A day late to the party, I was reading Jeff’s post over at On the Fence Voters, and he was doing a wrap-up of yesterday’s news … you know, Trump referring to himself as the “chosen one”, picking a fight with Denmark, gloating over conspiracy-theorist Wayne Allen Root’s nauseating praise of Trump … and suddenly my jaw dropped. I try to stay on top of the news, but I had missed this one. There’s a new media outlet in town, folks, and this, as Jeff says, will leave you feeling like we truly are living in the Twilight Zone. Take a look at what he has found out about Epoch Times … but first, take a few aspirins and perhaps have an antacid handy, for you may feel ill by the time you get to the end. Thank you, Jeff, for this enlightenment …
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Two Mini-Rants …
As best I can figure, the only thing Donald Trump did yesterday was stir the pot on Twitter. He surely must have blisters on his thumbs by now. Does he ever actually work? He was on his very worst behaviour today. Early on, I began comparing his presidency to a train headed at full-speed toward a big cliff. Today, that cliff seems to be looming just over the horizon. I don’t know how one ‘man’ can get so many things so wrong in the course of a 24-hour period! 
The child got his tender little feelings hurt when he asked a dumb question and was put in his place by the adult in the room. The baby is now pouting and hurling objects at the adult in the room. Typical? Sure, in a household with a two-year-old child, but not in the Oval Office.
When Trump floated the idea of buying Greenland, even his own staff was confused. One doesn’t, after all, just get up one morning and decide to buy another, autonomous country. But, he persisted, and eventually the word got out and was published by the Wall Street Journal. And then, inevitably, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen got wind of it, and replied to the press …
“Greenland is not for sale. Greenland is not Danish. Greenland is Greenlandic. I persistently hope that this is not something that is seriously meant. Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over. Let’s leave it there. Jokes aside, we will of course love to have an even closer strategic relationship with the United States.”
Trump got a bee up his {ahem} and decided, based on PM Frederiksen’s response, to cancel a trip that was planned for September 2nd – 3rd, the invitation to visit having been issued by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II.
PM Frederiksen was wise when she said, “Let’s leave it there”, however Trump is not used to being told “No” and handled the incident so poorly that it is likely to create ill-will between the two nations.
Headlines in Denmark read …
- “The U.S. and Denmark’s relationship has never been this ice-cold. It will have wide-ranging consequences.”
- “Trump sends Denmark and the U.S.’s relationship to the freezing point.”
Way to go, Donnie … you just drove a wedge between us and yet another ally. How many is that now? I’ve lost track.
Wayne Allen Root … the name rings a bell … let me check my archives … AHA! There it is … I knew he sounded familiar, and no big surprise that he was awarded Idiot of the Week in May, 2017. You notice how the idiots keep popping back up? A bit of background …
Root is a conspiracy theorist and was on the hate bandwagon when Barack Obama was our President. He claimed that Obama lied about attending Columbia University, then turned around and said that Obama did, in fact, attend, but that he did so as a foreign exchange student. He claimed that Obama “cut his afro” in order to infiltrate the political class and become a “Manchurian candidate” meant to take down America from within. He claimed to have diagnosed Obama as an “arrogant, egomaniacal sociopath” who is either “mentally ill” or committing treason and must be removed from office “before he kills us all” with Ebola-ridden terrorists.
Well, you can read the rest of the idiocy that won him the award, for today there is more! Mr. Root hosts some ‘call-in’ show on Newsmax TV, and yesterday, his idiocy kicked into full gear, and he said the following on his show …
“I happen to be Jewish by birth and 75% of all Jews vote Democrat, and they don’t like Trump. This is the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world. Not just in America, Trump is the best president for Israel in the history of the world. And the Jewish people love him like he is the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God.
In America, American Jews don’t like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense. But that’s okay. He keeps doing what he’s doing. He’s good for all of us. Good for Jews, good for blacks, good for gays.
He is good for everyone in America who wants a job.”
What. A. Fool. Trump, predictably, ate it up and tweeted Root’s words on Twitter. But that wasn’t even enough for Trump. Noooooo … he had to go on and make the most inflammatory comment that has everyone, Jew and non-Jew (except, of course, his blind followers) up in arms.
“If you vote for a Democrat, you’re being disloyal to Jewish people and you’re being very disloyal to Israel.”
Ladies and gentlemen … the United States of America has at the head of its government a madman. He lacks every single qualification that is needed to lead the nation: intelligence, common sense, compassion, humanitarianism, integrity, honesty, the ability to compromise when necessary, the ability to speak properly, the ability to remain calm under pressure, and the list goes on.
I hereby invite any republican to respectfully tell me what, exactly, they see of value in Donald Trump. Please be specific … don’t say “he tells it like it is”, “he’s making America great again”, or “he’s one of us”. Those don’t tell me a thing. Give me specifics, positive things you believe he has done. The door is open … feel free to walk through it …
And now, I shall go take a handful of aspirin 💊, pour a glass of sherry 🍷, and seek solace in a bit of music ♫ before going to bed. Goodnight all.
