Maggie's Farm

Maniac: "Just 25 'mega-cities' produce 52 per cent of the world's urban greenhouse gas emissions—and 23 of them are in China"

Of course, that doesn't mean China produces 52% * 23/25 = 48% of global emissions. China produces about 28% of global emissions and accounts for about 13% of cumulative emissions. For comparison, the U.S. & E.U. account for 47% of cumulative emissions.

xposted from Legal Insurrection

MartyrMade: Most believe some or all of the theories involving midnight ballots, voting machines, etc, but what you find when you talk to them is that, while they’ll defend those positions w/info they got from Hannity or Breitbart or whatever, they’re not particularly attached to them.

Sure. That’s exactly how preconception works. Force fit the facts to the narrative.

MartyrMade: 1) The FBI/etc spied on the 2016 Trump campaign using evidence manufactured by the Clinton campaign.

Not manufactured, but the collection of raw intelligence. You would certainly expect the U.S. to investigate reports that Russian agents were attempting to infiltrate a U.S. political party — which they were.

MartyrMade: We now know that all involved knew it was fake from Day 1 (see: Brennan’s July 2016 memo, etc).

Um, no. That’s not what the memo revealed, but unconfirmed intelligence that Clinton was going to distract from the email kerfluffle with talk of Russian collusion.

MartyrMade: This was true with everyone, from CIA Dir Brennan & Adam Schiff – who were on TV saying they’d seen clear evidence of collusion w/Russia

The Trump campaign did collude with Russia. We know that the campaign manager provided internal campaign documents to a Russian agent knowing that Russian agents were involved in election interference. That’s collusion. We also know Trump obstructed the investigation, so there is probably other instances of collusion.

MartyrMade: We know as fact: a) The Steele dossier was the sole evidence used to justify spying on the Trump campaign

That’s false. The impetus for the investigation was a tip-off from Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK that a foreign policy advisor to Trump said that Russia had dirt in the form of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton.

MartyrMade: Many of them don’t know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020

Of course, there’s no evidence of any widespread election fraud; and multiple audits, recounts, and investigations have confirmed the results.

MartyrMade: Re: “fake impeachment”, we now know that Trump’s request for Ukraine to cooperate w/the DOJ regarding Biden’s $ activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine AG at the time, and so a completely legitimate request.

No. What Trump requested was a public announcement, contrary to best practices in an investigation. Ukraine said there was no investigation of Hunter Biden at the time, because the corruption issues occurred before Hunter Biden’s involvement in Ukraine.

MartyrMade: But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew.

Knew what? The latest conspiracy theory or the one before that. To reiterate, there is no evidence of any widespread election fraud.

MartyrMade: It’s a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) to help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system.

That’s not correct. Most legislatures have delegated discretion to the executive; and when there was a dispute, the courts adjudicated based on the relevant law.

MartyrMade: And what judge will toss millions of ballots because a governor broke the rules?

There’s the problem right there. Disputes concerning the rules must occur before the election.

An argument fails when it is based on a false basis.


That's false. As the Inspector General found, the impetus for the investigation was a tip-off from the Australians that a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign had said that Russia had thousands of emails that would embarrass Hillary Clinton.


While it was raw intelligence, the primary allegations, that Russia was interfering in the U.S. presidential election and was attempting to infiltrate the Trump campaign, have been confirmed.

Aggie: You already said that, and we already didn't buy it.

Actually, that would be the actual warrant application, the Inspector General, and the bipartisan, Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee who said it.