Conspiracy theory
Conspiracy theory, an attempt to explain harmful or tragic events as the result of the actions of a small, powerful group. Such explanations reject the accepted narrative surrounding those events; indeed, the official version may be seen as further proof of the conspiracy.
Note: no place in that definition did it say it is a false explanation.
Why, you might ask, do I have conspiracy theories on my mind lately? I would counter that by asking why you do not? Have you been paying attention?
Today’s links provide a quick assortment of spins on a couple of the latest conspiracy theories.
Today’s Cocktail
Melon Patch Cocktail
- 1 ounce melon liqueur
- 1/2 ounce triple sec
- 2 ounces vodka
- 4 ounces club soda
- Garnish: orange slice
- Pour the melon liqueur, triple sec, and vodka into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
- Shake well.
- Strain into a highball glass with ice cubes. Fill with club soda.
- Garnish with an orange slice.
Some Popular Conspiracy Theories
Chemtrails
Fluoride
Elvis
Moon Landing
JFK Assassination
9/11
Global Warming
New World Order
Birthdays
1682 Louis, Duke of Burgundy, heir-apparent to the French throne, born in Palace of Versailles, France (d. 1712) (Mmmmm, Burgundy!- 1868 Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate, credited with beginning the culture of health and fitness in the United States, born in Mill Spring, Missouri (d. 1955)
- 1888 T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia], British author, soldier and diplomat famous for his liaison role in Arabia during WWI, born in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales (d. 1935)
- 1892 Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (Felix the Cat), born in Union City, New Jersey (d. 1983)
- 1904 Wendell Stanley, American biochemist, first to crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946), born in Ridgeville, Indiana (d. 1971)
- 1913 Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-80, 81-83) and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Brest, Belarus, Russian Empire (d. 1992)
- 1929 Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, born in Plainfield, New Jersey (d. 1980)
- 1933 Julie Newmar, actress, born in Hollywood, California
- And a host of others
Odd note: Frank Gifford and Kathie Lee Gifford shared a birthday today.
Other News
I bet Californians are Not Happy
Expect to see more of this
The usual suspects are being absolutely horrible about this
An Illinois Governor who didn’t go to jail has died
Have a great rest of your Sunday! ?
Good timing, I just watched ShadowGate.
Although that’s about a relatively large powerful group, not a small one.
Linky? Meant to watch it, but when I search now all I get is a video game.
Currently working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpr70VjiCoQ
YouTube just made up a new rule banning “hacked information”.
Even though people keep reposting, I would download it as it might get taken down before you can finish watching it.
Thanks.
So? Worth my time? Kooky nutcases? Simple rehash of old information? Whazzup?
“We give you a chip. We put all your money in your chip. If you refuse a vaccine, we turn off the chip and you starve!”
Like the Chinese wouldn’t do that?
Hell, Eric Garcetti recently tried to more or less do that
We are not worthy of SP links.
So much linkage
Speak for yourself.
We seem to be under a cloud of suspicion.
She sinks into the swamp so we don’t have to.
mornin’
““Hillary’s demonic,” Slyman said. “I know about Hillary cutting open a 10-year-old. And Huma Abedin.” ”
Sounds reasonable.
Higher intelligence is a funny thing
“In short, QAnon has upped its game. No longer content to promulgate nutjob conspiracy theories about famous politicians and government officials who kill and eat children, a group of QAnon believers are now actively encouraging parents estranged from their children to steal those children back from child protective services. And the campaign is alarmingly successful.”
Not seeing a problem.
If CPS stole the kids under specious claims, I don’t see a problem either.
But it’s for the children. A government agency can never be incompetent and abuse its power. Nope.
You just have to accept.
People who put blind faith into the state are a cult onto themselves.
And politicians have never ever used CPS (or other agencies) To squash dissenters.
Wasn’t it Kate Brown who recently sent CPS after a hairdresser who wouldn’t conform to her restrictions?
It was one of those Pacific Northwest politicians
Yes it was.
And a prog would respond: And she deserved it for being selfish! How dare she want to work and feed her family during this pandemic!
As they cash their check and go bake bread.
Yup. And Gretchen Whitmer says, “Damn! Why didn’t I think of that?”
