Althouse: Sunrise — 6:00, 6:29.

September 4, 2024

Sunrise — 6:00, 6:29.

86 comments:

I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...: For master conspiracist and leading intellectual Tim Pool, the revelation that he's a victim of this Kremlin conspiracy must have made his beanie spin. He clearly failed to do his own research. Though I expect the loss of the $400,000 plus the Russians were paying him each month stings a lot more.; 9/4/24, 6:30 PM
I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...: Beyond any of the Russian financing Tenet it's a pretty ringing indictment of our culture's credulousness that anyone looks at Tim Pool and Benny Johnson, for instance, and sees someone they should be listening to, let alone watching talk for hours. They both look like Tom Tomorrow cartoons.; 9/4/24, 6:37 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/esaagar/status/1831391348257144952; 9/4/24, 7:08 PM
narciso said...: The doj cant tell us the motive of the butler shooter the whereabout of the 300 members on the terror watchlist; 9/4/24, 7:10 PM
Narr said...: It's as if the damn Rooskies don't understand who can interfere in foreign elections and who can't.; 9/4/24, 7:15 PM
Iman said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/4/24, 7:25 PM
Mutaman said...: Iman
"Ask your husband to put some mellow music on and have yourself a good cry, Rich. "

Really don't understand the point of shit like this. There is something wrong with this person.; 9/4/24, 7:30 PM
Leland said...: This DoJ story is just nonsense. It is the same playbook from 2016. Money supposedly laundered to Russia, then laundered in the US, finances a conservative (in this case, really libertarian) group without telling them the true source, and that’s influencing elections. China paying Tim Walz directly to visit? DoJ slow walking documents requested by House Oversight Committee weeks ago.; 9/4/24, 7:37 PM
Inga said...: Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, Lauren Southern

Right wing influencers either being duped or knowingly sold themselves.; 9/4/24, 7:45 PM
Iman said...: You’d think the FBI would have some priorities, eh, narciso! After they get the terrorists they’ve admitted into the country sorted out perhaps they can start on the ~400,000 illegal immigrant children they’ve lost track of.; 9/4/24, 7:46 PM
FullMoon said...: Debate rules set. Harris not allowed to interrupt while Trump is speaking. No restrictions on dialect, and anonymous posse members familiar with her thinking suggest she will use several while pontificating in attempt to solidify "America's Mama" persona.; 9/4/24, 7:46 PM
I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...: You know, for a individual who's so against immigration, Iman sure loves importing Russian talking points.; 9/4/24, 7:48 PM
Iman said...: Obama and his bunch interfered with an election in Israel, just for starters.; 9/4/24, 7:51 PM
Iman said...: Immigration that follows the law is of benefit. Illegal immigration is not.

Now don’t go away mad, Rich. Go away educated.; 9/4/24, 7:54 PM
FullMoon said...: Holy crap! You guys hear somebody got paid for making youtube vids? What kind of world are we living in?
I blame the usual miscreants;
1) Trump
2) Climate change
3) The parents; 9/4/24, 7:56 PM
Original Mike said...: As was the case in past elections, "Russian videos", if they exist, interfere with the election only to the extent that our "intelligence" agencies meltdown over them. The videos which were held up as interference in 2016 were utterly pathetic.; 9/4/24, 8:01 PM
Maynard said...: Uh, Inga and Rich,

Dave Rubin was until recently a liberal California Democrat.

He credits Larry Elder with helping him open his eyes to the absolute BS of the Left.

I guess that Dave is now a non-person.

And thanks for the DNC spin, once again.; 9/4/24, 8:06 PM
Inga said...: Also, Elon Musk boosted these right wing influencers.; 9/4/24, 8:19 PM
Original Mike said...: "Beyond any of the Russian financing Tenet it's a pretty ringing indictment of our culture's credulousness that anyone looks at Tim Pool and Benny Johnson, for instance, and sees someone they should be listening to, let alone watching talk for hours"

How come the lefties always know who these "right-wingers" are and I don't?; 9/4/24, 8:34 PM
I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...: These are the same morons who buy cards of a non-obese Trump wearing a Superman suit.; 9/4/24, 8:35 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The Most Googled Parenting Questions in America (by state)

Connecticut: When do kids start walking?

