Demonic Portals, Trumpian Eye Lasers, Musk Monster Are Here
A trump confidant claims he saw a literal “demonic portal” over the White House, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., assured that if she had been in charge of the Jan. 6 insurrection, it would have been a success and everyone would have had plenty of guns and Elon Musk is the darling of the QAnon miscreants.
And in the bizarro land of trump, the ex-president kicked off his 2024 presidential campaign by dining at his Mar-a-Lago castle with well-known anti-Semites and racists while he also suggested the Constitution be scrapped so he could get back to work as a dictator. And regarding the January 6 insurrection by trump supporters, the clown king suggested that Democrats “wanted” it to happen so they could cover up the fact that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to send 10,000 soldiers to deter the riot, when the reality is that only the president can order troops and trump did no such thing while the rampagers rampaged.
And to quote Bart Simpson and Mussolini Van Houten Milhouse, after buying a comic book store and reading of a “Bloodzilla” comic, Bart exclaims, “A vampire dinosaur! You can’t make this stuff up!”
Let’s start with the “demonic portle.” It involves Roger Stone, a close trump confidant and advisor to presidents who was convicted in 2019 of witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding and lying in connection with Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation of links between Russia and the trump campaign. Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison but trump commuted the sentence and later pardoned Stone.
Stone claimed in a recent interview that he personally saw a “demonic portal” over the Biden White House. Stone was interviewed on “The Eric Metaxas Radio Show,” hosted by Metaxas, a committed trumper, conspiracist and anti-vaxxer. Stone claimed to have seen the “portal” himself. “I think that… a portal, a demonic portal, opened above the White House around the time that the Bidens moved in,” Stone said.
Stone said the portal was first brought to his attention “by a Christian who lives in north Florida who sent me a bunch of documents and also a bunch of notations from the Bible about portals.”
Stone said that “if one zooms in on whatever is floating above the Biden White House, it can be seen ‘swirling like a cauldron.’”
And speaking of demonic portals, Rep. Greene, who hopes more than anything to be trump’s vice presidential running mate, was interviewed by another right wing nut job and provocateur, Steve Bannon. Greene said the Jan. 6 insurrection by trump supporters would have been a success if she and Bannon had been in charge. Greene later claimed that the rest of the planet can’t take a joke and didn’t realize that her comments were “sarcasm.”
“I want to tell you something: If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won,” Greene said. “Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”
Greene also declared that the radical left wants to smear all Republicans by calling Jan. 6 an insurrection. But Greene said the insurrection wasn’t really a “real insurrection” because there were no guns.
“The joke is this ― that the Democrats and the media have attacked us over and over, blamed you, blamed me, blamed everybody, blamed Trump, calling it an insurrection. But the reality is, it wasn’t an insurrection. People were not armed,” said Greene.
If anything, Greene would agree with the Republican National Committee which labeled the Jan. 6 insurrection, “legitimate political discourse.”
Poor misled, lying Greene. She knows that various people involved in the Capitol riot are alleged to have carried weapons, including stun guns, collapsible batons and, in at least three cases, firearms. Greene knows.
As part of her long-winded exposition about the state of the nation and the world, Greene also said trump is not to blame for a dinner he hosted at Mar-a-Lago with holocaust denier and rabid anti-Semite, Nick Fuentes and equally virulent hater of Jews, Kanye West.
“President Trump had no clue who Nick Fuentes is,” Greene said. “He had no clue who those people were that came with Kanye West and so it’s really unfair to point the finger and it’s completely wrong.”
If I was to believe Greene’s hare-brained comments, then either trump is a noodnick for having dinner at his castle with a stranger or the Secret Service agents assigned to protect him are really lame. I say that trump knew exactly who Fuentes is.
Next, there is Musk. Suddenly the head lines are filled with stories about the man who brought you self-driving cars that blow up; the man who has become the darling of the QAnon universe.
Musk is now owner of Twitter, which according to backlinko.com, has 396.5 million users or 8.85 percent of the worldwide social media users. The Twitter monster brought in $3.72 billion in revenue in 2020 and has 206 million users who access Twitter daily, while 75 percent of them are not based in the U.S. Twitter is most popular among users aged 25 to 34; in the U.S., 92 percent of tweets come from the top 10 percent of users; and on average, Twitter US users spend 158.2 minutes per month on the app.