New York Dems are currently pushing a bill to mandate 500 hours of training for shampooers.
/things that make you think, “huh, they didn’t already do that?”
“While QAnon violence and other criminal acts have previously appeared to be the work of random “lone wolf” actors, this network suggests that QAnon law-breaking has now moved into a new, more sophisticated phase.”
So who is the conspiracy nutjob now?
The way they described Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubn and Proud Boys etc…..yeh, I’d take them with a gain of very coarse salt.
So, those SF articles are actually documentaries?
#IDon’tWantToBelieve
Young Scruffy got his first leather fetish from Julie Newmar.
seconded
Love that conspiracy theorists image.
Wasn’t California the richest state in the country? There is no excuse for the blackouts, fires, tent cities, or any of that shit.
Completely self inflicted. They shut down the San Onofre nuclear plant, which besides reminding me of my ex-wife, was a stable source of power for Southern California.
Then they sold the only gas line into Socal to Enron.
Did she have frequent meltdowns?
“which besides reminding me of my ex-wife”
Her tits looked like cooling towers?
She glew in the dark?
I have to do everything around here.
https://youtu.be/S5OQMoSCrqw
“Naked Gun” and “Police Squad” were great.
“She glew in the dark?”
autocorrect strikes again
I like it. Imma start using that.
Typo. Make the “g” a “b”.
Even I do not recognize that as a word in English and I have all the hillbilly lingo down to an art.
Until you refer to a bell pepper as a ‘mango’ or call a grocery bag “a paper poke”, I beg to differ.
When Mrs JI and I would drive by, she referred to it as the Dolly Parton Power Plant.
They are shutting down Diablo Canyon in 2025 also. Rancho Seco up in Sac shut down 30 years ago. The wife and I almost got married in the park there, but my insistence of getting the cooling towers in the background kinda nixed it.
“Hollywood Apocalypse NOW: Rich and famous are fleeing in droves as liberal politics and coronavirus turn City of Dreams into cesspit plagued by junkies and violent criminals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8631063/Hollywood-Apocalypse-rich-famous-fleeing-droves.html
Plauged by junkies and criminals? I thought you said all the movie stars had fled.
It’s right there in the first paragraph, duh.
Climate change.
I wish I had come up with this.
https://nestzones.net/products/wire-stripping-and-twisting-tool-version-2-0
if your doing production fine, otherwise you’ll never need it, wirenuts do the same thing, in fewer steps
But it’s so neat and tidy. It appeals to my inner OCD.
I use wire nuts mostly, and you Don’t twist the wires before inserting them, so it’s all good, very pretty connections though
That’s cool, If I hadn’t switched over to the push in connectors I’d buy one in a second.
For a lot of power connections in the house, push-in connectors changed my life.
I still like Marrettes for the high-amp stuff, though.
Just because your paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you….
Speaking of conspiracies….
Millie Weaver of Infowars was arrested.
Was it because of her doc?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmAJU2jGuHs
Conspiracies tend to explode around an event. I remember well the ones surrounding 9/11 that lasted for a year or two. I guess that’s what happens during the ‘fog’ and we’re seeing it during the pandemic. I hope a lot of it is just noise but this one seems a little easier to read through. Either they were all caught with their pants down and the gaps in consistency and facts is just a result of their incompetence or there’s some bigger game at play pulling the purse strings. Either ‘know’ this virus is worse than we think and keeping it from the public or they’re just clueless morons. Or maybe a little of each? Who knows?
I lean we’re ruled over by a combo of science-technocratic, incompetent buffoons who are just copying each other (over) reacting and emoting, installing and declaring any kind of pseudo-science measures to cover their own sorry worthless asses.
I saw the video, but I have no idea what the facts are.
Well, I harken back to Ike’s military industrial complex warning.
There’s gotta be some truth to it.
Then again, it reminds me of Moore’s conspiracy films during the Bush/9/11 years.
I meant the video of her being arrested.
I haven’t looked, but if there was an arrest, there should be public records.
My bad. There is one. There’s a channel called Viva Frei who went over it yesterday. I believe Barnes Law too.
Local news had some more information about the arrest.
“Both are being held until a Monday morning arraignment hearing where a Common Pleas Court judge will set bond.