Georgia: Why do kids wet the bed?

Indiana: How many teeth do kids have?

Maine: Why do toddlers bite?

Nevada: When do kids go back to school?

North Dakota: When should a kid get an iPad?

Texas: Why do kids stare?

Washington: Why do kids eat boogers?; 9/4/24, 8:36 PM
Original Mike said...: "Immigration that follows the law is of benefit. Illegal immigration is not."

Funny that a Republican would make that mistake, huh?; 9/4/24, 8:37 PM
William50 said...: In a recent speech Kamala stated that the Biden/Harris admin had provided millions of people with broadband internet. This couldn't be further from the truth. After allocating 45.5 billion dollars the actual number is...zero! Biden-Harris Broadband Push Connects Zero Americans Thanks to Progressive Mandates; 9/4/24, 8:38 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Bret Weinstein explains succinctly today on Rogan how our voting system is designed to be gamed.

"If in person voting isn’t the exclusive method, exit polling cannot be used to detect fraud - and that’s not an accident."

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell; 9/4/24, 8:47 PM
Mason G said...: To be fair, when a progressive says they intend to do something, to them, that counts as actually doing it.

Intentions > Results, always.; 9/4/24, 8:50 PM
MadTownGuy said...: The Tennessee Star Releases ‘Manifesto’ Left by Transgender Covenant School Killer Audrey Hale - all 90 pages, at the linked article; 9/4/24, 8:56 PM
Mutaman said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/4/24, 9:03 PM
Mutaman said...: Mason G said...

"To be fair, when a progressive says they intend to do something, to them, that counts as actually doing it."

Thank goodness Trump never fails to follow through on stuff he says he intends to do.; 9/4/24, 9:04 PM
Gospace said...: And the implication is- they're pro-Trump. The implication ...

Reality is, the money is going to anti-Trump messengers.

Funny how that works And totally pushes aside the news that mire DemoncRAT close aides are actual Chinese agents.

And with that, I'm wondering how with his many trips to China Wal retained his security clearance.; 9/4/24, 9:23 PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...: There’s a lot of palms to grease in the Democrat Party. Without the grifting, the extraordinary pressure of the staggering cognitive dissonance would rip the whole racket apart.; 9/4/24, 9:36 PM
n.n said...: Emigration reform to mitigate progress at both ends of the bridge and collateral damage throughout. #HateLovesAbortion; 9/4/24, 9:47 PM
Achilles said...: Russsssiiiaaaannnnnnn Coooollllluuuussssiiooonnnnnnn!!!!! GOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You two are such idiots.; 9/4/24, 10:00 PM
Achilles said...: RUSSIANS ARE COMING! RUSSIANS ARE COMING!; 9/4/24, 10:02 PM
Achilles said...: You ran with Russian Collusion for years, and knowing that was complete BS from the start you are running with this stupidity again.

You are just a really stupid person.; 9/4/24, 10:04 PM
wildswan said...: The latest lefty talking point on the Gaza war is: "Israel has an absolute right to defend itself but I am concerned about their methods." One way of looking at Israeli methods is to compare the ratio of civilians to soldiers killed in the Gaza war to the ratio in other wars. Israeli methods have kept civilian casualties to a very low ratio. Israel has killed 17,000 Hamas fighters. It is estmated that 40,000 people have died in the war meaning 23,000 civilians. So the ratio of civilian to soldier casualties is 1.3:1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
Often in modern wars the ratio has been 9:1 according to the UN. In World War II the ratio has been estimated at between 3:2 and 2:1. And when we consider that Hamas soldiers deliberately shield themselves behind civilians rather than acting as a shield for civilians this ratio is extremely low. For the Hamas tactic means that at least one civilian, the one the soldier is hiding behind, will end up dying for each soldier who is killed. But despite this, the Israelis have kept the ratio very low, very close to 1:1 which is the ratio made inevitable by the unusual Hamas tactic of being an army shielded by civilians rather than an army shielding them.
Consequently Israeli tactics on how to save civilian lives in urban warfare should be studied. They are an example to other armies.; 9/4/24, 10:11 PM
Maynard said...: Inga and Rich,

Before you banish Dave Rubin to non-person status, consider reading his book, "Don't Burn This Book". You might learn something if you would only open up your eyes and ears.

