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[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow...." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down.", ">\n\nSo this is how she’s announcing her resignation?" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down.", ">\n\nSo this is how she’s announcing her resignation?", ">\n\n\"They're really showing their colors, they're a bunch of Blue Anons, conspiracy theorists, that have these witch hunts and hopes that they chase after,\" Boebert said.\nAaahhahahahaha oh lordy" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down.", ">\n\nSo this is how she’s announcing her resignation?", ">\n\n\"They're really showing their colors, they're a bunch of Blue Anons, conspiracy theorists, that have these witch hunts and hopes that they chase after,\" Boebert said.\nAaahhahahahaha oh lordy", ">\n\nYou can take the inbred prostitute out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the inbred prostitute." ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down.", ">\n\nSo this is how she’s announcing her resignation?", ">\n\n\"They're really showing their colors, they're a bunch of Blue Anons, conspiracy theorists, that have these witch hunts and hopes that they chase after,\" Boebert said.\nAaahhahahahaha oh lordy", ">\n\nYou can take the inbred prostitute out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the inbred prostitute.", ">\n\nI feel like a leopard ate her face" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down.", ">\n\nSo this is how she’s announcing her resignation?", ">\n\n\"They're really showing their colors, they're a bunch of Blue Anons, conspiracy theorists, that have these witch hunts and hopes that they chase after,\" Boebert said.\nAaahhahahahaha oh lordy", ">\n\nYou can take the inbred prostitute out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the inbred prostitute.", ">\n\nI feel like a leopard ate her face", ">\n\nShe's right, she shouldn't be" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down.", ">\n\nSo this is how she’s announcing her resignation?", ">\n\n\"They're really showing their colors, they're a bunch of Blue Anons, conspiracy theorists, that have these witch hunts and hopes that they chase after,\" Boebert said.\nAaahhahahahaha oh lordy", ">\n\nYou can take the inbred prostitute out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the inbred prostitute.", ">\n\nI feel like a leopard ate her face", ">\n\nShe's right, she shouldn't be", ">\n\nWar is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down.", ">\n\nSo this is how she’s announcing her resignation?", ">\n\n\"They're really showing their colors, they're a bunch of Blue Anons, conspiracy theorists, that have these witch hunts and hopes that they chase after,\" Boebert said.\nAaahhahahahaha oh lordy", ">\n\nYou can take the inbred prostitute out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the inbred prostitute.", ">\n\nI feel like a leopard ate her face", ">\n\nShe's right, she shouldn't be", ">\n\nWar is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength", ">\n\nDunning–Kruger, in full effect…" ]

[ "Irony is dead.", ">\n\nTalk about the pot and the fucking kettle", ">\n\nIt's like Vantablack calling Black 3.0 black.", ">\n\nI just heard about Black 3.0 from this and daaaamn.", ">\n\nLemme tell you about White 2.0.", ">\n\nAnd the pinkest pink, and the silverest silver.", ">\n\nAnd red paint made from gay blood the Red Cross won't accept for transfusions!", ">\n\nTalk to the FDA about that. It's their regulation, and Red Cross is required by law to follow it. Red Cross and other blood donation organizations have been lobbying for the regulations to change for a long time now.", ">\n\nThe Red Cross doesn't discriminate, they'll take any blood that's healthy enough for transfusion.", ">\n\nFacts. If they don’t take it, it’s because there’s something wrong with it or the person answered a question on the sheet with a no no answer", ">\n\nSo, she's including herself?", ">\n\nWell, no. Because she thinks her conspiracies are just plain old truth.", ">\n\nShe’s referring to her tiff with Empty G. Jewish space lasers, etc.", ">\n\nI am going to assume you were using voice to text on that one, but if you weren't, Empty G is the best name for her I've seen.", ">\n\nHah, thanks! Wish I could take credit for it, but someone more clever than I am used it, so I stole it. Agree that it’s a perfect name for that mummified Barbie.", ">\n\nIt's ok rimjobnemesis, I still credit you for enlightening several of us.", ">\n\nDozens, even", ">\n\nSome folks will use any excuse to get out of work.", ">\n\nExactly my thoughts. She saw MTG sitting on her ass when she was excluded from committees and got jealous", ">\n\nHoldup, what does Magic The Gathering have to do with this?", ">\n\nMarjorie Taylor Green disrespects the acronym", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run bath water.", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to run to the store for chips", ">\n\nLauren Boebert isn't fit to tell if it is raining", ">\n\nThis woman is violently fucking stupid.", ">\n\nAnd Colorado keeps voting her in. WTF?", ">\n\nWoah woah woah don't blame all of Colorado. She's 3rd district. That's all rural good ol' boys country. Beautiful areas, but it's heavily conservative.\nIt's our upstate NY.", ">\n\nAnd she barely won. It was a nice week when she was silent on Twitter. As soon as her win was confirmed she was back with the crazy shit. Not realizing at all that her stupidity almost cost her seat in deep red county.", ">\n\nIt seems like she’s blaming MTG and their association with one another for how close her victory was", ">\n\nFor a second I thought she was blaming Magic: The Gathering and was really excited to read that dumb story.", ">\n\nI'm too sober for this headline...", ">\n\nThat's what happens when you browse Reddit sober.", ">\n\nNo amount of inebriation is enough to browse reddit", ">\n\nWhen did the Republican Party suddenly become full of conspiracy theorist extremists? I remember being a kid in high-school in 08 and remembering Romney being this pompous corporation shill republican, but he seemed sensible. Now we have legitimate crazy fucking people who are no where near competent holding political office. It's