[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'MyPillow CEO Hires Gawker-Killing Lawyer to Go After Daily Mail for Jane Krakowski Affair Story

The tabloid story "damaged my integrity as a Christian," Lindell said to The Daily Beast in confirming he has retained the Trump lawyer most infamous for taking on media outlets. [...]

[...] a secret affair with 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star actress Jane Krakowski [...]

[...] "They've done so much damage to my reputation… I'm not just going for a demand letter or a retraction, I want to go after them with a lawsuit because they have damaged my integrity as a Christian and my network to help addicts everywhere."'

https://www.thedaily...tory?ref=scroll

'Major Q Figure Urges Followers to Go Back to Their Real Lives

In a post on Telegram, Ron Watkins wrote, "Please remember all the friends and happy memories we made together over the past few years."

[...] "Now we need to keep our chins up and go back to our lives as best we are able."

Watkins and his father Jim, who owns 8kun, have been widely accused of being Q themselves—an accusation they have denied.

Regardless of whether Watkins or his father were actually posting as Q, there is no question that they were primary drivers of QAnon as a movement. That movement took Watkins ever closer to the seats of political power of the Trump era; Trump-supporting attorney Sidney Powell even filed an affidavit from Watkins in a Georgia lawsuit which falsely alleged that there had been widespread voter fraud that resulted in President Trump's defeat. As NBC News reported in December, Watkins has also recently appeared as a purported expert on voter fraud on the ultra-right cable channel OAN. At the same time, he posted a series of tweets widely seen as urging Trump to declare a military dictatorship, calling on Trump to #crosstherubicon, as the tweets put it.

[...] "At least the other influencers are upset right now," Brennan added, "But he's just like 'meh. This grift has reached its conclusion. Bye losers.'"'

https://www.vice.com...heir-real-lives

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'Joe Biden Got Rid Of Trump's "Diet Coke Button," And People Are Just Finding Out That It Even Existed

Yes, the Diet Coke button was real. [...]

[...] When Donald Trump was president, he had a red button placed on the Oval Office's iconic desk. When he pushed it, a White House staffer would bring him a fresh can of Diet Coke. The New York Times reported that Trump would drink about 12 cans of Diet Coke each day. [...]

"President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button. When @ShippersUnbound and I interviewed Donald Trump [...] we became fascinated by what the little red button did. Eventually Trump pressed it, and a butler swiftly brought in a Diet Coke on a silver platter. It's gone now."'

https://www.buzzfeed...k-twitter-memes

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Bernie Sanders at the inauguration]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

[Aptorian]

These are the same people who used to spam the rest of us with chain letters in text messages and send emails, isn't it? Send this letter to 20 people and you'll have great luck, if you don't bla, bla, bla.

[Macros]

So if Biden makes a fuck of it we know why, it's actually Trumpalump

[Malankazooie]

Wasn't sure where to post these. All are related to the Gamestop current event that has dominated everyone's attention. I figure here was the best place? I guess you can draw a corollary with Trump?











This one reminds me, I should watch Trading Places.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser

[...] Greene suggested in a Facebook post that wildfires in California were not natural. [...] the blazes had been started by PG&E, in conjunction with the Rothschilds, using a space laser, in order to clear room for a high-speed rail project.

The Rothschild family has featured heavily in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories since at least the 19th century. Anti-Semites have generally updated the theory by replacing the Rothschilds with George Soros, a more contemporary and plausible-seeming mastermind for a global conspiracy to spread left-wing ideology. Greene's version has instead updated the theory by giving the Rothschilds possession of a secret, powerful space laser.