BTW, aside from being a dangerous right wing extremist, Dave is married to his male partner and they have recently adopted twins.; 9/4/24, 10:15 PM
effinayright said...: RUSSIANS ARE COMING! RUSSIANS ARE COMING!

"EMERGHENCY! EMERGHENCY!!! Please to flee from streets!"; 9/4/24, 11:10 PM
Eva Marie said...: This is from the YouTube Chris Williamson interview with Eric Weinstein.
At one point Chris Williamson asks Eric Weinstein to react to Kamala Harris’s often repeated phrase: “What can be unburdened by what has been.”
This is Eric Weinstein’s chilling reply:
What it basically says is you have to wipe out what has been to arrive in the new . . . It’s not a direct translation but it occurs in Karl Marx . . . if you think about what Mao had to do to wipe out Chinese history, what Pol Pot had to do. You’re trying to wipe out memory because the memory has all of this burden. Why is it important to go after doctors and lawyers and professors? Because, in some sense, they are going to resist the New Order that you’re about to impose. You’re looking for a blank slate and they . . . are tethered to the past.; 9/5/24, 12:51 AM
Eva Marie said...: For those of you who think Kamala Harris is stupid, she’s not stupid.; 9/5/24, 1:00 AM
wendybar said...: When did Ketanji have time to go back to school to become a biologist???

"PBS News
@NewsHour
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As the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says her appointment to the court "demonstrates progress."

"I'm the first Black woman ... but not the first Black woman who could have done this job," she tells @GeoffRBennett."; 9/5/24, 2:34 AM
wendybar said...: Dr. Kelly Black Raven 🪓🪓🪓
@mustang_flying
Two errors. 1. The first black woman who could have done the job was Janice Brown, but she was filibustered by... Joe Biden. More than once. 2. Jackson sucks at her job.
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PBS News
@NewsHour
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Sep 3
As the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says her appointment to the court "demonstrates progress."

"I'm the first Black woman ... but not the first Black woman who could have done this job," she tells
@GeoffRBennett
.; 9/5/24, 2:37 AM
wendybar said...: It was okay for DADDY to do this, and I am breaking a military law myself (which is what I am bitching about Trump for) but I am a McCain, so my opinion counts more than yours.....

"In other words, people whose revered daddies lived in glass houses shouldn’t be throwing stones."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/john_mccain_s_son_likely_violated_a_military_directive_plus_his_own_dad_campaigned_using_arlington.html; 9/5/24, 4:16 AM
wendybar said...: We should end this scam. Able bodied people need to get a job. If they can't get a job, they shouldn't be using tax payer money on anything OTHER than good food for their families. Why is this happening?? This is criminal, and another way to redistribute our money. This should make everybody irate, and Massachusetts fools that are okay with this, really do belong in mental institutions. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/public_records_requests_reveals_that_massachusetts_welfare_recipients_are_spending_their_ebt_funds_in_tropical_locations.html; 9/5/24, 4:24 AM
rhhardin said...: According to Kenneth Burke (lit crit), the Cheshire Cat's smile stood for a fart. So think of cackling Kamala as the Cheshire Candidate.; 9/5/24, 4:35 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: I came here hoping someone had watched the Trump town hall that replaced the debate Harris was too chicken to show up for even though it was agreed to by Biden’s campaign before he was kicked to the curb.; 9/5/24, 4:51 AM
wendybar said...: The masters in conspiracy theories are all the left wing anchors on all the major news networks. Rachel Maddow spread more conspiracy theories than any of the men you idiots listed..; 9/5/24, 5:03 AM
Humperdink said...: Headline in our small town local newspaper: “(Gov.) Shapiro touts education spending”.

What headline I am looking for: “(Gov) Shapiro touts education performance”.

