#avenue qanon

[proof1991]

Uncles tut when you speak of him Aunties draw their lips out thin Have you seen what Bobby's posting? Somebody should say something

[beardedmrbean]

An armed woman who breached an FBI office with a handgun was taken into custody by a SWAT team following an hour-long standoff with authorities.

The woman, who has not been identified, walked into the publicly-accessible lobby of the building on 1110 Third Avenue in Seattle, Washington, at approximately 3.14pm PT on Wednesday.

Seattle Police Department and Homeland Security swiftly arrived at the scene preventing the armed woman from venturing further into the building.

She was possibly pointing the gun at herself in the chest region, with negotiators being deployed and speaking over the tannoy in a bid for a peaceful solution, according to FOX 13 Seattle.

Dozens of police cars swarmed the building as four blocks around the bureau’s Seattle headquarters were shut down during the standoff causing a build-up of traffic, according to one witness.

An FBI SWAT team took the gunwoman into custody approximately an hour later without any injuries. There were no hostages at the scene and no reported injuries

Paper has been put up in the windows of the building to obscure the view of onlookers. The building has been taped off, while the surrounding streets and roads have been reopened to both traffic and pedestrians.

Detectives are currently unsure of the woman’s demands. An investigation is ongoing and no charging decisions have been made.

“We are grateful to the Seattle Police Department, King County Sheriff’s Office, Federal Protective Service, and other law enforcement partners for their commitment to protecting our community,” special agent Richard Collodi, in charge of the FBI Seattle Field Office, said in a statement.

The FBI has reported an increase in the number of threats against personnel and facilities in recent years as it continues to face widespread criticism, particular amongst conservatives and the far-right.

Some MAGA supporters have condemned both the bureau and the Justice Department for supposedly being hyper-aggresive against former president Donald Trump, while in contrast believing they turn a blind eye to President Joe Biden.

Erving Lee Bolling smashed his SUV through a barricade at an FBI headquarters in Atlanta in April this year before being caught by federal agents. He had reportedly been posting about the QAnon conspiracy theory prior to the incident.

A gunman clad in body armor tried to breach the bureau’s Cincinnati office in August 2022. Ricky Shiffer managed to flee the scene before being shot dead by police.

Authorities suspect he was present at the Jan. 6  Capitol riots and may have had ties with far-right group the Proud Boys, although he was not officially charged with any crimes in connection to the event.

The Independent has reached out to the FBI about how the armed woman managed to bypass the office’s metal detectors.

The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking news brand, providing global news, commentary and analysis for the independently-minded. We have grown a huge, global readership of independently minded individuals, who value our trusted voice and commitment to positive change. Our mission, making change happen, has never been as important as it is today.

[senatortedcruz]

no one told me how real the “I wish I could go back to college’’ song from Avenue Q was

[simonalkenmayer]

Decompensation is the word for an accelerated mental breakdown due to inability to cope with stress.

This is when mental illnesses become most dangerous to the ill person, and in the case of abusive narcissists, it is the time when they are most dangerous to those around them. It is what leads to narcissistic collapse. Because of the structure of their self image, the lack of empathy that must be masked, and the foundational lack of implicit self esteem, they tend to become paranoid and more controlling. If this is fought, they lash out.

I need to make an important distinction��Narcissists often display high levels of “explicit self esteem” or grandiosity rather than “implicit”. Explicit is uncontrolled, bragging, compulsive praise seeking, but also lying and manipulation to obtain benefits. Implicit self esteem is controlled, measured, the kind I describe often—knowing who you are and not needing to see that reflected in others opinions of you.

Most clinicians ascribe to the “masking theory”—that explicit self esteem is masking lack of implicit self esteem. I too subscribe to this. However, this can be difficult to prove, because narcissism has subtypes like “vulnerable narcissism” (which uses self deprecation as a tool to gain emotional supply) and manipulation is part of their coping mechanisms. Also in clinical settings, it can be incredibly difficult to quantify implicit self esteem.

However, when the model is most obviously correct, is during decompensation. They do not exhibit the typical self loathing, guilt, shame of other mental illnesses during decompensation. They do not think “I’m an idiot and a bad person”Instead, they become pessimistic. You see, narcissism is a condition that lacks empathy, and the people around are mere avenues to emotional supply. So when it becomes clear that emotional supply cannot be obtained, they devalue, lash out at, condemn, and belittle the ones who used to provide it.

In effect, they use explicit self esteem as a weapon, and project onto their target, the lack of implicit self esteem.

For example, “no one loves you” “you’re an awful person” “you’re fat”etc.

They turn the people they once needed into villains and then openly denounce them, but this is often seen through, and so the accusations or ideas become even more absurd. Like calling your target a drug addicted sex cult leader, for example. Point is, whatever qualities they claim their target has, is a direct map of what they think of themselves.

It’s worst when this person is responsible for a large group or ideology. Trump is currently melting down, as you’ve seen, but he’s spinning it into conspiracy, and this, in turn is feeding the misinformation influencing millions and triggering their possible decompensation. The group dynamics of the MAGA/QANON cult are a complex play between mental illnesses, pessimism, anger, frustration and so forth.

When a narcissist person lashes out, it’s proof they are under stress and are potentially headed for collapse. Back away. And keep a weather eye for people who display supreme pessimism under stress (GOP calling people names etc). Pessimism or negative thinking, blame, accusation, and lack of solution are warning signs that a narcissistic individual is nearing decompensation.

[evil-fact-checker]

The claims you've highlighted draw on various conspiracy theories, particularly surrounding QAnon and discredited narratives about the 2020 U.S. election. The Brunson v. Adams case, which sought to argue that members of Congress failed their constitutional duties in certifying the 2020 election results, was dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court without any review on the merits. No legal avenue exists that would allow the Supreme Court to "overturn" a presidential election based on this type of claim.

The military “watermarked ballot” theory has also been debunked. Election ballots in the U.S. are managed by individual states, not the federal government or military, and there is no evidence of watermarks being used in the 2020 election. Similarly, the "Global Currency Reset" (GCR) and "NESARA/GESARA" are fictional concepts promoted in conspiracy circles, with no basis in global finance or law.

In general, while it's good to critically examine governance, historical context and verification from reliable sources are key to understanding and addressing real issues. The narrative about the military "installing" a president or dissolving branches of government bypasses democratic principles and due process, which are fundamental to U.S. governance.

