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07.01.2021, 21:15
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | Or there are the "anonymous sources" that has been used to print anything they want (often corroborated with other anonymous sources).
Examples of this include what the Atlantic printed President Trump is alleged to have said about the war dead or the example below about what James Comey was going to say during his testimony which also had to be retracted due to it being completely wrong. | | | | | Seems you may have a point | Quote: |  | | | An anonymous source in a story published by the conservative-leaning Washington Times. The story claimed that the source sent the newspaper facial recognition analysis from a tech company called XRVision, which purportedly matched pictures of rioters inside the Capitol to previous images of antifa supporters gathered in Philadelphia.
As of Thursday afternoon, the Times report had gone viral and was the 11th most popular link on the internet.
However, XRVision subsequently came out and denounced the story as completely false. The company told BuzzFeed News it has asked the Washington Times for a retraction and apology.
In a statement, XRVision said its facial recognition software had actually identified two neo-Nazis and a QAnon supporter | | | | | This also destroys the fact-free claims here of Antifa involvement.
Edit: Washington Times retracts an article claiming facial recognition company identified some Capitol rioters as Antifa.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | So we now have fascist Antifa. Really? Some people are just too stupid to pound sand without instructions.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got?
Ooohh, Well I never... | Quote: |  | | | Former Attorney General William Barr accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of a “betrayal of his office” — the latest rebuke of the president by a former high-ranking administration official after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
“Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable,” Barr said in a statement obtained by POLITICO. “The President’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters.” | | | | | | The following 3 users would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
07.01.2021, 21:39
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | So we now have fascist Antifa. Really? Some people are just too stupid to pound sand without instructions. | | | | | Ummm.....no. Not antifa/BLM
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | Ooohh, Well I never... | | | | | Of course, Barr is completely genuine is his critique, it has nothing to do with saving his career and nothing to do with the fact that Trump is a goner now.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | Ummm.....no. Not antifa/BLM | | | | | From that linked Forbes article. | Quote: |  | | | Wednesday evening, in an interview on Fox News, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said although "some" Trump supporters could have been involved in the violence, "there is some indication that fascist antifa elements were involved, that they embedded themselves in the Trump protests." | | | | | Mo Brooks? More like Mel Brooks.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | Of course, Barr is completely genuine is his critique, it has nothing to do with saving his career and nothing to do with the fact that Trump is a goner now. | | | | | Still, quite an impressive phase transition for many Republicans in just one day... Graham, Barr, Pence, many others went from complete compliance to practically declaring war.
I wonder if this is the result of reaching "critical mass" finally, or due to the fact that they got really scared yesterday, or that they realized that they lost the last bits of power by losing Georgia.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got?
The Simpsons has predicted Jan. 20, 2021, as doomsday...the day Civil War broke out in the US. | The following 2 users would like to thank olygirl for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | The Simpsons has predicted Jan. 20, 2021, as doomsday...the day Civil War broke out in the US.  | | | | | Fortunately, we don't live there, so who cares?
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | Fortunately, we don't live there, so who cares? 
Tom | | | | | I have family and friends in the States. I might even return one day in the future so yeah, I care a lot.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | I have family and friends in the States. I might even return one day in the future so yeah, I care a lot. | | | | | Same here.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | The Simpsons has predicted Jan. 20, 2021, as doomsday...the day Civil War broke out in the US.  | | | | |
Pffft. Amateurs. They got nothing on Arthur C. Clarke. We can only hope that the rest of Childhoods End comes true. Save us Karellen, save from ourselves. Please. Do it. Do it now.
"The Unidentified Flying Objects have asked not to publish that they are here, humanity is not ready yet," Haim Eshed, former head of Israel's Defense Ministry's space directorate https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weird-n...knows-n1250333 https://www.vice.com/da/article/dpkw...liens-are-real
Who knows what to believe nowadays.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | I have family and friends in the States. | | | | | As do I, but half are pro-Trump, and half anti-Trump, so best to stay out of it.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got?
but do you intend to ever go back?
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got?
Civil war in the US would sound the death knell of the Western empire
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | Yes, I know that, everything isn't black and white you know. You make it sound like I'm denying there was a protest yesterday I was writing in the context of the post I was replying to, in that this whole thing could have been avoided were there decent security in place in the first place. Those protestors wouldn't have gotten anywhere had they been dealt with robustly. As it was police didn't put much resistance up and in some cases let gave them access. | | | | | And in the real world | Quote: |  | | | One Capitol Police officer is in critical condition and 15 were hospitalized after up to 60 officers were injured after a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. | | | | | No doubt you will soon be claiming the police were hitting themselves on the head to help the rioters. | This user would like to thank marton for this useful post: | | 
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | Still, quite an impressive phase transition for many Republicans in just one day... Graham, Barr, Pence, many others went from complete compliance to practically declaring war.
I wonder if this is the result of reaching "critical mass" finally, or due to the fact that they got really scared yesterday, or that they realized that they lost the last bits of power by losing Georgia. | | | | | It's just a shame that it's taken them this long to finally begin to 'wake up.' It seems like they're finally beginning to realize that Trump is a threat to the power of their own party... Not to mention how delusional and manipulative he is. Maybe they were just too afraid to admit it before, while they were potentially facing four more years of him in office.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | Fortunately, we don't live there, so who cares? 
Tom | | | | | Did you mean, we don't live in the Simpsons universe?
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | As do I, but half are pro-Trump, and half anti-Trump, so best to stay out of it.
Tom | | | | | That, I get.
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| | Re: Trump or Biden .Who you got? | Quote: | |  | | | As do I, but half are pro-Trump, and half anti-Trump, so best to stay out of it.
Tom | | | | | There are only a few Trump-supporters in my family, and what they each lack in intelligence, they try to compensate for with their egos. They are all openly racist, think that America is superior to the rest of the world and have that "My pickup truck is bigger than yours, therefore I'm better than you" type of mentality.
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