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    Quote Originally Posted by Celgress View Post
    Is this real or a parody by Colbert perhaps? Sorry, but I have to ask because some of the content (especially towards the middle) such as the constant use of the term "comrade" makes me wonder. I've seen this posted all over Youtube.

    I don't know abou the video, but there really is a dsausa Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    I don't know abou the video, but there really is a dsausa Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
    Thanks for the info. I'm honestly not sure if these vids are genuine or a parody or edited out of context. The vids seem so, bizarre I'm like to myself "these surely can't be the real deal".
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    Armed Man Arrested at Missouri Walmart; No Shots Fired

    Police in Springfield, Missouri, say they have arrested an armed man who showed up a Walmart store wearing body armor, sending panicked shoppers fleeing the store.

    Springfield police posted on Facebook that "an armed individual" was arrested. No shots were fired.

    The Springfield News-Leader quoted Lt. Mike Lucas as saying that the man showed up Thursday afternoon wearing body armor and military-style clothing. He walked inside the Walmart carrying a "tactical rifle" and another gun. Lucas says the man had more than 100 rounds of ammunition.

    Lucas says an off-duty firefighter held the suspect, a 20-year-old man, at gunpoint until police arrived.
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    Speaking of crazed individuals, we may have avoided another mass shooting in El Paso, again.

    #BREAKING: Armed man driving "Trump" truck arrested outside migrant shelter in El Paso after immigration group spotted him "brandishing a knife." Police recovered a fully-loaded gun in his truck emblazoned with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz support slogans.

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    I read this thread all the time but have never commented in it.

    On my way home today the highway leading to my house was blocked off and a sign said it was due to a car crash. I turned down a different side street and drove right past the Walmart that is referenced in the story. The car crash was due to a SUV pulling out in front of an officer who was responding to the Walmart incident - the officer had moderate injuries and the driver had serious injuries.

    https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Pol...528619441.html

    When I arrived home my wife was glued to the TV watching the local news. They were talking about the 20-year-old man who walked into the Walmart with two guns, body armor, and a lot of ammunition. He walked in and grabbed a shopping cart while filming himself walking around the store. When he tried to leave the store an off-duty firefighter held him at gunpoint until the police showed up.

    https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Hea...528602951.html

    My wife was rattled as she and my two girls had just been at that Walmart about an hour before the gunman was there. Thankfully, no one was physically harmed by the gunman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celgress View Post
    And here is another part that I find especially odd. Maybe it is just me? -

    Holy crap. It seems like a parody but.....I can't dismiss that it could be real. The right is evil but damned if the left can't find some profound ways to be annoying as hell. (It's sad that it's plausible to think it could be real)

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    It’s On: Rep. Jerry Nadler Says ‘Formal Impeachment Proceedings’ Are Underway

    “That’s exactly the process we’re in right now,” the House Judiciary chairman said. To quote Scotty from Star Trek IV: "Hold on tight, lassie! It gets bumpy from here!"

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    Aides See Trump’s ‘Solace’ Trips As ‘Something Of A Debacle,’ NY Times Reporter Says

    The president wouldn’t stop watching TV and ended up lashing critics instead of comforting shooting victims in El Paso and Dayton, Maggie Haberman tells CNN. Golly gee whillickers! Trump's trips? A debacle? I never would've guessed that result! Really! By the way....

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    Watch Donald Trump Boast About His Crowd Size At El Paso Hospital

    The president was officially there to comfort the victims of last week’s mass shooting in the Texas city. And who said Trump only cares about himself? Rubbish!

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    Trump Follows Call For Unity After Shootings With Week Of Attacks

    President Obama sang “Amazing Grace.” President Trump hurled insults at just about everyone. I guess Dolt45 was simply following his wife's slogan to "Be Best", and for Trump, that means being an angry *******.

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    Susan Rice: ‘Unabashed Bigot’ Trump Has Poisoned The International Climate

    The former national security adviser penned a searing op-ed for the New York Times describing the global domino effect of the president’s racist rhetoric. Rice certainly pulled no punches, to which I say....GOOD!

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    Long John Silver’s Drops Fox News After Tucker Carlson Said White Supremacy’s A ‘Hoax’

    The brand is one of more than 20 that have stopped advertising during the Fox News host’s show because of his offensive rhetoric. The only thing that gets the suits at Faux News to sit up and pay attention is when the bottom line is threatened....and this qualifies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Celgress View Post
    And here is another part that I find especially odd. Maybe it is just me? -

    It's put out by the Daily Caller. That's the one that Tucker Carlson founded, so I'm calling shenanigans right there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chicainery View Post
    I read this thread all the time but have never commented in it.

    On my way home today the highway leading to my house was blocked off and a sign said it was due to a car crash. I turned down a different side street and drove right past the Walmart that is referenced in the story. The car crash was due to a SUV pulling out in front of an officer who was responding to the Walmart incident - the officer had moderate injuries and the driver had serious injuries.

    https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Pol...528619441.html

    When I arrived home my wife was glued to the TV watching the local news. They were talking about the 20-year-old man who walked into the Walmart with two guns, body armor, and a lot of ammunition. He walked in and grabbed a shopping cart while filming himself walking around the store. When he tried to leave the store an off-duty firefighter held him at gunpoint until the police showed up.

    https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Hea...528602951.html

    My wife was rattled as she and my two girls had just been at that Walmart about an hour before the gunman was there. Thankfully, no one was physically harmed by the gunman.
    Thanks for the account. Crazy situation, just glad your family is fine and that no one else was injured aside from those involved in the car crash.
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    Russia-linked Twitter accounts promoted 'doxxing' over racial tension videos

    In October 2018, a cellphone video of a Brooklyn woman calling 911 to claim a 9-year-old black boy grabbed her rear went viral on social media, becoming one of a series of videos that activists and journalists seized upon as an example of the everyday racism faced by minorities in America.

