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26 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

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I personally think Don Jr. is an American treasure. Imagine you're stuck in the Sahara with wheel bearings about to seize up. Buzzards are circling, looks like the end. NO! "Hey Don Jr, boy! Git yer ass over here!" You grab him by the collar and use the top of his head to grease all the moving parts, boom, you're outta there.

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This is such unbridled horseshit. I live in fucking California, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Fuck Trump shirt/flag/bumper sticker/whatever in person. I can't go a day without seeing Let's Go B

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.  

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Yep. I was a George Will/Ronald Reagan/Al Laffer conservative.  I genuinely thought that if you cut taxes for the upper classes, then they would spend and invest and the economic result of that w

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I refuse to believe that Don Jr. can build enough of a following to build a political career of his own. Hopefully when the Dotard dies his children will disappear from the public eye. 

1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

I personally think Don Jr. is an American treasure. Imagine you're stuck in the Sahara with wheel bearings about to seize up. Buzzards are circling, looks like the end. NO! "Hey Don Jr, boy! Git yer ass over here!" You grab him by the collar and use the top of his head to grease all the moving parts, boom, you're outta there.

I went to AmericanFreedomTour.com and front-and-nearly-center, what do I find?

Another fucking Lieutenant Colonel.

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1 hour ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Ivanka is in a race against time. She turns 40 at the end of this month and despite her two brothers, she's the one to keep an eye on as she's been cultivating her image for a long long time. 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/europe/rome-elections-mussolini-intl/index.html

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Rachele Mussolini, granddaughter of the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, won the highest number of votes in Rome's city council elections, official results showed Wednesday.

Standing for the Fratelli d'Italia party, which descends from the neo-fascist conservative MSI party-- or Italian Social Movement party -- Mussolini won 8,264 votes.

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In an interview with newspaper La Repubblica on Wednesday, Mussolini said she believes voters were focused less on her surname and more on her "initiatives" during her service at the City Council.

"At school they used to point at me, but then Rachele emerged and the person [that I am] prevailed over the surname, however burdensome that name is," she added.

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Back stage access with Donald, Jr.?  Wow, really?  Promise?  

Considering there'll easy $4k worth of blow back there...you could snatch up all you can and actually come out ahead on this endeavor. 

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The simulation having Mike Flynn reiterate he is not a Satanist to the Qanon faithful is an absolutely incredible plot twist. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-to-qanon-believers-im-not-a-satanist

 

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Former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has been on a relentless media tour since his pardon last year, sitting for interviews with even the most obscure right-wing media outlets to promote the MAGA agenda.

But on Tuesday, Flynn appeared on a little-known YouTube channel called Truth Unveiled TV for a very different reason: rebutting the idea that he led a church congregation in a Satanic ritual borrowed from a nuclear doomsday cult.

 

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In a video entitled “Some Have Said That General Flynn Prayed to Satan in a Recent Prayer,” host Paul Oebel gave Flynn a chance to rebut the growing right-wing controversy alleging he’s signed on with Lucifer.

“I even saw a show the other day saying ‘Michael’s flipped on the side of the devil,’” Oebel said. “Can you please explain what happened there?”

“All of these people that talk about turning to whatever...” Flynn said. “People need to stop overthinking what everybody is saying.”

 

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The bizarre YouTube interview marked Flynn’s latest attempt in a weeks-long campaign to convince his one-time fans in the QAnon conspiracy theory movement that he isn’t a Satanist.

Prior to the unusual controversy, Flynn had embraced his position as a hero to supporters of QAnon, taking a QAnon oath, raising money from QAnon believers, and selling QAnon T-shirts. In May, Flynn even appeared at a QAnon conference and endorsed the idea of a military coup.

But QAnon fame is a fickle thing. After promoting QAnon for more than a year, Flynn now finds himself on the business end of the conspiracy theory. Like QAnon targets before him, Flynn is now struggling to persuade angry QAnon believers that he isn’t a secret Satan-worshipper.

