Kyle Rittenhouse’s Feelings Are Hurt
And other inanities from the right wing trumpian crazy world
People in blue states would be excused if they were to be lulled into believing that the crazies would, “go gentle into that good night.” Remove the blinders, open your eyes and take a look around the rest of the country and you will see that the freak circus is as popular as ever and getting stronger every day, not unlike the frenzy of a buck in rut.
Take the latest developments. Kyle Rittenhouse, the right wing white supremacist killer, a sought after guest by far right commentators, is so mad he could spit because President Biden has not returned his calls to “sit down and talk.” Then there’s Donald Jr. Trump’s son is starting a news app to “cut through the censorship, mainstream bias and institutional dominance that has left society divided and misinformed.” LOL. And an entrepreneurial trump advisor has created a dating app for conservatives, though he may not have realized another website of the same name is populated by racist, neo-Nazis.
Meanwhile thousands of pot bellied, unshaven, trump waving, conspiracy-believing, white racist women and many men, too, flock to the traveling freak show, AKA, “ReAwaken America Tour,” featuring the ex-wannabe dictator himself, which just keeps rolling in the sludge.
Rittenhouse led the nut parade with an interview on a podcast hosted by Jenna Ellis, a poor excuse for a lawyer known for her shameful work as a member of trump’s sparkling legal team that was laughed out of every court in which the team spoke to overturn the 2020 election victory by Joe Biden. The 19-year-old, Kyle “I am not a white supremacist” Rittenhouse, you will recall, was acquitted last year of all charges in connection with shooting and killing two people and injuring a third during a 2020 protest in Wisconsin.
Nobody but the right wing trumpers and a jury believed Rittenhouse’s defense that he shot the men in self-defense after they attacked him during a riot in Kenosha, Wis. The demonstrations followed the shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, who was left partly paralyzed after a white police officer shot him seven times in the back outside an apartment complex in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 23, 2020.
Rittenhouse told Ellis that he’s afraid to go shopping or even walk his dog because of all the “false lies that were put out.” He also ticked off the things he’s not, including a racist, white supremacist, domestic terrorist or murderer.
“I’m not a murderer, and anybody who wants to sit down and have a conversation, I’m more than open,” said the man who is considered by many to be a racist, white supremacist, domestic terrorist and murderer.
Rittenhouse, who looks like he’s 14 years old, has tried connecting with Biden to chat and has herd “crickets, nothing.”
“He still hasn’t replied. So it just shows how much of a man he is to not sit down and talk,” said the racist, white supremacist, domestic terrorist and murderer.
Ellis is a former deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colo., and a former assistant professor of legal studies at Colorado Christian University. Her self-published book is titled, “The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution,” a book arguing that the Constitution of the United States can only be interpreted in accordance with the Bible.
Ellis was hired by trump in November 2019 as a senior legal adviser and was a member of what she characterized as an “elite strike force team” formed to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
The latest effort by the trump family to circumvent legitimate media is ‘’Minute By Minute News,” short for MxM News, a news curating platform founded by trump Jr. and former trump spokesman, Taylor Budowich, to compete with apps like Apple News and Google News. The app was built by Telegraph Creative, whose CEO is Cliff Sims, Trump’s former deputy director of national intelligence. Simms is also a partner in MxM News.
“This is to make sure that the people actually doing journalism, not just doing activism, get highlighted and seen and that’s not going to ever come from a mainstream apparatus because they are OK with reporting fake news, so long as it is driving their narrative forward,” junior trump said in an interview with his chief propagandist, Fox News. “We’ve seen that they’re fine with all of that, as long as they get the political outcome they want.”
“As I travel around the country, the complaint I hear more than almost anything else is that people don’t know what media outlets, journalists or stories they can actually trust,” said junior trump.
Simms, formerly a special assistant to trump as trump’s director of “message strategy,” would be an unlikely collaborator with any of the trump family, being that Simms’ wrote a memoir in 2019, “Team of Vipers.” Trump tweeted on Jan. 29, 2019, that the book was “boring” and “fiction” and that Sims was a “low level staffer” who was “nothing more than a gopher.” Then trump fired Simms and the trump campaign said it would sue Sims for violating a non-disclosure agreement. In February 2019, Sims counter sued trump over the nondisclosure agreement and both sides later dropped their suits.
Both sides kissed and made up and in August 2020, Sims was again working for the Trump administration, speechwriting for the 2020 Republican National Convention. In October 2020, it was reported that he had rejoined the trump administration as a senior adviser to the director of national intelligence.