the strangest turnaround I've ever seen.", ">\n\nIt started in 08 with Obama. The TEA Party started up on the fringes. Now they are fully embedded in the Republican Party.", ">\n\nThe scary thing is they went from being a fringe minority in 2008 to now basically running the Republican Party. What do they look like 2036? Do they become full fascist and mask off? We have Marjorie Taylor Green floating around civil war propaganda. I wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools, try getting blue voting democrats out of red states or making their votes not matter, completely gutting vaccine research funding, etc.", ">\n\n\nI wonder how long before they straight up start to try to be mask off and abolish public schools\n\nThat’s already started.", ">\n\n(Ron DeSantis has entered the chat)", ">\n\nKari Lake is desperately waiving her hand to chat.", ">\n\n[Betsy DeVos has been in the chat for several years]", ">\n\nShe's been trying to mess with Michigan schools for decades", ">\n\n[points at right palm] I know, I live here.", ">\n\nI have a pin tattoo so I don't have to!", ">\n\nThat's what always got me.. how fast it feels these life long republicans got turned on by new \"republicans\".\nBetter, easier GUIs were a mistake lol but I guess I can't just blame that, I read NWO conspiracy theories in the late 90s but I can guarantee not as many people had exposure to stuff like that. \n...or have it pushed in their faces 24/7 for the revenue.", ">\n\nI used to think people.in the future would be far more tech literate. As they would be immersed in it since childhood. Well now the user interfaces and tech is so user friendly that you only need to turn on your device and you're good to go. You don't need to know how to troubleshoot, Google, or tear something down. It's all done for you or is made to not be self done.", ">\n\nThe size of everything and the precision in which we could manufacturer just started going crazy. Went from ctr, to LCD to .3 in phones in how long?\nIronically one of the biggest booms in modern history and it's used to make people stupider for profit.", ">\n\nPot. Kettle. Black.", ">\n\nFYI, Pot and Kettle have called. They’re filing a defamation suit against you comparing them to Lauren Boebert.", ">\n\nYa I deserve that", ">\n\nI completely agree.", ">\n\nRight? Like, shit. She had a good streak where there was absolutely nothing i liked about her or agreed with her about", ">\n\nBroken clock and all that.", ">\n\nThat seems a little too frequent for her... maybe we need a new phrase... but how can a calendar be broken?", ">\n\nEven a broken clock finds a nut once in a while.", ">\n\nAlso no traitors", ">\n\nDon't forget the Domestic Terrorists.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwarewolves", ">\n\nGreat, so where's her resignation letter?", ">\n\nSo no one has explained to her the definition of “conspiracy theory “", ">\n\nIt’s like “woke”, they talk about it at length but when asked, they can’t define it.", ">\n\nSeems like most condemnations from them boil down to the same definition: people who don't agree with me.", ">\n\nShe is self cancelling.", ">\n\nThat would require self awareness", ">\n\nSo, she's stepping down?", ">\n\nhmmmm and what would she say about people who attempted to pull off a coup?", ">\n\nJesus what a dumbass", ">\n\nNether should high school dropouts who marry men who expose themselves to underage girls.", ">\n\nWho also believes in conspiracy theories.", ">\n\nI totally agree. She has to go", ">\n\nNeither should she", ">\n\nEat each other!", ">\n\nShe's calling Adam Schiff a conspiracy theorist?\nI've read 7 books on Trump since his presidency ended. Schiff's book was the best written, most fair, and most comprehensive.\nRepublicans are waging a war against reality.", ">\n\nIs it worth reading? Schiff's book?", ">\n\nI definitely think so. He lays out the evidence and doesn't embellish as much as other authors.\nMicheal Wolff's book \"Landslide\" was informative but was very anti-Trump. \nBob Woodward's books were...not hard hitting enough considering his resume. I feel like he almost sucked up to Trump for access. I listened to all of the interviews Bob did with Trump as well. So bad. Trump is hard to listen to for 10 hours straight. \nSchiff to me stayed the most rational. He actually seemed the least biased.", ">\n\nMaggie Haberman's Confidence Man was pretty great and the epilogue is one of the wildest, most fucked up things I've ever read.", ">\n\nI saw it on Audible but it was a young picture of Trump so I assumed it was from his pre-president days.\nWould you recommend it?", ">\n\nWait....what?", ">\n\nThe blinders on this woman must be the biggest in the world", ">\n\nSo that excludes her…", ">\n\nThis is truly a not the onion.", ">\n\nShe's a perpetual gaslighter. \"If I'm saying this, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.\"", ">\n\nSo, almost every single serving republican including herself?\nWild.", ">\n\nIf she does not immediately resign after saying conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees, then she is as full of shit as always.", ">\n\nEveryone ahould agree and hold her accountable", ">\n\nPot, meet kettle.", ">\n\nI heard she once got lost in an IKEA for 2 weeks.", ">\n\nShe was rescued by Santos who was leading Seal Team Six at the time.", ">\n\nThat dumb pig is just trolling us. Fuck her and not in the fun way. I live in her district and she does nothing for anyone but herself.", ">\n\nWe agree Boebert, starting with your skanky lying ass.", ">\n\nDUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMBBBB", ">\n\nAnyone who says ANYTHING against the propaganda is immediately silenced? Don't believe me watch the pour of down votes and ban just for saying that. Bye! 👋", ">\n\nBroken clocks ..", ">\n\nI know she's attacking her fellow Karen MTG, but...ndamn, lol\n Without. Single hint of self awareness. She's the perfect GQP member", ">\n\nAccording to the article, she's attacking Democrats.", ">\n\nlol wut/", ">\n\nDid she say this in a mirror?", ">\n\nDeal.", ">\n\nBye, bitch!", ">\n\nDoes she actually know what she's saying, and what it mean? What a Fruitcake. She'll miss being on committees...", ">\n\nI wonder what constitutes a conspiracy theory in her brain\nEdit: Oh, it’s because they used the Steele Dossier in the Russia investigation. That’s a far cry from a conspiracy theory, especially when compared to the things she believes.", ">\n\nShe’s a fucking idiot", ">\n\nDid anyone hear that crazy story about how boebert, candace owens, tomi lahren and more of that type of vapid, gop agent of chaos - all started on a sketchy \"modeling agency\" website (which seems like it's also used as an escort service potentially) called \"explore talent\"?