the six FEC Commissioners need to approve any FEC investigation, and because only three of those seats can be filled by Democrats, Republicans hold a veto over the agency’s enforcement and have repeatedly used it to shoot down any recommended enforcement of campaign finance law against Trump—and thus successfully shielded him from accountability over and over. Instead of fostering bipartisanship, the split FEC has often become gridlocked and, in cases involving Trump, its ability to pursue action is constrained by the members of one party.
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The FEC’s enabling statute, the Federal Election Campaign Act, specifically subjects the Commission’s non-enforcement to review to prevent it from blocking meritorious enforcement. In June 2018, however, two Republican-appointed judges of the D.C. Circuit—including now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh—largely gutted that rule, giving commissioners the authority to block enforcement of the law without judicial review if the commissioners claimed that they did so as an exercise of prosecutorial discretion or under Heckler v. Chaney.
So, in 21 of the 29 cases where the FEC received recommendations to enforce the law against Trump, Republican commissioners justified non-enforcement by invoking prudential or discretionary factors in attempts to circumvent review.
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When dismissing the recommendations to investigate Trump—and to kill further inquiries into his actions—the Republican commissioners have at times claimed that the FEC should not take any action because “proceeding further would not be an appropriate use of Commission resources” or that the resources would be “best spent elsewhere.” Trump has even falsely declared that the FEC “dropped” one of its investigations into him “because they found no evidence of problems.” As Commissioner Weintraub wrote in a statement of reasons in November 2023, “the data is clear: At the FEC, Mr. Trump is in a category by himself.”
Unless courts restore their check on partisan vetoes on enforcement, the commissioners will continue to fail to enforce federal campaign finance law against the powerful figures they are trying to protect.
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fourorfivemovements · 4 months
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Films Watched in 2024: 4. Here Come the Co-eds (1945) - Dir. Jean Yarbrough
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usaac-official · 2 months
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Sunny II and crew, 351st Bomb Squadron. They were the first crew in the 100th Bomb Group to finish a tour of 25 missions
(L-R, standing) George E. Flanagan - ROG, Elder D. Dickerson - WG (KIA 8 Oct 43 at Bremen), Richard B. Cooke - BTG, John Parmentier - Crew Chief, Victor R. Combs - TTE, Leroy E. Baker - TG, Donald O. Ellis - WG
(L-R, kneeling) Francis C. Chaney - BOM, timothy J. Cavanaugh - NAV, Ollen Turner - 351st Squadron Commander, Glen Dye - P, John H. Luckadoo - CP
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birdmans · 1 year
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I am my father’s daughter, come hell or high water
Succession (2018—2023) / Can a tragedy have a happy ending?, Johnny Donald, Bonnie Burstow / Sarah Snook wasn’t sold on ‘Succession’ at first. Now, she feels a ‘sense of loss’ , Meredith Blake / Succession's Parking-Lot Scene was a Top Ten Worst Day on Set for Sarah Snook, Jen Chaney / Margarita Karapanou / My Father, Mira A / My Father's Daughter, Olivia Vedder
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bala5 · 2 years
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Born Maria Guadalupe Velez de Villalobos near Mexico City on July 18, 1908, the early life of gorgeous Lupe Velez is somewhat of a mystery. Some biographers claim she was the daughter of a prostitute, while others claim that her mother was a singer and her father was an Army officer who was killed during the waning days of the Mexican Revolution. Velez's mother and siblings relocated to Texas in the early 1920s only to soon return to Mexico City, where Velez took a job as a shop girl. And avid student of dance and song, Velez soon made her way onstage in musical shows in her native country. At the age of 18, she left Mexico City for Hollywood in search of a big break into silent films. She was quickly discovered by producer Hal Roach, who recognized her comedic gifts and used her in several comedy shorts starring Charley Chase and Laurel and Hardy. Her breakthrough role came in 1927 when she was cast in a starring role opposite Douglas Fairbanks in the United Artists adventure The Gaucho (1928; with Joan Barclay). Her next film was the drama Stand and Deliver (1928; with Rod La Rocque and Warner Oland). That same year, Velez was selected by the Western Association Of Motion Picture Advertisers as one of its WAMPAS baby stars, along with other actresses such as Lina Basquette, Sue Carol, June Collyer, and Sally Eilers.
