Before that graphic she showed a clip 2023 interview she did with Hilldawg.

  • lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Gawd how I love RussiaGate. It's so perfect. They prevented HillKween from Slaying. They are responsible for all the online disinformation! They stole my pants. Goddamn Putin

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      They stole my pants. Goddamn Putin

      Carefully ya gotta check every inch of your room for Putin. He could be anywhere. Don't forget the sock drawer.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Putinite agents carefully added moisture to my dryer through a hidden tube so my socks always come out slightly wet

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Putin is hiding under my bed and now I'm afraid to sleep

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    4 months ago

    maddow spent like 20 minutes rehashing the 2016 russian interference narrative and said nothing about the pied piper strategy, clinton not campaigning in wisconsin, nor last month's statement from putin about preferring biden to trump in the present.

    i guess liberals can remember history more than a week if it's more convenient than what's actually happening.

    • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      last month's statement from putin about preferring biden to trump in the present

      Putin is really stupid but also playing international 4D chess

      • Egon [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        Fascists need their enemies to be both strong and weak at the same time, liberals need them to be both nefarious strategic geniuses and absolute hole-in-the-ground idiots.

    • edge [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      last month's statement from putin about preferring biden to trump in the present

      Really? Trump being elected would be a final blow for Ukraine.

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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        4 months ago

        President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would prefer to see U.S. President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced and predictable than Donald Trump — even though Moscow strongly disagrees with the current administration’s policies.

        Putin’s comments during an interview with Russian state television Wednesday were his first about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, likely to pit Biden against Trump. They were rare praise for Biden, a fierce critic of the Russian leader who has frequently lauded Trump.

        “Biden, he’s more experienced, more predictable, he’s a politician of the old formation,” Putin said, when asked which candidate would be better for Russia. “But we will work with any U.S. leader whom the American people trust.”

        https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-biden-trump-fb2fece0be7685624a3e3e379a8a3bd3 not sure if that's tracking garbage on the end there, you can search for the quote it's covered a lot

        • davel [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Trump being elected would be a final blow for Ukraine.

          If Trump’s rhetoric is to be believed. I have absolutely no reason to believe it.

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    So the Russians can hack our elections while losing a war against the mighty Ukraine? Impressive.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        They were hacking the election using chips from stolen Ukrainian washing machines

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          "Oh, now you're telling me they know what WASHING MACHINES are? They have to hand wash all their laundry using the nearest river, they don't know what a 'computer chip' is"

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      If a couple of 100.000 dollars' worth of Facebook ads can change the outcome of your election, then maybe that says a lot more about your political system than it does about the guys allegedly paying for the ads.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    It really is wild that dems want to constantly rehash 2016 considering, ya know, they blew the easiest election in a century in plain view of everybody.

    And the lesson the dems took from that was to double down on everything that made her lose.

    • davel [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      The Clintonian dynasty and their stans will never self-crit. They’ll blame anything & everything but themselves for 2016.

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        It truly was the beginning of "the democratic party cannot fail, it can only be failed" being the unironic party line

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      4 months ago

      Biden winning 2020 pretty much ossified the conviction in the minds of liberals that they were right all along and 2016 was a "fluke/Russian hack/left-wing failure...etc"

      Completely ignoring of course the fact it was covid that tanked Trump, not Biden

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
    ·
    4 months ago

    In other news - libs love milking Trump's "bloodbath" soundbite. They can't seem to understand that betting worked up and frothing at the mouth about a one-word Trumpism is giving Trump yet more free media and making him live even more rent free in their heads.

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      It's really the perfect "I don't need to self reflect" answer for libs. Why is Trump winning? Is it because Biden is unpopular? No! It's because the bad guys are doing it.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        America: elects a fascist kleptocrat

        America: This is because somebody else.

        Like, goddamn, Trump is the most American American to ever America. He is the indictment of how shitty this country can be. He's the low brow nouveau riche piece of shit this country produces. Tacky, gross, unpleasant, angry old white man. We mint motherfuckers like that. It's our goddamned national product.

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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          4 months ago

          That's what libs hate about him. He's the perfect representation of their country, and deep down, they know it and hate it. But unlike socialists who actually want to do something to fix or change that, they don't think there are any options other than trying to vote for a representative that lets them keep their heads in the sand.

          • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            Exactly. They hate leftist critiques because they are salient. I think it's why they always end up punching left. Right wing critiques can be ignored because right wing ideology is transparently dogshit. Centrist liberalism is actually vulnerable to left criticism. And it makes them very upset.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Wait a fucking minute, is that Jen Psaki? Biden's press secretary for like 2-3 years, lied all the time to cover for him? I sure bet we can rely on her to be unbiased.