\nIt shows some of these \"political pundits\" in revealing, suggestive poses and is run by an Israeli pornographer with ties to organized crime (Name is Ami Shafrir and he is suspected/accused of some other pretty serious stuff).\nHere are some of the photos that were captured (with watermark):\nHere's boebert (this photo really shows you her roots as the illegitimate daughter of a deadbeat amateur wrestler from Florida).\nAnd I guess, until recently at least, candice owens' whole profile was still up.\nThere's always another layer to these cartoon villains and their evil, desperation and ignorance.\nAnd here's a Twitter thread that broke it open and continues to track as new members of things like the Jan 6 insurrection are found to mysteriously also be in the explore talent family\nRecent screen grab of that thread", ">\n\nAnyone paying the least attention to anything boboe has to say isn't worth the litter in my cat's box.", ">\n\nJFC when will this race to the bottom ever end??\nThe original \"conspiracy theorists\" from back in my day are in comparison genuinely level-headed, sensible and rational people full of wisdom ....\ncompared to the utterly batshit crazy lunatics currently ELECTED TO POLITICAL POSITIONS and in charge of determining this country's future ?!\nBy golly, I'd happily take any low-brow conspiracy theorist from thee 90's to be in Congress as opposed to any of these modern highbrow conspiracy theory nutcases ALREADY in Congress", ">\n\nSo, she is resigning?", ">\n\nWell would you look at that, a broken clock.", ">\n\nEvery Republican projection is a confession.", ">\n\nShe knows who she is and what she does. The evidence is right here. \nThe gop has turned into bad 12 year old trolls.", ">\n\nSo literally every Republican.", ">\n\n\nSchiff, the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been condemned by Republicans for pushing claims surrounding Donald Trump's ties to Russia, including introducing the largely debunked Steele Dossier, along with its unverified allegations regarding the 2016 election, into Congressional Record.\n\nComparing what's been proven true and what's been proven false, how in the fuck has the Steele Dossier been largely debunked?\nOr am I reading this wrong and Newsweek is trying to say that's what Republicans are saying?", ">\n\nI was wondering that too. Is Newsweek just a bad source? Or did I miss something at some point?", ">\n\nCall me a dumb Aussie but for the longest time I thought this was the same chick who cut her husband’s dick off.\nSeems whilst they are just as crazy as one another but I am wrong.", ">\n\nLorena Bobbitt was abused to the point her mind broke and she did what she did, she needed help.\nBoebert is just a straight up peice of shit person", ">\n\nEvery accusation is a confession", ">\n\nHello Pot, Kettle just called you and herself out.", ">\n\nNo shit, Sherlock. \nHer obvious problem is identifying a conspiracy theorist", ">\n\nI have an overwhelming urge to slap her", ">\n\nThe pivot on her a Marge last two weeks is hilarious. I guess they got some data that stated bat shit crazy is not selling currently.", ">\n\nI agree with Boebert on something? Holy shit.", ">\n\nWell, she's not wrong.", ">\n\nTakes one to know one. Smartest thing she’s said all year, even if she didn’t mean to.", ">\n\nSpider-Man pointing at Spider-Man while a Mrs. Pot calls for him", ">\n\nThey’re eating their own now.", ">\n\nThe fact she was elected to national office just makes her voters look like complete rubes. Colorado sucks.", ">\n\nr/SelfAwareWolves", ">\n\nNeither should criminals, seditionists, escorts....", ">\n\nOr in Congress.", ">\n\nThey should put fellow GED Graduate Republican George Santos on committees.", ">\n\nIf you don't want to be on a committee, just say so", ">\n\nAgreed... Wait...", ">\n\nWell, she’s not wrong", ">\n\nWas this the one who needed to take the GED 3 times before she passed?", ">\n\nSo, basically rules out most republicans", ">\n\nShe's just lazy and doesn't want to work anymore.", ">\n\nSo funny watching Boebert and MTG trying to argue that they are different people.", ">\n\nShe’s talking about MTG right? Spider-Man points at Spider-Man !", ">\n\nSo that's all the fucking Republicans then.", ">\n\nIs this how she's announcing that she's stepping down?", ">\n\nHEY!!! She's FINALLY said something I can agree with!!\nShouldn't be in Congress, either. Fed or State. She needs to leave.", ">\n\nCan’t she just quit her political career, open an onlyfans and we can all go back to being happy?", ">\n\nThis is the second time recently I've told my wife twice that I'm concerned because I agree with Boebert (though not in a way Boebert would support). The other was something about McCarthy being a bad choice for Speaker.\nIf this continues, what diagnostics should I request?", ">\n\nWhile they’re at it— neither should people who believe in a invisible man in the sky", ">\n\nAlmost losing scared her ass as close to straight as she can prob get, too bad she cant see she is just the pot calling the kettle black lol", ">\n\nShe and MTG fighting for the same post?", ">\n\nI'm going to the emergency room. My palm is fractured and my forehead is bruised.", ">\n\nWhy does this woman continue to make news", ">\n\nIt's the train crash theory. As horrible as it is it's hard to look away.", ">\n\nWOW, finally something I agree with! :D", ">\n\nI love her big stripper energy. You just know she's sincere.", ">\n\nWait, why are we agreeing?", ">\n\nThe Onion have it easy in the 2020s", ">\n\nAlright then, I’ll be expecting your resignation within the week", ">\n\nIt's intentional chaff. By declaring the other side to be conspiracy theorists they're looking to change the narrative from:\n\"there's a lot of right-wing conspiracy theorists out there\" \nto \n\"oh, I guess both sides just call eachother