Telling, isn't it? Despicables keep bringing up this "Q". On such flimsy connections.

 

Ted
@trom771
GOP message: "Sure, we've broken every rule, exploited every loophole, screwed up a pandemic response, ripped off taxpayers, taken away voting rights, tried to overthrow the government, and caused long-term damage to the country. But WE'RE the real victims here."
10:58 AM · Apr 5, 2021

 

Unless you want to get turned in as a defector all you conservative/Republicans around here better get those donations sent into both Trump and the NRCC right fucking now. The are pissed and they aren't fucking around anymore. Either send money or you're a Democrat.

GOP Congressional Committee Threatens Supporters: If You Don’t Donate ‘We Will Have to Tell Trump You’re a DEFECTOR’


Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) homepage currently includes a prechecked recurring donation box, which if unchecked, will allegedly force the committee to tell Donald Trump that “you’re a DEFECTOR” and have sided with the Democratic party.

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/gop-...-we-will-have-to-tell-trump-youre-a-defector/

 

Another leader of the Republican party. Too stupid and ignorant to know the 19 in COVID stands for the year it was first discovered.

Right-wing 'idiot' Ted Nugent humiliates himself with latest COVID-19 rant – and the internet can’t stop laughing


www.rawstory.com

In the video , Nugent complained about his next tour being canceled due to COVID precautions, then ranted, "You know, I guess I would ask you — because I'm addicted to truth, logic and common sense — and my common-sense meter would demand the answer to why weren't we shut down for COVID one through 18? COVID-1 — and there was a COVID 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 — COVID one through 18 didn't shut anything down but woah, COVID-19!"

https://www.rawstory.com/ted-nugent-19-video/

 

Ted Nugent?
Who the fuck is Ted Nugent?
Oh, yeah.
Ted Nugent - Wikipedia

As Shooter often says, when an entertainer elects to inject politics into their career, they risk half of their audience. It never bodes well when they do that.

But of interest, poor Ted is ranting about what didn't happen earlier with Covid, and what's supposedly happening now. We been told repeatedly that Covid is Trump's fuck up, and biden/harris is saving our collective asses, you know, what with developing and distributing the vaccines and all.

So, if Ted is yammering about what didn't happen before, and what's happening now, shouldn't the message from the left be that Ted is actually praising biden/harris and coldcocking Trump?

 

Report: 22% of small & medium businesses closed in February

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 9:37 AM PT – Monday, April 12, 2021
America’s small businesses are collapsing at the fastest pace since COVID-19 lockdowns first began last year despite stimulus programs.

According to the Small Business Roundtable, 22 percent of all small and medium businesses in the U.S. were closed as of February. This is compared to 23 percent of such businesses that were closed last May.

Unlike last year, however, most of the businesses that are closed today may not be able to reopen due to the expiration of programs such as the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

Experts have said the recent increase of the national debt has failed to relieve American businesses.

“And a considerable part of these loans have to be paid back to Chinese banks and the Chinese government because political decisions that were made by the same people who run America now,” stated Hans Netten, a senior lecturer at Hague University. “The American growth model of stacking one loan on top of the other is long overdue.”

Despite all of this, the Biden administration expects GDP growth to tick up 10 percent in the second quarter compared to an 18 percent increase in national debt for the past year.

 

Nothing like it when leftists fail to recognize a bit of satire.

Apparently Uncle Ted is a bit more intelligent than the internet.

As there are several varieties of Coronaviruses...Coronaviruses are a type of virus. There are many different kinds, and some cause disease. A newly identified coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has caused a worldwide pandemic of respiratory illness, called COVID-19.....hack fuck fails again.

 

[QUOTE="shootersa, post: 12538606, member: 461701"]Biden/harris brought the numbers down?
Really?
And how, exactly, did they do that?
By throwing pork at people?
Jesus.

According to authorities, the states who relaxed restrictions, like Texas, actually saw new cases decrease. States that have continued restrictions have seen a rise in new cases.