Flynn didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Flynn’s trouble started on Sept. 17, when he led a congregation at Nebraska pastor Hank Kunneman’s Lord of Hosts Church in prayer. Flynn’s prayer included invocations to “sevenfold rays” and “legions,” two phrases that struck some of Flynn’s followers as strange.

“We are your instrument of those sevenfold rays and all your archangels, all of them,” Flynn said, later adding, “We will be the instrument of your will, whatever it is. In your name, and in the name of your legions, we are freeborn, and we shall remain freeborn, and we shall not be enslaved by any foe.”

As video of the prayer circulated in online conspiracy theorist groups, the references to “legions” and “rays” soon sparked speculation among Flynn’s right-wing supporters that their hero had been lured to the dark side. Always on the lookout for the Satanic influence they imagine lurks at the heart of the world, they claimed that Flynn had secretly been worshiping the devil. Worse, since the congregation was repeating the prayer after Flynn, the rumor went, he had duped hundreds of Christians into joining the ritual.

“A lot of people in the Christian world believe that when you pray to rays of light and legions that you’re praying to the devil,” Oebel, the YouTube host, explained in his interview with Flynn.

Rick Wiles, an extremist antisemitic Florida pastor who runs a conspiracy theory outlet called TruNews, seized on Flynn’s prayer in a nearly hour-long TruNews broadcast last month blasting the retired lieutenant general. While Wiles’s cohost claimed that the mentions of “rays” and “legions” demonstrated Flynn was praying to the devil, Wiles said Flynn was threatening his followers’ souls.

“My advice to you is to separate from Gen. Michael Flynn,” Wiles told his audience. “I don’t care about politics, I care about your soul.”

The Satanic panic sparked by Flynn’s prayer bears more than a passing similarity to the Flynn-endorsed QAnon movement, in which figures like Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and Barack Obama have been accused of being cannibalistic Satanists—or, in QAnon parlance, ”Luciferians.” It also recalls Pizzagate, the baseless conspiracy theory once endorsed by Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., which holds that a Washington pizzeria doubles as a Satanic sex dungeon for pedophiles.

Lin Wood, a QAnon-endorsing pro-Trump lawyer who has appeared at some of the same right-wing conferences as Flynn, acknowledged the rumors in a Sept. 22 post on social media app Telegram. In his post, Wood seemed to defend Flynn while distancing himself from the prayer.

“I find nothing in the Bible about seven rays of light or legions,” Wood wrote.

On Sept. 25, Flynn acknowledged the growing controversy among his supporters. In a post on social media app Telegram, Flynn said the prayer was about his namesake, St. Michael, adding that it has “great meaning to me.”

Yet his post didn’t mollify many of his QAnon followers, who commented in anger under Flynn’s post.

“I’ve never heard anyone pray the 7 fold ray in a Christian prayer,” one confused Flynn supporter replied. “What am I missing?”

Flynn’s prayer bears a striking resemblance to a prayer by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, the now-deceased leader of an anticommunist doomsday cult obsessed with nuclear war. Prophet’s group, the Church Universal and Triumphant, reached its peak in 1990, the year she predicted much of the world would be destroyed in a fiery nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States. Prophet’s followers flocked to her Montana ranch, building fallout shelters for an apocalypse that never arrived.

Twitter user Jim Stewartson first noted the similarities between Flynn’s prayer and Prophet’s. Both prayers mention “legions” and “seven-fold rays,” and are nearly identical in their phrasing.

For example, in one address to her congregation, Prophet said, “In the name of Archangel Michael and his legions, I am freeborn, and I shall remain freeborn, and I shall not be enslaved by any foe within or without.”

By comparison, Flynn told the Nebraska church congregation, “In your name and the name of your legions, we are freeborn, and we shall remain freeborn, and we shall not be enslaved by any foe within or without.”

