Yeah, but not any smart people, Marj

And maybe someone should fact check her on this "so far in the past" claim.  I don't have the stomach for it.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Mark Meadows will likely be wearing orange one day

Among other things...

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Of apples and trees

Are you sure about that, Eric?

This is the kind of talk that stokes violent attacks.

JFC

Crime is not a barrier to Republican office.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

More on Mike Flynn's desire to have only one religion in America

Flynn’s suggestion that there should only be one religion in the United States drew quick backlash on social media.

[...]

Flynn has recently taken to talking about his Christian faith as a way to refute claims by QAnon followers that he worships Satan.

  Slate

I did not realize that was a QAnon thing.

The former national security adviser also characterized the investigation into the riot as “the insurrection crucifixion” and likened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Pontius Pilate. “This is a crucifixion of our First Amendment freedom to speak, freedom to peacefully assemble. It’s unbelievable,” Flynn said.

How did he get past freedom of religion to get to freedom of speech? It's right there at the beginning.

Prior to the unusual controversy, Flynn had embraced his position as a hero to supporters of QAnon, taking a QAnon oath, raising money from QAnon believers, and selling QAnon T-shirts. In May, Flynn even appeared at a QAnon conference and endorsed the idea of a military coup.

But QAnon fame is a fickle thing. After promoting QAnon for more than a year, Flynn now finds himself on the business end of the conspiracy theory. Like QAnon targets before him, Flynn is now struggling to persuade angry QAnon believers that he isn’t a secret Satan-worshipper. 

If we can afford to wait, these people will eventually eat each other.

Flynn isn’t the first right-wing figure tied to QAnon to see its acolytes turn on him. Oklahoma Senate candidate Jackson Lahmeyer, whose challenge to Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has been endorsed by Flynn, appeared at an April pro-QAnon conference with Flynn in Tulsa.

A few months later, however, Lahmeyer posted a seemingly innocent picture of his daughter wearing red shoes—apparently unaware that QAnon followers consider red shoes to be yet another sign of their imagined Satanic sex-trafficking cabal. Lahmeyer was soon caught up in a QAnon controversy of his own.

"Unfortunately, I have to say it because people are asking me," Lahmeyer wrote in a Facebook post. "I’m in no way involved in Child Sex Trafficking, pedophilia or devil worship."

[...]

Flynn’s trouble started on Sept. 17, when he led a congregation at Nebraska pastor Hank Kunneman’s Lord of Hosts Church in prayer. Flynn’s prayer included invocations to “sevenfold rays” and “legions,” two phrases that struck some of Flynn’s followers as strange.

“We are your instrument of those sevenfold rays and all your archangels, all of them,” Flynn said, later adding, “We will be the instrument of your will, whatever it is. In your name, and in the name of your legions, we are freeborn, and we shall remain freeborn, and we shall not be enslaved by any foe.”

As video of the prayer circulated in online conspiracy theorist groups, the references to “legions” and “rays” soon sparked speculation among Flynn’s right-wing supporters that their hero had been lured to the dark side. Always on the lookout for the Satanic influence they imagine lurks at the heart of the world, they claimed that Flynn had secretly been worshiping the devil. Worse, since the congregation was repeating the prayer after Flynn, the rumor went, he had duped hundreds of Christians into joining the ritual.

“A lot of people in the Christian world believe that when you pray to rays of light and legions that you’re praying to the devil,” Oebel, the YouTube host, explained in his interview with Flynn.

[...]

Flynn’s prayer bears a striking resemblance to a prayer by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the now-deceased leader of an anticommunist doomsday cult obsessed with nuclear war. Prophet’s group, the Church Universal and Triumphant, reached its peak in 1990, the year she predicted much of the world would be destroyed in a fiery nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States. Prophet’s followers flocked to her Montana ranch, building fallout shelters for an apocalypse that never arrived.

[...]

For example, in one address to her congregation, Prophet said, “In the name of Archangel Michael and his legions, I am freeborn, and I shall remain freeborn, and I shall not be enslaved by any foe within or without.”

  Daily Beast

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Thwarting the grifting Flynns

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Interesting headline

Don't wear horns when you riot, i think is what it suggests.

Don't wear horns when you riot, I think is what it suggests.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

"Enlightened by QAnon"

If only he'd been paying attention

The QAnon Shaman misread the cues from the beginning. And also, he didn't pay attention to the last four years.

The man known as the “QAnon Shaman,” who was seen shirtless and wearing bull horns in the U.S. Capitol during the deadly rioting on Jan. 6, said in his first interview since being jailed that he was "wounded" that former President Trump did not offer to help him.

