occupydemocrats--2020-10-28--Trump’s Interior Secretary abuses official channel to bully critics of his illegal Trump promotion

One of the hallmarks of the Donald Trump administration is the most shameful unprofessionalism and naked bias that organs of the federal government have ever shown .
Whether it ’ s the State Department promoting an extremist religious agenda , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration firing its chief scientist for insisting on scientific integrity , or the Justice Department acting like the president ’ s personal legal team , the government has been filled with Trump sycophants from top to bottom , and it shows in their behavior .
The Press Secretary of the Interior recently came under fire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ team chief , Tim Fullerton , for using government resources to produce and promote an outrageous pro-Trump propaganda video extolling his extremely tenuous accomplishments for the environment .
The official line is that the president created “ investments in natural parks ” and increased funding for conservation ; to hear Trump tell it , he has brought us “ the cleanest water and air that we have ever ” had despite having rolled back as many protective regulations as he possibly could have .
On top of that , he ’ s taken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to scale back or wholly eliminate climate mitigation and adaptation measures , ” according to Columbia University ’ s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law .
Just this morning , Trump stripped the Tongass National Forest of its protections and opened up its 9.3 million acres to plunder and despoilment by greedy corporations .
Fullerton took to Twitter to slam Secretary David Bernhardt for using taxpayer dollars to produce and promote this wildly misleading propaganda video , rightfully calling it out as an outrageous violation of ethics and the Hatch Act , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overtly political activity .
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In response , the official Press Secretary ’ s office account directly quote-tweeter Fullerton and publicly trashed him , saying that thankfully their tweets were “ no longer ” overseen by him and had “ removed the rotten stench ” of the previous administration , which they claimed had “ failed ” to invest in the ethics program .
The declaration is by the Interior Press Secretary ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bernhardt himself is an oil lobbyist who Trump placed in charge of managing our nation ’ s pristine wilderness and millions of acres of public lands , which is about as flagrant as an ethics violation as you possibly can get .
Multiple Trump officials have been criticized for violating the Hatch Act , including Secretary Pompeo , acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf , former presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway , and the President himself , who regularly holds campaign events at the White House .
The attitude of the Trump administration towards @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chief of Staff Mark Meadows snarked that “ nobody outside of the Beltway really cares ” about the incessant violation of federal law .
At this point , it ’ s just disappointing to see the official organs of the United States government being used to wage petty internet feuds against former officials .
The whole debacle is a grim reminder that the preservation of the environment and taking an aggressive stance against climate change is one of the most important reasons to vote for Joe Biden — not to mention his promise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the United States government .
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One of the hallmarks of the Donald Trump administration is the most shameful unprofessionalism and naked bias that organs of the federal government have ever shown. Whether it’s the State Department promoting an extremist religious agenda, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration firing its chief scientist for insisting on scientific integrity, or the Justice Department acting like the president’s personal legal team, the government has been filled with Trump sycophants from top to bottom, and it shows in their behavior.
The Press Secretary of the Interior recently came under fire from President Obama’s Interior digital team chief, Tim Fullerton, for using government resources to produce and promote an outrageous pro-Trump propaganda video extolling his extremely tenuous accomplishments for the environment.
The @realDonaldTrump Administration has accomplished historic feats for conservation, securing the largest investment in our national parks and public lands, opening 4 million acres to new hunting and fishing opportunities, and recovering a record number of endangered species. pic.twitter.com/LoOuCPqJXm — Secretary David Bernhardt (@SecBernhardt) October 27, 2020
The official line is that the president created “investments in natural parks” and increased funding for conservation; to hear Trump tell it, he has brought us “the cleanest water and air that we have ever” had despite having rolled back as many protective regulations as he possibly could have. On top of that, he’s taken at least 159 separate actions to “to scale back or wholly eliminate climate mitigation and adaptation measures,” according to Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
Just this morning, Trump stripped the Tongass National Forest of its protections and opened up its 9.3 million acres to plunder and despoilment by greedy corporations.
BREAKING: Trump is exempting Alaska's entire Tongass National Forest from the roadless rule, making more than 9.3 million acres eligible for logging and other development. It is one of the biggest public lands rollbacks of his presidency. By @eilperin https://t.co/rtcxp4Wj4C — Brady Dennis (@brady_dennis) October 28, 2020
Fullerton took to Twitter to slam Secretary David Bernhardt for using taxpayer dollars to produce and promote this wildly misleading propaganda video, rightfully calling it out as an outrageous violation of ethics and the Hatch Act, which forbids civil service employees from engaging in overtly political activity.
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“These are government resources that are meant to promote the work of the department or public lands. It shouldn’t be used this way. It’s really upsetting to think about the thousands of people at the Interior Department who are being subjected to this. They shouldn’t have to deal with this,” said Fullerton to the Washington Post.
I ran the @interior digital team during President Obama’s re-election in 2012. I would have been fired for doing this. This is a propaganda video created with your tax dollars meant to bolster the President’s chances of being re-elected. This is way outside the lines. https://t.co/tRw1MpmUnr — Tim Fullerton (@TimFullerton) October 27, 2020
In response, the official Press Secretary’s office account directly quote-tweeter Fullerton and publicly trashed him, saying that thankfully their tweets were “no longer” overseen by him and had “removed the rotten stench” of the previous administration, which they claimed had “failed” to invest in the ethics program.
Our tweets are approved by career ethics attorneys and thankfully no longer overseen by you.@Interior increased the number ethics staff by 250% to remove the rotten stench from the blatant failure of the prior administration to invest in the ethics program. https://t.co/v3aFjYobbS — Interior Press Secretary (@DOIPressSec) October 28, 2020
The declaration is by the Interior Press Secretary’s office is absolutely ridiculous. Secretary David Bernhardt himself is an oil lobbyist who Trump placed in charge of managing our nation’s pristine wilderness and millions of acres of public lands, which is about as flagrant as an ethics violation as you possibly can get.
Multiple Trump officials have been criticized for violating the Hatch Act, including Secretary Pompeo, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, former presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway, and the President himself, who regularly holds campaign events at the White House. The attitude of the Trump administration towards ethics was made clear when White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows snarked that “nobody outside of the Beltway really cares” about the incessant violation of federal law.
At this point, it’s just disappointing to see the official organs of the United States government being used to wage petty internet feuds against former officials. The whole debacle is a grim reminder that the preservation of the environment and taking an aggressive stance against climate change is one of the most important reasons to vote for Joe Biden — not to mention his promise to restore a moral and ethical compass to the United States government.
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-28--Giuliani melts down and demands an apology after Fox host shuts down his Hunter Biden smears

