Perhaps this is old news, but the Oath Keepers indictment shows they started planning just two days after the Presidential election. The indictment *implies* (though it's a little ambiguously worded) that by Nov 9 they were already planning for January 6.
I'd be interested to know if the Oath Keepers really were planning for Jan 6 so early, or if that's just ambiguous wording in the indictment and it's more that they were planning something in DC at some unspecified time.
While some of the Oath Keepers leadership personally led the mob in storming the Capitol, others wondered if it was really Antifa. It's what @noturtlesoup17 was saying.
@noturtlesoup17@emptywheel The "stack one" cell of Oath Keepers leadership inside the Capitol went hunting for Nancy Pelosi.
@noturtlesoup17@emptywheel This has been said many times, but the footage of sedate flag-wavers pottering around the Statuary Hall gave such a misleading impression of the prolonged pitched battles between the mob and Capitol Policet to take and hold parts of the complex.
@noturtlesoup17@emptywheel The Oath Keepers met the night of Jan 6 to carry on planning. The last line of the Rhodes sedition indictment: From inauguration day, he began to organise local militias to oppose the Biden Administration.
Politico has the fake certificates of ascertainment from Michigan and Arizona that were submitted to the National Archives in an attempt to put their fake electors in play. Two very different documents:
Arizona's fake certificate, submitted by one Lori Osiecki of Mesa, AZ, is a Sovereign Citizen thing proposing eleven random Trump supporters as their Electors. It was widely reported at the time.
AZ SecState Katie Hobbs asked the state law authorities to investigate Osiecki for the fraud back in December 2020.
In July during Israel's Delta wave, I caused a bit of a fuss when I said that the data showed previously-infected people were catching Delta at a very low rate — lower than vaccinated people. Well... arieh.substack.com/p/inside-israe…
Now, in Israel's Omicron wave, recovered people seem to be catching the virus at about the same rate as everyone else. Maybe even a little bit higher, proportionally speaking.
It's too early to talk about relative severity, and of course many of the non-recovered cases are among vaccinated people at this point. But the whole infection-acquired immunity is better thing isn't holding up under Omicron.
Star Trek's big-nosed, big-eared money obsessed Ferengi with a numbered list of religious rules they observe, played on screen by Jewish actors. We don't have to look far to find racist Jewish stereotypes in popular fiction.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace introduced Watto, the fat, greedy slaver with a black hat, big nose and beard, a stereotype so blatant that it caused a minor scandal when the film was released. Not a big enough scandal to change the character, of course.
I guess my point here is that this Harry Potter goblins discourse shouldn't happen in a vacuum just cos it suits other agendas. If we're doing this, let's do this. I suspect @jonstewart would agree.
A. wanting things to be a certain way: taxes, welfare, health, immigration, law, policing,
B. wanting things to be the way that the democratic system decides, even if that conflicts with what you want in A.
It's hard. It's complicated.
Trump and his supporters self-define as the majority. An election showed that the majority didn't support their politics; therefore the election must be rigged. It's a rejection of democracy itself.
Dr Vladimir Zelenko was one of the earliest HCQ pushers. Despite being a Hassidic Jew, he's now claiming the vaccines are the New Testament's 'Mark of the Beast'.
It's pretty unusual for an Ultra-Orthodox Jew to promote Christian scripture. But that's what Zelenko did on Charlie Kirk's show a couple of weeks ago, citing Revelation 13:15-17 in support of his claim that the coronavirus vaccines contain secret tracking technology.
He also claimed the vaccine a "poison death shot", said they cause AIDS, that Microsoft has patent 060606 (666, geddit?) to track you in the vaccines... and all that was just in the 6 minutes I could bear to listen to.
1. The Guardian decides to do a 'Who's YOUR person of the year" thingy where they'll print some reader submissions, eg "My person of the year is Britney cos she's free now" or whatever.
2. After a couple of days they stop accepting replies because they have enough for the article.
3. Twitter decides that this was a *competition* with a winner based on user votes, despite it never saying this. They further decided that JK Rowling must have been winning the competition and that the Guardian therefore scrapped it.