Calls to the Portage County Sheriff’s Office seeking information about the charges were not returned.”
So we’ll see on Monday I guess?
That reads like an op-ed.
Modern “journalism”. Remember when the editorial page was just one page inside the newspaper?
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=adYGUai7PNc
Maybe if we all tried to vote for who we thought was the biggest psycho, we wouldn’t get one.
Reverse psychology, works 20% of the time, all the time.
Im not falling for THAT again.
20% is better odds than we’re getting now.
https://mobile.twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1294938176369225730
That dude is a special kind of stupid.
Screaming “we’re going to kill you” at the cops doesn’t usually turn out well.
I hate everyone in that video, but especially whoever ok’d that ED209 like pre-recorded ‘You are in violation of…’
At least he made sure to intimidate them by whipping off his shirt first.
The dude is literally dripping with tear gas…
That’s gonna hurt in the morning!
Was it tear gas or pepper spray?
Fun fluoridation fact. When I was in college my internship was at the Grand Rapids water department which was the first in the world to try fluoridation. There wasn’t really much for me to do there but it did fulfill my internship requirement.
Roland confirmed as Illuminati
Shhhhh. You’re not supposed to tell.
like we didn’t see you at the last meeting.
That story has me crestfallen.
Brush it off.
^(^
(*)
Buck up straff, otherwise you won’t be smiling for your close-up.
Swissy’s narrow gaze is going to take aim at us.
Thank goodness I went to Colgate and could get a real internship.
It’s funny that corporate media is concern trolling about the GOP and QAnnon, but completely silent on apologizing to America over Russiagate. But plenty of articles on QAnnon and the GOP, but cricketts on the FBI lawyer pleading guilty to falsifying the evidence for a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign.
How many QAnon members are there?
Fifty-seven
Well they did have something about the “far right groups protesting illegally at Stone Mountain” yesterday and being opposed by “counter-protestors” from Black Lives Matter. “A few fights broke out.”
Why apologize for Russiagate? That shits real, bro. The bed pissing hookers are too, Tom Arnold’s just waiting for the right time to release the tape.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8630813/Demi-Rose-sets-pulses-racing-slips-revealing-blue-jewel-bikini-Ibiza.html
Nope. Ample assets and pert posterior.
The tater has an obsession with Demi.
I hear that face-sitting is a thing with some folks. Meh, to each their own. I judge not.
Mornin’, SP. Old Guy music brings back memories. I saw Evans at the Top of the Gate in the early seventies, a 45 minute set opening for Jan Hammer. Terrific stuff. Never could understand how Hammer got top billing at that gig.
There are only The Old Gods, and Sugarfree is their prophet.
Bad enough the Bee, but QAnon is lurking here two. [looks around suspiciously]
two/too dammit
Post office nonsense going strong. These people would be praising the wonderful customer service of the DMV if Orange man went after it.
Maybe the post office is saying that they can’t handle the flood of fake ballots they are going to get.
I forgot who it was yesterday who pointed out the obvious fact that the post office handles more than one item per voter every single day.
But rest assured, T-Swift has made sure you know her opinions on it.
Is there anyone more thirsty for acceptance from the left?
Sarwark?
She used to be quiet about that stuff. Somebody must have a vid of her harvesting cytochrome or something.
I got the impression her popularity was fading so she decided to bolster it by going political
Absolutely, when the teen idols reach their mid twenties they either need to shake up their brand or be content with fading into obscurity.
“#Chinese netizens throw support behind #TaylorSwift
as pop star takes on #DonaldTrump.”
https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1294887683702116353
#Kanye/T-Swift2020?
I can’t keep up.
Guess I’ll give whoever is running Joe’s account some credit for this.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1294978495383310336
I heard some rich Manhattan Jewish fellow was working with the Mossad and the CIA to set up high placed people with an underage honeypot. He even had an island in the Caribbean he owned and would fly down ex presidents on a private jet to partake. I know it sounds fucking crazy but that really needs to be looked into.
That’s too crazy. Go hang yourself.
I suppose he also ended up “commiting suicide” in prison after he was caught?
Louis, Duke of Burgundy: WOULD
What was Trump’s brother’s cause of death? I don’t want to read about it myself.
