Author: clearandpresentdanger

The thing about an ideology that becomes wildly delusional is that there’s really no limit to the craziness once the ball gets rolling. If you’re saying insane stuff that is contrary to all evidence, then, what the hell!!!  Why not say even more insane stuff that is simply fantasy?

This process is called cumulative radicalization and it is a characteristic of extreme political movements that seize or are on the edge of seizing state power.

Daniel Dale

@ddale8

The GOP nominee for Nevada elections chief is now pushing a preposterous claim that Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer and Nadler, who all represent staunchly Democratic communities and won their last races by 43 points or more, were not legitimately elected:

Marchant, who has a solid chance to win, has gone from saying the 2020 election was rigged to saying all Nevada victors for 15 years have been installed by a “deep state cabal” to now pushing an ad saying D incumbents in CA and NY didn’t actually win races they won by 50 points.

3:34 PM · Oct 23, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

A photograph shared on the verified campaign Twitter account of Los Angeles mayoral candidate Karen Bass shows a group of demonstrators with banners showing support for rapper Kanye West’s recent antisemitic remarks on a Los Angeles freeway overpass Saturday. CNN has blurred a portion of the image that included a reference to a website with antisemitic content.

Read the full article here, courtesy of CNN.

The far-right “ReAwaken America” gathering in Manheim, Pennsylvania, this weekend wasn’t your typical pro-Trump rally.

It was a whole different level of crazy.

The QAnon-peppered programming frequently flew off the rails Saturday, as speakers took severe issue with everything from McDonald’s being part of the “deep state” to “demonic satellites” controlling the voting system in the United States.

The day’s activities kicked off with a prayer asking for Trump’s eyes to be opened so he could be shown when to “implement divine intervention.”

“You will surround him, Father, with none of this deep-state trash, none of this RINO trash,” the speaker—who led the prayer—yelled as attendees thrust their hands into the air.

In Mannheim PA for the next couple of days is a “Great Awakening” spectacle.

Go to this link, watch the videos, read the descriptions.

These people are howling at the moon, biting tires, chasing their own tails crazy.  These people redefine “batshit crazy.”  And remember:  They vote.

Trump will not run for President in 2024, even if he lives that long.  And, no, Marjorie Taylor-Greene will not be his running mate because he will not run.

Trump is finished.

Trump’s “Truth Social” stock worthless; investors wiped out.

According to Forbes, Monday’s announcement that pro-Trump rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye, is acquiring the right-wing social media platform Parler sent the share price tumbling for the “blank check” company in charge of former President Donald Trump’s own Twitter alternative.

“Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC), the special purpose acquisition company with turbulent plans to merge with Truth Social’s parent Trump Media and Technology Group, fell 8% to $16.11 Monday as a new brash billionaire threw his hat into the conservative social media ring,” reported Derek Saul. “West, who was booted from Instagram and Twitter last week after a rash of antisemitic comments, confirmed to Bloomberg his decision to buy Parler directly followed the bans, saying he ‘knew it was time to acquire my own platform’ and ‘enough was enough.'”

“West was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2016 and has made numerous incendiary comments on social media in recent months,” noted the report. “The 45-year-old threatened his estranged wife Kim Kardashian’s then-boyfriend Pete Davidson, and made several comments this month threatening violence toward Jews and reinforcing the stereotype of Jews holding a disproportionate amount of power.”

West, who also befriended Trump in recent years and mounted an ill-fated third party run for president in 2020, stirred up outrage even from Trump’s own allies with a tweet last week claiming he would go “death con 3” on Jewish people. Trump himself has privately said he worries West’s behavior is too “crazy” and he should seek help.

“DWAC shares are down about 70% this year and previously slid as investors digested what Elon Musk’s pending Twitter takeover would mean for Truth Social’s popularity and as further questions arose about the likelihood of the DWAC-Truth Social merger,” said the report. “Musk expressed his approval of West’s acquisition in a Monday afternoon tweet, sharing a photoshopped meme of him and West smiling and joining forces, writing, ‘Fun times ahead!!'”

This comes as Truth Social has faced a litany of financial and technical problems since its launch this year, and as DWAC faces delays in its planned merger and a fraud lawsuit from an investor.

Republicans are very good at creating problems that are not problems so they have something to solve.

Republicans are desperately trying to take over the House, Senate and a slew of offices that allow them to control elections in an effort to usher in restrictive election laws to put in more Republicans and eliminate any policy delivered by a Democrat for the past century.

Republicans pledged for almost ten years that Obamacare must be repealed and replaced, only to be outed for being unable to come up with the replacement. They have placed judges in top posts to eliminate the personal freedoms and medical privacy of women.

They invented an idea that Kindergarteners are being taught they are responsible for slavery and were convinced that any mention of LGBTQ should be banned from schools in Florida and other states that have followed.

Another top issue for the GOP: transgender sports. While there are many, many issues facing Americans, indeed the world, Republicans are concerned that one or two transgender people could bring down sports.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem ran a campaign ad claiming that she personally saved girls’ sports in the state. There was one trans student about ten years ago in South Dakota, but Noem zeroed in on the possibility that one person ten years ago could one day be millions of trans students in the sparsely populated state.

In fact, there were more girls playing sports in the Noem ad than there were trans kids in all of South Dakota sports. So, while Republicans like Noem complain about failures around inflation, healthcare and other problems they blame on Democrats, their solutions are focused on transgender sports.

Noem isn’t the only one. A whopping 18 U.S. states have spent the past few years passing legislation to regulate who can urinate in a stall next to each other. While most people simply enter a bathroom, do their business and get out, in the mind of Republicans, restrooms are nefarious places where liberals are ushering in a plot to bring down society. They have yet to find any evidence of it, but they can’t stop their minds from turning to anarchy as a result of a kid using the restroom.

The crisis for Republicans is that the American public has decided that they are accepting of same-sex marriage, eliminating a key issue that they have desperately clung to for years. Trans rights have now taken over that same desperate attempt to create a villain, make people afraid of him and then pass laws to protect children from him.

The real problem, however, is that these made-up, imaginary problems sound real to the low-information voters who make up the Republican base.