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major debacle

(508 posts) Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:20 AM Sep 2018

Right wing of the internet is buzzing that Ford's brother once worked for BakerHostetler...

... a law firm that they allege paid over half a million dollars to Fusion GPS, the firm that retained Christopher Steele in June 2016 to do opposition research on Trump for the Hillary campaign. Steele submitted the infamous dossier that featured Trump attending a session of peeing Russian prostitutes while in Moscow. While it is true that BakerHostetler retained Fusion GPS, it was for a case that was totally unrelated to Fusion's opposition research on Trump. And Ralph Blasey III left BakerHostetler in 2004, a fact conveniently omitted by the right.

https://www.google.com/search?q="Ralph+Blasey"+"Fusion+GPS"

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Right wing of the internet is buzzing that Ford's brother once worked for BakerHostetler... (Original Post) major debacle Sep 2018 OP

"Was it over when the Germans bombed pearl Harbor?" Moostache Sep 2018 #1

Interesting post. Kingofalldems Sep 2018 #2

They know Kavanaugh is toast. Thus the Hail Marys. PubliusEnigma Sep 2018 #3

That's my take major debacle Sep 2018 #4

What a stretch MaryMagdaline Sep 2018 #5

But had no problem with scalia went duck hunting with cheney Fullduplexxx Sep 2018 #6

Or Clarence Thomas's wife thucythucy Sep 2018 #7

So when you checked this for truth, what'd you find out? Hortensis Sep 2018 #8

The fact that the only references to this were from right wing sites... major debacle Sep 2018 #9

DU draws many malicious intruders who try various Hortensis Sep 2018 #11

Yesterday's fever dream Saboburns Sep 2018 #10

Moostache

(9,895 posts)

1. "Was it over when the Germans bombed pearl Harbor?"

Reply to major debacle (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:22 AM

Sep 2018

"Germans?"
"Forget it, he's rolling..."

Kingofalldems

(38,458 posts)

2. Interesting post.

Reply to major debacle (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:29 AM

Sep 2018

PubliusEnigma

(1,583 posts)

3. They know Kavanaugh is toast. Thus the Hail Marys.

Reply to major debacle (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:30 AM

Sep 2018

major debacle

(508 posts)

4. That's my take

Reply to PubliusEnigma (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:32 AM

Sep 2018

It's the right's modus operandi, take anything that looks like a football and run with it.

MaryMagdaline

(6,855 posts)

5. What a stretch

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Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:33 AM

Sep 2018

Fullduplexxx

(7,863 posts)

6. But had no problem with scalia went duck hunting with cheney

Reply to major debacle (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 09:50 AM

Sep 2018

thucythucy

(8,067 posts)

7. Or Clarence Thomas's wife

Reply to Fullduplexxx (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:09 AM

Sep 2018

being a part of and contributor to all sorts of far right cabals.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

8. So when you checked this for truth, what'd you find out?

Reply to major debacle (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 11:10 AM

Sep 2018

You DID check before bringing right wing propaganda to DU, right?

major debacle

(508 posts)

9. The fact that the only references to this were from right wing sites...

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #8)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 01:30 PM

Sep 2018

...is proof plenty that it is merely a desperate attempt by the right to throw mud and hope it sticks. Just thought it might be appreciated. Your reply seems to indicate that you think I have some sort of insidious intent in posting this. Do you really think that DUers are that fragile?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

11. DU draws many malicious intruders who try various

Reply to major debacle (Reply #9)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 03:55 PM

Sep 2018

maneuvers to slip in poison messages. The way we appreciate these lies is by stomping on them.
And you've probably noticed that insulting the dishonest fools who insist on marinating in this stuff is more than a little common also.

Saboburns

(2,807 posts)

10. Yesterday's fever dream

Reply to major debacle (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2018, 02:53 PM

Sep 2018

Had the WingNuts circulating amongst themselves something about Dr. Ford's mother being foreclosed and losing her house due to Kavanaugh's law firm, thereby ITS ALL ABOUT REVENGE!!11

Which is a total fucking lie, and got zero traction.

So today's fever dream is just another fucking nonsense lie meant for WingNut consumption. Anything, ANYTHING, to feed the Deplorables.

And tomorrow will be another fever dream. Because you can get a Republican to believe anything. They will believe it and pass it around to each other.

Hells Bells, they're convinced Donald Trump is fighting for the little guy.

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