I stayed up yesterday for the better part of the night, checking on Updates about the Georgia Senate elections and then the Congressional confirmation of the Presidential Votes at the Capitol. What transpired, and the aftermath of this on the following day, no fiction could have been more bizarre, or, as the colloquial saying goes: you can't make this shit up!
Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021.
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton photo REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chaos in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday unfolded after President Donald Trump spent weeks whipping up his supporters with false allegations of fraud in the Nov. 3 election, culminating in a call to march to the building that represents U.S. democracy. ....... MORE
By now dear reader, unless you were living on the moon, you know all about this, and above I cite just one article from Reuters (also linking to related articles in the text). Scrolling through Twitter posts on the subject I found posts and comments that were beyond bizarre. On one comment I followed links and did some research, which led me to pose this question:
Check this out, step by step:
as Dean of the Robertson School of Government
Former US Rep. Michele Bachmann in the new dean of Regent University's Robertson School of Government.
(AP Photo/Andy Dunaway)
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – Regent University and its Board of Trustees have named U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann as the new dean of the Robertson School of Government, effective January 1, 2021. Dr. M. G. "Pat" Robertson, Founder, Chancellor & CEO of Regent University, made the announcement Tuesday. ..... MORE
... and then look at this:
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann delivered an unhinged rant in which she claimed the left stole the elections in Georgia and stormed the U.S. Capitol as part of a "coup" to take over America.
The video in the tweet above is a excerpt, check out the whole rant on vimeo:
which brings me to my initial question: why is she not in a straitjacket in a rubber room?
After all this, I open my email, and find a message from Avaaz (I am a subscriber) - which directed me to this page:
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Interesting days ahead until January 20th 2021 - the Inauguration. What happens until then, what will happen after? The moniker "The Excited United States" I used in my title of this blog was coined a long time ago by the Canadian journalist Allan Fotheringham (who passed away in August 2020); I would have liked to see what he would have had to say to all this, had he lived.
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Madness!!!
I am so ready to be done with all of these bozos. Make America Intelligent Again.
@nuthman That would be a challenging job, Rick! But with less than 2 weeks to go, Betsy DeVos resigned: Good Riddance- but for Millions it is way too late, they are brainwashed for life!
I could have expanded this indefinitely - but maybe this video by Jimmy Kimmel sums it up well - particularly toward the end at around 7:55
further Update:
More to add from my nutcase file:
Hopefully better prepared to ward off these nutcases on inauguration day - here is that Parler post on the web archive, you can even open the comment section. Directly on Parler you got no access to that account:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210107195739/https://parler.com/post/d9bf07a6e56b4b0aa2283b870690b672
... and if that is not enough:
Friends —
The terrorist attack is NOT over.
Thousands from Wednesday’s terrorist mob assault on the Capitol have not been arrested and have NOT LEFT the DC area. ... MORE