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“I arrived at the understanding that this special military operation was inevitable,” she said. “It would have come to this no matter what. And had we not acted first, war would have been unleashed against us,” she added, mirroring the false claims of victimhood at the hands of the West that state media relentlessly communicate. |
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“I do not trust our TV,” she said. “I cannot be certain they are not telling the truth, I just don’t know. “But I have my doubts,” she added. |
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The arsonist in chief, who spent the past four years being as reckless as humanly possible, is lighting a whole bunch more fires with the GOAL of them being impossible to pueckless as humanly possible, is lighting a whole bunch more fires with the GOAL of them being impossible to put out. |
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As Trump Pursues Strategy of Chaos and Confusion, Biden Urged to 'Go Big and Fast' to Fix 'Broken' Government |
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Editorial: As Trump nears the exit, never forget his inhumane treatment of children |
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As well her claims Thursday, Powell has claimed some election machines used in US elections were designed specifically to rig election races in Latin America, a claim rebutted by the fact-checking site PolitiFact. |
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Powell is now redeploying the playbook she used to defend Flynn, this time to stir suspicion of the election result that the Trump campaign is pushing to overhaul, in a bid experts think has essentially no chance of success. |
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Powell is now redeploying the playbook she used to defend Flynn, this time to stir suspicion of the election result that the Trump campaign is pushing to overhaul, in a bid experts think has essentially no chance of success. |
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Alex Kaplan, a researcher in disinformation at the progressive nonprofit Media Matters, noted that in November 2019, a year before her appearance at the Trump campaign press conference, Powell was interviewed on a popular QAnon YouTube channel. |
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While representing Flynn, Powell pushed the conspiracy theory, in opinion articles and Fox News interviews, that the Mueller investigation was a plot by "deep state" officials to unseat Trump. |
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Powell has likewise long shared QAnon slogans on social media, making her one of the first high-profile Trump supporters to back the movement. |
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Flynn is one of the heroes of the QAnon movement and has used QAnon slogans and hashtags in an apparent signal of allegiance. |
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Even before representing Flynn, she had expressed support for QAnon, which groundlessly alleges that a Satanic cabal of child-abusing Democrats and Hollywood stars secretly manipulates world events. |
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At a wild press conference Thursday, she alleged a vast plot involving the Venezuelan government and the financier George Soros to steal the election from President Donald Trump. |
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At a wild press conference Thursday, she alleged a vast plot involving the Venezuelan government and the financier George Soros to steal the election from President Donald Trump. |
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Sidney Powell, an attorney on the Trump campaign's legal team seeking to subvert the presidential election result, has a history of spreading conspiracy theories. |
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An attorney leading Trump`s attempt to subvert the election results is a longtime QAnon supporter |
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An attorney leading Trump`s attempt to subvert the election results is a longtime QAnon supporter |
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"Obviously he’s not going to concede when at least 600,000 ballots are in question," Giuliani claimed, |
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Our survival as a nation depends, above all, on the loser accepting the results of an election. |
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He will leave the White House the same way he governed: gracelessly, chaotically, putting his own interests first — and heedless of the damage he does to American democracy along the way. |
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He will leave the White House the same way he governed: gracelessly, chaotically, putting his own interests first — and heedless of the damage he does to American democracy along the way. |
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That makes it more difficult for other Republicans to cooperate with the incoming Biden administration, despite the president-elect’s professed intention to seek bipartisan accord. |
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This may sound like bare-knuckled politics with a Trump-era twist. But by keeping the myth of election fraud alive, the president is doing something his modern predecessors never did: He’s actively damaging his successor’s prospects of success. |
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But Trump’s continuing claims of fraud have turned his personal meltdown into a broader political crisis. |
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Some White House officials — the kind who insist on concealing their names when they’re quoted — have described a psychodrama in the halls of the White House, with a president who refuses to confront reality when it means he’ll wear the label he fears the most: Loser. |
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When Trump first claimed the election was still open, it was briefly plausible that he was doing what any loser in a close election might do: looking for a legal path to challenge the results. |