Hank Kunneman, the Nebraska pastor whose church played host to Flynn, eventually acknowledged the Satanic accusations himself. In a cryptic address to his congregation on Sept. 26, Kunneman avoided mentioning Flynn by name but said he had received messages claiming a speaker at his church had performed a Satanic prayer.

“Can you just give people a break?” Kunneman asked his congregation.

Wood addressed the Satanism allegations against his MAGA ally again on Wednesday, claiming his own supporters had been asking him about whether Flynn’s prayer meant he was a member of the occult.

“Occult prayer???” Wood wrote. “Are you kidding me???”

Flynn isn’t the first right-wing figure tied to QAnon to see its acolytes turn on him. Oklahoma Senate candidate Jackson Lahmeyer, whose challenge to Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has been endorsed by Flynn, appeared at an April pro-QAnon conference with Flynn in Tulsa.

A few months later, however, Lahmeyer posted a seemingly innocent picture of his daughter wearing red shoes—apparently unaware that QAnon followers consider red shoes to be yet another sign of their imagined Satanic sex-trafficking cabal. Lahmeyer was soon caught up in a QAnon controversy of his own.

"Unfortunately, I have to say it because people are asking me," Lahmeyer wrote in a Facebook post. "I’m in no way involved in Child Sex Trafficking, pedophilia or devil worship."

 

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I personally think Don Jr. is an American treasure. Imagine you're stuck in the Sahara with wheel bearings about to seize up. Buzzards are circling, looks like the end. NO! "Hey Don Jr, boy! Git yer ass over here!" You grab him by the collar and use the top of his head to grease all the moving parts, boom, you're outta there.
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This Donald Trump Jr Wax Museum & Rally seems to be coinciding with a LOT of rallies nationwide for #TrumpSaveAmerica. There is one in Iowa (I think Trump himself is supposed to be there) and a lot of them are coordinating around Saturday college football games. Makes sense: attempt to be around crowds that may share sentiment, try and get the chant going that has been a thing lately, and try and be on television. It makes the support look larger (a past problem with rally crowds), so whoever is working on this is pretty good. The grassroots rallies are where more local pressure is applied to voters and for the folks looking to raise a ruckus (counter-ops) to create the 'lack of law and order' that the former president ran on, this is where it happens.

I'm not going to clutter the thread with a lot of twitter links and pages, but it's every minute a tweet going out and retweeted by the RW media such as Gateway Pundit, etc.

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12 hours ago, Lobo said:

Back stage access with Donald, Jr.?  Wow, really?  Promise?  

Considering there'll easy $4k worth of blow back there...you could snatch up all you can and actually come out ahead on this endeavor. 

I was gonna say if there's an open cocaine bar, it might be a decent value. 

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10 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Couldn’t Idaho just have told Loondell to fuck off?  That he’s in no position to call for audit.  

Sure, but then they' get primaried in the next GOP election. 

To succeed in today's iteration of the GOP you literally have to do what the Mypillow guys says, even if that is questioning the legitimacy of our democracy. And respect the flag of the United States. And also talk about succeeding from the United States because you hate it. It all makes so much sense. 

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I'm failing to see the fucking problem? 

Oh, am I being harsh.  Jared Kushner, a guy actually on the fucking Covid-19 Task Force for our United States basically said the same thing.  But in another way.  

But I'm the asshole, right Yaga?  

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That Flynn plagiarized satanic prayer thing is a deep cut. That’s the kind of education that keeps me coming back here. Honestly, the seven rays and legion thing are the least satanic sounding parts of that prayer.

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6 minutes ago, Mole said:

That Flynn plagiarized satanic prayer thing is a deep cut. That’s the kind of education that keeps me coming back here. Honestly, the seven rays and legion thing are the least satanic sounding parts of that prayer.

That whole episode had the demeanor of a student who cribbed from the NM scholar but didn't read the annotations. Ooops.