Qanon was airlifting mailboxes from building 7 when a gusty chemtrail blew one off and it landed on him.
“You don’t need to subscribe to Conspiracy TV or have an underground nuclear fallout shelter to see that our system has failed us this last year. Both the coronavirus and the riots have shattered our assumption that we are governed by a well-oiled, disaster-proof technocracy. In the face of that realisation, both Right and Left have begun dabbling with insurrectionary ideas.”
https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/08/aussie-life-8/
“well-oiled, disaster-proof technocracy”
Yeah right, what idiots believed that?
This facile take is not fair to either the genuine protestors nor the Americans sick and tired of the rioters destroying their livelihoods.
Do better.
“Absolutely one of the best things about her: Those close to Harris describe her as a “Truman Democrat,” a nod to her willingness to use American power to promote American values and interests.”
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1294060434853638150
CWAA
CommaLa has a warboner.
She’s a standard piece of shit neocon in foreign policy, that’s well known. If Biden wins…we’ll, I hope y’all like war.
Truman Democrat.
LOL.
You know who else took over the Presidency from an aging and infirm President?
Will Kamala toe the line?
I think she sucked as a prosecutor…
It’s finally stopped raining and it’s in the seventies out there. Time for a bike ride
Don’t forget the baseball cards on the spokes and bell.
“The usual suspects are being absolutely horrible about this”
Of course, they are:
“Left-wing psychopaths celebrate the death of President Trump’s brother with #WrongTrump”
https://thepostmillennial.com/left-wing-psychopaths-celebrate-the-death-of-president-trumps-brother
Twitter… still cancer.
Juiced
In the few days since Harris joined the ticket, Biden has seen surging fundraising, promising polls and the rare sight of a hometown crowd — despite not being able to hold a rally.
“I think she brings with her the energy of every Black woman in the country,” said former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, the first Black woman elected to the chamber, and only one besides Harris.
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“He’s a 70-something white male establishment figure and that is comforting to many moderate Democrats. Now, he has a ticket that looks like America and looks to the future,” she said. “It’s an invitation to younger and other occasional voters to get out and vote this time. Kamala Harris looks like change.”
While Harris has been an early boon to Biden, some are already focusing on how the benefits go the other way, too. Harris see-sawed on issues and stumbled in the primary before dropping out in December. Several people close to the campaign said after watching her last week that they now believe Harris, whose strong outings as a candidate last year were overshadowed by consistent miscues and a crowded field of challengers, will bring more to the table than they previously imagined. They also expect Biden’s infrastructure and apparatus, which has largely kept to a disciplined message and avoided embarrassing leaks, to keep her focused and encourage her full potential as a campaigner.
Harris’ selection followed months of intense work to burnish her reputation with the public and the Biden camp after her candidacy also exposed her shortcomings as a manager. With her eye on the vice presidency, Harris brought in new advisers and cut ties with aides who had clashed with each other — and also managed to enrage some on Biden’s team during their bruising primary. Once the interview process began, Harris closed ranks behind a small group of aides while consulting with others on a need-to-know basis.
It’ll be like a well oiled juggernaut. President Cartoon Villain doesn’t have a prayer.
I don’t think I’d find anything more demeaning to me as a voter than someone assuming that I would get out to vote because a candidate looks like me aka has the same skin color.
“”YOUTUBE just quietly announced they’ll REMOVE “videos that contain hacked information about a political candidate with the intent to interfere in an election”
Remember how Wikileaks changed the game in 2016? Yeah, that’s not allowed anymore.”
https://twitter.com/dailydigger19/status/1294025341015601153
https://mobile.twitter.com/StephenHerreid/status/1294682664214106112
Speaking of conspiracy theories…I haven’t seen any mention of this religious rally in WI in the news.
Nice to see some pushback. Good for them.
NYC IS DEAD FOREVER. HERE’S WHY
Someone’s a negative nancy!
Peaceful protesters. Nothing to fear.
Throw some bread at them.
Eternal vigilance is the price of football
“It’s an opportunity for us to continue to learn to educate ourselves because the reality is this isn’t the NBA, this is college football,” Riley said. “We can try to minimize this risk as much as we possibly want, but we’re never going to eliminate them 100 percent. We don’t have a bubble. And so we get that we’re all gonna have to continue to work to do a better job on all accounts. We’re still very confident in the plan that we’ve had.”
