• FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      It’s literally become the Republican playbook. Spread scandal without evidence, play it up in the media, lie profusely, then pretend it never happened while moving on to the next fake scandal.

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        9 months ago

        while moving on to the next fake scandal.

        Joe Biden stole my pic-a-nic basket and then forgot about it!” - Marjorie Taylor Greene, probably

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          9 months ago

          Also Greene, “I couldn’t find any pictures of Biden’s dong so I used MS Paint to Photoshop his face on Hunter’s body and blew it up on poster board for CSPAN!”

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      Benghazi actually happened though, and was an intelligence failure. Clinton shouldn’t have given the Republicans the soundbite they wanted, but here we are

      This seems like the Kremlin ‘discovered’ this source (coincidentally during Trumps reign, no relation) and got him to make up some shady sounding shit to influence US domestic politics