Erick Erickson is no longer associated with Red State which purged all the writers that did not adore Dump and now all it’s stories are conspiracy theories or whoe is white christen men
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” ― Carl Sandburg
Help, help. Run for the lifeboats.
RedState is a joke, always has been and always will be. Erick Erickson is a whackjob Christianist that is little more than a GOP lickspittle and this is a fitting legacy for his infantile, kneejerk racism, homophobia and blind allegiance to forces actively engaged in destroying democracy.
This is not conspiracy theory as much as mass hysteria, with a dash of social panic or as I call it colloquially, crazy white people.
It’s a disaster when only about half of the population can be fooled by such nonsense, and even worse, they totally buy into it.
I’m afraid I’ll have to take your word for it. Never gone there. My suspicion was always that it’s like the trolls on Paul Krugman’s twitter comments threads, but with many more characters to type.
Crazy/stupid/evil – pick three
You don’t know what you’re missing. (Me, either.)
But look at it this way: if you are ever in the throes of self-doubt regarding your sanity, you can always tell yourself “Hey, at least I’m not as nuts as the RedStoaters.”
Yeah, I know, it’s not much consolation … but it’s something.
Holy Christ. Gorka’s a fucking whack-job. And a Nazi to boot.
Totally. I think of him as a Nazi version of Christopher Hitchens crossed with Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
(ETA: though that’s probably unfair to Hitchens… )
Hmmm, and I heard that Mueller also likes… pizza!
Red State: “All of our contributors are unhinged, but some are more unhinged than others”
Edit: “But we let them write whatever they like because we’re unhinged, too.”
I don’t spend a lot of time with outlets like RedState but I’ve never seen an editorial disclaimer that essentially says “We think this is wrong and wash our hands of it.” You can’t do that, you can’t distance yourself from it that way, because you published it. You gave it currency it would not otherwise have had. But this is where we, or rather where what was once called conservatism is now.
Next we’ll be hearing a batshit conspiracy that it was actually Robert Mueller that hired Christopher Steele in collaboration with Hillary Clinton to create the dossier. You never know… These people are off their rockers.
Of course! It all makes sense to me now. Everything that the RWNJ permanent-victim-squad already believes totally discredits everything they don’t like! And did the deceased in question possibly also enjoy…EATING PIZZA!!!
It’s like a kid changing a grade in the teacher’s book. Don’t halfass it, might as well change your F to an A+ while you’re throwing out the rules.
The thing I can never really get over is the cruelty of these people. Seth Rich had a family who still love him dearly. Every time they dig up this bullshit and trash his memory, his friends and family’s wounds are opened up all over again. And why do they do this? Just to score some really cheap political points with people who already hang on their every word. Just evil.
I check out redstate almost daily just to see what they’re discussing versus what TPM and the like are discussing.
Notice how Vaughn uses PP’s mind trick for dumb dumbs by saying with certainty “Given the number of omissions and inaccuracies in the Mueller Report we’ve discovered in the last couple of weeks alone" but the omissions and inaccuracies are not listed in the article. If you look for the previous articles about the omissions and inaccuracies you find they didn’t contain facts; they have more conspiracies about something that as far as is known does not exist but supposition about what it would mean if it did exist.