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People like Rick Wilson and the fine fellows behind the Lincoln Project fanned every flame for years and years and years to build the Republican base and used it to both get rich and elect their most expedient political friends and paymasters until they couldn't.
So, now they have turned their highly corrosive skills of political destruction to whip up the other 60% of the USian electorate into a frenzy that should frighten all rational, thinking people down South if they can momentarily force themselves to step back a little and think.... What's next?
In the meantime, that rabid base that the Project Boyz built has gone, literally, berserk.
Matthew Rosenberg and Jennifer Steinhauer play it straight up, 'objective', in the pages of the NY Times.
Here is their lede:
A Republican Senate candidate recently declared herself “one of the thousands of digital soldiers” in service of QAnon, a convoluted pro-Trump conspiracy theory about a “deep state” of child-molesting Satanist traitors plotting against the president. A congressional candidate in Colorado who made approving comments about QAnon bested a five-term Republican incumbent in a primary last month.
And then there is Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who is perhaps the most unabashedly pro-QAnon candidate for Congress and has drawn a positive tweet from President Trump. She recently declared that QAnon was “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out.”
More than two years after QAnon, which the F.B.I. has labeled a potential domestic terrorism threat, emerged from the troll-infested corners of the internet, the movement’s supporters are morphing from keyboard warriors into political candidates. They have been urged on by Mr. Trump, whose own espousal of conspiracy theories and continual railing against the political establishment have cleared a path for QAnon candidates...
It makes the Tea Party looks like pikers, no?
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And if you think the malignancy hasn't spread north to Canuckistanmikitaville you would be wrong...Stay tuned.
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Yes, what is next and how easily are we manipulated. the Lincoln Project ads are great, but what if they weren't anti trump. Getting rid of him, having Biden and then some one they want in 4 years after that, well, I'm sure it would be very interesting. they'd all be back in power, they just need to get rid of trump. Yes, he needs to go, but what comes after him, after Biden is out of office.
Of course it can happen here also. We're only a tad behind, look no further than the Conservative party. Look at Alberta.
Marcy Wheeler moved to Ireland. Wonder where some of the rest of us will want to move to.......
Prince Rupert?
The single most important aspect of CV19 with respect social cooperation is the stark and undeniable contrast between Canada —especially BC—and the USA. I’ve been thinking: good luck to the tRump-inspired conspiracy theorists who try to peddle their nonsense up here. There are some—some, even, whom I know personally (and I’ll never figure out what it is they get from this deep-state baloney)—up here in LoCovidLand, but as I’ve seen where I live, they’re more likely to be ridiculed than believed.
My significant other worries about the USA a lot more than I do, but rather about the exploding pandemic there surging across the world’s longest undefended border into our fair land here. A friend flew in from Ontario, just got out to see us today, two weeks after she isolated, and told us a horrifying story about Air Canada’s flight to Vancouver (Comox is closed yet): she’d bought her ticket before the airline had changed its staggered seating policy, but by the time she boarded her flight the plane was packed, every seat occupied, with people who basically refused to observe the mandatory wearing of face masks. She said the flight attendants did nothing for the whole four-hour flight but walk up and down the aisles telling passengers to please put their masks back on—which most would promptly remove as soon as the invigilators’ backs were turned. Where’s this puerile snickering coming from?
All I could say to my sweetie was: see?—we don’t have to worry about CV19 coming up from the states when it’s more likely to come from elsewhere in our own country. But then I wondered where our supposedly enlightened compatriots—enlightened by the real contrast between HiCovidUSA and LoCovidCanada—got the idea it was okay to do something as foolish as not wear masks inside an incubatory airplane for four hours of close proximity.
Then I started to worry that some a that crazy American shit is starting to addle our compatriots’ minds. Then I read about the CV19 spike in Kelowna. As an acquaintance asked today: does it take personal infection to believe how serious this pandemic really is? I thought: great! One more thing to worry about!
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