The Cult of Fools (Jan 15, 2023) – “Classified Documents”

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You knew they would make a fuss about it the moment you got the news. So yes, Trump should never have had classified material in his possession, and neither should Biden, but honestly compare both cases and you soon discover a huge contrast …

  • The national Archives spent a year chasing Trump’s missing documents, lots of documents, many boxes of documents. Trump persistently lied about it all, but they knew he had them, so they had to conduct a raid to get them back.
  • Biden, when it was discovered he had a couple of pages, contacted the national archives and notified them, and also did a full sweep to see if anything else had been missed, and discovered a few more.

One was malicious, deliberately deceitful, and strove to obstruct. The other was an honest mistake that was corrected as soon as it was discovered. Legally, it is a crime only if the retention and removal of classified records is intentional – guess who faces considerable legal peril and who does not?

That reality has not stopped the usual talking heads leveraging this and hoping that their cult of fools are too stupid to grasp the vast difference in play. For example …

The above has a great deal to do with his lips being bright orange from constantly kissing you know who’s ass, and nothing at all to do with integrity or honesty news reporting.

From others we also get claims such as “Trumps documents where planted by the FBI” to “Biden’s document was Obama’s fault“. Yes Really.

Tucker of course is lying about it all as well. He is claiming that “Trump’s attorneys volunteered that there were more classified documents” … er no. Does he really think we all have alzheimer’s and have forgotten that Trump insisted there were no more documents, and that they were forced to conduct a raid to get back what he claimed he did not have.

In essence, the right-wing media is continuing to fan the flames by promoting fraudulent disinformation claims as “News”. They do it because there really are enough fools who buy what they are selling.

Moving on, below you will once again find my usual selection of some truly bizarre and extreme claims that have popped up during the last 7 days. Each is laced with my snarky commentary. With my usual hat tip to my various sources, let’s dive in.

Enjoy.

Warning: This will break your Irony Meter

Ingraham on Fox: If only we had a president who cared more about what was good for the country and less about how to protect his family’s corrupt business interests.

  • It probably sounds a lot better in the original Russian.
  • Many satirists have lodged an official complaint that they are being put out of business by Ingraham.

Jan 6

“Stop The Steal” organizer Ali Alexander, clad in body armor, released a video on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol portraying himself and the insurrectionists as the real victims.

  • Violently storm the Capital in an attempt to overturn a democratic election, assault and murder police … and then when arrested, claim your are being persecuted – that’s playing the victim so well that I’m surprised he did not also carry around his own body chalk.
  • To put that another way … actions are having consequences … well gosh, who knew that, what a revelation.
  • He finishes by begging for prayer for himself and others who took part in Jan 6 … well yes Ali, we are indeed all praying … praying that the trials are speedy, that the sentences are lengthy, and that the fines are hefty.
  • Side Note: Given his open support for overthrowing democracy, the inevitable has happened – Elon restored his twitter account last week.

Females!

Andrew Torba declares that “any future political solution that doesn’t involve repealing [the 19th Amendment] is futile. Prepare for pain like this country has never seen before.

Andrew Anglin asserts that “the entire structure of the Western world is based around a compulsive desire of men to please women. The Taliban is a good model for healthy masculinity that Western men should emulate.

Gas Stoves

Rep Ronny Jackson Tweet … “I’ll NEVER give up my gas stove. If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands. COME AND TAKE IT!!

I just love this response …

She is not wrong about that.

CPAC Host Mercedes Schlapp tweets: “I’m keeping my gas stove

  • An understandable choice because it’s the only thing in her house she can actually turn on.
  • To be brutally frank, of all the things in her house that she needs to worry about, her gas stove is way down the list. (That’s a reference to the various recent news articles regarding her husband)

Medical Guidance from Greg Locke’s Church

A Facebook group for members of Christian hate-preacher Greg Locke’s church says it’s okay to tell Type 1 diabetics to “stop taking insulin” if God speaks to you and passes along the message.

Political Hypocrisy

Republicans are trying to take credit for the bills they voted against.

Journalistic Hypocrisy

NYT mission statement: “We seek truth and help people understand the world” Also NYT: Here’s 3,000 words from the alternative facts lady about why Trump is cool

The False Profit$

Lance Wallnau passionately prays that God will raise up “one more bad boy billionaire” to join Elon Musk and Donald Trump in saving America, then asks God to have Trump experience “a Pentecostal encounter” that’ll make him “supernaturally sanctified.

  • Do prayers only work if you tweet them out to millions of people on twitter? So yes, you know the bible verse I mean, to be specific this one which is a direct quote from Jesus – “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others” Matthew 6:5-8
  • I’m honestly confused by stuff like this because I can never really work out if they are praying to the billionaires or just praying for billionaires. Either way, it is all performative religious theatre that is part of their real goal of preying upon their followers by motivating them to keep paying donations.
  • Regarding a “supernatural encounter”, I suspect Trump is way beyond the ability of three ghosts on Christmas Eve persuading him to start being a decent human.

Interesting Articles

Statistic of the week

The Catholic Church has various teachings and so of course those that identify as Catholic will mostly agree with such teachings. There is however one rather stark exception – family planning.

Almost all US Catholics rejects what the Church teaches on that and simply ignore it …

Some Alternative music for that MTG tweet …

There is of course this …

https://twitter.com/azardey3/status/1612784341523828736

And also this Benny Hill version that was flagged by twitter, but can be seen if you click “View” …

Meanwhile …

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