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His toxic politics will haunt the GOP and the country for years to come. |
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Trump will leave but his toxic politics are here to stay |
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Now, however, the United States has discovered what happens “when some other country tries to take our place or, maybe even worse, no one does, and you end up with a vacuum that is filled by bad events.” |
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Democracies have retreated. |
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Power vacuums have been created, and filled, often by China. |
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“On top of Trump embracing the world’s autocrats and poking his finger in the eye of our democratic allies, that’s another reason respect for American leadership is in free fall.” |
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“On top of Trump embracing the world’s autocrats and poking his finger in the eye of our democratic allies, that’s another reason respect for American leadership is in free fall.” |
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“On top of Trump embracing the world’s autocrats and poking his finger in the eye of our democratic allies, that’s another reason respect for American leadership is in free fall.” |
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Tragically, the one place Donald Trump has made ‘America First’ is his failed response to the coronavirus |
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But Trump’s defeat also sets the clock ticking on 11 weeks that some analysts believe could be the most dangerous period in US history, the time before the 20 January inauguration of Joe Biden during which a vengeful president can wreak havoc if he choses to do so. |
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They want to have all of their money and remain in power, and spend the money. Who knows with Donald Trump? |
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“I’ve had a lot of experience with autocrats, despots and third-world potentates, so I got to see how these people behave,” Nance said. |
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Ultimately, Trump will spend his final days in the White House trying to avoid looking like a loser or a failure, analysts say. |
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Other analysts agree. |
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“Anything which benefits him personally, anything that benefits what he believes is his brand, he will do.” |
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“He’s a compromised person, a broken asset of a foreign power, and has been under the thrall, the pay, or most likely the debt of Vladimir Putin,” Nance said. |
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Nance’s main concern is the possibility of civil unrest, from Trump supporters including armed militias, white supremacists and other activists fired up by perceived calls-to-arms by their leader. |
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Nance’s main concern is the possibility of civil unrest, from Trump supporters including armed militias, white supremacists and other activists fired up by perceived calls-to-arms by their leader. |
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While a flurry of executive actions to further roll back environmental and industrial regulations is possible, analysts believe a beaten Trump will be less motivated by politics and more focused on himself. |
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“We’re likely to see the greatest political temper tantrum in history. He may decide he wants to go out with a bang, he may decide he will not accept the election result. Who knows what a cornered autocrat will do?” |
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“We’re likely to see the greatest political temper tantrum in history. He may decide he wants to go out with a bang, he may decide he will not accept the election result. Who knows what a cornered autocrat will do?” |
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“If Trump loses power he’ll spend his last 90 days wrecking the United States like a malicious child with a sledgehammer in a china shop,” said Malcolm Nance, a veteran intelligence analyst and political author, speaking before the result of the election was known. |
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The next 11 weeks could be the most dangerous in US history, some analysts believe, with a vengeful and fearful lame duck incumbent |
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The next 11 weeks could be the most dangerous in US history, some analysts believe, with a vengeful and fearful lame duck incumbent |
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Joe Biden was elected the nation’s 46th president Saturday in a repudiation of President Trump powered by legions of women and minority voters who rejected his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his divisive, bullying conduct in office |
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Words have consequences, and it's frightening what sort of action this rhetoric might inspire. |
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But, that said, it's not really surprising that Hannity and the other pro-Trump propagandists are undermining the election. |
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Oliver Darcy writes: "It is hard to overstate how reckless, irresponsible, dishonest, and dangerous the rhetoric coming from Fox's biggest stars is. |
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So let's start with the facts, then deal with the pro-Trump media's poisonous content. |
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Fox's coverage matters enormously because tens of millions of Trump voters are being misled by it. |
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Luck aside, though, Trump is not good at his job. He doesn’t even seem to like it much. He is too undisciplined and thin-skinned to be effective at politics over a sustained period, which involves winning repeated elections |