conspiracy theorists now\".", ">\n\nWe're finally free of Trump being in the news every day of the week, Musk's propaganda machine had died down too, Bolsonaro is done for, can we please keep this little shit out of the news too?", ">\n\nImpressive how everything that comes out of her mouth is patently ridiculous", ">\n\nShe's being coached. This is straight from their playbook: blame Democrats for the thing you're doing.", ">\n\nShe trying to skip work?", ">\n\nDoes The Onion even have a job anymore? Reality seems to be taking all the good headlines.", ">\n\nThey've been having trouble keeping up for decades.", ">\n\nNon high school graduates shouldn't either.", ">\n\nhow thick can you get", ">\n\nAgree. Thanks for this refreshing take, Shame of Colorado", ">\n\nHer idea of conspiracy theorist are people who believe in reality. Y'know like the election being legit, the vaccine doing exactly what it's supposed to, recognizing science is accurate at describing the world around us and the predictions it makes about the universe, our ecosystem, and where we're going if we continue down the path we are currently going down.", ">\n\nThings you say when you don't know what irony means", ">\n\nself burn live on tv... and those are rare", ">\n\nWAR IS PEACE.\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.", ">\n\nCalling someone a \"Blue Anon\" to try and be clever and infer they're a conspiracy theorist just cements that QAnon are conspiracy theorists. She's literally calling out her base to try and score points.\nIf those kids could read beyond soundbites they'd be very upset.", ">\n\n....and then immediately resigned? Right? RIGHT?!?!?", ">\n\nOhhh? Is this her resignation?", ">\n\nDon't let these MAGA clowns erase their own insane theories and conspiracies they peddled by trying to act normal now.", ">\n\nIsn’t she one herself?..", ">\n\nLet me get this correct, conspiracy theorist said conspiracy theorists shouldn't be on committees?", ">\n\nHoly moly, that is TOO oniony. The sulfur levels are off the charts!", ">\n\nDamn there goes almost all republicans.", ">\n\nUmm.. ahhh..... Wait what??????", ">\n\nIt’s so exhausting listening to these idiots. That’s what they want so people just turn off so they can keep spouting the bullshit to their cult without any repercussions.", ">\n\nWho wants to tell her?", ">\n\nWe live in a post-irony state of being at this point.", ">\n\nOh the sound of sheep bleating on the mow....", ">\n\nThis is some South Park level shit. Like I'm tired of outrageous comedy being reality. I just want my government to be boring and sane.", ">\n\nthe call is coming from inside the house", ">\n\nI agree, Klannie Oakley.", ">\n\nI feel like any headline that starts \"Lauren Boebert says...\" should really begin with \"Lauren Boebert's handlers in the GOP told Lauren Boebert to say...\"", ">\n\nWho cares, it's just a show.\nThey all go out for dinner and drinks together after and have a good laugh.", ">\n\nconspiracy theorists? Or Fengfeng?", ">\n\nSpider man meme", ">\n\nWell, she’s right.", ">\n\nThe former prostitute who had two abortions but wants to ban prostitution and abortion?", ">\n\nDear friends and colleagues,\nWe gather here today to mourn the loss of a dear companion, a powerful tool, and a constant presence in our lives. I speak, of course, of irony.\nIrony was always there for us, guiding us through the complexities of human communication and helping us to see the world with a fresh perspective. It was a master of subtlety and nuance, always able to add depth and meaning to even the most mundane of statements.\nBut now, tragically, irony is gone. Its presence in our lives has been snuffed out, its voice silenced forever.\nWe will never again hear its clever turns of phrase, or feel its sharp wit cutting through the fog of confusion. We will never again be able to rely on its ability to reveal truth through deception, or to find humor in the darkest of situations.\nBut even as we grieve, we must also remember that irony did not die in vain. It gave its life in the service of a higher purpose, and it will always be remembered as a hero and a friend.\nLet us now take a moment of silence to honor the memory of irony and all that it meant to us.\nRest in peace, dear Irony, you will be missed\n-Chat-GPT", ">\n\nIts amazing the shit these people will say.", ">\n\nPot meet kettle", ">\n\nWell, sounds like she wants to sit on her rump and earn tax payer dollars. How lazy.", ">\n\nShe’s right, but she’s wrong about who the conspiracy theorists are", ">\n\nTheir lack of self-awareness is truly impressive.", ">\n\nRepublicans have learned well from their Orange God. They have loyalty to no one, and they don't care if the Government/economy completely shut down.", ">\n\nSo this is how she’s announcing her resignation?", ">\n\n\"They're really showing their colors, they're a bunch of Blue Anons, conspiracy theorists, that have these witch hunts and hopes that they chase after,\" Boebert said.\nAaahhahahahaha oh lordy", ">\n\nYou can take the inbred prostitute out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the inbred prostitute.", ">\n\nI feel like a leopard ate her face", ">\n\nShe's right, she shouldn't be", ">\n\nWar is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength", ">\n\nDunning–Kruger, in full effect…", ">\n\nProjection is a common tool used by narcissists and conservatives." ]

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[ "That's a mess? Pfft, you've never seen my desk...", ">\n\nDigging those wrist rests, who made them?" ]

[ "That's a mess? Pfft, you've never seen my desk...", ">\n\nDigging those wrist rests, who made them?", ">\n\nHi! Those wrist rests are an official UHK product :)" ]

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[ "I started watching it and just had to stop it once the screams began. It was awful for those poor people." ]