Clearest difference between libs and conservatives.; 9/5/24, 5:57 AM
Leland said...: I'm still waiting from 2017 for Progressives to explain why WEF and EU money influencing is permitted but not Russia. Of course, back in 2017, we just finished with Obama restoring better relations with Russia while lowering the UK's special status with the United States. Now, Progressives will pretend we have always been at war with Russia (because the obvious paradox of Bernie Sanders nearly winning the Democrat ticket is harder to see this year). And to repeat myself, they'll act like nothing is wrong with Tim Walz's relations with China. Still, nobody talks about Hunter Biden's ties to Ukraine, where we send hundreds of million in aid yearly now.; 9/5/24, 6:05 AM
Leland said...: The real question is who is funding Rich? He's only participated on this blog to try and influence the election. Same with a few other loners.; 9/5/24, 6:07 AM
I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...: Leland writes: "The real question is who is funding Rich?"

On November 2020, a few hours after the US presidential election had been called for Joe Biden, Virginia Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, sent a bizarre text to Donald Trump’s chief of staff, her old friend Mark Meadows. It read:

“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days & will be living in barges off GITMO [Guantánamo Bay] to face military tribunals for sedition”. ~ Virginia Thomas

Thomas’s fantasy had not originated in her own head. It had been generated online by some part of what we must now call the “QAnon community” — a sprawling nebulous matrix of individuals who adhere to a compendious almost rococo conspiracy theory. This theory holds that since 2017 an anonymous security insider — Q — has been revealing via gnomic hints the existence of a vast global conspiracy involving the Clintons, the Bidens and just about anyone else that for some reason they don’t like.

In addition to secretly ruling the world these bad people also run a vast network of trafficking of children for sex, necessitating a labyrinth of subterranean tunnels in which these infants are stored. Q however has revealed that inside the US military and secret service there is an angelic squad of resisters, led by Trump, who are poised to rise up, arrest, try and execute the wicked ones and usher in a better new world. This is “the coming storm” and the faithful need “to trust the plan” — even when the storm seems always to be delayed.

That any large number of adults should sign up for such a prospectus seems remarkable. We read their comments on Althouse every day.

One might widen the gaze and say that in the ever-increasing greatly expanded information space, there are going to be wacko neighborhoods, places infused with the black magic of dark conspiracy.

Trump rode a populist wave into power -- and populist is very people based -- and then tried to leverage that people power into an autocratic overthrow, which is the opposite of being people based. One would expect most of Trump's populist base to erode down to a much narrower conspiracist base as additional information is exposed in the public square. If that doesn't happen, then some very harrowing questions are in the offing.

One question might be whether or not the plutocracy is using their money as Supreme Court sanctioned free speech to overthrow a democracy supposedly based on free speech? The opening anecdote about Virginia Thomas raises disturbing questions. We now know who her husband works for. Who does she work for or with?; 9/5/24, 7:12 AM
Satyendra said...: What's up Good Morning!; 9/5/24, 7:14 AM
Howard said...: Leland thinks that libtard elites pay Rich to try and win people like him over to the Dark Side. He only thinks this because he needs to feel wanted. Nothing is more sad and pathetic than that; 9/5/24, 7:15 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Yes; 9/5/24, 7:17 AM
Rusty said...: OM. Because they're afraid, Mike. The conservative and moderate voices have a much more compelling argument and they are afraid of that.; 9/5/24, 7:17 AM
lonejustice said...: Tucker Carlson is going completely off the rails.

From the boys over at Powerlineblog:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/09/tuckers-descent-continues.php; 9/5/24, 7:18 AM
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Rusty said...: Muta. Snark is your stock and trade. Don't complain now. Everybody gets an equal voice. Even Iman.; 9/5/24, 7:20 AM
Rusty said...: He has a better track record than any of the people you voted for.; 9/5/24, 7:23 AM
tim in vermont said...: Once you understand what is going on, people begin to think you are crazy. It works the same way in cults, if somebody starts to get what is being done to them, the rest of the cult shun that person as crazy.; 9/5/24, 7:24 AM
Rusty said...: Well, Howard, the only other alternative is that Rich is in reality Appalachia inbred hillbilly stupid. And I'm being unkind to hillbillys.; 9/5/24, 7:27 AM
Aggie said...: I've heard of Pool and never heard of Johnson. It sounds like you've devoted a bit of time to each. Why? I don't listen to Rachel Maddow, either. Would you say her on-screen persona is extreme enough to be called a caricature? I certainly would.; 9/5/24, 7:28 AM
tim in vermont said...: I am more interested in hearing about any actual lies that have been told about, you know, events that have happened in the world. You know, like when the New York Times printed all of those Ukrainian lies about Trump's campaign manager in August of 2016. There is actual evidence of foreign interference, where lies were told, that got Trump's campaign manager fired. I don't have any problem with Russians telling us things that are true that Biden would rather we not hear. We are free citizens and our vote is meaningless if we are denied true information just because the people in power think it will hurt their chances.

