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WEEKEND POTPORRI ROUNDUP, OR, ALL THE CRAZY S---- THAT DIDN'T QUITE FIT THE OTHER THREADS BUT STILL NEEDED TO BE MENTIONED:

Beto O'Rourke And Texas Democrats Are Demanding An Investigation Into The True Death Count Of The Winter Storm

Jim Crow Is Back Because John Roberts Let It Happen
At least 10 states divert federal welfare funding to anti-abortion clinics | Abortion | The Guardian



BLOWBACK:

JPMorgan freezes donations to Republicans who supported insurrection

University of Rhode Island considers revoking Michael Flynn's honorary degree | TheHill
Joe Collins Ordered to Pay Maxine Waters' Legal Fees After Losing Lawsuit



FROM THE OFFICES OF NOE CHITT AND SHERLOCK:

New study shows conservatives hear, and believe, far more fake news than liberals


SILLY MFKRS:

Candace Owens Claims Children Are Not Being Taught Math Anymore
Texas GOP Chair Allen West, Who Suggested Secession From the United States, Resigns After Less Than a Year



LAGNIAPPE:

QAnon, Zyklon B, and the Rest of the Wingnut Alphabet - Shower Cap Blog

excerpts:

So, you’ve probably heard by now, but at the QANon convention, oh yeah, QAnon has conventions now, where they gather in clumps like cancer cells to talk about the civil war they want to start in order to exterminate all the [SLUR REDACTED] and [SLUR REDACTED] and especially the [SLUR REDACTED] and ANYWAY

at the QAnon convention, Michael T. Flynn, disgraced traitor, conspiracy theory-spewing nutjob, and (sigh) hero to millions of brainwashed cultists/habitual voters, could not conceal his hard-on while fantasizing about a Myanmar-style coup right here on American soil, because such thoughts are basically Viagra for Nazis.

Pumpkin Spice Pol Pot has apparently taken to telling nearby stooges he expects to be “reinstated” to the presidency by August, based on the spittle-drenched delusions of Sidney “I am literally arguing, in court, right this very minute, that you’d have to be fucking crazy to believe the shit I say” Powell, and the Marat/Sade rejects befouling ballots down in Arizona with their grubby little bath-salts-n’-Cheeto-dust-stained fingers.

Didja see where Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, with sternest of tones and furrowedest of brows, lectured the wicked ol’ U.S.A. for our inhumane maltreatment of those doe-eyed insurrectionists who only wanted hugs and okay fine to lynch the sitting Vice President? Diplomacy by trolling. It’d be funnier if it wasn’t working so well.


Yeah, a really cool thing about the way the world works nowadays is that a fifth-rate shithole fallen superpower, having stumbled onto a distressingly effective strategy to destroy America from within by weaponizing our nigh-limitless supply of credulous morons, can use their official state foreign policy platform to do their propaganda-spreading partners at Fox and Newsmax and OAN a solid,

amplifying their disinformation while simultaneously feeding their audience’s insatiable persecution complex. Giggling all the while, no doubt, kicked back in luxuriant recliners, smoking enormous cigars, just waiting for the ol’ stochastic terror machine to work its magic.
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With all the absolute Qanon Quackery spewing from the mouths of MOST Republicans and their propagandists at Fux and OAN and being readily consumed by a rabid constituency who'd rather believe absolute bullshit than admit they just got outvoted and BEATEN at the polls, it sure is comforting to know that there are still SOME who can discern facts from that alternate shit THEY come up with.

The GOP and their soothsayers are hell bent on making up garbage on the fly, however absurd, to placate their willfully ignorant and poorly educated devotees whom their leaders say they just LOVE, and for obvious reasons.

Which is exactly why they're trying to KEEP them that way by outlawing the teaching of any REAL American history having to do with race and by passing laws like in DeSantis' banana republic where faculty and student ALIKE can now be INTERROGATED as to their political beliefs.