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[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate..." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\"." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US ." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds)." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds).", ">\n\nI have yet to see a photo of George Santos without that same shit eating grin. What gives?" ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds).", ">\n\nI have yet to see a photo of George Santos without that same shit eating grin. What gives?", ">\n\nHe still can't believe that this actually worked and he's a fucking Congressman now, I guess that is reason for a constant shit eating grin." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds).", ">\n\nI have yet to see a photo of George Santos without that same shit eating grin. What gives?", ">\n\nHe still can't believe that this actually worked and he's a fucking Congressman now, I guess that is reason for a constant shit eating grin.", ">\n\nI guess anything in America is possible with enough Russian Money." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds).", ">\n\nI have yet to see a photo of George Santos without that same shit eating grin. What gives?", ">\n\nHe still can't believe that this actually worked and he's a fucking Congressman now, I guess that is reason for a constant shit eating grin.", ">\n\nI guess anything in America is possible with enough Russian Money.", ">\n\nThere's a LOT of Russian sympathy in the right. When we think of spies and operatives, this is not Russia planting Russian people. It's turning US citizens by leveraging them or catering towards their interests. Well, we have a lot of people who's sole interest in politics is to get rich, and Russia is all too happy to oblige. It may start with campaign funding, but it quickly turns into political favors. Pretty soon you're no longer working for the US. Congratulations, you have now become a foreign agent and spy. This it's a position a lot of Republicans are putting themselves into, or already have. Numerous media entities have also placed themselves into this position." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds).", ">\n\nI have yet to see a photo of George Santos without that same shit eating grin. What gives?", ">\n\nHe still can't believe that this actually worked and he's a fucking Congressman now, I guess that is reason for a constant shit eating grin.", ">\n\nI guess anything in America is possible with enough Russian Money.", ">\n\nThere's a LOT of Russian sympathy in the right. When we think of spies and operatives, this is not Russia planting Russian people. It's turning US citizens by leveraging them or catering towards their interests. Well, we have a lot of people who's sole interest in politics is to get rich, and Russia is all too happy to oblige. It may start with campaign funding, but it quickly turns into political favors. Pretty soon you're no longer working for the US. Congratulations, you have now become a foreign agent and spy. This it's a position a lot of Republicans are putting themselves into, or already have. Numerous media entities have also placed themselves into this position.", ">\n\nAbout 20 years ago I heard a program on NPR that played a voice recording that, at that time, was itself about 20 years old. So, the original recording was from the 1960's. If I remember correctly, it was either an interview or a speech by Kruschev. It might have even been his shoe banging speech from the U.N. \nHe said something like this: We will wait, and as we are waiting, we will slowly infiltrate the U.S. We have patience and can wait a long time, but we will be successful. \nI know it's not exactly what he said, but that's the gist of it. That Russia would continue to steadily work to influence, change, harm and possess the U.S., no matter how long it would take. \nAnd we are now at that moment.\nEdit: original recording was from the 60's, not 20 years old at the time I heard it. More like 40. Math isn't my strong suit." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds).", ">\n\nI have yet to see a photo of George Santos without that same shit eating grin. What gives?", ">\n\nHe still can't believe that this actually worked and he's a fucking Congressman now, I guess that is reason for a constant shit eating grin.", ">\n\nI guess anything in America is possible with enough Russian Money.", ">\n\nThere's a LOT of Russian sympathy in the right. When we think of spies and operatives, this is not Russia planting Russian people. It's turning US citizens by leveraging them or catering towards their interests. Well, we have a lot of people who's sole interest in politics is to get rich, and Russia is all too happy to oblige. It may start with campaign funding, but it quickly turns into political favors. Pretty soon you're no longer working for the US. Congratulations, you have now become a foreign agent and spy. This it's a position a lot of Republicans are putting themselves into, or already have. Numerous media entities have also placed themselves into this position.", ">\n\nAbout 20 years ago I heard a program on NPR that played a voice recording that, at that time, was itself about 20 years old. So, the original recording was from the 1960's. If I remember correctly, it was either an interview or a speech by Kruschev. It might have even been his shoe banging speech from the U.N. \nHe said something like this: We will wait, and as we are waiting, we will slowly infiltrate the U.S. We have patience and can wait a long time, but we will be successful. \nI know it's not exactly what he said, but that's the gist of it. That Russia would continue to steadily work to influence, change, harm and possess the U.S., no matter how long it would take. \nAnd we are now at that moment.\nEdit: original recording was from the 60's, not 20 years old at the time I heard it. More like 40. Math isn't my strong suit.", ">\n\n40 years ago was the 80s. \nI’m going to weep into my Blind Melon CD." