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7 minutes ago, romad1 said:

 

She has a BA from Arizona State, MBA from San Diego State, and a JD from something called California Western School of Law (rank bottom 25% between 149-200 overall in the country).     She’s be perfect if they had something like a Rhodes scholar from party schools.   

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28 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

She has a BA from Arizona State, MBA from San Diego State, and a JD from something called California Western School of Law (rank bottom 25% between 149-200 overall in the country).     She’s be perfect if they had something like a Rhodes scholar from party schools.   

She's expert at Pretty People Law.

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I think we're at another critical moment in our nation's history where the GOP is slowly mainstreaming political violence.  At some point there's going to be an assassination of a politician or journalist or judge and people like Hawley and Cruz will just write it off as no big deal.    Then that will reach political opponents and citizens.  We've seen a bit of that with BLM and Rittenhouse.  Soon it will be a smaller demonstration and a guy who drive by, shoot an abortion doctor or woman who had an abortion, and he'll get off with a hung jury because their Bible and faith will them it's ok to shoot a baby murderer, which is the logical extension of claiming that abortion is murder and that a fetus is a baby.

Our nation is morphing into those that we started wars with in 2001 and 2003.

 

 

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2 hours ago, oblong said:

The SC Justice safety thing was just the groundwork so they can "both sides" and "whatabout" this thing in the future. 

They are going to what about the Steve Scaliese Congressional baseball game shooting for a while too. They are going to hold that one up anytime right wing violence gets committed or attempted against Democratic or non-MAGA Republican elected officials.

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interesting piece by Farhad Manjoo about what really provides the oxygen to keep the conspiracy hawkers like Alex Jones going:

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The problem lies in the symbiotic relationship between bogus, unregulated health products and bogus political claims. Call it the wellness-conspiracy industrial complex. Jones produces an incessant barrage of outrageous, thinly sourced or wholly mendacious content in the hopes that some of it will go viral. When people click on the stories and land on his site, they are bombarded with ads for snake oil. He claims to be offering people truths that they won’t get in mainstream media, but that’s backward. The conspiracy theories are better seen as a marketing tool for his real products — InstaHard, BodEase, Diet Force and all manner of oils, tinctures and supplements.

Jones was one of the pioneers in connecting out-there cures to out-there political claims, but he is by no means alone. Over the past decade — and especially during the pandemic — the internet has been overrun with influencers who peddle what some researchers have called conspirituality, a worldview that meshes New Age-y ideas in alternative health with a Trump-era penchant for alternative facts. The Los Angeles Times reported last year that lefty-seeming wellness circles in California had become fertile ground for the QAnon conspiracy theory. The crossover has been especially obvious in the anti-vaccine movement. Today, vaccine skeptics are more at home on the MAGA-loving political right, but some of the movement’s earlier proponents, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., were more closely aligned with the left. As Rolling Stone put it, “the anti-vaxxers got red-pilled.”

The coziness between wellness ideas and conspiracy theories sounds odd, but when you dig into these movements, you find considerable overlap. Matthew Remski, a journalist who has covered the nexus, has argued that wellness philosophies are rooted in the beliefs that “nothing is as it seems,” “everything happens for a reason” and “everything is connected.” That set of beliefs, he wrote, “rolled out a cognitive and psychological welcome mat for conspiracist fascinations, up to and including QAnon.”

 

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