Next they'll be mass burnings of "SUBVERSIVE" literature. Anyway, here is a weekend roundup POTPOURRI of just SOME the freedom setting truth THEY don't want us to know about:

Explosive ProPublica Report on Tax Fairness Exposes Vast Inequities in America's Tax Structure
It’s Not Just Income Taxes. Billionaires Don’t Pay Inheritance Taxes Either. – Mother Jones


The Supreme Court Protected Obamacare. So Why Aren’t Conservatives in a Rage? [SHORT ANSWER: Because most of 'em are ON it. They hate the man, love the plan.]

AND:

AOC says 'thank heavens' the GOP didn't have a majority in the House after the election, otherwise Biden wouldn't have been certified as president

BLOWBACK:

Trump 'Train' That Chased Down Biden Bus Sued, Accused Of Violating Anti-Klan Act | HuffPost
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Slams All-White Infrastructure Group
AOC’s Twitter takedown of Marjorie Taylor Greene is nothing short of perfection
Veterans Call On Their Insurance Co. To Yank Tucker Carlson Ads After He Calls Gen. Milley A 'Pig'
The Results Of A Fox News Popularity Poll On Biden Is Turning Heads
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LAGNIAPPE:

Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart team up to troll right-winger Candace Owens - Alternet.org

EXCERPTS FROM THE SHOWER CAP BLOG:


Racism, Fascism, Conspiracy Theories, and COVID-19: Not a Rerun From 2020, I Swear - Shower Cap Blog

So, the leading pusher of the ridiculous “Italygate” conspiracy theory turned out to be literally a realtor who pretended somebody else’s big fancy house was her own in order to seem important, and while I understand it’s possible, even easy, to fool some of the people all of the time, I humbly beg said rubes to at least make the damn con artists work for it a little, y’know?

Italian spy satellites changed my vote? Got it, lemme just jot that down in my Bible real quick, over one o’ them silly passages about loving thy neighbor.”

And the shitty thing is, you don’t even get to laugh at these dolts anymore... on account of their penchant for terrorism.

In fact, the Department of Homeland Security warned Congress this week of the threat of violence from those who’ve been duped into believing Tangerine Idi Amin will be “reinstated” to the Presidency by a pillow salesman with some obviously fallacious notions about how much meth he can handle.

Meanwhile, over on One America “News” Network, they are calling, with distressing nonchalance, for mass executions in the name of the Big (and Bigly Debunked) Lie. Seriously, you watch the creep in that video…I’ve seen sportscasters get more worked up reporting a backup catcher got traded for a player to be named later. Evil sure gets banal in a hurry, huh?

And then of course, who could forget Government Cheese Goebbels’ ravenous lust to deploy the U.S. military on American soil, to slaughter Black protesters in the streets? To “beat the fuck” out of them. To “crack their skulls.” To “just shoot them.”

Hard to believe it was barely five years ago when we naively thought such unapologetic evil would be disqualifying, even for the white grievance-driven Republican base;

now we understand they’ll never again accept anything less.

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WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT:

"Right-wing hysteria about "critical race theory" is not happening in a vacuum. It is part of a much larger project by the Jim Crow Republicans, neofascists and the broader white right to legitimize a new type of American apartheid in which nonwhites — especially Black people — do not have equal rights with white "conservatives" and others loyal to their cause.

This crisis of democracy has forced questions of history and public memory to the forefront of America's struggle against neofascism and authoritarianism."

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed: Jan. 6 was a "turning point" in American history | Salon.com

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Yes, this is fascism: the Atlantic's conservative David Frum says it's time to use the F-word

By any historical measure this country should not to be where it is right now, politically speaking. The worst pandemic to strike this nation in over a century has begun its slow but inexorable transformation into an event now comprehensible in hindsight... The economic crisis has started to recede... People are once again going out to eat, to shop, and to entertain themselves, spending money and traveling.

In short, you could fairly expect this to be a time of resurgence and shared national enthusiasm... And you could fairly expect the political differences among the nation’s citizens to reflect the same general sense of relief.

Instead, the prevailing public sentiment right now is one of politically polarized anger, distrust, suspicion and hatred on a scale that most of us have not witnessed in our lifetimes... solely because one of our two major political parties has willfully adopted the delusional notion that the 2020 election -- possibly the most secure election in our country’s history — was somehow tainted by widespread fraud, even though absolutely no evidence of such fraud exists.