Another any time sensitive scenario was the Supreme Court’s expected announcement of their decision on the Brunson case. That case simply asked if Congress investigated allegations of voter fraud during the 2020 Election, which they did not. A positive SCOTUS decision would overturn the 2020 Election and bring down the Biden Administration, plus all of Congress.

The Military would then take over until a new election could be held. However, the Military accounting of watermarked ballots of the 2020 Election substantiated that Trump actually won that election by an over 80% vote in every state but one. Thus, it was possible that the Military could install Trump as the duly elected US President.

The Make America Great Again Trump was badly needed. A pending Nuclear World War III could be averted upon installation of a Global Currency Reset. There were 209 nations which had already signed an agreement that they would not be at war so they could participate in the new Global Financial System.

Activation of the GCR & GESARA/NESARA Law would then return all Taxpayer Dollars to The People instead of being paid to the Cabal which had stolen that money since the early 1900s.

Another agreement of the 209 Sovereign nations which wanted to participate in the new Global Financial System, was that they would install principles of the Original 1776 Constitution in their governments, and pay for Med Bed treatments for their people that would restore and maintain their health.

As you can see the top three branches of the government have been corrupted and it has to be done by the rule of law, not maritime law but natural and constitutional law. Otherwise it's just more crimes being committed by different people. The criminals at work won't just surrender because they know what they have done and the punishment for treason, war crimes and crimes against humanity is death after a military tribunal. 🤔

[fitchersvogel]

IF YOU WERE ALIVE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, YOU WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT HAVE BEEN BURNED AS A WITCH.

In what we usually call the Middle Ages (500-1400 or so), the official position of the Catholic church was that witchcraft did not exist: theologically it was understood as a delusion, because only God can cause magic/miraculous things to happen. Generally, people who claimed to be doing (or victimized by) witchcraft were treated as in need of medical/spiritual counseling. Every now and then, witchcraft accusations would get tangled into legal proceedings involving actual demonstrable crimes (often murder), but there was no general official belief that witchcraft was, in and of itself, a criminal thing that existed.

What the medieval Church cared about was HERESY: basically, religious treason, aka Doing Christianity Wrong. The people who were accused of heresy were, for the most part, high-status, powerful men who could pose a serious threat to established authority--not coincidentally, this was the same class of people who were usually accused of secular treason.

It was not until the 1400s that wannabe witch hunters started challenging the position that witchcraft didn’t exist, and they did that by hooking it up to the religious/legal concept of heresy. They saw widespread social and religious instability (that eventually fueled the Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation), and thought, “the only possible reason for this is SATAN!!!1!” These witch hunters were fundamentally conspiracy theorists: they claimed that Satan was using ordinary village people (especially old women) as his shock troops in a bid to destroy Christendom. 

Ye Olde QAnons initially had an uphill battle: believing that witchcraft was real was in and of itself a heresy, so they had to tread lightly. One avenue they used was to target regions that were already well-known as hotbeds of heresy, and use those ongoing trials (and atmosphere of fear and moral panic) to introduce their new spin. This was exactly what happened in Lausanne (Switzerland) starting in 1438: the Pays de Vaud region was already so famous as a cradle of heretics that “Vaudois” had became a synonym for heretics in general; when the “demonologists” (as Julian Goodare calls them) rolled into town, they gave a new lease on life to the heretic hunt by adding their brand-new concept of “witchcraft as organized devil worship designed to undermine Christendom.”

(It’s really striking how little the early demonologists cared about what ordinary people actually thought of as witchcraft--that is, using magic to harm others (maleficia): the Lausanne trial records indicate that the interrogators were adhering to a very specific script that was all about the outrages to Christianity (trampling on the Cross, unauthorized use of Communion wafers, kissing the Devil’s anus instead of the Christian “kiss of peace”, etc.), which completely confused both accused and witnesses. The Malleus Maleficarum (1487) was noteworthy specifically because it linked the legal processes developed by the demonologists to the folk village-level understandings of the witch as someone who commits maleficia. For more info, see Richard Kieckhefer’s article “Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century,” available on Project MUSE.)

If you’re interested in the witch hunts, Julian Goodare’s The European Witch-Hunt (Routledge, 2016) is, for my money, the best single-volume study; it was written with students in mind, and Goodare has a good sense of humor, making this also a very accessible read. Ronald Hutton’s The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times to the Present (Yale UP, 2017) is, as the title says, a much broader overview in both time and space (and also a tougher read, for those who aren’t used to academic language); Hutton is one of THE leading world authorities on witchcraft, so it is 100% worth the slog if you’re really into this topic.

[ceasarslegion]

Hey so, with vaccination rollouts happening we’re in the home stretch of the pandemic, and I really hope we don’t all just try to ignore the collective trauma that we all went through. I know that at first, it won’t seem like trauma, because the first time you can go to a party again without fearing for your life, you won’t fear for your life. You’ll feel invincible. I know that after herd immunity, I’m probably gonna go to the first one I’m invited to and either drink until I ralph or get high enough to forget my name while I forget what social anxiety is until 5am, if not just... all night. And y’know what? I’ll deserve it. After the shit we’ve all been through, we all deserve to pull an entire night of intoxicated partying without thinking of how much we’re gonna regret it the next day, or worrying about accidentally killing or getting killed by our friends. We’ll definitely all be socially awkward as fuck in large group settings again, but we’ll be socially awkward together, so it won’t be too bad.

But that’s a coping mechanism. When you’ve been through a traumatic event, and it suddenly stops, your brain needs a moment to figure out what to do next, how to begin to catalogue it, what to learn from it, etc, so it’ll just throw you back into your default pre-trauma phase for a while while it gets its shit together in the background. It’s a weird grey area where you just kind of float for a while. It’s why when someone you love passes, it often doesn’t hit until later. But it’ll hit, and it’ll hit everyone, and I really hope we as a society don’t just try to ignore it.

When I watch movies now, sometimes I have visceral reactions to characters being too close to each other, or touching, or god forbid kissing. Not all the time, but it comes up out of the blue and surprises me a fair amount. That’s a trauma response: I’ve been conditioned to view close human interaction as potentially dangerous, because it has been dangerous for the last year. Right now, it’s helpful, because it keeps me hesitant around other people who aren’t in my bubble, which keeps me safe. It’s when it starts leaking into other avenues where there is no danger that it falls into trauma territory, like when I’m watching movies. Almost every unhealthy coping mechanism started as a healthy one. It all depends on context and moderation. We aren’t very logical animals, our brains didn’t develop like they did for intelligence, it was for empathy and larger emotional ranges that are useful in social animals.

