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2022-01-07 at 5:15 PM UTC in Grocery shopping for one person
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Basic cooking skills isn't having cooking skills.
Scrambled eggs doesn't qualify as cooking skills.
Eggs Benedict probably does though.
Having cooking skills means you can make delicious meals without the need to refer to a recipe. Any idiot can follow a recipe…not every idiot can make his own up…wait…
Here's Jiggly Booty's signature dish:
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2022-01-07 at 5:05 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-07 at 5:03 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-07 at 4:54 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's"He Who Shall Not Be Named"
That's how bad guys are referenced.
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2022-01-07 at 4:23 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!AIN'T NO FIXIN' STUPID
New York Daily News
Conspiracy theorist Doug Kuzma dies from COVID
Brian Niemietz
Apopular podcasting conspiracy theorist who opposed vaccines reportedly died after attending so-called superspreader conference attended by Alex Jones, Eric Trump and Michael Flynn.
Following 10 days of hospitalization, Doug Kuzma, 61, succumbed to COVID on Monday, according to Vice.
Kuzma posted Facebook photos from the Dec. 11 ReAwaken America rally in Dallas, where he and like-minded attendees appeared maskless and crowded together. He also posted a photo of himself maskless at an airport on his way home from the event.
Doug Kuzma died at 61.
Days later, the Virginia man said on Facebook that what he thought was his chronic bronchitis had taken a bad turn, but was “headed in the right direction.”
When it was suggested on social media that he get tested for COVID, Kuzma took a hard pass.
Another conservative anti-vaccine radio talk show host succumbs to COVID, third in a month
“You must have lost your mind, so they can kill me, and try and give me the jab,” Kuzma reportedly responded to one commenter. “I’ll die at the house before I go to the hospital.”
He was found unconscious at his home on Christmas Eve, then rushed to a hospital where he was said to have been put on a ventilator before dying days later.
One of Kuzma’s associates at FROG News — which stands for “Fully Rely on God” — said the podcast host’s final photo showed him with a “refill of ivermectin.” Despite the mainstream medical community’s insistence that ivermectin is an anti-parasitic medication that isn’t known to be effective against the coronavirus, many right-wingers believe otherwise.
Kuzma and his FROG News colleagues have reportedly spread medical misinformation throughout the pandemic, as well as maintaining that the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost by more than 7 million votes, was somehow rigged.
Some attendees who became ill at the event in Dallas theorized they had been attacked with a biological weapon. -
2022-01-07 at 4:17 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sCNN
Opinion: Biden just threw down the democracy gauntlet
Opinion by Frida Ghitis
President Joe Biden, marking the anniversary of the January 6 attack at the US Capitol, delivered the most powerful, blistering speech of his presidency thus far, signaling a stark shift in his approach to the nation's ongoing crisis of democracy.
Biden pummeled former President Donald Trump, mentioning him 16 times but without once using Trump's name -- and doing it in ways that surely infuriated the disgraced politician in Mar-a-Lago.
Biden noted in his remarks that the former president started spreading election lies long before the November 2020 election, preemptively looking for an excuse should he be defeated. "He's not just the former president," Biden declared, "He's a defeated former president; defeated by a margin of over 7 million of your votes."
The piercing jabs kept coming: "The former president of the United States has created and spread a web of lies ... He's done so because he values power over principle."
His words and delivery were quite a contrast from the Biden whose speeches, especially those dealing with democracy and the future of the nation, have tended to emphasize national unity and reconciliation. The shift reflected a recognition that the insurrection of January 6 is not simply a part of the past, but a looming threat into the future.
Speaking at the site of the assault by Trump supporters seeking to prevent the certification of the 2020 election, Biden seemed to largely leave behind his effort to soothe and heal the country. Instead, he wielded the bully pulpit to push forcefully against the efforts of the former president and his allies to distort the truth about the election or rewrite history to downplay or misrepresent what occurred last January 6.