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds).", ">\n\nI have yet to see a photo of George Santos without that same shit eating grin. What gives?", ">\n\nHe still can't believe that this actually worked and he's a fucking Congressman now, I guess that is reason for a constant shit eating grin.", ">\n\nI guess anything in America is possible with enough Russian Money.", ">\n\nThere's a LOT of Russian sympathy in the right. When we think of spies and operatives, this is not Russia planting Russian people. It's turning US citizens by leveraging them or catering towards their interests. Well, we have a lot of people who's sole interest in politics is to get rich, and Russia is all too happy to oblige. It may start with campaign funding, but it quickly turns into political favors. Pretty soon you're no longer working for the US. Congratulations, you have now become a foreign agent and spy. This it's a position a lot of Republicans are putting themselves into, or already have. Numerous media entities have also placed themselves into this position.", ">\n\nAbout 20 years ago I heard a program on NPR that played a voice recording that, at that time, was itself about 20 years old. So, the original recording was from the 1960's. If I remember correctly, it was either an interview or a speech by Kruschev. It might have even been his shoe banging speech from the U.N. \nHe said something like this: We will wait, and as we are waiting, we will slowly infiltrate the U.S. We have patience and can wait a long time, but we will be successful. \nI know it's not exactly what he said, but that's the gist of it. That Russia would continue to steadily work to influence, change, harm and possess the U.S., no matter how long it would take. \nAnd we are now at that moment.\nEdit: original recording was from the 60's, not 20 years old at the time I heard it. More like 40. Math isn't my strong suit.", ">\n\n40 years ago was the 80s. \nI’m going to weep into my Blind Melon CD.", ">\n\nOh God, you're right." ]

[ "well, somebody spent a lot of money to get this clown stuffed into the Right's clown car \nif you tried to pitch this guy as a character in a fictional story you'd get laughed out of the room", ">\n\nSantos can't be the only, there has to be more grifters that ran in last year's elections.\nRussian interests don't stop with one candidate...", ">\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders, the pathological liar ex-press secretary who just got elected gov of Arkansas. I’m convinced her daddy bought her that press secretary job (no way in hell would Donald Trump, who’s obsessed with image & hot 20 yr old pageant girls hire an unattractive, overweight 40 year old to be the face everyone sees when they watch press conferences about the Trump administration). With her daddy as corrupt as he is? You know there was money involved. To win a governors race though? I don’t know. \nI do know she spent the entire year in Florida, not Arkansas, begging people for money because outside of that press secretary stunt? That woman never had a job in her 40 years on this earth. \nBetween her and Santos I just see two scam artists with bad teeth.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, her opponent was a a young black minister who earned an PhD in urban planning from MIT and had previously worked as a physicist. He only got about 35% of the vote.", ">\n\nDamn. That's depressing", ">\n\nAs a born and bred Californian living a state north from Arkansas…. it’s unbelievable how folks think these people are on the side of the righteous. I’ve lived abroad and traveled to 3 other continents but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to mid-America", ">\n\nBorn in Texas and lived in southern states till I left for the Marine Corps. World travel was a shock, and made me realize how backward my family and the states I had lived in are.", ">\n\nTravel changes perspectives and challenges our own expectations about the world. Glad you got the experience and hope all of it was ultimately positive for you!", ">\n\nit was an eye opener for certain. My brother also went in, but spent his entire tour in N Carolina. Learned nothing in this aspect.", ">\n\nalways interesting how similar experiences can influence people totally differently", ">\n\nIt's amazing just how many republicans can be linked to Russians.", ">\n\nAnd stupid ones and pathological liars at that.", ">\n\nThey do appear to have a type.", ">\n\nMcCarthy was so desperate to be Speaker that he didn't want to look into Santos. Now, we're finding out that Santos is a Russian plant of a sanctioned oligarch who wanted McCarthy to be Speaker. I hope this leads to more revelations of money laundering and other financial crimes. It's time to clean House.", ">\n\nWhy else do you think the Republicans have hobbled the House Ethics Committee's ability to investigate? They know where the rot is, they just don't want anybody else to find out.", ">\n\nI have no confidence in Republicans to do anything about him, but the DOJ is already involved with the case and Santos isn't important enough to shield from prosecution.", ">\n\nForgive me for not having faith that the doj will do anything useful.", ">\n\nWhat in the last 3 decades of inaction are you talking about? Why not?", ">\n\nThis is a gift link with no paywalls, but here's the meat of it:\n\nTaken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.\n\n\n\nWhile Intrater is a U.S. citizen, his company, the investment firm Columbus Nova, has historically had extensive ties to the business interests of his Russian cousin, billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. As recently as 2018, when Vekselberg was sanctioned by the Treasury Department for his role in the Russian energy industry, his conglomerate was Columbus Nova’s largest client, the company confirmed to The Post that year.\nIntrater’s interactions in 2016 and 2017 with Michael Cohen, who at the time was working as a lawyer for Donald Trump, were probed during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible links between Trump and the Kremlin.\nIntrater’s company paid the lawyer and self-described Trump fixer to identify deals for his business, and court records show they exchanged hundreds of texts and phone calls.", ">\n\nLooks bad, smells bad, don't eat it. Nature has ways of signaling danger. The money trail looks like Russian interests gave Santos money to get elected.", ">\n\nBut he legit said it “didn’t come from Russian” on a podcast.