Also, what’s at the back of your mind every time you say something like “after COVID” or “when this is over”? It’s this little demon thats saying “if I survive it,” isn’t it? Most of us don’t really acknowledge it, because we don’t want to and we’ll drive ourselves nuts if we do so we force ignorance for the sake of sanity, but we still aren’t dumb animals, we’re aware of our own mortality, and aware that it could happen to us as long as it keeps going on. Probably pops up multiple times a day for most of us, we just stomp it back down into its box and tell it to shut up, but it’s there. How do you think a year of tacking on this quiet inner “if I make it” at the end of every thought of post-COVID life is gonna influence our mental health? Yeah, it’s normal and I’d argue healthy to acknowledge your mortality sometimes, and even have an existential crisis or two because it helps you get your bearings on reality and appreciate the time you do have, and you aren’t helping anyone by pretending death doesn’t exist and will get us all one day, but we aren’t equipped to do it THIS much. It’s like... you know how if you left a phone plugged in 24/7 you would fry the battery, but you need to plug it in sometimes to charge it? Being confronted with our mortality on a near-constant basis now is like if we were left plugged in 24/7 instead of just long enough to give us a new spry outlook.

Because yeah, we’ll go to that first party and we’ll feel invincible, but what happens when everything else sets in? What happens a month later when a friend tries to hug you and you automatically flinch and step back, and you have to remind yourself that it’s okay now? What happens to the people who get a more intense bout of trauma and now a stranger sneezing near them on the subway launches them into a panic attack? It could be me, or you, or any of us who end up reacting that way. It’s going to happen, we’re not helping anyone by ignoring it, so we need to seriously overhaul how we talk about and treat mental health on a systemic level if we want to come out of this together and supported instead of divided and scared. We need mental health to be covered under public health care, especially after this, or we risk so many people becoming nonfunctional because they can’t afford the tools to work through their trauma, and we as laypeople need to be way more supportive and understanding of each other. We need to show that we’re here for others and that their emotions are valid while they get the tools to work through it in a healthy way.

We unfortunately had to sacrifice humanity’s mental health for our physical health, because we can’t live without our bodies, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t obligated to help each other heal in the aftermath. I really hope we don’t just end up pretending we didn’t all come out of this traumatized. Even the fucking Qanon antimask bullshit conspiracy theorists are traumatized, why do you think they act Like That? It’s not right, it’s still inexcusable, and I will continue to smear them, but their existence is a symptom of a larger problem.

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Blessed Child podcast: Part 1. Belvedere – Drink ’n’ hide, and Part 2. Rice and French Fries

with Renée

https://anchor.fm/blessed-child2/episodes/Pt-1-Belvedere-Drinkn-hide-e19btfp

Trigger warnings: sexual assault, suicide, sex trafficking⚠️⚠️⚠️ This episode is part 1 of 2 where we reach back to Irvington, NY, to interview two fellow classmates and reflect about what life was like growing up with a secret cult in their hometown.

Contact Kyle Sullivan: ktsullivan91@gmail.com.

Contact Andrew on instagram at @eastham90

Feedback for blessed child can be sent to reneethomasart@yahoo.com. 🔥

For BBC ‘Rev. Sun Myung Moon: Emperor of the Universe’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KruPlKi68 Transcript of the full 60 minutes, with images, here: https://tragedyofthesixmarys.com/emperor-of-the-universe/

In-jin’s letter “Save Bo Hi Pak” http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/InJinMoon/InJinMoon-050800.htm

James Park sells Paradigm the same year Bo Hi Pak gets out of prison https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407/

Bo Hi Pak spends two years in prison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Hi_Pak

Unification Church leader, Bo Hi Pak, was detained on fraud charges in 2004

Bo Hi Pak and the KCFF scam – and Sun Myung Moon’s ROFA scam

East Garden Museum: https://eastgarden.org/gallery/

Bowling alley in East Garden: Fun with numbers

Qanon Annonymous debunks Qanon and goes undercover at Moonie event: Episode 163: Attending the Rod of Iron Freedom Festival https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-163-attending-the-rod-of-iron-freedom-festival/id1428209307?i=1000539120793

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Part 2. Rice and French Fries

https://anchor.fm/blessed-child2/episodes/Part-2--Rice-and-French-Fries-e19ijmv

“To promote family but then rip them apart”

Join Kyle, Andrew and myself as we talk Moonies and how they found out what the Unification Church was really all about. 

Thank you Kyle for this episode art, circa 2008.

Podcast list: FallingOut pod with Elgen Strait https://www.fallingoutpod.com/

Jen Kiaba’s ‘Lessons on leaving’ https://www.jenkiaba.com/lessons-on-leaving

Qanon Anonymous Episode 160: The Moonies Conquer DC feat. Elgen Strait https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-160-the-moonies-conquer-dc-feat-elgen-strait/id1428209307?i=1000536467019

The Cult Vault https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3-the-unification-church-aka-the-moonies/id1514656568?i=1000475494521

https://www.cultvaultpodcast.com/podcast/episode/3602db47/123-the-unification-church-an-english-perspective

Luna stream done by current 2nd generation members https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/luna-stream/id1525727762?uo=4

What the faith https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-the-faith/id1507877416

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Moonie labor trafficking in Generation Peace Academy: Generation Peace Academy  info from the GPA website: “GPA is a full-time, year-long program for high school graduates to receive life of faith education and leadership training, serve developing countries, and become global missionaries. Your tax-deductible support helps our current and future participants cover the costs of workshops, travel, and service projects. 481 8th Avenue, Box A-12, New York, NY 10001″

The address given is for the New Yorker Hotel, owned by the Unification Church.

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In Part 2, the history between Korea and Japan was mentioned. The Korean UC leaders taught a false version of that history to Japanese members to fill them with guilt and shame concerning the colonial period. The issue of the Korean comfort women was used as a main tactic. The claim that Myung-hee Kim, destined to be True Mother in the 1950s, was raped by a Japanese man is another lie taught to the Japanese.