The Sooners have been practicing in masks throughout training camp, something Riley said they’ll continue to do. He said they’ve experimented with different types based on player feedback, and that if it were up to him, players would wear them in games.
“We haven’t received much guidance on … what’s going to be required [for games], but if given up to us, we’re going to have our faces covered, some way, somehow,” Riley said. “Because, again, the health of the student-athlete being priority No. 1 and there’s no replacement for having a mask or something that acts as a mask on at any point. So that’s why we’ve been stressing it both on the practice field and anywhere else.”
Riley stressed that continuing to follow health and safety protocols and being vigilant when not on campus are going to be key to whether college football can get through a season without interruptions.
Maybe you should give some consideration to looking more closely at the distinction between “positive test” and “sickness”.
They should wear masks in the game. It’ll be fun to watch some kid flame out during a punt return and have to be carted away in an ambulance.
Do NASCAR drivers now wear face masks while racing? Or only when they are outside their cars?
Extreme exertion + 85 deg F + 80% humidity + reduced oxygen & elevated CO2 = FUN, you science denier!
In news for Sloopy. The parents at OSU (and several other schools), have started questioning the decision to cancel the college football season in fall.
The season will end the moment one of ’em tests positive anyway. I don’t know why they’re bothering.
This Hudson Valley town has the fastest-rising real estate prices in the country
Like most Hudson Valley cities along the river, Kingston has a lot of potential. But lol NYC is so bad that Kingston is appealing!!
They’re also turning the place deep blue. 🙁
https://twitter.com/ForgeTheBore/status/1293257640097845250
That just doesn’t look safe.
People don’t respect nature enough.
Speaking of nature…
https://mobile.twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1294696098007855104
2020 is all sorts of strange.
Not mine but I shall share:
Biden/Kamala 2020: Cop A Feel!
Kamala Harris: “I’ve got the black vote locked up!”
The best I’ve seen was a picture of Biden & Harris with the line “When you have so much shit you need another asshole.”
If I had to see this:
https://twitter.com/jeremyoharris/status/1293526091097931777
Blech. ?
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, I’m a coincidence skeptic.
I’m stealing this.
Good morning, SP!
Gorgeous lynx again this morning!
Note: no place in that definition did it say it is a false explanation.
That is an important point. So many ‘conspiracies’ are simply the State doing the heinous shit that the State does! Like this:
The ‘vid conspiracies are interesting to me. People are ridiculing the lovely Marla for her vaccine comments, but she is actually correct.
Yeah, no way the State will abuse the shit out of that.
I hope you all have a conspiracy-free and wonderful day!
Cspan2 is running CommaLa propaganda right now.
Did you know she wrote a book? Me neither.
?
She has written at least three books. At least two for children though only one has pictures. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey. Not as inspiring as The Audacity of Hope. Or Dreams of My Father (who I met like once).
The special is based on the first book you listed.
“She” “wrote” it.
Right. Maybe her name is on a book cover, but SHE probably didn’t WRITE a word in it.
Whoa, SP. That is a masterpiece of WordPress formatting. I’m shocked and awed that you whipped it into behaving itself.
Seconded.
Give them an allowance
As the pandemic decimates the bank accounts of American families, some mayors across the country like Carter are proposing guaranteed income experiments, or universal basic income, as a simple, scalable and equitable solution for both families and local economies.
The March stimulus package, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, they say, showed that giving direct cash to people works. The $1,200 checks from the federal government that many Americans received, the Paycheck Protection Program — which helped employers make their payroll — and the $600 weekly unemployment assistance payments kept many people afloat.
But that assistance was limited and weekly checks expired at the end of July. In their absence, these mayors believe the need for universal income has become more urgent and could help address racial disparities that COVID-19 has exacerbated.
Led by Mayor Michael Tubbs of Stockton, California, a coalition of 16 city leaders from across the country announced Mayors for Guaranteed Income in June, an initiative meant to show the merits of a monthly check. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed on, as did Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto and others.
We all know they’re feckless children, incapable of providing for themselves.
This is the dumbest paragraph I’m going to read today, but only because I’m going offline.
My favorite poem.
