The Frankish Reich

Michigan fake electors charged - and here's the kicker: in emails, the Michigan Republicans literally used the term "fake electors" among themselves before someone said, "hey guys, maybe we shouldn't be calling them 'fake electors.'" They then changed the nomenclature to "alternative electors." Can't make this crap up.

Have you read the Eastman memos? Do that and then we'll talk. And what if Pence had done what Trump point-blank told him to do (and then ridiculed his lack of courage for refusing to give in to the boss)? Let's say he'd refused to certify Arizona and another state. Arizona goes back to its Republican legislature and Republican governor. They certify a slate of fake electors. Congress declares Trump the winner. In retrospect (remember the Cyber Ninjas Republican-sponsored audit), we know that Biden really, really, really DID win Arizona. We would have had a pretender to the presidency. The dangerous thing is it came really close to working, this diabolical scheme. The only person that stood in the way was Mike Pence. He said point blank that he lacked the authority to do what Trump was pressuring him to do. He's said that the Secret Service told him that they should whisk him away to a "safe location." He wouldn't do it. And as a true Christian man, he was not going to violate his oath - an oath on the Bible - to faithfully execute his duties. He stood his ground and did his constitutionally mandated job. Thank you, Mike Pence.

No. The Eastman memos lay it out in intricate detail. The mob was doing its part in trying to delay the certification and to intimidate Pence into doing exactly what Trump was urging him to do. Again ... the mob is not the story. It was a tactic. The cynical attempt to subvert the democratic process is the story. And it is what makes Trump uniquely dangerous in the history of the American presidents.

Are you sure mom just wasn't trying to stop you from seeing it? Sorry, probably bad to joke about that but I was guessing she's ok since you're going with your wife now... ... but the story about AMC cinemas deliberately sabotaging the movie was shot down by the movie's producers/distributors themselves. Just another example of the workings of the Faux Outrage Machine. https://www.angel.com/press/release/angel-studios-statement-on-sound-of-freedom-and-amc-theaters “We understand there are rumors—predominantly in social media—that AMC theaters have made it difficult for fans to see SOUND of FREEDOM in local AMC theaters, and we want to make it clear these rumors are not accurate,” states Brandon Purdie, Head of Angel Theatrical Distribution. “AMC has been an outstanding partner for Angel Studios, and in fact, as a result of the movie’s performance and consumer demand, AMC has agreed to add additional screens for SOUND OF FREEDOM this weekend. “Angel Studios and the producers of SOUND OF FREEDOM are asking our fans to support AMC, and all of our other theatrical partners. Summer is the busiest season for people working in theaters, so we ask that anyone attending a screening of SOUND OF FREEDOM show kindness to their local theater staff. We have the best movie fans in the business. Let’s continue to show theaters the love that Angel supporters are known for.”

Once again: the January 6 riots were just a tactic in an overall strategy to subvert the constitution and the electoral process in order to keep Donald Trump in office. The strategy: - get Mike Pence to refuse to certify certain state electoral counts. Then return the issue to those state Republican-controlled legislatures. Then have those Republican legislators ignore the will of the people and certify Trump as the "true winner" of their states. - the tactic: send in rioters to disrupt the certification process (it worked, for a while). Intimidate Mike Pence ("hang Mike Pence!") into doing Trump's bidding (it didn't work, but only because Pence apparently cares about his oath of office) BLM protests turned very bad in a lot of cities. The violence and destruction is indefensible. But it was not an attempt to subvert the constitution and the electoral process. Apples and oranges. And as usual the Orange was worse because it was part of an attack on our entire system of governance and not "just rioting."

Why did Walt Disney make a movie of this grim (Grimm?) fairy tale in the first place? What was wrong with reading it to our children? Did Snow White the animated movie surpass the fairy tale on its own terms? Oh. I see. It was to make money. So I looked up this John Hinderaker. 72 year old retired attorney. Old man says all modern entertainment is crap. Well there's a shocker. I look forward to his upcoming essays: "Josh Allen couldn't carry Johnny Unitas' jockstrap" and "they don't make them like Mickey Mantle anymore." What is the purpose of the New Snow White? To make money. If Disney miscalculated and it doesn't make money, well, then I guess Hinderaker should have sold his Disney stock. That's Disney's problem. Why Hinderaker is somehow offended by their (arguably bad) business decision is beyond me. But the Outrage Machine wants - demands! - something to be outraged about. I was outraged that Disney re-themed the Tower of Terror ride from The Twilight Zone to the more marketable Guardians of the Galaxy. You know what? Nobody cares.

And yet A New Hope Arises ... ... Somewhere in a garden level apartment in Pacoima, a lone deranged rhino, waylaid by the commie strikes, works on the spec screenplay that will undo all the wrongs that Hollywood has perpetrated on good honest UFO-fearing Americans for generations. Ladies and Gentlemen and Non-binary individuals, its The Rhino Code, in which Donald J. Trump and His Low Class Army square off against the combined axis powers of George Soros and His Hyped-Up on Adrenochrome Hebrews and the Non-Mexican Alien UFO Invaders. Coming to a big screen near you...Never.

