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zab

11/27/25 5:31 PM

#554155 RE: firebag1 #554154

Trump has pardoned every criminal in the world,  including everyone who has worked for him. Trump doesn't believe in judges, judgements,  or anyone but himself.  Just look at his make believe gold White House office. Maybe you should continue licking his fat ass, you seem to like his shit. America is still bigger,  and will soon flip BLUE,  and then it's investigations,  and indictments against trump.  
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Hanibal

11/27/25 5:33 PM

#554156 RE: firebag1 #554154

Hey maga nazi, let me know where you live so I can come and laugh in your face when Trump dies. You're clearly residing in the deepest outhouses of maga nazi cult, worshipping that corrupt orange criminal rapist like a king. It's pathetic. You're obviously mentally ill.

Pizzagate isn't real. It's just fictional bullshit you mentally ill far right turds made up. One of your own mentally ill far right maga turds who went to investigate it with a rifle found no basement and was sentenced for 4 years in prison for firing off some rounds in there.

Meanwhile Trump raped 2 women, assaulted countless more, cheated on all his wives, was convicted for mortgage fraud and countless other white collar crimes, pardoned January 6th traitors and numerous other criminals who are just like him. Trump University and Trump Foundation were shut down for fraud. He was impeached for asking a foreign government to dig up dirt on a fellow American, and pressured the Georgia Secretary of State to "find votes" for him in 2020. An election he LOST 😘

These things are just the tip of the iceberg of his corrupt existence. When he dies the world will dance on his grave. Except you mentally ill maga nazis. And Putin. It will be a tragedy for you 💩😭🤣
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Hanibal

11/27/25 6:05 PM

#554157 RE: firebag1 #554154

Trump was best friends with Epstein for decades
Lord knows what they did together or who they tag teamed abused and raped haha. Nice try though. Your revisionist bullshit doesn't work here, just like it doesn't work with January 6th 💩



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sortagreen

11/27/25 6:52 PM

#554161 RE: firebag1 #554154

Try writing a coherent sentence, asshole.
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fuagf

11/27/25 7:02 PM

#554162 RE: firebag1 #554154

firebab1, Why demean yourself so. Oh, and the next time you get the uncontrollable urge to post again such gish gallop rubbish .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop .. rubbish, don't bother, anyhing like it, if caught, will be deleted with no comment. Consider this fair warning of that to you. Assertions like so many there made by you require evidence in the form of supportable links. Credible supprtibve evidence. All posters here are held to a link rule. Trolls like you evermore so, because history says you people too often have scant regard or the truth.

And to yours: No, olf course no one here knows of the myriad conspiracy theory dirty political conservative agenda carried on against the Clintons

The 5 Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theories of 2016

By JOSEPH USCINSKI
August 22, 2016

Joseph Uscinski is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Miami. He
is co-author of American Conspiracy Theories (Oxford University Press, 2014).


This weekend, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Fox News Sunday viewers that Hillary Clinton was seriously ill. The media, he said, “fails to point out several signs of illness by her. … Go online. Search for ‘Hillary Clinton illness.’ Take a look at those videos for yourself.”

The idea that Clinton is secretly wrestling with some unknown illness is just the latest conspiracy theory to go mainstream in an election season chock full of them. Conspiracy theories, which I’ve studied for the past seven years, have always been part of American politics, but they’ve tended to pop up in the dark corners of our political discourse, serving mainly as sideshows to more important political disputes. Not so this year; I’ve never seen a time when they so dominated the mainstream debate—and when they had the potential to do so much harm.

Whether it was witches colluding with Satan during colonial times, Freemasons nefariously controlling the government in the 1800s or communists coopting the State Department during the Red Scare, Americans have always been drawn to the idea that certain people or organizations are working in secret for their own benefit against the public good. Polls suggest that all Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory; most believe in several. At the height of birtherism a few years ago, about a quarter of Americans believed that President Barack Obama was born outside the United States. A similar number believed there was a conspiracy behind the terror attacks of 9/11. More than 50 years after the fact, a majority of Americans continue to believe that President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was due to a conspiracy rather than to a lone gunman. In 2012, when I asked a representative sample of Americans to agree or disagree with the following statement, “Big events like wars, the current recession, and the outcomes of elections are controlled by small groups of people who are working in secret against the rest of us,” only 30 percent disagreed.

