Itâs clear that Trumpers not only donât live on the same planet as the rest of us but they inhabit an entirely different parallel reality. That will continue to cause increased friction and will lead (or already has led) to what in marital relationships is referred to as âirreconcilable differencesâ.
The crazy Trumpers wonât go away quietly, and the GOP does not want to realize that getting all of the power with a minority of votes is a highly unstable situation. So whatâs going to happen long term? Break-up of the US? Civil war? Or âonlyâ several years of insanity followed by a Democratic administration trying to prevent the economy from imploding, and then getting blamed for all the problems? Interesting times indeed.
I applaud the man for the effort. Next time less gun, more thinking, pleaseâŚ
Well, at least there arenât many unhinged people like this around who actually believe some of the stuff on Brietbart, Alex Jones, FOX, or that the President-elect says. That could be a real problem.
Yes sir, Ireland is looking better and better all the timeâŚ
Good pizza. No child sex. Or perhaps I didnât have the secret code to get into the nonexistent basement where the children are allegedly kept.
ââI hope that those involved in fanning these flames will take a moment to contemplate what happened here today, and stop promoting these falsehoods right away,â Alefantis said in the statement.â
Why would they? They just won the presidency with these falsehoods.
Itâs not a very huge step from equating doctors who perform abortions with murderers and the enactors of the Holocaust, to just making up shit about your enemies.
This is a creepy story, but I feel that calling these things out as âfake newsâ muddies the waters a bit as to what the real problem is and moves the âfake newsâ narrative into truly fringe territory. The real problem is within outlets that wrap the crazy up in just enough accurate information to seem plausible.
âPeople who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.â
âSelf-investigationâ indeed. 
We have been in a cold Civil War for quite a while, maybe since the late 90s, maybe back to Reagan. This country has not been in a similar situation â parallel and mutually incompatible realities â since the 1850s (although the labor struggles and isolationist times of the 30s came close). We know how that worked out.
Is there a North-east secessionist movement anywhere? I want to join.
One of the more intellectual Trump voters, I assume.
This fake news story is still being promoted by Michael Flynnâs son and chief of staff (see Joshâs blog piece on this). This changes it from a nutter story to a bone chilling story of beliefs of very powerful people that Trump is selecting for government. We have to remember Trump goes to the fake news sites on a regular basis and apparently believes a lot of this crap - and promotes it. Everyone with half a brain in Washington DC should be on red alert right now - this is not remotely funny yet I keep hearing pundits say that Trump is picking a standard Republican cabinet.
Officially entering the twilight zoneâŚ
This Is Not Normal
So, an attack by a lone-wolf self-radicalized by extremist content on the Internet? Huh. Whatâs the word we use for that, again? Oh, never mind. White Christian. So just another poor mentally disturbed person who is disturbed, not a terrorist. Because reasons.
Well, nonetheless, good thing thereâs no connection between the incoming regime and the extremist content that radicalized this poor disturbed person . . . Oh, wait, propagated and popularized by the son and business partner of our incoming National Security Adviser? Oh well, Iâm sure it wonât come up at the confirmation hearings. Because white and Christian.
The owner of this pizza place should enlist the help of attorneys, hopefully free ones, who will sue the purveyors of this particular fake news item. Accusing someone of a criminal action is per se libelous, meaning that if it is false you donât have to prove that it was damaging. And they are not a public figure so Sullivan rules donât apply. And this guy should definitely spend at least a few years in prison along with the rest of the D.C. prison population, usually somewhere in West Virginia.
Then Michael Flynnâs son should become the first defendant in the legal action. Seriously, there is nothing to stop this unless the people who are being harmed fight back. I understand why a pizza restaurant is not keen to undertake the battle, but it wonât go away ever unless people face consequences.
Meanwhile Ryan, Pence and Preibus all double down on the lying by defending Predator-Electâs assertion that âmillionsâ of illegal votes were cast.
Itâs like they donât care if people die as long as they have political power. Whoâd a thunk it?
Steve, I believe Flynnâs position does not have to be confirmed. Easy entry for nut cases.
From the Guardian. Bannon/Breitbart is heavily involved with Cambridge Analytica:
And the constellation of websites that Albright found â a sort of shadow internet â has another function. More than just spreading rightwing ideology, they are being used to track and monitor and influence anyone who comes across their content. âI scraped the trackers on these sites and I was absolutely dumbfounded. Every time someone likes one of these posts on Facebook or visits one of these websites, the scripts are then following you around the web. And this enables data-mining and influencing companies like Cambridge Analytica to precisely target individuals, to follow them around the web, and to send them highly personalised political messages. This is a propaganda machine. Itâs targeting people individually to recruit them to an idea. Itâs a level of social engineering that Iâve never seen before. Theyâre capturing people and then keeping them on an emotional leash and never letting them go.â