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Sam Beckett retweeted
It took my opponent more than a minute and hundreds of words to avoid answering the question of if the U.S. should continue funding the Israeli military.
I can answer in just one word: no.
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So funny and telling the two dead people who've had positive opinions of AI thrust upon them by hacks are David Lynch and now Jim Henson, two of the most hands on creative geniuses of all time
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Ron Howard Is Bullish on AI and Thinks Jim Henson Would Have Been Too hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
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Sam Beckett retweeted
the intensity of the fallout from the Haim sisters wearing slightly silly t-shirts is the clearest example I’ve seen in a while of people hating someone for mean girl reasons and backfilling it with political ones to make it seem more important
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Sam Beckett retweeted
So Gwyneth Paltrow will now be ostracised , attacked and get no more work. Oh no sorry that’s just for people who oppose war crimes and genocides not those who profit from it!
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Sam Beckett retweeted
Jun 9
It cant be missed that this campaign isn't merely hypocritical snake shit but its specifically designed to torpedo a Democratic candidate so that Republicans remain in charge.
They don't care about winning. Its never been about changing or fixing the world.
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Sam Beckett retweeted
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Hunter Biden: I did lots of drugs in a motel hehe I’m not the establishment even tho my president daddy fully pardoned all of my federal convictions hehe
Americans: awww we love him now 🥹
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Sam Beckett retweeted
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BREAKING: Thomas Massie says Benjamin Netanyahu does not want U.S. aid to end and wants it rebranded as a “partnership” so American taxpayers remain locked in forever.
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Sam Beckett retweeted
Call of Duty fans used to call Halo "gaylo" and Halo fans used to make fun of COD for getting worse every year and Star Wars fans used to call Star Trek lame while Trekkies called Star Wars slop and now both sides of both just mourn the Century of Humiliation for all four
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Sam Beckett retweeted
Jun 6
Jennifer Welch on Graham Platner: “Everyone’s talking about toxic relationships and tattoos and all of this shit. Talk about Susan Collins voting to dismantle protections that keep women safe and keep women free because that is the real story here. She is a MAGA fascist to her core. I don’t give a fuck if somebody had a toxic relationship. I myself have been a toxic girlfriend, I’ve had toxic boyfriends. That’s part of the human experience”
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Sam Beckett retweeted
Jun 5
Your father is Genocide Joe. Shut the fuck up.
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I have lots to say about the atrocities being committed by Bibi Netanyahu in the name of the Israeli people. It must end. And there must be a two state solution. There must be a way for Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace. The murder of innocents is murder period.
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Sam Beckett retweeted
ZIOS: it's antisemitic to say Jews control the media
ALSO ZIOS: controlling all the media is a lot of work. "Instead of trying to control the whole world," [yes, that's a direct quote], all we have to do is control AI, because people trust AI and that's where everyone is getting their information.
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Sam Beckett retweeted
Shouldn’t forget that at the center of Hunter Biden’s motivation to “tell his own story” and these hilarious posts is a desire to exonerate Genocide Joe and his own role in getting Joe to stay in during 2024 lol
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Sam Beckett retweeted
This has dramatically reduced how much weight I’m giving her Platner accusations from “a lot” to “nearly none.”
It strains credulity that some longtime GOP operative in NoVa really thinks the NYT duped her to *aid Platner*, doesn’t know how factcheck works, etc.
But it’s perfectly calibrated for a partisan conservative audience and to raise her own standing.
Like I’m sorry but your best friend is Bethany Mandel, you worked in DC, you live in blue northern Virginia right now—you’re an establishment Republican, in other words, but you really can’t discern that a NYT reporter who has a history of Zionist activism *probably* isn’t in Platner’s corner? Or that the NYT in general isn’t exactly boosting him?
I don’t believe for one second this kind of experienced political professional can’t discern between the populist left and the establishment liberals. Just like anyone on the other side can distinguish between establishment Republicans and right-populist MAGA.
I also don’t believe that she would be this naive about the factchecking process and see it as surprising, let alone a setup. She presents herself as this wilting Christian mom naïf, taken for a ride by the big bad liberal NYT.
That’s just not the story of someone from her background with her experience who’s telling an honest narrative, but it is the story of someone who’s doing this whole thing in a calculated way to advance a political and professional agenda. Sorry but this just tanked her credibility in my eyes.
I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.
As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.
But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.
After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?
Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?
Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).
Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?
The editors said it was too much, they explained.
The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.
It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.
And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.
Still fawning after all these years.
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Got blocked for this but the logic here is the dems in Maine won't vote for him because he's...too far right and not a leftist?
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"he's a republican and that's why he's being attacked by republicans"
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