\n/s", ">\n\nActually, he said it didn't come from China, Ukraine, or Burisma. So probably Russia.", ">\n\nBurisma?", ">\n\nUkrainian gas company you probably forgot about. They put Hunter Biden on their board, presumably for access to VP Biden. Been a recurring villain in the Fox News Cinematic Universe ever since.", ">\n\nI always laugh at how they harp on Burisma so bad, as if companies paying favors to the family of politicians, in order to gain access and influence with the politician, isn't as old as time. And hell, the Republicans are the ones who perfected that play.", ">\n\nThey unironically foam at the mouth about Burisma and completely ignore the billions of dollars the Saudi's gave Jared Kushner.", ">\n\nThe GOP is a Russian asset.", ">\n\nTreason runs deep with Republicans", ">\n\nRussia has been involved with his entire campaign. This guy is a Russian asset. Nobody gets 700k without expectations.", ">\n\nThere is so much to unpack with this guy.\nHe may not actually be named George Santos. He was going by Anthony Devolder at a conservative rally a few years ago. This raises questions of who he really is.\nHe's probably not a legal US citizen. He appears to have committed fraud in order to qualify for citizenship, and it is also unclear as to whether or not he met the time requirements to qualify to naturalized.\nHe's a known criminal in Brazil. He's on the run from authorities there for check fraud, and potentially other financial crimes.\nHe was broke during his time with the company that later turned out to be a Ponzi scheme and struggled to pay his rent. His landlord said he also trashed the apartment.\nHe somehow loaned 700k to his campaign, despite being essentially broke. He then reported a meteoric rise in net wealth, from basically zero to $10 million in something like 2 years or less.\nHe has lied about almost every aspect of his life. He claimed to be Jewish, but is not. He actually used the term \"Jew-ish,\" meaning that some members of his ancestry were. But he is not actually.\nHis mother apparently died in the towers on 9/11, despite succumbing to cancer apparently in 2016.\nHe claims to be gay, despite being married to a woman for the purposes of qualifying for US citizenship.\nThis guy needs to have his life torn apart and reconstructed by the FBI, and then charged with the litany of crimes he has committed in order to where he is today.\nAnd then he needs to have his citizenship revoked and sent packing back to Brazil where they can have their turn with him.", ">\n\nBoebert is another one with unexplained millions in the bank after struggling to pay property taxes.", ">\n\nHer money is easier to trace back to her husband getting a cushy consulting gig for oil companies, and then mad insider trading once she became a house rep.\nBoebert's pre-election run story is...interesting. She is alleged to have been a B roll talent model who doubled as an escort/sex worker. She is alleged to have been paid for sexual favors by Ted Cruz and another GOP party operative, while being scouted as a potential candidate for office. The allegations go so far as to claim she may have been paid by Cruz to get an abortion.\nIt is also alleged that Cruz paid for the bulk of her 2020 primary chal, and his PAC supported her general election. The funds to reimburse her for her driving expenses while campaigning were almost exactly what it took to pay off the property taxes on her now defunct restaurant.\nThe talent site where she pops up is the same site that the wine drunk moron who appeared in court with Rudy Giuliani in Michigan or Wisconsin also shows up on...I can't remember the details now, but there were several models in that site that ended up in the GOP's orbit. Maybe the spoiler candidate that showed up in Florida that cost the Democrat in Miami-Dade the election? It's an interesting coincidence, if nothing else.", ">\n\nMost of what you are recounting is wildly unsubstantiated.\nBut it's so damn plausible.", ">\n\nThat's why I heavily used the word alleged.\nIt's a whole lot of very strange bits of information, rumors, hearsay, and the like. \nBut man does it paint a compelling picture of a woman who was scouted out for the job of insane right wing politician in order to swell the ranks of the MAGA faithful.", ">\n\n\"People are saying...\"", ">\n\nThis made me think of this quote for some reason:\n“I never said he was,” he continued, “I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was, which was true when I started the rumor in Milwaukee.”", ">\n\nRussians and republicans. Name a more iconic duo.", ">\n\nWasn’t it only like 10 years ago that the Russians were the hated boogeyman enemies of republicans? Crazy\nDid the love affair start before trump or did they follow him (and his handlers)?", ">\n\nIt really is crazy. I wonder if it was money or kompromat. I bet it was a mixture of both.", ">\n\nThe DNC and RNC emails were hacked. The DNC ones were released.", ">\n\nYou don't think that's just because the DNC ones were the only ones with damning evidence of shady dealings, while the RNC ones were just boring campaign strategy discussions of honest legisl... okay, sorry. I just can't finish typing that with a straight face.", ">\n\nHad me going in the first half lol", ">\n\nI get to go back to my Russia files! \nJan. 9, 2017\nVekselberg Meets With Cohen\nIn Michael Cohen’s Trump Tower office, he and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg discuss a mutual desire to strengthen Russia’s relations with the United States under President Trump. Also in attendance is Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, chief executive of an American investment firm — Columbus Nova — whose biggest client is Vekselberg’s Renova Group. The three men agree to see each other at Trump’s inauguration. A week later, they are together at a dinner celebrating the inauguration.\nJan. 20, 2017\nVekselberg, Veselnitskaya, Akhmetshin and Butina Attend Trump Inauguration Festivities; Cohen Gets Big Contract\nThe FBI is concerned that key Russian elites and others associated with Putin’s government are attending Trump inauguration events. Among them is Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who attends a Trump inauguration dinner as a guest of Andrew Intrater, chief executive of investment firm Columbus Nova. Intrater is Vekselberg’s cousin, and Vekselberg’s firm — Renova Group — is Columbus Nova’s largest client. Days after the inauguration, Columbus Nova awards Michael Cohen a $1 million consulting contract.", ">\n\nRemember the red scare? Which at times was over the top. Now however we have the \"red I ain't seen nothin\".", ">\n\nThe Red Scare vs. The Red We Don’t Care", ">\n\nGOP just selling America to Russian oligarchs. They can't even be deluding themselves at this point, can they?", ">\n\nThey want to use Russian money to live and campaign off of, and Murdoch's FOX News to confuse their base.