In the interview, "60 Minutes+" reporter Laurie Segall asked Jacob Chansley if he regretted his loyalty to Trump.

[...]

"I honestly believed and still believe that he cares about the Constitution, that he cares about the American people, and that's also why and you know it wounded me so deeply and why it disappointed me so greatly that I and others did not get a pardon," Chansley added.

[...]

Chansley requested a pardon shortly before Trump left office, a request that was not granted.

[...]

Though he remains loyal to Trump, Chansley said he regrets entering the Capitol "with every fiber of my being."

  The Hill

What's that old saying? Oh, yeah: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, also shot back at assertions that his actions were an attack on the U.S., saying that characterization was "inaccurate entirely."

“My actions on Jan. 6. How would I describe them? Well, I sang a song,” Chansley said. “I also stopped people from stealing and vandalizing that sacred space. OK, I actually stopped somebody from stealing muffins out of the break room.”

LOL.

“I consider myself a lover of my country. I consider myself a believer in the Constitution. I consider myself a believer in truth and our founding principles. I consider myself a believer in God,” he added.

So look at the bright side: God will give you a pardon.

I could use an explanation as to why he's known under two different names.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Of course it's not over

Trump is still saying he won.

Law enforcement in Washington D.C. said they are monitoring the potential threat of further violence as followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory eagerly await March 4.

Supporters of the radical movement, listed as an domestic terrorist threat by the FBI, believe that Donald Trump will once again be inaugurated as president next month.

There is no suggestion that the QAnon supporters are planning anything in particular, but both Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department are keen not to have a repeat of the deadly January 6 attack, which conspiracy theorists took part in.

[...]

According to QAnon, Trump will become the 19th president on March 4 because of a theory, also believed by the so-called sovereign citizen movement, that a law was secretly passed in 1871 that turned the U.S. into a corporation. As a result of this, all other presidents after Ulysses S. Grant are illegitimate, the theory goes.

March 4 is the date that presidential inauguration ceremonies used to take place, before it was moved to January 20 in 1933 in order to shorten the lame-duck period.

  Newsweek

Jesus Christ, these people.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

There's no bottom

QAnon's most dedicated followers still believe that former President Donald Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential election, is yet to be sworn in.

March 4, 2021 is a day they have marked in their diaries, insisting that is the date when Trump will be inaugurated in Washington, DC, and, ultimately, return to power.

Coincidentally, Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC is hiking up the prices of suites around that period. The hotel, just blocks away from the White House, has almost tripled the rates for some rooms on the nights of March 3 and 4, according to Forbes.

  Business Insider

When you've got easy marks, you keep hitting them.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a dangerous lunatic

UPDATE:

UPDATE:

UPDATE:

An open letter to QAnon

You attacked America. Maybe you think it was justified — as a response to a stolen election, or a cabal of child-trafficking pedophiles, or whatever — but it was still a violent attack on the United States. No matter how you describe it, that’s how the real Deep State is going to treat it.

[...]

By “Deep State,” I’m referring to executive branch agencies populated with unelected officials, especially those involving national security, law enforcement, and intelligence. The non-nefarious name for it is “the federal bureaucracy,” with the subset that includes the military, CIA, and FBI known as “the national security state.”

[...]

Federal agencies and their mandates were created by law, their annual budgets are determined by law, and they’re overseen by elected officials. Their main job is executing U.S. law, and one reason they’ve clashed with the White House is being asked to do things outside their legal abilities, or to not do things that are legally required.

[...]

Their mandates are broad. For example, the FBI is supposed to “investigate federal crimes and threats to national security.” While there are laws giving the FBI certain powers (e.g. to arrest people) and limits (needing warrants), a lot is open to interpretation, especially regarding national security threats.

[...]

It’s fair to say the FBI, CIA, IRS, CDC, and other federal agencies have, to some extent, taken on lives of their own. So has the military, and the larger defense-industrial complex. They’re under control of elected and appointed leaders, but also not, acting according to established laws, established regulations (many of which they wrote themselves), and individual judgment calls. You could call that “the Deep State.”

If you want to understand the real Deep State, the biggest thing you need to know is it’s institutional, impersonal, and operates on a national scale.

[...]

It’s mostly focused on terrorists, serial killers, narco-traffickers, and foreign governments. Threats to the nation.

Previous QAnon activity wasn’t on that scale, but the Capitol attack is.

[...]

The Capitol attack was a unique event in American history, something they’ll teach about in high school. National security analysts are comparing it to last year’s FBI-thwarted plot to kidnap and execute Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, which came a few months after armed demonstrators forcefully stopped business at the Michigan statehouse.