Despite this, the United States has not gone off the conspiracy theory cliff because our elite politicians and mainstream news sources generally eschew this type of heady theorizing. A few politicians or news sources might allege a plot from time to time (think Sarah Palin and her Obamacare death panels), but these are usually a result of overheated partisan rhetoric and they tend to receive intense backlash.

That was, until now. Donald Trump, one of two people likely to be president next year, has been propagating, and now creating, conspiracy theories as a major theme of his campaign.

There’s an obvious reason for this: Donald Trump has branded himself an “outsider.” In my research, I have found that conspiracy theories tend to work best when they are employed by outsiders, electoral losers and statistical minorities. These “losers” have to use conspiracy theories to justify their outsider status, explain away losses and call accepted practices into question. If you want to explain why you want to tear the accepted system down in favor of a new approach or if you want to enter the White House without ever being part of the political establishment, then it is fitting to use conspiracy theories to call that system into question.

As for Clinton, the environment created by two outsiders—Sanders and Trump—has forced her to respond in kind. She is under pressure to give lip service to Sanders’ economic conspiracy theories .. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/democratic-debate-clinton-sanders-213623 .. in order to attract his supporters. And she has also been forced her to push back on Trump’s conspiracy theories about her with conspiracy charges .. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-russia-mook-clinton-foundation-227237 .. of her own.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with conspiracy theories. They have their positive attributes: Sometimes they turn out to be true (think Watergate, for example), and sometimes they bring new information to light (such as securing the release of many documents pertaining to the Kennedy assassination). But too many can distort our perception of reality, squander precious government time and resources and endanger lives—especially when they move out of the fringes of political life and become the currency of the truly powerful.

Here are the five most dangerous conspiracy theories of 2016 (and some honorable mentions).

1. Mexicans and refugees are murderers, rapists and terrorists
Danger: Violence

Donald Trump has accused Mexican immigrants of being pawns in a Mexican conspiracy to send murderers and rapists to America. He also has accused refugees, fleeing their tattered homeland and shattered lives, of working against the government as ISIL agents.

Most conspiracy theories in the United States resonate when they are levied by the weak and accuse the strong (when out-of-power Democrats accused the Bush administration of being behind 9/11, for example). These conspiracy theories are usually annoying at worst, because those accused of conspiring are well-protected and powerful. In this case, however, the typical model is reversed: The strong (a man running for U.S. president with the backing of a major political party) is accusing the weak (refugees and minorities). This is a more dangerous type of conspiracy theory because those in power can actually act on their wild hunches, sometimes with deadly consequences. If a President Trump were to act on his conspiracy theories, for example, it could spell doom for those groups in the United States. And those who believe Trump’s rhetoric might choose to act on their own by doing violence to the targets of Trump’s theories.

Just look at what has happened when similar conspiracy theories have caught on before: There are the Salem Witch Trials, where innocent women were brutally murdered; the Red Scare of the 1950s, which saw the United States government violating the rights of countless Americans; and the Japanese internment camps during WWII. When the powerful believe there is a conspiracy against them—real or not—their reactions can have terrible consequences.

2. “There’s something going on”
Danger: Mass paranoia

A favorite go-to conspiracy theory of Trump’s, used in different circumstances at different points during the campaign, these four words suggest that our governmental institutions and our institutions for disseminating information are not only malevolent, but also engaged in a cover-up of epic proportions.

This conspiracy theory is useful for Trump because it lets him avoid specifics; it’s also dangerous because it’s open-ended, leaving Trump supporters plenty of room to connect their own dots. What is, in fact, “going on”? It could be Radical Islamic Terrorists in your neighborhood, refugees armed with ISIL cellphones or a president who either doesn’t care about terrorist attacks on the homeland or is directly involved in them. Maybe a terrorist lives next door, maybe the FBI is actually aiding the terrorists. Maybe our president is a terrorist, too. Who knows, right? But these four words suggest that everyone is in on it, we need to watch our neighbors, keep an eye on the government and watch the president’s body language like a hawk.

This style of conspiracy theorizing—leaving the details for people to figure out on their own—is advantageous because it gives people less to disagree with. What I have found in my research is that the more details there are to a conspiracy theory, the more reasons there are for people to take issue with it. This is one reason why JFK assassination conspiracy theories continue to be so popular compared to others. There is no established villain or plot line; everyone gets to choose the version that makes most sense to him or her.

