Good Morning from Nick Carraway:
“”God wants law
God wants organized crime
God wants crusade
God wants jihad
God wants good
God wants bad
What God wants God gets.” – Roger Waters
Before she got the Covid, Jenna Ellis went to the place most conservatives seem to go to eventually. She was doing God’s work. The direct quote is about as predictable as any you might see. “Ultimately at the end of the day, as long as I know that I’m pursuing truth and I’m doing the right thing for God and my country, That’s all that matters. So that’s what gives me my optimism and my hope.”
I’m not sure if Mr. Waters above believes in God or not. His lyrics are often dripping with sarcasm and he has gotten in hot water recently for some anti-Semitic stances, but this three part song represents how we as people can pervert religion to serve our purposes. No matter what we do we can do it under the assumption that it is what God wants.
I’m not going to go into all the reasons why this particular reasoning is flawed. Everyone here knows the score. The question for Ms. Ellis is whether one can credibly do God’s work while subverting justice and lying. Again, let’s forget about the ultimate goal of giving him a second term and what that would mean. People can believe what they want. Do the ends justify the means?”
Nick
Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller has announced he has COVID and is quarantining at his ranch. Known for prodigious lying and spreading conspiracy theories on social media, he’s also just another anti-masker and science denier. Maybe he’ll take another Jesus Shot on the taxpayer dime.
First, here’s the good news – since the election, CNN is beating Fox News in average viewers. Now the bad news – Fox and CNN both are losing to Newsmax. Why? Fox isn’t “Trumpy” enough for the red hats, but still unwatchable for normal people. Newsmax and an even worse OAN have taken over the alt-right folks who are abandoning Fox in droves as more of their anchors have acknowledged that Trump has no chance of stealing the election from Biden. If you’ve never watched Newsmax and OAN, don’t bother. By way of description, if Fox News is manure, Newsmax and OAN are nuclear waste. They have created a Superfund site of toxic and deadly conspiracy theories, gross exaggerations, and freeform lying. And Trumpists lap it up. Since the election CNN has averaged 1.73 million viewers, more than double a year ago. Fox News Channel averaged 1.56 million and MSNBC 1.53 million viewers. More important, Newsmax, a safe haven for delusional Trumpists to hide from gravity and arithmetic, Newsmax beat Fox for the first time ever. Newsmax commentators, even today, continue to peddle the lies that Trump is going to prevail over Biden.
Newsmax and OAN (as well as some remaining Fox programming) engage in prodigious lying, creating toxic propaganda that has now made it impossible for normal people to engage their viewers in any kind of productive debate. In recent days, I’ve attempted discourse with several people, and it’s like arguing with an audio recording that’s running backwards. These folks have bought in to the Dominion fairytale, the suitcases full of ballots narrative, and even the new “Office of the President-Elect” story ignoring the decades of the use of that term. Even talking to these folks is exhausting because you simply can’t make any progress.
Even though Trump will soon be hiding at Mar a Lago and fighting criminal and civil charges in New York, the damage he inflicted and made recovery of our democracy even more remote. I personally don’t see a route to recovery.
You would probably not imagine that things ever get mean in Idaho. Oh, but they do.
The Central District Health Board of Health meeting Tuesday night to discuss and vote on a public health order dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic was adjourned shortly after it started because of the danger posed by protesters at the CDH office and at some board members’ places of residence.
Moments after a tearful Commissioner Diana Lachiondo left the virtual meeting to head to her house — where her son was home alone, and where anti-mask, anti-health-order protesters had reportedly gathered.
There are lines you don’t cross and trying to intimidate a minor is one of them. And that is the problem with the anti-maskers. They have no lines. They believe they have the right to blow their contagious disease in your face, to pee in a public swimming pool, and to scare your kids because they are hacked off at you.
I think these are people who have two emotions – mad and not mad. Oh, and drunk. But the emotions remain the same.
If they feel personally affronted, they don’t have words to express it, so the scream freedumb! Everything is a personal affront to them. Everything.
They love Jesus, think he was blonde, but couldn’t tell you anything he ever said.
They think Wolf Blitzer is a communist. They heard it somewhere.
I’m sure you’ve got more observations ….
Mike Flynn appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo and it was a mess.
Flynn is very upset that President Barack Obama warned Trump about Mike Flynn at their first White House meeting. Flynn whines, “they mention two people: dear leader Kim Jong Un and Gen. Michael Flynn. I’m public enemy number one.”
No, I think that would make you #2, which is about right.
I guess it’s about then that Flynn recognizes that he’s whining because he flips and lets this out about President Obama.
“And he should have been afraid of me and he still should be afraid,” he added. “Obama talking about me is outrageous. I will not give him any more time on your show.”
Oh Flynn, give me a break. Obama could take you and shove your old skinny butt through a basketball hoop in about 10 seconds. Hellfire, you old lying piece of crap, I ain’t even scared of you. I’m an old lady and I could take you in 30 seconds and if you give me a walker, I could cut that time in half. You give me a walker and District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan and, Honey, you’d never know what hit you but you’d have to pull a purse and a gavel out of your ear for someone to explain it to you.
Idiot.
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.