[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'QAnon Shaman Offers Bonkers New Defense of His Actions at the Capitol in First Public Interview

[...]




"I sang a song, and that's a part of shamanism, it's about creating positive vibrations in a sacred chamber. I also stopped people from stealing and vandalizing that sacred space, the Senate. I actually stopped somebody from stealing muffins out of the breakroom. I also said a prayer in that sacred chamber because it was my intention to bring divinity and bring God back into the Senate."

He went on to claim he was waved into the Capitol by police officers and insisted that his intentions were peaceful.'

https://secondnexus....FFXjQ5BB6P5tvHU

Wonder if they're doing DNA tests on the feces....

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Lorie Ladd gazes into the camera with glossy eyes, a look that mimics the long stare one gets after meditating. She's about to give one one of her sermons, one of "most challenging" ones she's ever had to make, she explains. Ladd says she's received a message that needs to be shared from "higher dimensional consciousnesses," what she refers to as the "Galactic Federation of Light." But before revealing the message, Ladd, a self-described "ascension teacher," advises her viewers to shed the stereotypes that have been "programmed" into them — "polarities," she calls them, like "Democrat" and "Republican" — and listen to her message: Donald Trump is a "massive and powerful lightworker."

"To say that I was shocked was an understatement," Ladd tells her nearly 139,000 YouTube followers of her revelation. "I have been digesting information from my guides about what this lightworker in human form looking like Donald Trump has been doing for the human collective; this man has more charge around him than any other human on the planet right now."

Ladd goes on to explain that her video isn't a "political one," but a "consciousness one," and that she's not talking about "voting," but "ascension." Trump, as she explains in the next half hour, is here to help assist humans in what many in the New Age and spiritual communities refer to as a great "awakening" of consciousness. [...]

A lightworker, as defined by well-being magazine Happiness, is someone who feels "an enormous pull towards helping others." The term, they say, can be interchangeable with "crystal babies," "indigos," "Earth angels" and "star seeds"; "these spiritual beings volunteer to act as a beacon for the Earth, and commit to serving humanity," [...]

Conspirituality, the term that defines this movement[...]

This notion that Trump is a lightworker shares obvious parallels with the belief, held by some evangelicals, that Trump is comparable to Jesus; similarly, some QAnon followers believe that Trump is the "world leader" whose mission is to "save the children."'

https://www.alternet...-a-lightworker/

[Malankazooie]

[Malankazooie]

MyPotato.

https://twitter.com/...588420596338690

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Malankazooie]

Okay guys, it's time to . . . *dun-dun-duuuuun!





Gotta throw some Dr. Seuss hot sauce on it, cause that's a thing now.



We got a new date... moving them goal posts: QAnon Theorists Switch Date to March 20 After No Trump Inauguration, Call the 4th 'False Flag'

*link is to www.newsweek.com

"QAnon Shaman" recently from jail. Doesn't look much like they guy who was bellowing in the Senate chamber on January 6.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Fox host defends QAnon insurrectionists as "gentle" people who "like" America

"You even notice how all like the scary, internet conspiracy theorists, radical, QAnon people, and you actually see them on camera -- or in jail cells, where a lot of them now are -- maybe they're kind of confused, maybe they've got the wrong ideas, but they're all kind of gentle people and they're all kind of waving American flags, they like the country," Tucker Carlson said.

[Kind of waving American flags... and beating police officers with them.]

"They're not torching Wendy's, they're not looting retail stores, they're not shooting cops. No, that's not them," he claimed.'

https://www.rawstory...-carlson-qanon/

[Not shooting cops at the Capitol, but bludgeoning, gassing, mutilating, and trying to blow them up.... Not torching Wendy's, but smearing feces through the Capitol building and trying to blow up the RNC. Not looting retail stores, just government offices....]