So again, where are the lies?; 9/5/24, 7:30 AM
Rusty said...: Hillbilly. According to a Wisconsin journal I once subscribes to the term hillbilly was coined by central Wisconsin natives. They were referring to the Tennesee Valley farmers who were transplanted to the central Wisconsin hills.; 9/5/24, 7:30 AM
tim in vermont said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9/5/24, 7:31 AM
planetgeo said...: Mike, it was classic unfiltered Trump. Wide-ranging riffing with the audience. Best quote: “Even if you don’t like me! You can sit there and say, ‘I can’t stand that guy, but there’s no way I’m gonna vote for her!’”

So one candidate will take any question from anybody and answer it unfiltered, and the other candidate won't take or answer any questions from anybody and is on record as saying that the government needs to control what people can say. Quite a choice for American voters to make.; 9/5/24, 7:45 AM
Leland said...: I'm making Howard feel sad? Awesome. That's all the motivation I need.; 9/5/24, 8:03 AM
Rusty said...: What I want to know, Rich, is how these price controls are going to work. What is going to be the net benefit to the American people?; 9/5/24, 8:18 AM
I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...: Leland wrote: "The real question is who is funding Rich? "

In November 2020, a few hours after the US presidential election had been called for Joe Biden, Virginia Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, sent a bizarre text to Donald Trump’s chief of staff, her old friend Mark Meadows. It read:

“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days & will be living in barges off GITMO [Guantánamo Bay] to face military tribunals for sedition”. ~ Virginia Thomas

Thomas’s fantasy had not originated in her own head. It had been generated online by some part of what we must now call the “QAnon community” — a sprawling nebulous matrix of individuals who adhere to a compendious almost rococo conspiracy theory. This theory holds that since 2017 an anonymous security insider — Q — has been revealing via gnomic hints the existence of a vast global conspiracy involving the Clintons, the Bidens and just about anyone else that for some reason they don’t like.

In addition to secretly ruling the world these bad people also run a vast network of trafficking of children for sex, necessitating a labyrinth of subterranean tunnels in which these infants are stored. Q however has revealed that inside the US military and secret service there is an angelic squad of resisters, led by Trump, who are poised to rise up, arrest, try and execute the wicked ones and usher in a better new world.

That any large number of adults should sign up for such a prospectus seems remarkable. Almost as a public service -- Althouse allows these folks on the comment threads of her blog every day.

One might widen the gaze and say that in the ever-increasing greatly expanded information space, there are going to be wacko neighborhoods, places infused with the black magic of dark conspiracy.

Trump rode a populist wave into power -- and populist is very people based -- and then tried to leverage that people power into an autocratic overthrow, which is the opposite of being people based. One would expect most of Trump's populist base to erode down to a much narrower conspiracist base as additional information is exposed in the public square. If that doesn't happen, then some very harrowing questions are in the offing.

One question might be whether or not the plutocracy is using their money as Supreme Court sanctioned free speech to overthrow a democracy supposedly based on free speech?

The opening anecdote about Virginia Thomas raises disturbing questions. We now know who her husband works for. Who does she work for?; 9/5/24, 8:33 AM
wendybar said...: Unfortunately, our whole government IS a joke now.

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This is worse than Biden saying "Don't" to Iran - which they completely ignored.

Wish our @FBI wasn't a complete clown show.
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"Knock it off." - Says FBI Director Christopher Wray to foreign adversaries meddling in American democracy.

https://justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-covert-russian-government-sponsored-foreign-malign-influence

https://justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands; 9/5/24, 8:34 AM
I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...: Leland writes: "The real question is who is funding Rich?"