Former President trump soft launched his own “Truth Social” last month but there was a waiting list a mile long to sign up and the site was nothing more than rehashing all of the trumpian conspiracy theories. The Washington Post was among the unlucky ones to finally get on the site and reported that among the “revelations” uncovered by “Truth Social:” Hunter Biden is involved in building and running biolabs in the country; The CIA and National Institutes of Health are both “deeply involved” in the Ukrainian biolabs; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was set in motion by a CIA false-flag operation that was funded by George Soros; The covid-19 pathogen originated not in China but in Shpyl’chyna, a village in Ukraine; and the bioweapons developed in Ukraine specifically target the “Abrahamic Bloodline.”
And then there was trump aide Jason Miller, who looks weirdly like a Nazi and orchestrated trump’s ant-Muslim policies, Last year Miller launched his own social app called “Gettr,” which calls itself a new social media platform “founded on the principles of free speech, independent thought and rejecting political censorship and ‘cancel culture.’” Translated, that means far right mumbo jumbo.
John McEntee, a former trump aide was fired because of gambling debts and an inability to obtain a necessary security clearance. So what does a person who has faced such unfair calumnies? He starts a dating app, of course, called “The Right Stuff.” That is not to be confused with neo-Nazi, Holocaust denial, white nationalist blog and discussion forum of the same name. You would think that McEntee could come up with a better name for his dating sight.
“Conservatives deserve an easy way to connect,” McEntee said in an interview. Exactly what kind of conservatives was left vague. Apparently, it would range from the tepid Wall Street investor to the crazy, QAnon shaman, who wore face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns as he joined in the trumpster-led attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020.
McEntee was director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office under trump until he was fired in 2018 by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly for failing a security clearance background check and because he was under investigation by the Homeland Security Department for possible financial crimes relating to gambling. Two years later, trump rehired McEntee as director of the Office of Presidential Personnel, with the task of identifying for removal political appointees and career officials who were insufficiently loyal to the president. As has been said many times, you can’t make this stuff up.
McEntee’s dating venture is backed by venture capitalist Peter Thiel, the German-American, billionaire co-founder of PayPal, who has invested $1.5 million into the app. Until recently, Thiel was a board member of Meta, Facebook’s parent company, but stepped down to support conservative political candidates. By February 2022, Thiel was one of the largest donors to Republican candidates with more than $20.4 million in contributions.
And finally, sadly it was no April Fools joke when thousands of people who paid $250 per person, filled standing-room-only tents at the Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer, Ore., Friday and Saturday, April 1–2, for the latest leg in the “Reawaken America Tour” rally to hear from election and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, Christian leaders and prominent figures pardoned by trump. There was Eric trump and disgraced former national security advisor Michael Flynn. And there was plenty of fried food trucks, Silverton’s Beloved Cheesecakes and Monmouth’s Dough on the Go, while vendors hawked Trump bobbleheads, anti-vaccine books and MyPillow products.
Fortunately, there was some sanity as a group, “Faithful America,” sponsored a mobile billboard calling on speakers to “stop twisting our faith to attack democracy” and denounced promoters of the QAnon conspiracy.
“We reject General Flynn’s hijacking of the Gospel for political purposes,” said the Rev. Nathan Empsall, executive director of Faithful America. “This tour is a dangerous and immoral political event in Jesus’ name that promotes misinformation, lies, and even outright violence, and has no place in the church of God.”
One of the speakers, Jerry Walker, owner of the former, San Francisco Giant farm team, Keizer Volcanoes, and owner of the stadium, told the assembled that the COVID-19 vaccine caused his mother’s cancer and his brother’s medical emergency.
The “Reopen America” rallies, hosted by right wing podcaster Clay Clark, were previously held in Michigan and in Florida where MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell promised to prove that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Biden, an altogether new conspiracy theory.
This “Reopen America” series is the brainchild of Clark Clay, a business consultant and host of a podcast called “Thrivetime.” Clay has declared that he had been called by God to start holding the events in an effort to push back against COVID-19 restrictions. Clark is convinced that a vague 2013 prophecy from the late heroin addict, singing pastor and self-declared “prophet” Kim Clement is about Clark. The prophecy notes that “a man by the name of Mr. Clark and … another man by the name of Donald” is about Clark and donald trump.
More “Reopen America” rallies are planned so stay tuned and stay home.