It was the rhetorical equivalent of grabbing the country by the lapels and forcing us to look at the facts. Great nations, Biden said, "don't bury the truth. They face up to it."
The only way to heal, he told reporters after the speech, "is to recognize the extent of the wound."
The stage was set by Vice President Kamala Harris, who listed the resonant dates "when our democracy came under assault" -- December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021. With that, Harris placed the assault by Trumpist forces alongside the Pearl Harbor attack that brought the US into World War II, and 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in modern US history.
By adding January 6 to that list -- and with Biden making it clear that responsibility for those events rests with the former president -- the administration has thrown down the gauntlet. And Harris's framing reflects the reality that January 6 -- like other days that have gone on to "live in infamy" -- has now become a yearly marker and reminder of this wound on national collective memory.
Biden had campaigned and took office on a promise to bring Americans together after the tumultuous, divisive Trump presidency.
His speech in National Statuary Hall, the heart of the US Capitol, suggests he has come to the realization that a different strategy is needed. The effort to restore normalcy and end the threat to democracy has not been sufficient in the face of the relentless campaign by the former president and his allies to rewrite the history of the last election and set the stage for a more effective push to seize power -- for a successful coup -- if they lose at the ballot box next time.
Biden pointed implicitly at Trump and his GOP supporters as culpable for January 6 and its ongoing repercussions. "Those who stormed this Capitol and those who instigated and incited, and those who called on them to do so held a dagger at the throat of America, at American democracy."
Having laid out the gravity of the threat, Biden vowed in soaring words to take it on with all his might. "I did not seek this fight," he declared, "but I will not shrink from it."
"I will stand in this breach," he promised. "I will defend this nation, I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy."
This was a historic address, one that not only marks an important pivot point -- at least a rhetorical one -- for his presidency. Biden's appeal that Americans work to make January 6 "the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play," begs the question -- how is that going to happen?
The very personal allusions to Trump, coupled with Attorney General Merrick Garland's speech on Wednesday, when he said the Justice Department will hold "all January 6 perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law -- whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault," should make the former president very nervous.
Biden has taken the mantle of the warrior in the effort to lead the country out of the existential crisis he described. Now he has to show how exactly he plans to win that battle for the soul of America, the campaign to save American democracy from an ongoing menace.
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2022-01-07 at 6:48 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sBREAKING NEWS - - - TRUMP LOST ! ! !
Fact check: How we know the 2020 election results were legitimate, not 'rigged' as Donald Trump claims
Daniel Funke, USA TODAY
The claim: The 2020 presidential election was 'rigged'
As the nation marks a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump continued to promote a falsehood that he and his supporters have peddled for more than a year: that the 2020 election was rigged against him.
"Why is it that the Unselect Committee of totally partisan political hacks, whose judgment has long ago been made, (sic) not discussing the rigged Presidential Election of 2020?" the former president said in a Jan. 6 statement, which spokesperson Liz Harrington tweeted. "It's because they don't have the answers or justifications for what happened.
"They got away with something, and it is leading to our Country's destruction."
The statement, which has also been widely shared on Facebook, came after President Joe Biden delivered a speech in the Capitol's Statuary Hall in which he criticized Trump and his distortion of the 2020 election results. Biden said Trump and his supporters "held a dagger at the throat of America."
"You can’t love your country only when you win,” Biden said. “You can’t obey the law only when it’s convenient. You can’t be patriotic when you embrace and enable lies."
On Jan. 6, 2021, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, pushing through police barricades and smashing windows in an attempt to disrupt Congress' certification of the presidential election results. The events of that day led to five deaths, hundreds of arrests and Trump's second impeachment, as well as the creation of a bipartisan House select committee to investigate the attack. That committee's work is ongoing.
The violent insurrection was predicated on the misguided belief that widespread voter fraud swayed the election in Biden's favor. This was a baseless claim when Trump first made it in late 2020, and the year that passed since has only added to the evidence of the election's legitimacy.