In November 2020, a few hours after the US presidential election had been called for Joe Biden, Virginia Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, sent a bizarre text to Donald Trump’s chief of staff, her old friend Mark Meadows. It read:

“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days & will be living in barges off GITMO [Guantánamo Bay] to face military tribunals for sedition”.

Thomas’s fantasy had not originated in her own head. It had been generated online by some part of what we must now call the “QAnon community” — a sprawling nebulous matrix of individuals who adhere to a compendious almost rococo conspiracy theory. This theory holds that since 2017 an anonymous security insider — Q — has been revealing via gnomic hints the existence of a vast global conspiracy involving the Clintons, the Bidens and just about anyone else that for some reason they don’t like.

In addition to secretly ruling the world these bad people also run a vast network of trafficking of children for sex, necessitating a labyrinth of subterranean tunnels in which these infants are stored. ~ Financial Times

That any large number of adults should sign up for such a prospectus seems remarkable. Yet here we are reading similar claims on Althouse comment threads.

One might widen the gaze and say that in the ever-increasing greatly expanded information space, there are going to be wacko neighborhoods, places infused with the black magic of dark conspiracy.

A vast information space must be assumed a permanent feature going forward, therefore the "kitemarking" concept should be pursued and expanded so that all participants have some opportunity to see and hear all the voices in the public square, not just a few. There's too much self-reinforcing self-selection going on today (which is a form of censorship that is self-created and what is worse subject to manipulation by others).

The best inoculation against conspiracy theories from the fringe infecting the broader political process with a view of overthrowing democratic governance in favor of some reactionary "elite" is to stigmatize political parties with defeat who peddle extremist doctrines.

Trump rode a populist wave into power -- and populist is very people based -- and then tried to leverage that people power into an autocratic overthrow, which is the opposite of being people based. One would expect most of Trump's populist base to erode down to a much narrower conspiracist base as additional information is exposed in the public square. If that doesn't happen, then some very harrowing questions are in the offing.

One question might be whether or not the plutocracy is using their money as Supreme Court sanctioned free speech to overthrow a democracy supposedly based on free speech?

The opening anecdote about Virginia Thomas raises disturbing questions. We now know who her husband works for. Who does she work for?; 9/5/24, 8:43 AM
I Shouldn’t Have Left the White House said...: Leland writes: "The real question is who is funding Rich?"

In November 2020, a few hours after the US presidential election had been called for Joe Biden, Virginia Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, sent a bizarre text to Donald Trump’s chief of staff, her old friend Mark Meadows. It read:

“Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators (elected officials, bureaucrats, social media censorship mongers, fake stream media reporters, etc) are being arrested & detained for ballot fraud right now & over coming days & will be living in barges off GITMO [Guantánamo Bay] to face military tribunals for sedition”.

Thomas’s fantasy had not originated in her own head. It had been generated online by some part of what we must now call the “QAnon community” — a sprawling nebulous matrix of individuals who adhere to a compendious almost rococo conspiracy theory. This theory holds that since 2017 an anonymous security insider — Q — has been revealing via gnomic hints the existence of a vast global conspiracy involving the Clintons, the Bidens and just about anyone else that for some reason they don’t like.

In addition to secretly ruling the world these bad people also run a vast network of trafficking of children for sex, necessitating a labyrinth of subterranean tunnels in which these infants are stored. ~ Financial Times

That any large number of adults should sign up for such a prospectus seems remarkable. Yet here we are reading similar claims on Althouse comment threads.

One might widen the gaze and say that in the ever-increasing greatly expanded information space, there are going to be wacko neighborhoods, places infused with the black magic of dark conspiracy.

A vast information space must be assumed a permanent feature going forward, therefore the "kitemarking" concept should be pursued and expanded so that all participants have some opportunity to see and hear all the voices in the public square, not just a few. There's too much self-reinforcing self-selection going on today (which is a form of censorship that is self-created and what is worse subject to manipulation by others).

