Only Republicans Practice Distancing

 

No, not physical distancing. The kind of weak-kneed, egg-shell trodding “denunciation” of non-entities like QAnon Kevin McCarthy did on Fox News. Will Republicans ever learn not to answer the “when did you stop beating your wife” question? To make a joke of it instead, as President Trump did — paraphrased: “is it a bad thing if we’re saving the world from Satanist pedophiles?”

I’m not following the QAnon controversy, just like I didn’t follow the alt-Right kerfuffle. Who the hell cares!! My God, we’re facing potential economic collapse with COVID lock-downs and the possible election of a Marxist-backed, senile, career (by which I mean corrupt) political figurehead. And, closer to home, my state is on fire and I can’t see the 14,000-foot mountain across the valley for the all the smoke, and we have multiple family hardships we’re undergoing with Elder probably being delayed a year in graduating from Hillsdale due to the limitations of remote learning, and Little Miss Anthrope starting a new chemo drug soon. QAnon? Seriously?? Next thing you know, they’ll be making up a scandal about the US Postal Service! It’s just maddening.

Meanwhile, mainstream Democrats are promoting an immoral, murderous ideology responsible for the impoverishment and mass suffering and the deaths of over 100 million people in the 20th century alone — and Republicans are the ones apologizing.

You can’t make this stuff up.

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  1. Kevin Schulte Member
    Kevin Schulte
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    Make the Progs disavow ANTIFA and Marxist BLM. Make them disavow Tranny Reading Hour. Make them disavow 4th trimester abortions then make them disavow Ralph Northam.

    The list can go on and on.

    STOP THE GROVELING !!!!!!!!

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  2. Ed G. Member
    Ed G.
    @EdG

    I think they all need some free advice: how does one actually sidestep questions like this?

    My preference would be something like this:

    I don’t do disavowals or denunciations. It’s un-American. There are plenty of people and organizations I disagree with, and I have no problem expressing that disagreement. What you’re asking is different and I won’t play along. I object to your shabby tactic of asking me about a subject that has nothing to do with me and which I know nothing about as if there is some presumption of a connection. You’re the one making a connection, not me. Why are you trying to connect this to me? What’s your game?

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  3. DonG (skeptic) Coolidge
    DonG (skeptic)
    @DonG

    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon.  I don’t know why.  They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature.  I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

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  4. Flicker Coolidge
    Flicker
    @Flicker

    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon. I don’t know why. They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature. I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

    Qanon is just the latest version of Trump is a Cult.

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  5. Al Sparks Coolidge
    Al Sparks
    @AlSparks

    I barely know what QAnon is.  It seems very fringe, and yet the media is highlighting it.

    The real non-story is that it doesn’t have many followers.

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  6. Percival Thatcher
    Percival
    @Percival

    Al Sparks (View Comment):

    I barely know what QAnon is. It seems very fringe, and yet the media is highlighting it.

    The real non-story is that it doesn’t have many followers.

    I attended a Tea Party rally that was covered by one of the local TV stations. It was at a local park. There were the usual collection of grannies in floppy red-white-and-blue homemade hats, moms and dads with their kids, college students, office workers on lunch break, a few politicians (or politician wannabees) and some knucklehead wearing an “Obama is a Martian Space Wizard” tee-shirt that wasn’t engaging in anyone except the camera crew. He got there five minutes before the crew arrived, departed five minutes after they left, and he occupied them for about 80% of the twenty minutes or so that they were present. He didn’t listen to a single speaker, didn’t so much as peruse any of the literature being handed out, didn’t even seem to talk to anyone other than the media.

    Would you like to guess who took up about 80% of the evening’s news coverage for that event, and was at least visible in the background throughout?

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  7. Flicker Coolidge
    Flicker
    @Flicker

    Al Sparks (View Comment):

    I barely know what QAnon is. It seems very fringe, and yet the media is highlighting it.

    The real non-story is that it doesn’t have many followers.

    I seem to run into them a lot on certain web sites.  They are very up-beat.  They are nearly benignly apocalyptic, as if Trump is The Anointed One and the Q-Anon twitterers are Angels and Prophets.  They post innumerated, seemingly encrypted strings of letters and punctuation mixed with numbers, and decipher them as mystics interpreting goat entrails.

