Other reports have one of the men with his ear cut off before he confessed.

All of them solidly disciplined from the pics at the link.

At least they'll have a fair trial before they are shown the window.

Over 200 posts on the Gay Abortion thread... no wonder Rwingers control the Culture War election narrative.

God forbid people talk about something so less important like Republicans letting Corporations and the Wealthy pick your pockets on economic issues all day long.

"DWAC CEO Orlando will turn his initial 3 million dollar stake into a 420 million dollar payday. In one of the weirder facts surrounding the story is Orlando's ownership of a company in Wuhan China.

Chinese firm ARC Capital was involved in the creation of DWAC and ran into legal problems as well."

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"Does it strike the reader as odd that Trump formed Truth after being banned from Twitter for spreading Covid misinformation only to sell it to interests with ties to Wuhan China?

How is this company valued at 5.7 billion when it has never produced a profit and the entire business depends on the whims of a single user?

Given the extensive history of insider dealing , should the SEC permit the merger?

This unholy deal was hatched in the months after the January 6th insurrection.

It has been corrupted since day one. Its consummation could once again forestall a day of reconning for DJT.

So, I want to know: "is this deal being used by foreign entities to secure Trump's favor and support his candidacy?"

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If it waddles like an orange duck, it's an orange duck, Wuhan style.

There's a whole list at the link of happenings the last few days, but this has to be my favorite:

"Amid Friday's chaos, disgraced former Rep. George Santos announced he's leaving the Republican Party to run for Congress in New York as an independent " saying the GOP was too, "embarrassing."

Bwahahahaha!

"What is striking is the catastrophic incompetence of our security services," said Ivan Zhdanov, the former head of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation.

For Putin, a former Soviet spy and one-time head of the FSB security agency, accusations of an intelligence failure could sting.

He came to power on the final day of 1999 promising Russia security as rebel insurgents launched a spate of attacks amid war in Chechnya.

Putin's first years as president saw militants storm a Moscow theatre, taking more than 900 people hostage, and the Beslan school siege -- in which more than 300 people, mostly children, were killed.

After that, he chipped away at civil liberties and launched an escalating crackdown against his opponents, which he justified by the need to stamp out the terrorist threat.

"For decades we have been told that the curtailment of our rights is necessary for security," Zhdanov said in a post on Telegram over the weekend.

"But the terrorist attacks do not stop, and the FSB is busy with everything except its direct responsibilities " killing their political opponents, spying on citizens and prosecuting people who are against the war.

Russian officials are yet to comment on Islamic State (IS) claiming responsibility for the concert hall attack, which killed more than 130."

Jungle Monkey.... actually, it's rather different to see a Trumper say what they really think.

"Former RNC chair McDaniel calls January 6 Capitol attack unacceptable' after years of deflection

Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday called the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol "unacceptable" after years of deflecting on the issue.

McDaniel, who is joining NBC News as a political analyst after exiting the RNC earlier this month, told the outlet that the Capitol riot "doesn't represent our country. It certainly does not represent my party."

"We should not be attacking the Capitol; we should not be having violence," she added. Asked why she didn't offer such condemnation as RNC chairwoman, McDaniel responded,

"When you're the RNC chair, you kind of take one for the whole team. Right now, I get to be a little bit more myself."

I asked you not to tell me you are that stupid... sighs.

Real people make compromises all the time.

Trumpers aren't real people.

He signed it to prevent the Gov from shutting down, not because he favored all the Trumpy culture war trash in it.

Pls tell me you are not really this stupid.... lie if you have to.

Cool... now tell us how and when Trumpy was wrongfully indicted.

BlueTide lacks any semblance of context.

Chan say; snark in 1 totally lost on 2.

lmao.... lying headlines is all they've got now.

Obviously this was one of the Trumper's provisions, many of which will need to be repealed.

You know, one of those they held gov funding hostage to pass... this was prolly one of their finest moments, managing to get this stupid culture war trash passed.

"Lawfare" has become just another stupid rwing meme these days.

Mainly due to the fact that their Cult Leader is a criminal, and the law is being used to bring him to justice.

That word "definitely" doesn't mean what he thinks it means.

Apparently.

His source was either his butt or Vlad's.

- One of the perps was an ex Ukraine soldier.

And your source for that?

"Kids these days!" - Nutty Newty

Looks like "release the demons" is the new "bomb throwing".

I figured the best place to spot a UFO would be Hrat's house.

Visiting in-laws and all.

The original investors were Russians, Chinese, and Saudis; see the link at #4.

And yeah, the whole thing is a scam, see the link at #3.

Fortunately it is likely too late to matter, and too poor an investment for anyone to fall for... other than Trumpers.

Leo the Lyin' is the architect of Citizens United, and the Rwing Supreme Court, and is the King of Dark Money.

He's like the Wizard of Duhs, the Prince of the Proletariat, who not only perfected polarization of the Right from the Left, but actually made the Right buh-lieve that that they are supporting "anti-establishment" candidates.

It's quite the trick really.

That he stumbled onto Donald "Duck!" Trump, as the face of the laughable "Revolt"; a supposed billionaire and egoist concerned only for himself, as the "Man of the People", is a totally undeserved fluke that has made the GOP Corporate Est much more powerful than they ever have been.

"Campaigns leave a directive to groups on their public-facing websites describing the kind of targeted advertising that they want, which outside spending groups then use to craft advertisements on their behalf.

Around the text on their website is a literal red box " flagging committees to pay attention."

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"Since the US supreme court ruled in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission in 2010 that corporations and outside groups can lavish unlimited amounts of money on elections, spending has increased dramatically, with wealthy donors pouring money into elections " including state and local ones.

In its ruling on Citizens United, the court added a caveat: groups can spend unlimited funds on elections as long as they are not coordinating directly with the campaign to do so.

To get around that requirement, authors Gabriel Foy-Sutherland and Saurav Ghosh found, at least 240 Senate and House candidates in the 2022 elections cycle employed red-boxing; the strategy was most commonly used in competitive races.

And it pays off " campaigns that engaged in red-boxing earned hundreds of times more dollars in advertising by "independent" groups supporting their candidate.

The Federal Elections Commission has not only declined to prosecute red-boxing cases, it has also practically endorsed the strategy.

In response to a complaint that the 2020 presidential campaign for Pete Buttigieg had violated the rule against coordinating with independent groups by tweeting out a suggested advertisement strategy, FEC commissioners wrote in a memo that "the request or suggestion standard is meant to cover requests to select audiences, not statements to the general public".

In effect, said Foy-Sutherland, campaigns engaging in red-boxing are "outsourcing responsibility" to Super Pacs that "don't face the same kind of regulations on raising and spending money".

The practice is not limited to either party. Foy-Sutherland and Ghosh found that the strategy was deployed in 2022 by Democrats and Republicans alike."

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Both Parties do this, as happens when the rules can be stretched by one side, the other side has to do it to keep up.

But one Party got Citizens United into the Law, while the other has voted to change it.

CU explained:

Belarusian Nazis! Yeah, that's the ticket! - EffetePutin

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He's a true Vladite.

Here he is with the Committee now....