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Don’t Go There
If you see Brenda Wilson Blintz, please say hello, that is if you’re in Texas, and maybe you can toss her a rope and rescue her from the rabbit hole she apparently entered at the point of rabbit hole ground zero, Dallas, Texas, the site of the entry portal for the most creative conspiracy theorists and the right wing, Republican repository of the strange and undecipherable. I was going to say “fringe” right wing but fringe refers to outliers, minority populations and the inhabitants of this rabbit hole seems to be getting bigger and bigger every day, just like Alice.
I don’t know Brenda Wilson Blintz, I never met Brenda Wilson Blintz, all I know is from her Facebook page where she says she lives in Mays Landing in Atlantic County, is a retired nurse and is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was among hundreds of people who attended last week’s four-day conference in Dallas that was billed “For God & Country Patriot Roundup.” I hope you make it out of the rabbit hole OK, Brenda Wilson Blintz, before it’s too late if it isn’t too late already.
“For God & Country Patriot Roundup.” The words give me the creeps, like they are code words for The Illuminati, something evil and foreboding and for whose God and for whose country and what patriots and I don’t even need a response to know the answer, it’s Texas, after all, the land where politicians want to tighten voting laws to make it harder for people of color to vote, where people can carry guns without permits, where abortion is just about illegal in any case.
The “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” was a who’s who of conspiracists, hypocrites and downright nuts, all strangely allied with the former, former president and corrupter in chief. They included prominent QAnon people but prominent somehow infers legitimate and QAnon followers are about as legitimate as that Mad Hatter. They gave their opinions, grounded in whatever, on such popular topics like false claims that trump won the 2020 election, that it might not be a bad idea to have a Myanmar-style military coup in the United States and that the Jan. 6 insurrection was more like a class trip of well-behaved teenagers than a riot.
The list of speakers has to start with that shining star of the Lone Star State, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who addressed the group in front of an image of the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” logo, which featured the QAnon mantra “Where we go one, we go all.” Later, Gohmert posed for photos with QAnon supporters, including Zak Paine, who is host of a QAnon show “RedPill78” and who has said he was part of the entourage that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. QAnon conspiracists believe that major Democrats and celebrities are operating a global pedophile ring. Uh huh, that’s what they believe but I personally don’t put a lot of credence into the conspiracy theory, in fact, it’s more likely that Santa Claus led the effort to get all those fraudulent votes counted so that trump could be robbed of a second term, but, hey, anything’s possible.
And almost as prominent on the marquee of misery was Michael Flynn, trump’s former national security advisor who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was later pardoned by trump and who said at the gathering that a military coup like the one in Myanmar “should” happen in the United States. Flynn later said his comments had been “misinterpreted.”
And who can forget Sidney Powell, the former lawyer for both trump and Flynn, who has made a late-stage career shift as a trump toady and showed up at the event wearing a leather biker vest covered in pro-trump and religious patches like “MAGA” and one with the words, “No God… No Peace. Know God, Know Peace.” Try to get that image out of your nightmares. Standing tall, she repeated the proven lies about voter fraud and that Trump really won the 2020 election and should be “reinstated” as president. As far as the various lawsuits she filed on behalf of trump, her batting average is .000, not very good. BTW, Powell is named in a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit that claims she led a disinformation campaign and spread lies that the election-technology company, Dominion Voting Systems somehow was involved in the widespread voter fraud that never existed.
The event’s website says that a portion of proceeds from the convention will go to Defending the Republic, a political action group formed by Powell in 2011 “to amplify the voices of the countless Americans who feel abandoned or betrayed by their government and both political parties. We believe in our Constitutional rights, freedom of speech, gun rights, and the sacred right of free and fair elections.” Can I see the financial reporting forms, please.
Also giving his warmest words of welcome was Allen West, the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, and major trump bootlicker who has said that Texas could secede from the nation and form its own republic, which would be a grand idea and I will host a GoFundMe page to pay for all the trumpers to return to the land of the free and home of the nuts.
Here are a few more of the many speakers and attendees:
* Abigail Noël, the founder of J Project Ministries, who attended the event as an “an Emotional Alchemist, Prophetic Channel, Psychic Medium, Medical Intuitive, Prophetic Therapist, PastLife Regressionist, Psychic Investigator, Activist… Comedian & Mother.” If you go to her website, you can schedule a one on one session.
* Lin Wood, a lawyer and believer in QAnon, who said he saw Donald Trump “hanging out and working” in the Oval Office last week and that President Joe Biden is probably dead.
* Jason Sullivan, the self-proclaimed “Wizard of Twitter” and big trump zealot.
* Doug Bilings, a conservative, Rush Limbaugh wannabe commentator, whose website notes several times prominently that you can hire him to speak at your event.
* George Papadopolous, a former foreign policy advisor to trump’s 2016 campaign who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to FBI agents about the timing and the possible significance of his contacts in 2016 relating to U.S. and Russia relations and the trump campaign.
That’s enough for now. The rabbit hole is connected to the Dallas sewer system and I have to get disinfected.