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(DIR) Post #AlEEIVd0Je0bQZoWae by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T14:57:33Z
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Fox host Jesse Waters and Comer are trying to spin up a smear on Walz. Here's what they've got: He we to China for teacher trips. He had his HONEYMOON there on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square! Waters very excitedly says that the Chinese government might have tapes of his honeymoon night!... chat GPT-ass idea of a scandal. Words are in the order of sentences used to describe scandals but that's it. Do any of you know people who this works on?
(DIR) Post #AlEEaSDzhyKQ5JfldA by CatDad@mas.to
2024-08-22T15:00:48Z
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@futurebird Seems like chum for those already lost to the cult of Trump.
(DIR) Post #AlEEcZZ7O23zQlYzFA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T15:01:11Z
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Even if everything they suspect is *true* it still makes no damn sense. Basically this means they looked for something more salacious on Walz and just found a guy with his wife in a hotel. It's the opposite of damning. Worse? The anniversary of Tiananmen Square? What? Are they suggesting Walz was a fan of the students who protested the Chinese government?Isn't Tiananmen Square FAMOUSLY a suppressed part of history in China???
(DIR) Post #AlEEgisUhlGdTHbacq by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2024-08-22T15:01:31Z
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@futurebird I thought he got married on the 5th anniversary of Tienanmen Square...
(DIR) Post #AlEEjg3TelmvaL9ReS by harmonygritz@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T15:02:13Z
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@futurebird "Goofy"? They're looking for an alt-word? Late to the party, m'boys.
(DIR) Post #AlEElAvuL3zZdnKDGS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T15:02:20Z
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@CatDad But it doesn't even make any sense! That is, it's not plausible or suggestive ... It just makes the person saying it seem not very bright.
(DIR) Post #AlEEnGREqChfIJyYVc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T15:03:08Z
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@CatDad PICTURES OF HIS HONEYMOON...do you see the issue?
(DIR) Post #AlEEydxXjMRVQfVoEy by icastico@c.im
2024-08-22T15:04:55Z
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@futurebird I think they want you to think he was celebrating the massacre of democratic protesters by the communist - š
(DIR) Post #AlEF0hnMRMLxu9jU8m by RolloTreadway@beige.party
2024-08-22T15:05:16Z
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@futurebird The Chinese could have videos of him! Well, I could have videos of JD Vance doing immoral things with a vacuum cleaner! I COULD! Can you prove that I don't?
(DIR) Post #AlEF4h27DPv0hRXFvk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T15:06:18Z
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@RolloTreadway I'm mad that you have added that to my list of things I hope do not exist.
(DIR) Post #AlEF728rhiTSkMoC5A by Lazarou@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T15:06:30Z
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@futurebird well Russia has tapes of Trump, so that must work for everybody else, right? š¤” They're cranking out the old projector there....
(DIR) Post #AlEFEAcaZmsZ4Y7AmG by RolloTreadway@beige.party
2024-08-22T15:07:46Z
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@futurebird BREAKING SCANDAL: DEMS' VP CANDIDATE HAS HAD SEX WITH HIS WIFE.
(DIR) Post #AlEFHThI6pRp6UtK4G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T15:08:36Z
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@RolloTreadway ON THEIR HONEYMOON the fifthly perves
(DIR) Post #AlEFJX90GS4mNDpkOW by CatDad@mas.to
2024-08-22T15:08:46Z
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@futurebird Nothing from these folks makes any sense if you have a shred of critical thinking. But it lets the cult read all kinds of nefariousness into it. Manchurian candidate? Recordings of weird sex acts held over Walz's head as leverage? They probably bathed in baby blood in the honeymoon suite!This is what we're dealing with. It's all goofy and deeply stupid but it gets these folks fired up because they are goofy and deeply stupid people.
(DIR) Post #AlEFLSwOrZIRusrNPU by rlstone4dems@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T15:09:06Z
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@futurebird All of these Fixed News hosts are really garbageā¦ imagine any of us accusing someone and then saying that another entity MIGHT have something bad on that person(s)ā¦ Weād be sued blindā¦ When you leave sh*t to go unchecked, this happensā¦ And all of these Fixed News hosts are sh*tā¦
(DIR) Post #AlEFPvYCR1Wjo2fSe8 by mcsquank@mastodon.online
2024-08-22T15:10:01Z
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@futurebird it sort of seems like they throw all their boogeyman words in all sorts of orders, at the wall, and sees what sticks with their followersas long as the connection has been made between the enemy and the boogeyman, the logic doesn't seem to matterput walz and china in the same room and let the Q folks squeeze it through their bowel-shaped play dough machine and see what comes out
(DIR) Post #AlEFRqETB9S7tJLsum by parsingphase@m.phase.org
2024-08-22T15:10:19Z
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@futurebird Yes, but we don't talk to that side of the family so much now.
(DIR) Post #AlEFec2pEwjNeXzliq by thedansimonson@lingo.lol
2024-08-22T15:12:46Z
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@futurebirdālook at this guy! He fucks his wife!āāis that supposed to hurt him???
(DIR) Post #AlEFtFqq2KezAJN16G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T15:15:27Z
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@mcsquank But the innuendo worked on Trump because he is a known playboy who gropes women and isn't faithful to his wives. It's like they don't get how smears work. They need a seed of truth. The fear mongering about Bernie's honeymoon worked as a smear because he has said he's a socialist and is very ideologically strident.These bozos are just saying words "honeymoon" "China" etc. and it has no bones.
(DIR) Post #AlEGAHFS60DAQA04R6 by steve@discuss.systems
2024-08-22T15:18:30Z
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@futurebird In fairness, if you're used to covering republican politics, the idea of a candidate having sex WITH THEIR SPOUSE would be pretty shocking.
