Right wing nuts worldwide.

[schuylaar]

it was funny his body language was terrible; i didn't need a translator; did you notice how many body moves were Trumpian? the outstretched hand- they should've painted his face orange, what a little mini me.

 

[captainmorgan]

A new survey of tRUmp voters says they prefer Putin over Biden, a cult of traitorous morons.

 

[captainmorgan]

Netanyahu refuses to leave the official residence, he was suppose to leave 6 days ago. Just cut off the water and power to get rid of a squatter.

 

[hanimmal]

Netanyahu refuses to leave the official residence, he was suppose to leave 6 days ago. Just cut off the water and power to get rid of a squatter.

How did Netanyahu treat Palestinians that were being evicted?

 

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Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories | FiveThirtyEight

Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories

Think of a conspiracy theorist. How do they see the world? What stands out to them? What fades into the background? Now think of yourself. How does the way you see things differ? What is it about the way you think that has stopped you from falling down a rabbit hole?

Conspiracy theories have long been part of American life, but they feel more urgent than ever. Innocuous notions like whether the moon landing was a hoax feel like child’s play compared to more impactful beliefs like whether vaccines are safe (they are) or the 2020 election was stolen (it wasn’t). It can be easy to write off our conspiracy theorist friends and relatives as crackpots, but science shows things are far more nuanced than that. There are traits that likely prime people to be more prone to holding these beliefs, and you may find that when you take stock of these traits, you aren’t far removed from your cousin who is convinced the world is run by lizard people.
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Netanyahu refuses to leave the official residence, he was suppose to leave 6 days ago. Just cut off the water and power to get rid of a squatter.

Don't they have a prison cell waiting for him? He, like Trump, will be living rent free one day and like Trump, is increasingly desperate. Wait until the indictments arrive and the court case begins if ya wanna see crazy, at least in the big apple.

 

[HGCC]

That's been one of the more interesting parts for me, how so many people are sucked into this bizarre belief system. It's really fascinating, Q has absorbed other conspiracies and just keeps rolling on, getting bigger and wackier.wackiest.

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sadly, if he behaves he won't get 10 but i have a feeling this person has anger management issues due to being a Trumper or a Darren or both they're really the same thing..first you're a Darren until you realize there's a group for you.

Darren is a fantastic term and good name choice. Never met one that wasn't a Richard.

 

[hanimmal]

That's been one of the more interesting parts for me, how so many people are sucked into this bizarre belief system. It's really fascinating, Q has absorbed other conspiracies and just keeps rolling on, getting bigger and wackier.wackiest.



Darren is a fantastic term and good name choice. Never met one that wasn't a Richard.

The beauty of data analysis.

Anyone that believes in Q should take all their electronic devices to the shop to get all the spyware wiped off them, change all their accounts and just stop all online activity.

Because whatever deep dark secrets they have are being exploited to keep them brainwashed.

 

[captainmorgan]

Tucker Carlson outed for gossiping about Trump with the very same reporters he mocks on air: report

Tucker Carlson may call journalists "cringing animals" on his Fox News program, but behind the scenes he's one of the top sources for gossip about Donald Trump and his colleagues at the conservative network.Carlson is a former reporter himself and the son of a journalist, and more than a dozen...

www.rawstory.com

 

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[mooray]

That's exactly what sympathizing looks like, we've the same issues.

 

[Sofa King Smoooth]

Prepping just in case. Yeah. That's it.

 

[printer]

Just a few good old boys having fun.

 

[hanimmal]

I would love to do a deep dive in this data, my bullshit guess is that the vast majority of difference between the 'Far Right' post engagement is trolls manipulating these potential extremists.

Looks like Russia is pushing unrest in France.


I am curious about the impact on their elections.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57631418

France has held its second round of regional elections, with Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) again failing to take power anywhere.

President Emmanuel Macron's party also suffered bad results, while the centre-right Republicans and the Socialist Party both received surprise boosts.

Turnout for Sunday's elections was at a record low, with under 35% of eligible voters casting their ballots.

It comes ahead of French presidential elections due in April next year.

Mr Macron's centrist La République En Marche (LREM) party, which performed badly in the first round of regional elections last week, also failed to win control of any region.

It was the first time President Macron's party had taken part in regional elections, as it did not exist the last time they were held in 2015.

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Sunday's results are a blow to Ms Le Pen, who had hoped Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur would be her party's first regional victory as she seeks to boost her presidential hopes for 2022.

But in Provence, the hotly tipped RN candidate Thierry Mariani lost to Republican Renaud Muselier.

"Tonight we have chosen the fate of a free region," Mr Muselier tweeted. Left-wing candidates withdrew from the race in the region to help him defeat rival Mr Mariani.

Ms Le Pen accused her rivals of forming "unnatural alliances" to block her and her party from power.