The Republican Party and its myriad media outlet tentacles are thrashing about vainly in the final days before the election , desperate to convince the American people to care about their manufactured smear campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden ’ s son Hunter .
According to GOP operatives led by the partisan hatchetman Rudy Giuliani , a laptop that belonged to Hunter was left at a computer repair shop .
When the owner of the store looked at its contents he allegedly grew concerned and handed the material over to the FBI .
It also ended up in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put forward by these deeply untrustworthy Republicans is suspect and impossible to verify .
Sex tapes of Hunter ostensibly gleaned from the laptop have since leaked and Republicans also claim that text messages detailing some kind of shady business dealings were discovered which may or may not implicate Joe Biden himself .
The entire thing is incredibly opaque and depending on which conservative is ranting about it , the exact nature of the allegations shifts .
Suffice to say , this scandal is an obvious attempt by Trump loyalists to tank Joe Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is deeply irritated that the vast majority of Americans aren ’ t falling for the obvious sham and tweeted angrily about it today .
Giuliani , who has been the face of this farce since the beginning , appeared on Fox News last night and tried to inject some life into the dying conspiracy theories about Hunter by claiming , without evidence , that there were photographs of “ underage girls ” on Hunter ’ s laptop .
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Giuliani persisted in peddling his misinformation and Kennedy pushed back , saying her news department would seek to “ verify ” what he was saying , but that it sounded “ fishy ” and that much of the information may have been “ adulterated ” over time .
Kennedy added that Giuliani acted somewhat like Christopher Steele , the former M16 intelligence officer who put together the infamous dossier on Trump ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a bugaboo in right-wing circles and Giuliani did not take kindly to the comparison .
“ You got to be kidding me ?
I was acting like Christopher Steele ?
” said Giuliani , his face contorting and eyes flaring .
“ That ’ s what it sounds like , ” she responded .
“ You better apologize .
You better apologize for that !
I mean I ’ ve been a United States Attorney , Associate Attorney General , Mayor of New York City , and a member of the bar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never been accused of anything and you ’ re accusing me of being Christopher Steele ?
” Giuliani said as if any of his prior jobs somehow immunized him against transforming into a shamelessly mendacious minion of the worst president in American history .
Kennedy and Giuliani went back and forth with him growing more heated as she refused to back down .
At one point he even had the gall to accuse Kennedy of “ outrageous defamation , ” an incredibly ironic attack coming from a man who has spent months baselessly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ By the end of it , Giuliani had beclowned himself as usual and failed to add even a shred of credibility to his outlandish claims .
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The Republican Party and its myriad media outlet tentacles are thrashing about vainly in the final days before the election, desperate to convince the American people to care about their manufactured smear campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. According to GOP operatives led by the partisan hatchetman Rudy
Giuliani, a laptop that belonged to Hunter was left at a computer repair shop. When the owner of the store looked at its contents he allegedly grew concerned and handed the material over to the FBI. It also ended up in the hands of Giuliani.
The narrative as put forward by these deeply untrustworthy Republicans is suspect and impossible to verify. Sex tapes of Hunter ostensibly gleaned from the laptop have since leaked and Republicans also claim that text messages detailing some kind of shady business dealings were discovered which may or may not implicate Joe Biden himself. The entire thing is incredibly opaque and depending on which conservative is ranting about it, the exact nature of the allegations shifts. Suffice to say, this scandal is an obvious attempt by Trump loyalists to tank Joe Biden’s campaign.
The president himself is deeply irritated that the vast majority of Americans aren’t falling for the obvious sham and tweeted angrily about it today. Giuliani, who has been the face of this farce since the beginning, appeared on Fox News last night and tried to inject some life into the dying conspiracy theories about Hunter by claiming, without evidence, that there were photographs of “underage girls” on Hunter’s laptop.
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While he was perhaps hoping for a sympathetic ear from Fox Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, she refused to entertain his accusations. Giuliani persisted in peddling his misinformation and Kennedy pushed back, saying her news department would seek to “verify” what he was saying, but that it sounded “fishy” and that much of the information may have been “adulterated” over time.
Kennedy added that Giuliani acted somewhat like Christopher Steele, the former M16 intelligence officer who put together the infamous dossier on Trump’s Russian connections. Steele has become something of a bugaboo in right-wing circles and Giuliani did not take kindly to the comparison.
“You got to be kidding me? I was acting like Christopher Steele?” said Giuliani, his face contorting and eyes flaring.
“That’s what it sounds like,” she responded.
“You better apologize. You better apologize for that! I mean I’ve been a United States Attorney, Associate Attorney General, Mayor of New York City, and a member of the bar for fifty years. I’ve never been accused of anything and you’re accusing me of being Christopher Steele?” Giuliani said as if any of his prior jobs somehow immunized him against transforming into a shamelessly mendacious minion of the worst president in American history.
Kennedy and Giuliani went back and forth with him growing more heated as she refused to back down. At one point he even had the gall to accuse Kennedy of “outrageous defamation,” an incredibly ironic attack coming from a man who has spent months baselessly attacking the reputation of Hunter Biden. By the end of it, Giuliani had beclowned himself as usual and failed to add even a shred of credibility to his outlandish claims.
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Kennedy interviewed Rudy Giuliani — and was remarkably hard on him pic.twitter.com/En4M4e3bxY — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2020
KENNEDY: Do you regret your interaction in the Borat movie? GIULIANI: Now that's a stupid question, isn't it? K: No, it's not stupid at all. I have a 15 year old daughter, I watched that & was kinda grossed out by it G: Whether you believe it or not I was tucking my shirt in pic.twitter.com/rCdR8TlP1I — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 28, 2020
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-28--Sen. Schatz tears into Ted Cruz for wasting time on Hunter Biden fake news censorship hearing

Many people have opinions about what the greatest threat to America is in 2020 .
With the COVID-19 pandemic death toll reaching new heights , most Americans could believe that the coronavirus should be our gravest concern right now .
Others are more concerned with the economic and social disintegrations that have been collateral damage to the efforts to combat the virus .
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Cruz ’ s scapegoating of big tech as the villain posing the largest threat to our democracy conveniently ignores the fact that it is the Trump campaign , its deluded QAnon-following supporters , and its Russian allies that are shoveling boatloads of lies , misinformation , and malicious propaganda on social media to try to sway the election results .
The Texas senator also forgets that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — which reads “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ; or abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble , and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances ” — applies to government suppression of speech , not to the ability of corporations to police their publishing platforms and weed out socially-damaging and/or blatantly false posts .
The fact that the Senate Commerce Committee is even holding a hearing today to interrogate the titans of tech from Google @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a time when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has recessed the congressional chamber without action on a pandemic stimulus bill — seems to prove that the entire exercise is a mere political ploy on the eve of the election to distract from the Trump administration ’ s failures by assigning blame to the primarily passive purveyors of internet-based communications platforms .
Democrats at the hearing called out Senator Cruz ’ s assertions about the magnitude of the threat to free speech posed by big tech and noted the wasteful nature of the hypocritical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media platforms to disseminate phony , truly trumped-up allegations of dubious provenance against Hunter Biden .
Indeed , as Senator Brian Schatz ( D-HI ) intimates , the hearings are likely to result in nothing more than a few newspaper articles , some minimal TV coverage , and nothing in the form of legislation — ostensibly the man business of the Senate , at least before Mitch McConnell ruled the roost — during the lame-duck session after an election that may see several current GOP senators sent packing .
It ’ s sad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biggest dangers that America faces today .
It ’ s why America needs to end the Republican majority in the Senate and elect Democratic leaders who can help dig our nation out of the debacle created by Donald Trump and his cronies .
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Many people have opinions about what the greatest threat to America is in 2020.
With the COVID-19 pandemic death toll reaching new heights, most Americans could believe that the coronavirus should be our gravest concern right now.
Others are more concerned with the economic and social disintegrations that have been collateral damage to the efforts to combat the virus.
Still others point to the Trump administration as the root cause of America’s inept response to the pandemic and therefore see removing the Donald from office as the quickest and best way to staunch our national bleeding.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has a different perspective.
Disregarding Trump's attacks on election integrity and promotion of election disinformation, @TedCruz says Facebook/Google/Twitter "collectively pose, I believe, the single greatest threat to free speech in America and the greatest threat we have to free and fair elections." pic.twitter.com/vkRDwUsujA — The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) October 28, 2020
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Cruz’s scapegoating of big tech as the villain posing the largest threat to our democracy conveniently ignores the fact that it is the Trump campaign, its deluded QAnon-following supporters, and its Russian allies that are shoveling boatloads of lies, misinformation, and malicious propaganda on social media to try to sway the election results.
The Texas senator also forgets that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — which reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” — applies to government suppression of speech, not to the ability of corporations to police their publishing platforms and weed out socially-damaging and/or blatantly false posts.
The fact that the Senate Commerce Committee is even holding a hearing today to interrogate the titans of tech from Google, Facebook, and Twitter — at a time when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has recessed the congressional chamber without action on a pandemic stimulus bill — seems to prove that the entire exercise is a mere political ploy on the eve of the election to distract from the Trump administration’s failures by assigning blame to the primarily passive purveyors of internet-based communications platforms.
Democrats at the hearing called out Senator Cruz’s assertions about the magnitude of the threat to free speech posed by big tech and noted the wasteful nature of the hypocritical hearing triggered by the refusal of social media platforms to disseminate phony, truly trumped-up allegations of dubious provenance against Hunter Biden.
Sen. @brianschatz calls out the Senate GOP's hearing on social media as a "sham," noting, "It is a misuse of taxpayer dollars." He adds: "What's happening here is a scar on this committee, and the United States Senate." pic.twitter.com/4B98OPxMdg — The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) October 28, 2020
Indeed, as Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) intimates, the hearings are likely to result in nothing more than a few newspaper articles, some minimal TV coverage, and nothing in the form of legislation — ostensibly the man business of the Senate, at least before Mitch McConnell ruled the roost — during the lame-duck session after an election that may see several current GOP senators sent packing.
It’s sad to see Senator Cruz misrepresent the true biggest dangers that America faces today.
It’s why America needs to end the Republican majority in the Senate and elect Democratic leaders who can help dig our nation out of the debacle created by Donald Trump and his cronies.
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-28--Social media explodes after Trump strands thousands of his fans in the freezing cold after rally