I think it goes well with the lynx today.
Bernie! is on Meet the Press.
People will be putting their lives on the line if they have to vote in person!
The very existence of democracy is at stake!
If voting is so fucking important, why wouldn’t a good progressive risk their life?
Listen prole. They are made of a finer clay then you, and shan’t debase themselves by subjecting themselves to your preconceived notions of “fairness”.
Well, does masking and social distancing work, or not? Make up your fucking mind already.
You mean like protesting in person that they can’t vote in person?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/08/15/michigan-rejects-846-mail-in-ballots-from-dead-voters-n796410
Move along here citizen. Nothing to see.
To be fair, some or all of those were from people who mailed a ballot and then died.
This is a conspiracy post. I’m staying on topic.
I’m willing to accept a % of those are as you pointed out, but I’m hard pressed to believe it’s a majority.
*Adjusts tin foil hat*
Millions will die, if voting in person is required.
Again, if people are a plague on the planet, wouldn’t this please Gaia?
Joblessness. Despair. Poverty. It’s a horrorshow.
Why is that, Bern? Could it be because crypto-Stalinist politicians have intentionally plunged the country into a depression?
Reminded me of this Hee Haw classic
https://youtu.be/ZAAKPJEq1Ew
Currently at emergency vet with cat. She was a street urchin we took in 12(?) years ago. Her kidneys are failing. She is a mess and we’re about to euthanize her. It’s been a difficult night and a rough morning.
Ugh.
Really sorry, Chafed.
Awww, Chafed, I’m so sorry. But you and her had 12 great years together, and that will never change.
This is the worst thing about loving animals.
Sorry to hear that. You gave her a good life.
Much sympathy. If she’s suffering, it’s the kindest thing. And like ChipP said, you gave her a good life – much better and longer than she would have had on the streets.
much better and longer than she would have had on the streets.
This. Sorry for your loss.
Sorry 🙁
Sorry man, it hurts,
So sorry.
When I had to euthanize my dog last October, my vet said something that I found comforting — an end to suffering when suffering won’t end.
It’s the hardest right decision to make.
The animal hospital near me were so kind when I took one of mine there a few months ago. They even sent me a nice card signed by everyone. ?
I am so so sorry. It is difficult to euthanize animals, but IMO, it’s more cruel to keep pushing treatments that keep the animal in pain.
Thanks everyone.
I agree. one of our torties had a mastectomy three weeks ago (this is her a few days after surgery). Now the vet wants to do chemo. She is 11 years old, and from the literature I’ve been able to read, chemo will add 6 months to her life, in exchange for 4 months of difficult and stressful treatment. I think we’re going to decline.
Aw, sorry 🙁
Sorry Chafed. Hardest part of being a pet
ownerguardian. Twelve years is pretty amazing for adopting a stray.Sorry.
Sorry.
Very sorry to hear about your cat.
Sorry. That sucks a lot.
The saddest part of having a pet is knowing you’re probably going to outlive them.
If her kidneys are failing it’s the best thing you can do, which does not make it any less difficult. Sorry.
It must be exhausting to be as completely overwrought about every little thing as Bernie. I don’t know how he does it.
Today’s Cocktail Melon Patch Cocktail – pass. too girly
Trump wants a summit with Putin in the United States before the election. Chuck Todd said it. It must be true.
Myself I want a summit with Viki Odintcova on Bucharest
I remember when the American Left was in favor of talking to foreign adversaries, not bombing them.
Sting canceled?
Excellent linkage (and formatting), SP!
Although, I don’t believe in any sort of conspiracy theories. No sirree, by golly. Everything is fine, I’ll just drink a little later, and go to bed early so I can go to work tomorrow. I only wish to serve the collective. There is no deep state, or other evils among us. China is all good, and Fauci is brilliant and honest. Orange Man is Bad. I’ll just fill in my vote right now. Hillary for President!
Another point of view
The president told the New York Post earlier this week his campaign believes his home state is up for grabs, “So we’re going to try very hard to win New York and that will be the first time — is that since Ronald Reagan, I guess?”
Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican member of the state Assembly since 2013, agreed that it’s possible.
“I certainly think so,” she told “Fox and Friends Weekend.”
