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I could continue my search for a topic that will elevate this site and improve my standing with the Ancient of Days, eschewing the pursuit of outrage porn to pop the national sphygmomanometer in a blood pressure crescendo and rally the hawks and river-to-the-sea chanters and MAGA to converge on my position in mindless rage. But then I ran into this on Gateway Pundit:
Jake Tapper recently tried to cover for MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ host Joe Scarborough’s consistent gaslighting that Joe Biden was fit for office by implying that he, along with other media members, were ‘targeted victims’ of Biden.
Somehow, I got through the whole assassination attempts, and ludicrous lawfare (34 felonies convicted the judge and prosecutor), SWATings against my neighbors, and the federal surveillance of my church; the rise of Adam Schiff and the Tommy Thompson farce; then there was the word salad wino; Ukraine is evacuating civilians from Sumy while the usual CIA propaganda channels report the collapse of Russia and the Russian army; and yet I never noticed—completely overlooked—the great tragedy that played out for five years before the eyes of the nation.
The real "victims" were Jake Tapper and Joe Scarborough. Because, with their superhuman "journalist" powers, they couldn't see through the most transparent White House ever (as they told us, again, and again, and again), and therefore were unable to notice what viewers at home picked up on in the summer of 2020. There is a reason these are the people that I check on to find out what today's blatant, mindless lie for universal dissemination is. There is a reason why I am immune to the sort that rail against my putting "journalist" in quotes when I speak of such media personalities.
Jake and Joe: the victims. Victimhood is what all of the best "journalists" are wearing this season. Perhaps Whoopi will start a GoFundMe for their benefit. Or they could do something on FansOnly.
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I think your original thought for a "journey" would have been more palatable than the pathetic assumption that Joe and Jake were victims. Please.
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I'll work on it. But there is this problem of, when they award me the Pulitzer Prize, I will have to purchase a mantle for it. It pays to think ahead on these things. And I was going to warn that Lindsey Graham wants to pass a disastrous sanctions bill that will essentially embargo anyone who ever buys a toothpick from Russia, an idea that Trump is backing away from after India and many other significant players voiced visceral hostility to the idea. But that bill will never pass this House, it merely illustrates the destructiveness of the hawks' obsession with Ukraine and Russia. And Jake and Joe are just so ripe for public ridicule.
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The Biden White House could have hawked glazing putty as salt water taffy and Jake and Joe would have wolfed it down.
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The way to do it is to bring the price of oil and gas down so low that Vladimir is hanging out on Red Square with a cardboard sign saying “Will Thug For Food.”
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