VIDEO - Conspiracy theories of 2016
The biggest conspiracy theories of 2016.
08/22/16 04:56 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/08/conspiracy-060391

3. Trump/Clinton is a Manchurian Candidate
Danger: Institutional distrust, political polarization

Criticizing Clinton for her mishandling of classified emails, Trump suggested that the Democratic nominee is now beholden to the Obama administration, which decided not to prosecute her. Trump also suggested that other countries now have evidence to blackmail or control Clinton, given that they have been able to hack her private email server. Shooting back, the Clinton campaign put out an ad suggesting that Trump is an agent of powerful Russian interests.

Americans of all political persuasions should be able to trust that the two candidates who could lead the national government aren’t pawns to other interests. When they start to doubt their leaders’ loyalty to the country, institutional distrust can skyrocket. It’s also not that easy for a president to shed a conspiracy theory about him or her: The birther theory that dogged Obama during his entire time in the White House has been a distraction for both his administration and the country—and birtherism started with far less fanfare than these current accusations.

These sorts of theories can also be symptoms of, or possibly even contribute to, political polarization. By always calling into question a president’s motives, people on the opposing side never have to engage in meaningful debates over policy.

4. Vast right-wing conspiracy
Danger: Lack of accountability

There are conspiracy theories; and then there are conspiracy theories about conspiracy theories. This particular one was born during the height of the investigations into then-President Bill Clinton’s business practices and personal life. During a Today Show interview, then-first lady Hillary Clinton dismissed the burgeoning Monica Lewinsky scandal: “The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it,” she said, “is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.”

Conspiracy theories aren’t reserved for Republicans. Hillary Clinton has held on to her conspiracy theory that the right wing is in league against her and her family to this day; in fact, she claimed this election cycle that the conspiracy is “even better-funded” now.

Here’s the problem: If followed to its conclusion, this conspiracy theory suggests that every criticism, every accusation and every investigation of the Clintons is nothing but a well-orchestrated and false attack by an enormous network of clandestine operatives—giving Clinton and her supporters any easy way to dismiss any charges leveled against her. The Clintons are likely not guilty of all they have been accused. But they have made mistakes and they should be accountable for those. Appealing to a conspiracy should not alleviate a president or presidential candidate from responsibility.


5. Everything is “rigged”

Danger: Disenfranchisement and alienation

The campaigns of Trump and Sanders repeatedly alleged during the primaries that the nomination process is rigged. Earlier this month, Trump claimed that in states without voter ID laws in place, fraud will be rampant and people will be voting “15 times.” And he asserted that the only way the Clinton campaign can win Pennsylvania is if “they cheat.”

We’ve seen what can happen when people seize on conspiracy theories about fraudulent and rigged elections—despite there being no evidence of mass voter fraud. Over the past few years, similar beliefs have led state legislatures across the country to enact restrictive voter ID laws. But rather than fix a system that wasn’t broken to begin with, these efforts have been shown to disenfranchise minority voters. This year, if Trump deploys supporters to polling stations across America to monitor for fraud and challenge voters’ legitimacy as he is promising to do, the results could be similar.

But such claims about election fraud pale in comparison to the larger allegations that the entire system is rigged. Sanders and fellow Sen. Elizabeth Warren frequently claimed during this election cycle that the economic and political systems are entirely rigged. Here’s the problem with that theory: The United States has a $20 trillion economy and a political system that is widely diffused across different branches and levels. Being familiar with the failure rates of conspiracies, I can say that there is no group—not hedge-fund managers, not big bankers, not politicians—who could possibly rig our political and economic systems on any large scale and get away with it for long.

Far from being helpful, this sort of rhetoric is dangerous. First, it allows for scapegoating (“my lot in life is the fault of the 1 percent”) and indictment (“the rich and powerful have gotten that way only through illicit means”). It also brings about hopelessness and alienation—the feeling that we have been locked into an unfair and degrading system by a few people who wish to abuse us. These sorts of conspiracy theories also serve to depress the vote, as those who believe that elections and governmental processes are rigged will most likely stay home; this weakens our democracy.


HONORABLE MENTIONS
Pharmaceutical companies are hiding the connection between vaccines and autism
Danger: Death

This conspiracy theory claims that vaccines cause a series of illnesses, and that these adverse effects have been covered up by pharmaceutical companies to maintain profits. In fact, vaccines have saved millions of lives. Using the bully pulpit as both Trump and Green Party candidate Jill Stein have done to spread this conspiracy theory and undermine vaccine science will cost lives. Some people will listen to these candidates and skip vaccines for themselves and their children. We already have seen the consequences .. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/measles-epidemic-politicians-114850 .


