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Team Trump’s legal arguments veering into paranoid kook-land (NeverTrumper Alert)
NY Post ^ | 11/27/2020 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 11/28/2020 12:51:46 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom

Sen. Joseph McCarthy liked to insist he had evidence of Communists in the government, but he couldn’t show you the names right now. The number of Communist infiltrators on his secret list changed from speech to speech.

Listening to President Trump’s legal team claim over and over again that they have voluminous evidence that the election was stolen, it occurred to me that we’re in a kind of repeat McCarthy era. Only this time, to borrow from that old-school Communist Karl Marx, history is repeating itself not as tragedy but as farce.

Take Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor who became a right-wing darling as the lawyer for Michael Flynn, Trump’s 24-day national-security adviser. Trump repeatedly touted her as a member of his elite legal team, a group nicknamed Strike Force.

Powell has hinted darkly that a state-of-the-art computer hacking program masterminded by the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez was used to hand the election to Biden, with the help of Cuba, George Soros, “likely” China and other “Communistic” forces. Powell subscribes to the view, pushed by pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood, that the outgoing president actually got 70 percent of the popular vote and 400 Electoral College votes.

To Powell’s credit, she actually provided some “evidence” for this: a meandering affidavit from an anonymous whistleblower who begins his or her fevered meanderings, “I am an adult of sound mine.” No wonder Powell hasn’t released any more evidence.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crackpotken; jonahgoldberg; nevertrump; nevertrumpers; somuchwinning; stoppostingnypost; trimpwillwinbro
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Another Murdoch-owned company pressing the Biden as President narrative.
1 posted on 11/28/2020 12:51:46 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

When was the last Jonah was right about anything Trump?


2 posted on 11/28/2020 12:53:41 AM PST by Chgogal (#StopBiden'sBananaRepublic. )
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To: Chgogal

Should read: When was the last time Jonah was right about anything Trump?


3 posted on 11/28/2020 12:54:55 AM PST by Chgogal (#StopBiden'sBananaRepublic. )
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To: Chgogal

Years ago I used to read National Review. Now, I wouldn’t buy if you paid me. Goldberg, Rick Lowry are all Never Trumpers.


4 posted on 11/28/2020 12:58:55 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
paranoid kook-land

Communist plots to take over government and co-opt instiutions were once dismissed as paranoid kookery.

5 posted on 11/28/2020 12:59:35 AM PST by Spirochete
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To: jmacusa

that was published in the NY post


6 posted on 11/28/2020 1:07:47 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Trump broke this TDS infected idiot years ago...he’s rambling here.


7 posted on 11/28/2020 1:08:13 AM PST by LongWayHome
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

This CRAP was written by virulent Trump-hater Jonah Goldberg. Says it all...


8 posted on 11/28/2020 1:15:47 AM PST by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Jonah Goldberg has completely lost it. He begins his sloppy screed by implying that Joe McCarthy falsely accused the people on his list of being Communists, but we now know positively that all of them actually were Communist agents or sympathizers. The Venona cables proved that when we got our hands on them after the fall of the Soviet Union. McCarthy was right!

Then he tries to equate Trump’s legal team’s efforts to illuminate the obvious, widespread 2020 election fraud to his false claim about McCarthy’s work. I am confident that, just like McCarthy, the claims of rampant vote fraud will be confirmed, though likely much more quickly than were McCarthy’s claims.

It takes a special kind of foolishness to write a column that is riddled top to bottom with error and falsehood, in which the author attacks others for allegedly making claims without evidence.

I think Goldberg’s Trump Derangement Syndrome has rotted his brain. He should be embarrassed by the childish garbage he has written.

9 posted on 11/28/2020 1:20:40 AM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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Clowns like Jonah have no clue about the gravity of stealing one’s vote.


10 posted on 11/28/2020 1:28:01 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Sen. Joseph McCarthy liked to insist he had evidence of Communists in the government, but he couldn’t show you the names right now. The number of Communist infiltrators on his secret list changed from speech to speech.

Funny thing is, Jonah derp. McCarthy wasn't lying and neither is Trump.


11 posted on 11/28/2020 1:29:02 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: noiseman

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
— Joseph Goebbels

In the current election - it seems that the Truth of a stolen election is so big and so widespread - it is difficult for people to believe.


12 posted on 11/28/2020 1:33:26 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Hey Jonah, go suck your thumb.

Joe McCarthy was RIGHT!


13 posted on 11/28/2020 1:43:20 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

McCarthy is not a good example for the theives to use, we now know Joe was right.


14 posted on 11/28/2020 2:01:26 AM PST by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Jonah has always been dem lite


15 posted on 11/28/2020 2:02:48 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: JohnBrowdie

So what? He’s still part of NRO


16 posted on 11/28/2020 2:03:52 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Jonah and his wail.


17 posted on 11/28/2020 2:24:34 AM PST by BlueYonder
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To: noiseman

Jonah Goldbrick has always written childish drivel.


18 posted on 11/28/2020 2:25:02 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Who decided to give this fat slob a byline?


19 posted on 11/28/2020 2:31:22 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Joseph McCarthy was absolutely correct about the number of traitors in our government. Back then, there were hundreds of communist employed in Washington DC, now there are thousands.

Goldberg doesn’t know it yet, but he is finished, kaput, done.


20 posted on 11/28/2020 2:40:40 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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