Ample evidence fraud did not affect election outcome
In the immediate aftermath of Biden's win, election officials insisted the results were legitimate.
"The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its partners said in a November 2020 statement. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised."
Trump's own attorney general, William Barr, said in early December 2020 that the Justice Department had "not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election." Biden won the presidency with 306 electoral votes, which Congress certified in January 2021 after the Capitol riot.
At the time, some Republican lawmakers also pushed back on claims of widespread fraud.
"Nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election – nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt itself was incited without any evidence," Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate's top Republican said in his address to the chamber before it was evacuated during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Since then, a mountain of evidence – including lawsuits, recounts, forensic audits and even partisan reviews – has affirmed those results.
Dozens of lawsuits by Trump and his allies aimed at overturning the election, some of which inspired misinformation about results in contested states like Nevada, failed. The Supreme Court refused to take up several cases challenging results in battleground states that played a key role in the outcome of the election.
In those battleground states, numerous audits and recounts have affirmed Biden's win:
In Arizona, a six-month audit of election results in Maricopa County, home of Phoenix, confirmed the state's election results. The audit was conducted by Cyber Ninjas, a firm hired by the Republican-dominated state Senate and whose founder had previously promoted unfounded claims of voter fraud. Multiple hand recounts, as well as a forensic audit of voting machines, have also confirmed Maricopa County's results.
In Georgia, three separate audits found no evidence of wrongdoing affecting the state's election outcome. Georgia's Republican secretary of state has repeatedly quashed claims of widespread voter fraud.
In Michigan, an audit of ballots, voting machines and election procedures affirmed Biden's win. The bipartisan effort was the most comprehensive post-election audit in the state's history.
In Pennsylvania, a statewide risk-limiting audit found "strong evidence of the accuracy of the count of votes cast in the November 2020 presidential election. " The audit examined ballots in 63 out of 67 counties.
In Wisconsin, a recount in the state's two largest counties found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. An audit of voting machines by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau, commissioned by Republican lawmakers, and an investigation by a conservative law firm also upheld the election results.
Fact check: What's true about the 2020 election, vote counting, Electoral College
Many claims of fraud stemmed from a misunderstanding of how vote counting and reporting processes work in different states.
In Wisconsin, for example, some claimed late-night vote dumps for Biden were proof of fraud. That's wrong – the state can't count absentee ballots until Election Day, so tallies for the largest counties can take all day to complete, or even into the night. On election night, that resulted in a late addition of absentee votes, which trended heavily Democratic in 2020.
Similar narratives targeted other contested states.
In Michigan, an election-night typo resulted in the addition of more than 100,000 votes to Biden's tally. Although the clerical error was quickly corrected, some falsely claimed it was evidence of voter fraud. In Georgia, footage of poll workers placing ballots in their proper storage containers was also misconstrued as evidence of fraud. -
2022-01-07 at 6:28 AM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Vaccinated Americans without risk factors immune to worst of virus, CDC study shows: Live COVID updates
Jorge L. Ortiz, John Bacon and Claire Thornton, USA TODAY
The skyrocketing number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and the increased frequency of breakthrough infections may be unsettling even for those who are vaccinated and boosted.
The latest research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should offer some reassurance.
A study of more than 1.2 million people who were fully vaccinated between December 2020 and October 2021 found only people with at least one risk factor had severe outcomes or death, and even among those the instances were rare, 1.5 per 10,000 participants.
Besides death (0.0033% of cases), severe outcomes included hospitalization with acute respiratory failure, need for ventilation or ICU admission. All 36 participants who died had four or more risk factors, such as being 65 and older, immunosuppression and other underlying conditions.
The results underscore the notion supported by experts that healthy, vaccinated people under 65 have extremely high protection from COVID's worst effects.