During the waning days of the silents, Velez became a star in popular films such as Where East Is East (1929; with Lon Chaney) and Tiger Rose (1929; with Monte Blue and Grant Withers). Her first sound feature, Lady of the Pavements (1929; with William Boyd and Franklin Pangborn), was one of famed silent director D.W. Griffith's last assignments.
Velez's career survived the transition to sound rather nicely, but she often scandalized Hollywood with romantic exploits with her costars, including Gary Cooper and Gilbert Roland. In 1933, she married Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller, but their frequent rifts made headlines and did nothing for Velez's career, which began a slow decline. Her sexually energized pre-Code roles had made her a star, but when the Hays Production Code was enforced in 1934, dramatic roles for Velez vanished, so she returned to comedy in B movies. Possessing a gift for song, Velez also acted on the Broadway stage in several musicals during the early 1930s and again in the late 1930s. By 1939, her marriage to Weissmuller had ended, and her career had few bright spots until she was cast in the RKO comedy The Girl from Mexico (1939; with Leon Errol and Donald Woods). Velez's performance was so stellar and well-received that RKO built a series around the film called Mexican Spitfire, which included eight films.
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lonely-dog-song · 12 days
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face claims for random characters in. the book Ghost Story by Peter Straub from 1979 because i can !!!!!
Donald Wanderly- Michael Shannon
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the beginning of the book reminded me a lot of the movie Midnight Special, which immediately cemented the character of Don (travelling with a mysterious child) as looking kind of like Michael shannon (a guy who travels with a mysterious child in the aforementioned movie).
Angie M. - Anne-Marie mostly
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the aforementioned mysterious child! i thought of TWO black haired children but mostly I'm envisioning Anne-Marie from All Dogs Go to Heaven (her name has the same initials Come ON (subconsciously this is probably why i thought of her)). but i also thought of Cheryl from Silent Hill cuz of her pink clothes
Sears James- one of these guys
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Edward Gorey or Peter Freuchen... Sears is described as "massive" with a bald head and an impressive beard. he also wears a black coat (i'm really caught on the coat here). neither of these r quite how i imagine him, but i did very specifically think of these photos (it;s the coat + beard combo).
Lewis Benedikt- Lon Chaney Jr.
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not sure why i thought of this drawing of Larry in The Wolf Man by wormthing for this guy! Lewis is described as looking very good for his age, with a Cary Grant vibe that makes people think he should be an actor.
Stella Hawthorne- a person i know in real life so i'm not naming her or sharing her photo lol. u might run into my stella hawthorne faceclaim and never know
i wish i had a face in mind for her husband Ricky, but i can just rest easy knowing he is played by Fred Astaire in the movie adaptation
Anna Mostyn/Ann-Veronica Moore- Michelle from Strawberry Fields
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i was 99% sure these were the same character & it turns out they kind of are but kind of aren't. Anna is in her 30s i think, & all i can remember about Ann-Veronica is that she has green eyes & is around the age of 18. but they're both this cartoon character from scrapped beatles movie strawberry fields
Gregory Bate- Conrad Veidt??
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Gregory is described as being muscular, very beautiful, calm & charismatic with an underlying animalistic, seething malice. plus he has golden eyes. when i tried to envision his eyes, i thought of this shot in Eerie Tales where the light hits Conrad Veidt's eyes really strongly, so now it's kind of stuck even if this guy isn't the body type i would ascribe to an actor of greg. Greg is also very theatrical, which is fitting. side note he also wears a pea coat in some scenes which i'm pretty sure is what conrad is wearing up there SWAG
i wish i had a face claim for his younger brother Fenny but i have nothing :•( sorry boy. i guess it would b kinda funny if he was played by Jaeden Martell (who was also in Midnight Special) but i can't say that's how i envision him
Walt Hardesty- the sheriff guy from The Incredible Melting Man
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what can i say they're both sheriffs......... the actor here is Michael Alldredge.