The Comfort Women controversy

1. Meet Miki Dezaki, Director of the film, Shusenjo: The Main Battleground Of The Comfort Women Issue. 2. Thousands of Korean men and women tricked, kidnapped or forcibly abducted Korean girls to be ‘comfort women’. Statistical Yearbook of the Governor-General of Korea, from 1931-1943. 8. Chart of Comfort Station managers, revealing they were Korean 10. ‘Comfort Women Urgently Wanted’ – Ads in Korean newspapers

Footnotes 1. Professor C. Sarah Soh interviewed at SFSU in 1999 6. A few more of the hundreds of Korean newspaper reports on the continuous fight against Korean men and women who lured Korean (and Japanese) girls and women into prostitution. There were many arrests of traffickers and hundreds of girls were released.

Sun Myung Moon’s third wife – Kim Myung-hee

The lie that Kim Myung-hee was raped in Japan

Moon church of Japan used members for profit, not religious purposes

Japanese woman recruited by the Moon church and sold to a Korean farmer

Human trafficking in the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han is despicable

[feelingbluepolitics]

This article has some cowardly both-sides equivocation at the end, and also, like most American history, fails to consider more modern international implications of a backward and failing ignorance-based conservative nation. But the history of America's long-lasting conspiracy/ignorance nationalist/hate political sewage stream is particularly pertinent now.

"[P]opulist outrage could only propel them to state houses and to the House of Representatives. Then, as now, those are the most fruitful avenues for grassroots and single-issue campaigns. Gaining larger blocs of support as a national movement is much more challenging and requires organization and coherence, and the ability to build and maintain some kind of coalition. Conspiracy theories, which were the core DNA of the Know Nothings, have coherence in their way, but they do best when they avoid the light of public scrutiny. As a local phenomenon, Know Nothingism thrived; as a national movement, it could only go so far before it splintered, fractured and collapsed.

"That is one likely path for the Republican Party today, if the [t]rumpian-conspiracy wing keeps its vital place in the party. [t]rump reached office by loudly giving voice to undercurrents that the Republican Party had largely kept in check, and had he been re-elected, it’s of course possible that his long grip on power would have led to a more potent national movement. But even then, he never truly managed to deliver results, or to bend the government to his loose collection of ideas; a faction with one primary ethos subsumed to one primary leader could only have been viable long-term if [t]rump had actually managed to deconstruct the government systems in a way that he largely failed to do.

"Without that kind of success to build a broader base, the QAnon wing now threatens to push Republicans much closer to the fate of Know Nothing Party, even though they don’t know it. Many Republican voters, like Know Nothing voters in the mid-1850s, have legitimate grievances about economic equity and opportunity, but the party itself rests on deeper and more exclusionary currents of conspiracy, us-versus-them, anti-immigration and nativism. [t]rump remains the party’s most important figurehead, even out of power, but the fervent supporters who keep him there aren’t mainstream voters but hard-to-control online cells and local parties.

..."That doesn’t mean that all GOP voters buy into all of that — not even close. But it means that the party itself will struggle to survive as an organizing force without that energy, and will be limited as a national party because of it. That limit is the lesson of the Know Nothings."

[mitchipedia]

I think that what happened on Wednesday is that millions of Trump supporters and Qanon conspiracists woke up and said today is the day. Today’s the day Trump rises up and his army of God storms Washington, and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden and the rest of those child molesting gangsters hang from gallows in front of the capital.

And it started out well for them. Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of supporters and urged them to march down Pennsylvania Avenue and he said he would be walking with them.

And then Trump went back to the White House and watched TV.

That guy photographed with his feet upon Nancy Pelosi‘s desk, he thought he was heir to all those humble soldiers who storm the palace that had belong to Saddam Hussein or Adolf Hitler, and drink the enemy tyrant’s fine wine and smoked their cigars. He thought he had a picture that he was going to be able to share with pride with his grandchildren. Things are not going to go as planned for him.

[aldieb]

my latest attempt to make my d*d realize how much damage he’s done involved crying on the phone abt how none of my (blood or non-blood) relatives on his side have made a single attempt to reach out to my mom or me this year. (i didn’t intend to be manipulative in this case, actually—i got halfway through the sentence and got hit w how big the loss of my uncles was for the first time.) anyway it seems he’s told them to contact me which is a noble thing to do, but one uncle (qanon uncle lol) asked for my address in his first communication to me (the thing his ringleader has been trying to shake me down for this whole time....) and another straight up lied to me abt why he was texting me. one was normal so that’s something. love that i opened myself up to multiple new avenues of control and manipulation :)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 21, 2021

Heather Cox Richardson

Tonight, in Fulton County, Georgia, a judge allowed 9 Georgia voters and their experts to inspect copies of the 147,000 mail-in ballots cast in that county to make sure that officials did not accept counterfeit ballots. Georgia officials have already done three separate audits of the ballots from the 2020 vote, including a hand recount, and found no widespread fraud. But supporters of former president Trump insist that he actually won the 2020 election and that it was stolen from him by fraud.

It is this same belief that led to the private “audit” of ballots in Maricopa County, Arizona, where Republican state senators made election officials give both ballots and election equipment to a private company, Cyber Ninjas, to recount and examine. The Cyber Ninjas had no experience doing such an audit and the process has been widely discredited, but they accused election officials of deleting databases, accusations picked up by Trump loyalists like Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ).

Today, attorneys for Maricopa County and those election officials warned the Republican Arizona Senators to preserve all evidence surrounding this “audit” for future lawsuits.  

Despite the Arizona debacle, Trump supporters all over the country are demanding recounts like the one in Maricopa County. They say their only goal is to make sure that machines are accurate and the count is fair, but they are echoing Trump, who continues to insist he won the 2020 election.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes,” he said recently at Mar-a-Lago. “So we’re going to watch that very closely. And after that, you’ll watch Pennsylvania and you’ll watch Georgia and you’re going to watch Michigan and Wisconsin. You’re watching New Hampshire. Because this was a rigged election. Everybody knows it.”

It was not a rigged election. Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won by more than 7 million votes with more than 51% of the popular vote to Trump and Mike Pence’s 46.8%. The Democrats won in the Electoral College by a vote of 306 to 232. Trump lost more than 60 lawsuits over the election, and recounts turned up no evidence of widespread fraud.

Observers call Trump’s insistence that he won the 2020 election the Big Lie.

It was this lie that led to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters stormed the Capitol to stop the counting of the electoral votes that would make Biden president. In case after case, the insurrectionists’ lawyers have claimed their clients believed that Trump won and the election was stolen from him. The lawyers have blamed the “propaganda” coming from the Fox News Channel and the former president for their clients’ actions.