What does it mean? It means that this strange little multi-billionaire controls one of the largest vehicles of social media communication in the world. It means that Musk has a platform to spread his bigoted, unsophisticated and dangerous opinions, as shown by his order to reinstate on Twitter anti-Semites, white supremacists, violent far right figures, anti-vaxxers and other equally reprehensible and dangerous voices.
Those reinstated to Twitter include trump but also people like Andrew Anglin, a vicious anti-Semite, Holocaust denier and publisher of the neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer. And hate mongerers like Kanye West, in the news lately for a vile anti-Semitic rant he posted.
It’s hard to tell if Musk believes in his embrace of conspiracies and far-right wingnuts and understands how he may be feeding domestic terror or if he simply thrives on the attention and the power of holding the puppet strings. Sounds familiar.
Musk also has made some major changes at Twitter, which will make the site even less accountable.
He dissolved Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council” which was created in 2016 to respond to growing scrutiny of social networks for allowing hate, terrorism, child exploitation and other problematic content online. The council included a wide range of civil society groups, while Twitter executives would regularly brief the council on new products in development and policies. No more.
Musk also now has a massive platform to spread his QAnon-like conspiracy theories. The latest involves his release of the so-called “Twitter Files,” internal Twitter documents that Musk claims contain bombshell revelations including that Twitter’s former management barred conservative points of view. The most egregious censorship, Musk claims, was the past Twitter ownership’s decision not to publish scandalous information about Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
The reality is that shortly before the 2020 presidential election, Twitter briefly blocked users from sharing a New York Post story alleging shady business dealings by then-candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, in Ukraine. The article was based on curious files from Hunter Biden’s laptop, which the Post said it got from Trump’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, hardly reliable sources.
The Post’s decision to temporarily block the story has all been publicly known and widely reported on over the past two years. So far the Musk blockbusters are more like wet, dud firecrackers that rehash old and unsubstantiated right wing claims right out of trump’s ridiculous Truth Social network.
In another QAnonish conspiracy belief, Musk is hell bent on showing that the COVID -19 pandemic was a conspiracy driven by the government and of course, the prior Twitter owners.
Musk’s ugly tactics have already prompted violent threats against Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of safety. Musk smeared Roth with homophobic tropes common in anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theories. Threats also have been reported against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the nation’s architect of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Musk attacked Fauci and claimed he will soon expose Fauci and his alleged role in some fantastic conspiracy concerning the pandemic.Kind of like how trump will soon release his tax returns or will soon show proof that President Barack Obama was not a citizen.
In true trumpian fashion, on Sunday morning, Musk tweeted enticingly that “Now things get spicy,” and later posted a political tweet that was anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-science.
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” Musk wrote.
Musk’s Twitterverse account registered more than 1.1 million likes. It’s just a fraction of Musk’s 121 million followers but undoubtedly it warmed the egomaniac’s cockles.
Musk has grown into a superstar with QAnon influencers and followers like the QAnon account “Ultra Pepe Lives Matter,” which has 214,580 followers, and said: “At this rate, Elon is on pace to start posting Q drops to millions of normies (people with mainstream beliefs) and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him.”
Jordan Sather, another QAnon influencer with 83,860 followers, wrote: “DAMN BRUH Elon really gonna be exposing them pedo-satanists bruh! ‘White Rabbit’ = pedo cult symbology.”
And for more on trump, the man with bad hair and small hands, teased earlier in the week that he would be making a “major announcement.” Would it be his running mate? Would it be that he plans to start a third party? Would it be that he is going trans? No, the earthquake of an announcement is that he is now hawking “digital trading cards” with his likeness. The cards can be traded and logged online at a cost of $100 each.
Trump advertises the cards on his TruthSocial social media site. He is shown as a superhero with bulging leg muscles, dressed as a cowboy and shooting laser beams out of his eyes in front of trump tower. Buying 45 cards for a cool $4,500 will get the buyer a “gala dinner” with Trump somewhere in “South Florida.” The winner, of course, is responsible for lodging and transportation. Of course.
“A vampire dinosaur! You can’t make this stuff up!”