(DIR) Post #AlEGVQpFgMoyCppfkW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-22T15:22:11Z
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@steve OK this makes it make a lot more sense.
(DIR) Post #AlEGXH5qpzpsbKTXRw by Tattie@eldritch.cafe
2024-08-22T15:22:29Z
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@futurebird well, they're anti-intellectual. Sounding informed or well-reasoned is bad, emotive ranting is good.@CatDad
(DIR) Post #AlEGlXbIGGFBqpz8Bk by CatDragon@mastodon.world
2024-08-22T15:25:14Z
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@futurebird holy CRAP honeymoon night ?Thatās way past weird and into creepy twisted . Who would even think that never mind say it out loud.
(DIR) Post #AlEH7GpjHX9gDg6BCS by thecorodon@wandering.shop
2024-08-22T15:29:09Z
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@futurebird If you reeeally want to decide Walz is compromised by China, I guess this is a stepping stone to get there. Step fast, though, 'cause it's slippery. I don't think anyone finds this persuasive. It's just about throwing enough chaff that uncomfortable Rs can justify inertia instead of considering defection.
(DIR) Post #AlEHhVe3gnwoaAv5TE by mcsquank@mastodon.online
2024-08-22T15:35:43Z
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@futurebird maybe, I don't know. the fox viewers in my social reach uncritically repeat all that horseshit like it's the easiest logic problem in history, when it makes absolutely no sense.Maybe we're just not equipped with the filters that brings it into focus for them.
(DIR) Post #AlEI5qpwYD4lG15Nzs by kfanyo@infosec.exchange
2024-08-22T15:40:05Z
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@futurebird I have to wonder what kind of audience doesn't mind being regarded as dumb enough to buy their BS.
(DIR) Post #AlEJvRq8pj3skALUcS by suetanvil@freeradical.zone
2024-08-22T16:00:36Z
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@futurebird If this is all they have on him, it probably means that Waltz really is a saint.
(DIR) Post #AlELu8SlahJIGWujnk by mcc@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T16:22:50Z
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There's no depths to the bad ideas RW media will embrace, but in this case, I wonder if this is just an association exercise. Use the words "Walz" and "China" in a sentence as many times as possible so people associate them together. Because the VP speaking the language of, and knowing a lot about, the US's biggest trading partner is bad somehow.
(DIR) Post #AlENXAFYyqhx3Wudsm by gooba42@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T16:41:02Z
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@futurebird So him traveling on honeymoon with his wife is supposedly some kind of liability but Trump's trips to explicitly kiss up to Russia for material support aren't?Do they even know what a scandal is?
(DIR) Post #AlESOVFu0r5hMrlDlI by cshlan@dawdling.net
2024-08-22T17:35:24Z
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@futurebird @mcsquank I think in these times of conspiracy theories nothing needs a seed of truth for Trump's fans to come up with something nefarious.And FOX is probably also hoping to "own the libs" by getting people to yell at them for lying.
(DIR) Post #AlEk2wjUyE1DOKTU1o by nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social
2024-08-22T20:53:21Z
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@futurebird It works on people like my parents. :sadness:
(DIR) Post #AlF1IKud3IPTwnbZOy by linebyline@bytetower.social
2024-08-23T00:06:35Z
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@futurebird Yes. Yes I do in fact know such people. The same people who are legitimately *terrified* of Kamala Harris threatening price control on food, because prices should be determined by "supply and demand" (despite having previously agreed with me that grocery "inflation" is just manufacturers charging more because they can). The same people who want to "agree to disagree" on the difference between self-defense and genocide.
(DIR) Post #AlFCnPzDKuTq9mm04e by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-23T02:15:29Z
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@linebyline The only price controls would apply during natural disasters to essential items. Eg a hurricane and someone has jacked up the price of bottled water. That's the only *serious* proposal, but I think Harris is trying to scare the prices of everything down by being vague and ominous... which can work. Thing is, this can't be done for much more by a president, it's more the agenda, which will scare the private sector.
(DIR) Post #AlFCurliROCALi0kAy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-23T02:16:50Z
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@linebyline There are so many steps and BS between where we are and what your guy is worried about that I would be shocked if we got there. But, also it's good to move in that direction as long as the gouging continues. And while we are at it revive the teeth on antitrust. Which is the real root of the issue.
(DIR) Post #AlFDBZQbsosyOG6W6y by linebyline@bytetower.social
2024-08-23T02:19:51Z
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@futurebird Amen, Alleluia.
(DIR) Post #AlFF38W0GFW8VqjUlk by RufusJCooter@mstdn.social
2024-08-23T02:40:43Z
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@futurebird (Also, I kinda doubt this story from the get-go; the PRC aren't keen on foreigners wandering around unsupervised on that anniversary...)
(DIR) Post #AlFF93rIUFcDoAWBPc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-23T02:41:49Z
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@RufusJCooter No he was there and the dates line up. But he was involved in student exchange programs and probably no one was thinking about the date.
(DIR) Post #AlFFR7XrWFYOSE2Tc8 by RufusJCooter@mstdn.social
2024-08-23T02:45:00Z
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@futurebird huh. I was there in '94 for a semester; tried to extend my visa to do some traveling, but it would have kept me in country for the anniversary - they were like, nope.
(DIR) Post #AlH2pB9Or6flUxesDI by erosdiscordia@corteximplant.com
2024-08-23T23:33:10Z
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@futurebird I mean, wanting to marry/annually bonk your wife in honor of people who died for freedom and democracy is pretty metal. Sounds like the opposite of a scandal.