This is an actual Florida problem that the Governor should be addressing. And there's nothing "woke" about it; Farmers and other insurers exiting Florida is purely a business decision. The risk of a rash of hurricane-related claims simply exceeds the benefit of selling policies there. At some point you gotta shut up about everything being "woke" and actually develop policies that deal with problems actual Floridians are facing.

I haven’t looked yet to see if it’s the case. But if he hasn’t blamed The Jews for his father’s assassination yet (by a Palestinian), it’s just a matter of time.

Here's the tell, for someone who still needs one: RFK Jr. also said "I thought we were off the record." (the reporters there disagree) In other words, he rambled on about his deepest Jews-and-Chinese conspiracy thoughts because he thought they wouldn't quote him on that.

It's mostly that Iowans with skills and degrees have left Iowa, leaving the state's voters older, and hence more Republican. Election season is here, and we can expect a lot more from the self-appointed "experts." Demography is destiny ...

I doubt that Americans will hold Joe's ne'er do well son against him. If anything, we are now too tolerant, too unwilling to blame parents for anything. The consensus seems to be a but for the grace of God that would be me attitude. Now that's separate and apart from the idea that Joe and family profited from Hunter's sleazy deals...

I remember the legendary Lee Smith scoring on that play ...

What questions? This is the typical new-model conspiracist. "I'm just asking questions, is that so bad?" Questions like "why does it seem that the Jews aren't dying from COVID?" "If the Jews had conspired with the PRC to produce an ethnic-cleansing virus, wouldn't it look a whole lot like the COVID 19 pandemic?" "Who profits from COVID, Big Pharma? Don't a lot of Jews control major pharmaceutical corporations?" Yeah. Just asking questions. Absolutely no evidence that Ashkenazi Jews (why not Sephardic Jews?) had lower COVID rates or more immunity to it than the population as a whole. In fact, some of the early publicized outbreaks in the U.S. were among hasidic (Ashkenazi by ancestry) Jewish communities. He is just making it up. So yes, completely fair characterization. And his attempt at damage control is simply asinine. Nothing like, "I was wrong because someone gave me wrong information." Just an "oh, nevermind about the Jews. And you misquoted me!" It's right there. He seems proud to be an idiot. And who are these fools around the table suffering his idiocy without saying a word?

Tom Cotton was considered presidential timber just a few short years ago. Now he's completely out of the mix. Why? He refused to go full Trump Mode and retained just a bit of common sense. Meanwhile, Elon: what do you propose we do? Just let Putin have Ukraine? Because that's "the outcome" if we do.

Me too.

I'm responding to an article that says Vivek is trying to appeal to evangelical Christians (not my variety, and apparently not yours either) by suggesting that his Hinduism is close enough. It isn't for them. Either you're a Christian who has unequivocally accepted Jesus as your lord and savior, or you are doomed. Their doctrine, not mine. That depends. I have lived in strongly evangelical areas of the country in which people don't even consider Catholics "Christians."

I don't see anything misleading. He goes on and on about COVID being genetically engineered to selectively target blacks and caucasians (which to him apparently doesn't include Ashkenazi Jews). He later retracted that with respect to Ashkenazi Jews, but without any indication of why - other than political blowback - his original musings were incorrect, but only to the extent that he (mistakenly? why?) included Ashkenazi Jews, and "clarifying" that he didn't suggest it was deliberately engineered to have a different impact on different races/Jews. Which only leads one to wonder what on earth he thought he was talking about, because without that idea his rambling thoughts become less offensive but more idiotic. If anything the NY Post kind of softballed the story, in that the totatlity of RFK's musings is even stupider than indicated.

Other than that one Commandment most of them follow about "thou shalt not have false gods before me." You know, the first one. (Actually, I consider myself a Christian but of the sort that believes that the New Covenant wiped away much of the Old)

About time we were rid of Kennedy hangers-on.

This will really, really help him with raising money from all of his wife's west side LA Jewish friends ... ... time for this nut to go away. By the way, his anti-vax shtick is a profitable one! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-money.html

You missed out on the "I'm Hindu, which means that I worship the false gods you Christian evangelicals are always on about, but even so it's better to have a religion, even a polytheistic one, than no religion at all, so we're not that different after all and you should vote for me." He is really taking that tack: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/vivek-ramaswamy-hindu-republican-christianj.html

Now, either you're going the snarky response route or you're not a real doctor. Maybe ... IF they are actually somehow protected (is there ANY epidemiological evidence of that?) then there would have to be some genetic basis for immunity. It is a preposterous stretch. So why does he say these things? Simple explanation: it feeds the Jewish conspiracy myths that have sustained the conspiracy theorists for centuries.

I need to draw a Venn diagram. Do they still teach those in California?