The study was conducted before the discovery of the highly transmissible omicron variant in November, but also before the widespread administration of booster shots. Although omicron has proven more transmissible than previous strains of the coronavirus, it also appears to cause less harmful disease.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that in the last six months the U.S. has reduced the number of adults who haven't received a single vaccine shot from 90 million to 35 million. Of course, that still leaves a significant chunk of the population exposed to COVID's harshest impacts, despite the country's abundance of vaccines.
"There's no excuse, no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated,'' Biden said. "This continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated.'' -
2022-01-07 at 6:23 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sA ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO TRUTH...FROM THE REPUBLICANS.
Rolling Stone
A Guide to the Right’s Unhinged Conspiracy Theories about Jan. 6
Ryan Bort
A Guide to the Right’s Unhinged Conspiracy Theories about Jan. 6
The surface-level facts of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 are not very complicated. Trump hosted a well-attended rally in Washington, D.C. to stoke anger over Congress certifying the results of the previous November’s election. After weeks of telling his supporters that the election had been stolen, he gave a speech near the White House where he told his supporters to “fight like hell” and said he expected them to head to the Capitol. Some of them did, and some of them were already there, and together the two groups coalesced into a mob that broke into the building, resulting in five deaths and dozens of injuries.
In realty, this is all indisputable, but the American right-wing has been, at best, distantly orbiting reality for a while now, and over the past year conservative media, politicians, and everyday Americans have methodically constructed an alternate history of what happened on Jan. 6, one in which a deadly attempt to overthrow American democracy either wasn’t that big of a deal, or it was a big deal but it was perpetrated by a combination of left-wing activists, federal law enforcement, and Democratic politicians — anyone but Trump and his supporters, really.
These alternative facts, to borrow a phrase from the early days of the Trump administration, are immutable in the eyes of their adherents. The lack of evidence supporting them is entirely irrelevant. In a way, it’s the whole point, allowing believers to transmute “what happened” as they see fit, tailoring it to elude any inconvenient actual facts that may arise. As long as they keep their claims vague and difficult to disprove unequivocally — can we ever be totally sure absolutely nothing untoward took place during the 2020 election? — they’re as good as gospel.
“Conspiracy theories are powerful because they introduce premises that prevent evidence-based falsification,” Dolores Albarracín, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist who studies conspiracy theories, tells Rolling Stone. “For a realistic style of thinking, if there is no evidence for a belief, the lack of evidence invalidates the belief. Conspiracy theories undermine this logic and make it so that lack of evidence or evidence to the contrary proves the belief.”
It’s a fancy way of saying that conspiracy theories about Jan. 6 are here to stay. Below is a breakdown of how right-wing media and conservative politicians planted some of the most pernicious among them in the minds of millions.
Antifa was to blame
The pictures, video, and testimony from defendants arrested for breaking into the Capitol don’t lie: The mob was made up almost entirely of Trump supporters. The idea that members of antifa infiltrated the crowd to start causing mayhem was pushed early on by a right-wing media apparatus desperate to deflect blame from the president and his supporters.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham did it on the day of the riot. Ingraham tweeted that Trump should call off the rioters, but also suggested that “antifa supporters” may have been responsible for the violence. Brian Kilmeade of Fox & Friends a day later expressed disbelief that Trump supporters were behind the violence. “I do not know Trump supporters that have ever demonstrated violence that I know of in a big situation,” he said, tempering his acknowledgement that Trump supporters were involved.
The House committee investigating the attack revealed in December that both Ingraham and Kilmeade on Jan. 6 texted Chief of Staff Mark Meadows urging him to get the president to call off the violence. The text, along with a similar pleas from Sean Hannity, imply that Trump would have been able to influence the violent mob.
Republican politicians pushed the unfounded claim, too. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) took to the House floor on the morning of Jan. 7 to claim that some of the people who breached the Capitol “were members of the violent terrorist group antifa.” He cited a since debunked and corrected Washington Times article, noting that he didn’t know “if the reports are true.” He made the claim anyway, as did Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), who tweeted on Jan. 6 that the riot “has all the hallmarks of Antifa provocation.” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) told Lou Dobbs that “there is some indication that fascist antifa elements were involved, that they embedded themselves in the Trump protests.” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) later said that “fake Trump protesters” were responsible for the violence.