This farcical narrative has become so embedded and fundamental to the Republican Party’s thinking that its adherents now feel emboldened and justified in attempting to disenfranchise those Americans whose votes they arbitrarily deem unworthy or illegitimate, a judgment based primarily on their skin color.

But worse than that, and even more ominously, that party has now become much more overt in countenancing outright violence against other Americans in furtherance of its goals.

As a result, the nation now faces a crisis even worse than the one foisted upon us by the COVID-19... not from any unexpected health calamity or foreign invasion, but one that is entirely homegrown, spun out of thin air by people with no respect or regard for the country’s democratic principles, or even democracy itself.

Conservative David Frum, writing for The Atlantic, recognizes what we are witnessing in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s brief tenure has a name, and it’s past time to start calling it out for what it is: fascism.

Frum acknowledges he’s arriving late to this acknowledgement, having cautioned against labeling the autocratic tendencies of Donald Trump as akin to those infamous European fascists.... But the analogy now is inescapable.

Well la de da, Frum. Thanks for waking up and smelling the fkn coffee. And not a moment too soon I might add.

For white evangelical Protestants, the degradation of democracy is not regrettable -- it's desirable - Raw Story

They’re playing the long game’: Legal experts warn post-Trump Supreme Court ‘laying foundations’ for right-wing turn

Trump’s disastrous tariffs have caused unprecedented damage - possibly lasting decades
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FOR LAFFS, SOME LAGNIAPPE :

The Hill serves up what may just be the most absurd headline in media history - by Aldous J. Pennyfarthing (the Kos)

The “just wait, he’s gonna turn presidential any moment now” crowd is still at it, months after Donald John Trump skulked away from the White House with his schwanz between his atrophied, KFC-bucket-balancin’ gams.

For more than five years after his rambling, racist campaign launch speech, Trump has had every opportunity to prove there was more to him than meets the eye. There isn’t. I’ve looked. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Trump’s are more like splotchy peepholes into John Wayne Gacy’s crawlspace. There’s nothing there but rank evil, soul-crushing emptiness, and half-slurped McNugget sauces.

Oh, Y’know, Just a Death Cult Doin’ Death Cult Stuff (excerpts from the Shower Cap Blog)


How do people become this crazy? We could probably gain some insight by investigating the dipshit hydra they look to for leadership. Won’t be pleasant, but let’s do it anyway.

... straining the real world’s credibility, DeSantis is actually selling anti-Fauci MERCH, smack dab in the middle of his state’s latest deadly covid surge. The 2024 Republican presidential contenders will not be out-mass-slaughtered, it would seem.

In Tennessee, Republicans successfully ousted the state’s top vaccination official, putting an end to her diabolical reign of Sound Medical Advice, and, emboldened by their neanderthal triumph over the forces of reason, shut down ALL adolescent vaccine outreach...

You may observe that it makes no fucking sense to pursue policies that will do nothing but increase disease and death, but this is a legitimately hip trend in conservative politics these days.

What I truly cannot wrap my weary mind around is, like, we know that nearly everybody who’s getting sick and dying right now is unvaccinated, and we also know that the unvaccinated population is rather disproportionately comprised of members of this particular…shall we say, “subculture.”

I just think it’s weird they haven’t figured this out yet. I guess by the time a loyal Tucker Carlson watcher finds his way to the ventilator, he’s too preoccupied to write a sternly-worded complaint to Fox management.

I’ll admit Ashli Babbitt’s MAGA martyr makeover has been a fascinating bit of world-building. Hairplug Himmler added his own nasty spin, fabricating a claim that the officer was, in fact, “head of security” for some nameless Democrat, and what a vicious little ad-lib that is.

He truly possesses a dark genius for inciting violent hate. Failed at everything he ever tried, from real estate to pants, but he turned out to have genuine talent in the field of Being American Hitler;

shitty bit of luck that such a pitch-black soul landed in a billionaire’s kid, don’tcha think?

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ON BRINGING KNIVES TO A GUNFIGHT - REVISITED
One recurring theme throughout this entire thread is the topic of Democrats (and the left in general) "bringing knives to a gunfight." That is, responding inefficiently, ineffectively, and sometimes not at all to a lot of questionable, unconscionable, and sometimes downright intolerable shit on the part of far right Republicans and their base of support.