    The one thing I’ve read about them that seems more than half-way rational was an article of one guy who said that he, and I think a couple of his friends, made a lot of money creating and disseminating “fake news” that were intended to go viral for ad counts or clicks or something (I hope I’m not combining two different stories here).  And Q-Anon was just one of these fake stories, but it caught on so big that others began to duplicate the Q-Anon messaging style.  He says that the whole thing is completely and genuinely “fake” and was from the start.

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  8. Bishop Wash Member
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    Flicker (View Comment):

    Al Sparks (View Comment):

    I barely know what QAnon is. It seems very fringe, and yet the media is highlighting it.

    The real non-story is that it doesn’t have many followers.

    I seem to run into them a lot on certain web sites. They are very up-beat. They are nearly benignly apocalyptic, as if Trump is The Anointed One and the Q-Anon twitterers are Angels and Prophets. They post innumerated, seemingly encrypted strings of letters and punctuation mixed with numbers, and decipher them as mystics interpreting goat entrails.

    The one thing I’ve read about them that seems more than half-way rational was an article of one guy who said that he, and I think a couple of his friends, made a lot of money creating and disseminating “fake news” that were intended to go viral for ad counts or clicks or something (I hope I’m not combining two different stories here). And Q-Anon was just one of these fake stories, but it caught on so big that others began to duplicate the Q-Anon messaging style. He says that the whole thing is completely and genuinely “fake” and was from the start.

    The Skeptoid Podcast covered Q Anon last month. There were a bunch of Anon accounts, but Q (for the Department of Energy top secret clearance level) is the one that stuck. I didn’t know much about it until I listened to that episode. The same day I was behind this truck. 

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  9. Flicker Coolidge
    Flicker
    @Flicker

    Bishop Wash (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    Al Sparks (View Comment):

    I barely know what QAnon is. It seems very fringe, and yet the media is highlighting it.

    The real non-story is that it doesn’t have many followers.

    I seem to run into them a lot on certain web sites. They are very up-beat. They are nearly benignly apocalyptic, as if Trump is The Anointed One and the Q-Anon twitterers are Angels and Prophets. They post innumerated, seemingly encrypted strings of letters and punctuation mixed with numbers, and decipher them as mystics interpreting goat entrails.

    The one thing I’ve read about them that seems more than half-way rational was an article of one guy who said that he, and I think a couple of his friends, made a lot of money creating and disseminating “fake news” that were intended to go viral for ad counts or clicks or something (I hope I’m not combining two different stories here). And Q-Anon was just one of these fake stories, but it caught on so big that others began to duplicate the Q-Anon messaging style. He says that the whole thing is completely and genuinely “fake” and was from the start.

    The Skeptoid Podcast covered Q Anon last month. There were a bunch of Anon accounts, but Q (for the Department of Energy top secret clearance level) is the one that stuck. I didn’t know much about it until I listened to that episode. The same day I was behind this truck.

    That’s the summer camp his kid was attending.  GO Camp WWGIWGA!

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  10. Vince Guerra Inactive
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    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon. I don’t know why. They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature. I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

    If 2020 has taught us anything it’s taught us that anything is possible. I think I’ve heard all of it, and I shrug my shoulders, say, “Well, nothing will surprise me anymore,” and go buy another box of ammo and a case of peanut butter for my, er, earthquake preparedness kit. Yeah, that’s it.

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  11. Basil Fawlty Member
    Basil Fawlty
    @BasilFawlty

    Western Chauvinist: To make a joke of it instead, as President Trump did — paraphrased: “is it a bad thing if we’re saving the world from Satanist pedophiles?”

    And cannibals!

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  12. MichaelKennedy Inactive
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    Kevin Schulte (View Comment):

    Make the Progs disavow ANTIFA and Marxist BLM. Make them disavow Tranny Reading Hour. Make them disavow 4th trimester abortions then make them disavow Ralph Northam.

    The list can go on and on.

    STOP THE GROVELING !!!!!!!!

    That’s when the Bulwark calls Trump “divisive.”

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  13. MichaelKennedy Inactive
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Al Sparks (View Comment):

    I barely know what QAnon is. It seems very fringe, and yet the media is highlighting it.

    The real non-story is that it doesn’t have many followers.

    I attended a Tea Party rally that was covered by one of the local TV stations. It was at a local park. There were the usual collection of grannies in floppy red-white-and-blue homemade hats, moms and dads with their kids, college students, office workers on lunch break, a few politicians (or politician wannabees) and some knucklehead wearing an “Obama is a Martian Space Wizard” tee-shirt that wasn’t engaging in anyone except the camera crew. He got there five minutes before the crew arrived, departed five minutes after they left, and he occupied them for about 80% of the twenty minutes or so that they were present. He didn’t listen to a single speaker, didn’t so much as peruse any of the literature being handed out, didn’t even seem to talk to anyone other than the media.

