lol @ the name of the party jesus
I cant believe a wombat ate my face off!!!!
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Devout anti vaxxer / covid denier has ling term covid effects:
must've been caused by the vaccines!!!!
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As long as it doesnt affect me personally
It's a conservative news room. Good on her for being realistic with her expectations.
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https://www.azfamily.com/2023/07/07...aw-by-tweeting-x-rated-pictures-hunter-biden/
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When he retired who dya reckon took the mantle of the rudest dial in footy?Yep. It's been well documented that ling term effects turn you into a clown
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Punchable ill give you but ugly…..Dunno. Toby Greene has an unusual noggin!
Whereas cam ling always reminded me of :
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Wombat-ception:
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Last week, a former Oath Keeper named Ray Epps filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News. And it was made possible by Tucker Carlson, whose reckless conspiracy-mongering about Epps’s alleged role in January 6 represented the sort of legal liability that probably made it easier for Rupert Murdoch to show him the door a few months ago.
Epps, a two-time Trump voter, flew to DC from his home in Arizona in January 2021 to protest the certification of Biden’s win. He attended the January 6 rally on the Ellipse and was at the front lines when the Capitol barricades were breached. Nonetheless, he found himself at the center of a conspiracy theory blasted out by Carlson, who alleged Epps was a federal agent dispatched to incite the crowd to violence and bring shame upon Donald Trump’s peace-loving voters.
In his complaint, Epps says that he left his hotel on the evening of January 5 after being told that a group of Trump supporters was “becoming confrontational with police and Black Lives Matter protestors.” He hoped to “calm the situation” because he was a former marine and “Marines are always in the front.” He says that Gionet was leading a small group in taunting police officers, and when Epps urged them to respect law enforcement, the crowd turned its anger toward him. From the complaint:
Gionet live-streamed the event to his followers, but that wasn’t the only time that Epps was caught on camera in his visit to DC. The next day, January 6, he attended the pre-riot rally, but “to his disappointment, he could not hear most of the speeches because he was positioned near someone spreading the gospel through an amplified sound system.” He then “began directing people towards the Capitol” where he says he “made his way to the barricades” and “sought to diffuse [sic] the situation” as the crowd grew more agitated.
Epps was caught on police body-worn cameras talking to other protestors in the crowd as the first barricade was breached. In his testimony and lawsuit, he says that he was trying to talk the mob down and only entered the building to try to deter rioters from harming police. To be fair, he also testified that he routinely brings tourniquets and breathing tubes with him on all trips, and that he left the Oath Keepers because its leader Stewart Rhodes was planning to infiltrate antifa and “try to turn them to our way of thinking.” So … make of that one what you will.
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Whatever the truth of the matter, Epps’s unmasked face was captured on multiple cameras, and he appeared in some of the first images the FBI posted online in the aftermath of the attack. In his complaint, Epps says that he immediately contacted the FBI and spoke to federal agents. His photo was later removed from the list of suspects sought by law enforcement, and he believed the matter to be at an end.
But at the same time, a counter narrative was taking shape in right-wing media. Perhaps seeking to deflect blame, the very Republican legislators who’d aggressively peddled the lie about a stolen election first tried to blame antifa for the violence.
"Some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters," Rep. Matt Gaetz said to jeers on the House floor just days after the attack. "They were masquerading as Trump supporters and, in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa."
That conspiracy never managed to take hold, not only because it was nonsense, but also because it would have prevented groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys from taking credit for what they’d done. Ditto for the idea that antifa agitators had infiltrated the crowd and incited violence. But as it emerged that the FBI had multiple informants embedded in the militia groups which led the mob, and that Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio had himself been an informant, the right began to coalesce around a theory that the FBI itself had seeded the crowd with agitators in an attempt to spark a riot and discredit Trump and his supporters.
In that light, Gionet’s video of Epps along with the video of him at the barricade was quickly seized on as evidence that he was an agent provocateur sent by the feds to goad the crowd into breaking the law.
