Those truckers are not "freedom" fighters, they are spoiled brats.

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Surveillance video of ‘suitcases filled with b****ts’ breeds false fraud claims in Georgia
POLITICS
by: The Associated Press
Posted: Dec 4, 2020 / 08:53 PM EST / Updated: Dec 4, 2020 / 08:53 PM EST

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ATLANTA (AP) — Surveillance video of b****t processing on e******n night in Atlanta is fueling a false social media narrative of “suitcases filled with b****ts” hidden under a cloth-covered table and tallied without supervision, even as top state officials confirm e******n workers followed standard procedure.
The video showed regular b****t containers on wheels — not suitcases — and both a state investigator and an independent monitor observed counting until it was done for the night, finding no evidence of improper b****ts, state and county officials said on Friday.
That hasn’t stopped President Donald Trump, his campaign, his lawyers and his supporters from sharing the video with false fraud accusations in a spate of Facebook and Twitter posts that have racked up millions of views in less than 24 hours.
Here’s a look at the facts around this v***l video:
CLAIM: Poll workers and partisan observers were told to leave Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on e******n night, but four e******n workers stayed behind, pulled suitcases full of b****ts out from under a table, and scanned them after hours without any supervision.
THE FACTS: The video doesn’t show evidence of fraud, much less the “SMOKING GUN” evidence that Trump’s legal team claims on social media.
No one told observers they had to leave, and both an independent monitor and an investigator oversaw the v**e count, according to state and county officials. Confusion arose when e******n workers thought they were done for the night, but then were instructed to continue scanning b****ts. But investigators who reviewed the entire surveillance tape confirmed it showed “normal b****t processing,” according to Gabriel Sterling, a top official in the secretary of state’s office.
The video, which shows clips of surveillance footage from a room where b****ts were counted, began gaining traction online on Thursday after volunteer Trump attorney Jackie Pick presented it for state senators during a hearing at the state Capitol.
Pick claimed it showed a staff member telling partisan observers to leave the facility for the night about 10:30 p.m. After observers were “cleared out,” she said, four e******n workers stayed behind, pulled suitcases of b****ts out from underneath a table, and counted them for two hours with no witnesses present.
Fulton County E******ns Director Richard Barron refuted those claims on Friday, saying in a public meeting that no observers were ever told to leave the facility.
According to Barron, staff members who had been opening and flattening b****ts for scanning started leaving the facility as their duties concluded.
Other e******n workers started to pack up, Sterling told The Associated Press in an interview. They put prepared b****ts back in boxes and away under a table “to close out for the night.” Members of the media and Republican observers began to leave the building too.
Then, the supervisor onsite got a call from Barron, who instructed the team to continue scanning the b****ts that had already been prepared. They pulled the same boxes of b****ts back out, and resumed scanning, Sterling said.
“These aren’t magical b****ts,” Sterling told the AP. “They didn’t show up out of some other room.”
Georgia law § 21-2-408 permits observers to stay in the room the whole time, but doesn’t require it for counting to take place.
After a short period when observers weren’t present, an independent state e******n board monitor arrived to oversee the scanning at 11:52 p.m., Barron said. A state investigator arrived at 12:15 a.m. Both individuals remained at the facility until the count concluded for the night, he said.
The Georgia secretary of state’s office said it was aware of the late-night counting, and confirmed that both its investigator and an independent monitor observed scanning “until it was halted for the night.”
The office said it had launched an investigation into why partisan poll observers left before scanning ended.
The president’s team is “intentionally misleading the public about what happened at State Farm Arena on e******n night,” Sterling tweeted Friday. “They had the whole video too and ignored the t***h.”
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Sore loser

Of course. I cannot believe the nuttiness.

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How many Pulitzers have you won??

List of prizes won by The Washington Post
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By award[edit]
• Worth Bingham Prize: 8
1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1986, 2000, 2005
• Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class V[1]
1985, 1986, 1987,[2] 2006,[3] 2007
• Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting: 8
1968, 1971, 1983, 1989, 1991, 2003, 2004, 2008
• Pulitzer Prize for Criticism: 8
1976, 1977, 1988, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006
• Pulitzer Prize for Commentary: 7
1973, 1977, 1987, 1991, 1994, 2003, 2008
• Pulitzer Prize for Public Service: 5
1973, 1999, 2000, 2008, 2014
• Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting: 3
1983, 2002, 2006
• Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting: 3
1990, 1995, 2006
• Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: 6
1993, 2002, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017
• Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing: 3
1936, 1970, 1978
• Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography: 2
1975, 2000
• Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting (National): 1
1947
• Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting: 1
2008
• Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting: 1
2006
• Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing: 1
1981 (returned), 2008
• Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning: 1
1979
• Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography: 1
1995
• Peabody Award:1
2010[4]

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So laugh with me, not at me.

Methinks Proud Republican is too Proud. More like arrogant.