Elmer Scales- Horace Nebbercracker from Monster House
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aww look at that first screenshot, he's so smitten :•) Elmer is described as having ears that stick out i think? I don't think he's very old so here's a pic of this guy when he's young. but at some point he starts looking worse & worse because he isn't sleeping or eating much.
ok that's all i got
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marcel334 · 1 month
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Hey Donald,
HUGE crowd (bigger than yours) in Des Moines last night to hear Liz Chaney.
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signalwatch · 3 months
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Dug was Here Selections: The Skydivers (1963), Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967), Pumaman (1980) Watched between:  01/12 - 10/14/2024 Format:  MST3K on YouTube Viewing:  First on All (I think) Director:  No Selection:  Consensus - us, MST3K live feed My father-in-law had some outpatient surgery and, thus, Dug, my brother-in-law, was here for a couple of weeks.  He capped off his visit with a stay with us.  Dug is the foremost MST3K/ Rifftrax fan in my life - and while I've been a fan since I was 14, he's the guy who remembers stuff about episodes from the show that I haven't seen since high school. I won't be writing these movies up, but I can say I finally ticked Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967) off my list, which had been there since discovering Joi Lansing about 20 years ago via The Adventures of Superman.  But I also knew, for 20 years, this was going to be a rough ride.  The movie is a weird, all-star bash, including Lon Chaney, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine and a bunch of Nashville musicians, for whom it was intended to be a showcase. There's also some yellow-peril as there's a spy story going on, also a gorilla and ghosts.   The Skydivers (1963) is a movie made by sky divers about sky divers, and it's like they knew one day MST3K would exist, and would need content. The Pumaman (1980) is an Italian produced, British-shot movie about a superhero with alien-gifted powers of a puma.  Like flying, and walking through walls.  It makes no sense, and has Donald Pleasance as the villain, wearing a sort of leatherette jumpsuit.  Cannot recommend enough. Anyway, a good time was had by all.      https://ift.tt/bnHd0KT via The Signal Watch https://ift.tt/7erVCNM January 15, 2024 at 08:26AM
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brookstonalmanac · 4 months
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Events 1.6 (after 1910)
1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state. 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship). 1929 – Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people. 1930 – Clessie Cummins arrives at the National Automobile Show in New York City, having driven a car powered by one of his diesel engines from Indianapolis. 1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address. 1946 – The first general election ever in Vietnam is held. 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket. 1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China.[31] The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response. 1951 – Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered. 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami. 1960 – The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties. 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta. 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 crashes in Lafayette Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, killing 11. 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States. 1989 – Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for conspiracy in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the two men are executed the same day. 1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup. 1993 – Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.[ 1993 – Four people are killed when Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634 crashes on approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, France.[ 1994 – U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.[ 1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.[ 2000 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex, Celia, is killed by a falling tree, thus making the species extinct. 2005 – Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner during the American Civil Rights Movement. 2005 – A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas. 2012 – Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus. 2017 – Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida. 2019 – Forty people are killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan. 2019 – Muhammad V of Kelantan resigns as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, becoming the first monarch to do so. 2021 – Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump attack the United States Capitol to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in five deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.
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malaceinthepalace · 6 months
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Chat GPT is fun, this was the speech I thought Liz Chaney was going to make after January 6th.
Cicero's "First Oration against Trump" (Adapted)
Senators of the United States,
I stand before you today to address a matter of grave concern.
For we find ourselves in a time of uncertainty and division,
with the echoes of recent events casting a long shadow over our nation.
Donald Trump, I speak of you, not in condemnation, but in solemn reflection,
for it is our duty as guardians of the United States to seek the truth.
Your presidency, marked by controversy, has left an indelible mark,
and now, as we move beyond your time in office, we must reckon with the legacy.
During your tenure, our great nation witnessed events that shook its foundations,
and the United States Senate played a pivotal role in upholding our democratic values.
We saw moments of unity and moments of discord,
as the country grappled with the challenges and opportunities that arose.
In the aftermath of your presidency, as the nation rebuilds and heals,
we must reflect on the principles that define us and the path we choose to follow.