The Price We Pay For Free Speech …
In the immediate aftermath of Sunday night’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, many, including White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, told the nation that it would be disrespectful to open the conversation on gun regulation. Most of us with any sense disagreed, and knew the motive for these statements, saw it for what it was, and we are actively calling for this to finally be the wake-up call this nation needs to realize that it is past time to make some changes. But apparently there is no call for the conspiracy theorists to show respect, to wait a decent amount of time to spew their lies. Take, for example, televangelist Pat Robertson (Idiot of the Week 07/29/2016)
Mr. Robertson has decided, presumably via some telekinetic message, that it is We The People, not gunman Stephen Paddock, who is to blame for the deaths of 59 people and the injuries of some 500+ others. How can that be, you ask? I was finishing up an email, some 1,959.8 miles from Las Vegas. Most of you were probably asleep in your beds. No matter … it was, according to the sighted Mr. Robertson, our fault. Because … wait for it … we do not like Donald Trump!
Pat Robertson
“Why is it happening? . . . The fact that we have disrespect for authority. There is profound disrespect of our president. All across this nation, they say terrible things about him. It’s in the news. It’s in other places. There is disrespect now for our national anthem, disrespect for our veterans, disrespect for the institutions of our government, disrespect for the court system. All the way up and down the line: disrespect. … Until there is Biblical authority, there has to be some controlling authority in our society and there is none. … When there is no vision of God, the people run amok. We have taken from the American people the vision of God.”
And there you have it, folks … it is our fault for saying ‘terrible things’ about Trump! This means yours truly must also share in the blame, for I have said my share of ‘terrible (though true) things’ about that person, haven’t I? I suppose I better get out of my jammies now, for they will be coming to arrest me at any time, and I would hate to be taken to jail in my Eeyore jammies!
Wayne Allen Root
Robertson, of course, is not alone in his stupidity. One who is joining him is columnist Wayne Allen Root (Idiot of the Week 05/31/2017) who quickly jumped to the conclusion … “This is real thing. Clearly coordinated Muslim terror attack. PRAY for our Vegas police. PRAY for victims. VERY bad. Awful.” Even later, after it was widely reported that there is absolutely zero evidence of any connection to Islamic terrorism, Root did not back down, arguing that … “liberals assuming not Islamic terror attack in Vegas. No one knows motivation of killer or ‘Asian companion.’ On day of lone wolf terror.” And as recently as this morning, he tweeted, “Just like before 9/11. planned it…made a fortune on it. Killer no lone wolf. This was planned terror attack.”
And then there is YouTube whose ‘algorithm’ is more inclined to lead searchers to conspiracy theory videos of the shooting than to legitimate videos. When questioned why such videos were promoted, YouTube simply stated that it did not violate their standards. The videos number in the hundreds and include some that claim the shooting was a hoax perpetrated by a) the government, b) democrats, c) gun regulation supporters. The videos are offensive to us all, but especially to the families of victims of the tragedy. Yet they do not ‘violate the standards’? In that case, there apparently are no standards.
Alex Jones
And of course America’s favourite conspiracy theorist, the inventor of Pizzagate, Alex Jones had to weigh in, as we knew he would. “The whole thing has the hallmarks of being scripted by Deep-State Democrats and their Islamic allies using mental-patient cutouts.” He attempted to tie the tragedy to the 100-year anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution and also to the release from prison of O.J. Simpson the previous day.
Make no mistake … one person, Stephen Paddock, was responsible for the shootings in Las Vegas last Sunday night. ONE PERSON.
The disturbing thing, as I have said many times before, is not that these fools spout their garbage, but that people actually buy into it, turning a tragedy into a feeding frenzy of idiocy. For instance, one of the more ludicrous YouTube videos purporting that the shooting was a hoax staged by the government, received more than 250,000 views within the first 24 hours. A quarter of a million people had nothing better to do than watch a doctored video clip of lies. Who are these people? Do they not have jobs to go to, families to spend time with, friends and lives to live? It makes a sad statement about humanity that so many are so bored with their lives.
And, of course, there is always the danger that somebody who is living in this fantasy world will feel obligated to take matters into their own hands, just as Edgar Maddison Welch did last December when he went on a shooting spree in Washington’s Comet Ping Pong pizzeria.
We cannot shut down the voices of conspiracy, for to do so would put us on the slippery slope toward losing our right to freedom of speech. However, we must find ways to educate, to enlighten, so that people will seek real answers rather than accepting the most wildly concocted story. And we must hold accountable those who perpetuate the theories for the end result of their words. Aforementioned Edgar Welch received his sentence in June: 48 months in prison, an additional 36 months’ probation, and restitution of $5,744.33. This is right and just, though mandatory psychiatric counseling should have, in my opinion, been added. But what of Alex Jones, whose rhetoric inspired the delusional Mr. Welch? Should not he, also, be held accountable? Until there are consequences for the acts they inspire, people like Alex Jones, Pat Robertson and Wayne Root will continue raking in mass amounts of money and planting seeds of evil in the minds of the public.
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