The best inoculation against conspiracy theories from the fringe infecting the broader political process with a view of overthrowing democratic governance in favor of some reactionary "elite" is to stigmatize political parties with defeat who peddle extremist doctrines.

Trump rode a populist wave into power -- and populist is very people based -- and then tried to leverage that people power into an autocratic overthrow, which is the opposite of being people based. One would expect most of Trump's populist base to erode down to a much narrower conspiracist base as additional information is exposed in the public square. If that doesn't happen, then some very harrowing questions are in the offing.

One question might be whether or not the plutocracy is using their money as Supreme Court sanctioned free speech to overthrow a democracy supposedly based on free speech?

The opening anecdote about Virginia Thomas raises disturbing questions. We now know who her husband works for. Who does she work for?; 9/5/24, 8:45 AM
Iman said...: Howard is the saddest of sacks. And the world needs those too. It’s a beautiful thing.; 9/5/24, 8:47 AM
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wendybar said...: Another "letter" showing what a joke OUR government is, while THEY are doing the same thing they are lecturing Nicaragua about doing to THEIR citizens..... I just can't understand how dumb some people are in excusing these clowns.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/05/statement-from-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-on-the-release-of-political-prisoners-in-nicaragua/; 9/5/24, 8:56 AM
Leland said...: Axios is reporting: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/05/putin-harris-trump-2024-election-russia-interference
"Putin says he wants Harris to win 2024 election"; 9/5/24, 9:25 AM
Inga said...: You believe Putin? He was smiling and obviously trolling. No way is Harris his favored candidate, that’s laughable. Trump is much more to his liking and will do Putin’s bidding. Think back to Helsinki and what Trump said with Putin standing there next to him, making Putin look like the cat that just had it’s cream.; 9/5/24, 11:40 AM
Michael K said...: That's why we elected him. Finally ! Some one tries to keep his promises ! The GOPe did not help and that is why they are losing the party.; 9/5/24, 1:04 PM
Michael K said...: Larry, of course, is "The Black Face of White Supremacy."; 9/5/24, 1:08 PM
Michael K said...: Yes, but who is paying you for spreading this horse shit ?; 9/5/24, 1:31 PM
Michael K said...: Janice Rogers Brown was treated shamefully by Democrats. So was Miguel Estrada.; 9/5/24, 1:33 PM
Michael K said...: It's obvious why Putin would prefer Harris. Weakness always attract dictators in their enemies.; 9/5/24, 1:37 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Talking to Fridman, Trump further said, "But I’ve done well with debates. I became president, and then the second time I got millions more votes than I got the first time. I was told if I got 63 million … you would win. You can’t not win. And I got millions of more votes than that and lost by a whisker but— and look at what happened with the world."

What in the heck are all the "trump won" conspirators up in here gonna do now that trump burst their ballon.Everyone knows he lost and for 4 years the BIG LIE has captivated the "trump won" conspirators up in here.. Freudian slip no, I HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO INTERFERE IN ELECTION,no ITS ILLEGAL.. You can bet Jack Smith will be on these statements for the orange perp.He is too old he cant even remember what the heck he is saying.LOST BY A WHISKER 306-232 not a whisker,he said it was an electoral landslide when he beat Clinton by that margin and 7000000 plus 4% popular vote,,,that's a large whisker..Now what the heck the BIG LIE FOLKS UP IN HERE gonna do now that hier idol has spilled the beans? Imagine the chagrin<not only whooped by a woman,but a black woman at that ,like the ones he wouldnt allow to rent his slum apartments back in the day,,IRONY is a bitch; 9/5/24, 3:49 PM
Jim at said...: Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, Tim Pool, Lauren Southern

Right wing influencers either being duped or knowingly sold themselves

I question their influence considering I've never heard of any of them.; 9/5/24, 4:04 PM
Jim at said...: How come the lefties always know who these "right-wingers" are and I don't?

No kidding. It's like qanon, the buggaboo boys and all that other crap.

Maybe it's because I have a life.; 9/5/24, 4:06 PM
Leland said...: Should I make assumptions without evidence, as you do Inga?; 9/5/24, 4:41 PM
Rusty said...: No ideas, Rich? Thoughts?; 9/5/24, 5:55 PM