Last night , President Trump held a rally in Omaha , Nebraska , which was purely a self-indulgent opportunity to massage his ego , since there is little chance that he loses the state to Joe Biden next week .
Once his hours of rambling were over , Trump hopped back on his jet and flew away — leaving thousands of his supporters stranded in the freezing cold at Eppley Airfiled .
Clogged parking lots , lost cars , and a lack of buses stranded huge numbers of Trump fans in the open as they were battered with unusually vicious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ three miles to get back to their vehicles .
The rally ended at 9:30 pm , but it took until past midnight to get everyone away — and by that time , over thirty people needed medical attention .
“ Is there any place you would rather be than a Trump rally on about a 10-degree evening ?
… It ’ s cold out here but that ’ s okay , ” sneered Trump during his speech , who certainly never felt a moment of physical discomfort himself that night .
The metaphor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supporters could not be more perfect .
Not only has his reckless spree of rallies and dangerous disregard for COVID-19 safety procedures put their lives in danger , but now his fans are getting a first-hand lesson in how there are two different Americas — one where the wealthy fly away in comfort and warmth while the rest of us get left on the tarmac in the freezing cold .
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Last night, President Trump held a rally in Omaha, Nebraska, which was purely a self-indulgent opportunity to massage his ego, since there is little chance that he loses the state to Joe Biden next week. Once his hours of rambling were over, Trump hopped back on his jet and flew away — leaving thousands of his supporters stranded in the freezing cold at Eppley Airfiled.
Clogged parking lots, lost cars, and a lack of buses stranded huge numbers of Trump fans in the open as they were battered with unusually vicious winds, with many having to walk three miles to get back to their vehicles. The rally ended at 9:30 pm, but it took until past midnight to get everyone away — and by that time, over thirty people needed medical attention.
“Is there any place you would rather be than a Trump rally on about a 10-degree evening? … It’s cold out here but that’s okay,” sneered Trump during his speech, who certainly never felt a moment of physical discomfort himself that night.
Thousands of people left out in the cold and stranded in #Omaha, #Nebraska after a #Trump rally. I’m told the shuttles aren’t operating & there aren’t enough busses. Police didn’t seem to know what to do. Some walked. I saw at least one woman getting medical attention. pic.twitter.com/oIkmixaZt0 — Jeff Paul (@Jeff_Paul) October 28, 2020
The metaphor for Trump’s relationship with his supporters could not be more perfect. Not only has his reckless spree of rallies and dangerous disregard for COVID-19 safety procedures put their lives in danger, but now his fans are getting a first-hand lesson in how there are two different Americas — one where the wealthy fly away in comfort and warmth while the rest of us get left on the tarmac in the freezing cold.
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Unfortunately, at this point, there’s nothing that will shake their fanatical loyalty to this man, for some inexplicable reason. Which is why social media members had a hard time drumming up any sympathy for them:
lol Trump doesn't give a shit about you hope you realize that now https://t.co/mPNwJzTFQy — Bill Buttlicker (@Grateful42069) October 28, 2020
Trump leaving his supporters cold and stranded is the most on-brand thing ever — Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) October 28, 2020
Compare what the Trump supporters stuck in the cold went through to the horror desperate migrants face that they laugh their fucking faces off over — Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 28, 2020
if I were slowly succumbing to frostbite in a Omaha parking lot I would simply regret that I have only so many extremities to give for the pleasure of seeing our delightful president gyrate to Macho Man — inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended (@PatBlanchfield) October 28, 2020
Before and after Trumps Omaha rally debacle. pic.twitter.com/fLhtS6K3kV — Victoria Woodhull (@Well1la) October 28, 2020
7) Trump Omaha MAGA rally… summed up best by Oregon Trail. pic.twitter.com/ipTTIag5F1 — Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 28, 2020
Lmao, trump leaving thousands of his Omaha rally attendees in the freezing cold after being bused there is the perfect chef's kiss of lessons: After he's done with you, you're out in the cold freezing to death. #Omahastranded — BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) October 28, 2020
Trump: "I could strand my voters in freezing cold and give several hypothermia and still not lose any votes" https://t.co/3Bv2WURXRU — maura quint (@behindyourback) October 28, 2020
Another in the W column for Team No Metaphors Anymore. https://t.co/1M71RxPfNb — David Roth (@david_j_roth) October 28, 2020
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-29--Trump invents ridiculous Biden quote and claims he doesn’t know what Philadelphia is

President Trump desperately wishes he were running against someone other than Joe Biden .
As a result , he ’ s resigned himself to running a campaign against a strawman version of the Democratic nominee that bears little if any resemblance to the man who the polls indicate is likely to become our 46hth president .
Trump ’ s claims that the former vice president is an advocate for radical socialism fall apart under even the most cursory investigation .
Americans know Biden as a reasonable , lifelong moderate and this reputation is in large part why he was able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has tried to argue that Biden is in cognitive decline , a conspiracy theory that was thoroughly debunked when Biden crushed him on the debate stage in front of millions of viewers .
Perhaps most egregiously , Trump and his Republican catspaws have gone after Biden ’ s son Hunter , hurling baseless accusations of corrupt foreign deals and entanglements in a vain attempt to drag Joe Biden down into the mud .
None of these strategies seem to be paying dividends for President Trump and so now he ’ s resorting to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ making things up about Biden out of thin air .
At his rally in Tampa , Florida today the president invented a Joe Biden quote .
He started by bringing up the unrest unfolding in Philadelphia in the wake of another police shooting of a Black man .
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“ Look what ’ s he doing in Philadelphia .
Look what ’ s happening .
Those are people that he ’ s supporting .
He couldn ’ t even come out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In reality , Biden addressed the looting by saying “ there is no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence .
None whatsoever.
” “ They asked him a question , ” Trump continued .
“ He said : ‘ Uh what ’ s Philadelphia ?
Where is it ?
’ He didn ’ t know what state he was in !
” the president said , completely inventing the incident and a quote to go with it .
Biden said no such thing and knows Philadelphia better than Trump , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surprisingly , the MAGA crowd ate up the misinformation with relish .
“ Other than that he ’ s doing a wonderful job , ” Trump went on .
“ Could you imagine ?
Could you imagine losing to this guy ?
Could you imagine ?
Our First Lady will have to say : ‘ Darling I don ’ t know… This is impossible . '
” Thankfully , Trump is about to find out exactly what it feels like to lose to a guy like Joe Biden .
That is to say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out what it feels like to lose to a man who is his moral and intellectual superior , a man actually capable of compassion , a man with a soul .
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President Trump desperately wishes he were running against someone other than Joe Biden. As a result, he’s resigned himself to running a campaign against a strawman version of the Democratic nominee that bears little if any resemblance to the man who the polls indicate is likely to become our 46hth president.
Trump’s claims that the former vice president is an advocate for radical socialism fall apart under even the most cursory investigation. Americans know Biden as a reasonable, lifelong moderate and this reputation is in large part why he was able to win the Democratic primary. Trump has tried to argue that Biden is in cognitive decline, a conspiracy theory that was thoroughly debunked when Biden crushed him on the debate stage in front of millions of viewers. Perhaps most egregiously, Trump and his Republican catspaws have gone after Biden’s son Hunter, hurling baseless accusations of corrupt foreign deals and entanglements in a vain attempt to drag Joe Biden down into the mud.
None of these strategies seem to be paying dividends for President Trump and so now he’s resorting to the last trick in his bag: making things up about Biden out of thin air. At his rally in Tampa, Florida today the president invented a Joe Biden quote. He started by bringing up the unrest unfolding in Philadelphia in the wake of another police shooting of a Black man.
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“Look what’s he doing in Philadelphia. Look what’s happening. Those are people that he’s supporting. He couldn’t even come out against them yesterday,” lied Trump. In reality, Biden addressed the looting by saying “there is no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence. None whatsoever.”
“They asked him a question,” Trump continued. “He said: ‘Uh what’s Philadelphia? Where is it?’ He didn’t know what state he was in!” the president said, completely inventing the incident and a quote to go with it. Biden said no such thing and knows Philadelphia better than Trump, being a Pennsylvania native himself. Not surprisingly, the MAGA crowd ate up the misinformation with relish.
“Other than that he’s doing a wonderful job,” Trump went on. “Could you imagine? Could you imagine losing to this guy? Could you imagine? Our First Lady will have to say: ‘Darling I don’t know… This is impossible.'”
Thankfully, Trump is about to find out exactly what it feels like to lose to a guy like Joe Biden. That is to say, he’s about to find out what it feels like to lose to a man who is his moral and intellectual superior, a man actually capable of compassion, a man with a soul.
This story is completely made up. Trump has resorted to total fabrications to attack Biden. pic.twitter.com/TUn84KreuW — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 29, 2020
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-29--“Never gonna lock down again” — Trump panders to maskless supporters at packed Tampa rally

