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Kevin McCarthy (R-Okiefornia) is the kind of spineless, braindead, careerist scumbag who defines the term "California Republican office-holder." They may have pushed things to the point of getting their recall vote on Governor Newsom, but the only way they can win a statewide election is with another Arnold Schwarzenegger - the last statewide Republican officeholder - and the best they've got is Reality-TV "star" Caitlyn Jenner, and given how hated the Kardashian scum are in the state, that's not much.

Word is the new judge in the Arizona "recount" case (after they got the Trumper judge who put the million dollar fee on stopping things to recuse himself on Monday) is going to shut the clown show down tomorrow. The Cyber Ninjas are trying to get hired to fuck things up all over again in Michigan and Pennsylvania now. State Police are in the stadium now securing the ballots, and the droolers are being observed by actual reporters now, not the ONANists.

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Professor Richardson, the dark intensity of your missive today is difficult to endure because it is so important, so profound! As you write, "What is at stake is the future of the Republican Party. What is also at stake is the future of the country." It is almost too strange to be fiction, never mind reality.

The term The Big Lie has specific origins, "The original description of the big lie appeared in Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler applied it to the behavior of Jews rather than as a tactic he advocated. Specifically, he accused Viennese Jews of trying to discredit the Germans’ activities during World War I." 1.

Joseph Goebbels wrote further, "“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” 1. The man who refuses to allow people to call him "the former president", but insists that he be called "the 45th President", thinks of himself and his followers as a government in exile.

We are in a dangerous place. "Lawyers from the Justice Department have been arguing in court lately that Trump’s continued lying about the election, along with the amplification of those lies by right-wing media, remains an ongoing threat." writes HCR.

1. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-lie-quot

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