The list goes on, and despite a total lack of evidence, the belief that left-wing agitators were responsible for the attack became orthodoxy among Trump supporters, and a go-to defense for anyone trying to defend Trump or Republicans in the wake of the insurrection.
The insurrection was peaceful
It’s hard to parse how a siege that left five dead and dozens upon dozens of law enforcement officers injured could be framed as a peaceful protest, but it was.
It started immediately, too. Fox News anchors were tripping over themselves to describe the in-progress riot as peaceful. “It’s not like it’s a siege, it doesn’t seem. It seems like they are protesting,” said Bret Baier, one of the network’s relatively respectable news anchors. Another one, Martha MacCallum, said the riot “remains peaceful,” adding that it was a “huge victory” for the protesters. Griff Jenkins, who was on the scene, echoed this sentiment. “It has been peaceful, everything we have seen so far has been nothing but peaceful, but they are definitely fired up,” he said. “The chants I heard the most today was, ‘Fight for Trump.’ That is what many feel they are doing here, protesting, we will see where the day goes.” Mike Tobin, Fox News’ on-the-ground protest correspondent, even said that “aside from the things that were broken getting into the Capitol … they say there is no vandalism.”
These comments may have been made before the full extent of the violence was understood, but the fact that this initial softening of what actually happened was being done by Fox News’ news side in addition to its propaganda-spewing primetime anchors was crucial in laying the groundwork for conspiracies to take hold, as Angelo Carusone, CEO of the media watchdog group Media Matters, explained to Rolling Stone.
“The idea that people like Brett Baier were starting to question this or downplay it was, to me, the real fulcrum point,” he says. “They softened the ground early on, and I really think that that part is very significant. It’s not that I think that the right-wing fever swamps in the rest of the right-wing media would not have done what they did. They certainly would have. But that audience is always going to be lost. It’s the second, third, and fourth rings within the conservative circles that really define where the lines and the boundaries are in Republican politics and then in the larger conversation.”
The idea that the mob was made up people who were simply protesting persisted throughout right-wing media and among Republicans in Congress. The most shameless promoter of the idea that the riot was no big deal may have been Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), who said in May that while some were violent, many walked through the Capitol “in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures.” He then likened the deadly siege that left the Capitol ransacked to “a normal tourist visit.”
Photos from inside the Capitol show a panic-stricken Clyde helping barricade the doors of the House chamber and taking cover behind an officer with a gun drawn and aimed at the barricaded door as rioters tried to muscle their way inside.
The riot was a false flag orchestrated by the FBI
Sure, antifa infiltrated the crowd of peaceful Trump supporters and started wreaking havoc, but did you also know that the entire siege was a false flag operation orchestrated by the FBI? It took a little longer for right-wing media to come around to the idea that the whole thing was a Deep State conspiracy, but that’s where it is now.
The most notable pusher of the FBI theory has been Tucker Carlson, who in November released a documentary on Fox Nation teasing that the riot was a “false flag” and a “plot against the people.” The documentary features Darren Beattie, a former Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after he appeared on a panel with a white nationalist. PolitiFact credits Beattie with originating the false flag idea, citing a purely speculative article published in June by his Revolver News website. Carlson seized on the idea two days later, and even invited Beattie onto his show to push it on multiple occasions, according to The Washington Post.
The mainstreaming of the idea that the FBI orchestrated the riot epitomized how quick conspiracy theories could bubble up from the fringes and find their place in national conservative media. “There was this cauldron in the fever swamps churning out plausible alternatives,” say Carusone. “It was antifa. This was a setup. This was the FBI. This was a false flag. You beat that drum that enough and you get from the fever swamps to Steve Bannon’s program to then Tucker Carlson and Fox News’ documentary about Jan. 6. There’s a straight line between the primary and principle promoter of that conspiracy theory about the about the FBI and the infiltration, and Tucker’s documentary.”