With Joe Biden narrowly ahead of Donald Trump in most polling in the swing state of Florida , the president brought his COVID superspreader tour to Tampa today to endanger the lives of his supporters in the state .
A mostly maskless crowd — packed in like sardines in an epidemiologist ’ s worst nightmare — was treated to an opening act of the First Lady Melania Trump shilling for her soon-to-be-unemployed husband by repeating his loathsome lies .
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While Florida had seen a reprieve in new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July , in the past two weeks the coronavirus has resurged with a 47 % increase in new cases during the past two weeks .
Don ’ t expect that number to drop after the president ’ s reckless campaign strategy .
Somehow the blatant rejection of the recommendations of the CDC and other medical experts on how to protect people from contracting COVID was completely incongruent with the words being uttered by the first lady and the later the president himself .
The denialism of science-backed lockdowns as an effective solution to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hardly indicates a focus on “ destroying the virus and building back the economy ” as Melania Trump claims her husband is doing .
The stock market gyrations of the past few days indicate that even Wall Street is realizing that without effective measures to control the spread of COVID , the American economy is unlikely to recover quickly .
How many of the people in the picture below will soon be the proud possessors of a pre-existing condition that the Trump administration is actively fighting to remove guaranteed coverage for in its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Trump ’ s malicious ignorance of the scope and nature of a disease that he himself fell prey to was evident in his gross misestimation of the number of fatalities that the coronavirus has caused in this country .
Trump ’ s extreme narcissism only allows him to see the pandemic in terms of how it affects his own political future , judging from these remarks that exhibit a paranoia verging on criminal insanity given the death toll associated with his inaction against the plague .
Trump ’ s apparent adoption of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confront the pandemic — whether he chooses to call his failure to promote and execute the very measures that government scientists recommend by that term or not — amounts to a death sentence for thousands of Americans who could have avoided contracting COVID if the administration had acted quickly and sensibly at the beginning of the outbreak rather than viewing the entire crisis from the partisan perspective they chose instead .
America can not afford to continue to let this president destroy our nation and its citizens ’ health .
Get to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Republican party out of office before it ’ s too late .
President Biden will implement a national plan to fight the disease and a Democratic Congress will pass a stimulus bill that will help ordinary Americans rather than just serve to further enrich wealthy corporate interests .
It may be too late for those Trump supporters who have risked their health by attending the president ’ s desperate last-minute rallies , but it ’ s the only way to ensure that our country combats the pandemic and gets back on the right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to hear what YOU have to say .
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With Joe Biden narrowly ahead of Donald Trump in most polling in the swing state of Florida, the president brought his COVID superspreader tour to Tampa today to endanger the lives of his supporters in the state.
A mostly maskless crowd — packed in like sardines in an epidemiologist’s worst nightmare — was treated to an opening act of the First Lady Melania Trump shilling for her soon-to-be-unemployed husband by repeating his loathsome lies.
it's insane to hold packed rallies like this during a pandemic pic.twitter.com/8zf69aKC1W — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 29, 2020
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While Florida had seen a reprieve in new COVID-19 cases after a massive peak in July, in the past two weeks the coronavirus has resurged with a 47% increase in new cases during the past two weeks. Don’t expect that number to drop after the president’s reckless campaign strategy.
Somehow the blatant rejection of the recommendations of the CDC and other medical experts on how to protect people from contracting COVID was completely incongruent with the words being uttered by the first lady and the later the president himself.
"We're never gonna lock down again" — Again I ask you: if Trump was intentionally trying to infect as many Americans as possible with coronavirus, how could we tell the difference? pic.twitter.com/3WzJgrvqW4 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 29, 2020
The denialism of science-backed lockdowns as an effective solution to help reduce the spread of the virus hardly indicates a focus on “destroying the virus and building back the economy” as Melania Trump claims her husband is doing.
The stock market gyrations of the past few days indicate that even Wall Street is realizing that without effective measures to control the spread of COVID, the American economy is unlikely to recover quickly.
How many of the people in the picture below will soon be the proud possessors of a pre-existing condition that the Trump administration is actively fighting to remove guaranteed coverage for in its attempts to repeal Obamacare in the courts?
Trump’s malicious ignorance of the scope and nature of a disease that he himself fell prey to was evident in his gross misestimation of the number of fatalities that the coronavirus has caused in this country.
As someone sprays water into the air, Trump says, "are they friend or foe? … let's find out if they're friend or foe, and if they're foe, let's take care of those son of a bitches." pic.twitter.com/jnXvXS2sE0 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 29, 2020
Trump’s extreme narcissism only allows him to see the pandemic in terms of how it affects his own political future, judging from these remarks that exhibit a paranoia verging on criminal insanity given the death toll associated with his inaction against the plague.
"You know the bottom line, though? You're gonna get better" — Trump's closing message is submission to the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/L1FS06SJMV — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 29, 2020
Trump’s apparent adoption of herd immunity as his only strategy to confront the pandemic — whether he chooses to call his failure to promote and execute the very measures that government scientists recommend by that term or not — amounts to a death sentence for thousands of Americans who could have avoided contracting COVID if the administration had acted quickly and sensibly at the beginning of the outbreak rather than viewing the entire crisis from the partisan perspective they chose instead.
America cannot afford to continue to let this president destroy our nation and its citizens’ health.
Get to the polls and vote Donald Trump and the Republican party out of office before it’s too late.
President Biden will implement a national plan to fight the disease and a Democratic Congress will pass a stimulus bill that will help ordinary Americans rather than just serve to further enrich wealthy corporate interests.
It may be too late for those Trump supporters who have risked their health by attending the president’s desperate last-minute rallies, but it’s the only way to ensure that our country combats the pandemic and gets back on the right track in every way.
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-29--Two white supremacist militia leaders arrested after terrorizing couple

The FBI may be delaying the release of a report stating that white supremacists are the greatest terrorist threat facing our nation —possibly due to political pressure from the White House — but that hasn ’ t stopped them from arresting two Michigan men who are leaders of a violent racist hate group called The Base .
25-year-old Justen Watkins and 35-year-old Alfred Gorman were both apprehended by the FBI this week in separate raids and charged with intimidating and terrorizing a local couple in Dexter , Michigan late last year .
The arrests come just a few weeks after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other right-wing terrorists belonging to a group called the Wolverine Watchmen to attempt an assassination of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer ( D ) .
Watkins and Gorman targeted the couple because they mistakenly believed that the address that they lived at belonged to a man who hosted an Antifa podcast .
A new online publication , The Informant , described the moment when Dawn and Rich Shea realized that they had been targeted by members of The Base in a case of mistaken identity : “ Dawn Shea was home at night , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saw a flicker of light outside.
” “ She and her husband , Rich , had just brought their one-day-old baby home from the hospital and were settling in for what they hoped would be a quiet night in Dexter , Michigan , a placid city of 4,000 just northwest of Ann Arbor.
” “ Dawn asked Rich to go see what it might be.
” “ Rich went to look outside.
” “ In the darkness , he saw two young men in front of their house , both dressed in black @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was wearing a mask with a white skull printed on the front.
” “ The man in the skull mask stepped onto the porch .
The other stood in front of the house taking photos .
His camera flashed.
” “ The Sheas called law enforcement for help , but the men were long gone by the time someone arrived a half hour later .
The Sheas were told that there wasn ’ t much that could be done but that they should call again if the men returned.
” “ What neither @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time was that the mysterious visitors were part of an international neo-Nazi group known as The Base .
It ’ s an organization that advocates terrorism and mass murder as a means to bring about the collapse of modern civilization and the eventual creation of an all-white ethnostate , ” Nick R. Martin writes in The Informant .
The two men arrested by the FBI are alleged to have shared the address of the Sheas on the online bulletin boards frequented by the members of The Base and encouraging the harassment of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to tell Democrats to EXPAND THE COURT in 2021 !
The felony charges against them — including membership in a gang , using a computer to commit a crime , and unlawful posting of a message — were filed in Washtenaw County District Court .
They are currently incarcerated in the Washtenaw County Jail pending arraignment .
Nessel said that the aim of the armed militia group The Base was “ to establish White ethnonationalist rule in areas of the U.S. , including Michigan ’ s Upper Peninsula.
” “ The group also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , at one point requiring its members to read neo-Nazi books that urge the collapse of Western civilization , ” Nessel ’ s office said in a statement .
According to Jon Lewis , a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University , members of the militant group have been arrested in several other incidents this year so far .
The Detroit News reports that six other members of the group have been arrested in separate incidents in Georgia , Maryland , and Delaware , including in a plot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group .
The necessity of exposing and counteracting the activities of armed racist hate groups like The Base is one of the consequences of the election of Donald Trump , a president who has somehow enabled these groups to emerge from the shadows and feel emboldened to openly promote their repulsive agenda .
Only a massive repudiation of Donald Trump at the ballot box next week can signal that this type of hatred and divisiveness is no longer deemed acceptable in American society .
Get out and vote for Joe Biden and Kamala @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ve missed for the past four years .
Only a Biden victory will truly make America great again .
Original reporting by Robert Snell and Beth LeBlanc at The Detroit News and by Nick R. Martin at The Informant .
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The FBI may be delaying the release of a report stating that white supremacists are the greatest terrorist threat facing our nation —possibly due to political pressure from the White House — but that hasn’t stopped them from arresting two Michigan men who are leaders of a violent racist hate group called The Base.
25-year-old Justen Watkins and 35-year-old Alfred Gorman were both apprehended by the FBI this week in separate raids and charged with intimidating and terrorizing a local couple in Dexter, Michigan late last year.
The arrests come just a few weeks after the bureau broke up a plot by other right-wing terrorists belonging to a group called the Wolverine Watchmen to attempt an assassination of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D).
Watkins and Gorman targeted the couple because they mistakenly believed that the address that they lived at belonged to a man who hosted an Antifa podcast.
A new online publication, The Informant, described the moment when Dawn and Rich Shea realized that they had been targeted by members of The Base in a case of mistaken identity:
“Dawn Shea was home at night, nursing her newborn, when she first saw a flicker of light outside.” “She and her husband, Rich, had just brought their one-day-old baby home from the hospital and were settling in for what they hoped would be a quiet night in Dexter, Michigan, a placid city of 4,000 just northwest of Ann Arbor.” “A moment passed.” “The light outside flickered again.” “Dawn asked Rich to go see what it might be.” “Rich went to look outside.” “In the darkness, he saw two young men in front of their house, both dressed in black. At least one of the men was wearing a mask with a white skull printed on the front.” “The man in the skull mask stepped onto the porch. The other stood in front of the house taking photos. His camera flashed.” “The Sheas called law enforcement for help, but the men were long gone by the time someone arrived a half hour later. The Sheas were told that there wasn’t much that could be done but that they should call again if the men returned.” “What neither the Sheas nor law enforcement knew at the time was that the mysterious visitors were part of an international neo-Nazi group known as The Base. It’s an organization that advocates terrorism and mass murder as a means to bring about the collapse of modern civilization and the eventual creation of an all-white ethnostate,” Nick R. Martin writes in The Informant.
The two men arrested by the FBI are alleged to have shared the address of the Sheas on the online bulletin boards frequented by the members of The Base and encouraging the harassment of the innocent couple.
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The felony charges against them — including membership in a gang, using a computer to commit a crime, and unlawful posting of a message — were filed in Washtenaw County District Court. They are currently incarcerated in the Washtenaw County Jail pending arraignment.
“Using tactics of intimidation to incite fear and violence constitutes criminal behavior,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said. “We cannot allow dangerous activities to reach their goal of inflicting violence and harm on the public. I am proud to work alongside law enforcement agencies at the local, state and federal levels to safeguard the public’s safety from these serious threats.”
Nessel said that the aim of the armed militia group The Base was “to establish White ethnonationalist rule in areas of the U.S., including Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.”
“The group also traffics in Nazi ideology and extreme anti-Semitism, at one point requiring its members to read neo-Nazi books that urge the collapse of Western civilization,” Nessel’s office said in a statement.
According to Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, members of the militant group have been arrested in several other incidents this year so far.
The Detroit News reports that six other members of the group have been arrested in separate incidents in Georgia, Maryland, and Delaware, including in a plot to kill members of a militant anti-fascist group.
“While law enforcement has really denigrated their ability to commit acts of domestic terror, these arrests still show a significant threat to the homeland,” Lewis explained. “Members are alleged to have engaged in firearms training at camps similar to what we saw in the Whitmer kidnapping case,” he continued. “These guys want societal collapse. They don’t just want to target government folks,” Lewis said. “They want the race war.”
The necessity of exposing and counteracting the activities of armed racist hate groups like The Base is one of the consequences of the election of Donald Trump, a president who has somehow enabled these groups to emerge from the shadows and feel emboldened to openly promote their repulsive agenda.
Only a massive repudiation of Donald Trump at the ballot box next week can signal that this type of hatred and divisiveness is no longer deemed acceptable in American society.
Get out and vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to get back the America we’ve missed for the past four years. Only a Biden victory will truly make America great again.
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Original reporting by Robert Snell and Beth LeBlanc at The Detroit News and by Nick R. Martin at The Informant.
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-29--Terror in Michigan! FBI arrests two members of white supremacist group in terror charges