'Jailed Capitol Rioter Begs to "Go Home to My Mom And Dad"
Videos show him carrying a baton through the halls of the Capitol. In a letter submitted to the judge [he] said he is "deeply remoursefull [sic] and regretful. After all, that's what jail's for, right? Teaching people a lesson?" He added, "I just want to go home to my Mom and Dad, I am truly sorry."'

https://www.thedaily...nd-dad?ref=home

'Arrested Trump appointee complains about "cockroaches crawling over me" in first hearing

[...] complained about jail conditions during his first hearing after being arrested on charges related to the fatal January 6th insurrection seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

[...] "[...] charges [... include ...] obstruction of Congress charge [which] carries a 20-year max, assaulting police [with] dangerous weapon also 20-year max,"

[...] "Defense lawyer says Klein will likely be moved somewhere else today. (probably to DC Jail.) Judge says if bad conditions persist he will look into it. Klein complains again he hasn't slept due to the roaches." [But they don't care about the other prisoners? Did he keep any evidence of these purported cockroaches? Does he also think they're Antifa Satanist cannibals?]'

https://www.alternet...rump-cockroach/

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 06 March 2021 - 09:52 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Did Kyrsten Sinema Bring Cake to the Senate and Vote Against Raising Minimum Wage?

Some compared her to the last queen of France before the French Revolution.

U.S. Sen. Krysten Sinema brought cake to the Senate and voted against including a federal minimum wage increase in a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

What's True
Sinema voted "no" on including a federal minimum wage increase in a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package being debated in the Senate. She also brought cake.

What's False
Although the cake offering reminded some people of Marie Antoinette's alleged "Let Them Eat Cake!" remark about her starving subjects, Sinema's cake was unrelated to her vote. It was reportedly for Senate floor staff forced to work through the night reading aloud the COVID-19 relief bill at the request of Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson.'

https://www.snopes.c...ck/sinema-cake/

Granted, Marie Antoinette would've been more popular if she'd actually provided the cake.




'Is This the Week Biden Returned to "the Blob"?

A flurry of geopolitical decisions last week is beginning to stoke opposition from a left that was always wary of Biden. "Honeymoon over," says a senior Hill staffer.

[...] interviews with half a dozen progressive and socialist activists, Hill staffers, foreign-policy experts and former Obama administration officials in touch with Bidenworld point to deep dissatisfaction over what they consider an alarming drift toward the traditional, bellicose Washington foreign-policy consensus—what former Barack Obama aide [...] famously termed "the Blob."

[...] The Biden administration portrayed those strikes as limited, proportional and an indicator of Biden's restraint. [Claimed to be going after terrorist infrastructure in Syria, but killed at least 22 people.] But [...] a former Marine and political director of the antiwar veterans group Common Defense, said the strikes "represent a return to the failed, strategy-free, immaturely belligerent Forever War business-as-usual of the corrupt foreign policy elite."

Then, the next day, Biden demoralized many on the left by sanctioning the hitmen of Mohammed bin Salman for the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi rather than the Saudi crown prince himself, even after releasing the U.S. intelligence assessment pinning the blame on bin Salman.

"The U.S. government said underlings should look out but leaders can get away with murder" [...]
The Biden team, mindful of the president's record, has long said they don't seek to restore American power to the Obama-era status quo ante. But "they actually are, and that was apparent in the campaign," said a former Obama administration official who requested anonymity. "It was a restorationist approach: we had the right policies as a Democratic administration four years ago. I think that's lazy and not true. There was way more that could have and should have been done."'

https://www.thedaily...e-blob?ref=home

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 07 March 2021 - 05:45 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'A lawmaker persuaded the Arizona House to let businesses ignore mask mandates to stem COVID spread partly by arguing they weren't needed decades ago to stop the spread of AIDS.

[...] he cited HIV "that was going to wipe our global destruction of human bodies with AIDS."

"We heard about that in the '80s," Chaplik said. "Yet no masks were required."

Medical consensus is that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is spread through exchange of bodily fluids, usually through sexual transmission or through the sharing of infected needles. It is not spread by air or water, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Chaplik went on to tell colleagues to look at what's happening elsewhere, as he tried to disprove the claims that masks help prevent COVID-19 spread.

"Nebraska never had a mask mandate," he said. He said the same is true in places like Mississippi and Georgia.

