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    Last night, to my wife: “He’s going to claim ABC was rigged against him and that the debate moderators were slanted against him”

    This morning:

    So predictable.

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    ABC is a network that doesn’t have an FCC license. Each individual local station is an FCC licensee. They’re the ones that are responsible for the content they air.

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      Mostly true. ABC network does own licenses in some markets.

      Trump or any other political figure can’t just pull a license for no reason though. FCC is pretty good about that

      List of O&Os

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        Trump has repeatedly shown he can and will ignore all the rules restricting him. Furthermore he’d have immunity for official acts. So firing everyone until someone agrees to just pull the licenses of any station named ABC is right up his alley and possible now.

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          Hell he can claim ABC is a terrorist organization and then sic the federal government on them. Since he identified them as terrorists dealing with them would be considered an “official act” covered by the immunity ruling…

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            I don’t think he’d go that hard that quick. Last night reminded us that while he can be goaded, he isn’t stupid.

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                Narcissism and stupidity aren’t related like that. He can be goaded but he still kept returning to message. It’s not a message that’s going to convince Democrats to vote for him.

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                Yeah but you aren’t who he was talking to. He definitely successfully messaged to conservatives worried about immigration and security.

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    He looked like a doddering old man who didn’t know where he was or what he was saying.

    They didn’t do great, the RNC should be investigated for elder abuse.

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      Don’t expect internal consistency from the guy who says media can’t be trusted and is fake news, but immigrants are eating people’s dogs and cats because someone said it on TV.

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        If she won the election, the day after that election, go back to destroying our country and oil will be dead. Fossil fuel will be dead. We’ll go back to windmills and we’ll go back to solar, where they need a whole desert to get some energy to come out. You ever see a solar plant? By the way, I’m a big fan of solar
        -Smart Man DJT

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          What else will you do with a desert? Build cities that will dry up more lakes and rivers? Just cover the whole fucking desert in solar and power the country. The guy is so dense.

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            There’s a lot more territory for solar if we just set it up all along our Interstate system. We could just let the desert be desert, with its fragile ecosystem intact. The land under the freeways is already fucked. Thinking ahead, we would need to design it to reroute the power if a big crash takes out some panels.

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            Idk maybe grow a crazy amount of alfalfa and sell it overseas? What? What do you mean the desert has water issues?

            Edit: oh lol I should have read more replies

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          Don’t forget the poor poor desert soil he’s so concerned about… Lol yes noted conservationist Donald drill baby drill Trump…

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    At this point in the disinformation campaign, there is no way to claim anything but absolute victory. Any missteps must be unfair treatment by an outsider. Any possible room for improvement is weakness, so it must just be lying press or unfair treatment.

    The thing is, they no longer need to offer evidence for any such claims. Their supporters are so conditioned, they have the same initial reactions and believe Trump can do no wrong.

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    The second the moderators fact checked him I told my wife, he’s going to say it’s rigged and it was a conspiracy between ABC and the Democrats. It was really awesome to him flounder when they did that. Just a flat, “There is no state in which it’s legal to kill a baby. And now to Harris”

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      Nah i think it’s a whiplash rollercoaster existence from massive ego highs and then to extreme embarrassment and paranoia

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      Take:

      1. one bag of squirrels

      1oz of pure cut Columbian blow

      add Columbian marching powder to bag of squirrels making sure entire contents are emptied into bag and close tightly.

      shake and swing bag violently, then hang from tree branch

      you have now recreated the inner workings of Donald Trumps mind. Enjoy the show.

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    I love that his campaign kept complaining about Harris not getting fact checked as hard.

    Harris definitely spun a few things, but she wasn’t throwing out crazy ass lies like eating pets and throwing out newborn babies.