According to “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley, his lawyer wrote, if not “for the actions and the words of the President, he would not have appeared in Washington, DC to support the President and, but for the specific words of the then-President during his January 6, 2021 speech, the Defendant would not have walked down Pennsylvania Avenue and would not have gone into the U.S. Capitol Building.”

In an interview with Matt Shuham of Talking Points Memo, the lawyer added: “These aren’t bad people; they don’t have a prior criminal history. F**k, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since f**king Hitler.”

But here’s the rub: Last week, when they removed Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) from party leadership, Republicans indicated they have now tied themselves to Trump, along with his eagerness to overturn elections unless he gets his way.

We are on a very dangerous path.

Republican lawmakers are downplaying the January 6 insurrection, rewriting our history to suggest that the assault on the heart of our democratic process was no big deal. Last week, Representative Andrew S. Clyde (R-GA) said the event was like a “normal tourist visit”—photos show him that day screaming and frantically barricading the doors to the House gallery—and Representative Ralph Norman (R-SC) questioned whether the rioters were Trump supporters, despite their Trump flags and MAGA hats, and the fact the former president told them he loved them. On the Fox News Channel this week, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) claimed the insurrection was largely a “peaceful protest.”

On Wednesday, the House passed a bill to set up a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the events of January 6. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had set out conditions for the commission, apparently with the idea that Democrats would reject them, but in fact the Democrats agreed to his demands, leaving McCarthy scrambling to find a reason to oppose the commission. For oppose it he does, along with all but 35 Republicans (whom Trump promptly called “ineffective and weak”). Four fifths of the Republicans in the House oppose creating a bipartisan independent commission to figure out what happened on that hideous day.

They are opposed in part because they do not want voters to be reminded of their leader’s complicity in the event, driven as it was by the Big Lie, and also because a number of them would be witnesses, called to testify under oath. Cheney has repeatedly suggested that McCarthy himself, who had a heated telephone conversation with the former president during the riot, should testify voluntarily or, if necessary, under subpoena.

Yesterday, McCarthy pointedly refused to answer whether he was sure no members of his caucus had spoken with any of the rioters, bringing to mind the January 13 letter from 34 members of the House, including those with military training and former CIA agent Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), to request an immediate investigation into tours of the Capitol given on January 5. The letter reported that the number and nature of the tours were so concerning that members reported them to the Sergeant at Arms that day.

The bill now goes to the Senate, where Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has vowed to oppose it, calling it “slanted and unbalanced” in what seems to be a shout out to Fox News Channel viewers by playing on “fair and balanced.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will bring the bill to the floor, where Republicans are expected to filibuster it, meaning it will take 60 votes, rather than a simple majority of 51, to pass it. They are likely to block even a debate on it.

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who has maintained he can work with the Republicans, commented: “So disheartening. It makes you really concerned about our country…. I’m still praying we’ve still got 10 good solid patriots within that conference.”

It seems to me that ship has sailed. Six months after the 2020 election, supporters of the former president are challenging vote counts all over the country as he continues to insist he won. His supporters stormed the Capitol to overturn our electoral process. And now our Republican lawmakers, who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution, are trying to protect their leader from accountability for inciting that insurrection.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[blue-politics-reblogs]

"A New York Times examination of the 77 democracy-bending days between election and inauguration shows how, with conspiratorial belief rife in a country ravaged by pandemic, a lie that [t]rump had been grooming for years finally overwhelmed the Republican Party and, as brake after brake fell away, was propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers, political organizers, financiers and the surround-sound right-wing media."

- "As [t]rump’s official election campaign wound down, a new, highly organized campaign stepped into the breach to turn his demagogic fury into a movement of its own, reminding key lawmakers at key times of the cost of denying the will of the president and his followers. Called Women for America First, it had ties to [t]rump and former White House aides then seeking presidential pardons, among them Stephen K. Bannon and Michael T. Flynn.

"As it crossed the country spreading the new gospel of a stolen election in [t]rump-red buses, the group helped build an acutely [t]rumpian coalition that included sitting and incoming members of Congress, rank-and-file voters and the 'de-platformed' extremists and conspiracy theorists promoted on its home page — including the white nationalist Jared Taylor, prominent QAnon proponents and the Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio.

"With each passing day the lie grew, finally managing to do what the political process and the courts would not: upend the peaceful transfer of power that for 224 years had been the bedrock of American democracy.

- "For every lawyer on [t]rump’s team who quietly pulled back, there was one ready to push forward with propagandistic suits that skated the lines of legal ethics and reason. That included not only Mr. Giuliani and lawyers like Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, but also the vast majority of Republican attorneys general, whose dead-on-arrival Supreme Court lawsuit seeking to discount 20 million votes was secretly drafted by lawyers close to the White House, The Times found.

- McConnell attempted one of his sly long games, "under a false impression that [trump] was only blustering, the officials said. Mr. McConnell had had multiple conversations with the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and the senator’s top political adviser, Josh Holmes, had spoken with Mr. Kushner, [trump’s] son-in-law and senior adviser. Both West Wing officials had conveyed the same message: They would pursue all potential avenues but recognized that they might come up short. [t]rump would eventually bow to reality and accept defeat.

"The [then] majority leader rendered his verdict on Nov. 9, during remarks at the first postelection Senate session. Even as he celebrated Republican victories in the Senate and the House — which in party talking points somehow escaped the pervasive fraud that cast Mr. Biden’s victory in doubt — Mr. McConnell said, '[t]rump is 100 percent within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options.' He added, 'A few legal inquiries from the president do not exactly spell the end of the republic.'

- "Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, then the Judiciary Committee chairman, went on Sean Hannity’s program to share an affidavit from a postal worker in Erie, Pa., who said he had overheard supervisors discussing illegally backdating postmarks on ballots that had arrived too late to be counted. He had forwarded it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"'They can all go to hell as far as I’m concerned — I’ve had it with these people. Let’s fight back,' Mr. Graham said. 'We lose elections because they cheat us.'

"Earlier that day, however, the postal worker had recanted his statement in an interview with federal investigators — even though he continued to push his story online afterward. His affidavit, it turned out, had been written with the assistance of the conservative media group Project Veritas, known for its deceptive tactics and ambush videos.

- "[W]ith the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, backing him, Mr. Barr told [trump] that he could not manufacture evidence and that his department would have no role in challenging states’ results, said a former senior official with knowledge about the meeting, a version of which was first reported by Axios. The allegations about manipulated voting machines were ridiculously false, he added; the lawyers propagating them, led by Mr. Giuliani, were 'clowns.'