    Would you like to guess who took up about 80% of the evening’s news coverage for that event, and was at least visible in the background throughout?

    There was a similar ringer at the Oceanside CA Tea Party rally but the members got a big sign with an arrow and held it over him until he left.  I forget what it said but it made sure everyone  knew he was a ringer.

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  14. James Gawron Inactive
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    Westy,

    They have no policies that they believe in and they have no policies that work. All that they do well is lie. Lying is their only tactic. They create a complete lie like QAnon to distract everyone from the facts of very real conspiracies. Antifa/BLM are avowed Marxist organizations that use well known Marxist tactics of arson, looting, street attacks on bystanders, street attacks on police, and defacing & destroying public monuments. George Floyd died of a heart attack from a self-administered triple dose of Fentanyl. He was not murdered by the police who were not at all racist.

    You are exactly right. No one on the right should waste a microsecond on their distraction crap. Attack, attack, and attack on their very real evil violence in the streets. Attack on their very real disastrous policies. Attack on their totally ridiculous candidates.

    Regards,

    Jim

     

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  15. Jon1979 Inactive
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    Flicker (View Comment):

    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon. I don’t know why. They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature. I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

    Qanon is just the latest version of Trump is a Cult.

    It’s simply the ‘alt-right’ trope, repackaged by the media under a new name as part of an effort to make the far right fringe seem more powerful and somehow influential over Trump. The original alt-right trope got heavy play during the 2016 election and in the months after, especially as the left tried to weave a conspiracy theory around Charlottesville. But whatever hardcore support there was for Trump on the far right fell off quickly, especially after they found out whatever part of their own beliefs they might have projected onto Trump weren’t true (the Poway synagogue gunman in California last year, John Earnest, was in the news for about 24 hours when his far right views were initially known, and then was non-personed and the whole story downplayed when it turned out he hated Trump as a “Zionist, Jew-loving” traitor, which he stated in an online post prior to the attack. But most of the big media still wants people to believe folks like Earnest are Trump’s biggest backers and are the powerful QAnon leaders).

     

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  16. Percival Thatcher
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    @Percival

    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon. I don’t know why. They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature. I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

    Qanon is just the latest version of Trump is a Cult.

    It’s simply the ‘alt-right’ trope, repackaged by the media under a new name as part of an effort to make the far right fringe seem more powerful and somehow influential over Trump. The original alt-right trope got heavy play during the 2016 election and in the months after, especially as the left tried to weave a conspiracy theory around Charlottesville. But whatever hardcore support there was for Trump on the far right fell off quickly, especially after they found out whatever part of their own beliefs they might have projected onto Trump weren’t true (the Poway synagogue gunman in California last year, John Earnest, was in the news for about 24 hours when his far right views were initially known, and then was non-personed and the whole story downplayed when it turned out he hated Trump as a “Zionist, Jew-loving” traitor, which he stated in an online post prior to the attack. But most of the big media still wants people to believe folks like Earnest are Trump’s biggest backers and are the powerful QAnon leaders).

     

    Knucklehead Richard B. Spencer attracts around 200 like-minded knuckleheads to march around in circles waving backyard tiki torches and the media have a conniption. Meanwhile, a nearby hotel was host to a convention that attracted 6,000 furries.

    The Left needs a boogie man. If they can’t find a real one, they’ll grab the first available whack-job, no matter how Lilliputian, and stick a camera in his attention-starved face. 

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  17. Jon1979 Inactive
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    Qanon is just the latest version of Trump is a Cult.

    It’s simply the ‘alt-right’ trope, repackaged by the media under a new name as part of an effort to make the far right fringe seem more powerful and somehow influential over Trump. The original alt-right trope got heavy play during the 2016 election and in the months after, especially as the left tried to weave a conspiracy theory around Charlottesville. But whatever hardcore support there was for Trump on the far right fell off quickly, especially after they found out whatever part of their own beliefs they might have projected onto Trump weren’t true (the Poway synagogue gunman in California last year, John Earnest, was in the news for about 24 hours when his far right views were initially known, and then was non-personed and the whole story downplayed when it turned out he hated Trump as a “Zionist, Jew-loving” traitor, which he stated in an online post prior to the attack. But most of the big media still wants people to believe folks like Earnest are Trump’s biggest backers and are the powerful QAnon leaders).