And (as I noted in various other thread) they, of late, have responded to our stoic patience with ever increasing rhetoric, threats, hate, racism, discrimination, intimidation, confrontation, and even acts (and attempted acts) of violence.

Which I find curious considering every time someone of the left does or say something even close to the stuff THEY get away with, there's suddenly this vehement OUTCRY from their ranks, condemning us and demanding we disavow the action. Only, maybe we've done too good a job of doing so... probably why they've figured they can get away with saying whatever the f------- they want.

For example, just this last week, a Republican congressman used a QAnon reference to a "storm coming", while another QAnon quack, Marjorie Taylor Greene, suggested people use their 2nd Amendment rights in confronting vaccine door knockers,

and interesting thing for her to say, I think, considering Trump supporters in Arizona and Pennsylvania have the nerve to want to go around banging on people's doors demanding to know who they voted for.

But then again she also endorsed a treasonous underhanded scheme to slip Trump back into the White House, all backdoor like. While convicted criminal Michael Flynn openly suggested he might use his new AR-15 to "find somebody" in Washington.

And amid reports of Proud Boys running around trying to stir shit in various local venues, congressional GOP members trying to turn insurrectionists into "patriots" and "political prisoners," threats being phoned in to Capitol cops and lawmakers, anti-vaxxers making threats, acting up, and acting out in stores and on commercial airlines, a Capitol rioter designing a video game of political assassination (apparently too much time on HIS hands), and people in Missouri being so afraid of the anti-vaxxers they're getting shots in disguise,

a new poll has recently been released that revealed half of Republicans believe "a time will come when 'patriotic' Americans will have to take the law into their own hands." That is, in addition to those voter SUPPRESSION laws they've ALREADY "taken in hand" I suppose.

All of which leads ME to believe that the left has done TOO good a job of assuring them that there's no storm on their horizon, that we aren't "patriot" enough to protect our vote and OUR rights. I've said it before in other threads. People are being made to feel intimidated and threatened... for do and standing for the RIGHT thing. And maybe it's high time that changed.
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AND NOW, THIS:

Just Another Super Healthy Week Spent Arguing Whether or Not Science is Real and Mob Violence is Bad - Shower Cap Blog

EXCERPTS:

Have you noticed, a few reporters from the ol’ Appalachian diner beat seem to have been reassigned, to finally inquire of those of us who reside in objective reality how we feel about once again sacrificing our standard of living and our safety to the conniptions of the spiteful and misinformed?

Turns out, we don’t care for it.

I confess, it’s the petulance that gets under my skin. “MASKS? AGAIN?” they whine, a nation of full-diapered brats in sore need of Wonka-style discipline. They just keep flinging their Legos all over the floor and stomping on them and screaming and blaming us for the pain and I am 31 flavors of over it.

You are indecent people pursuing indecent goals. There is already so much blood on your hands, Birnam Wood is probably parked on your front fucking lawn right now.

Please stop killing us. You’ve killed SO MANY PEOPLE for such stupid, stupid reasons. Just stop. Please, you fuckheads. PLEASE.

The House Freedom Caucus demanded Kevin McCarthy expel Marjorie Taylor Greene from the Republican Conference, over her history of inciting violence and spreading disinformation.

Excuse me, that’s not right. The HFC demanded the Minority Leader expel Matt Gaetz for trafficking minors for sex.

Jeez, no, I don’t know what’s gotten into me tonight, the Freedom Caucus demanded McCarthy expel Paul Gosar for fundraising alongside holocaust-denying white supremacists. As any decent person would.

JUST KIDDING,

the rancid wad of warthog sphincters men call the House Freedom Caucus demanded ol’ Keville Chamberlain excommunicate neither criminals nor bigots,

but Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, for the damnable sin of loving their country too much to abandon it to the darkest, ugliest belief system humanity has discovered to date.

