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« on: November 17, 2017, 05:13:05 PM »

https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-twitter-account-with-two-fake-ids-accused-a-democrat-of-assault-then-pro-trump-sites-ran-with-it
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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2017, 05:18:40 PM »

Why Blumenthal? Why not go for someone more visible, more left-leaning and more vulnerable (Sherrod Brown, for instance)?

Seems weird to pick him. Maybe they don't like him because he's Jewish?
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« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2017, 05:20:07 PM »

Why Blumenthal? Why not go for someone more visible, more left-leaning and more vulnerable (Sherrod Brown, for instance)?

Seems weird to pick him. Maybe they don't like him because he's Jewish?

Trump has got into it with him a few times before, mainly because he's on the Judiciary Committee and overseeing a lot of the investigations.
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« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2017, 05:20:28 PM »

Why Blumenthal? Why not go for someone more visible, more left-leaning and more vulnerable (Sherrod Brown, for instance)?

Seems weird to pick him. Maybe they don't like him because he's Jewish?
Perhaps Blumenthal is a softer target for disinformation campaigns because he is rather anonymous.
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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2017, 06:38:40 PM »
« Edited: November 17, 2017, 07:15:10 PM by Yank2133 »

I said yesterday that the Me Too Movement was going to get hijacked.
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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2017, 06:44:25 PM »

Blumenthal talks to his interns like twice during the whole internship session, trolls should try a little harder next time.
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2017, 07:00:57 PM »

For the love of God.
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« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2017, 07:08:22 PM »

The unfortunate thing is that the wave of genuine allegations could reasonably give rise to a wave of fabricated ones from the Deplorables. "Believe women" is sadly kind of exploitable politically.
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« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2017, 07:11:40 PM »

The unfortunate thing is that the wave of genuine allegations could reasonably give rise to a wave of fabricated ones from the Deplorables. "Believe women" is sadly kind of exploitable politically.

If they blast enough fake ones out there, people will stop believing the real ones. Pretty sad and pathetic.
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« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2017, 07:11:56 PM »

The Alt-right is beginning the process of hijacking and weaponizing the #MeToo movement. How low can they go?
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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2017, 07:42:50 PM »

Why Blumenthal? Why not go for someone more visible, more left-leaning and more vulnerable (Sherrod Brown, for instance)?

Seems weird to pick him. Maybe they don't like him because he's Jewish?

Trump has got into it with him a few times before, mainly because he's on the Judiciary Committee and overseeing a lot of the investigations.

Trump has beef with Blumenthal's father in law Peter Malkin who owns the Empire State Building.

I've been seeing a lot of right wing trolls go after Blumenthal due to the fact he met his wife when she was 16 and he in his 30s. They didn't start dating until she went to college.
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« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2017, 09:40:58 PM »
« Edited: November 17, 2017, 11:28:45 PM by MasterJedi »

So was it thee alt-right, fascist jfern wing, or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.
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« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2017, 11:16:34 PM »

So was it the alt-right, France jfern fascist wing or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.

WTF are you talking about?
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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2017, 11:29:23 PM »

So was it the alt-right, France jfern fascist wing or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.

WTF are you talking about?

Somehow autocorrect destroyed that and I didn’t notice, it’s fixed now, and 100% accurate.
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« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2017, 11:32:11 PM »
« Edited: November 17, 2017, 11:33:55 PM by ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ »

So was it the alt-right, France jfern fascist wing or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.

WTF are you talking about?

Somehow autocorrect destroyed that and I didn’t notice, it’s fixed now, and 100% accurate.

Those who oppose endless wars in the middle east, endless NSA bulk collection, and so on are fascists now? LOL. And progressives aren't going to make up fake stuff about Blumenthal.
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« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2017, 11:37:48 PM »

So was it the alt-right, France jfern fascist wing or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.

WTF are you talking about?

Somehow autocorrect destroyed that and I didn’t notice, it’s fixed now, and 100% accurate.

Those who oppose endless wars in the middle east, endless NSA bulk collection, and so on are fascists now? LOL. And progressives aren't going to make up fake stuff about Blumenthal.

