It was just after 8 p.m. ET on Jan. 6, 2021. Law enforcement had just finished clearing the Capitol building, and Congress was beginning to reconvene to finish the task which Stop the Steal supporters had violently disrupted: formalizing Biden’s win, and Trump’s defeat, in the 2020 election.
This guy is a moron.
Perry was in contact with Thomas McInerney, a retired Air Force general who gained prominence on the far-right in 2020 for viral videos where he acted as a sieve for conspiracy theories.
Sieve? Or perhaps some other kitchen implement like a funnel. Or a non-kitchen implement like a megaphone?
Because a narcissistic man-boy couldn’t accept he was a loser, a whole bunch of adult men and women — some just cynically playing the power game, while others dreamt they were finally going to be among the Ubermensch —tried to believe crazified science fiction-y stories about why their Orange Duce had been deposed. Such as:
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At the time, a 2021 Senate Judiciary Report Clark was seeking access to classified records from the DNI to substantiate a theory that the Chinese government had weaponized advanced home thermostats to interfere with voting machines.
It’s amazing how many people are downright eager for a fascist state – so long as their faces aren’t the ones under the boot.
One part of our popular culture has completely descended into the blending of fantasy filmmaking and book writing with the reality presented on the evening news.
I guess it’s no surprise that much of our so-called political leadership buys into or has been conditioned into the morass of crazy-think as well. Complete lack of critical-thinking skills
Think “House of Cards” and Robert Ludlum - or add your own examples to too-long a list.
Who needs theories when you have so damned many real conspiracies, all promulgated by Republicans who either have extreme difficulty thinking clearly or are in it for the grift (not mutually exclusive).
Urgent message to Scott Perry on Jan 6: “We have reports that the wizard of Oz carrying space aliens in his balloon has traveled through a wormhole and is appearing simultaneously at election sites in swing states and having flying monkeys turn the space aliens into Biden ballots.”
Scott Perry: “Is this true?”
If anything this should give us a glimpse of the sort of filth that would populate a second Drumpf term which is so much more reason for fence sitters to quit whining about Biden’s age and get with the real program.
I would relish the opportunity to quiz Perry and these other dingbats on the technical details of exactly how votes are changed by Italian satellites or home thermostats.
Pretty much what I used to hear from crazy people along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley back in the 80’s. “The chemtrails are sending messages to the fillings in my teeth that the CIA is after me.”
If Perry answers you please let us in Cumberland County PA know.
It seems our village idiot is AWOL and has not been heard from in our District or seen since the election.
We fear he may be doing harm to the World.
Or so they think. FAFO
time to purge the dentist profession. Dox em all!
Life is full of little surprises, ain’t it?
And, then, there are those who’ve already learned to like it, who’ll fight for their right to continue to endure it.
Batsh.t effing crazy. Every single one of them. And we are supposed to go nuts because Biden is too old? Where do the Repubs find these people? Take a good look at Perry and tell me that he looks like he has even half a functioning brain? Nah.
The number of DOD and NatSec people who went all in on these conspiracy theories kinda pulled me up short. Then I remembered the dude I went to high school with who ended up doing signals intelligence for the Air Force. Reasonably smart, good at mathematics, very into computers, but had a huge ego combined with an extremely poor sense of when he was out of his depth. He believed the weirdest shit. I suspect these other DOD and NatSec folks were cut from similar cloth.
Are they really this fucking dumb, or just blinded by the partisanship? I used to think it was partisanship, but I can’t help but believe they’re just this fucking dumb after the last few years
Oy, vey. There should be a market run on tin-foil hats.
