• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    This is so sad but very true.

    Seeing the comparison just now made me think about the fact that Heritage Foundation was created in large part because there were many Republicans (even within Nixon’s own administration) who didn’t believe he was conservative enough.

    There’s even conspiracy theories that members of the intelligence community started intentionally bungling orders/jobs that they were carrying out for Nixon (including Watergate) to create public scandals and give him enough rope to hang himself.

    So while it was a very big moment for America to see Nixon get impeached, the next Republican POTUS (Reagan) was carefully groomed before opening the door to allow the Heritage Foundation into the White House. This marked the beginning of the modern day far right movement and the creation of a post truth consensus reality by a president and his administration to control the American people on a massive scale.

    TLDR: I shudder to think about what comes after Trump if Americans never pull their heads out of the sand relationship between wealthy conservatives who own corporations and the U.S. intelligence agencies they fund.

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    17 hours ago

    Why is he smiling when he says it?

    “The one most frequently associated with lying was a high intensity version of the so-called Duchenne smile involving both cheek/eye and mouth muscles. This is consistent with the “Duping Delight” theory that “when you’re fooling someone, you tend to take delight in it,” Sen explained.”

    https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/data-science-facial-expressions-who-if-lying-321252/

    This is an involuntary reaction and Trump isn’t meaning to smile, but he is lying and his facial expression gives him away.

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      10 hours ago

      Smiling because he knows he is safe. Reminds me of how OJ Simpson behaved in the civil trial after he got off on the criminal one. Abusers always get cocky when they know no one can touch them.

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah that was great how she just ignored his attempts to assassinate her character and deflect and she just kept on with reasonable questions. That one was definitely some covert shade haha

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    18 hours ago

    Lol.

    Remember when Nixon was the worst Republicans could do?

    Seems like a fucking angel now.

    And millions of dipshit losers will keep voting for GOP candidates. Despite the most blatantly obvious example of why we shouldn’t that we’re ever likely to get.

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      13 hours ago

      And millions of dipshits bought into the “dont vote genocide-joe” Russian propaganda, so…

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      15 hours ago

      Remember when Nixon was the worst Republicans could do?

      Y’all really need to learn about Dwight D. Eisenhower, Calvin Coolidge, and William McKinley

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    22 hours ago

    Both of whom enjoyed widespread popularity.

    Because media’s just a thing, no one’s swayed by it.