- "The [Paxton] lawsuit was audacious in its scope. It claimed that, without their legislatures’ approval, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin had made unconstitutional last-minute election-law changes, helping create the conditions for widespread fraud. Citing a litany of convoluted and speculative allegations — including one involving Dominion voting machines — it asked the court to shift the selection of their Electoral College delegates to their legislatures, effectively nullifying 20 million votes.

"Condemnation, some of it from conservative legal experts, rained down.

..."One lawyer knowledgeable about the planning, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said: 'There was no plausible chance the court will take this up. It was really disgraceful to put this in front of justices of the Supreme Court.'

"Even the Republican attorney general of Georgia, Chris Carr, said it was 'constitutionally, legally and factually wrong.'

"That prompted a call from [trump], who warned Mr. Carr not to interfere, an aide to the attorney general confirmed. The pressure campaign was on.

- "The next day, Dec. 9, Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana sent an email to his colleagues with the subject line, 'Time-sensitive request from [t]rump.' The congressman was putting together an amicus brief in support of the Texas suit; [t]rump, he wrote, 'specifically asked me to contact all Republican Members of the House and Senate today and request that all join.' [trump], he noted, was keeping score: 'He said he will be anxiously awaiting the final list to review.'

- "Some 126 Republican House members, including the caucus leader, Mr. McCarthy, signed on to the brief, which was followed by a separate brief from [trump] himself. 'This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!' [t]rump tweeted. Privately, he asked Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to argue the case.

- "On Dec. 11, the court declined to hear the case, ruling that Texas had no right to challenge other states’ votes.

"If the highest court in the land couldn’t do it, there had to be some other way.

- "And so they came the next day, by the thousands, to a long-planned rally in Washington, filling Freedom Plaza with red MAGA caps and [t]rump and QAnon flags, vowing to carry on. [trump’s] legal campaign to subvert the election might have been unraveling, but their most trusted sources of information were glossing over the cascading losses, portraying as irrefutable the evidence of rampant fraud.

"'The justice system has a purpose in our country, but the courts do not decide who the next president of the United States of America will be,' the freshly pardoned former national security adviser, Mr. Flynn, told the crowd. 'We the people decide.'

"There was encouragement from figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene, the conspiracy theorist just elected to Congress from Georgia, and Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, beamed in on a giant video screen.

"'Hey there, all of you happy warrior freedom fighters,' Ms. Blackburn said. 'We’re glad you’re there standing up for the Constitution, for liberty, for justice.'

- "The rally had been planned by Women for America First, which was quietly becoming the closest thing [t]rump had to a political organizing force, gathering his aggrieved supporters behind the lie of a stolen election.

"The group’s founder, Amy Kremer, had been one of the original Tea Party organizers, building the movement through cross-country bus tours. She had been among the earliest [t]rump supporters, forming a group called Women Vote Trump along with Ann Stone, ex-wife of the longtime [t]rump adviser Roger Stone.

- "'What we do now is we take note of the people who betrayed [t]rump in Congress and we get them out of Congress...We’re going to make the Tea Party look tiny in comparison.'"

[herbertandlom]

January 8, 2021 (Friday) More information continues to emerge about the events of Wednesday. They point to a broader conspiracy than it first appeared. Calls for Trump’s removal from office are growing. The Republican Party is tearing apart. Power in the nation is shifting almost by the minute. [Please note that information from the January 6 riot is changing almost hourly, and it is virtually certain that something I have written will be incorrect. I have tried to stay exactly on what we know to be facts, but those could change.] More footage from inside the attack on the Capitol is coming out and it is horrific. Blood on statues and feces spread through the building are vile; mob attacks on police officers are bone-chilling. Reuters photographer Jim Bourg, who was inside the building, told reporters he overheard three rioters in “Make America Great Again” caps plotting to find Vice President Mike Pence and hang him as a “traitor”; other insurrectionists were shouting the same. Pictures have emerged of one of the rioters in military gear carrying flex cuffs—handcuffs made of zip ties—suggesting he was planning to take prisoners. Two lawmakers have suggested the rioters knew how to find obscure offices. New scrutiny of Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally before the attack shows Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), Don Jr., and Trump himself urging the crowd to go to the Capitol and fight. Trump warned that Pence was not doing what he needed to. Trump promised to lead them to the Capitol himself. There are also questions about law enforcement. While exactly what happened remains unclear, it has emerged that the Pentagon limited the Washington D.C. National Guard to managing traffic. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requested support before Trump’s rally, but the Department of Defense said that the National Guard could not have ammunition or riot gear, interact with protesters except in self-defense, or otherwise function in a protective capacity without the explicit permission of acting Secretary Christopher Miller, whom Trump put into office shortly after the election after firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper. When Capitol Police requested aid early Wednesday afternoon, the request was denied. Defense officials held back the National Guard for about three hours before sending it to support the Capitol Police. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, tried repeatedly to send his state’s National Guard, but the Pentagon would not authorize it. Virginia’s National Guard was mobilized when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the governor, Ralph Northam, herself. Defense officials said they were sensitive to the criticism they received in June when federal troops cleared Lafayette Square of peaceful protesters so Trump could walk across it. But it sounds like there might be a personal angle: Bowser was harshly critical of Trump then, and it would be like him to take revenge on her by denying help when it was imperative. Refusing to stop the attack on the Capitol might have been more nefarious, though. A White House adviser told New York Magazine’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi that Trump was watching television coverage of the siege and was enthusiastic, although he didn’t like that the rioters looked “low class.” While the insurrectionists were in the Capitol, he tweeted: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!” Even as lawmakers were under siege, both Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani were making phone calls to brand-new Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) urging him to slow down the electoral count. After Trump on Wednesday night tweeted that there would be an “orderly” transition of power, on Thursday he began again to urge on his supporters. With the details and the potential depth of this event becoming clearer over the past two days—Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Virginia, tweeted her support, and state lawmakers as well as Republican attorneys general were actually involved—Americans are recoiling from how bad this attempted coup was… and how much worse it could have been. The crazed rioters were terrifyingly close to our elected representatives, all gathered together on that special day, and they were actively talking about harming the vice president. By Friday night, 57% of Americans told Reuters they wanted Trump removed from office immediately. Nearly 70% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s actions before the riot. Only 12% of Americans approved of the rioters; 79% of Americans described the rioters as “criminals” or “fools.” Five percent called them “patriots.” Pelosi tonight said that she hoped the president would resign, but if not, the House of Representatives will move forward with impeachment on Monday, as well as with legislation to enable Congress to remove Trump under the 25th Amendment. The most recent draft of the impeachment resolution has just one article: “incitement of insurrection.” As a privileged resolution, it can go directly to the House without committee approval. In the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has no interest in further splitting the Republicans over another impeachment, or forcing them onto the record as either for or against it. Timing is on his side: the Senate is not in session for substantive business until January 19, so cannot act on an impeachment resolution without the approval of all senators. It can take up the resolution then, but more likely it will wait until Biden is sworn in, at which point the measure would be managed not by McConnell, but by the new House majority leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY). A trial can indeed take place after Trump is no longer president, enabling Congress to make sure he can never again hold office. Whether or not the Senate would convict is unclear, but it’s not impossible. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), for one, is so furious she is talking of switching parties. “I want him out,” she says. Still, Trump supporters are now insisting that it would “further divide the country” to try to remove Trump now, and that we need to unify. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who led the Senate effort to challenge Biden’s election, today tweeted that Biden was not working hard enough to “bring us together or promote healing” and that “vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart.” Trump, meanwhile, has continued to agitate his followers, and today began to call for more resistance, while users on Parler, the new right-wing social media hangout, are talking of another, bigger attack on Washington. Tonight, Twitter banned Trump, stating: “we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” As evidence, it cited both his claim that his supporters would “have a GIANT VOICE long into the future,” and his tweet that he would not be going to Biden’s inauguration on January 20. Twitter says that Trump’s followers see these two new tweets as proof that the election was invalid and that the Inauguration is a good target, since he won’t be there. The Twitter moderators say that “plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.” Twitter also took down popular QAnon accounts, including those of Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and his former lawyer Sidney Powell, who is having quite a bad day: the company that makes election machines, Dominion Voting Systems, announced it is suing her for defamation and asking $1.3 billion in damages. After taking down 7,000 QAnon accounts in July, Twitter continued by today taking down the account of the man who hosts the posts from “Q.” While Twitter officials might well be horrified by the insurrection, the ban is also a sign of a changing government. With the election of two Democratic senators from Georgia this week, the majority goes to the Democrats, and McConnell will no longer be Majority Leader, killing bills. Social media giants know regulation of some sort is around the corner, and they are trying to look compliant fast. When Twitter banned Trump, so did Reddit, and Facebook and Instagram already had. Google Play Store removed Parler, warning it to clean up its content moderation.   Trump evidently couldn’t stand the Twitter ban, and tried at least five different accounts to get back onto the platform. He and his supporters are howling that he is being silenced by big tech, but of course he has an entire press corps he could use whenever he wished. Losing his access to Twitter simply cuts off his ability to drum up both support and money by lying to his supporters. Another platform that has dumped Trump is one of those that handled his emails. The San Francisco correspondent of the Financial Times, Dave Lee, noted that for more than 48 hours there had been no Trump emails: in the previous six days he sent out 33. This has been a horrific week. If it has a silver lining, it is that the lines are now clear between our democracy and its enemies. The election in Georgia, which swung the Senate away from the Republicans and opens up some avenues to slow down misinformation, is a momentous victory.

