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Monday, April 5, 2021 5:28 PM

Hunter Biden tries to suppress his laptop scandal
https://www.weeklyblitz.net/world/hunter-biden-tries-to-suppress-his-l
aptop-scandal
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Twitter's Jack Dorsey calls it a 'total mistake' that New York Post got blocked over Hunter report
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9403861/Twitters-Jack-Dorsey-
calls-total-mistake-New-York-Post-got-blocked-Hunter-report.html



Hunter Biden: I Smoked ‘Parmesan Cheese’ During Battle With Addiction

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunter-biden-says-he-smoked-parmesan-che
ese-during-battle-with-addiction?via=twitter_page


Hunter Biden was suspected of smoking crack inside a strip club where he dropped “thousands of dollars” during multiple visits — at the same time he held a seat on the board of a controversial Ukrainian natural-gas company
https://pagesix.com/2019/11/26/hunter-biden-suspected-of-smoking-crack
-in-dc-strip-clubs-vip-room
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Monday, April 5, 2021 6:16 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunter-biden-says-he-smoked-parmesan-che
ese-during-battle-with-addiction

Joe Biden's long experience dealing with crazy son has toughened and strengthened Joe for dealing with crazy GOP:

Hunter Biden, who dives into his long-running battle with drugs and alcohol in his upcoming memoir Beautiful Things, also recounted how his father staged an intervention while he was binge-drinking vodka and smoking crack. “He came to my apartment one time, and this was when he was in office as vice president, he ditched the Secret Service and figured out a way to get over to the house,” Biden recalled. “And I said, ‘What are you doing here?’ And I said, dad, I’m fine. And he said, ‘You’re not fine.’”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, April 5, 2021 8:29 PM

Half of Republicans believe false accounts of deadly U.S. Capitol riot: Reuters/Ipsos poll
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-disinformation/half-of
-republicans-believe-false-accounts-of-deadly-u-s-capitol-riot-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKBN2BS0RZ


Three months after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to overturn his November election loss, about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists “trying to make Trump look bad,” a new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found.

Six in 10 Republicans also believe the false claim put out by Trump that November’s presidential election “was stolen” from him due to widespread voter fraud, and the same proportion of Republicans think he should run again in 2024, the March 30-31 poll showed.

Since the Capitol attack, Trump, many of his allies within the Republican Party and right-wing media personalities have publicly painted a picture of the day’s events jarringly at odds with reality.

Hundreds of Trump’s supporters, mobilized by the former president’s false claims of a stolen election, climbed walls of the Capitol building and smashed windows to gain entry while lawmakers were inside voting to certify President Joe Biden’s election victory. The rioters - many of them sporting Trump campaign gear and waving flags - also included known white supremacist groups such as the Proud Boys.

In a recent interview with Fox News, Trump said the rioters posed “zero threat.” Other prominent Republicans, such as Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, have publicly doubted whether Trump supporters were behind the riot.

Last month, 12 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against a resolution honoring Capitol Police officers who defended the grounds during the rampage, with one lawmaker saying that he objected using the word “insurrection” to describe the incident.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll shows a large number of rank-and-file Republicans have embraced the myth. While 59% of all Americans say Trump bears some responsibility for the attack, only three in 10 Republicans agree. Eight in 10 Democrats and six in 10 independents reject the false claims that the Capitol siege was “mostly peaceful” or it was staged by left-wing protestors.

“Republicans have their own version of reality,” said John Geer, an expert on public opinion at Vanderbilt University. “It is a huge problem. Democracy requires accountability and accountability requires evidence.”

The refusal of Trump and prominent Republicans to repudiate the events of Jan. 6 increases the likelihood of a similar incident happening again, said Susan Corke, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.

“That is the biggest danger – normalizing this behavior,” Corke said. “I do think we are going to see more violence.”









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Monday, April 5, 2021 8:31 PM

Fake mail-in fraud election was fake.



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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

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Monday, April 5, 2021 8:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fake mail-in fraud election was fake.


Do you have any evidence of your claim?


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Monday, April 5, 2021 8:47 PM

Restaurant Chains Debunk Their Lobbyists’ Arguments Against A $15 Minimum Wage
While restaurant lobbyists tell lawmakers it’s the “wrong time” for a wage hike, companies they represent
are telling investors they can afford to pay higher wages.
https://www.dailyposter.com/p/restaurant-chains-debunk-their-lobbyists
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As corporate lobbying groups in Washington fight plans for a $15 minimum wage and warn lawmakers it's not the right time to make companies pay their workers more, big restaurant chains are telling investors a national minimum wage hike wouldn’t be a big deal.


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Monday, April 5, 2021 8:47 PM

Yup.

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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

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Monday, April 5, 2021 8:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup.

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Imagine the hypocrisy of a government who will allow businesses to card people to get a job or buy groceries, but won't card people to vote in elections and gives millions of non-citizens free money from taxpayers.

So, you have zero evidence, just like your cult leader.


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Monday, April 5, 2021 9:05 PM

Sidney Powell: Pro-Trump lawyer tells court no ‘reasonable person’ would listen to her in bid to get Dominion suit thrown out
Powell seeks dismissal of the defamation suit on grounds that her rights were protected under First Amendment
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-la
wyer-sidney-powell-dominion-lawsuit-b1820886.html


Donald Trump’s former lawyer Sidney Powell has submitted in court that her assertion about voter fraud after the 2020 US presidential election was opinion, and not a statement of fact.

Ms Powell is seeking dismissal of the $1.3 billion lawsuit against her by Dominion Voting Systems, which has alleged that the conservative legal firebrand defamed the election voting technology company with conspiracy theories in the weeks following the polls.

Ms Powell, who is notable for saying her lawsuits challenging the election were akin to “releasing the Kraken,” made Dominion Voting Systems the centre of her legal challenges to the 2020 election results.

The lawyer claimed that agents from Iran and China had compromised Dominion’s voting machines so that they would change the votes for Trump to those for Joe Biden.

Ms Powell, who was later disavowed by the Trump campaign, submitted before the federal court in Washington that “it was clear to reasonable persons” that she was sharing her “opinions and legal theories on a matter of utmost public concern.”
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The Tucker Carlson defense.

Jesus, dude, the people who lied you into the cult don't even believe their own bullshit.


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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:12 AM

Welcome to Day 76.

Today in one sentence: A record 4 million people in the U.S. received a coronavirus vaccine on Saturday; nearly 200 companies signed a joint statement against proposals that threaten to restrict voting access in dozens of states; Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for a global minimum corporate tax rate; the Trump campaign refunded 10.7% of the money it raised online in 2020; and 55% of Republicans believe the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was led by left-wing activists "trying to make Trump look bad."


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