[...]

It’s a pattern. And after the Capitol attack, the Deep State is going to take it seriously.

[...]

Looting is bad, but it’s a problem for police and insurance companies. Trying to burn down a police station or courthouse is worse, but that too is a law enforcement problem, perhaps one requiring federal assistance. Storming the Capitol, forcefully hindering the execution of U.S. law, and trying to kill top elected officials is a national security problem.

What you did was on another level, and the reaction will be too.

By “you,” I don’t mean you personally (unless you were there), but your movement as a whole. QAnon’s fingerprints are all over this.

[...]

This means that, for the first time, the Deep State cares about you.

[...]

Arrests of people caught on camera storming the Capitol have already begun. Prosecutions will follow. Big tech companies — who, while powerful, are weaker than, and have a healthy fear of the government — are now treating QAnon almost like how they treat ISIS. A giant federal apparatus built to fight al Qaeda will shift some capacity to fighting you, especially the white nationalist and anti-government militias in your orbit.

You cheered on lawyers who said they’d release the Kraken. But now you’ve poked Leviathan.

[...]

This is what you need to absorb: QAnon and “stop the steal” are forever associated with a violent attack against the United States. Maybe that’s not what it’s meant to you, maybe you think that’s a misread of last week’s events, but that’s how the real Deep State, a lot of elected officials, and much of the public sees it.

If that isn’t what you signed up for, now would be a good time to get out.

  Arc Digital

Running ALL the crackpots to Parler

Twitter on Friday permanently suspended accounts for former national security adviser Michael Flynn, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and former 8kun administrator Ron Watkins as part of a crackdown on content linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory.

[...]

“We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm, and given the renewed potential for violence surrounding this type of behavior in the coming days, we will permanently suspend accounts that are solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content,” the spokesperson added.

  The Hill

"Solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content" leaves way too much wiggle room.

[Flynn] has been one of the most visible QAnon supporters with close ties to the administration, posting a video of himself reciting one of its “oaths” last summer.

There are some freshmen Representatives who probably need to be banned.

But, oh no - Canceled!

Google on Friday suspended social media platform Parler from its app store while joining Apple in calling on the platform to tighten its content moderation rules or risk permanent removal.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

MAGAworld is ready to revolt

(And let's face it, they ARE revolting people.)

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

QAnon

Here's an interesting article about how QAnon is a game that plays the players.

Excerpt:

Q is NOT a whistleblower. Q is a “plot device”. Q is fictional and acts exactly like a fictional character acts. This is because the purpose of Q is not to divulge actual information, but to create fiction.

  Medium

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Trump troops heading to Philadelphia

Two men connected to a Hummer displaying stickers for the QAnon conspiracy movement are expected to face firearms charges for carrying guns without proper permits outside the Convention Center, where ballots were being counted for the presidential election, according to Philadelphia Police.

A law enforcement source said the investigation began Thursday night, when police received an alert to be on the lookout for a mother, son and another man from Virginia Beach traveling to the Philadelphia region to “straighten things out," as vote counting continued in Pennsylvania. The alert said that the people were believed to have an AR-15 rifle in the car, and that they were suspected of recently purchasing large amounts of ammo and AR-15 parts, according to the source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.

  Philadelphia Inquirer

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

They're more insane than you think

This email is from the wife of a previous co-worker.  And it's not even QAnon.  The first remark is hers.  The rest is from a list she belongs to.

He doesn’t even mention the crematoriums up and in place...as well as guillotines. Not good folks.

[link]

If the Democrats Have Not Done Enough to Steal the Election, Here Are 21 Things That They Plan To Do To You

He forgot to mention the tearing down of the walls.. Massive illegal influx, with fighting aged men.. Ever rising taxes until you and your family are in rags. But wait, there's more!!

Lynda

***************************************

From reader John..

by Dave Hodges

snip

Here is a list of tactics that are expected on the part of the Democratic Party and their hired guns. Remember the objective is to start a civil war. This group kills after-birth babies, therefore, there is nothing they will not do.

If the Democrats/Deep State determine that the Democrats cannot win. Extreme violence will be enacted in a nation-wide coordinated manner. I have been predicting this for 3 years. We will be living in 1992 Bosnia and 2014 Ukraine. There will be snipers on the roof. Random cars and people at events will be attacked with deadly precision. Randomized IED’s will be unleashed. Police in Aurora, CO. and Austin, TX., have caught Antifa rehearsing sniping events on top of tall buildings.