Heather Cox Richardson https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/posts/2563012823842768

[steamedtangerine]

-a big rambling tl;dr here, but maybe liking this and reviewing it later may help.

so....um...I happened across a discarded video tape that got incorporated in my collection of “tapes to be recorded over”....how I acquired it I can’t recall. It may’ve been found in a box of tapes I found tossed out in Dearborn Heights or in a free box at an estate sale.

Within five minutes, I gathered what a piece of crap it was. Someone had “The Money Masters” by Bill Still on it. The beginning starts with very low quality 80′s-A&E style graphics (for a 90′s doc) showing a cascade of historical figures (most of them being assassinated) and concludes with what I consider a way too long shot of a swastika before giving the title: “The Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America”....once I saw that title, I thought “Uh-oh...if this isn‘t anti-Semitic conspiracy drivel...I don’t know what is.”

So, being the glutton for punishment that I am, I did some research. Oddly enough, there is little about Bill Still out there, and what is there is just God awful insincere praising on IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954955/reviews?ref_=tt_urv (because clearly a wingnut low budget conspiracy film is better than any economics class someone claims they are taking, I guess.).

Then I found this 2011 article from L.A. Progressive https://www.laprogressive.com/american-nightmare/ where Bill Still’s “doc” is mentioned in conjunction with a crappy libertarian-conservative conspiracy propaganda cartoon called “The American Dream” by Tad Lumpkin praised by Ron Paul and Breitbart (which we are all too familiar with where they’ve been coming from) that also has a difficult time hiding it’s anti-Semitic overtones and dog-whistles. The film goes into JFK denouncing “the Communist Menace” while “ready to reveal the secret powers behind the Federal Reserve”-thus, “the real reason” he was assassinated (-and clearly “not“ because JFK had given a speech about wanting to destroy the very CIA that even Ol’ General ex-POTUS Ike had warned us about prior, right?) -Tad Lumpkin also had a website connected to his “film” that listed the “Good Guys” fighting the evil “Rothchilds”, and it included Alex Jones and the Drudge Report. RationalWiki has called it out https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_American_Dream_(film) -so, again, we see the cloud of flies drawn to this sh!t.

Which now brings us to anyone asking “Hey, Tangerine, why so steamed about this one?”

Well....it’s because we keep asking ourselves lately how we got into this strange mess we are in-this “weird timeline” (to borrow a whimsically popular internet phrase) with Trump and Qanon and militia a-holes trying to kidnap Governors during a global crisis. It’s because a lot of the nutjobs out there have gone out of their collective way to fortify and reconstruct a batsh!t insane “Dances with Smurfs” narrative grabbing from either things from low-tier propaganda swill from the past or finding flashier ways to repackage propaganda crud that has been (justifiably) called out, vilified, and cast into the garbage heap.....but this is where digging in the discarded trash and carefully examining our past will give us a better understanding how some hideous mutated bastard political beast has risen up out of the swamp to wreck havoc on our lives for the last four years.