Malliotakis, who is running for Congress, believes Trump will have an “overwhelming” win in her Staten Island district, which he carried by 10 percentage points in 2016. The seat is currently held by Democrat Max Rose.
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“President Trump and I are certainly on the same page when it comes to restoring law and order back to the streets of our city,” said Malliotakis, who called that “a winning message.”
“We are excited about all of that and bringing fresh vision to this city and state because people are extremely upset with the rise in crime, the rise in taxes,” she said. “They are really disgusted by the fact that our congressman marched with the ‘defund the police’ crowd in front of our local precinct, and this is happening all over the state.”
Malliotakis added: “In fact, the people that complained the most are the ones that voted against the president in 2016, and I think they’re going to be reconsidering this November.”
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t keep the narrative from crumbling, when people start looking around at what’s really happening.
Honestly, I don’t see a Reagan landslide here.
Unless there are a lot of Democrats quietly pissed off at lockdowns and all the other bullshit, who correctly blame the culprits, I’d guess it’s gonna be close.
And NY a swing state? Really?
Me neither. All the people who would vote for Trump are leaving blue states.
another landslide!? The president who has never lied triumphs again? We live in amazing times.
We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College.
*ahem*
Oh, this day is auspicious for another anniversary – 22 years of marriage for Mrs JI and myself.
Mazel Tov! Obligatory.
Congrats!
Congratulations!!!!
unpossible. I seen on MGTOW youtube that women only marry men shot term to divorce them take their assets and fuck chads afterwards
Congratulations and many more!
Congratulations!
Kudos to the both of yez!
Uh-oh. Chuckie’s on the trail of Qanon. Trump is is fanning the flames of fringe conspiracies.
Why don’t people just believe what we want them to believe?
Goldberg had a good Remnant podcast on conspiracy theories last month.
https://twitter.com/WhyIsTheKaito/status/1294077017080631299
LOLOLOL
At least he doesn’t know where she lives.
Exercise in marital harmony – put a mask on for two seconds entering Starbucks, to avoid the wife getting upset at me not following retarded rules, then sat down right next to that side entrance door with no mask.
President Donald Trump on Saturday refused to definitively shoot down false claims that Kamala Harris is ineligible to serve as vice president, though he said he and his campaign will not pursue the baseless conspiracy theory.
I’ve seen this on a couple of facebook groups I’m on. The claim is she can’t have a Top Secret clearance because of her foreign born parents so therefore she can’t be Vice President or President. I tried explaining this to some folks that it doesn’t matter as she is a natural born citizen. The responses went on about how the Top Secret clearance is critical to being Vice President. Well, the Constitution is silent on clearances so that is irrelevant. Crickets.
The constitution doesn’t matter to
eitherany party. Sadly thems the facts.The claim I saw is that her parents were here on student visas or something.
But what gets me is they’re pretending he’s plugging the conspiracy when in fact he did no such thing. It’s C’ville all over again. And nobody will look at what he actually said.
It doesn’t matter what he SAID, only what he MEANT. The media can hear all the secret dog whistles of white supremacists, though they are in no way said white supremacists.
It’s the “anti-racism” school of logic. If you’re not “against” it, you’re “for” it.
Never seen that anywhere. Only thing that matters is citizenship – although family and connections are/should be scrutinized.
I knew a few people who had top secret clearance whose parents were not born in the US. They weren’t born in the US either. The purpose of a background check is to figure out where a person might be vulnerable to either coercion or bribery and whether they are truthful about any weaknesses.
Yeah that is crap. Know people who have TS/SCI with foreign born parents.
200 PA restaurants defy Gauleiter Wolf’s orders
After growing tired of watching elected officials demand they operate at a capacity that is unsustainable for food service locations, 200 restaurateurs in Pennsylvania are staging a revolt.
In an audacious plan, the restaurant owners intend to save their businesses by opening at a larger capacity, with some added safety measures.
KDKA-TV reported the so-called restaurant revolution began Friday with dozens of restaurants opening at more than 25 percent capacity in defiance of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s orders.
Good for them.
Antifa at Sturgis 2020.
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What a dumbass
I noticed a few mask refuseniks at the grocery store, yesterday. They were all probably older than 70. I have mine pretty much down on my chin. I’m about to start leaving it wadded up in my pocket, and see if anybody says anything.