Conspiracy theorists in Congress like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz quickly followed Carlson in pushing the false flag theory, which then spread like wildfire through right-wing circles in the ensuing months. It made its way to Trump himself in December, when he co-signed the idea during an appearance on Candace Owens’ podcast. “Right, it seems like that,” Trump said after Owens posited that FBI informants urged people to storm the Capitol. “And you have BLM and you had antifa people. I have very little doubt about that and they were antagonizing and they were agitating.”
Trump didn’t incite anything
The most important part of all of this, and every other bad thing that happens in this country as a result of the former president, is that Trump bears no responsibility. In reality, Trump was the tip of the spear of disinformation about the election results and spent the months preceding the riot riling up anger in his supporters. He promoted Jan. 6 in December and told supporters: “Be there, will be wild!” Once they’d arrived, Trump told supporters at the rally to “fight like hell” to reclaim the country, concluding his speech by saying he expected attendees to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. “We’re going to the Capitol,” he said. “We’re going to try to give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try to give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
Trump’s rhetoric is indisputable. So is its impact. Many of the defendants on trial for their role in the riots have pointed their finger at Trump. “Trump called us,” rioter Danny Rodrigues told investigators in March. “Trump called us to D.C. If he’s the commander in chief and the leader of our country, then he’s calling for help. I thought he was calling for help. I thought we were doing the right thing.”
So too have the Capitol Police officers who have sued Trump for physical and emotional damages, the latest lawsuits coming on Tuesday. So too has Sandra Garza, the partner of Brian Sicknick, the officer who died after engaging rioters during the attack. Garza says both she and Sicknick supporter Trump before the attack. No longer. “I hold Donald Trump 100 percent responsible for what happened on Jan. 6,” she told PBS this week. “I think he needs to be in prison.”
The texts Ingraham, Hannity, and Kilmeade sent to Meadows on Jan. 6 suggest they believed Trump had something to do with it, too, and at the very least that the rioters were beholden to him. It would be sacrilege, however, for any of them, or anyone else on Fox News or another outlet down the right-wing media food chain, to broadcast that Trump was culpable. He sat and watched the riot unfold on television, something the Jan. 6 committee says it has first-hand evidence of, hearing pleas to intervene from Don Jr. and Ivanka and whomever else, and doing nothing.
It wasn’t his fault, though. It was the Democrats.
“The American people deserve to know the truth that Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility as Speaker of the House for the tragedy that occurred on Jan. 6,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said in July. “Rather than providing [the Capitol Police] with the support and resources they needed and they deserved, she prioritized her partisan, political optics over their safety,” the number-three Republican in the House added of the House speaker. The number-one Republican in the House agreed. “If there is a responsibility for this Capitol, on this side, it rests with the Speaker,” said Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
The 2020 election was stolen
The biggest lie of them all, the whopper that fueled the plan to overturn the election results, that brought Trump and thousands of his supporters to the Ellipse as Congress certified those results, and that inspired many of those supporters to then storm the Capitol in an unprecedented effort to subvert democratic process, is that the election the incumbent president lost by 74 Electoral College votes, over seven millions actual votes, and over four percentage points was somehow stolen. There is not evidence that anything resembling significant fraud occurred, despite audits, lawsuits, and the desperate efforts of Trump and his cronies to uncover something — anything — to suggest the vote was rigged.
The problem is that millions of Americans simply don’t care about the absence of evidence. They wanted Trump to win, Trump is telling them he did win, Republicans who know better aren’t correcting him, and so they’ve joined the Stop the Steal party. They’ve bought all the merchandise, they’ve memorized the talking points beaten into the discourse by everyone from Trump to right-wing YouTube hosts, and they’re calling for an authoritarian takeover of the United States to avenge a Democratic coup that never happened.