This from The Washington Post

Politics
‘A lot of people are saying . . . ’: How Trump spreads conspiracies and innuendoes

Republican p**********l candidate Donald Trump often repeats controversial theories and conspiracies, but distances himself from blame with a few key phrases. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
By Jenna Johnson
June 13, 2016
Following the country’s most deadly mass shooting, Donald Trump was asked to explain what he meant when he said President Obama either does not understand radicalized Muslim terrorists or “he gets it better than anybody understands.”
“Well,” Trump said on the “Today Show” Monday morning, “there are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it. A lot of people think maybe he doesn’t want to know about it. I happen to think that he just doesn’t know what he’s doing, but there are many people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it. He doesn’t want to see what’s really happening. And that could be.”
In other words, Trump was not directly saying that he believes the president sympathizes with the terrorist who k**led at least 49 people in an Orlando nightclub. He was implying that a lot of people are saying that.

Trump frequently couches his most controversial comments this way, which allows him to share a controversial idea, piece of tabloid gossip or conspiracy theory without technically embracing it. If the comment turns out to be popular, Trump will often drop the distancing qualifier — “people think” or “some say.” If the opposite happens, Trump can claim that he never said the thing he is accused of saying, equating it to retweeting someone else’s thoughts on Twitter.
This is particularly true when it comes to Trump’s comments on Islam. For months, the candidate has portrayed Muslims as the leading threat working against the United States and has routinely suggested in a wink-wink fashion that the president might secretly be a follower.

Trump suggests 'there's something going on' with Obama

Donald Trump rails against the president and warns that Muslims should be banned from entering the U.S., while Hillary Clinton calls for changes to gun laws (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)
At a rally in New Hampshire in September, a man in the audience loudly declared President Obama a Muslim and “not even an American,” then asked Trump to get rid of Muslim “training camps.”

“You know, a lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there,” Trump responded. “We’re going to look at that and plenty of other things.”
[Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting]
Later that month, Trump announced that as president he would kick all Syrian refugees out of the country and not allow any others to enter because they could be a secret terrorist army.
“This could be the ultimate — probably not, but it could be — the ultimate Trojan horse,” Trump said on Fox News in early November, floating the idea without embracing it.
(On Fox News Monday, Trump said that he used to make this suggestion “with a smile” but he is now “starting to think that it can happen because our politicians are so inept and so incapable.”)
When it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, Trump has floated a variety of theories as to why the United States got what he views as such a raw deal. During a campaign rally in South Carolina in December, Trump seemed to accuse the U.S. negotiators of not having the country’s best interests in mind.

“Some people say it’s worse than stupidity. There’s something going on that we don’t know about,” Trump said in Hilton Head. “And you almost think — I’m not saying that, and I’m not a conspiracy person. . . . Half the people in this room are saying it. I’m trying to be — you know, I’m just hoping they’re just stupid people, okay?”

Trump’s they-said-it-not-me tactic is also often used when he’s attacking his rivals or their relatives.
In early January, Trump said that he was not concerned that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) was born in Canada — but that he had heard from many Republicans who were.
“I’d h**e to see something like that get in his way, but a lot of people are talking about it, and I know that even some states are looking at it very strongly, the fact that he was born in Canada and he has had a double passport,” Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post at the time.
[The Fix: Donald Trump’s defiant double down on, well, everything]
As this attack on Cruz stuck — and was echoed by other Republicans — Trump stopped pinning the concern on others and embraced it as his own, even threatening to sue Cruz over his eligibility in mid-February.
In attacking Hillary and Bill Clinton, Trump indirectly raised questions about one of their close friends, Vince Foster, whose suicide in 1993 has long been a focus of far-right conspiracy theorists who allege Clinton involvement.

“They say”??? It was Trump who tried to justify some of his wildest lies by stating, “A lot of people are saying...”. It was one of his favorite phrases.

From Business Insider, April 11

A GOP congressman said so many Republican v**ers now believe in the Q***n conspiracy theory it could destroy the party
Tom Porter Apr 11, 2021, 2:38 AM




GOP Rep. Peter Meijer has warned that the Q***n movement could destroy the GOP from within.

Meijer said "a significant plurality, if not potentially a majority" of GOP supporters believed in Q***n. 

Meijer is one of a small group of GOP lawmakers who've taken a stand against Q***n


https://www.businessinsider.com/q***n-could-destroy-the-republican-party-from-within-warns-gop-rep-cnn-2021-4

Rumitoid,

Everything you just wrote could not be more obvious. It looks like Q***n is becoming the New Religion, with Trump as their Messiah.

". As far as Moldyyoldy post, of course I am much too lazy to read it all. I believe I've read it all from several sources many times before. I bothered to check one fact: Moldy says Trump lied NEARLY (caps are mine) 30,000 times, but according to the Washington Post Fast Checker, Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidency.

AOC graduated graduated cum laude from Boston University with a degree in both international relations and economics. She’s fluent in two languages.