• @JeeBaiChow
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    478 months ago

    Republicans need a new playbook. Simply fabricating lies based on heresay, unvetted ‘sources’ and rumors just doesn’t cut it anymore.

    • @RagingRobot
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      238 months ago

      All they were doing was wasting time and it accomplished that

      • @JeeBaiChow
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        108 months ago

        Was just thinking: sounds awfully like how a false rape accusation fuxks up the life of the accused for shits and giggles. There should be penalties, except that they’d just claim they were just ‘acting on information they received’ and claim due diligence isn’t their responsibility. It’s all bullshit.

    • @[email protected]
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      88 months ago

      Simply fabricating lies based on heresay, unvetted ‘sources’ and rumors just doesn’t cut it anymore.

      You mean the basis of their entire religion?

    • @Red_October
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      88 months ago

      They won’t ever understand that it won’t cut it in court, though. They think the Democrats are weaponizing the court system to try to destroy them, hence the convictions of all the Jan 6 insurrectionists, and the dumpster fire that is Trump’s legal life. And they think it, because they want to and have wanted to do exactly that: use the courts to destroy their opposition. So they don’t understand why when they make this up (which again, they think the Democrats are doing) it doesn’t hold up in court.

    • @Crashumbc
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      88 months ago

      You say that, but it works great against their voting base.

    • @morphballganon
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      68 months ago

      It cuts it if it allows Turnip Dump to stay on the ballot