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7 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

This Donald Trump Jr Wax Museum & Rally seems to be coinciding with a LOT of rallies nationwide for #TrumpSaveAmerica. There is one in Iowa (I think Trump himself is supposed to be there) and a lot of them are coordinating around Saturday college football games. Makes sense: attempt to be around crowds that may share sentiment, try and get the chant going that has been a thing lately, and try and be on television. It makes the support look larger (a past problem with rally crowds), so whoever is working on this is pretty good. The grassroots rallies are where more local pressure is applied to voters and for the folks looking to raise a ruckus (counter-ops) to create the 'lack of law and order' that the former president ran on, this is where it happens.

I'm not going to clutter the thread with a lot of twitter links and pages, but it's every minute a tweet going out and retweeted by the RW media such as Gateway Pundit, etc.

I have noticed that as well - there definitely seems to be some kind of organized push quietly going on (at a low-level, but it's not localized, it's nation-wide).  It's like the PR/social media teams are all firing up everywhere.

Biden is not asserting executive privilege over the Jan 6 stuff with Trump, and the Trump camp have known that was probably going to be the case. Makes me wonder if there is some kind of push to get The True Believers worked up ahead of the information coming out.  Trump and Co. have got to get ahead and try and minimize the fallout from the information dump that's coming.

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53 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I have noticed that as well - there definitely seems to be some kind of organized push quietly going on (at a low-level, but it's not localized, it's nation-wide).  It's like the PR/social media teams are all firing up everywhere.

Biden is not asserting executive privilege over the Jan 6 stuff with Trump, and the Trump camp have known that was probably going to be the case. Makes me wonder if there is some kind of push to get The True Believers worked up ahead of the information coming out.  Trump and Co. have got to get ahead and try and minimize the fallout from the information dump that's coming.

We've said it multiple times: whoever is first to frame the discussion is usually the one with the image and rhetoric/points that stick. Having these meet-ups with speakers get those points out there ahead of anything that comes out later. It worked brilliantly in coordination with the reps during impeachment-they reinforced everything in the little talking head mic moments at the end of each session, at the close of the day, and later on all the news shows. Whole lotta people believed the 'it's just grandstanding' point and ignored the process and the charge. Same with the coup attempt. It's going to be: "look, another Democratic witch-hunt," or some such. When you still have a goodly percentage believing the Big Lie, this is not going to be a stretch nor is it going to be as hard to pull in the anti-vax people who weren't Trump people because they will focus on the mandate stuff and see the Select Committee as wasting time on something the anti-vax contingent doesn't care about. It's a better offense than people realize.

I'm not a professional in that regard, but they need a couple of people with a clue-Stacey Abrams (grassroots specialist), Pete B (marketing skills), and so on to sit down and give folks a hellfire and brimstone wake-up call.

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You don’t say shit like that in this timeline. You just don’t.

A positive is that voting has become really easy.  I’m going to have to do zero research for the foreseeable future.  That saves me the hour or two that I would spend reading about the down ballot races to see if there was a R judge that was actually a decent human being.

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The Texas Rangers are investigating Ronda Barchak. And the DA is named Tom Selleck. 


"For at least six years, the district clerk in Brazoria County used a highly unusual and possibly illegal system to assemble jury panels. Under state law, jurors are supposed to be selected at random from the pool of those who’ve been called to jury duty. But Rhonda Barchak, a Republican who served as district clerk in the fast-growing county that stretches from the Houston suburbs to the Gulf Coast, had her own method. Barchak, who resigned in late August after having held the post since 2010, divided up jurors by geographical region, and then by race, to assemble panels for criminal, civil, and family-law trials. As a result of her idiosyncratic system, thousands of verdicts could potentially be overturned, and the county could face an avalanche of lawsuits claiming wrongful convictions."



https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/brazoria-county-jury-panels/

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Paul Gosar: We are already in a Civil War. We just haven't started shooting yet.

https://shero.substack.com/p/congressman-allegedly-declares-civil

1. Of course we are.
2. There’s already been a good bit of shooting and violence. There will be much more.
3. They claim to be worried about an insurgency….when they ARE the insurgency. Every accusation is a confession, chapter infinity.
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