MS-13 has been quiet but their day is coming. I have often thought about what would have happened to the four DC officers who rescued Rand Paul and his wife if MS-13 was active. Answer, they all would have been killed and for dramatic effect, I believe their trademark of machete-induced-deaths would have been employed. Alt media, opposition media, loyalist military officers, key politicians at all levels of government, most if not all Constitutional Sheriffs, conservative police chiefs, key conservative educators will be assassinated. Many of these lists have been intercepted and the targets are known. There are too many people to protect. As I stated that a TET Offensives is coming. However, the government knows this and Continuity of Government has been enacted as key people will be isolated. In fact, and over 5 months ago, I reported that the military heads of Northcom and Southcom are basically quarantined.

A series of mini-911 events are planned. They are being rehearsed in such places as the Portland Federal Building. Cartels will militarily move on small town police forces and execute all police officers that they can get their hands on. In print, 5 years ago I printed just such a warning from a high ranking and anonymous Texas Ranger. He concluded that we no defense against such an event.

The security at nuclear power plants will be tested.

Random and murderous home invasions will take place so the fight is carried to middle class and even rural America.

The LA assassination of the two police officers was likely a beta test. No police officer on the street will be safe.

In anticipated Democratic loss, and with the help of the CHICOMS, the gird will be brought down in a cyber attack, not an EMP.

It is a strong belief in some federal agencies that the CHICOMs will supply terrorists with a tactical nuclear weapon for detonation in Washington DC. It is thought that this is how they will try to assassinate Trump. This will move the government operations to Denver which has been rehearsed several times going back to Operation Mountain Guardian in 2011.

Retail and food delivery will stop. The Bolsheviks (ie the cartels, Antifa, BLM) will ambush trucks and the resulting fear will cause trucking to come to a complete standstill. A massive famine will come across America.

No Republican, including Trump will be safe.

As expected, Christian churches and other religious places will be attacked.

Public schools, particularly elementary schools will be the site of mass murder. The younger the children the greater the emotional impact on the American people.

Military personnel will be attacked when they come and go from a base.

Oil fields will be burned in the same manner that has happened in three western states.

I have been told that hospitals will be attacked and fire-bombed. I was told that the Chinese requested this move be made that will help prevent the medical treatment when the Red Dawn invasion occurs.

The goal of these insurgents is start to killing America.

From another email she forwarded...

I sat and watched what was happening last night and did not say to much of what was really on my mind. As the timed passed it dawned on me they had this whole thing plained out many months ago and using the virus for early voting and mailing voting. They are screwing with us right now and we're letting them get away with it.

That's from user "Girls with Guns". Another user wrote:

I don't think they're getting away with it. Trump did not do that in his speech. It's not over until he says it's over....and then it may just be starting depending on his orders to the faithful.

We are living in a time of an epic battle between man and evil, luckily God has given us the right man to face this battle.

Here's a less nuts one, but not any less brilliant:

They are using the mail in ballots as an excuse to stall, but really there is no reason each state could not put 10 or 15 people on it at say 5:00PM yesterday and you be surprised how much can be counted in four or five hours.

I never read this woman's emails, I just have them sent directly to my trash.  I've been getting them for years and ignoring them,  but I thought I'd check in to see what's going around.  

There was "Doomer Doug"...

Quit whining. Follow the lead of our CIC Donald Trump and prepare to kill our enemies, the enemies of the American Republic. This has only begun. In 90 minutes my COMMANDER IN CHIEF WILL SPEAK. If he sanctions it, I will fulfill my oath.

Jesus Christ.  I think I better ask her to take me off her list.  The FBI may be monitoring.

At least Christopher Steele is real

One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake "intelligence" document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden's son and business in China.

The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm" called Typhoon Investigations, according to researchers and public documents.

The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen's profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator.

  NBC

They simply don't care that they'll eventually get caught.

The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said that no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.

One of the original posters of the document, a blogger and professor named Christopher Balding, took credit for writing parts of it when asked about it and said Aspen does not exist.

[...]

The document and its spread have become part of a wider effort to smear Hunter Biden and weaken Joe Biden's presidential campaign, which moved from the fringes of the internet to more mainstream conservative news outlets.

Not on its own, it didn't.

An unverified leak of documents — including salacious pictures from what President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and a Delaware Apple repair store owner claimed to be Hunter Biden's hard drive — were published in the New York Post on Oct. 14. Associates close to Trump, including Giuliani and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, have promised more blockbuster leaks and secrets, which have yet to materialize.

