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Weaponizing Government [1]
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Date: 2023-07-21
By David Glenn Cox
What is up with that man’s voice? Has he been to a doctor to get that checked? Not since Froggy of the Little Rascals, have I ever heard a voice like that. But it has now become a three-ring circus come to town as the Republicans pitch their tent and invite Robert Kennedy Jr. to speak about censorship for some obscure reason.
Kennedy can’t help his voice, but he could maybe explain about his Heroin bust. I remember how Republicans were outraged when Bill Clinton admitted he had smoked weed but didn’t inhale. I too was outraged. An obvious political dodge to admit but not take responsibility. By admitting he had tried to smoke weed but had been too stupid to inhale. But I guess that worked.
But what were the Republicans thinking? “This will work! Watch this!” Giving a shill a platform to defend himself in the warm embrace of Reich wing Republicans. A man born into a family of wealth and power is gonna tell us all about censorship. Don’t believe the video tape I never said those horrible things! Clearly this was a stunt, but let’s get back to that Heroin bust.
I came of age in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I’ve been around drugs like Hunter Thompson, but there is a line running through the drug culture. That line is called Heroin. Mushrooms, Peyote, Quaaludes, LSD, weed and white cross speed, downers or cocaine. But never Heroin, those people traveled in darker circles with needles and spoons from the partying crowd. The chances that you get busted for possession of Heroin your first time out are indeed slim.
It is easy enough to believe Mr. Clinton was too incompetent to inhale, but how do you explain the Heroin bust? “I tried it, but couldn’t stick the needle in?” Not that we’ve all haven’t made mistakes, but that’s not the kind of mistake that should open doors to the White House. Heroin is not a recreational drug.
Mr. Kennedy was introduced by a fawning Jimmy Jordan stunt cycle. As the two have something unique in common, as neither could pass the bar exam. Running for Presidency on his record of accomplishing nothing of substance, living on his name and riding the gravy train. Never elected to political office a single day in his life. “Sure, let’s vote for him! He’s so charismatic and such a great speaker!”
Marge Traitor Greene waving around Hunter Biden dick pics as if that is somehow a knock against his father. Hunter Biden admitted he had a drug problem, unlike the Republican guest who came to speak about censorship for some peculiar reason. Hunter Biden Bad – Robert Kennedy Jr. Good.
Bankruptcy, the Republicans are morally bankrupt. It doesn’t have to make sense; it just has to be outrageous. Two IRS whistleblowers come forward to say the Justice Department slow walked charges against Hunter Biden. Admitting under cross examination it was the Trump Justice Department that slow walked the charges. Admitting under oath that most such cases never go to trial.
The American voters put the Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives, and this is what we get. A house of monkey shines. But there is a great divide inside the Republican Party. Outside of Tommy Tupperware and Looney tune John Kennedy of Louisiana. The Republicans in the Senate largely pretend not to know the Republicans in the house. They see where this is leading and fear the cost.
Ron, (I’m not dead yet! I’m still breathing) DeSantis has a new media outreach to show the voters his warm and fuzzy side. But the plan has clearly failed. A reactionary bobble head doll answers with that famous Richard Nixon warmth and charm. He’s going to rip the wokeness from our military. Otherwise known in more realistic terms as a military purge based on ideology. Ask Joe Stalin how well that works. DeSantis is the warm and fuzzy Torquemada.
All to create this blizzard of bullshit trying to say, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain pulling the strings and facing his third indictment. It’s all political! You didn’t hear it; you didn’t see it. Never heard of it, not a word of it. The same people who once said Trump was responsible for January 6th now say, “Look! Hunter Biden dick pics!”
We have witnesses, but they’re fleeing felons who’ve jumped bail. See how frightened they are of Joe Biden! The Republicans have tried everything they know to throw at the wall, and yet nothing sticks. They have yet to prove anything about anything. But then they don’t have to prove anything, just make the claim and the simians will ape along and throw their turds in approval.
Today, we are pleased to have with us one of the most famous junkies in America to tell us all about the evils of censorship. He’s worked himself up from somebody to the nobody he is today. Proof? He claims to be a Democrat, who accepts an invitation from the Republicans to try and smear his opponent. If you’re buying, he’s drinking!
I would wager in the offices of Fox News just the mention of Tucker Carlson’s name would get you fired. Like monster movies, the lawsuits just keep coming. The Tucker Carlson Show, The Bride of the Tucker Carlson Show. Abbott and Costello meet Tucker Carlson and Tucker Carlson vs. Gamera or vs. Ray Epps. Dominion, Smartmatic, harassed Tucker Carlson producer and now Ray Epps.
In my mind, I see accountants working late into the night with adding machine tape piling up on the desk trying to total up the true cost of the Tucker Carlson scourge. Buried in adding machine tape are all their efforts to prove the lie was true. Claiming Epps was an FBI plant designed to lead the poor, poor intellectually disadvantaged Trump followers into the pathways of violence. But it never occurred to Tucker that Epps would fight back or that Tucker would get fired.
All to prove lies, all to prove you didn’t see what you saw. Your eyes are lying to you! It is yet another conspiracy theory! Trump never called those people to Washington! Trump never encouraged them to march to the Capitol! Republicans never condemned Trump for his responsibility. Trump didn’t try to influence, Mike Pence. Trump never made calls to Georgia. Matt Gaetz never asked for a pardon. This is all the Democrats weaponizing government.
But the rot is setting in as Tucker is gone, Lindell is broke and Rudy will be disbarred and eight of the phony electors in Georgia have signed immunity deals to avoid prosecution. Tell us all who cooked up the phony elector plot. Tell us all about the weaponizing of government.
“On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy.
That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.” ― Harry S. Truman
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