occupydemocrats--2020-10-29--Tucker Carlson ludicrously claims someone stole his package full of Biden evidence

The Republican Party ’ s efforts to weaken Joe Biden ’ s presidential campaign by smearing his son Hunter have officially hit rock bottom .
For weeks Trump , the GOP , and the right-wing media machine have been churning out vague allegations that Hunter was involved in some kind of shady deals in Ukraine and China , implying and sometimes outright alleging that the former vice president himself had a hand in these supposed corrupt dealings .
Details on the supposed improprieties have been scarce and constantly shifting but most of the conspiracies center around a laptop that Rudy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and which supposedly contains text messages and files which expose the alleged dealings .
Yesterday , the former New York Mayor turned Trump lackey went on Fox News and also claimed without a shred of evidence that Hunter had photographs of underage girls on his laptop .
Fox host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery pushed back on the wild accusation , causing Giuliani to have a meltdown on air and demand an apology .
This coordinated and deeply pathetic attempt to salvage Trump ’ s flagging reelection campaign reached its nadir last night during Tucker @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claimed that one of his producers mailed some trove of “ documents ” related to the Hunter story to him but that they never arrived .
With a completely straight face , Carlson stated that the company which shipped the package discovered that it had been opened and that the contents had “ disappeared.
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According to Carlson , the unnamed shipping company began an extensive search for the “ documents , ” and interviewed “ every one of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contact with the package but “ they found nothing.
” Carlson tied up the segment by saying that both he and the company was “ baffled and deeply bothered ” by the incident .
The clip quickly went viral with viewers unloading a bevy of mockery and incredulous questions .
Why did Carlson ’ s producer not scan the documents and send them digitally ?
If these materials were so important , why didn ’ t they make copies before putting them in the mail ?
If they really did disappear , why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on to explain what was contained in them ?
The entire thing has a similar feel to a lazy student telling his teacher that his dog ate his homework .
Clearly , Carlson was trying to imply that sinister forces working in the interests of Joe Biden conducted a covert operation to locate and extract the damning documents .
If that sounds like a subplot from some bad knockoff Tom Clancy novel , it ’ s because that ’ s how low the bar of Republican credulity has become under Trump .
Since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hunter allegations , conservative lie mongers like Carlson are reduced to claiming they had their hands on bombshell evidence only for it to slip through their fingers .
According to The Daily Beast , UPS was the company responsible for shipping the package and they have since located it and will be handing it over to Carlson .
It ’ s anyone ’ s guess what it actually contains .
A safe bet would be that the documents amount to nothing but that Carlson will breathlessly claim that they prove sprawling corruption within @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
He and his compatriots have already been claiming as much without evidence for weeks .
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The Republican Party’s efforts to weaken Joe Biden’s presidential campaign by smearing his son Hunter have officially hit rock bottom. For weeks Trump, the GOP, and the right-wing media machine have been churning out vague allegations that Hunter was involved in some kind of shady deals in Ukraine and China, implying and sometimes outright alleging that the former vice president himself had a hand in these supposed corrupt dealings.
Details on the supposed improprieties have been scarce and constantly shifting but most of the conspiracies center around a laptop that Rudy Giuliani claims used to belong to Hunter and which supposedly contains text messages and files which expose the alleged dealings.
Yesterday, the former New York Mayor turned Trump lackey went on Fox News and also claimed without a shred of evidence that Hunter had photographs of underage girls on his laptop. Fox host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery pushed back on the wild accusation, causing Giuliani to have a meltdown on air and demand an apology.
This coordinated and deeply pathetic attempt to salvage Trump’s flagging reelection campaign reached its nadir last night during Tucker Carlson Tonight. The reliably pro-Trump Carlson claimed that one of his producers mailed some trove of “documents” related to the Hunter story to him but that they never arrived. With a completely straight face, Carlson stated that the company which shipped the package discovered that it had been opened and that the contents had “disappeared.”
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According to Carlson, the unnamed shipping company began an extensive search for the “documents,” and interviewed “every one of its employees” who would have come into contact with the package but “they found nothing.” Carlson tied up the segment by saying that both he and the company was “baffled and deeply bothered” by the incident.
The clip quickly went viral with viewers unloading a bevy of mockery and incredulous questions. Why did Carlson’s producer not scan the documents and send them digitally? If these materials were so important, why didn’t they make copies before putting them in the mail? If they really did disappear, why didn’t Carlson bring his producer on to explain what was contained in them? The entire thing has a similar feel to a lazy student telling his teacher that his dog ate his homework.
Clearly, Carlson was trying to imply that sinister forces working in the interests of Joe Biden conducted a covert operation to locate and extract the damning documents. If that sounds like a subplot from some bad knockoff Tom Clancy novel, it’s because that’s how low the bar of Republican credulity has become under Trump. Since there is no real substance to the Hunter allegations, conservative lie mongers like Carlson are reduced to claiming they had their hands on bombshell evidence only for it to slip through their fingers.
Tucker is claiming that his super-secret, extremely damming trove of documents about Hunter Biden was stolen while in the mail. pic.twitter.com/QGl4xS1SJD — nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) October 29, 2020
According to The Daily Beast, UPS was the company responsible for shipping the package and they have since located it and will be handing it over to Carlson. It’s anyone’s guess what it actually contains. A safe bet would be that the documents amount to nothing but that Carlson will breathlessly claim that they prove sprawling corruption within the Biden family. But who cares? He and his compatriots have already been claiming as much without evidence for weeks.
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-29--FOX News and Republicans lose their minds after Ocasio-Cortez appears on Vanity Fair cover

