...and turned my local AM rightwing radio to see what's up with the nutballs.
Couldn't stand it for more than about a minute, but during that time, the local screamer said:
1) Masks are ineffective. Several times. A hundred years of data says so.
2) The vaccines are ineffective and dangerous... a plot to make money for Big Pharma.
3) The Covid body count is inflated. Maybe 100,000 dead, but probably not even that many.
4) This whole pandemic response is just a worldwide attempt at controlling people. and taking their freedom.
5) We can't trust ANYthing the government tells us about this whole thing. Especially Dr. Fauci. He's making money from the vaccines.

My question: At what point does "free speech" become "yelling fire in a crowded theater"? At what point does this kind of damaging mis-information become too much for our country to bear?

Fucking Rasmussen has 47% approval... 51% disapproval.

A Marist/NPR poll shows 84% of Repubs disapprove of the job Biden is doing.

WTAF is wrong with people? (That's a rhetorical question...I KNOW what's wrong with those people.)

"Hello... 911?? Hurry..there's a big black man with one of those assault rifles at the coffee shop. He looks angry and threatening. Please hurry!"

I ventured to our local rightwingnut AM radio station this morning.

The Cult of Rush is a subset of the Cult of trump.

It's Rush Memorial Radio...full time. Rush quotes and sound bites, tributes from brain-dead callers. Tears, even. Ad nauseam.

Cult. Within a Cult.

Once more, I understand how religions get started.

The actual leader of the Republicans in Michigan says the Insurrection Riot was a hoax, and that Mitch McConnell was in on it.
WTF is wrong with those people??

"Mike Shirkey, the Republican leader of the Michigan Senate and GOP, said in a private conversation that the protesters in Washington, DC in January that led the Capitol riots were 'prearranged' and that the entire thing was a 'hoax'.

In the video, which was first reported by the Detroit Metro Times, Shirkey was meeting with Hillsdale County Republicans for censure for multiple issues, including his support on the ban of open carry of firearms inside the Michigan Capitol.
About halfway through the meeting, Shirkey was asked about "the DC thing", referring to the riot that ended with five people including a Capitol Police Officer dead.
Shirkey responded by saying it "wasn't Trump. That's been a hoax since day one and it was all prearranged." He said they were brought in on busses and "arranged by someone who was funding it." Shirkey then questioned why there wasn't enough guards there and said it was ridiculous and all staged. He then said that then-Senate leader Mitch McConnel (R-Kentucky) was part of it."

Available lots of places, but even Fox is covering this story...
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/michigan-senate-leader-shirkey-labels-capitol-riot-a-hoax-calls-it-prearranged

My campaign fund budget has recovered - somewhat - from November, and even though I live in a different state, I'll send him some money. But I'd like to hear from DUers who know about him.

Boebert has got to go.

437,000 Covid deaths in the US... so far. Heading toward over 600,000, according to the IHME. About 350,000 of those are in people over 55, with the greatest number over 70.

Imagine if we had a pandemic that killed 350,000 kids, and the age of victims was primarily under 15, with the numbers skewing toward those under 10.
Too awful to contemplate.

This will not be our last pandemic. We MUST develop plans, and the ability to implement those plans. We MUST have the infrastructure in place the next time, and ready to go. That includes dealing with deniers and other threats to public health.

Even Dubya had a plan, Obama had a plan, and now Biden has a plan. We have got to pressure our government to institutionalize those plans so that an inept President can't drop the ball the way trump did.

THIS asshole...

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When I saw that pic for the first time, I said..."Officer...Lt. Col or above...air of command...he's in charge of something." Sure enough...

I want to know if he was just a mindless MAGAhat or part of some large Plan. I've read all I can about him, and I still can't figure it out.

Anybody got any observations about this guy?


Age: 53
Arrested or charged on: Jan. 9, 2021
Home state: Texas
Charges
Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds

What happened
Brock, a retired Air Force officer, was seen in photos in the Capitol wearing a green helmet, tactical vest and military patches. After he was identified in photos holding plastic zip-tie handcuffs, he gave an interview to The New Yorker. The story stated Brock said he had gone to D.C. to demonstrate peacefully after hearing the president ask his supporters to be there.

Normally, I'm all "free speech, civil rights, limit the cops", but for the upcoming 2 or 3 assaults on our legitimate government, why not use sound weapons?

"A student who went to photograph a Black Lives Matter protest was warned that New York City police might use a sound cannon against demonstrators.
"My friend said, 'If you hear this, plug your ears and run,'" Anika Edrei recalled.

So, when the NYPD fired a Long Range Acoustic Device, or a LRAD, at the demonstration in 2014 in Manhattan, that's exactly what Edrei, 24, did.

After police used the device at the demonstration, which was over a grand jury’s decision not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the killing of Eric Garner, “I experienced a pretty strong migraine and dizziness almost immediately,” Edrei told NBC News in an interview.
“I remember sitting down on the side of the street after I had gotten away and feeling very confused,” said Edrei, then a photojournalism student at the International Center of Photography in New York City."



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/plug-your-ears-run-nypd-s-use-sound-cannons-challenged-n1008916

UGEtube. Stands for Utah Gun Exchange.

DON'T GO THERE. I clicked once and will give examples below. Let's not give them the hits.

Is there some kind of delusional paranoia virus to compete with Covid..? Or is the Covid driving people to these hysterical delusions?

"Nothing is what it seems, Trudeau is back in the public view. Don’t believe the illusion. It’s a clone. I’m exposing the fake breach in the US Capitol. It was organized by Demon rats and their Antifa operatives. The fake shooting is also exposed. The woman was not shot dead. The demon rats fell for another sting operation. This time it is going to cause them their lives. It’s checkmate for them. Traitors in the GOP Party exposed. I’m also explaining Trump “so-called” concession message."

"Tory Smith (deceased) adamantly states over and over that Obama and Pence have long histories of pedophilia, rape and the death of many children via his channel on YT under the same name. Tory Smith. He was a victim of child-sex-trafficking. He claimed that he was raped by them both; particularly, Obama who wanted him to be his lover also."

"There has been a secret intelligence agency stationed on mars that has watch this whole thing play out, they are aware of it and rest assured will restore order shortly. You have the word of the martians themselves."