That's an insult to Cults

I'm looking for a good cult to join. Anyone got recommendations?

Works every time.

Almost as bad are people online responding with "but there are hundreds of thousand deaths globally, the Statement is correct" as if a SCJ purposefully abusing a non relevant fact would be any better. Last i checked this is about a US mandate and playing that game hundreds of thousands is still the same order of magnitude lower than many millions.

I don't think it's that particularly big of a deal. Yes, Gorsuch was off by an order of magnitude, it's tens of thousands not hundreds of thousands. Yes, he was incorrect. Yes, there's a great deal of misinformation still going around about Covid and that should be corrected, but it's not as if as a matter of law tens of thousands is much different from hundreds of thousands, or as if we're in a situation where misinformation isn't rampant from all sides.

** No, not both-sidesing, it's clearly worse coming from the right, but there's enough of it that very very few Americans have an accurate view, and that includes people in leadership and all the patently idiotic things Fauci, Walensky, etc. have said.

He is a member of the supreme court making a decision regarding vaccine mandates. It is that big of a deal.

Yes he is, but so what? How does an order of magnitude on flu deaths materially affect the legal argument there?

What other facts is he off on? Misinformed on? I'm not in his head to know his decision making process, but I know damn well he should be basing his decisions off actual facts.

An order of magnitude on COVID deaths makes it the flu

SI

If that's what we're concerned about, why are we not raising the roof equally about Sotomayor claiming over 100,000 children are in serious condition when in fact less than that have been hospitalized with COVID in the last year and a half? I don't think we should take Sotomayor to task, she should simply be corrected and that's that.

Every major opinion SCOTUS writes has people criticizing it's factual accuracy. And this is without getting into the fact that the transcript appears to be incorrect, and the actual audio of what Gorsuch said only seems to have him saying thousands, not hundreds of thousands, die from the flu. But that's just a detail here.

The case isn't going to be decided on how many die from the flu or COVID. It's going to be decided on whether or not OSHA has the authority to make the mandate, whether or not the Biden administration has the authority to circumvent Congress in this kind of issue, whether the specific mandate issued is of an appopriate scope to OSHA's statutory authority, etc. This whole 'issue' of what Gorsuch said is just a smoke-screen.

If it doesn't affect the legal argument, why did he bring it up?

lol

Lot of people who get community service need jobs too. Wonder what made this guy so special.


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I'm on my phone so I don't know how this will look when I post it, but this is a pretty good tease!

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Well guys...it was a good run.

Mike Lindell says he has 'enough evidence' to put '300 million' Americans in jail for election fraud https://t.co/lx5lpOLvLI

— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 12, 2022

And it would've worked too, if not for that meddling pillow guy!

Twice as many people are guilty of election fraud than voted in the election!

~150 million people were fraudulent without voting!

I didn't read/listen to it, but I suppose one could be guilty of election fraud without actually voting. I'm sure I'm one of the 300 million since I don't subscribe to the conspiracies - or own a MyPillow. Both of those probably make me a proven fraudster.

Somebody should ask him how he's been able to make his fortune selling pillows to the same people that stole the election.

They need comfortable pillows to ease their guilty conscience

Is the AG from Texas still paying $10K for reporting fraud? I feel like Lindell needs to get ahold of that guy.

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Very nice

Has anyone ever turned into as big of a political cuckold as Lindsey Graham? And that is an incredibly high bar to surpass too

Lindsey Graham just threatened Mitch McConnell over Donald Trump

The funny part is if 300 million people wanted Biden in power, they could just vote for him and win in a landslide.

Provided they were allowed to vote.

Biden gave a speech. I think it fixed it all.

If you ever thought about voting dem, by mail, or voted as a non-white male you're still guilty.

You laugh but it’s basically straight out of the tinpot dictators handbook right. We are a couple of election cycles away from being Kazakstan or Myanmar.

Several members of the Oath Keepers arrested today on seditous conspiracy charges for their part in the weapon stashes being gathered for jan 6

Apparently the head honcho of them in fact.