Democratic rising star and right-wing boogeywoman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again sent conservative social media circles into a frenzy of frothing rage , this time for appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine wearing — shock , horror — fancy clothing !
“ AOC appears in Vanity Fair in outfits worth $ 14,000 to curse Trump out !
screamed a FOX News headline , disgracefully pulling out all the stops to milk every last hate-click they possibly can from their deranged readers .
The writers at FOX News and every other right-wing talking head who seized on this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in photoshoots belong to the magazine , not to the subject of the shoot , but why bother with a little thing like facts when you have a psychosexual axe to grind ?
Now that the Republican Party has gone all-in on culture war grievance politics , conservatives know that the vision of economic equality and labor empowerment represent a serious existential threat to their hold over the white working class — especially when they shine a light on the hypocrisy and exploitation of the Republican elites , like Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same people saying that we can ’ t have tuition-free public colleges because there ’ s no money , when these motherf*ckers are only paying $ 750 a year in taxes !
” vented the New York Congresswoman to Vanity Fair .
To keep people from listening to and digesting these ideas , the right-wing propaganda arm works overtime to delegitimize , demonize , and disparage the messengers , which is why we have to go through this absurd and extremely trite cycle of screaming gotcha !
hypocrisy every time Ocasio-Cortez does anything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to EXPAND THE COURT in 2021 !
Since she ’ s a s-s-s-s-s-s-sOcIalisT , then naturally means she should be forced to wear a barrel with suspenders , disavow all worldly enjoyment and comfort , and live like a Franciscan monk , because that is how “ socialism ” works in the absurd fantasies of right-wingers devoted to a monstrously exploitative version of capitalism in which all resources and wealth are funneled up to the hands of an elite oligarchy .
By screaming constantly about AOC ’ s fancy clothes , there ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to think about how Donald Trump has paid barely any taxes , simply had a $ 250 million loan “ forgiven , ” funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into his pockets as President , and has spent his entire career screwing over and stiffing everyone who ever worked for him .
Actual lefties on Twitter quickly jumped to her defense and skewered the chuds for their ridiculous complaints :

Democratic rising star and right-wing boogeywoman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again sent conservative social media circles into a frenzy of frothing rage, this time for appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine wearing — shock, horror — fancy clothing!
“AOC appears in Vanity Fair in outfits worth $14,000 to curse Trump out! screamed a FOX News headline, disgracefully pulling out all the stops to milk every last hate-click they possibly can from their deranged readers. The writers at FOX News and every other right-wing talking head who seized on this know full well that the clothes used in photoshoots belong to the magazine, not to the subject of the shoot, but why bother with a little thing like facts when you have a psychosexual axe to grind?
Now that the Republican Party has gone all-in on culture war grievance politics, conservatives know that the vision of economic equality and labor empowerment represent a serious existential threat to their hold over the white working class — especially when they shine a light on the hypocrisy and exploitation of the Republican elites, like Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did in her interview.
“These are the same people saying that we can’t have tuition-free public colleges because there’s no money, when these motherf*ckers are only paying $750 a year in taxes!” vented the New York Congresswoman to Vanity Fair.
To keep people from listening to and digesting these ideas, the right-wing propaganda arm works overtime to delegitimize, demonize, and disparage the messengers, which is why we have to go through this absurd and extremely trite cycle of screaming gotcha! hypocrisy every time Ocasio-Cortez does anything.
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Since she’s a s-s-s-s-s-s-sOcIalisT, then naturally means she should be forced to wear a barrel with suspenders, disavow all worldly enjoyment and comfort, and live like a Franciscan monk, because that is how “socialism” works in the absurd fantasies of right-wingers devoted to a monstrously exploitative version of capitalism in which all resources and wealth are funneled up to the hands of an elite oligarchy.
Only a socialist can pose in $14,000 clothes during a pandemic, advocate for policies that will force people to pay more of their hard earned money in taxes and not realize they’re dressed in the clothes of hypocrisy. AOC is like every socialist leader, destructive & greedy. pic.twitter.com/66yGjzpXvI — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 29, 2020
By screaming constantly about AOC’s fancy clothes, there’s too much noise for their followers to think about how Donald Trump has paid barely any taxes, simply had a $250 million loan “forgiven,” funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into his pockets as President, and has spent his entire career screwing over and stiffing everyone who ever worked for him.
Actual lefties on Twitter quickly jumped to her defense and skewered the chuds for their ridiculous complaints:
socialism is when Vanity Fair asks you to do a photo shoot and you show up covered in poop and they offer to wash it off and you say no i demand that you leave me in the poop https://t.co/XheUpgfOyt — Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) October 29, 2020
this is how I think AOC should have showed up to the vanity fair photoshoot because I have very smart politics brain pic.twitter.com/XCrFImIsGH — Bris Angel (@Cryptoterra) October 29, 2020
Wrapping myself in 20 yards of linen, as marx prescribed https://t.co/92caB3Zjwm — Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) October 29, 2020
Uhhhhh, apparently this is where AOC works? This doesn’t look very socialist to me pic.twitter.com/6xFC3oG2qR — Vaush (@VaushV) October 29, 2020
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-30--New rally video of Trump kissing “Melania” sparks body double rumors on social media

One of the more amusing and harmless conspiracy theories to emerge from the Trump era is that of the “ fake Melania.
” Every few months , a new video emerges on social media that spark a firestorm of discussions as to whether or not the President hires body doubles to portray his wife , Melania Trump , at various public events , based on the fairly credible theory that Melania Trump despises her husband and wants no part in enabling his re-election .
A new video of Trump and his “ wife ” embracing each other and kissing at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wagging yet again , as Melania Trump is notoriously averse to showing any affection to her husband in public .
Social media users also decided that the woman ’ s face was different from Melania ’ s and that she was using her sunglasses to hide that she was a body double .
The president ’ s relationship with his wife Melania is infamous for being rather on the frosty side of things — unsurprisingly so , considering the way that his rampant infidelity led to a hush-money payment to a porn star @ @ @ @ @ @ @ personal lawyer Michael Cohen to prison .
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While it ’ s probably not a body double , given Donald Trump ’ s performance as President , his long history of infidelity , and the many sexual harassment and assaults allegations against him — some of which allegedly occurred while Melania was in the house — can you blame her for not wanting to schlep around the campaign trail with him ?
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One of the more amusing and harmless conspiracy theories to emerge from the Trump era is that of the “fake Melania.”
Every few months, a new video emerges on social media that spark a firestorm of discussions as to whether or not the President hires body doubles to portray his wife, Melania Trump, at various public events, based on the fairly credible theory that Melania Trump despises her husband and wants no part in enabling his re-election.
A new video of Trump and his “wife” embracing each other and kissing at today’s rally has set tongues wagging yet again, as Melania Trump is notoriously averse to showing any affection to her husband in public. Social media users also decided that the woman’s face was different from Melania’s and that she was using her sunglasses to hide that she was a body double.
The real Melania won’t even hold his hand. pic.twitter.com/sOSBz6SGBy — Dana Goldberg (@DGComedy) October 30, 2020
What do you see? pic.twitter.com/J6g95c3uqq — Mystery Solvent (@MysterySolvent) October 30, 2020
The president’s relationship with his wife Melania is infamous for being rather on the frosty side of things — unsurprisingly so, considering the way that his rampant infidelity led to a hush-money payment to a porn star and a criminal investigation that sent his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to prison.
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While it’s probably not a body double, given Donald Trump’s performance as President, his long history of infidelity, and the many sexual harassment and assaults allegations against him — some of which allegedly occurred while Melania was in the house — can you blame her for not wanting to schlep around the campaign trail with him?
Twitter users were convinced:
https://twitter.com/Kno/status/1322266903272845313?s=20
full truther on the melania double theory now. i don’t care anymore. this is all i have https://t.co/5sWtPxG9oi — matt (@Lubchansky) October 30, 2020
That’s WHY SHE IS WEARING GLASSES
It covers those eyes and more
Because it NOT @FLOTUS https://t.co/ixXJdVmK6U — Nurses Riden with Biden/Harris (@realkochsister) October 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/crissles/status/1322266371170934784?s=20
For the record, I had Trump kissing a fake Melania at a super-spreader rally on my 2020 bingo card. pic.twitter.com/F3ALR3KihY — Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) October 30, 2020
Wow. They negotiated some affection into Fake Melania’s stunt double contract. pic.twitter.com/dB2PDsM7Rl — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 30, 2020
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-30--Trump gleefully mocks Kamala’s name in racist rally speech

Trump has run out of strategies .
The Republicans ’ last-ditch effort to win the election by smearing Hunter Biden has failed and so the president has decided to return to the one thing he knows best : racism .
Several times this week he has attacked President Obama by overenunciating his full name , saying “ Barack Hussein Obama ” in a blatant attempt to otherize the first Black president by emphasizing his Arabic middle name .
In doing so he has made it painfully clear that he thinks his base is full of racists .
Which it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the bigoted well , this time taking aim at Joe Biden ’ s soon-to-be vice president , Kamala Harris .
He pretended as if her first name is difficult to pronounce , gleefully tapping into the biases of his crowd by pronouncing it as if it were the moniker of some extraterrestrial .
“ Kamala .
You have to pronounce it exactly right otherwise she gets very upset even though she can ’ t pronounce it right .
You saw that the other day , ” said Trump to rapturous applause from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no benign interpretation of this kind of rhetorical strategy .
There is no reason to draw attention to Senator Harris ’ s first name beyond pointing out that it doesn ’ t sound Anglo-Saxon .
It must be noted that this is a particularly pernicious form of racism because it provides Trump with plausible deniability .
We all know why he ’ s pointing out her name but if he is accused of racism he can downplay what he was actually doing .
There is no excuse for this behavior and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t racist after watching this clip is either lying to you or willfully ignorant .
Blatant racism wasn ’ t the end of his speech though because Trump also decided to engage in anti-doctor rhetoric because apparently , 220,000 dead Americans isn ’ t enough for this man .