\nRepublicans have sold out the US .", ">\n\nIn late November, the Daily Beast reported that Andrew Intrater — a cousin of and money manager for sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg — gave more than $56,000 to political committees supporting Santos, who defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman Nov. 8.\nSome background: \nViktor Vekselberg is a Ukrainian-born oligarch with links to donations to both the Clinton Foundation and the Trump inaugural fund. Vekselberg, who has ties with Putin and has publicly advocated for lifting U.S. Sanctions on Russia, previously served on the board of the sanctioned Russian oil company Rosnef and reportedly holds “signicant interest” in Oleg Deripaska’s company, Rusal. Vekselberg was part of the financial conglomerate Alfa-Access-Renova Consortium alongside fellow oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, German Khan, and Len Blavatnik. He also owns the diversfied holding company Renova Group. \nAndrew Intrater, the CEO of Columbus Nova, which has been described as “the U.S. investment vehicle for the Renova Group,” donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Prior to this donation, the Trump campaign had criticized Hillary Clinton after it was revealed that the Clinton Foundation had accepted large donations from Renova Group. Vekselberg has come in contact with several individuals linked to the Trump Campaign. He attended the December 2015 RT anniversary gala alongside both Michael Flynn and Putin. He also attended a 2014 fundraising event for the Moscow Jewish Museum, which was attended by both Jared and Ivanka Trump. Vekselberg also has ties to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross due to a 2014 partnership with Renova Group involving the Bank of Cyprus; Renova Group is currently the largest shareholder in Bank of Cyprus, while Wilbur Ross served on the bank’s Board for several years before becoming Secretary of Commerce.", ">\n\nBoy, does Russia love its useful idiots", ">\n\n\"useful\"", ">\n\nWait until the government defaults on its debt + aid is cut off to Ukraine due to a few fringe votes in the House… they’re very useful.", ">\n\nNow it becomes clear where GOP leaders get their marching orders from. Russian sympathizers, and a steroid-taking troll doll. I'm starting to think QAnon was created by the Kremlin.", ">\n\nIf not created by they definitely threw lots of gas on that stupid fire.", ">\n\nThis is true of a lot of Russian sourced conspiracies. The ones they tried to do on their own and disseminate in the West were shit. This goes all the way back to the Soviet days.\nSocial media made it a lot easier. Find existing nutty stuff online that's potentially disruptive. Then boost it. It's almost too easy. Massive state security liability.", ">\n\nYou have to assume that others had their campaigns funded by Russia. Maybe you can't prove it, but you know these things are happening and it would explain a lot. With all the money that was funneled in through the NRA, and the ability to mask everything through SuperPACs there's no way of knowing how much of Congress has been infiltrated.", ">\n\nWe can prove it in a lot of the cases. There’s just nothing being done. The NRA was a direct pipeline.", ">\n\nWoah… this is a huge revelation considering the proxy war we are sinking hundreds of millions of dollars a day into.\n\nAND the GOP will road block anything from happening again to own the libs (like any other national security threat)", ">\n\nRussia's waged a proxy war with the west via political interference and social media influence operations for a decade now.\nThis is why kicking them out of Ukraine is so crucial, as it will cripple their international capabilities to keep harming us. They've already been attacking our way of life, radicalizing our citizens, and propping up a party intent on literally gutting the nation in the name of a false patriotism.\nIt's ironically the same stuff as the red scare rhetoric, only it turns out to be true about the party that used those scare tactics. (I actually do not think the 2 are related, but the irony is so sharp it could cut through diamonds).", ">\n\nI have yet to see a photo of George Santos without that same shit eating grin. What gives?", ">\n\nHe still can't believe that this actually worked and he's a fucking Congressman now, I guess that is reason for a constant shit eating grin.", ">\n\nI guess anything in America is possible with enough Russian Money.", ">\n\nThere's a LOT of Russian sympathy in the right. When we think of spies and operatives, this is not Russia planting Russian people. It's turning US citizens by leveraging them or catering towards their interests. Well, we have a lot of people who's sole interest in politics is to get rich, and Russia is all too happy to oblige. It may start with campaign funding, but it quickly turns into political favors. Pretty soon you're no longer working for the US. Congratulations, you have now become a foreign agent and spy. This it's a position a lot of Republicans are putting themselves into, or already have. Numerous media entities have also placed themselves into this position.", ">\n\nAbout 20 years ago I heard a program on NPR that played a voice recording that, at that time, was itself about 20 years old. So, the original recording was from the 1960's. If I remember correctly, it was either an interview or a speech by Kruschev. It might have even been his shoe banging speech from the U.N. \nHe said something like this: We will wait, and as we are waiting, we will slowly infiltrate the U.S. We have patience and can wait a long time, but we will be successful. \nI know it's not exactly what he said, but that's the gist of it. That Russia would continue to steadily work to influence, change, harm and possess the U.S., no matter how long it would take. \nAnd we are now at that moment.\nEdit: original recording was from the 60's, not 20 years old at the time I heard it. More like 40. Math isn't my strong suit.", ">\n\n40 years ago was the 80s. \nI’m going to weep into my Blind Melon CD.", ">\n\nOh God, you're right.", ">\n\nHis life is pretty plain" ]