Day 611 – Remember the Comet People?

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Do you remember the cult that were found dead in a house in LA?

They thought a spaceship was in the tail of a comet. Two of the members went to Radio Shack and bought a telescope, only to return it because they weren’t able to see the spaceship in the comet’s tail. Obviously, the scope was faulty.

Today I was reading an article about one of the fake electors in Georgia who claimed she only spent a few minutes in a county office where a forensic audit of the voting machines was going on by one of the Republican Trump team election denying folks. The video tape shows she was there for four hours and contrary to her claim of only being in the front office for a few minutes she was in the back where the “audit” was going on.

Okay. So? I got to wondering what happens when your belief gets upended by reality? 

If you claim the election was rigged and you go time and time again to prove it and there is no evidence of your claim, then what?

We’ve seen one example – Qanon. The ex-president has gone full in on that loony cult.

I guess it makes sense in that he can’t keep trying to operate in the real world.

In the last ten days three books have come out of significance about all this lunacy and its antecedents:

David Corn wrote one pointing out that this bigoted racist stuff that the Republicans are spouting has been festering in the U.S. for decades. (Ken Burns is pointing it out in his three part piece on the Holocaust and the U.S.)

Geoffrey Berman has one out called “Holding the Line” talking about how Trump and his flaks tried to drive him out of office. He wouldn’t go and had to be fired thus avoiding Barr or Trump from appointing anyone they wanted to take his place.

Now the book The Divider comes out and it chronicles just how ignorant and stupid Trump was in the Presidency. He didn’t know Finland was not part of Russia. He offered the West Bank to the Saudis (who didn’t want it). He didn’t know the difference between the Baltics and the Balkans. His ignorance is stunning, and dangerous. Those in his party knew this and failed to act. Now our democracy is in peril. Thanks all.

Oh, and now, one of Trump’s lawyers is being reported in NYT that he told Trump taking those documents would “get him in legal jeopardy,” and Trump took them anyway. What? He didn’t know. Uh, sorry, he returned half of them remember? Kinda blows the “I didn’t know” argument. Maybe he only half knew? Like being kinda pregnant? 

Liz Cheney said in the cloak room on Jan 6th there were sign up sheets for people willing to say the election was not won by Biden. She watched one of her colleagues sign the papers saying this what we do for orange Jesus. She watched this person committing a crime and willingly admitting to it as he was doing it.

And then Trump posts something about it being a disgrace where Biden was seated at the funeral of the Queen, and if he were President this wouldn’t have happened. Jimmy Kimmel remarked that he was happy to see that Trump admitted he wasn’t President.

If he had been President at the time of the Queen’s funeral I think the Brits would have handled it with stiff upper lip and seated Trump right at the front of the casket in Whitehall or somewhere, along with a stand in for Prince Charles – I mean King Charles. It would have been great. Oh well. 

Maybe, he could have been in-between Mr. Bean and John Cleese?

So much to ponder.