"I would think that based on these arguments these states would have dead people piled up all over their state because no one else would be living because no one has masks on," Chaplik continued.

[...]

"If they work, how are people still catching COVID?" [...]

Other Republicans who voted for the bill did not openly challenge the effectiveness of masks, properly worn, in preventing the spread of disease.

Instead, they said the legislation is a matter of individual rights.

"It allows adults to be adults," said Rep. Kevin Payne, R-Peoria.'

https://tucson.com/n...6bf3a81721.html

'Stefan Thomas has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth about $220 million. He is one of the many people who are locked out of their Bitcoin fortunes, with an estimated $140 billion in lost or otherwise stranded digital wallets.

Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes

Bitcoin owners are getting rich because the cryptocurrency has soared. But what happens when you can't tap that wealth because you forgot the password to your digital wallet?'

https://www.nytimes....Ky96uKBVxhNNMI8


'Then Boris Johnson set this in stone, whining to his cabinet: "It's all right for you thinnies." It is not a word, is it, "thinnie"? Nor is "gloomster". Sometimes, I think that is the summit of the prime minister's arrogance – that he finds the English language incomplete without the interjection of his baby words. At other times, I think his arrogance is more like the mountain in a Japanese etching: there is no "top", there is only "more" and "cloud".'

https://www.theguard...d-to-fight-back

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 07 March 2021 - 07:30 PM

[Malankazooie]

A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B. "Fair and balanced"? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You know what they say about opinions? They're like assholes, everyone's got one and they all stink.

[worry]

The Outrage Industrial Complex

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Rep. Tim Ryan Erupts at Republicans: "Stop Talking About Dr. Seuss!"

[...] tore into his GOP colleagues on the House floor on Tuesday over their continued obsession with culture war grievances, passionately pleading with them to “stop talking about Dr. Seuss” and start working with Democrats on passing legislation.'

https://www.thedaily...ith-us?ref=home

[Malankazooie]

eh, maybe tangentially related to political comedy, probably not though *shrugs. Just didn't know where to put these.

[Malankazooie]

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'The Republican Freshman Class Is a Tribute to Our Nation's Notorious Local Bozos

A guide to the GOP's ascendant congressional wing of bullshitters, cranks, zealots, and personal-life disasters.

Every town, midsize city, or urban neighborhood has one, or, perhaps, a family of them: the nuisance litigants, the business owners who address zoning board hearings while visibly intoxicated, the parents who ruin PTA meetings by accusing The Polar Express of encouraging demonry. They are the regulars in the police blotter section of the newspaper, the ones who have been banned from multiple softball leagues for reasons that somehow involve child support. They are America's local ding-dongs and loose cannons. And, increasingly, they represent the Republican Party's interests in Congress.

The demands of politics have always made "popular" figures out of the kinds of people who the average voter would find off-putting in person, and Mr. Psycho Goes to Washington is not a wholly new story. [...] It's not a purely Republican phenomenon, either: onetime Democratic Florida Rep. Alan Grayson was known for both his caustic partisan rhetoric and tendency to appear in headlines like "Grayson Loses $18 Million in Fraud Scheme" and "Grayson Accuses Wife of Bigamy."

[...] With much of politics, and political fundraising, carried out through social media performance, the ability to get attention has become functionally identical to the ability to command influence, and a new herd of public figures has stampeded through the gap where the fence dividing fame from infamy used to stand. Many of them were personally inspired by Donald Trump, who got his own start as the notorious protagonist of bankruptcies and divorces in the New York City area. Area creeps are having their moment, and the Republican freshman congressional class is where they are having it.

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert

Grim/colorful backstory: Boebert's biggest moment in Congress thus far was appearing via Zoom for a committee hearing with several rifles piled haphazardly on a bookshelf behind her. [...] her claim to fame as a candidate was Shooters Grill—a restaurant, which she operates with her husband, that employs waitresses who ostentatiously carry guns while working. The restaurant owed almost $20,000 in unpaid state taxes while Boebert was running for office; in 2017, a local health department determined that an unlicensed vending stand it set up at a rodeo caused as many as 80 cases of food poisoning.