The party has grown bigger than most could have imagined, and by proxy has absorbed mainstream conservatives. An ABC/Ipsos poll released this week found that a whopping 71 percent of Republicans believe Trump was the rightful winner of the election. Another from the University of Massachusetts found 71 percent of Republicans believe Biden’s election was illegitimate. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll put the number at 58 percent, but it’s hardly encouraging that a simple rather than overwhelming majority of one of the nation’s two major parties has bought into what might be the most outlandish, pernicious conspiracy theory in American history. Unfortunately, such is the state of things in the United States in 2022.
It wasn’t always like this, though. Carusone, who has been tracking right-wing media misinformation for years, remembers how back in 2009 the only real examples of right-wing media pushing reckless conspiracy theories were Glenn Beck talking about FEMA death camps and Obama hacking into GM’s OnStar system. “It was such a big deal when it happened that I remember it a decade later,” he says. “But it’s happening multiple times a day now. The audience has more kinetic energy and they’re scraping increasingly what used to be the fringes to keep that cauldron swirling.” -
2022-01-06 at 11:52 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sYou must have missed that whole "Ted Cruz Describes Jan. 6 as a ‘Violent Terrorist Attack’" thingy.
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2022-01-06 at 11:48 PM UTC in Mask NazisYes, I am.
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2022-01-06 at 11:44 PM UTC in Mask Nazis
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You filthy, disgusting creatures have discarded your disease-ridden masks into streets, bushes, parking lots, parks, rivers, lakes and oceans. Hundreds of millions of tons of disease-infested masks choking off the wildlife and spreading Covid. You say you're alll about health, but the truth is actually quite the opposite. You're ilk are really nothing but empty virtue signalers, fakes, frauds, and a clear threat and menace to public health.
I only use reusable masks.
Try again, whackadoodle. -
2022-01-06 at 11:11 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
Originally posted by stl1 Well, isn't that just some "alternate reality" news!
CBSN Live
At least 17 police officers remain out of work with injuries from the Capitol attack
BY MICHAEL KAPLAN, CASSIDY MCDONALD
UPDATED ON: JUNE 4, 2021 / 7:04 PM / CBS NEWS
Nearly five months after the January 6 Capitol riot, at least 17 police officers remain out of work due to injuries sustained during the attack.
At least 10 Capitol Police officers were out with injuries as of Thursday, according to a source on Capitol Hill and at the police union, while as of Friday, seven members of the D.C. Metropolitan Police force remained in a "less than full duty status" due to the events of the riot, a police spokesperson said.
In total, more than 150 officers were injured in the attack: 86 Capitol Police officers reported injuries, the sources said, along with 65 members of the Metropolitan Police Department, Chief Robert Contee testified in January. Contee also said that even more D.C. police officers sustained injuries they "did not even bother to report," including scratches, bruises and eyes burned from chemical spray.
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Did Ted Cruz Describe Jan. 6 as a ‘Violent Terrorist Attack’?
Right-wing commentators, many of whom have played down the breach of the U.S. Capitol, turned against Cruz en masse in January 2022.
Dan MacGuill
Published 6 January 2022
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In January 2022, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz described the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol as "a violent terrorist attack."
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In January 2022, conservative commentators and social media users responded angrily to remarks made by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson led the charge in his Jan. 5, 2022, show, referring to Cruz as a “supposedly conservative” senator, and saying he had been “repeating the talking points that [Attorney General] Merrick Garland has written for [him].”
Carlson then played a short clip in which Cruz can be heard describing the events of Jan. 6 as “a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol.” Carlson responded:
He [Cruz] described January 6th as a “violent terrorist attack.” Of all the things that January 6th was, it was definitely not a violent terrorist attack. It wasn’t an insurrection. Was it a riot? Sure. It was not a violent terrorist attack. Sorry! So why are you telling us that it was, Ted Cruz? And why are none of your Republican friends, who are supposed to be representing us, and all the people who’ve been arrested during this purge, saying anything? What the hell’s going on here? You’re making us think maybe the Republican party is as worthless as we suspect it was. That can’t be true. Reassure us please, Ted Cruz.