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These people win elections but subvert democratic norms: by criminalizing dissent, suppressing or demonizing the media, harassing the opposition, and deploying extra-legal mechanisms whenever possible (Putin’s opponents have a penchant for meeting tragic accidents). |
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From an international perspective, though, Trump is just one more example of the many populists on the right who have risen to power around the world: Narendra Modi in India, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Vladimir Putin in Russia, Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, my home country. |
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The party of national security, fiscal austerity, and personal responsibility supports a president who is in the pocket of the Russians, has exploded the national deficit, and refuses to take responsibility for anything. |
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Trump voters don’t care about policy. They didn’t care about it in 2016, and they don’t care about it now. |
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Now, by picking him again, those voters are showing that they are just like him: angry, spoiled, racially resentful, aggrieved, and willing to die rather than ever admit that they were wrong. |
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A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath |
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Nearly half of the voters have seen Trump in all of his splendor—his infantile tirades, his disastrous and lethal policies, his contempt for democracy in all its forms—and they decided that they wanted more of it. |
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The United States would begin its last days as a democracy, finally stepping over the ledge into authoritarianism. |
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If Trump were to maintain power, our child-king would be unfettered by bothersome laws and institutions. |
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In a moment of truth for America, Biden leads with facts while Trump leads with feelings |
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There is nothing suspicious about the fact that far more Biden voters than Trump voters chose to vote by mail: Biden encouraged his supporters to do so, while Trump relentlessly disparaged mail-in voting as fraud-prone and unsafe. |
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Aside from some valid criticism of errors by pollsters, some legitimate boasting about his performance with various demographic groups and some legitimate boasting about Republicans' down-ballot performance, almost everything Trump said was not true. |
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Trump delivers most dishonest speech of his presidency as Biden closes in on victory |
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If your right-wing aunt or uncle claims to have seen the top-secret globalist plans to have AOC secretly run the Treasury during a Biden administration, don't argue with them about how that's BS — just say, "Trump is a failure: Prove me wrong." |
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Trump is going to say wild and stupid things to distract voters. |
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Trump is making White men more and more dominant in two branches of government. He needs to be held to account for that, just as his racist and sexist rhetoric must be decoded and contextualized for news consumers. |
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Women in the party, too, provide cover for an abusive, predatory president when they look the other way or suggest he is pleasant to them so he cannot possibly be sexist. (A common excuse for abusive male personalities is to provide lists of women who praise them, as if proof that respect for certain women absolves them of sexism in treatment of other women who they think are not positioned to complain.) |
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Women in the party, too, provide cover for an abusive, predatory president when they look the other way or suggest he is pleasant to them so he cannot possibly be sexist. |
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Women in the party, too, provide cover for an abusive, predatory president when they look the other way or suggest he is pleasant to them so he cannot possibly be sexist. |
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It is critical when interviewing other Republicans to press them to condemn Trump’s comments. Do not let them wave off the queries or move to other topics. |
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It is meant to reinforce the stereotype that women must be docile, respectful and pleasing to men. |
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All of his targets are women; he invariably demeans their intellect and temperament. |
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President Trump and his right-wing sycophants are no longer hiding their racism and misogyny: |
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President Trump and his right-wing sycophants are no longer hiding their racism and misogyny: |
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So ist YouTube zu einer "Radikalisierungmaschine" geworden, wie Technosoziologin Zeynep Tufekci schrieb. |
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Leider nutzen Verschwörungstheorien unsere positive Fähigkeit der Gutgläubigkeit aus. |
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Deshalb können alle Verschwörungstheorien auch antisemitisch gewendet werden, stets schwingt die kleine Gruppe der bösen Manipulatoren in der Erzählung mit. |
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Verschwörungstheorien können Menschen radikalisieren, weil sie Weltbilder erzeugen, in denen Gefahr droht von einer geheimen, kleinen, supermächtigen Gruppe, gegen die man sich wehren muss. |
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Was mit Sinnsuche und Neugier beginnt, kann in einem bedenklichen Weltbild enden - auch wegen der Algorithmen von Diensten wie YouTube. |
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