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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 1h

I was wondering about this. I assumed those crews were part of some fly by night cowboy outfit thrown together by Trump’s buddies using rented equipment because no reputable firm with an existing public profile would want to be associated with destroying the White House.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 2h

This is aggressively incoherent. Kind of a subspecies of gaslighting.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 7h

It’s but a phase of a larger coup.

Cooked up in the fevered dual-brain of President Streussven Millvoughter.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 7h

His shock troops.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 7h

Weird idea of a terrorist.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 14h

He’s having a hissy over No Kings.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 14h

It’s either smoke because an unqualified crew caused an electrical fire.

Or toxic dust, again because proper work procedures weren’t being followed.

This is probably a fly-by-night crew because no reputable demolition company would want to be associated with wrecking an American heritage site.

Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 14h

That’s exactly what it is.

A thin-skinned baby-man who only understands destruction and revenge.

And a staff and cabinet full of substance-addled sociopaths and incompetents exploiting his obvious mental illness.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 16h

Would it kill the OP to identify this person?

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 16h

Not sure I buy the big bad Twitter corrupting poor innocent journalists framing. It ain’t Twitter. They choose to be this way. It’s why they hang out on Twitter.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 16h

Also I was being rhetorical. Everybody across the spectrum is expected to be evenhanded, which means knee jerk dismissal of anything that might look like a conspiracy theory. Even if it’s done in plain sight. Even if it was obviously a factor.

But you’re right about working the refs.

Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, I know the game, but I’m not asking about Ds. I’m asking about pundits on the left who shouldn’t care what Rs think.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 19h

“Spicy”??

Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 19h

I’m talking about suppression. Removing POCs from the rolls and other tricks, like misinformation and intimidation.

Electronics is another kettle of fish. I see why careerists don’t talk about that. Borderline tinfoil hat stuff. But if Musk had the means, what would stop him? His moral compass?

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 19h

www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/201...

What I figured out about America’s future from visiting Trump resorts throughout the world

I set out to look at the president, the promiser of luxury experiences, through the lens of travel writing.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 20h

Non-Nazis who remain have the power to turn Twitter into an irrelevant right wing weirdo garbage site. All they have to do is leave en masse.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 20h

Not rigged in the classic sense of messing with ballots, of course.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 21h

So why are public figures and pundits so reluctant to say the 2024 election was rigged? How many GOP majorities in purple states have done this? How many votes have been stolen?

Is it because it was done in plain sight? Is that why no one will talk about it?

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 21h

So why are public figures and pundits so reluctant to say the 2024 election was rigged? How many GOP majorities in purple states have done this? How many votes have been stolen?

Is it because it was done in plain sight? Is that why no one will talk about it?

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 1d

A two person race will make Cuomo’s humiliation even starker.

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Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 1d

All men of god of course.

Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 1d

Only four president have had true access to social media. Only three who are using it the way Trump does.

He’s not making much of a point. Even if you take his claim seriously.

Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 1d

Wait. Former?

Circumspectral @catpushmike.bsky.social · 1d

“Disordered thinking can also be associated with hallucinogen abuse, which, as I’ve said before, I think is a factor with Thiel (and Musk)”

Theory: A serious swath of prominent right wingers of a certain age, incl. people at the highest level of govt. are messed up on drugs. The signs are there

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