Trump has run out of strategies. The Republicans’ last-ditch effort to win the election by smearing Hunter Biden has failed and so the president has decided to return to the one thing he knows best: racism.
Several times this week he has attacked President Obama by overenunciating his full name, saying “Barack Hussein Obama” in a blatant attempt to otherize the first Black president by emphasizing his Arabic middle name. In doing so he has made it painfully clear that he thinks his base is full of racists. Which it is.
Today, Trump once again drew from the bigoted well, this time taking aim at Joe Biden’s soon-to-be vice president, Kamala Harris. He pretended as if her first name is difficult to pronounce, gleefully tapping into the biases of his crowd by pronouncing it as if it were the moniker of some extraterrestrial.
“Kamala. You have to pronounce it exactly right otherwise she gets very upset even though she can’t pronounce it right. You saw that the other day,” said Trump to rapturous applause from his crowd. P
Plainly put, there is no benign interpretation of this kind of rhetorical strategy. There is no reason to draw attention to Senator Harris’s first name beyond pointing out that it doesn’t sound Anglo-Saxon.
It must be noted that this is a particularly pernicious form of racism because it provides Trump with plausible deniability. We all know why he’s pointing out her name but if he is accused of racism he can downplay what he was actually doing. There is no excuse for this behavior and anyone who tells you Trump isn’t racist after watching this clip is either lying to you or willfully ignorant.
Trump claims that Kamala Harris can’t pronounce her own name correctly pic.twitter.com/yndPLxQxLU — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 30, 2020
Blatant racism wasn’t the end of his speech though because Trump also decided to engage in anti-doctor rhetoric because apparently, 220,000 dead Americans isn’t enough for this man.
"You know, everything is Covid Covid Covid. You know that. You turn on the news, Covid Covid Covid Covid Covid. And you know, cases are up. Why are cases up? Because we test more than anyone in history" – Trump still hasn't figured out that coronavirus testing doesn't cause cases pic.twitter.com/nZuXUX4oi1 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 30, 2020
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-30--Trump issues bizarre, callous birthday message to his daughter Ivanka

President Trump ’ s disinterest in his children is legendary at this point in his presidency .
In four years , he has barely acknowledged the existence of his son Barron , nor has he publicly appreciated the frenzied and desperate enthusiasm which his son Donald Trump Jr. defends him on social media .
You wouldn ’ t have known that Tiffany Trump exists if it weren ’ t for her appearance at the 2020 RNC in a desperate attempt to get back on the Trump gravy train .
Ivanka Trump is the only one of his children who he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a fondness which he expresses with extremely creepy and wildly inappropriate remarks about her physical appearance .
His bizarre relationship with his kids was put on full display on Friday when he issued a stunningly callous and garbled “ happy birthday ” message to his daughter Ivanka .
“ Happy Birthday to our wonderful Ivanka .
Now go back to work !
November 3rd ” tweeted the president .
Nothing could encapsulate the transactional nature of the relationship between Donald Trump and his children more than this tweet , in which he shows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are treated to yet more evidence that Donald Trump is incapable of seeing any person as anything greater than their utility to him as he tells his daughter to “ get back to work !
” so that he might be re-elected and he might continue to hold power .
Donald Trump ’ s callousness to his kids goes back years .
He reportedly did not want to name his first son after himself in case he turned out to be a “ loser , ” and took pride in his refusal to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are certain things you do and certain things you don ’ t…It ’ s just not for me ” he said when asked if he ever changed diapers .
But even when they shed the diapers , Donald couldn ’ t be bothered to spend time with them .
“ He wasn ’ t really interested in the children until he could talk business with them…when they turned 21 , I handed them over to him and said , ‘ Here ’ s the finished product .
You can take them from here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of his alleged sex assault victims , Ivana Trump .
Then there is the awful story about how Donald Trump once slapped his son in the face for daring to wear a baseball jersey to a baseball game and about how Trump likes to joke that his idiot sons “ were in the back of the room when God was handing out brains.
” Guess he doesn ’ t like Ivanka that much either !

President Trump’s disinterest in his children is legendary at this point in his presidency. In four years, he has barely acknowledged the existence of his son Barron, nor has he publicly appreciated the frenzied and desperate enthusiasm which his son Donald Trump Jr. defends him on social media. You wouldn’t have known that Tiffany Trump exists if it weren’t for her appearance at the 2020 RNC in a desperate attempt to get back on the Trump gravy train. Ivanka Trump is the only one of his children who he actually seems to “like,” a fondness which he expresses with extremely creepy and wildly inappropriate remarks about her physical appearance.
His bizarre relationship with his kids was put on full display on Friday when he issued a stunningly callous and garbled “happy birthday” message to his daughter Ivanka.
“Happy Birthday to our wonderful Ivanka. Now go back to work! November 3rd” tweeted the president.
Happy Birthday to our wonderful Ivanka. Now go back to work! November 3rd. https://t.co/mQF1xHV3Qh — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2020
Nothing could encapsulate the transactional nature of the relationship between Donald Trump and his children more than this tweet, in which he shows no sincere affection. Instead, we are treated to yet more evidence that Donald Trump is incapable of seeing any person as anything greater than their utility to him as he tells his daughter to “get back to work!” so that he might be re-elected and he might continue to hold power.
Donald Trump’s callousness to his kids goes back years. He reportedly did not want to name his first son after himself in case he turned out to be a “loser,” and took pride in his refusal to interact with his kids. “There are certain things you do and certain things you don’t…It’s just not for me” he said when asked if he ever changed diapers.
But even when they shed the diapers, Donald couldn’t be bothered to spend time with them. “He wasn’t really interested in the children until he could talk business with them…when they turned 21, I handed them over to him and said, ‘Here’s the finished product. You can take them from here” said his first wife and one of his alleged sex assault victims, Ivana Trump.
Then there is the awful story about how Donald Trump once slapped his son in the face for daring to wear a baseball jersey to a baseball game and about how Trump likes to joke that his idiot sons “were in the back of the room when God was handing out brains.”
Guess he doesn’t like Ivanka that much either!
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-30--Trump openly muses about stealing the election in tweet attacking vote-counting

Donald Trump isn ’ t hoping for a legitimate election .
He knows that he ’ s lagging far behind Joe Biden in the polls and that he stands a strong likelihood of losing the presidency if every ballot is counted and the will of the American people enacted .
It ’ s why he ’ s been trying to smear mail-in voting for months , alleging that it leads to rampant voter fraud despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary .
This is a man who neither respects nor believes in American democracy .
Due to the already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spike in mail-in votes in response to the ongoing pandemic , there ’ s a nonzero chance that we won ’ t have a clear winner declared on election night and that it could take days or even weeks to count all of the ballots .
In such a scenario , under normal circumstances , this would be cause for annoyance but not concern .
The correct solution would be to simply continue counting votes until we have a full tally .
Unfortunately , the would-be authoritarian in the White House is already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporters this week , Trump claimed that it would be “ very , very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on November 3rd instead of counting ballots for two weeks.
” The implication here , of course , is that Trump thinks he might be ahead in the vote count the night of the election only to lose after more votes for Biden are tallied .
He went on to call counting the votes past the 3rd “ inappropriate ” and erroneously claimed that it might even be against the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pence stop endangering lives to campaign as the virus spreads through his inner circle !
It can not be stressed enough just how dangerous this kind of rhetoric is .
Trump is laying the groundwork for his followers to declare the election in his favor even if he loses so long as he achieves some kind of lead in the early ballot count .
Many of these supporters are heavily armed and hang on his every word , having long ago forsaken reality for the manufactured fantasy world peddled by their ignorant leader @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is opening the door to violence .
There ’ s also a distinct possibility that Trump will dispute the election and try to take it to the Supreme Court where , with its now incredibly conservative majority , it ’ s possible the will of the people might be annulled in favor of Republican minority rule .
Trump seems fixated on the idea and today he lashed out at the Supreme Court for making the decision that North Carolina should extend its acceptance of absentee ballots .
The incredibly tame ruling says that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ counted up to nine days after they ’ re received .
The president called it “ CRAZY ” and “ so bad for our Country.
” He asked if his followers can “ imagine what will happen during that nine day period , ” implying that some kind of ballot trickery will occur .
He ended with his nakedly partisan and utterly ridiculous claim that the election should be called on November 3rd , making it clear that he has no interest in the will of the American people .
That said , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if Biden manages to achieve a blowout victory .
The best strategy now is to hand him such an overwhelming win on election day that Trump has no choice but to accept it .
Vote and make sure everyone you know does as well .
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Scroll down and let us know in our NEW comment section !

