So... Tomorrow is the day the lunatics think Trump is going to be inaugurated after the military makes us a country again instead of a corporation based in London. Stay safe folks.
So... Tomorrow is the day the lunatics think Trump is going to be inaugurated after the military makes us a country again instead of a corporation based in London. Stay safe folks.
You all know the words, sing along now!
"I never thought Trump would turn on me".
-- the QAnon Shaman
In addition, his lawyers have gone further by saying on the recordI 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
In other words, he's on the record as saying Trump tricked him into doing this, then left him to rot.He regrets very, very much having not just been duped by the president but by being in a position where he allowed that duping to put him in a position to make decisions he should not have made
He's got some time to come to terms with the situation -- he faces up to 20 years in prison for being the figurehead of a murderous insurrection. Prosecutors have already asked he not be released from prison because murderous insurrection.
It’s kinda funny that some of us, my self included, reacted to FBI looking for his identification, by linking videos of his saying his name and where he is from. I don’t think anyone has acknowledged that FBI likely had the same name and identity from his interviews... but, unlike us assuming he was saying the truth, FBI knew he was lying.
We shouldn’t trust anything this man has to say... His current character, is someone who is willing to do anything to not go to jail and thinks blaming Trump is the ticket.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
Yes, funny how even the Trump supporters who proved how loyal they were to the point of committing multiple felonies in his name, are now blaming him.
I don't think it will work. I definitely hope it doesn't work, but this guy didn't have a gun to his head and (based on all evidence we have) has no diagnosed medical condition. If I tell you to murder the guy who canceled Firefly and you do it, maybe I'm breaking the law, but you definitely are.
Point being, education doesn't prevent people from grifting, using politics for personal gain, supporting people like Trump for their own weird reasons or necessarily affect morality which is a large part of what we're talking about here. So I'm skeptical, at best, that education will have any meaningful affect on what's going on here.
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I agree with everything you're saying but wanted to touch on this specific piece.
Any religious conservative that seriously supports the Republicans, let alone Trump, after they literally made a golden idol of Trump for CPAC is an absolute fucking hypocrite. That's literally in their top 10 worst things you can do, so giving a pass to them for that, along with all the other shit they pull....the amount of cognitive dissonance is absolutely unreal. I just can't take any of them seriously anymore.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
If we're singing a song about the QAnon Shaman Muffin Man it's this:
In an interview this morning, he said it wasn't an "attack" and that he went into the capital to spread "good vibes and positivity" and even stopped some insurrectionists from stealing muffins!
The guy's a farce.
Putin khuliyo
Yeah, neither could I. Well, if it does sell, it'll be interesting to see who bougth it.
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Farce indeed. If you have to break windows, doors, or skulls to get in, it's an attack. "I thought I was bringing joy to all the childrens" is not a legal defense to "OH MY GOD WHY DID YOU BREAK INTO MY HOUSE???"
That won't necessarily fix who they vote for though. They don't have to be a Trump sycophant to vote for him, they just have to dislike, disbelieve or be disenchanted enough with the other side enough to not vote for them.
I agree that higher education is a good way to educate folks on things like anti-vaxx, but I'm not convinced that will affect their vote. And stupid people will always exist, you can't force people to be educated. It's already required by law that they go to school, but there's no law that says they have to pass or that they have to understand and believe certain things. Will it help? Of course, but I'm skeptical that it would have enough of an impact to matter, at least not without other significant changes to infrastructure that really allows folks to take advantage of the education that's offered.
But it does affect their votes. Trump led the polls in uneducated white males. Conversely, he did not lead in polls with educated people.
Like I said, there’s a fairly evident correlation between voting preference and education level. Especially as the GOP continues to abandon any sort of legitimate policy pretense for strict reactionary fear mongering.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.