Comments by "Truth Ray" (@truthray2885) on "The Bulwark" channel.

  1. The Heritage Foundation and its sub group, Heritage Action, absolutely LEAPT to exploit Trump's "Big Lie" after the 2020 election by having intensive secret meetings with GOP- controlled state legislatures where it pushed "model legislation" at them calculated to suppress non-Fascist votes in those states, and urged legislators to lie to their voters by pressing the idea there was a "voter groundswell" of pressure for such legislation, when there wasn't. But they created the nexus between the Big Lie and that movement toward unneeded "voter security" laws even though no fraud had been found in the 2020 outcome, because no "Big Lie" can go unexploited by the Heritage Foundation and its corrupt, authoritarian and racist mandarins.
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  2. "It's being debated now." Prof Jeffrey Rosen of Rutgers, a journalist, talks about "reverse verification", and the fact that these people who begin with a lie they want to sell, and then invent the other lies they need to sell the first lie. The key lie. The lie they want to make paramount. And so you get "It's being debated now." But it's only "being debated" because of the tear in reality they created with the first lie, and pressed "debate" by inventing all the other lies to "prove" their point. And that's exactly what we see them doing with their defense of this outrage. .
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  3. LOL "You can't go whole hog...." Fox News only goes whole hog on defamation, we know that.
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  4. Tim, that is CLEARLY a rubber prosthetic six pack, Man!!!!! Cool DOWN!! Why, I myself have a six pack, I simply choose to keep it in a 30 gallon cooler! That somehow fits under my shirt!
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  5. That "Say it to my face" bit. I wish Kamala would add, "Put your girdle and your foundation garments on, and meet me in the ladies' room ......."
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  6. Please accept American emigres.
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  7. The whole GOP carried Trump's hideously dangerous lie about a stolen election forward because they immediately understood that whatever the fate of Trump's election, THEY could use it in the states to inflame voters toward unneeded and un-American voter suppression laws in the states, where the rubber really meets the road on elections. So that's what they did, and they got those laws. They never looked back, and to this day they repeat those lies, because they'll surely want to tighten the screws further when the moment's ripe. And the fact that on Tuesday, Trump told Lex what's his name in a podcast that he DID lose the 2020 election "by a whisker" won't change anything, because by the end of the week, that admission will have been made a billion years ago, MAGA time, and so be of no meaning at all to them. They didn't even hear it anyway.
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  8. I hope she scorns him and his endless self serving chaos completely. She can begin from a point that everyone in the galaxy knows he wouldn't be retreating and coming up with all this other fuckery unless it was entirely self serving in his estimation. And she can so so clearly. And that NO ONE OWES IT TO HIM to accomidate his self serving motives and strategems. He backed out of a scheduled debate. He agreed to the debate. In terms of scheduling it makes no difference whether it's Joe or Kamala on the stage with him, so again, this is all about what he perceives to be his advantage. It shouldn't be accommodated. She can say, "I'll say this one last time. I will be at the originally scheduled debate, ready to go. If Trump is too chicken to show up, I will use the occasion to make an address to the nation of my positions. The end." You see how he treated those women of the NABJ. He will treat her the same way, for the same reasons. It won't be a debate he intends, it will be his raging abuse of a Black woman. She shouldn't give him the opportunity. We know she can handle him, and she knows and he knows she can handle him. But the spectacle he intends should be denied him. WE HAVE HEARD ENOUGH FROM HIM. Symbolically, she can present it as isolating him in a padded cell, closing the door behind him, and locking it on behalf of the nation. I think that would sell. The majority of the nation is ready for it.
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  9. I might have to make "amuse bouche" my new "nom de guerre." Or maybe my "nom de plume."
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  10. Dinesh's tweet to you. You know it already - these Trump automatons are absolutely unfixable. In the moment when you think they'd be most open to reform, they double down. Y'know those stories of kids or spouses lost to cults, and how one day after years of silence, they're found, and reluctantly agree to meet in a Texas desert two lane highway diner to "check in" and have a coke and a bologna sandwich and chips, and chat for a bit? And then, without a tear, but with a distant "leper" hug and an "Uh huh", they walk out the door after 20 minutes to be never heard from or seen again by their loved ones? That's who these people are. They have "slipped the surly bonds" of reason. They are living ghosts, unknowable to the sane.
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  11. I really like Sen. Bennett but I wish he didn't sound like a railing drunk every time he speaks. To his favor, he's not as unintelligible as Tom Hohman.
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  12. Everyone knows the Trump station on a garbage truck is NOT in the cab, but instead manning the inside and keeping secure the many varieties of delicacies and wonders there! He could have researched new menu items for the Mar A Lago dining room while in there.