Shooter is thinking that like similar viruses, we can never fully contain infections, rather our best hope is a controlled infection rate and a vaccine that lessens the severity of the disease.

In other words, like accidents, we will never eliminate them, we can only hope to influence the overall impact.[/QUOTE]

Mich. Gov. Whitmer faces resistance to COVID-19 shutdowns

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 8:32 AM PT – Monday, April 12, 2021
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been faced with calls to keep her state open after urging residents to stay at home to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Whitmer told reporters on Sunday, she’s calling for a temporary two-week long shutdown of in-person learning, youth sports games as well as restaurants and bars.


Coronavirus cases in Michigan have risen in recent weeks, especially among teenagers and children. Cases in children under 10-years-old jumped by 230 percent since February and people aged 10 to 19 experienced a 227 percent increase in cases.


This came despite the Democrat governor admitting the state has some of the strictest COVID-19 measures in the country.

“We are seeing a surge in Michigan despite the fact that we have some of the strongest policies in place: mask mandates, capacity limits, working from home,” Whitmer stated. “We’ve asked our state for a two-week pause…despite all that we are seeing a surge of variance and that’s precisely why we’re really encouraging them to think about surging vaccines into the state of Michigan.”

Meanwhile, the Michigan High School Athletics Association said it will continue to hold their games as scheduled and leave it up to individual schools to decide whether to participate.

Additionally, the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association called Whitmer misguided and said her recommendations are not rooted in “proof or reliable data.”



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More of the blatant insanity of the leftists and their motto:

''It's not that our policies dont work, it's just that we haven't done enough of it''

 

Well sure Jesus would have packed an AR and just started killing sinners. They just didn't have them back then. But Jesus wants you to kill those liberal homos now.

MAGA pastor: ‘Tough Guy’ Jesus was ‘a man’ unlike today’s ‘effeminate, almost homosexual’ Christian church


Jeff Jansen

Evangelical pro-Trump minister Jeff Jansen denounced the Christian church of the 21st century, calling it "effeminate, almost homosexual," in comparison to Jesus Christ, who, he says, was "a man," "a tough guy."

Jansen, author of "Trump: The Destiny of God's America: The Great Awakening and Battle for Our Country's Future," delivered his declaration "at a 'Reign' conference at Ignite Faith Church in Redmond, Oregon, over the weekend, where he bragged that the ushers at his church all carry guns and will not hesitate to kill anyone who even thinks 'about starting something,'" according to Right Wing Watch's Kyle Mantyla.

“Jesus wasn't a wimp," Jansen told parishoners. “He was a tough guy. He was a man. OK? He was a man. When they were selling in his Father's house, he went and he braided a whip. Now, that takes time. He's braiding a whip, and he's like, 'I'm coming for you, coming for you.' … He was very deliberate, and he was mad. He's a man. He whipped them. Sorry. Just whipped them. 'Oh, Jesus wouldn't do that.' The heck he wouldn't," Jansen ssaid.

“He was a man. But the church—the ekklesia, the government of God—has been so neutered and so turned effeminate, almost homosexual," he added. "I'm just telling you straight up. It's just ridiculous. Where are the men? Where's the maleness? Where is the 'I will defend the children, I will protect the family'? My ushers at my church, they all pack. I mean, they all pack. You come to my place, and you think about starting something, you're dead. They'll kill you. They'll shoot you because they're gonna protect everybody else. You try to pull something, you're dead. I said, 'Listen, guys, if I'm up there preaching and somebody comes up running, make sure you get them. Just kill 'em. Just shoot 'em dead.'"

Watch:

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pastor-2652507600/

 

We can always tell when a despicable triggers.
They start acting, well, effeminate, almost homosexual, you know, girly like.

 

Looks like more conservative/Republican party leaders are in trouble.