Big agricultural companies are hiding the negative effects of genetically modified foods
Danger: Higher food costs, damage to the environment

Sanders and Stein have both engendered GMO conspiracy theories, which claim that big agriculture and biotech companies are hiding the negative environmental and health consequences of farming and consuming genetically modified foods. This is despite the overwhelming scientific consensus .. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/democrats-have-a-problem-with-science-too-107270 .. that genetically modified food is safe to eat, similar to the alternatives, better for the environment and cheaper.

The dangers of these conspiracy beliefs are currently playing out in Vermont, where new legislation requires burdensome labeling of foods made from genetically modified crops (a $1,000 fine is levied per day per unlabeled product). Food choice is going down, and food prices are going up. Increased food costs can be absorbed by upper-class budgets; but they have a disproportionate impact on the budgets of people with midand lower incomes.


Ted Cruz’s father took part in the assassination of President Kennedy
Danger: A trip down the rabbit hole

It would be difficult to create any list of conspiracy theories and leave this one out, just by virtue of its creativity. Looking to deal a death blow to Ted Cruz’s campaign, Trump suggested that Cruz’s father was in a picture taken in 1963 with Lee Harvey Oswald, and therefore had a role in the assassination of JFK. Trump further claimed that the media was covering up the story.

The danger here is a bit esoteric: If people were to take Trump at his word that a sitting senator and presidential candidate’s father was involved in Kennedy’s assassination and that the media all knew about it but were purposely hiding it from the public, then nothing in this world could be taken at face value. What else would the media be hiding from us and what other horrific crimes are linked to our government officials? There would be no end to the conspiracy theorizing.

Maybe the advent of the upcoming debates will give Trump and Clinton an incentive to leave the conspiracy rhetoric behind and focus on issue-oriented politics. The likelihood, however, is that they will continue to push the country toward a conspiracy theory fueled delirium (some polls suggest an uptick in conspiracy beliefs as of late). And if they do, the results could be dire.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/conspiracy-theories-2016-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-214183/

You are obviously a Trump toady suporter clown who cares nothing for the best truth at a time, based on solid evidence.
Sure there would be an iota of truth in what you say but guaranteed your bullshit smothers it.

"now speaking of corruption - ever hear of bill and hillary clinton, how about joe biden and family and then theres the saviour obama - who isnt reading what? lmfao ever hear of trump pardoning his family before they commit any crime like biden did, how about the whole russia gate that hillary paid for , forget Billys cigar with Monica lewinsky now thats a real pig of a man to do that to a woman while cheating on his wife, the funniest, you have ran at TRUMP with everything from insurrection to being impeached twice, shot at him killiing a bystander in the process, Russia Russia Russia, accusations of rape, all sort of court proceedings and the guy comes out smelling like a rose!!! forgot Bengazzi, how about Obama giving Iran 2 billion in untraceable cash, afghanistan withdrawal only left behind 80 billion in military equipment, wide open borders, defund police, etc etc etc lol hunter making millions in ukraine, funny how many people ended up DEAD when the clintons were running things - you all must forget about all the nasty stuff....Trump hasnt done anything that a good patriot loving american wouldnt do - How about Haiti and the Clintons, Pizza gate, 30,000 emails lol Epstein island and Billys 26 visits lol selling all your uranium to the russians good ole hillary, now a little for Obama, irs targeting rebublicans, govt over reach, his handling of the 2008 financial crisis, and his biggest gaff he admitted to was Libya and Khadafi, the deep water Horizon bumbling, etc etc and please lets not go over Biden missing in action lmfao lmfao - look on your side first - Trump pales in comparison compared to the last 25 years of Democratic rule!!! best wishes

Take this of yours - "Trump hasnt done anything that a good patriot loving american wouldnt do",
and not a respectable word in evidence of that because you couldn't find any. On the other hand:

No Kings indeed: A partial list of Trump’s shameless power grabs

by Donna Brazile, opinion contributor - 10/17/25 11:30 AM ET

VIDEO

Millions of Americans opposed to President Trump’s attacks on our Constitution, democracy and the rule of law are expected to join some 2,000 peaceful No Kings Day protests around the nation tomorrow. The protests are a follow-up to the No Kings Day held on June 14 — Trump’s 79th birthday.

