And the mainstream media NEVER calls them out on it.
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My in-laws were just over as always on Saturday mornings. Conversation turned to Covid-19, and i was stunned by the complete divergence from reality my sis-in-law exhibited. She was adamant that we’re doing everything we can given that the CDC doesn’t even know what to do. The CDC keeps changing their minds, so how are we supposed to know what’s safe and what’s not? Yes, she deeply believes in the supernatural (god), so that pretty much explains why she’ll never believe actual science. Faith is the way to go, as demonstrated by the stupid scientists who keep changing their minds about everything, thus risking the future of civilization.
I had to politely leave the room.
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You’re very gracious.
I’d have slapped her into the middle of next week.
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As an epidemiologist, i concur
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I’m not at all scared by all this bullshit, and I doubt whether very many people are.
First, if Trump loses incontrovertibly by a wide margin, then all these conspiracy idiots will just have to come up with another conspiracy or two, and they wlll, of course.
Second, in all this hub bub, there’s little if any real inclusion of the court system here, at least that I can see. As with Florida in Bush v. Gore, irregularities are going to go to the courts, which will provide a kind of buffer to cool down whatever flames these idiots want to fan.
Perhaps. I will not argue what came first.
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
1 Timothy 6:10
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I talked with a politically unengaged person last month. I brought up the removal of all the post office sorting machines.
She brightly said “But they do that every 12 years anyway!”
Now, I have to work with her again, so I could not challenge her on where she got that info. I have never heard that before. And somehow, that ‘regular replacement’ has never been right before an election.
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Not that hard and not that vexed.
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“How dare you try to predict how we might fuck up Democracy?!!”
You can smell the hysteria.
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“They” being the Voters…
There’s so much determined and stubborn ignorance, so much distrust of Democrats and progressives and our motives and policy goals, so much hatred … perhaps a 2 - country solution is what we’re heading for and need to think about in coming years. I know it sounds a bit outrageous, but continuing on what’s becoming a parallel universe trajectory might be just as untenable.
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Someone should tell him about the nice young men in their clean white coats …
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And we thought it was an exercise. The right is running headlong into the trap, this was the plan after all.
The article forgot another point.
Add to all of those stories this lovely article on another contentious topic:
and
We are all being played.
Behold the power of wingnut mantra.
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That’s cuz they’re kinda dumb.
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Help me understand, what am I missing? Don’t the articles share the same ideas pointed out in this article, that were supposedly part of the TIP exercise, that the right foolishly believed was “real”?
CNN is no bastion of conservatism, nor is Harvard Law.
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CNN reporting on the introduction and/or passing of bills in the House is not ‘leading a lefty coup.’
The Harvard Law Review discussing the pros and cons of the Electoral College
[Edit:–sorry–] ‘packing the Supreme Court’ is not ‘leading a lefty coup.’
And if you believe anything James O’Keefe says, and if you believe that Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post is a news source, well…
You’re not gonna like it here.
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No - I get it. I just pulled articles from the recent news cycle. I try not to automatically disbelieve anyone…as the old saying goes “a broken clock is right twice a day.”
The larger point I was trying to make is that TIP was set up in part to address conspiratorial allusions that Trump will not peacefully transfer power when he loses the election. And then the article goes on to point out how certain policy changes are presented by the right as being associated with said left-wing coup attempt.
"Does anyone really believe, for instance, that Joe Biden, having lost the Electoral College, etc., etc. "
“But right-wingers have seized on such scenarios. etc., etc.”
But the policy changes given as evidence are actual policy goals of many Democrats both in Congress and across the country. In fact John Light’s post from today says essentially the same thing regarding future policy goals. I get that the notion of a coup attempt is absurd, but we cannot ignore the quote often attributed to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley: “Vote early, vote often.”
In the end we have a “conspiracy theory” that Trump won’t concede, which led to the TIP panel, which then led to the right promoting a “conspiracy theory” of a left wing coup in the event of a Trump victory based in part on “conspiracy theories” surrounding Soros and other globalists.
I feel we’re all being played.
So let’s stay out of the rabbit holes.
We’re all grown here and we need to make some decisions about what we read…about credibility and context and such.
Trump has more than hinted at refusing to accept the results of the election. He’s made specious claims of election fraud for years and offered not a shred of evidence to support them.
What do you make of this quote directly from Trump’s mouth?
“Get rid of the ballots, and you’ll have a very - you’ll have a very peaceful - there won’t be a transfer, frankly, there’ll be a continuation.”
How about this one?
Ramblings of an ignoramus without a clue, dimwitted hyperbolic rhetoric, threat to the fabric of the nation, or conspiracy theory?
We ran one time and we’re 1-and-0. But it was for the big one. Now we’re going to have a second time. And we’re going to have another one. And then we’ll drive them crazy,” Trump said. “And maybe if we really like it a lot — and if things keep going like they’re going — we’ll go and we’ll do what we have to do. We’ll do a three and a four and a five.
Joe Biden has lost elections. He accepted (along with President Obama) that they were term-limited in 2016 and stood ready to ensure the Integrity of the Transition—to make certain that even an ignorant, vulgar, obnoxious slob like Donald Trump was brought up to speed…that his picks to lead the Offices of Government were briefed.
Do you believe Trump will extend that same courtesy to the incoming Biden administration?
I don’t.
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