They arrested the leader a few miles from our house and another house was raided 2 blocks from our house at the same exact time. I'm not sure if they arrested anyone there but we could hear the flash bangs they used. At least one more person was arrested in the next city North of us.

Texas... love it and hate it.

Took them a year to do it? We'll see what happens but good lord, take your time FBI.

I can forgive the length of time it took todo this, if for no other reason, that it has allowed them to put together a solid case, where these guys don't walk and further embolden this extreme ideology bullshit.

Would much rather see this than a hap hazard rush to round these guys up and leave multiple holes in the case for the high powered right wing attorneys that are sure to step on each other to defend these "patriots"

Sometimes the long game is better

DirecTV is dropping OANN in April when their contract expires. Darn!

Sometimes you have to do the thing with the deadline before the thing without the deadline. The last couple of years have definitely tested all of our time management and prioritization skills.

So would you be complaining if they arrested them a lot sooner without the evidence they have now? Cut them some slack Rain this investigation far bigger than Watergate with the most serious consequences if they get it wrong.

Republicans who impeached Trump keep dropping like flies. The latest is John Katko, who will not seek re-election. When people ask why more Republicans don't 'do the right thing' .... this is why. Their voters don't want them to.

Brian’s post shows why it is better to wait and get the evidence to convict - personally I believe Trump was guilty as charged in his impeachment trial, but the (forced) timescale and emotion meant that it wasn’t going to happen. It was the right thing to do, but ultimately galvanised Trump more.

If there had been the opportunity to delay, I believe that the chances of conviction would have been much higher

When you've decided that Nick Saban is attempting to destroy democracy, perhaps you need to get your outrage meter recalibrated.

They've also decided that Dan Crenshaw is a liberal that only pretends to be a Christian conservative.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all over this shaming of Crenshaw, but come on.

Which crazy flavor of "they" thinks that Crenshaw is anything but a hard right opportunistic weasel?

SI

Really? How? Why? I thought of him as pretty dyed-in-the-wool MAGA.

I read an article a couple of weeks ago that was describing how MAGA is starting to tear itself apart from within as the money starts to dry up. The grift is becoming actual work as the donations have started to decline so everyone is ready to throw one another under the bus to try to funnel the dwindling cash flow their way.

They're sharks in the water and as soon as someone they compete with for dollars is wounded they pounce and the most common form of attack is to call the person a Democrat pretending to be a republican.

Now that I think about it, I have two friends - those ones who have never voted Democrat in their life (or the last couple of decades), post all the Fox News talking points to bothsides every Dem transgression but are strangely silent with GOP ones on Facebook, but get all offended when you call them Republican. "Oh, no - I'm a libertarian, small "l" - those sorts. They love love love them some Dan Crenshaw. And didn't he recently take a bat to the Freedom Caucus for not being Trumpy enough? So maybe that's what passes for a RINO these days in some minds(?)

SI

I think he criticized Lauren Boebert. Said she is just a performance artist out for money.

It's tough to say now since people who call themselves conservatives have defined conservatism as believing insane conspiracy theories and being racist. Always funny to see someone get banned for saying some racist stuff and the response is "you're silencing conservatives!". Kind of giving the game away.

I'm sure they will be angry about a judge legislating from the bench again.

Local clerks scramble to educate voters after judge bans absentee ballot drop boxes

Yes, Crenshaw was getting crap for calling out some of the cartoony MAGA performance artists masquerading as elected officials.

From what I understand, he called 1/6 an insurrection and that got MAGA truly pissed off at him. He's also gone off on Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Dan Crenshaw gets upset at a 10 year old girl at an event and gets heckled by the crowd. “Don’t question my faith.”

This was a very Trumpy crowd, not a group of college Dems.

He did label 1/6 correctly, this on MTG
Dan Crenshaw Says MTG Is 'a Democrat - or Just an Idiot' Amid COVID-19 Spat