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  13. Tim, can you point me / us in the direction of the email of Harris campaign comms director? Saw him on TV earlier, "Myers"? Somthing like that. A litigator for 40 years, I've got an angle - a good one.
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  14. Trump will seize upon the stupidest of non-issues if he thinks he can use it to rile up the mouthbrieathers, and that's what the base renaming thing is about, as you know. He is literally a rabble rouser. A malign infant.
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  15. JD Vance "brackeing the Harris-Walz campagin by following her-them around is Trump looming over Hillary Clinton, following her around on the stage in in the 2016 "debates." Pathetic, weird and creepy. Oh, I get why he's doing it but STILL pathetic, weird and creepy.
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  16. When I was a kid in elementary school, my parents got Time Magazine, and in my classroom, every week I got "My Weekly Reader." Back then, Time had substance. Today, it has less substance, and seemingly even fewer pages, than "My Weekly Reader" did back in those days. My mother (94) still gets it, but it's as light as a tissue, and I mean in ALL ways.
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  17. Aren't you convinced that Vance is "extreme" yet, Bill? What more proof do you need? And Tim - "tamping down"? Trump has brought us to full-on idiocracy now, and the GOP is its hive.
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  18. Tim, you've got to be balancing inside your head, "Those abs vs those eyebrows. Those eyebrows vs. those abs." This is a classic cancellation conundrum.
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  19. Sam, Trump taught his boys decades ago that a secret to weilding power was to make sure everyone you faced was shorter, or sitting lower than you. Being weaklings both of them, they took it too far and have baby stools as guests' chairs across the desk from them and their exalted height. And you can accomplish the same thing with a lower camera angle on yourself. Voila'.
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  20. Florida went all in on getting RFK Jr on our November ballot in spite of our state laws, and when newspapers demanded an explanation, both the governor and the Sec State, a MAGA insurrectionist militant named Cord Byrd, simply went dark and in spite of state "sunshine laws", have refused to even respond to the inquiries. Because Florida. Marc Elias should get in on this - Do you guys know him? Can you put in a word?
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  21. Tim, I wonder if you think it likely that all NATO countries know exactly where all Russian ICBM implacements, and mobile launchers too, are?
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  22. Yes, but what will the incompetent, unethical, unintellectual, and precedent disrespectful manipulators on the SCOTUS majority say about those false electors. Coney Barrett has spoken up on that issue, but that's still a minority of the justices. NO ONE SHOULD TRUST ROBERTS, ALITO, GORSUCH, THOMAS and KAVANAUGH,. They're ALL financially corrupt, and at least two of them are insurrectionist-friendly and not at all discrete about it.
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  23. I think the pronunciation sounds like "Gerbelz."
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  24. The SPEED with which JD Vance has demolished his own reputation in the last 2 years is absolutely astonishing.
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  25. OOP! Here he comes again, with the boys! https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1c/e6/e5/1ce6e5d4d4e991523e288ef334e8d7b8.jpg
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  26. Hegseth is the guy who a corrupt, dictator moron puts atop the Dept. of Defense when the corrupt dictator wants his own whims whipsawing that dept madly for the future without a bleat of protest from the titular head of that dept.
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  27. RICK!!!! TIM!!!!! TALK ABOUT "NESTOR"!!!!!!!! THAT WHOLE STORY IS DERANGED!!!!! "TAKEN IN" BY GAETZ AS A TEN YEAR OLD!!!!! NO ADOPTION EVER!!!!!! KEPT A SECRET FOR A DECADE until Gaetz spilled to Cedric Richmond on the floor of the House in a pissing match!!!!! TALK ABOUT NESTOR!!!!!!!!! WHAT'S THE BIG SECRET???!!!!!
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  28. I like the things I see and hear from Tim Waltz but I think the "Weird" thing could be supplanted with one of many far more powerful and descriptive single word dismissals than weird. Weird seems too mild, too Marquess of Queensberry. Shapiro seems very sharp and a real ripper and dissecter, which is what tens of millions of people want to see done with Trump, after all these years of rhetorical lethargy from Democratic Party leaders, and the media too God knows.
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  29. Tim, you look like you need to sleep for a day or two.
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  30. Love this video. I can't stand Mike Johnson - he feeds hatred of the non-vanilla part of America, and took months and months too long to get aid to Ukraine, but it is what it is. MTG is looking more and more like a dismembered torso by the day, and that's GREAT.
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  31. Oooooh, that McKinsey was a stone cold jab at Pete!!!! For SHAME. Pete is a perfect political figure. Who jousts better than Pete?!