"[They] did all they could to keep us out and prevent us from showing the French our capacity to lead a regional administration," she told supporters.

The Hauts-de-France region around Calais in the north had also been earmarked as a potential gain for Ms Le Pen's RN, but was won by conservative Xavier Bertrand.

"The far-right has been stopped in its tracks and we have pushed it back sharply," he told his supporters after the polls closed.

Mr Bertrand's win will boost his prospects at becoming the Republican candidate in next year's presidential election.

Almost all of the incumbent regional presidents who ran again, whether left or right, were winners in Sunday's vote.

As with the first round of regional elections last week, voter numbers were at record lows.

When polls opened for voting last Sunday, almost 90% of the country's youngest voters failed to show up.

Abstention rates were only slightly lower for voters under 35.

A big disappointment for Le Pen

President Macron's party was already sidelined in these elections after its poor showing in the first round.

Marine Le Pen's also scored badly last Sunday, but she at least had hopes of picking up one region - which would have been a first and a boost for her presidential bid.

It didn't happen - once again her voters stayed away from the polls - and overall these elections have been a big disappointment for the hard right.

The winners are the mainstream right whose candidates held on easily to the regions they already controlled. One of them the former minister Xavier Bertrand, whose fief is the northern Hauts-de-France region, is now openly a candidate for the presidency next year.

 

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‘America is not racist’ becomes a GOP 2024 mantra - POLITICO
‘America is not racist’ becomes a GOP 2024 mantra
Lightning-rod issues such as critical race theory and “defund the police” are a staple for Republican contenders.

Democrats made structural racism a centerpiece of the 2020 presidential primary.

Now the Republican rebuttal is emerging as an early plank of the 2024 GOP contest: America is not a racist country.

The mantra, used by nearly all of the Republican contenders, is unavoidable in the earliest stages of the GOP’s nominating campaign. At the annual Family Leadership Summit in Iowa this month, all three potential presidential prospects on stage — former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — took turns joining in the refrain, in one form or another.

Top Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, have said publicly they don’t believe America is a racist country. But Republicans are hoping to portray the party as out of step with the thinking of mainstream America. And by attempting to harness lightning-rod issues such as critical race theory and “defund the police,” the GOP is signaling race will again be at the center of the 2024 campaign.

“It’s a winning issue with independents, and it’s good for the base, but I really think rank-and-file American voters who are in the middle, whether you’re center-left, center-right, suburban votes, parents, I think they all feel like America’s not a racist nation, critical race theory is being shoved down everybody’s throat,” said Bob Heckman, a Republican consultant who has worked on nine presidential campaigns, including Sen. Lindsey Graham’s in 2016. “I think this is a case of the Democrats going way too far, and I think it’s a very effective issue.”

The salience of hitting Democrats on the subject of race was discussed privately by GOP strategists on the sidelines of a Republican National Committee dinner in California last month, and again at a meeting of the Republican Governors Association last week in Aspen, Colo., according to multiple people who attended those events.

At the RGA gathering, the effectiveness of the “America is not a racist country” line was discussed specifically, with Republicans buoyed by GOP battleground state polling indicating the idea “white Americans are inherently racist” is deeply unpopular with voters, including independents.

By forcing Democrats to defend the rhetoric of the left, Republicans hope to tap into a vein of discontent that is already surfacing in suburbs where debates over racial equity initiatives in schools and the focus on systemic racism are roiling parents.

“This is not a close call,” said Curt Anderson, a top adviser to Florida Sen. Rick Scott, another potential presidential contender. “This is ‘Defund the Police’ 2.0.”

For Republicans, the focus on race is not without risk. Recent polls suggest majorities of Americans believe discrimination exists in America. More voters trusted Biden than Donald Trump to handle race relations when given the choice last year. And though the “defund the police” movement polls poorly with voters, the controversy surrounding critical race theory is not yet especially well-known among the broader electorate.

Still, for Republican primary voters, the issue is a no brainer. Public polling shows Republicans are paying more attention to critical race theory than Democrats — and they view it more negatively, making it a highly effective instrument in the party’s culture wars. In a Fox News poll last month, a majority of Republicans, when asked how things work in America today, said minorities are favored over whites. And the GOP’s own polling has convinced many Republican candidates that they can make inroads with independent voters by characterizing Democrats as overly focused on race.
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[hanimmal]

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-middle-east-business-europe-germany-59f1fa67e3922ba0272facf63eb93ae2

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister is signaling growing impatience with Iran, saying that a revival of the country’s frayed nuclear accord with world powers won’t be possible “forever,” a German magazine reported Friday.

The countries that remain parties to the agreement — Russia, China, Germany, France, Britain and Iran — have been trying during six rounds of talks in Vienna to resolve how the United States can rejoin and how Tehran can return to compliance. President Donald Trump pulled out of the agreement in 2018, but successor Joe Biden has said the U.S. wants to return.

