• style99@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Speaker Johnson told Newsmax on Monday he was fulfilling the “commitment” he made to release to the public all the video Congress has from the January 6 insurrection, and had recently released 13,000 hours of tape — though he had initially tried to blur the faces of the “innocent.”

    “So I made a commitment immediately after I got the gavel that we would start with this and that originally, we were trying to blur some of the faces to protect the innocent, you know, people who were just there and just happened to be walking through the building,” Johnson told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling.

    Just ordinary everyday Republican censorship, you know.

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      6 months ago

      These people wouldn’t know the ten commandments if the stone tables themselves fell off of a fucking wall onto their bootlicking faces

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    6 months ago

    I don’t get it. We all watched this happening as it was happening.

    How does lying about it benefit these politicians?

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      6 months ago

      1984, the only thing that matters is what their talkingheads say. If you don’t believe or parrot the lie you’re ostracized from the group.

  • Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Definitely just walking though with this gate. The locked door just made it look back from this angle