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The thing about this indictment is that it really shouldn't be surprising... I blame Bill Barr to a large extent for why people averted their gaze....after he prebutted Robert Mueller's report, which mischaracterized what Mueller actually wrote in a lot of ways, the "Russia hoax" dialogue started to become the framing for any discussions around these subjects. Including in the mainstream press, many members of whom (for years) have taken to social media to apply labels like "resist libs" and "BlueAnon" to anyone who would ask any questions around the possibility of these influence operations happening. Fast forward to today, and this indictment.... does anyone really think that this stops at just Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, and Dave Rubin? Anyone really believe that?

"He's just joking"

The thing with Trump is that it could be at least three or four different things.... the NH comments, Arlington Cemetary, something health related, who TF knows with these guys. But as we learned during the end of days of the Biden Campaign, when things aren't going well, you see a lot of stuff like this come out.

For those wondering, Tim Pool (one of the useful idiots in question) did a podcast with Donald Trump not that long ago...

#kamalakrash

True story, but I had a similar situation occur after parking next to one of these bad boys at a golf course in Lockport, IL about five months ago. Except it was two older ladies and, after they asked me what it was, they said it was the ugliest car they had ever seen. Gonna guess that is more representative of the median person looking at a Cybertruck than the anecdote shared above.

I'm guessing the First Lieutenant voted for Biden in 2020.

Another log on the "Tim Walz will be replaced any day now" fire lol

It is really infuriating how much Netanyahu has been able to elide any sort of scrutiny for politicking and back-channeling with Trump when actual lives are at stake. It gets exhausting calling out the failures of the press, but this is another one

Someone get Dr. Ronny Johnson on the phone....

This made the evening news tonight where I live, which is telling.... just absolutely crazy pants stuff that does not comport to any sort of reality. You cannot even give a kid an ibuprofen without parental permission anywhere FFS

Better than the alternative at least... Normal people don't read Politico lol

That headline sucks too, IMO. The issue for me is this really shouldn't be a story at all... And I suspect that Kamala, by declining to engage and to let Trump dictate the terms of debate, deprives outlets of a juicy story and drama.

For context, same poll has Harris 51-46 over Trump... So a touch higher than the ~3.5 Harris lead in aggregates.... If Vance ended up the nominee he'd do better than this, but still, that's a wild wild result.

The sibling of "he's just joking": "He's just telling stories"

The "he's just joking" excuses, which we have heard for eight years, are always interesting as it is usually applied to things that really are painfully unfunny to begin with. Or not thought of as comedy in any traditional sense. I guess when I think comedy, I think Bill Burr, Nick Offerman, Shane Gillis... hell, even Rogan can be funny even though I think his politics are loony. Whatever JD is up there applying "fun and jokes" to is..... not that.

The whole interview with John Berman was Exhibit A in why JD is a bad candidate, but good grief, this just makes him a bad person

His cult isn't the issue here.... it's everyone else who is a gettable votoer.

I doubt I'll even end up watching it, just thought the media frenzy surrounding this thing was ridiculous. And that the Trump GOP, for whatever reason, loves to lower the bar for their opponents to the point where it's a speed bump rather than an actual obstacle.

I have only seen clips of the interview, but it seems like she did fine in what I saw... which, given that the Rs spent the last month saying that she was the worst interviewer in history, means that the bar was absolutely floor level and she likely far exceeded it. Someone correct me if I'm off base here.

Huh?