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I wonder which conspiracy theory our MAGA posters (or assimilated) will be able to evoke now? ???? “DePape also later explained that by breaking Nancy’s kneecaps, she would then have to be wheeled into Congress, which would show other members of Congress there were consequences to actions,” read the filing. After Paul Pelosi called 911, DePape allegedly said he did not leave “because, much like the American Founding Fathers with the British, he was fighting against tyranny without the option of surrender.” Police claim he reiterated this sentiment elsewhere in the interview." https://news.yahoo.com/attacker-wanted-to-hold-nancy-pelosi-hostage-planned-to-break-her-knee-caps-194449972.html

I guess the SC is starting to find Trump quite embarrassing.... Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to block lawmakers from obtaining tax returns https://news.yahoo.com/trump-asks-u-supreme-court-170123244.html

It's Ukrainska Pravda, and the url is in ua, not ru.

If you refer to my post, it was linking the Ukrainian Pravda, not the Russian one.

Actually, it comes up the attack in Sevastopol has been made by unmanned surface vessels. Videos in the linked article https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/30/7374125/

I know this street. It was always packed at night on normal weekends.

Right https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/paul-pelosi-attacker-david-depape-lived-in-a-school-bus/

Of course not! He was invited, then given a hammer and told to hit, in order to give the MSM an opportunity to discredit the MAGA and QAnon sphere. ????

Right. Fox News is only highlighting the nudist connection (dating from 2013!). ???? It's different on the Washington Examiner website. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/david-depape-qanon-trump-paul-pelosi-attack

How is it "desperate"? It's all spread in his social media activity. The guy is likely nuts, as you suggest, but he's been provided causes on a silver plate by the MAGA world.

Apparently, Ukraine used underwater drones. Russia claims no damage. Sorry, It's from the Daily Mail, but they show interesting pictures. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11367993/Explosions-hit-key-naval-port-Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia-claim-major-Ukraine-drone-assault.html

Right, but still evoking force majeure as a cause. “Of course. The very sanctions that prevent the maintenance of units, which prevent them from moving without appropriate legal guarantees, which prevent these legal guarantees from being given, and so on.” “It is precisely these sanctions that the Western states have introduced that have brought the situation to what we see now,” Peskov added." Officially, Russia is not cutting supplies, It's forced to do it for technical reasons! ????

It's about control, That's how they are. The CP cannot stand not having control of anything and It's even worse with Xi. That's why they cracked down on Alibaba and other digital giants. They could not stand having this sector flourishing without controlling it. The issue is that they have bragged so much about having stopped the diffusion of Covid that they would lose face in case of a large epidemic in Thailand. And It's a quasi impossible mission. The recent variants such as Omicron can diffuse more easily and faster and cannot be eradicated. It will be a continuous assault. Unlike other countries, they don't have a large share of the population which is at least partly immunized by prior infection, the most at risk people have not died already, and their vaccine is not very good (at least up to now). In other words, they are screwed. It's either a large epidemic leading to a very embarrassing loss of face, or an unending succession of lockdowns.

Well, not fundamentally different from what we can read on this forum!

I guess It's a long story, starting with religion. It's the same people who believe the world has been created in 7 days and the apocalypse may be coming soon. I can imagine what these people may feel. They actually believe children are raped and killed in a pizzeria. They are horrified! The poor little kids! Same about elections! They are convinced they have been screwed by the deep state!

Another example of the "madness" inspired by Trump and MAGA heralds. As rightly formulated by Kinzinger, when people are convinced that elections have been rigged and politicians drink children's blood, it is not surprising that such assaults happen.

Good news. Comes a bit too late

So, if I understand well, gamblers have been robbed in an illegal casino and ultimately complained to the police. Instead of arresting the casino owners and managers for illegal activity (on top of robbery), they just negotiated with the casino to give back some of the money stolen. ???? All this now exposed in the media, apparently without any consequence.

With Trump fighting like hell to prevent his tax returns from being disclosed, there must be something interesting in it! Nothing to hide, nothing to fear! ????

And in any case, they won't get the votes from the 250 appointed senators, so it is a rather theoretical discussion.

That's more accurate.

From what I recently inadvertedly found out, it seems that these "new" drugs such as ketamine (I am old school, so I knew about coco, snow , ecstasy, crack, etc...) are quite popular among young Thai people. I would assume a raid in any Thai style disco may lead to numerous arrests.

False equivalence. The Russian interference has been proven true, and acknowledged even by the GOP led Senate commission. The 2020 election fraud conspiracy theory has been debunked since some time, including by several Republicans (I.e. Barr).

He was permitted to have a gun. Not surprising knowing the recent law introduced by the TOP in this state. "In 2021, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed the Second Amendment Preservation Act into law, which states "that all federal acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders... and regulations, whether past, present or future that infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution... of the Missouri Constitution must be invalid in this state." https://abcnews.go.com/US/missouris-gun-laws-wake-st-louis-school-shooting/story?id=92140341 You reap what you sow, Parson.

Well worth reading the article!