FBI chief says five QAnon conspiracy advocates arrested for January 6 U.S. Capitol attack




WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee hearing that at least five self-identified advocates of the QAnon conspiracy theory have been arrested in connection with the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol complex. "We have arrested at least five self-identified QAnon adherents related to the January 6 attacks specifically," Wray told a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Worldwide Threats on Wednesday. (Reporting by Mark Hosenball and Patricia Zengerle)

Read More


https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-chief-...es-arrested-for-january-6-u-s-capitol-attack/

 

Don't you arrogant ignorant stupid mother fuckers see what you are doing to each other? Are you so arrogant and ignorant as to truly believe that your way is the right way? The only way? Have you become detached from those around you so filled with hate that you dehumanize all that believe differently than yourself? Are so fucking lazy and self absorbed that you would listen to the opinions of those who are corrupt and have their own agenda instead of going out and finding out for yourself. Finding speaking and most importantly listening to those who see things differently than you do? And instead of literally crucifying them for it asking them why they actually do? Are you so much better attuned and informed that you have all the answers? Do you not realize that if you are not willing to go out roll your sleeves up find as many as you can find, listen to as many as you can find and learn from each other? Unite all you can and tell all who will listen what you have learned. Then shut the hell up. You know nothing your words mean shit regardless of what letters your high dollar education put in front of your name you are still if not more ignorant and your words mean nothing.
Over the last 6 years I have criss crossed this great nation. Thousands of miles horseback finding meeting listening to and tell what I have learned from all those I have met along the way. Are you so blind that you can not see our so numb that you can not feel what the true beauty of this place this nation made up of many nations is? Have you become so ignorant as not to realize that it is not as much the landscape and the wonders both natural and otherwise that are the true beauty of this nation but her people. You all of you.
God damn us all for what we have become and God damn me again for for so arrogant ignorant and stupid for thinking I could hide from it here or that matter anywhere.
We deserve what is to come but our children do not. Acta Non Verba. We are our brother's keeper!

 

Ok state Republicans need to start censure Ivanka.

Trump supporters explode in rage at Ivanka after she encourages others to get vaccinated



On Wednesday, Ivanka Trump posted an image of herself being vaccinated for COVID-19 to Instagram, urging her followers to get immunized as well.

"Today, I got the shot!!! I hope that you do too!" wrote Ivanka. "Thank you Nurse Torres!!!"

But Ivanka's urging fell on unwilling ears. Her post quickly filled up with angry replies from Trump supporters refusing to be vaccinated and suggesting a government conspiracy — despite the fact that the development of the vaccine began under, and was promoted by, former President Donald Trump himself.

"I'm losing respect for the Trump family. So over this virtue signaling," said one poster. Another said, "No thanks! Don't want to be a lab rat. #justsayno." Yet another replied, "Your personal choice but please don't push on others."

"No thanks! With a 99% survival rate, I shall pass. With Bill Gates involved I will not get one," said Rice448.

"Hell no. Why would you post this?" asked kenny_vv.

"Nope not putting that in my body," said call_me_g95.

"Bummer. I was hoping you were above this kind of virtue signaling," rmgvd commented.

"Wow that's extremely disappointing, but honestly I'm not surprised," said heather_15la.

"Nope and please stop trying to manipulate us into doing so. It's surprising to see you doing this now like the left and Hollywood have been," said the__real__american.

In recent weeks, polling indicates the percent of Americans unwilling to be vaccinated has dropped significantly. However, vaccine refusers remain, with white Republicans being among the most hostile group.

https://www.rawstory.com/ivanka-trump-vaccine-infurriates-fans/

 

And yet again we see how the despicable media manages the conversation to demonize that which does not align with their agenda.

 

Now look conservative/Republicans we are trying to help you. But you need to put the Q pipe down and then just slowly back away.


The problem with 'deprogramming' QAnon followers


The Conversation
April 14, 2021



Qanon believers at a rally. (Screenshot)

Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term personality changes. Deprogramming, also coercive, is thought to undo brainwashing.