“Freedom Caucus.” The advertising firm of Draper & Orwell sure has been busy.
Right on. (as we used to say)
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A BULLETIN FROM THE BIZARRO WORLD NEWSROOM:
CONGRESSPEOPLE, ELECTED OFFICIALS, CITIZENRY LIVING IN FEAR, WHILE ANARCHISTS, INSURRECTIONISTS, SEDITIONISTS, TERRORISTS, AND ADVOCATES FOR VIOLENCE AREN'T - NEWS AT ELEVEN

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Sen. Warnock Has Spent Almost $350k on Security This Year: Report

Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia has spent $344,531 on personal security this year, according to a Daily Beast analysis of campaign finance data filed with the Federal Election Commission.

The security spending is driven by increased security concerns among members of Congress following the January 6 assault on the US Capitol. One of the top 10 spenders, Rep. Eric Swalwell, told the Daily Beast, "Threats to my and my family's safety intensified dramatically when I was named an impeachment manager in January, and have not abated since."

meanwhile:

QAnon follower to plead guilty after threatening 'crazy stupid' attack in DC tied to Trump's 'reinstatement'
Make No Mistake About It: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Calling For A New Civil War
Rep. Madison Cawthorn leads protesters objecting to Buncombe schools' mask mandate, staged 'overthrow'


Cawthorne... another of our so-called "patriots." Gotta luv these "patriots" like Trump and Carlson who sidle up to despots and dictators while trying to replace democracy with a fascist STATE, and actually CHEERING losses by AMERICAN athletes at the Tokyo Olympics.

Trump Stirs Up Rally Goers to Cheer US Women’s Soccer Team’s Olympic Defeat: They’ve Become ‘Warped’ and ‘Demented’

Tokyo Olympics: MAGA conservatives celebrate loss of US women’s soccer team

Republican joy at rooting against America sums up their party right now

Which just goes to show, the MAGA sort doesn't really love America. At least not an America for all of its people. Just like their "love" of "the blue" is only when they're killing and beating up minorities (not so much treasonous mfkrs trying to overthrow an election though),

the America THEY love is one where elections go their way and where they can overrule and reverse results they don't like if they don't, and one in which they can open carry guns into state capitols and everywhere else, and "take the law into their own hands" like murdering black joggers,

and where they can defy mask mandates and attack and ridicule those who WEAR masks, yet call cops on black realtors showing homes, and birdwatchers, and people minding their own fkng business, and where they can freely throw around the n-word and accost assault anyone speaking a foreign language, demanding to know "where they're from" and telling them to "go back" somewhere else.


An America where they can bitch about medicaid and assistance to the needy more than they do about right winged fat-cat tax breaks for the wealthy, and where they can send their kids off to private school on the public's dime, resting assured their progeny is going to get the whitewashed pablum version of American history - one that ensures their CONTINUED ignorance and incognizance of historical FACT.

Because they LOVE the "poorly educated." Or so they've SAID.

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THIS WEEKEND'S LAGNIAPPE (i.e. doing our damnedest to at least TRY to laugh at this s--------)

DeSantis Threatens To Cut Hospital Funding If Surgeons Keep Wearing Masks

LOL. Goes to show how BATSHIT the GOP has gotten when we no longer can tell fact from satire, eh? Admit it. We all thought it was real when we first read the headline.

meanwhile:

GOP loses mind cuz Biden is trolling the living hellz out of them - by SemDem - dailykos.com


excerpt:

Lemme start with the premise everyone knows: right-wing media must produce a steady stream of outrage to keep their dim-witted followers engaged. Over the years, I have heard whoppers from medical death panels, Obama taking away my doughnuts, to non-existent caravans of brown people, to not being allowed to say Merry Christmas.

The Right does its best to send their non-fact checking dolts into a rage to keep them engaged. The problem is that for years, there was always a scary Black person (Obama) or lady (Hillary) or Jewish man (Soros) that they could depend on to be behind whatever conspiracy they were pushing. Bigotry is an essential ingredient for conspiracy theories.

also:

It Gives Us No Pleasure To Have Been Right About Everything - dailykos.com

and:

What is “Sheep Drench,” and Why Are Americans Putting It In Their Bodies? Depressing Answers Within! - Shower Cap Blog

excerpts:

To any future alien anthropologists sifting through the records of our surely-soon-to-be-ending civilization, I want to be clear about the fact that yes, we absolutely had a vaccine at this point. Three of ‘em, actually. Each proven to be safe and effective.