The United States, like Rome of old, is defined by its resilience and commitment,
and we must remain steadfast in our pursuit of a more perfect union.
It is not a call for judgment that I raise today, but a call for introspection,
as we navigate the complex currents of our time.
Let us, Senators, draw strength from our shared history and commitment to the United States,
and may our actions be guided by the wisdom and prudence befitting this great nation.
History doesn’t repeat it rhymes
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xtruss · 10 months
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Illustration by João Fazenda
Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom! Emancipation is a Marker of Progress for White Americans, Not Black Ones.
— By Jelani Cobb | Published in the New Yorker June 20, 2020 Issue | Monday 19June, 2023
When word circulated earlier this month that Donald J. Trump would resume his campaign rallies on June 19th, with an event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the confluence of date and location suggested that his typically leaden-handed racial trolling had taken on new levels of nuance. On its face, the choice of Tulsa defies political logic. In the upcoming Presidential election, Oklahoma is neither in play (Trump currently holds a nineteen-point lead there) nor lucrative (it will deliver just seven electoral votes to the winner).
By comparison, Trump trails Joe Biden by five points in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and eight points in Michigan—all states that have more electoral votes and are crucial to Trump’s reëlection hopes. But, when taken in conjunction with the date—June 19th, or Juneteenth, the informal holiday on which African-Americans recognize the delayed emancipation of the enslaved inhabitants of Texas—the choice of the second-largest city in a sparsely populated, deeply red state assumes additional significance. Ninety-nine years ago, the homes and the businesses of the black community in that city were levelled, and as many as three hundred people were killed by white mobs in what came to be known as the Tulsa Massacre.
To close observers, Trump’s move seemed like a knockoff of Ronald Reagan’s decision to speak in Philadelphia, Mississippi—the site of the murders of the civil-rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner—in August, 1980, immediately after he had won the Republican Presidential nomination. (In June, 2016, Donald Trump, Jr., made a campaign stop there on behalf of his father; Trump himself made three campaign visits to Mississippi, where, that summer, he polled higher than in any other state.)But Trump, and whoever in his Administration proposed the Tulsa rally, likely had more contemporary concerns. If the serial protests, the outrage, and the conflagrations of the past three weeks can be viewed as a statement about race in the United States, the rally was meant to be a response. Like Reagan in 1980, Trump is apparently seeking to shore up support among whites who not only tolerate racism but feel that they, in fact, are the group being persecuted.
Yet even this inspired bit of middle-fingering the movement was shot through with Trumpian ineptitude. For decades, even among African-Americans, Juneteenth was primarily celebrated by those who lived in or were from Texas. In recent years, it has been more widely observed, but still overwhelmingly by African-Americans. The Trump team, in designing the Juneteenth stunt, dramatically elevated awareness of the day. Companies across the country have made Juneteenth a paid vacation day; governors, including Ralph Northam, of Virginia, announced plans to declare it an official state holiday. The backlash prompted Trump to postpone the rally by twenty-four hours. In another sense, though, the Administration’s actions were entirely apt for a day bound up with the ambivalent history of freedom in the United States.
On June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No. 3, proclaiming emancipation, the Civil War had been over for two months and freedom, at least theoretically, had been granted two and a half years earlier, by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. (Congress had passed the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished most forms of slavery, in January, 1865, though it was not ratified until December.) The size and the geography of Texas aided slaveholders in attempts to keep those enslaved from learning of emancipation. This was vital to the war effort: Lincoln’s edict had been calculated to disrupt the Confederate economy, which depended on enslaved labor. To the extent that Southern whites could keep the knowledge of emancipation to themselves, that labor force could be held in check. The strategy didn’t work: news of the emancipation spread, and Confederate states were hampered by black people escaping to the Union lines, with many of the men enlisting in the Northern ranks. The language of the Texas order spoke to the fragile nature of this new freedom; the paragraph that affirms the end of slavery also warns the black population against idleness and notes that unauthorized gatherings at military posts will not be tolerated.