Boebert was personally cited in 2010 for failing to properly license her dogs, lost a civil court case over a $1,500 debt in 2012, was arrested for disorderly conduct at a 2015 country music festival, and was arrested again in 2017 for failure to appear in court on "careless driving" charges. Her husband, Jayson, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure after a 2004 incident in which he showed his penis to two women waiting in line at a bowling alley. (Lauren Boebert was not yet married to him at the time but was present at the bowling alley during the incident.) Both Boeberts were arrested that year on domestic violence charges involving disputes with each other. (Jayson served time for his; Lauren Boebert was 17 at the time of her arrest, and the relevant court has said it can't release information about the disposition of her case.) Finally, Boebert's mother appears to have left a number of comments on a YouTube video more than a decade ago accusing a former WCW wrestler named Stan Lane of trying to evade responsibility for being Boebert's biological father.

Biggest current legislative priority: Boebert recently introduced a bill that would move the security fencing that currently surrounds the Capitol to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Indicative quote: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua." —an excerpt from the "Our Story" section of Shooters Grill's website, which appears to have been built using default filler text that no one ever replaced with actual words.

North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn

[...]

Biggest current legislative priority: Despite purportedly prioritizing "comms" (i.e., communications) when hiring his congressional staff, Cawthorn has not posted a statement to his congressional website since Jan. 13. He did trend on Twitter in early March when someone posted an old video of him punching a tree.

[...]

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Grim/colorful backstory: Ah, Christ. I mean, where to begin.

[...]

[...] She also infamously traveled to D.C. in 2019 to film herself shouting at school shooting survivor-activist David Hogg, who she referred to online as "#LittleHitler." [...]

Biggest current legislative priority: For some reason, Greene moves to adjourn the House every day.'

https://slate.com/ne...ocal-bozos.html

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Guam offers Marjorie Taylor Greene cookies and a history book after she falsely claims it's a foreign country unworthy of aid

[...]

In comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida in late February that surfaced on Tuesday, Greene said: "I'm a regular person. And I wanted to take my regular-person, normal, everyday American values, which is, we love our country. We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America, not for what? China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam, whatever, wherever."

"We would be more than happy to send Representative Greene's office a copy of 'Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam,'" [...]

Guam[...] has been a US territory since 1898[...] Its residents are US citizens who pay federal taxes[...] Many people in Guam serve in the US military, and it's considered to be of vital strategic importance.'

https://www.business...ac-gaffe-2021-3

'Fox Guest: The Queen Is "Far From Being Racist" Because She Has Black and Asian Colonial Subjects

[...] "I have to say straightaway that I don't think the royal family is racist. You've got to remember that for nearly half a century, the Queen has been the head of the Commonwealth, which has a number of lands around the world from the colonial days, and the majority of the people that live in those lands are Black or Asian. So the queen is far from being a racist." Nigel Farage, former Brexit Party leader, made a similar argument to Newsmax the day before. The majority of the members of the Commonwealth of Nations did not enter the empire on a voluntary basis, rather they were colonized by force. Many struggled to free themselves over strenuous and violent British objections.'

https://www.thedaily...lonial-subjects

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 13 March 2021 - 02:37 AM

[Malankazooie]

[Malankazooie]

So, we're past the mid-way point of the Biden's first 100 days. What grade do you guys give him? I'd probably give him a B minus. Positive marks for the $1.9 trillion relief package. But the size of that scares the hell out of me. We're going to have to pay the piper down the road sometime, right? Negative marks on: *Immigration. Shit is a clusterfluck. We gotta do better. *Dealing with middle east (*cough Saudi Arabia *cough). But, rightfully so, most of his attention has been on the pandemic. If he delivers on his speech that every adult who wants the vaccine will have it by May and that we'll have a fairly normal 4th of July celebration, this B minus can be nudged up to a solid B grade. Of course there's a lot else that will happen between now and then to affect his grade. What's up next for his agenda? I'm guessing more pandemic stuff?

[Aptorian]

Over here we hear so blessedly little about American politics that I don't care, keep being boring Joe Biden. What ever you're doing it's working.