The younguns are all LARPed up. There was one guy with a face shield. They all want their participation trophies.
I have to wear one for work, and I guess I’m supposed to enforce the rules on others, but I play Schultz on that.
Wow. Such cool formatting . Much linkage. Very mesmerizing.
Don’t look at it too hard or long! She’s hypmotizing us!
/conspiracy theory
In an audacious plan, the restaurant owners intend to save their businesses by opening at a larger capacity, with some added safety measures.
KDKA-TV reported the so-called restaurant revolution began Friday with dozens of restaurants opening at more than 25 percent capacity in defiance of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s orders.
It needs to happen everywhere.
All the people who would vote for Trump are leaving blue states.
There are a few Democrats who still believe in private ownership and peaceful streets.
“They must be purged! But still vote for our candidate!”
/DNC
Unfortunately, my fear is that all of these people fleeing cities are not Trump voters. Even progs realize that their cities are turning into shitholes, so what they will do is flee those metro areas and vote to turn every small town and village in the country into the shithole they fled from. Then when there’s nowhere left to escape to, they’ll go to Canada. We wish, sorry Canadians.
The claim is she can’t have a Top Secret clearance because of her foreign born parents so therefore she can’t be Vice President or President.
I’m pretty sure Werner von Braun had a Top Secret clearance, and he was on the opposing team, prior to his rehabilitation.
I think he brought the secrets with him.
+1 Operation Paper Clip
The legacy media is evil. That is the real conspiracy. Would a straight up press release from the DNC or the Biden campaign be much different than this AP story this morning about the new doctor on the Covid task force? I can’t believe it would. It goes on through the rest of the piece as well.
“President Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time there’s no daylight between them.
Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases.“
But does he have decades of experience pulling speculations out his ass or financial interests in prolonging the panic?
If bad orange man has gotten one thing only correct since he took the stage, it’s that the mainstream media are the enemy of the American people.
frequent guest on Fox News Channel
Obviously a quack.
I love how that is the first descritor given of him. From the same article:
“ Atlas, the sole doctor to share the stage at Trump’s pandemic briefings this past week, has long questioned polices that have been embraced by public health experts both in the U.S. and abroad. He has called it a “good thing” for younger, healthy people to be exposed to the virus, while falsely claiming children are at near “zero risk.”
Man, I want to see some media bankruptcies coming.
Since February 1st, more children have died of influenza than COVID. Nothing is zero risk, but if the flu is deadlier for the given demographic, what exactly do you call that?
Just like Donna Brazil, right?
Spoiler Alert
So I rewatched “Jason Bourne” this morning, and caught something I never caught before that actually takes a lot of the complexity out of the movie. Again, spoilers follow.
So the big reveal in this movie is that Bourne’s dad, who was Station Chief Beirut, was not actually killed by terrorists, but by his own colleagues in the CIA. So the big push that got Bourne to join Treadstone in the first place was actually the CIA all along. During the whole movie, Bourne is being chased by The Asset, a weathered badass agent who was compromised, captured, and tortured as a result of Bourne pulling the David Snowden data dump in the 3rd movie.
So we have the evil CIA Director hunting Bourne with his army of lapel miked CIA agents who think they’re doing the right thing, and we have The Asset who has a personal grudge against Bourne because Bourne burned him and got him tortured. Well, on this rewatch I caught that they had, in a flashback, shown that The Asset is the one who killed Bourne’s dad, thus making him a Bad Guy.
I think this is a dumb choice, I think it cheapens the murkiness and moral complexity of the movie. It’s a much better movie when The Asset is just a working CIA killer who got burned, captured, and torured as a result of Bourne blowing the whistle, not The Man Who Killed His Father. I don’t know who’s idea that was.
Yeah that movie wasn’t great. I prefer the 1st 3 movies and really liked how they all tied together. Then came the 4th, a bastardized version of a Bourne movie without Bourne in it, where they ruined the mythos completely imo. The coolest part of those movies is the fact that the agents were trained (read: broken) with psychological techniques. The 4th basically just threw that out the window with the idea that all the agents get a drug that makes them super smart and capable. The 5th tried to go back to its roots, but failed miserably due to what you stated above.