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JustRaven's avatar

THIS needs to be broadcast far and wide, HCR's concluding paragraph quoting George Stephanopoulos, esp. this sentence:

"“The scale of the abnormality is so staggering, that it can actually become numbing. "

"George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s This Week apparently took this reminder to heart. “Until now,” he said in the show’s opener on Sunday, “[n]o American president had ever faced a criminal trial. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment for retaining and concealing classified documents. No American president had ever faced a federal indictment or a state indictment for trying to overturn an election, or been named an unindicted co-conspirator in two other states for the same crime. No American president ever faced hundreds of millions of dollars in judgments for business fraud, defamation, and sexual abuse….

“The scale of the abnormality is so staggering, that it can actually become numbing. It’s all too easy to fall into reflexive habits, to treat this as a normal campaign, where both sides embrace the rule of law, where both sides are dedicated to a debate based on facts and the peaceful transfer of power. But, that is not what’s happening this election year. Those bedrock tenets of our democracy are being tested in a way we haven’t seen since the Civil War. It’s a test for the candidates, for those of us in the media, and for all of us as citizens.”

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Gigi's avatar

George Stephanopoulos should have mentioned the mismanagement and politicization of Covid which caused the deaths of a million people in the US. Bleach—ivermectin—no masks. Add mass murder to the list of crimes.

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J L Graham's avatar

"Manslaughter" at least.

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Patricia Davis's avatar

…”but I was only trying to keep them from panicking” …or something like that…? The chains of gang warfare as they died by dozens and the rest screaming went over the cliff following the money, the lies, the lust…so cleverly used for complete control…

You’ve heard ..’there’s a rising tide of autocracy ‘?

It’s stops by VOTING BLUE 💙

Not just here..but maybe it’s last stand ..here

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J L Graham's avatar

Two actual headlines I saw on the front page of supermarket tabloids were "Man Electrocuted By Lighting Bugs" and "Statue of Elvis Found on Mars" (NO, not the Onion). They foreshadowed MTG.

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cameron mcconnell's avatar

Now we are learning from the testimony of Pecker that some Tabloid stories are not true. Shocking!

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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

You mean that Hillary Clinton didn't have space aliens invade her brain??? I am shocked. <sarcasm font>

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J L Graham's avatar

Au contraire. A spaced virus invaded the brains of those who voted for Trump.

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Ally House (Oregon)'s avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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J L Graham's avatar

Confirming my suspicions.

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William Burke's avatar

There’s money to be made exploiting the ignorance or stupidity of the American public. See, for example, Donald Trump, David the Pecker and the National Enquirer.

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