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The DOJ acts as consigliere for the prez, Giuliani is a punk

Journal by fustakrakich

Can Congress defund them for it? If they can, but they haven't, it can only mean they truly are complicit. Which nobody should doubt anyway.

But I also understand the fear of discovery. It would reveal that Sr. Presidente isn't doing anything out of the ordinary. And none of this is going to affect the vote anyway. The Party will still get its 95% no matter what.

And Poor old Joe. He has to spend the rest of his campaign denying that he *fucks pigs* (a "Fear and Loathing" thing). Damn near feel sorry for the SOB.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 22 2019, @03:36PM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday September 22 2019, @03:36PM (#897128) Homepage

    Hahah, I remember that part. To those not in the know, it's from "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72," not "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

    The gist was that if you call somebody a "pig fucker," the publicity of them denying it is bad no matter how nonsensical the accusation is. The actual quote is as follows:

    …(I)n both the Ohio and Nebraska primaries, back to back, McGovern was confronted for the first time with the politics of the rabbit-punch and the groin shot, and in both states he found himself dangerously vulnerable to this kind of thing. Dirty politics confused him. He was not ready for it….

    This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas. The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumor campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own barnyard sows.

    “Christ, we can’t get away calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”

    “I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.”

    I bet the real reason why Biden et al. are shitting their pants is because they're going to be linked to the airliner that was shot down over Ukraine. Screencap this post.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday September 22 2019, @08:40PM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Sunday September 22 2019, @08:40PM (#897252) Journal

    Screencap this post.

    :-) You know Ctrl-S will save it to your drive, right? Instead of a picture, I get the page, with a link to the original and everything...

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 23 2019, @08:41PM (1 child)

      by Freeman (732) on Monday September 23 2019, @08:41PM (#897789) Journal

      I like printing it to an xps document, instead. One file to deal with that way.

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      Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday September 23 2019, @08:59PM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday September 23 2019, @08:59PM (#897795) Journal

        Yeah, I suppose. I like to save everything and let the computer sort it out. Gotta make the damn thing work for its money.

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        La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..