     

    Knucklehead Richard B. Spencer attracts around 200 like-minded knuckleheads to march around in circles waving backyard tiki torches and the media have a conniption. Meanwhile, a nearby hotel was host to a convention that attracted 6,000 furries.

    The Left needs a boogie man. If they can’t find a real one, they’ll grab the first available whack-job, no matter how Lilliputian, and stick a camera in his attention-starved face.

    The media in the current election cycle has gone so Baghdad Bob, in trying to freak out about QAnon while denying there’s much of anything wrong in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and other big cities, that they may have finally reached the point where the spin becomes glaringly obvious to even the most casual voter (the riot variation of this was right-wing ‘Umbrella Man‘ supposedly being the key to everything in Minneapolis).

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  18. Bishop Wash Member
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon. I don’t know why. They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature. I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

    Qanon is just the latest version of Trump is a Cult.

    It’s simply the ‘alt-right’ trope, repackaged by the media under a new name as part of an effort to make the far right fringe seem more powerful and somehow influential over Trump. The original alt-right trope got heavy play during the 2016 election and in the months after, especially as the left tried to weave a conspiracy theory around Charlottesville. But whatever hardcore support there was for Trump on the far right fell off quickly, especially after they found out whatever part of their own beliefs they might have projected onto Trump weren’t true (the Poway synagogue gunman in California last year, John Earnest, was in the news for about 24 hours when his far right views were initially known, and then was non-personed and the whole story downplayed when it turned out he hated Trump as a “Zionist, Jew-loving” traitor, which he stated in an online post prior to the attack. But most of the big media still wants people to believe folks like Earnest are Trump’s biggest backers and are the powerful QAnon leaders).

    Knucklehead Richard B. Spencer attracts around 200 like-minded knuckleheads to march around in circles waving backyard tiki torches and the media have a conniption. Meanwhile, a nearby hotel was host to a convention that attracted 6,000 furries..

    A Beto campaign really rally?

    Edit: silly phone keyboard, I meant rally.

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  19. Percival Thatcher
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    Bishop Wash (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon. I don’t know why. They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature. I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

    Qanon is just the latest version of Trump is a Cult.

    It’s simply the ‘alt-right’ trope, repackaged by the media under a new name as part of an effort to make the far right fringe seem more powerful and somehow influential over Trump. The original alt-right trope got heavy play during the 2016 election and in the months after, especially as the left tried to weave a conspiracy theory around Charlottesville. But whatever hardcore support there was for Trump on the far right fell off quickly, especially after they found out whatever part of their own beliefs they might have projected onto Trump weren’t true (the Poway synagogue gunman in California last year, John Earnest, was in the news for about 24 hours when his far right views were initially known, and then was non-personed and the whole story downplayed when it turned out he hated Trump as a “Zionist, Jew-loving” traitor, which he stated in an online post prior to the attack. But most of the big media still wants people to believe folks like Earnest are Trump’s biggest backers and are the powerful QAnon leaders).

     

    Knucklehead Richard B. Spencer attracts around 200 like-minded knuckleheads to march around in circles waving backyard tiki torches and the media have a conniption. Meanwhile, a nearby hotel was host to a convention that attracted 6,000 furries..

    A Beto campaign really?

    Yes. A reverse-Beto. Or a reverse-Wendy Davis.

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  20. Jon1979 Inactive
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Knucklehead Richard B. Spencer attracts around 200 like-minded knuckleheads to march around in circles waving backyard tiki torches and the media have a conniption. Meanwhile, a nearby hotel was host to a convention that attracted 6,000 furries..

    A Beto campaign really?

    Yes. A reverse-Beto. Or a reverse-Wendy Davis.

    Beto really let his progressive furry freak flag fly during his farcical run for president in 2019. But he did learn from Davis’ train-wreak campaign of 2014 during his run against Cruz in ’18, in that he downplayed what he really believed on things like gun control or fossil fuels, in order to avoid scaring away moderate voters. He was as gushed over in ’18 as Davis was four years ago over her pro-abortion stance by the national media, but avoided the trap Wendy fell into, in tailoring her entire campaign to the national media, as if she was running for governor of New York or California instead of Texas. O’Rourke came 17 points closer to winning than Davis did by accepting the over-the-top media hype and out-of-state campaign donations, but distancing himself from overt support of the Democrats’ progressive positions when he campaigned across the state.