    • NewLeaf
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      4 months ago

      She went back to brunch so hard too. Biden got elected, and after she ran enough interference for him, she quit and got a job as a pundit on a 24 hour news channel

    • davel [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Corporate news & punditry is nakedly clown-to-clown-communicationciaclown-to-clown-conversation communication.

  • homhom9000 [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    The funniest thing about Russiagate is that they couldn't come up with anything beyond, "the Russians are sowing discord by posting online about America". Not even hackers changing numbers or paying politicians off in a lobby group, just saying bad things to change people's mind in an election year. And liberals eat it up.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      Russiagate is such a hot button topic for them too. They don't seem to ever ruminate the specific details of the "significant" role American intel agencies said Russia played in the election. And they ignore how that "significant" role becomes so minor with adequate context. I like to remind them that CNN gave Trump something like a billion dollars in free media in the 2016 campaign. And every media outlet was feeding on the "Trump news" trough to grab eyeballs, sell ads, etc.

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Show

        Russia's greatest crime in 2016 dwarfs the billion dollars of free media for Trump

      • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        Then of course they say it’s okay when the US does the same to Russia, China, Cuba and every bad country US doesn’t like

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          "The CIA isn't all powerful, controlling all elections throughout the world, you're being a conspiracy crazy, and denying the agency of the local people around the world"

          Also

          "Putin controls Trump and his cultists. Xi controls the youth of America through TikTok and video games. We must ban all disinformation"

          Liberalism folks.

          • davel [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            I’ve heard both of these a million times, not uncommonly both from the same person doomer

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      They claimed Russia hacked Hilary's emails but that turned out to be a lie.

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      Voting is still an essential tool of the bourgeois so they pretty much can’t say someone actually changed the outcome of the election otherwise elections themselves would be unnecessary.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I swear to God there is almost nobody i want to yell "go away" at more than Hillary Clinton.

    I mean, Kissinger is dead, so now Hilldawg is in the top spot.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 months ago

      "go away"

      Me too.

      Lin-Manuel Miranda is really dropping the football by not already having a 2016-themed musical called Hillary. Libs cannot get enough of her. More than anything else in the world - they want to her to win in 2016. And they'll never fully accept she didn't do it. These could be the lyrics to the lead song...

      What if... (Oh, yes?)
      What if... (Say more.)
      What if... (Do tell!)

      Hillary won! (Eff yeah!)

      "Eff yeah" in matinees because children are more likely to be present but the full monty "Fuck yeah!" in evening performances. The Hillary merch shop instantly sells out of the two versions of the t-shirt every time they restock. And there's a bit of a scandal when LMM Productions starts aggressively suing even the tiniest stores (Esty, etc) for selling "Eff yeah"/"Fuck yeah!" t-shirts with the text in a font similar to the venerable HillaryFont™.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          4 months ago

          Other songs include...

          • 2016/1776
          • Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now (Hip-hop remix)
          • Chelsea in the Wings
          • Copium Is the Bestium
          • Love a Liberal (Unironically)
          • Russia! Russia! Russia!
          • Tim Kaine in da Membrane
          • We Win Arguments and Elections
            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
              hexagon
              ·
              4 months ago

              In ultraVIP performances in LA, NYC, & DC (sorry real America!) - special performances and appearances by...

              • U2 (via satelite from Las Vegas) + Tom Hanks
              • The Beach Boys + President Bill Clinton
              • Chicago + Lena Dunham
              • Cypress Hill + Tim Kaine
              • Grand Funk Railroad + Jon Stewart
              • John Legend + Amy Schumer
              • [Extra Special Musical Guest(s)] + Oprah
  • buh [any]
    ·
    4 months ago

    They start election interference season earlier every year 😒

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      The media was absolutely desperate to try to make the primaries a horse race so now that they finally had to admit what everybody knew 8 months ago, that it was gonna be Biden Trump, they've gotta come up with sonething else and the Russian interfearance shit had every lib in the country learning the names of third string state department ghouls.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      I wasn't going to let him mark his territory unchallenged, so I shat a little more on top of that.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    Automaton's election interference has already begun

      • nohaybanda [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        They don’t. These days they use vibe spectography to measure the relative amplitudes of the Putler and Democracy peaks and extrapolate from there

  • edge [he/him]
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    edit-2
    4 months ago

    I swear I’m going to be perpetually stuck some time between 2016 and 2020 (inclusive). Not just because of elections, but they sure don’t help.

    How the fuck has it been >3 years since 2020?