Now, you might wonder why, if an international cabal of Jewish bankers wanted to finance a rail project, they would go about it by using their space lasers to set a catastrophic blaze. Aren't there easier ways to get your rail stations approved by the state legislature? If you can pull off a massive conspiracy like that and keep it quiet, and you have a space laser you can use to immolate basically any target on Earth, there have to be more direct profit-making opportunities than burning down trees in order to arbitrage the land value for a public-transit contract.'

https://nymag.com/in...Zbonc2DiI2ONZrg

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 29 January 2021 - 04:01 AM

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

One of the leading candidates for America's Next Top Fascist Dictator... is Euron Greyjoy (but with the eyepatch that was deemed too silly for television...).

'Crenshaw Is the Trumpiest of the Wannabe New Trumps

He's got the same gift for aggrievement and shameless performance. And he's got real military experience and isn't shy about exploiting it.

Close your eyes, if you would, and picture the next Trump-like president. Who do you see? Maybe it's seditionist Sen. Josh Hawley, with his simulacrum of the Black power salute, but for white-supremacist storm troopers about to attack the Capitol Building in Washington? Or the oleaginous Sen. Ted Cruz, a patchy-bearded propagandist who spends his days lying about election fraud and picking Twitter fights with Hollywood actors? Or throne-sniffing Sen. Tom Cotton, or former UN Ambassador under Trump Nikki Haley?

But it's far from clear that any of these awkward, unpleasant profiles in perfidy have what it takes to stimulate the amygdala of Trump's deplorable devotees. [...] they don't turn out in surge numbers when their One True Love isn't on the ballot.

Hopefully, there won't be any Trump 2.0, but there is one Republican I can picture pulling it off. You haven't heard quite as much about him, because he's only a House member, and because it's challenging to make your batshittery stand out [among Republicans there ...]. But Dan Crenshaw may just have the combination of shamelessness, cynicism, cruelty, and performative charisma to put Trump's band back together.'

https://www.thedaily...trumps?ref=home

[Malankazooie]

Some GameStop political cartoons I got a chuckle from.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'While some Republicans have joined Democrats in calling for conspiracy-peddling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to face some level of punishment, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said on Sunday that Greene shouldn't face repercussions [...]

Interviewing Hutchinson [...] noted that Greene has voiced support for executing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking the Republican governor whether the QAnon-supporting lawmaker is "fit to serve" and should remain on the House Education Committee.

"I'm not going to answer that question as to whether she's fit to serve because she believes in something that everybody else does not accept. I reject that," Hutchinson replied, adding: "But she's going to stand for reelection. I don't think we ought to punish people from a disciplinary standpoint or party standpoint because they think something a little bit different."'

https://www.thedaily...ferent?ref=home

In addition to Jewish space lasers and QAnon... 'social media posts have appeared to show Rep Greene supporting conspiracies surrounding the 9/11 attacks and various school shootings in the US, suggesting they were fake or inside jobs.

Rep Greene was also seen heckling Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg in a video posted to her YouTube page in January 2020, prompting renewed outrage from the families of shooting victims.

[...]

Rep Greene said in a statement on Twitter that "they are coming after me because I'm a threat to their goal of Socialism. They are coming after me because they know I represent the people, not the politicians.

"They are coming after me because like President Trump, I will always defend conservative values. They want to take me out because I represent the people. And they absolutely hate it."

[...] Expelling Rep Greene would require a two-thirds vote of Congress. Democrats hold only a 10-seat advantage in the House. [Plus she's got a gun....]'

https://www.independ...g-b1794737.html

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 31 January 2021 - 08:53 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Marjorie Taylor Greene, who now serves on the Education Committee of all things[...] Like millions of Americans, I have a family member with developmental disabilities. Years ago, slurs were used against them to denigrate and to deny them their own status as a human being. [...]

Students around the country attend schools with special education programs, with opportunities to uplift themselves. They become productive members of society. Frankly, I would trust the judgment of my son far more than I would trust a single word from the lips of Marjorie Taylor Greene.'

https://www.dailykos...coD6TMw9v8rw-cY


Notice how she forgets to stop pointing to herself for the last part....

