State of the Union - pre/post election & whatever...

[Voice From Limbo]

I doubt many of them speak French.

[kyotebue2]

LOL!!!

[kyotebue2]

The PGA just pulled it's 2022 tournament from Trump's golf course. That will really send him into a Twitter rage...Oh, wait a Parlar rage oh wait...Bahahahahahahaha

[Ssanemax]

I noticed the Q Shaman was there

Chansley has been living with his 56-year-old mother, Martha, since January 2019 after he was evicted from his apartment in Phoenix, Arizona, owing US$1,247 in rent arrears.

The newspaper reported that Chansley is unemployed, having failed to launch an acting career, and has been seen wandering through his mother’s neighbourhood in Glendale dressed in the same costume he wore to the Capitol riots.

He also has a car bumper sticker with the word ‘WQKE’ and the hashtags ‘#AllAboutTheChildren’ and ‘#TheGreatAwakening’, which are references to the QAnon conspiracy theory movement that believes in the existence of a vast underground pedophile ring.

Chansley is a fixture at anti-lockdown rallies and has been seen at numerous pro-Trump demonstrations over the last year, including one in February where he was photographed holding a sign that read “Q Sent Me”.

In September, Chansley reportedly led a protest at Arrowhead Mall in Glendale, in which he claimed a spiral sign close to the bathrooms in the shopping centre was “an FBI pedophile code”.

A profile on the film industry site Backstage shows Chansley previously sought acting work and lists one project in which he volunteered at a Theatre Camp for disadvantaged children in 2018.

Looking forward to seeing his face on the $20 after the 2nd Revolution succeeds

[Macunaima]

Now here's the question only the QAnon Anonymous people have asked, so far:

How is it that an evicted failed actor and borderline mental health case living in his mom's basement manages to scrape together the cash to fly, coast to coast, to major Q events? The guy's all over Arizona, obviously, but has also been seen in California, Florida, and no D.C.

QAnon Anonymous is a brilliant podcast, by the way, and I highly recommend to anyone trying to make sense of the U.S. these days.

[Macunaima]

Note, btw, that he was evicted well BEFORE the U.S. woke up to Covid-19.

[Ssanemax]

Now here's the question only the QAnon Anonymous people have asked, so far:

How is it that an evicted failed actor and borderline mental health case living in his mom's basement manages to scrape together the cash to fly, coast to coast, to major Q events? The guy's all over Arizona, obviously, but has also been seen in California, Florida, and no D.C.
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two possibilities - he is funded by a shadowy evil conspiracy - probably anti-semites and pro-pedo, who no one has managed to spot yet or 2) his mummy pays for his travel

which one do you favour Mac?

[Voice From Limbo]

So, he didn't have a "Blue Lives Matter" bumper sticker?

I wonder how many of these people did:

https://youtu.be/QrrrX5oBADA

[Macunaima]

Now here's the question only the QAnon Anonymous people have asked, so far:

How is it that an evicted failed actor and borderline mental health case living in his mom's basement manages to scrape together the cash to fly, coast to coast, to major Q events? The guy's all over Arizona, obviously, but has also been seen in California, Florida, and no D.C.
.

two possibilities - he is funded by a shadowy evil conspiracy - probably anti-semites and pro-pedo, who no one has managed to spot yet or 2) his mummy pays for his travel

which one do you favour Mac?

Me? I figure its right wing nutter donations via some sort of go fund me scheme.

[Il Segaiolo Pedantesco]

Melania Trump denounces violence but calls ‘passion’ of Trump supporters ‘inspiring’...

Fuck you Melanie!

In her letter, Melania Trump does not attribute the tragic events to anyone in particular, saying only that she is “disappointed and disheartened with what happened last week” and she condemns the violence. She says she prays for the families of those who died and asks that we “look at things from all perspectives.” She seems to see a silver lining, writing, “It is inspiring to see that so many have found a passion and enthusiasm in participating in an election.”

During the short-lived insurrection, the first lady was overseeing a photo shoot of rugs, furniture and decorative objects in the White House — perhaps for a coffee-table book about her restoration efforts that she has expressed interest in writing, CNN reported. She continued on with the shoot, according to CNN, even as staff and members of the press asked if she would be issuing a statement asking for calm, as she had done during the Black Lives Matter protests this summer. Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s spokeswoman, announced her resignation that evening, as did another member of the first lady’s staff, Anna Cristina “Rickie” Niceta, the White House social secretary.

Winston-Wolkoff, the former aide whose essay seemed to anger Melania Trump, turned on the her after she thought the first lady was making her take the fall in news reports over how money was spent at Trump’s $107 million inauguration. The former aide has spent recent months undermining the first lady’s public image. “Many still believe that Melania is powerless, but don’t be fooled; she is an abuser too, of the worst kind,” she wrote in The Daily Beast op-ed. “The kind that speaks kindly to children. The sickness is under the skin. Melania knows and supports Donald and his viewpoints.”

Trump’s latest statement is “at least in part a response to Winston-Wolkoff’s op-ed,” says Katherine Jellison, a professor of history at Ohio University who studies first ladies. “To me, the ‘tell’ is Trump's language criticizing naysayers who are trying to remain ‘relevant.’ She has used that language before in responding to Wolkoff’s public criticism of her.”

“This is a deeply insecure woman whose need to be relevant defies logic,” Grisham told The Washington Post in late August.

The way the essay is written seems to signal that Melania Trump, sans Grisham, is operating largely on her own, says Lauren A. Wright, a political scientist at Princeton University who studies first ladies and their communications. Wright points to “the typos, the vague language, the euphemisms and the references to being personally attacked” as indications that she is “lacking support staff to help with public messaging, which has been a feature of her office since day one.”

Also telling, says Jellison, is the order in which she lists the names of the dead — beginning with Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by police during the riot as she tried to break into the Speaker’s Lobby outside the House of Representatives, and ending with Brian Sicknick and Howard Liebengood, a pair of Capitol police officers. (Rioters reportedly hit Sicknick in the head with a fire extinguisher; he later died. Liebengood died by suicide several days after the raid.)

“You would have thought that SOMEONE would have told her to mention the Capitol police before mentioning the rioters in her condolence statement and not to chalk it up to ‘enthusiasm’ about the election,” Jellison wrote to The Post. “She is not being well served by her remaining staff.”

Kate Bennett, CNN’s correspondent on first families, found that several lines of the statement had been lifted directly from Melania Trump’s speech last fall at the Republican National Convention held in the White House Rose Garden. One line, “The common thread in all of these challenging situations is America’s unwavering resolve to help one another,” is identical in both the speech and the essay; in other instances a word or two is changed (“witness” instead of “see,” “vulnerable” instead of “fragile”). It was a strange echo to the beginning of Melania Trump’s run as a political spouse, when lines from her 2016 RNC speech were found to be plagiarized from Michelle Obama.

In this case, says Wright, “If the goal is to comfort, calm and empathize, certain features of this statement, like the recycled phrases and references to being personally attacked, probably diminish its effectiveness.”