The last round of talks ended in Vienna on June 20. No date has been set for a new meeting.

“I am seeing with growing unease that Iran is delaying the resumption of the Vienna nuclear talks on the one hand, and on the other hand it is simultaneously moving further and further away from core elements of the agreement,” news weekly Der Spiegel quoted German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas as saying.

Since the U.S. pulled out, Iran has gradually been violating the deal’s restrictions to put pressures on the remaining parties to come up with economic incentives to offset crippling American sanctions.

The accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, is aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Tehran denies it is seeking any.

“We want a return to the JCPOA and are firmly convinced that it is in all sides’ interest,” Maas said. “But it is also clear that this option will not be open to us forever.”

 

[hanimmal]

https://apnews.com/article/africa-business-iran-israel-middle-east-4685093ec40dbf70e06ef0c8f3795095

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Navy explosive experts believe a “drone strike” targeted an oil tanker that came under attack off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, killing two on board, the American military said Saturday.

The strike Thursday night on the oil tanker Mercer Street marks the first-known fatal attack after years of assaults on commercial shipping in the region linked to tensions with Iran over its tattered nuclear deal. While no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, Israeli officials alleged Tehran launched the drone strike.

While Iran did not directly acknowledge the attack, the strike comes as Tehran now appears poised to take an even tougher approach with the West as the country prepares to inaugurate a hard-line protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as president.

The American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the guided missile destroyer USS Mitscher were escorting the Mercer Street as it headed to a safe port, the U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet said in a statement early Saturday.

“U.S. Navy explosives experts are aboard to ensure there is no additional danger to the crew, and are prepared to support an investigation into the attack,” the 5th Fleet said. “Initial indications clearly point to a (drone)-style attack.”

The 5th Fleet statement did not explain how it determined a drone caused the damage, although it described its explosive experts finding “clear visual evidence that an attack had occurred” aboard the Mercer Street. The U.S. military’s Central Command did not immediately respond to a questions on the evidence.

The drone attack blasted a hole through the top of the oil tanker’s bridge, where the captain and crew command the vessel, a U.S. official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as an investigation into the attack still was ongoing.

The Mercer Street is managed by London-based Zodiac Maritime, part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group. The firm said the attack killed two crew members, one from the United Kingdom and the other from Romania. It did not name them, nor did it describe what happened in the assault. It said it believed no other crew members on board were harmed.

British maritime security firm Ambrey said the attack on Mercer Street had killed one of its team members on board the vessel.

The Mercer Street, empty of cargo, had been on its way from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, at the time of the attack, Zodiac Maritime said. The attack targeted the tanker just northeast of the Omani island of Masirah, over 300 kilometers (185 miles) southeast of Oman’s capital, Muscat. Oman’s state-run news agency late Friday described the area as “beyond Omani regional waters” and said its forces responded to the tanker’s mayday call.

Zodiac Maritime described the Mercer Street’s owners as Japanese, without naming them. Shipping authority Lloyd’s List identified the vessel’s ultimate owner as Taihei Kaiun Co., which belongs to the Tokyo-based Nippon Yusen Group.

Israeli officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to talk to the media, blamed Tehran for the attack. They offered no evidence to support their claim.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tweeted late Friday that he spoke with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab about the “need to respond severely” to the attack, although he stopped short of directly blaming Iran.

“Iran is not just an Israeli problem, but an exporter of terrorism, destruction and instability that affects the whole world,” Lapid wrote. “We can never remain silent in the face of Iranian terrorism, which also harms freedom of navigation.”

Other Israel-linked ships have been targeted in recent months as well amid a shadow war between the two nations, with Israeli officials blaming the Islamic Republic for the assaults.

Israel meanwhile has been suspected in a series of major attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear program. Also, Iran saw its largest warship recently sink under mysterious circumstances in the nearby Gulf of Oman.

Thursday’s attack comes amid heightened tensions over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal and as negotiations over restoring the accord have stalled in Vienna. The series of ship attacks suspected to have been carried out by Iran began a year after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord in 2018.

The attack on the Mercer Street also came the night after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking from Kuwait, warned Iran that talks in Vienna over the nuclear deal “cannot go on indefinitely.”

This is the second time this month a ship tied to Ofer apparently has been targeted. In early July, the Liberian-flagged container ship CSAV Tyndall, once tied to Zodiac Maritime, suffered an unexplained explosion on board while in the northern Indian Ocean, according to the U.S. Maritime Administration.

 

[schuylaar]

That's been one of the more interesting parts for me, how so many people are sucked into this bizarre belief system. It's really fascinating, Q has absorbed other conspiracies and just keeps rolling on, getting bigger and wackier.wackiest.



Darren is a fantastic term and good name choice. Never met one that wasn't a Richard.

it's the male version of 'Karen' and i can't take credit.