{"id":31770,"date":"2021-01-02T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31770"},"modified":"2021-01-02T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:14:07","slug":"the-cauldron-of-incoherency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/01\/02\/the-cauldron-of-incoherency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cauldron Of Incoherency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been paying dutiful attention to the political world for years now &#8211; directly since 2014, indirectly since probably 2000, and somewhat since 1984 &#8211; but having any clue as to what&#8217;s going on in <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> land these days is getting beyond me. Consider this<em><strong> Daily Beast<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumpist-lawyer-lin-wood-casually-suggests-chief-justice-john-roberts-is-a-murderous-pedophile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> on <em>Trumpist lawyer Lin Wood<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pro-Trump lawyer\u00a0<a class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-ally-lin-woods-ridiculous-election-lawsuit-in-georgia-confused-michigan-with-minnesota\">Lin Wood<\/a>\u00a0ramped up the crazy on Wednesday night by suggesting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was somehow involved in Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s death and part of a child-sex cult.<\/p>\n<p>Wood, alongside\u00a0<a class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumps-bonkers-oval-office-meeting-with-sidney-powell-was-even-too-much-for-rudy\">on-again<\/a><a class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-campaign-disavows-its-own-election-conspiracy-lawyer-sidney-powell\">-off-again<\/a>\u00a0Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, has been at the forefront of President Donald Trump\u2019s hopeless attempt to overturn President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s decisive victory in the Nov. 3 election. Besides filing a slew of conspiratorial lawsuits alleging election fraud that have been laughed out of court, Wood\u00a0<a class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumpist-lawyers-lin-wood-tell-georgia-republicans-dont-vote-in-the-senate-runoff\">has urged Georgian Republicans not to vote<\/a>\u00a0in next week\u2019s pivotal Senate runoffs because of his belief that the election will be \u201crigged\u201d and has\u00a0<a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1344473537361297409\">filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court\u00a0<\/a>to halt the Jan. 5 election.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"TrackingLink LinkWrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-gops-qanon-faction-is-waging-war-on-republicans\">QAnon-peddling attorney<\/a>\u00a0took things to a whole new level on Wednesday night, however, when he decided to take to Twitter and toss out a series of dangerously unhinged accusations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A couple of more questions for Chief Justice John Roberts:<\/p>\n<p>(1) You are recorded discussing Justice Scalia\u2019s successor before date of his sudden death. How did you know Scalia was going to die?<\/p>\n<p>(2) Are you a member of any club or cabal requiring minor children as initiation fee? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jGxfgLCk4D\">pic.twitter.com\/jGxfgLCk4D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lin Wood (@LLinWood) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LLinWood\/status\/1344448775692177409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Maybe Wood&#8217;s account was hacked?<\/p>\n<p>Wood has certainly encouraged the belief that the Georgia Presidential vote was corrupted, despite three different verifications conducted by Republican state officials, and that therefore Republicans shouldn&#8217;t vote in the runoff for the two Senate Georgia seats. Which is all a bit nonsensical.<\/p>\n<p>But far-right commentator Erick Erickson remarked back on December 3rd that Wood is hardly trustworthy, in his opinion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man who donated to Barack Obama and Michelle Nunn and now wants Republican voters to let the Democrats take the Senate is also subject to a lawsuit filed by the lawyers who worked with him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/404\/51923\/Lin-Wood-complaint.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0vMhHxGZPMvGuGu2APa2BlYcuJ5ounYt2eoJ_n9KqVDQFFIFQkhPlSw8o\">Lin Wood seems to have some issues<\/a>, based on this lawsuit by his legal partners.<\/p>\n<p>From the lawsuit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the 3.5-hour teleconference, Defendant Wood referred to himself as Almighty; offered to fight the individual Plaintiffs to the death; demanded the Plaintiffs\u2019 undying loyalty; threatened to \u201churt\u201d the Plaintiffs; offered to have the Plaintiffs stay in the firm; and called Plaintiff Grunberg a \u201cChilean Jew\u201d and demanded that he admit he does not look like the other lawyers in the firm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well. Is Wood (1) a Trumpian lawyer with a sordid past, (2) a lefty plant, or (3) an escapee from a dementia ward?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll vote for (3).<\/p>\n<p>But if he&#8217;s not, then the swirl of filth in the GOP cauldron is really getting to be an incoherent, indecipherable mess. Even trying to characterize it as religious mania is a stretch. The best I can do is suggest that multiple national adversaries are quietly stirring the broth, fighting over the spatula, and taking advantage of the credulous to a spectacular degree.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps democracy is a doomed mess. That, or the Web.<\/p>\n<p>But, if we do survive the madness, there&#8217;s gonna be a whole lot of Ph.D.s awarded for those who study this mass psychosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been paying dutiful attention to the political world for years now &#8211; directly since 2014, indirectly since probably 2000, and somewhat since 1984 &#8211; but having any clue as to what&#8217;s going on in GOP land these days is getting beyond me. Consider this Daily Beast article on Trumpist \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/01\/02\/the-cauldron-of-incoherency\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31771,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31770\/revisions\/31771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}