The Emancipation Proclamation itself had been hedged to balance Northern interests and to incentivize Southern states with at least the possibility of retaining slavery if they rejoined the Union: the order freed only those people enslaved in areas of the country that were rebelling against the federal government. But Texas was in rebellion, and its black population did qualify for freedom on January 1, 1863, when the proclamation took effect. Texas ignored the proclamation, as did the ten other Confederate states. This all indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the significance of Juneteenth. The fact that slaveholders extracted thirty additional months of uncompensated labor from people who had been bought, sold, and worked to exhaustion, like livestock, throughout their lives is cause for mourning, not celebration. In honoring that moment, we should recognize a moral at the heart of that day in Galveston and in the entirety of American life: there is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives.
In that regard, Juneteenth exists as a counterpoint to the Fourth of July; the latter heralds the arrival of American ideals, the former stresses just how hard it has been to live up to them. This failure was not exclusive to the South. Northern states generally abolished slavery in the decades after the American Revolution, but many slaveholders there, rather than free the people they held in bondage, sold them to traders in the South, or moved to states where the institution was still legal. The black men, women, and children who heard Granger’s pronouncement a hundred and fifty-five years ago in Galveston were not slaves; they were a barometer of American democracy.
There’s a paradox inherent in the fact that emancipation is celebrated primarily among African-Americans, and that the celebration is rooted in a perception of slavery as something that happened to black people, rather than something that the country committed. The paradox rests on the presumption that the arrival of freedom should be greeted with gratitude, instead of with self-reflection about what allowed it to be deprived in the first place. Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones. Trump, in planning to go to Tulsa for Juneteenth, was not trolling black people. He was trolling the United States Constitution. ♦
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johnnyrobish · 1 year
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New Trump Video Blasts ‘Marxist’ Jan 6th Committee and Special Counsel
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In a new video, former President Donald Trump lashed out at the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots, first describing claims that he lunged at a Secret Service agent in his presidential limo in an attempt to try to force the agent to drive him to the Capitol, as ridiculous.  He then implied that the Jan. 6th riots were actually a provocation by federal informants, followed by more election denying, then attacking Special Counsel Jack Smith and his family for being “Trump haters,” before finally accusing Jan. 6th Committee members of being "Marxists."
Wow, Liz Chaney’s a Marxist?  Who knew?  Well, come to think of it, she is from Wyoming, and we all know what a hotbed of Marxism that place is!  I mean, when anyone thinks of some of the “great Marxist thinkers” of our time, Liz Cheney and her family almost always come to mind.  Gee, I wondered why when she was reading her summation of the Jan. 6th Committee’s work - that she kept bringing up “the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.”
Of course, its pretty obvious Trump doesn’t have the slightest idea what being a “Marxist” means.  As far as he’s concerned, its probably someone who follows “the teachings of Groucho.”  Why those Groucho Marxists even have their own secret code.  You remember it, don’t you?  “Say the secret word, and win $100.”  Hell, I seriously doubt if Trump could even tell the difference between Harpo and Groucho Marx, let alone Karl.  Although, I’m pretty darn sure Hershel Walker could.
Frankly, after watching this video, I find it hard to differentiate between anything Trump just said and the rantings of a madman on some New York City subway platform.  The thing is, even if Trump was correct about Special Counsel Jack Smith and all his family and friends being “Trump haters,” they’re gonna have to get in line, because at this point in time - just about anyone with a working brain, is pretty much a “Trump hater.”
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everetterice · 2 years
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Do these people live in an alternate reality or what??
This is what happens when you feed your mind and reality on propaganda like Fox News, right wing talk radio, donald-trump, and republicans.
This is from a debate in Colorado, never thought I would be agreeing with a Chaney on anything!!
ER.
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LON CHANEY, JOHN CARRADINE, TOR JOHNSON and BELA LUGOSI kick back with HUEY. LOUIE, DEWEY, and UNCA DONALD.
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dellcomics · 4 years
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Walt Disney's Comics and Stories No. 190 (July 1956)
Lon Chaney, Jr., Tor Johnson, John Carradine & Bela Lugosi (Oct. 20, 1882 - Aug. 16, 1956)
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