It should be said that Epps, who at one time chaired the Arizona branch of the Oath Keepers, was very clearly not a federal agent. He attended the rally with his own son; he testified to Congress under penalty of perjury that he had no contact with law enforcement prior to coming to DC; the feds posted his photo online; and (not for nothing) he’s put the issue at the center of a lawsuit.
But by summer of 2021, when the government failed to charge him, it became an article of faith in certain corners of the internet that Epps was a government plant. And then in October of 2021, Tucker Carlson pushed that lie out to the masses in a “documentary”called “Patriot Purge” that aired on Fox’s streaming service.
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For more than a year, in upwards of a dozen segments, Carlson continued to push the “FedEpps” storyline. In January of 2022, he called Epps “the central figure” in the January 6 riot and claimed that he “stage-managed the insurrection.”
In July of last year, he hosted Darren Beattie, a former Duke instructor who got fired from the Trump White House for being too racist. Beattie landed at the wingnut website Revolver, where he published several articles about Epps, flogging the insane theory that the feds dispatched this one guy and sent him to frame the poor MAGA patriots for mounting a coup.
“He’s the smoking gun of the entire fed-surrection,” Beattie vamped.
“And they go crazy when you ask simple questions like, what was the role of federal law enforcement or the military in this day?” Carlson agreed. “And it’s been our experience that when they won’t answer a question and call you names for asking it, maybe there’s something there.” (Watch the segment below.)
Never mind that the militias descended on DC in tactical gear with a plan to attack the Capitol. Or that the crowd shouted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they rampaged the halls of Congress armed with bear mace, zip-tie handcuffs, and flagpoles brandished as weapons. Or that they only believed that the election had been stolen, thanks to months of lies pumped out by Fox itself.
On January 6, 2023, the two-year anniversary of the attack, Carlson again blasted Epps, citing his testimony to the January 6 Committee as evidence as a coverup:
How Tucker's "FedEpps" conspiracy theory led to Fox News's latest legal mess
Reckless smears have consequences.
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Last week, a former Oath Keeper named Ray Epps filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News. And it was made possible by Tucker Carlson, whose reckless conspiracy-mongering about Epps’s alleged role in January 6 represented the sort of legal liability that probably made it easier for Rupert Murdoch to show him the door a few months ago.
Epps, a two-time Trump voter, flew to DC from his home in Arizona in January 2021 to protest the certification of Biden’s win. He attended the January 6 rally on the Ellipse and was at the front lines when the Capitol barricades were breached. Nonetheless, he found himself at the center of a conspiracy theory blasted out by Carlson, who alleged Epps was a federal agent dispatched to incite the crowd to violence and bring shame upon Donald Trump’s peace-loving voters.
MAGA’s desperation to shift blame for J6 led to a wild conspiracy theory with Epps at the center
The theory had its genesis in an encounter between Epps and far right media personality Timothy Gionet, better known as “Baked Alaska.”In his complaint, Epps says that he left his hotel on the evening of January 5 after being told that a group of Trump supporters was “becoming confrontational with police and Black Lives Matter protestors.” He hoped to “calm the situation” because he was a former marine and “Marines are always in the front.” He says that Gionet was leading a small group in taunting police officers, and when Epps urged them to respect law enforcement, the crowd turned its anger toward him. From the complaint:
You can watch footage of the events depicted in that excerpt in the below video, which is timestamped to start with Epps’s January 5 interaction with Gionet.
Gionet live-streamed the event to his followers, but that wasn’t the only time that Epps was caught on camera in his visit to DC. The next day, January 6, he attended the pre-riot rally, but “to his disappointment, he could not hear most of the speeches because he was positioned near someone spreading the gospel through an amplified sound system.” He then “began directing people towards the Capitol” where he says he “made his way to the barricades” and “sought to diffuse [sic] the situation” as the crowd grew more agitated.
Epps was caught on police body-worn cameras talking to other protestors in the crowd as the first barricade was breached. In his testimony and lawsuit, he says that he was trying to talk the mob down and only entered the building to try to deter rioters from harming police. To be fair, he also testified that he routinely brings tourniquets and breathing tubes with him on all trips, and that he left the Oath Keepers because its leader Stewart Rhodes was planning to infiltrate antifa and “try to turn them to our way of thinking.” So … make of that one what you will.