As a professor of religious studies who has written and taught about alternative religious movements, I believe such deprogramming conversations do little to help us understand why people adopt QAnon beliefs. A deprogramming discourse fails to understand religious recruitment and conversion and excuses those spreading QAnon beliefs from accountability.

A brief brainwashing history
Deprogramming, a method thought to reverse extreme psychological manipulation, can't be understood apart from the concept of brainwashing.

The modern concept of brainwashing has its origin in Chinese experiments with American prisoners of war during the Korean War. Coercive physical and psychological methods were employed in an attempt to plant Communist beliefs in the minds of American POWs. To determine whether brainwashing was possible, the CIA then launched its own secret mind-control program in the 1950s called MK-ULTRA.

By the late 1950s researchers were already casting doubt on brainwashing theory. The anti-American behavior of captured Americans was best explained by temporary compliance owing to torture. This is akin to false confessions made under extreme duress.

Still, books like “The Manchurian Candidate," released in 1959, and “A Clockwork Orange," released in 1962 – both of which were turned into movies and heavily featured themes of brainwashing – reinforced the concept in popular culture. To this day, the language of brainwashing and deprogramming is applied to groups holding controversial beliefs – from fundamentalist Mormons to passionate Trump supporters.

In the 1970s and 1980s, brainwashing was used to explain why people would join new religious movements like Jim Jones' Peoples Temple or the Unification Church.

Seeking guardianship of adult children in these groups, parents cited the belief that members were brainwashed to justify court-ordered conservatorship. With guardianship orders in hand, they sought help from cult deprogrammers like Ted Patrick. Deprogrammers were notorious for kidnapping, isolating and harassing adults in an effort to reverse perceived cult brainwashing.

For a time, U.S. courts accepted brainwashing testimony despite the pseudo-scientific nature of the theory. It turns out that research on coercive conversion failed to support brainwashing theory. Several professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association, have filed legal briefs against brainwashing testimony. Others argued that deprogramming practices violated civil rights.

In 1995 the coercive deprogramming method was litigated again in Scott vs. Ross. The jury awarded the plaintiff nearly US$5 million in total damages. This bankrupted the co-defending Cult Awareness Network, a popular resource at the time for those seeking deprogramming services.

'Exit counseling'
Given this tarnished history, coercive deprogramming evolved into “exit counseling." Unlike deprogramming, exit counseling is voluntary and resembles an intervention or talk therapy.

One of the most visible self-styled exit counselors is former deprogrammer Rick Alan Ross, the executive director of the Cult Education Institute and defendant in Scott v. Ross. Through frequent media appearances, people including Ross and Steve Hassan, founder of the Freedom of Mind Resource Center, continue to contribute to the mind-control and deprogramming discourse in popular culture.

These “cult-recovery experts," some of whom were involved with the old deprogramming model, are now being used for QAnon deprogramming advice. Some, like Ross and cult intervention specialist Pat Ryan, advocate for a more aggressive intervention approach. Others, like Hassan, offer a gentler approach that includes active listening.

Choice vs. coercion
Despite the pivot to exit counseling, the language of deprogramming persists. The concept of deprogramming rests on the idea that people do not choose alternative beliefs. Instead, beliefs that are deemed too deviant for mainstream culture are thought to result from coercive manipulation by nefarious entities like cult leaders. When people call for QAnon believers to be deprogrammed, they are implicitly denying that followers exercised choice in accepting QAnon beliefs.

This denies the personal agency and free will of those who became QAnon enthusiasts, and shifts the focus to the programmer. It can also relieve followers of responsibility for perpetuating QAnon beliefs.

As I suggested in an earlier article, and as evident in the QAnon influence on the Jan. 6, 2021, capital insurrection, QAnon beliefs can be dangerous. I believe those who adopt and perpetuate these beliefs ought to be held responsible for the consequences.

This isn't to say that people are not subject to social influence. However, social influence is a far cry from the systematic, mind-swiping, coercive, robotic imagery conjured up by brainwashing.