    That woman became known as “Cornerstore Caroline.” Other individuals who became the subjects of similar stories would be known by nicknames such as “Basketball Becky” or “Taco Truck Tammy.”

    Now, Clemson University researchers have found those videos received instrumental early social media promotion from inauthentic accounts, some of which have since been removed by Twitter and linked by U.S. intelligence to Russia’s efforts to stoke racial tensions in America.

    The tweets by the suspicious accounts drew 50-90 percent of the initial retweets before the stories took off, an indication their content played a leading role in drumming up attention, the researchers said.
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    I walked the emptying halls of @USDA_NIFA and @USDA_ERS on Tuesday. This is a thread about how mad I am.

    8/10. First, as an example, I’m at the @RuralSociology conference and just heard important research about the rural opioid crisis by an @USDA_ERS colleague. He can’t move. So, this research ends now. In the midst of a crisis that is killing rural people.


    Many USDA workers to quit as research agencies move to Kansas City: ‘The brain drain we all feared’

    Two research agencies at the Agriculture Department will uproot from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City in the fall. But many staffers have decided to give up their jobs rather than move, prompting concerns of hollowed-out offices unable to adequately fund or inform agricultural science.

    About two-thirds of the USDA employees declined their reassignments, according to a tally the department released Tuesday. Ninety-nine of 171 employees at the Economic Research Service, an influential federal statistical agency, will not move. At the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which manages a $1.7 billion portfolio in scientific funding, 151 of 224 employees declined to relocate.

    Jack Payne, University of Florida’s vice president for agriculture and natural resources, warned that the hemorrhage of employees will devastate ERS and NIFA. “This is the brain drain we all feared, possibly a destruction of the agencies,” Payne said.
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    So this is bizarre. It sounds like something out of a movie.

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/us/ho...ing/index.html

    (CNN)A gunman is on the run after killing two people on a Houston freeway as horrified motorists watched during evening rush hour, authorities said.
    Police initially got the call of an accident at 5:55 p.m. Thursday but when they arrived seven minutes later, they found a shooting scene.
    The fatal shooting started as a crash between two cars going eastbound on Interstate 10, Houston Police assistant chief Bobby Dobbins said at a news conference.
    "One of the vehicles struck the other vehicle and spun it out ... similar to a pit maneuver," he said.



    Gunman fired as the car rolled down the hill
    Two occupants from the vehicle that hit the other came out, and one had a weapon, police said. He started firing at the vehicle they'd just hit and pursued it as it rolled down the hill, firing rounds, police said.
    "At one point, the vehicle came to a stop. He got in front of the vehicle and fired rounds into the front windshield of the vehicle," Dobbins said. "Road rage? An accident? Narcotics? We just don't know yet so I won't speculate," he added. "I will say there were narcotics found in this vehicle."
    Journalist describes an 'unreal scene'
    Daniel Gotera, a journalist for local station KHOU-TV, said he heard the gunshots and saw people fleeing.
    "Unreal scene just witnessed on I-10 in Houston," he tweeted. "A guy gets out of his car with gun just shooting in the middle of freeway. Unbelievable."
    Police said one of the witnesses had a pistol in his car, and fired several rounds at the shooter when he turned toward him. While it's unclear whether the gunman was hit by gunfire, it made him run back up the hill, get in his vehicle and flee the scene, authorities said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Theleviathan View Post
    Holy crap. It seems like a parody but.....I can't dismiss that it could be real. The right is evil but damned if the left can't find some profound ways to be annoying as hell. (It's sad that it's plausible to think it could be real)
    For obvious reasons, conservative media has been more likely to post a story embarrassing to the left, but it's been a few days since this made the rounds at Fox and no one's denying it.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...-pronoun-usage
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video...ion/vp-AAFn2Qg
    https://news.yahoo.com/delegates-eru...123421802.html

    There doesn't seem to be any reason to hint that it might be some kind of fake.

    It would be very easy to verify if this were false. If it were doctored somehow, there is probably some alternative video. If it were staged somehow, that would also be easy to demonstrate with an explanation that the people on stage don't match any of the events, or that the room is different than any room used for events.

    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    It's put out by the Daily Caller. That's the one that Tucker Carlson founded, so I'm calling shenanigans right there.
    The Daily Caller would be absolutely willing to post accurate video of members of a subgroup of Democrats acting stupidly at an official meeting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Lucas says an off-duty firefighter held the suspect, a 20-year-old man, at gunpoint until police arrived.
    How often does this conservative trope actually happen the way it's supposed to?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    For obvious reasons, conservative media has been more likely to post a story embarrassing to the left, but it's been a few days since this made the rounds at Fox and no one's denying it.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem...-pronoun-usage
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/video...ion/vp-AAFn2Qg
    https://news.yahoo.com/delegates-eru...123421802.html

    There doesn't seem to be any reason to hint that it might be some kind of fake.

    It would be very easy to verify if this were false. If it were doctored somehow, there is probably some alternative video. If it were staged somehow, that would also be easy to demonstrate with an explanation that the people on stage don't match any of the events, or that the room is different than any room used for events.


    The Daily Caller would be absolutely willing to post accurate video of members of a subgroup of Democrats acting stupidly at an official meeting.
    Yes because that is remotely significant

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