The fake intelligence document, however, preceded the leak by months, and it helped lay the groundwork among right-wing media for what would become a failed October surprise: a viral pile-on of conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden.

[...]

Balding, an associate professor at Fulbright University Vietnam who studies the Chinese economy and financial markets, posted the document on his blog on Oct. 22, seven weeks after it was initially published.

"I had really not wanted to do this but roughly 2 months ago I was handed a report about Biden activities in China the press has simply refused to cover. I want to strongly emphasize I did not write the report but I know who did," Balding said in an email.

Balding later claimed to NBC News that he wrote some of the document.

[...]

Balding said Aspen is "an entirely fictional individual created solely for the purpose of releasing this report." Balding did not name the document's main author, saying "the primary author of the report, due to personal and professional risks, requires anonymity."

Does it rhyme with Stephen Miller? Or Rudy Giuliani? Or maybe Steve Bannon?

In addition to posting the document to his blog, Balding also promoted it in far-right media, appearing on Bannon's podcast and on "China Unscripted," a podcast produced by The Epoch Times, a pro-Trump media outlet opposed to the Chinese government.

[...]

Balding's blog was the primary driver of virality in conservative and conspiracy communities.

[...]

After the promise of a big reveal one day earlier, the document was also posted on the extremist forum 8kun by Q, the anonymous account behind the QAnon conspiracy theory movement.

On Twitter, the document was pushed by influencers in the QAnon community, as well as by Dinggang Wang, an anti-Chinese government YouTube personality who works for Guo Wengui, a billionaire who fled China amid accusations of bribery and other crimes. Republican Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, tweeted the document to his 2.3 million followers.

[...]

Elise Thomas, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, first spotted telltale signs of a fake photo when she went searching for Typhoon Investigations' Aspen on the web.

[...]

Aspen's left iris juts out and appears to form a second pupil, a somewhat frequent error with computer-generated faces.

[...]

"The profile picture looks pretty convincing in the Twitter thumbnail, but when I popped it up into full view I was immediately suspicious."

[...]

Other parts of Aspen's identity were clearly stolen from disparate parts of the web. Aspen's Facebook page was created in August, and it featured only two pictures, both from his "new house," which were tracked back to reviews on the travel website Tripadvisor. The logo for Typhoon Investigations was lifted from the Taiwan Fact-Checking Center, a digital literacy nonprofit.

[...]

In December, Facebook took down a network of fake accounts using computer-created faces tied to The Epoch Times. Facebook removed over 600 accounts tied to the operation, which pushed pro-Trump messages and even served as moderators of some Facebook groups.

Last month, Facebook removed another batch of computer-generated profiles originating in China and the Philippines, some of which made anti-Trump posts.

Renee DiResta, a researcher at the Stanford Internet Observatory, said computer-created identities are becoming common for disinformation campaigns, in part because they are easy to create.

DiResta, who helped examine a ring of AI-generated faces tied to the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA last month, said computer-generated profile pictures can be used to "build an army of fake people" to artificially support a cause or to make "disinformation operations harder to discover."

And they never give up....

Get another copy, dingaling.  Or maybe digitize them and share them by dropbox or some other encrypted service, eh?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:  Oh no!  I'm hearing that they're claiming there's no copy!  LOLOLOL   Like ANYone would send ultra-important documents through the mail without having a copy!!!!!

(I also understand it was a flash drive they mailed.  So they were already digitized.  Why ship a physical copy instead of transfering via encrypted file? If you can believe anything they say.  And you can't.)

UPDATE:  Oh, guess what?  The drive has been found.  What a surprise.

Stable genius

President Trump is doubling down on his decision to retweet an unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory that Osama bin Laden is still alive, a move that threatens to alienate members of the military with the election less than three weeks away.

Trump's amplification of conspiracy theories that bin Laden’s death was faked and that a body double was killed instead comes on the heels of reports that disparaged soldiers and his suggestion that he may have contracted the coronavirus from Gold Star families.

[...]

“It’s certainly not going to help him,” Gary Schmitt, a national security expert with the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said of the retweets.

“Most of the folks in the military are there voluntarily. They're career. They’re not just there for during the term of one president,” he added. “They have a good sense that they’ve dedicated themselves to a certain life, and the president seems to be suggesting that, outside anything else, they’ve been fooled."

"It can’t help but shake the military’s judgement about his judgment," Schmitt said.

[...]

Trump, who trails Biden both in national polls and in key battleground states, has stepped up his promotion on QAnon-linked Twitter accounts since spring. He has retweeted messages from such accounts at least 258 times, including at least 163 times since early March, according to Media Matters for America, a media watchdog.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.