Well you guys want to have a head of government dictate far left policies without regard to the rule of law and you make up many things about Clinton and other Democrats. So yes, you’re wing is very fascist (all far left movements are) and have made a living off of fake conspiracy theories always disproven.
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« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2017, 11:43:32 PM »

So was it the alt-right, France jfern fascist wing or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.

WTF are you talking about?

Somehow autocorrect destroyed that and I didn’t notice, it’s fixed now, and 100% accurate.

Those who oppose endless wars in the middle east, endless NSA bulk collection, and so on are fascists now? LOL. And progressives aren't going to make up fake stuff about Blumenthal.

Well you guys want to have a head of government dictate far left policies without regard to the rule of law and you make up many things about Clinton and other Democrats. So yes, you’re wing is very fascist (all far left movements are) and have made a living off of fake conspiracy theories always disproven.

You are nuts.
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« Reply #17 on: November 17, 2017, 11:46:58 PM »

So was it the alt-right, France jfern fascist wing or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.

WTF are you talking about?

Somehow autocorrect destroyed that and I didn’t notice, it’s fixed now, and 100% accurate.

Those who oppose endless wars in the middle east, endless NSA bulk collection, and so on are fascists now? LOL. And progressives aren't going to make up fake stuff about Blumenthal.

Well you guys want to have a head of government dictate far left policies without regard to the rule of law and you make up many things about Clinton and other Democrats. So yes, you’re wing is very fascist (all far left movements are) and have made a living off of fake conspiracy theories always disproven.

You are nuts.

There’s a reason you were called jfraud back in the day and you whined incessantly to Dave
To get it to stop kiddo. But keep up with that Clinton Derangement Syndrome, it proves you well calling someone else nuts.
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« Reply #18 on: November 17, 2017, 11:48:40 PM »

So was it the alt-right, France jfern fascist wing or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.

WTF are you talking about?

Somehow autocorrect destroyed that and I didn’t notice, it’s fixed now, and 100% accurate.

Those who oppose endless wars in the middle east, endless NSA bulk collection, and so on are fascists now? LOL. And progressives aren't going to make up fake stuff about Blumenthal.

Well you guys want to have a head of government dictate far left policies without regard to the rule of law and you make up many things about Clinton and other Democrats. So yes, you’re wing is very fascist (all far left movements are) and have made a living off of fake conspiracy theories always disproven.

You are nuts.

There’s a reason you were called jfraud back in the day and you whined incessantly to Dave
To get it to stop kiddo. But keep up with that Clinton Derangement Syndrome, it proves you well calling someone else nuts.

I never whined to Dave and I was right about that statistically significant argument with J.J. You seem to have terrible politics whether you support Republicans or Democrats.
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« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2017, 09:17:41 AM »

you’re wing is very fascist (all far left movements are)

Oh come on, dude. You're better than this.

The far left and the far right are very similar in tactics and goals. And I mean the far left, not the progressive left. I think that would be obvious, like jfern here who thinks last year that the the actual votes should have been ignored and Bernie should have been chosen because he was more liberal.
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« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2017, 09:21:44 AM »

you’re wing is very fascist (all far left movements are)

Oh come on, dude. You're better than this.

No he isnt.
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« Reply #21 on: November 18, 2017, 09:27:02 AM »

So was it thee alt-right, fascist jfern wing, or the Russians, strange how they’re all the same and have the same goals.

As if the Putinists are different from the altRight.
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« Reply #22 on: November 18, 2017, 10:37:51 AM »

you’re wing is very fascist (all far left movements are)

Oh come on, dude. You're better than this.

The far left and the far right are very similar in tactics and goals. And I mean the far left, not the progressive left. I think that would be obvious, like jfern here who thinks last year that the the actual votes should have been ignored and Bernie should have been chosen because he was more liberal.
>far left
>Liberal

WEWWWWWWW
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« Reply #23 on: November 18, 2017, 02:28:09 PM »

Ironic that this thread about someone hijacking a twitter movement has itself been hijacked.
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