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Whatever the truth of the matter, Epps’s unmasked face was captured on multiple cameras, and he appeared in some of the first images the FBI posted online in the aftermath of the attack. In his complaint, Epps says that he immediately contacted the FBI and spoke to federal agents. His photo was later removed from the list of suspects sought by law enforcement, and he believed the matter to be at an end.
But at the same time, a counter narrative was taking shape in right-wing media. Perhaps seeking to deflect blame, the very Republican legislators who’d aggressively peddled the lie about a stolen election first tried to blame antifa for the violence.
"Some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters," Rep. Matt Gaetz said to jeers on the House floor just days after the attack. "They were masquerading as Trump supporters and, in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa."
That conspiracy never managed to take hold, not only because it was nonsense, but also because it would have prevented groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys from taking credit for what they’d done. Ditto for the idea that antifa agitators had infiltrated the crowd and incited violence. But as it emerged that the FBI had multiple informants embedded in the militia groups which led the mob, and that Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio had himself been an informant, the right began to coalesce around a theory that the FBI itself had seeded the crowd with agitators in an attempt to spark a riot and discredit Trump and his supporters.
In that light, Gionet’s video of Epps along with the video of him at the barricade was quickly seized on as evidence that he was an agent provocateur sent by the feds to goad the crowd into breaking the law.
It should be said that Epps, who at one time chaired the Arizona branch of the Oath Keepers, was very clearly not a federal agent. He attended the rally with his own son; he testified to Congress under penalty of perjury that he had no contact with law enforcement prior to coming to DC; the feds posted his photo online; and (not for nothing) he’s put the issue at the center of a lawsuit.
But by summer of 2021, when the government failed to charge him, it became an article of faith in certain corners of the internet that Epps was a government plant. And then in October of 2021, Tucker Carlson pushed that lie out to the masses in a “documentary”called “Patriot Purge” that aired on Fox’s streaming service.
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For more than a year, in upwards of a dozen segments, Carlson continued to push the “FedEpps” storyline. In January of 2022, he called Epps “the central figure” in the January 6 riot and claimed that he “stage-managed the insurrection.”
In July of last year, he hosted Darren Beattie, a former Duke instructor who got fired from the Trump White House for being too racist. Beattie landed at the wingnut website Revolver, where he published several articles about Epps, flogging the insane theory that the feds dispatched this one guy and sent him to frame the poor MAGA patriots for mounting a coup.
“He’s the smoking gun of the entire fed-surrection,” Beattie vamped.
“And they go crazy when you ask simple questions like, what was the role of federal law enforcement or the military in this day?” Carlson agreed. “And it’s been our experience that when they won’t answer a question and call you names for asking it, maybe there’s something there.” (Watch the segment below.)
Never mind that the militias descended on DC in tactical gear with a plan to attack the Capitol. Or that the crowd shouted “Hang Mike Pence!” as they rampaged the halls of Congress armed with bear mace, zip-tie handcuffs, and flagpoles brandished as weapons. Or that they only believed that the election had been stolen, thanks to months of lies pumped out by Fox itself.
On January 6, 2023, the two-year anniversary of the attack, Carlson again blasted Epps, citing his testimony to the January 6 Committee as evidence as a coverup:
And as goes Tucker Carlson, so goes the Republican Party. Senators Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson, as well as multiple GOP reps, including Thomas Massie, Matt Gaetz, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, fanned the flames of the false Epps story.
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Most satisfyingly wombatty:
www.businessinsider.com
A woman facing felony charges for her role in Michigan's 'fake elector' scheme bragged in May about not being in jail
Michigan Republican Party co-Chairwoman Meshawn Maddock tweeted in May about how she was still free while she said Democrats wanted her arrested.
www.businessinsider.com
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All the cookers thinking there's no harm in letting 'both sides' freely present their cases like to pretend this isn't the outcome.