    Beto didn’t have a choice running for president but to pander to those people and the woke scolds in the national Democratic Party. But that’s a point Republicans in Red states and swing states need to do in 2020 — just as the media tries to make it seem like every GOP candidate is a secret QAnon member, the Republicans need to  force Democrats in non-deep Blue areas to either defend or repudiate the worst of the left’s angry faction, which currently is doing far more real-time damage to Democratic-run cities around the U.S. than anything being posted by QAnon people on the Internet.

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  21. TBA Coolidge
    TBA
    @RobtGilsdorf

    Western Chauvinist:

    No, not physical distancing. The kind of weak-kneed, egg-shell trodding “denunciation” of non-entities like QAnon Kevin McCarthy did on Fox News. Will Republicans ever learn not to answer the “when did you stop beating your wife” question?

    I don’t understand it either. 

    “Do you have a comment on [someone else about something else]?” 

    “No. Why would I?” 

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  22. Western Chauvinist Member
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    TBA (View Comment):

    Western Chauvinist:

    No, not physical distancing. The kind of weak-kneed, egg-shell trodding “denunciation” of non-entities like QAnon Kevin McCarthy did on Fox News. Will Republicans ever learn not to answer the “when did you stop beating your wife” question?

    I don’t understand it either.

    “Do you have a comment on [someone else about something else]?”

    “No. Why would I?”

    Duh.

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  23. James Gawron Inactive
    James Gawron
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    Westy,

    Here is an another example of what you are talking about.

    Another Virus Is Spreading – NRO

    Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene notch victories for conspiracism and religious bigotry.

    NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLELaura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist who has promoted religious bigotry, won a House primary election in Florida on Tuesday with 42.5 percent of the vote. Loomer has “zero chance” of winning in November in an overwhelmingly Democratic district that includes West Palm Beach, but her primary victory is still a troubling sign that the virus of conspiracism is spreading in the body politic, and few Republicans in positions of power show signs that they’re interested in doing much to stop it.

    Laura Loomer came to our Synagogue one Shabbos. We are in her district. We were serving Shabbos dinner (pre-COVID) and unlike many other candidates who just dropped by to speak and then took off, she stayed for the meal. By chance, I was sitting next to her even though I had no idea in advance that she would be there. We chatted about all kinds of things for close to 2.5 hours. I found her knowledgeable, calm, kind, and showing no signs of religious bigotry or wild conspiracy theories. I was quite impressed and liked her as a person too. This is a heavily Democratic-leaning district. Lois Frankel, the incumbent, has been entrenched in local Democratic politics for three decades. If Laura could unseat her it would be a miracle. The local Republican Party doesn’t find anything wrong or dangerous about her and if you would meet her I doubt you would either. They are amazed at her determination and fearlessness to take on Frankel. She has done a good job of fundraising and seems to be able to energize the base and younger conservatives, many of whom have never participated in politics.

    With all of the threats to Western Civilization, from ISIS to the Marxist Chinese, you would think that someone with the creds to be writing for NR would have a few hundred targets more pressing than hitting Laura with this cheap diatribe. Not only isn’t it true but it is so wholly unnecessary that it reeks of a fawning phony pseudo-conservative who is more worried what his liberal pals might say about him, than he is about principles & issues that really matter.

    To go out of your way and spend time on a phony distraction that the left is spewing in your face is incredibly dumb. It’s a free country (so far) and you can write about whatever you want to. However, by the same principle, I’m not required to be impressed by your resume and thus praise you for a stupid false waste of time column that defames a good Republican.

    Regards,

    Jim

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  24. Western Chauvinist Member
    Western Chauvinist
    @WesternChauvinist

    James Gawron (View Comment):

    Westy,

    Here is an another example of what you are talking about.

    Another Virus Is Spreading – NRO

    Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene notch victories for conspiracism and religious bigotry.

    NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLELaura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist who has promoted religious bigotry, won a House primary election in Florida on Tuesday with 42.5 percent of the vote. Loomer has “zero chance” of winning in November in an overwhelmingly Democratic district that includes West Palm Beach, but her primary victory is still a troubling sign that the virus of conspiracism is spreading in the body politic, and few Republicans in positions of power show signs that they’re interested in doing much to stop it.

