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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 01:09:16 JST Laffy

   Via Josh Marshall:

   This is actually a touchstone of the #Trump Era, the need for quasi-mainstream politicians to develop sanitized versions of the tentpole Trump conspiracy theories in order to name check to the base while not sounding like a total nutcase to normies and other upstanding Americans.

   Aaron Rupar:

   Speaker Mike Johnson suggests Biden will be hopped up on "energy drinks" during the debate tomorrow

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 01:09:15 JST Warner Crocker

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     @GottaLaff The only issue with Josh’s premise is that even the "normies and other upstanding Americans" see through this charade and don’t give a damn any longer.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 01:09:15 JST Laffy

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker Good point

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     Michael Wyman (mwyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:31:05 JST Michael Wyman

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker @GottaLaff most normies would probably be like “in a way it’d be rather funny to watch dad/grandad after slamming an energy drink, but it’s never going to happen and I’d worry about his heart if he did”