It’s just that a whole buncha folks decided that science is a deep state conspiracy, (to…save…lives? I’m confused, too.) and they’d rather ingest things like “horse paste” and “sheep drench” instead.

While I’ve certainly made my share of dubious decisions over the years, I can’t help but wonder how a person comes to find themself sitting at the kitchen table, preparing to swig down a tall, frosty mug of SHEEP DRENCH, pausing only to self-high-five for outwitting that Fauci bastard. But here we are.


... Biden called Ronward (DeSantis) out, for all the suffering n’ death he’s caused and continues to cause, and the response was a perfectly fascist tantrum which saw DeSantis offer his white nationalist base the comforting lie that illegal immigrants caused the whole problem anyway, because blaming dehumanized minorities for your own failings is the first thing they teach ya at Trump University.

Somewhere in Hell, Goebbels is beaming with pride.

Tucker Carlson took a little working vacation, to introduce his increasingly fascism-curious audience to the western world’s leading democracy-crushing dictator: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. ... Slow, steady indoctrination, beamed into millions of American homes nightly, by Rupert Murdoch.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson took a break from leading the coronavirus’ guided tour of his constituents’ lungs to pardon gun waving maniacs Mark and Patricia McCloskey, because laws aren’t for white people, silly Rabbit, certainly not rich, conservative ones, and you’re never getting any fucking Trix either.
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Speaking of the Olympics (and I've been sitting on several articles until its conclusion) I figure it must take a "SPECIAL" kind of malignancy on the part of Trump and his MAGAts (checks spelling) to actually CELEBRATE the loss of American athletes for some reich winged stab at young people speaking up and out on issues of concern.

After all, athletes are just there for our amusement, aren't they? How dare they have a brain, or speak of mental challenges, or social justice, or decline to be interviewed?? As one of their "notables" quipped, they should just "shut up and dribble," right? And as the games wore on other would be critics seemed all too eager to pile onto the heap.

Not that Piers Morgan's calling any medal other than gold a "participation prize" and condemning the two athletes who shared the gold actually came as any surprise. He's always been a pompous assed mean-spirited b---------------d, imo. Clear case of stick-up-the-assitis if ever there was one.

Piers Morgan slams Tokyo 2020 Olympic high jump stars for sharing gold medal - Mirror Online
'Would rather shove it up my a**' Piers Morgan fires back at critic after Simone Biles win - Flipboard
Olympics 2020 medals: Michael Johnson slaps down Piers Morgan in bronze debate | Herald Sun

But then there was this rather shitty piece written by Yahoo Sports writer/columnist Dan Wetzel who also jumped on the "bronze and silver are participation medals" shtick, titled

Sorry, America: China's leading the real Olympic medal count.

Because, you see, bronze and silver medals apparently aren't "REAL." He even writes, "What in the name of participation trophies is going on here?" Like we haven't been counting medals that way, like, "forever."

But, as it turns out, our athletes finished with the most medals AND the most gold medals, ANYWAY. So I guess Wetzel can S--U now.

So congrats to all of the athletes, worldwide, who participated in the Tokyo Olympics, and under quite daunting circumstances. Especially the medal winners, to those who got to go (and even a few who weren't allowed to go)...

that is, all of them excepting maybe that "Russian" team that wasn't really Russia because Russia wasn't there, only, they actually were ???

(Freaky Deaky!)

and which was the subject of John Oliver's opening segment on Sunday night's show as well as the subject of these articles I've been sitting on:

'Russia' continues to make mockery of Olympic ban
The Russian Olympic committee proves Tokyo 2020 has been perverted by money, power and realpolitik
Roy Wood Jr. Congratulates All Olympic Athletes, With A Notable Exception | HuffPost

But hey, what Russia did wasn't really all THAT bad was it? Hell, all they did was, dope their athletes, build an ENTIRE BUILDING next door to the drug-testing lab, then cut a hole in the walls to swap out doped up urine samples with clean ones.

I mean, it's not like any of their athletes smoked a fkn BLUNT.

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