Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[Mav]

As I noted above, I won’t be counting my chooks before they’re hatched and I expect the Democrats won’t either. But I hope someone on the Democratic side of the fence is planning to stop Trump from setting fire to the joint if he loses.

The problem is that EVERY member of the House has to seek re-election and presumably they’re campaigning now and a third of the Senators are in the same position. I hope there are some party officials who can do the honours until the election is over.

Trump will have more than 2 months as President after the election if he loses and if he’s in the mood to take revenge on perceived enemies and create mayhem. Can the Congress quickly initiate impeachment hearings to kick him out if he cuts loose? One problem is that the new Congress won’t be seated until the new year, so the Republicans can quickly acquit Trump as they have a majority (and 60 out of 100 votes would be needed to kick Trump out). But surely the Republicans will start to abandon Trump if he loses the election.

What could he do? Sack non-Trump bureaucrats and the FBI Director, appointing a flunky to persecute his enemies. He could punish States that vote against him by withholding federal funds. He could whip up violence among militias and use that to send in federal agents to crack down on minorities and likely Democratic voters. He could create a constitutional crisis by declaring that he won’t respect the outcome of the election. He has enough time and malice to do a heap of things.

[Mav]

Flyboy, Tucker Carlson almost made Fetch a thing!

He told his viewers that he had come into possession of a cache of secret documents that would bust open the Hunter Biden Scandal [sup]TM[/sup]. But the evil Satanic Paedophile Democrats have managed to save Biden again!

Carlson claimed a “source” gave the Fox News show “damning” documents about Biden on Monday. Carlson’s producer shipped the documents across the country via a “brand-name company,” but they never arrived.

Instead, the shipping company said the package had been opened and the documents were missing.

The shipping company launched a search and called in security to interview everyone who touched the documents, Carlson said.

“They went far and beyond, but they found nothing,” he said. “Those documents had vanished.”

He said the unnamed company’s executives are “baffled and deeply bothered by this, and so are we.”

Carlson did not explain why they shipped the only copy of “damning” documents.

Tucker Carlson’s Conspiracy Theory Falls Apart In The Weirdest Way Possible, HuffPost.

It’s worth checking out the article for the tweets of sympathy sent out to Carlson by concerned citizens ?

[LP]

Yes, I had the cure for cancer in the palm of my hand the other day, but as I ran through the streets proclaiming victory over the deadly disease it rained and I realised I hadn't used waterproof ink! :o

If only our office still had a photocopier, damn computers to hell!

Donald had received unequivocal proof that the China virus came from and was engineered by China, but unfortunately his fax/printer is made in America, it doesn't print Chinese characters!

[Baggers]

Flyboy, Tucker Carlson almost made Fetch a thing!

He told his viewers that he had come into possession of a cache of secret documents that would bust open the Hunter Biden Scandal [sup]TM[/sup]. But the evil Satanic Paedophile Democrats have managed to save Biden again!

Tucker Carlson’s Conspiracy Theory Falls Apart In The Weirdest Way Possible, HuffPost.

It’s worth checking out the article for the tweets of sympathy sent out to Carlson by concerned citizens ?

There were some classic Tweets sent to Carlson but my fave was, "It would be impossible to explain to aliens why Tucker Carlson has a show."

[Mav]

I loved the way it was branded “the Dog ate my conspiracy” excuse.  ^-^

No wonder Fox News defended a defamation suit against Tucker Carlson by arguing that no one takes him seriously. He’s just Alex Jones in a bow tie.

But you have to give the right wingers their due: they sure know how to whip up a conspiracy they can tease out each day with new “revelations”.

[LP]

The major US retailers appear so fearful of social disintegration surrounding a Trump loss and Trump then setting fire to the joint in the coming months, and it seems they now think he is going to lose, so they are pulling weapons and ammo from the shelves!

[Mav]

Reportedly, Democratic voters were the ones causing the spike in sales. They anticipate a Biden win being met with a violent response from white supremacists, militias, and other Trump diehards.

[LP]

Reportedly, Democratic voters were the ones causing the spike in sales. They anticipate a Biden win being met with a violent response from white supremacists, militias, and other Trump diehards.

I read it's not really a sales spike, it removing weapons and ammo from shelves ahead of expected looting and riots under a Trump burning down the house response!

Trump, just an ordinary guy, burning down the house!

[Mav]

The Hunter Biden “scandal” becomes more bizarre by the moment.

That motherTucker Carlson now says that UPS has found the missing thumbdrive, but he still suggests the dark Biden forces somehow made it disappear in the first place. He also concedes he had a copy anyway, so there was nothing stopping him from running with the story. So why hasn’t he done so? Because, he says, he’s a nice guy who won’t kick a man when he’s down 

More likely, his magnanimous decision has more to do with an expose by NBC News: How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge.

One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake "intelligence" document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden's son and business in China.

The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm" called Typhoon Investigations, according to researchers and public documents.

The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen's profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said that no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.

One of the original posters of the document, a blogger and professor named Christopher Balding, took credit for writing parts of it when asked about it and said Aspen does not exist.

The document gained attention from disinformation researchers in part because of the image of the document's author.

Elise Thomas, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, first spotted telltale signs of a fake photo when she went searching for Typhoon Investigations' Aspen on the web. Thomas found a Twitter account for Aspen named @TyphoonInvesti1, which had posted a link to Typhoon's WordPress page that contained the document on Aug. 15.

The profile picture for Aspen immediately showed signs of being a computer-generated image that can be created by computers and even some websites. Aspen's ears were asymmetrical, for one, but his left eye is what gave away that he did not really exist. Aspen's left iris juts out and appears to form a second pupil, a somewhat frequent error with computer-generated faces.

"The most obvious tell was the irregular shape of the irises," Thomas said. "The profile picture looks pretty convincing in the Twitter thumbnail, but when I popped it up into full view I was immediately suspicious."

Thomas then consulted with Ben Nimmo, director of investigations at the analytics company Graphika, who noted the other telltale sign of a computer-generated face.

"One of the things he and his team have figured out is that if you layer a lot of these images over the top of one another, the eyes align," Thomas said. "He did that with this image, and the eyes matched up."

Other parts of Aspen's identity were clearly stolen from disparate parts of the web. Aspen's Facebook page was created in August, and it featured only two pictures, both from his "new house," which were tracked back to reviews on the travel website Tripadvisor. The logo for Typhoon Investigations was lifted from the Taiwan Fact-Checking Center, a digital literacy nonprofit.

If anybody needed any evidence that Trump and his merry band of ratf*ckers are the sleaziest criminals ever to grace the White House, look no further.

And to think Rudy Guiliani came out with the remarkable proposition that Twitter & Facebook should allow this cr@p (he was referring to the NY Post smear) to spread because even if it is disinformation the American public has a right to know it :

[Thryleon]

Watched gogglebox last night.

Saw the scene described here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oc...borat-film

It is not as innocent as Rudi paints but that girl looked more like a hooker than a teenager.