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A lot of people on the right think it was Pelosi who refused extra security and allowed it to happen, just to make Trump look bad.

First, she had no authority to do that.

Second, that mob explicitly said it wanted to kill her. Is making Trump look bad so important to her that she'd risk her life?

 

Jordan Klepper went to a recent Trump rally in Des Moines and one guy he interviewed said he definitively believed Trump is still actually President, running a shadow administration and he’s still in charge of the military etc. Klepper said, “Oh, so we should blame Trump for the Afghanistan withdrawal?” The guy says no, that was Biden’s fault. These people aren’t living in reality.

 

Disgraced__becomes MAGA is the current zeitgeist

Disgraced former governor is recast as MAGA warrior in Senate bid

 

Greitens. Gee, how could I have possibly guessed?

 

I was caught in a mini-rabbit hole and came upon this:

The Real Origins of the Religious Right

It's been mentioned here how before it used abortion as its hobby horse, the religious right was more concerned with the dark-skinned folk getting a little more equality. I still can't fathom the expanse of the "private" all-white schools that popped up in the south.

 

My mother was heavy into the pro-life movement in the few years (early 70s) leading up to and beyond Roe vs. Wade, and in the process our whole family attended a couple of national conventions.

As a fairly literate teenager who could talk, with a pretty good understanding of history and politics, I was the kind of kid they tried to cultivate as one of their youth leaders.

At the same time the Catholic school
I was going to was pretty heavy into social justice and all that stuff -- hunger drives, interfaith meetings, clothing drives, anti racism marches, etc etc. Remember this was like 5-6 years after Vatican II and social activism was quite a thing at the time.

Well anyway at the pro-life national meetings, when they started these organizing meetings for the youth groups, real super quick they veered away from talking about abortion (which I agreed with them about 55 percent) to talking about ways to keep "dirty people" out of your school districts, and jokes about people who had to go with sp**s and n****rs.

After about a day of this shit I said screw it and went to hang out at the swimming pool.

One of the big action projects they decided on for the national pro-life teens was an organized saturation/harassment call-in campaign to album rock radio stations to request/demand airplay for Seals & Crofts' "Unborn Child" LP and turn it into a nationwide hit. Somehow that didn't quite work out.

Most of the heavy hitters in this bunch were Shiite Billy Bob Babtists who couldn't overcome their lifetime of virulent KKK anti-Catholicism to convince the Catholics in the group they mainly wanted to co-opt the Catholics' anti abortion stance for their overall arch conservative right wing screeching.

A couple years later they screwed my mother out of $50,000* she had in reserve after her dad died 20 years earlier. That's what those fuckers were really all about.

That essentially knocked our family down from comfortable middle-class tiptoeing upward, down to lower-middle-class hanging on by dad's fingernails.


* equal to about $400, 000 today.

 

What's funny about that is that Jim Seals and Dash Crofts were both followers of the Baha'i faith.

 

Welcome to the party, pal.

Founder of ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Finally Realizes Ex-President Is a Massive Grifter

 

They’re not but the media sure likes amplifying their voices.

 

You know who Jordan Klepper is, I presume?

 

Orwell was prescient in a lot of ways:
Government surveillance
Cult of personality
Rewriting of history