Cruz’s apparent description of the attack manifestly hit a nerve with many right-leaning commentators, many of whom have, over the past 12 months, sought to downplay the seriousness and significance of the events of Jan. 6, and the involvement or complicity of key right-wing political figures including Trump himself.
Right-leaning observers, including former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, railed against Cruz, who is likely to contest the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, and shared similar clips of the senator’s remarks.
Caution is always warranted when assessing short video clips taken from a broader context and a longer set of remarks. However, in this case those short clips did not misrepresent the meaning or sense of what Cruz said, even though they were cut from longer footage.
During a Senate committee hearing, Cruz did indeed describe the events of Jan. 6, 2021, as “a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol.” He did not subsequently contradict himself, and he was not speaking ironically, or using the voice of another person, and so on. The clips fairly represented his stated position on the Jan. 6 attack, so we are issuing a rating of “Correct Attribution.”
The senator was speaking on the morning of Jan. 5, 2022, during the questioning of U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger, by members of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, in the Russell Senate Building in Washington, D.C.
That hearing can be viewed in full here, but the relevant section of Cruz’s remarks can be watched further below, and they are transcribed as follows:
Cruz: Chief, welcome.
Manger: Morning.
Cruz: Thank you for your service. And I want to start by thanking the heroic service of the men and women who serve alongside you. We are approaching a solemn anniversary this week, and it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol, where we saw the men and women of law enforcement demonstrate incredible encourage, incredible bravery, risk their lives to defend the men and women who serve in this Capitol. We are grateful for that courage. We appreciate the selfless sacrifice of the men and women who keep us safe. And I will say, my view is that anyone who commits an act of violence should be prosecuted. And anyone who assaults a law enforcement officer should go to jail for a very long time. And I think that’s a principle that’s true regardless of the politics of the violent criminal — whether they are right-wing, left-wing or they’ve got no wings at all. If you assault a cop, you ought to go to jail for a long, long time. And I hope we get some agreement that that should be true regardless of the political context that ostensibly and purportedly justifies that violence — that we will stand with the men and women in blue. So I thank you for your service, I thank the men and women who serve with you, for their service. [Emphasis is added].
Manger: Thank you…
Snopes carefully watched Cruz’s contributions to the committee hearing, in full, and found nothing to contradict, mitigate against, or re-contextualize his description of a “violent terrorist attack on the Capitol.”
As of Jan. 6, 2022, he had not resiled from that description. Furthermore, Cruz had already described the breach of the Capitol as a “terrorist attack” on at least two earlier occasions: in a May 2021 news release; and in a news release on Feb. 13, 2021, just weeks after the breach itself, which he then called “a despicable terrorist attack on the United States Capitol.” -
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At least 17 police officers remain out of work with injuries from the Capitol attack
BY MICHAEL KAPLAN, CASSIDY MCDONALD
UPDATED ON: JUNE 4, 2021 / 7:04 PM / CBS NEWS
Nearly five months after the January 6 Capitol riot, at least 17 police officers remain out of work due to injuries sustained during the attack.
At least 10 Capitol Police officers were out with injuries as of Thursday, according to a source on Capitol Hill and at the police union, while as of Friday, seven members of the D.C. Metropolitan Police force remained in a "less than full duty status" due to the events of the riot, a police spokesperson said.
In total, more than 150 officers were injured in the attack: 86 Capitol Police officers reported injuries, the sources said, along with 65 members of the Metropolitan Police Department, Chief Robert Contee testified in January. Contee also said that even more D.C. police officers sustained injuries they "did not even bother to report," including scratches, bruises and eyes burned from chemical spray.