The protests are backed by a long list of nonprofits and will draw patriotic Republicans, Democrats, independents and third-party backers determined to defend the principle stated by Republican President Abraham Lincoln “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The Founders’ genius was creating a Constitution that made America great in the first place — a place where the Bill of Rights guarantees us freedoms that many around the world only dream about. America has often failed to live up to its ideals, most notably with the acceptance of slavery, along with systemic discrimination against Black people, other minorities and women that has lessened, but stubbornly remains.

Unfortunately, Trump doesn’t even try to live up to the ideals or goals of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence; he actively ignores them.

Trump clearly idealizes strongmen like the leaders of Russia, China, North Korea and other dictatorships he so admires, who rule with an iron fist and have immense powers. He contends that Article II of the Constitution, which spells out the responsibilities of the president, gives him carte blanche “to do whatever I want as president.”

This frightening view is widely derided by legal scholars, including 35 surveyed by The New York Times .. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html .. about Trump’s actions in the first 100 days of his current term. The scholars — conservatives, liberals and libertarians — identified a long list of deeds that many consider illegal or unconstitutional.

These actions include ending birthright citizenship ..
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/ ,
refusing to spend billions of dollars appropriated by Congress ..
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25506186/m-25-13-temporary-pause-to-review-agency-grant-loan-and-other-financial-assistance-programs.pdf ,
imposing tariffs without congressional approval ..
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-federal-circuit-rules-trump-tariffs-are-illegal ,
deporting unauthorized immigrants without due process ..
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/men-deported-el-salvador-stories-investigation/ .. and
demanding nearly $1 billion in free legal services ..
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/big-law-pro-bono-legal-work-trump ..
from major law firms to avoid losing federal contracts, security clearances and access to federal buildings.

Trump’s also threatening to cut billions of dollars in federal funding to universities that refuse to follow his rules on hiring, admissions and teaching ..
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/us/trump-universities-compact-funding ,
restricting the access of news organizations he dislikes ..
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5308628/trump-white-house-press-access-voa ..
and improperly firing officials at independent federal regulatory agencies ..
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/politics/trump-supreme-court-fire-lisa-cook-fed .

Trump has weaponized the Justice Department against former FBI Director James Comey
and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) as revenge for their investigations against him ..
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-second-term-policies-gifts-494731c7?mod=RSSMSN .

He has fired tens of thousands of federal civil servants without just cause and given buyouts to tens of thousands more.

He has sent National Guard troops into cities with Democratic mayors to deal with phony emergencies without local or state approval.

He has also endangered national security, with mass firings of top officials he deemed insufficiently loyal ..
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-security-agency-tim-haugh-ec08b455e2c1112f5c6bb1881fad73e2 .
He appointed the dangerously unqualified Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his Health and Human Services secretary ..
https://thehill.com/people/robert-f-kennedy-jr/ .
He has refused to compromise with Democrats to end the government shutdown and protect about 22 million Americans
from huge health care increases under the Affordable Care Act ..
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdown-affordable-care-act-enhanced-premium-tax-credit/ .


This is just a partial list of Trump’s actions to seize near-dictatorial powers. I don’t have the space to list them all. Trump acts and then waits for lawsuits challenging him to hit the courts, hoping the six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices will side with him, as they often do.

Columbia University Law Professor David Pozen sums it up: “The depth and breadth of this administration’s disregard for civil liberties, political pluralism, the separation of powers and legal constraints of all kinds mark it as an authoritarian regime.”

Before Trump became president, most members of Congress fiercely defended their powers and responsibilities to act as a co-equal branch of government, including when that required opposing presidents of their own party.

For example, numerous congressional Democrats opposed President Lyndon Johnson’s conduct of the Vietnam War. Many Republicans turned against President Richard Nixon for his conduct in the Watergate scandal, ultimately forcing him to resign to avoid impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate that would have removed him from office.

But in Trump’s second term, even more than in his first, the Republican majorities in both chambers are terrified he will endorse their primary election opponents and cost them their jobs. So they give him a blank check to do almost anything he wants. This poses a profound threat to our freedoms.

Many of us learned to type years ago by repeatedly typing the sentence: “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” Let us add women to the sentence and use it as a call to nonviolent peaceful dissent at a time when America is threatened by the prospect of authoritarian rule.

We must remain a nation with no kings or queens.

Donna Brazile is a political strategist, a contributor to ABC News and former chair of the Democratic National Committee. She is the author of “Hacks: Inside the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5558907-trump-authoritarian-regime-threat/

There are just a few of treasonous Trump truisms from a fair dinkum patriotic American.