Donald Trump isn’t hoping for a legitimate election. He knows that he’s lagging far behind Joe Biden in the polls and that he stands a strong likelihood of losing the presidency if every ballot is counted and the will of the American people enacted. It’s why he’s been trying to smear mail-in voting for months, alleging that it leads to rampant voter fraud despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary. This is a man who neither respects nor believes in American democracy.
Due to the already historic voter turnout this year and the spike in mail-in votes in response to the ongoing pandemic, there’s a nonzero chance that we won’t have a clear winner declared on election night and that it could take days or even weeks to count all of the ballots. In such a scenario, under normal circumstances, this would be cause for annoyance but not concern. The correct solution would be to simply continue counting votes until we have a full tally. Unfortunately, the would-be authoritarian in the White House is already attacking that basic idea.
Speaking to reporters this week, Trump claimed that it would be “very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on November 3rd instead of counting ballots for two weeks.” The implication here, of course, is that Trump thinks he might be ahead in the vote count the night of the election only to lose after more votes for Biden are tallied. He went on to call counting the votes past the 3rd “inappropriate” and erroneously claimed that it might even be against the law.
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It cannot be stressed enough just how dangerous this kind of rhetoric is. Trump is laying the groundwork for his followers to declare the election in his favor even if he loses so long as he achieves some kind of lead in the early ballot count. Many of these supporters are heavily armed and hang on his every word, having long ago forsaken reality for the manufactured fantasy world peddled by their ignorant leader. By talking like this the president is opening the door to violence.
There’s also a distinct possibility that Trump will dispute the election and try to take it to the Supreme Court where, with its now incredibly conservative majority, it’s possible the will of the people might be annulled in favor of Republican minority rule.
“It would be very, very proper and very nice if a winner were declared on Nov. 3, instead of counting ballots for two weeks, which is totally inappropriate, and I don’t believe that’s by our laws.” — Trump (In fact tallying all the ballots is consistent with the law.) pic.twitter.com/Dlj7DCiCT1 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 27, 2020
Trump seems fixated on the idea and today he lashed out at the Supreme Court for making the decision that North Carolina should extend its acceptance of absentee ballots. The incredibly tame ruling says that mail-in ballots are valid and must be counted up to nine days after they’re received. The president called it “CRAZY” and “so bad for our Country.” He asked if his followers can “imagine what will happen during that nine day period,” implying that some kind of ballot trickery will occur. He ended with his nakedly partisan and utterly ridiculous claim that the election should be called on November 3rd, making it clear that he has no interest in the will of the American people.
This decision is CRAZY and so bad for our Country. Can you imagine what will happen during that nine day period. The Election should END on November 3rd. https://t.co/Hkftv9Jp56 — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2020
That said, all of these concerns are moot points if Biden manages to achieve a blowout victory. The best strategy now is to hand him such an overwhelming win on election day that Trump has no choice but to accept it. Vote and make sure everyone you know does as well.
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occupydemocrats--2020-10-30--Ocasio-Cortez roasts seething Republicans criticizing her fancy clothes in Vanity Fair cover

Democratic rising star and right-wing boogeywoman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again sent conservative social media circles into a frenzy of frothing rage , this time for appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine wearing — shock , horror — fancy clothing !
“ AOC appears in Vanity Fair in outfits worth $ 14,000 to curse Trump out !
screamed a FOX News headline , disgracefully pulling out all the stops to milk every last hate-click they possibly can from their deranged readers .
The writers at FOX News and every other right-wing talking head who seized on this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in photoshoots belong to the magazine , not to the subject of the shoot , but why bother with a little thing like facts when you have a psychosexual axe to grind ?
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on Thursday night to respond to her critics and to give them a little bit of advice that everyone should follow : Now that the Republican Party has gone all-in on culture war grievance politics , conservatives know that the vision of economic equality and labor empowerment represent a serious existential threat to their hold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when they shine a light on the hypocrisy and exploitation of the Republican elites , like Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did in her interview .
“ These are the same people saying that we can ’ t have tuition-free public colleges because there ’ s no money , when these motherf*ckers are only paying $ 750 a year in taxes !
” vented the New York Congresswoman to Vanity Fair .
To keep people from listening to and digesting these ideas , the right-wing propaganda arm works overtime to delegitimize , demonize , and disparage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have to go through this absurd and extremely trite cycle of screaming gotcha !
hypocrisy every time Ocasio-Cortez does anything .
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Since she ’ s a s-s-s-s-s-s-sOcIalisT , then naturally means she should be forced to wear a barrel with suspenders , disavow all worldly enjoyment and comfort , and live like a Franciscan monk , because that is how “ socialism ” works in the absurd fantasies of right-wingers devoted to a monstrously exploitative version of capitalism in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the hands of an elite oligarchy .
By screaming constantly about AOC ’ s fancy clothes , there ’ s too much noise for their followers to think about how Donald Trump has paid barely any taxes , simply had a $ 250 million loan “ forgiven , ” funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into his pockets as President , and has spent his entire career screwing over and stiffing everyone who ever worked for him .
Actual lefties on Twitter quickly jumped to her defense and skewered the chuds for their @ @ @

Democratic rising star and right-wing boogeywoman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again sent conservative social media circles into a frenzy of frothing rage, this time for appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine wearing — shock, horror — fancy clothing!
“AOC appears in Vanity Fair in outfits worth $14,000 to curse Trump out! screamed a FOX News headline, disgracefully pulling out all the stops to milk every last hate-click they possibly can from their deranged readers. The writers at FOX News and every other right-wing talking head who seized on this know full well that the clothes used in photoshoots belong to the magazine, not to the subject of the shoot, but why bother with a little thing like facts when you have a psychosexual axe to grind?
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter on Thursday night to respond to her critics and to give them a little bit of advice that everyone should follow:
Republicans are Very Mad (again) about my appearance. This time they’re mad that I look good in borrowed clothes (again). Listen, if Republicans want pointers on looking your best, I’m happy to share. Tip #1: Drink water and don’t be racist — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 29, 2020
Now that the Republican Party has gone all-in on culture war grievance politics, conservatives know that the vision of economic equality and labor empowerment represent a serious existential threat to their hold over the white working class — especially when they shine a light on the hypocrisy and exploitation of the Republican elites, like Rep. Ocasio-Cortez did in her interview.
“These are the same people saying that we can’t have tuition-free public colleges because there’s no money, when these motherf*ckers are only paying $750 a year in taxes!” vented the New York Congresswoman to Vanity Fair.
To keep people from listening to and digesting these ideas, the right-wing propaganda arm works overtime to delegitimize, demonize, and disparage the messengers, which is why we have to go through this absurd and extremely trite cycle of screaming gotcha! hypocrisy every time Ocasio-Cortez does anything.
Add your name to tell Democrats to EXPAND THE COURT in 2021!
Since she’s a s-s-s-s-s-s-sOcIalisT, then naturally means she should be forced to wear a barrel with suspenders, disavow all worldly enjoyment and comfort, and live like a Franciscan monk, because that is how “socialism” works in the absurd fantasies of right-wingers devoted to a monstrously exploitative version of capitalism in which all resources and wealth are funneled up to the hands of an elite oligarchy.
Only a socialist can pose in $14,000 clothes during a pandemic, advocate for policies that will force people to pay more of their hard earned money in taxes and not realize they’re dressed in the clothes of hypocrisy. AOC is like every socialist leader, destructive & greedy. pic.twitter.com/66yGjzpXvI — Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 29, 2020
By screaming constantly about AOC’s fancy clothes, there’s too much noise for their followers to think about how Donald Trump has paid barely any taxes, simply had a $250 million loan “forgiven,” funneled millions of taxpayer dollars into his pockets as President, and has spent his entire career screwing over and stiffing everyone who ever worked for him.
Actual lefties on Twitter quickly jumped to her defense and skewered the chuds for their ridiculous complaints:
socialism is when Vanity Fair asks you to do a photo shoot and you show up covered in poop and they offer to wash it off and you say no i demand that you leave me in the poop https://t.co/XheUpgfOyt — Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) October 29, 2020
this is how I think AOC should have showed up to the vanity fair photoshoot because I have very smart politics brain pic.twitter.com/XCrFImIsGH — Bris Angel (@Cryptoterra) October 29, 2020
Wrapping myself in 20 yards of linen, as marx prescribed https://t.co/92caB3Zjwm — Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) October 29, 2020
Uhhhhh, apparently this is where AOC works? This doesn’t look very socialist to me pic.twitter.com/6xFC3oG2qR — Vaush (@VaushV) October 29, 2020
Colin Taylor Opinion columnist and former editor-in-chief of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America. Latest Posts