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  32. I've been thinking Mitch Landrieu for many days now. He's a brilliant tough guy. He'd be a GREAT addition. Yes, there are other great additions - I mean great. But for knifework - Mitch. HELL yeah. And a Democrat through and through. AND the South. Cajuns and their cohorts AND minority communities.
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  33. That Lewandowsky "stabbing people" thing. Trump is an absolute infant. He attracts only absolute infants, and seeks only absolute infants to be in his circle and his service. Infants "get him." Infants believe he "sees them", and indeed he does. Only them. Lewandowsky's seduction methods are infantile, very naturally. That appeals to Trump, because his are too.
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  34. What is the real worth of "having demonstrated one's foreign policy chops" to..........Trump? THIS right here is normalization in action. Malign normalization.
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  35. Tim, I think Trump WILL duck a debate with her, and more than that, as she continues to flay and torture him over the coming weeks, I think he'll be absolutely in the throes agonizing for an excuse to quit completely, with some phony excuse back story. I mean think of it. He feels no loyalty to the GOP as a party (such as it is anymore) and what it wants. He has nothing but scorn for it. He can't and never does hew to what his handlers and advisers tell him to do - like today, which was a supernova of infantile stupidity. And at the end of the day, if he can abandon the GOP and the nomination just to duck out for 15 minutes to take a dump and grab a donut, he'd do it. Kamala is torturing him, and I'm almost to the point of believing that he would stride into Rikers or the Georgia State Prison System or / and federal prison , screaming about the injustice all the way of course, just to avoid what's in store for him over the next five months - and another loss in November.
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  36. That sign off - "Mom". Not "Love, Mom." She doesn't love him. That was purposeful. He disgusts her and obviously has for a long time, and she's said so. So - more candor. And what women COULD love males like these trash? I'm a parent, and I love my kids, but I'm a realist and there are lines that can't be crossed. And if they are, well - that's just it. You cannot let your kids abuse you, and you cannot license them to abuse others, and if you do, you're a failure as a parent.
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  37. Is Trump the long lost twin of Edwin Meese? Looks like it!
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  38. It sure took him long enough, but FINALLY!!!!!!
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  39. I vividly remember the night of the RNC when Trump trotted Pence out on the stage as his running mate. The camera panned to Pence's family, including his mother, in the audience. I clearly recall the look of pained, barely concealed horror on her face. And boy was she right. Her son had dived head first into the Trump cess pit. It's a wonder he escaped with his life.
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  40. These idiots are all "Trump DEI" hires.
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  41. Kamala is VERY Alpha. And it works. It's authentic. But the thing is, with the right advisors, SO MANY Democrats and Republicans too could have been the Alpha with Trump, and if they'd just stuck with it, and dared, and had an atom of courage, they could have demolished him. But all these "leaders" failed so utterly. It's a tragedy. "And a Black woman prosecutor shall save us."
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  42. Hey, that dance card was from when he was a "Bottomless Chips n Dippendale" dancer in the 80s!! You remember!
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  43. "DOUGHY DON" fin' ta git blown out!!!
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  44. Trump has NO SHAME. NOTHING embarrasses him. Don't kid yourselves. This isn't justice. Hopefully, he'll get Khaddafy justice in the street one day.
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  45. That's Fred Sr. Looking down at his son Donny behind Jr. Exact same soiled dynamic.
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  46. I think Bill's analysis is pretty trenchant.
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  47. Third time's the charm!
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  48. The entire nation should be applauding Hegseth's mother for her parental candor. When you're a parent, you're a parent until you die, and yes folks, it can be a massive burdern. She has a right to speak out, and speak to her despicable son that way, and as a parent myself, I call it heroic. What, you're supposed to turn a blind eye to the things your adult children do that harm others? I salute her. And when your adult offspring is a menace to society like Hegseth is, I salute her again for calling him out, condemning him, and leaking this email (!!!) She shouldn't have to stew in silence about his present course, and his unfitness. She's doing a national service.
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  49. Hey, Piers - NO decent person defends Greg Abbott about ANYTHING. got it? He's a monster. He gets no excuses.
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  50. Are we thinking about what happens to Trump's nationwide and likely global grifting operation if he loses this election by a substantial margin? It's likely dead, done, over, buried. I think that is terrifying him as much as any fear of federal prsison. If his grift suddenly dies, how does he pay his lawyers to keep fighting these rearguard actions? Wouldn't any sane lawyer jump ship when the losing count comes in election night at this point? I mean, he may try, but his succeeding with another Big Lie ongoing grift after a loss in November seems highly unlikely. I'll bet that's his most immediate nightmare now.
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