[Malankazooie]

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump Attorney [Alan Dershowitz] Nominates Jared Kushner for Nobel Peace Prize'

https://people.com/p...el-peace-prize/

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Trump's formal answer to his impeachment starts off by misspelling "United States."

It goes downhill from there.'

https://twitter.com/...nt-defense-typo

'Trump Mocked for Awkwardly Misspelling "United States" in Impeachment Defense Memo'

https://secondnexus....4AtdvZP2OLRfMY4

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'As the COVID-19 pandemic started to ravage the world in earnest last spring, a new conspiracy theory known as the "Great Reset" slowly developed alongside it. The details of the theory vary from one conspiratorial echo chamber to the next. But it broadly holds that a vague, shadowy cabal of global elites either engineered the pandemic or are opportunistically using it as a means to destroy everything good in the world—and build a post-crisis totalitarian dystopia in which average people live benighted lives of slavery solely to serve the interests of the ruling class.

The Great Reset has gained serious traction across the far right[...] As it has, its proponents have been increasingly consumed by a particularly bizarre notion: that sinister elites want to force ordinary people to stop eating meat and instead subsist on a diet of bugs while they sip champagne, eat steaks, and laugh at us all.

[...] "The 'Great Reset' is about enacting a drastic reduction in living standards for the plebs, which will force them to put bugs, weeds, and sewage on the menu while the Davos elites continue to feast on the finest cuisine," [...]

[...] for weeks now, waves of new stories have popped up on far-right sites arguing that the elites are coming for your beef, with a bag of bugs in hand.

[...] Believers have started creating Let Them Eat Bug memes. There are even shirts and posters available on mainstream online retail platforms decorated with phrases like "Own Nothing. Eat Bugs. Live in Pod. Be Happy," right next to a classic dystopian conspiratorial illuminati eye. [This actually seems like a good idea. Thanks for suggesting it!]

[...] About two billion people across 130 nations have long-standing and active insect-eating traditions. In most cases this is not because they are chronically desperate or coerced into eating bugs, but because insects are an abundant source of protein and, acculturated disgust aside, plenty of them actually taste pretty good. Many American and European communities also ate insects on and off until the dawn of the 20th century, when a number of social forces, including classism and racism, denigrated those traditions into shameful obscurity.

[...] Such conspiracy theories have long featured novel food trends or science, like the rise of chemical additives or genetic modifications, as proof that these plots seek to control our very diets and biology.

"I have been getting shitty little comments from people, saying things like, 'Bill Gates is trying to get us all to eat bugs while he eats all the beef,' since I started my company," [...]

[...] To the surprise of absolutely no one, conspiracy theorists are not only late to the game on insect foods, their arguments don't hold water. For starters, Preyer explained, one of the biggest challenges the industry is trying to address right now is the high cost of their foods, the result of still-developing farming, production, and distribution strategies. "Crickets can cost four times as much as premium U.S.-raised beef cuts," she said. So rather than swill to foist upon the poor, insects are currently "almost a luxury food."

[...] "The rich elites want us to eat more cows because that's an established industry and wealthy families have inherited and profit off of beef," Dossey argued. "And you think I'm trying to control your life?"

[...] "There really isn't much of a productive way to tell someone who thinks you are a representative of an alien lizard race that you're not"'

https://www.thedaily...t-bugs?ref=home

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[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wants you to know she's sorry, but it's not her fault she once endorsed the execution of Speaker Pelosi—it's social media's. In a speech on the House floor Thursday, she offered a half-hearted rebuke of her past support of conspiracy theories. "Throughout 2018, because I was upset about things and didn't trust the government really... I was allowed to believe things that weren't true," Greene said. "School shootings are absolutely real... 9/11 absolutely happened." She went on to describe the media as "just as guilty as QAnon as presenting lies that divide us."'

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

[Aptorian]

"I was allowed to believe things..."

Jesus there's so many scary things to extrapolate from that kind of statement and thought, coming from a politician.

[Malankazooie]