These nutjobs also have to gradually work at and selectively pick away at and distort various elements of our lives through many strained means and avenues to create their lame string theories. By making something like “The American Dream” (a repackaging of “The Money Masters”), they are hoping to undo all that has been well known and documented about scholarly financing and rewrite it as some generalized smooth-brained overview pap about the conspiracy of economics. Bill Still has a current Twitter account praising Trump (while selectively ignoring that Trump has always been the “money concern” connected to the Deutsche Bank -Rosemary Vrablic- and many murderous international tyrants...oh, and y’know, many Goldman Sacs bankers and corporate backers from Thiel to Koch to Mercer, and so on):

Yet, are we so blind as to not see how libertarians (the same who were attempted a plot on Gov. Whitmer and the same who ran a “3%” militia in Illinois bombing mosques and plotting on Women’s Health Centers https://heavy.com/news/2018/03/michael-mike-hari-illinois-dar-al-farooq/) screech about the “tyranny of the government’ while embracing the real tyranny of oppressive corporations? Most of us here on Tumblr, are not.

Yet, if an agency wants to subvert “leftist sensationalist Hollywood” (the kind that criticizes Trump and keeps the public somewhat informed) and deflect from pedophilia in their own midst...then they create a psyop sensationally attacking (Trump-criticizing) celebrities. If old timey bigots want to protest laws enforced to keep tax-exempt colleges and schools segregation-free, they can drum up righteous indignation and go on crusades about how “America has strayed from God”. If the same bigots lose their minds over a black man elected President they can create an entirely artificial grassroots movement (with some dissociative reference to tea) screeching on about how “America has strayed from it’s heritage”. If one wants to tweak the mindset of one given to wild science fiction speculation about aliens or bloodlines, then just gradually create a tantalizing led-by-the-nose stepping stone path that takes one from a the glut of History Channel-style E.T. hype to certifiably insane AM radio conspiracy theories of pseudo-anthropology laden with superior lineage overtones and outright talk of “aliens in cahoots with Jewish cabals” (ala David Icke) https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/01/02/close-encounters-racist-kind

Evil has an ugly way of persisting no matter how we sweep it under the rug. An evil both bigoted and intolerant and authoritarian and control-happy...but most of all tenacious. This is how we still deal with guys like William Barr, Jeff Sessions, or Mitch McConnell. Many people backing Trump (Bannon, Prince, Devos, Pence, Kellyanne Conway, even Oliver North) belong to the Evangelical think tank, the Council for National Policy started by the Religious Right 30 years ago. Trump was mentored by McCaryth-ite bulldog Roy Cohn...in turn, Roger Stone of Nixon rat-fucking circles is still pestering us like a prevalent form of herpes....and there was good cause for calling Pat Buchanan a bigot from the people he associated with and groups he worked with (including Marcus Epstein who called a black women a racist word and chopped her in the neck) https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/company-they-keep  

-and the militias we talked about from the 90′s who had ties to buildings in Oklahoma being bombed never went away.

Yet, we don’t see Trump distance himself from the Buchanans or the David Dukes or the Proud Boys (which sprang from the efforts of the former two and the all the mind-twisting crap I detailed above).....and uninformed folks think it extreme when people (like us) call Trump a white supremacist.

It’s obvious from Qanon that some people have created an artificial smorgasbord of conspiracy string theory babble. Yet, others have constructed a more subtle and elaborate (and barely more articulate) phantasmic scheme of how they selectively perceive conspiracy in this world...one where Jews run banks and threaten superior genes encouraged by Nordic space travelers, where the CIA is the good guy, and immigrants bring disease and weaken economies. One that ignores funds given to the Council for National Policy by a cult leader named Rev. Sun Myung Moon or the many connections Trump has to Jeffrey Epstein or that the police unions will go to lengths to cover-up corruption or racial violence.

If we don’t take the time to dig back and uncover those persistent underground pipelines that have been transporting septic waste...if we don’t do as the bard once sang about “picking up every stitch”...we will be reliving another fortified nightmare that just seemed to “spring up overnight” and catch us all off-guard (God forbid a Don Jr 2024 scenario).

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

White Riot on Epiphany Day

(Invasion of the Chuds at the U.S. Capitol)

By Stephen Jay Morris

01/07/21

©Scientific Morality

The 6th of January is a holy day for Christians.  It marks the day when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and revealed himself as God.

How did the junior fascists spend the day?  Well let me tell you people: They attempted a coup d'etat, Keystone Cops style, on the steps and inside the Nation’s Capitol!  This is the United States of America in the 21st Century, imbeciles!  This is not some South American country in the 1950’s!  Instead of attacking the CIA, you should have taken lessons from them on how to overthrow a government!

Well, 4 dead and 52 injuries later, the U.S. government is still in tact. Your beloved leader is an old, mentally ill, white guy who will either take exile in Russia, or spend the rest of his life in a federal prison. This might be the first time in his life that his Class privilege and White privilege will be revoked.  His acquisitive urge to be worshiped and loved will ultimately be his undoing. You morons are fecundating his demise.  He promised to march down Pennsylvania Avenue with you, but he never showed up!  Your stupidity will be your end.  However, you can count your lucky stars because the cops let you off easy.  Your White privilege got you only pepper sprayed.  Had you been Black, well, you would have ended up like poor George Floyd.  Still, you believe that this Judeo-Christian utopia is without systemic racism.  Then you fucking deserve the label of “stupid!”

As your friendly, local, revolutionary emeritus, I have waited for this day for 52 years.  I have labored over the notion that the American empire will fall when there was massive unemployment, a war (or wars—plural), and when the Brown Shirts storm the Capitol building. However, I never entertained the fact that a pandemic would be part of that equation.  If everybody is sick or frightful of being contaminated, that would be a logical disincentive to conduct a revolution.  These followers are so fucking stupid, they think that COVID 19 is a hoax!  The so-called Deep State wouldn’t have needed to fire a shot.  Instead, these idiots will drop like flies.  What if COVID is part of Bio-warfare?  Eat shit, QAnon!  Civil war, my smelly ass!  You can’t overthrow the U.S. government with AK 47’s and mob rule!  America is a nuclear power with a massive military and a spy network.

Is this Trump’s last parting shot?  Who cares?  It’s just days until Joe Biden is sworn in as President.  After Watergate and the Vietnam war, America became a bit left of center.  After what happened last night, the pendulum will swing further leftward once again.

Thankfully, for once, the so-called Left didn’t show up and counter-demonstrate. And, as such, they put the spotlight on the Maga crowd.  Good work!

So what now?  If I was still in the game, I know what I would do.  If you younger revolutionaries ask me, I will tell you.  Otherwise...figure it out for yourselves.