Admittedly, what we choose to believe is constrained by the types of influences we face. Those restraints emerge from our social and economic circumstances. In the age of social media, we are also constrained by algorithms that influence the media we consume. Further examination of these issues in relation to the development of QAnon would prove fruitful.

But applying a brainwashing and deprogramming discourse limits our potential to understand the grievances of the QAnon community. To suggest “they were temporarily out of their minds" relieves followers of the conspiracy of responsibility and shelters the rest of society from grappling with uncomfortable social realities.

To understand the QAnon phenomenon, I believe analysts must dig deeply into the social, economic and political factors that influence the adoption of QAnon beliefs.

https://www.rawstory.com/the-problem-with-deprogramming-qanon-followers/

 

AH!
There it is!
Another call for those "reeducation camps"

The only problem of course is that just now, all the available locations are filled chock full of ILLEGAL UNACOMPANIED MINORS and ILLEGAL MIGRANTS.

 

White supremacists come out of hiding as they’re welcomed into the GOP and at Fox News: columnist


Fox News host Tucker Carlson


White supremacists have hidden under their white hoods for decades. Now, that mostly anonymous group is coming out from hiding to practice their far-right beliefs publicly, wrote columnist Wajahat Ali in the Daily Beast.

Last week, they were even recognized by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who eagerly prompted the racist "great replacement" theory that immigrants somehow nullify the existence of white people. As Casey Michael pointed out, the theory "has propelled fascistic massacres from New Zealand to San Diego to El Paso, Texas."

Ali congratulated racist America as they're allowed to come out from their shadows.

"This week firmly established that you no longer need to hate from the margins and fringes," he wrote. "You have found Valhalla, a thriving, lucrative, and loving kingdom within the conservative establishment where your racism and hateful conspiracy theories are embraced by the modern GOP. Just look upon Fox News host, multimillionaire, and privileged frozen food heir Tucker Carlson using his influential platform to literally parrot all of your white supremacist talking points."

He noted that those defending Carlson are part of the white supremacist movement. VDARE, an extremist white nationalist group, in particular, was among those who cheered Carlson's "great replacement" segment. It was "one of the best things Fox News has ever aired," he said. He even encouraged VDARE members to watch it because it "was filled with ideas and talking points" from their group.

"Walking mediocrity and habitually wrong conspiracy theorist, Charlie Kirk of Turning Points USA—the 'alt light' platform for young conservatives—also praised Carlson and his inaccurate and racist rant as 'factual and true,'" wrote Ali. "Even before this segment, Andrew Anglin, one of America's most prominent white supremacists, has referred to Carlson as 'literally our greatest ally.'"

It's a surprising new world among Fox hosts, who previously would shield their racist tendencies with vague comments and forced apologies. Ali remembered two years ago, after the El Paso shooting, Carlson was put on a forced vacation after he called while supremacy "a hoax" and claimed it isn't "a real problem." But times have changed and Carlson's comments last week wasn't a problem for the new Fox overlords.

Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch told the Anti-Defamation League that while it doesn't support white supremacy or anti-Semitism, it doesn't believe Carlson supported "white replacement" theory, CNN reported.

"As Mr. Carlson himself stated during the guest interview: 'White replacement theory? No, no, this is a voting rights question,'" he quoted Carlson. The ADL didn't buy it, saying that Carlson's comments went from denouncing the theory to embracing it in the sentences that followed.

Carlson's "attempt to at first dismiss" the replacement theory "while in the very next breath endorsing it under cover of 'a voting rights question' does not give him free license to invoke a white supremacist trope," said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

As Ali explained, these ideologies are the minority of the minority. And it is long past "time for the majority to call out this hate explicitly, name it, condemn it, and mobilize all of our resources to preserve and protect this fragile democracy and our communities' security."

He closed by hoping that "the GOP and right-wing establishment will join us in these efforts instead of sharing common purpose, conspiracy theories, and talking points with white supremacist extremists."

Read the full column at the Daily Beast.

https://www.rawstory.com/white-supremacists-come-out-closet/