    Laura Loomer came to our Synagogue one Shabbos. We are in her district. We were serving Shabbos dinner (pre-COVID) and unlike many other candidates who just dropped by to speak and then took off, she stayed for the meal. By chance, I was sitting next to her even though I had no idea in advance that she would be there. We chatted about all kinds of things for close to 2.5 hours. I found her knowledgeable, calm, kind, and showing no signs of religious bigotry or wild conspiracy theories. I was quite impressed and liked her as a person too. This is a heavily Democratic-leaning district. Lois Frankel, the incumbent, has been entrenched in local Democratic politics for three decades. If Laura could unseat her it would be a miracle. The local Republican Party doesn’t find anything wrong or dangerous about her and if you would meet her I doubt you would either. They are amazed at her determination and fearlessness to take on Frankel. She has done a good job of fundraising and seems to be able to energize the base and younger conservatives, many of whom have never participated in politics.

    With all of the threats to Western Civilization, from ISIS to the Marxist Chinese, you would think that someone with the creds to be writing for NR would have a few hundred targets more pressing than hitting Laura with this cheap diatribe. Not only isn’t it true but it is so wholly unnecessary that it reeks of a fawning phony pseudo-conservative who is more worried what his liberal pals might say about him, than he is about principles & issues that really matter.

    To go out of your way and spend time on a phony distraction that the left is spewing in your face is incredibly dumb. It’s a free country (so far) and you can write about whatever you want to. However, by the same principle, I’m not required to be impressed by your resume and thus praise you for a stupid false waste of time column that defames a good Republican.

    Regards,

    Jim

    Pathetic. Why don’t these “conservatives” stop pretending and surrender already. They’re no good to our side at all.

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  25. MichaelKennedy Inactive
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon. I don’t know why. They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature. I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

    Qanon is just the latest version of Trump is a Cult.

    It’s simply the ‘alt-right’ trope, repackaged by the media under a new name as part of an effort to make the far right fringe seem more powerful and somehow influential over Trump. The original alt-right trope got heavy play during the 2016 election and in the months after, especially as the left tried to weave a conspiracy theory around Charlottesville. But whatever hardcore support there was for Trump on the far right fell off quickly, especially after they found out whatever part of their own beliefs they might have projected onto Trump weren’t true (the Poway synagogue gunman in California last year, John Earnest, was in the news for about 24 hours when his far right views were initially known, and then was non-personed and the whole story downplayed when it turned out he hated Trump as a “Zionist, Jew-loving” traitor, which he stated in an online post prior to the attack. But most of the big media still wants people to believe folks like Earnest are Trump’s biggest backers and are the powerful QAnon leaders).

    Knucklehead Richard B. Spencer attracts around 200 like-minded knuckleheads to march around in circles waving backyard tiki torches and the media have a conniption. Meanwhile, a nearby hotel was host to a convention that attracted 6,000 furries.

    The Left needs a boogie man. If they can’t find a real one, they’ll grab the first available whack-job, no matter how Lilliputian, and stick a camera in his attention-starved face.

    I assume you know he has now endorsed Biden

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    Leftists seem obsessed with Qanon. I don’t know why. They also seem to promote the anti-pedophile nature as opposed to original anti-deepstate nature. I think they doth protest too much about anti-pedophilia.

    Qanon is just the latest version of Trump is a Cult.

    It’s simply the ‘alt-right’ trope, repackaged by the media under a new name as part of an effort to make the far right fringe seem more powerful and somehow influential over Trump. The original alt-right trope got heavy play during the 2016 election and in the months after, especially as the left tried to weave a conspiracy theory around Charlottesville. But whatever hardcore support there was for Trump on the far right fell off quickly, especially after they found out whatever part of their own beliefs they might have projected onto Trump weren’t true (the Poway synagogue gunman in California last year, John Earnest, was in the news for about 24 hours when his far right views were initially known, and then was non-personed and the whole story downplayed when it turned out he hated Trump as a “Zionist, Jew-loving” traitor, which he stated in an online post prior to the attack. But most of the big media still wants people to believe folks like Earnest are Trump’s biggest backers and are the powerful QAnon leaders).

    Knucklehead Richard B. Spencer attracts around 200 like-minded knuckleheads to march around in circles waving backyard tiki torches and the media have a conniption. Meanwhile, a nearby hotel was host to a convention that attracted 6,000 furries.

    The Left needs a boogie man. If they can’t find a real one, they’ll grab the first available whack-job, no matter how Lilliputian, and stick a camera in his attention-starved face.

    I assume you know he has now endorsed Biden

    Yeah. I’m still laughing at the news. Trump ought to drop a tweet about how there are actually good people on either side of the election just to make heads at CNN explode.

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