Quo Vadis GOP?

[Admiral Yi]

Although with Flynn the thing I always find baffling/alarming is how he rose up through the army and ended up head of the DIA before Trump, which strikes me as alarming.

Amen.

Though in the glass is half full department it doesn't seem to be a trend.

[Darth Wagtaros]

My thought is that such reports just magnify his inane thoughts for little tangible benefit.

But it is news, isn't it?

If Susan Rice was out there calling for a Communist revolution I think it would deserve reporting.

Although with Flynn the thing I always find baffling/alarming is how he rose up through the army and ended up head of the DIA before Trump, which strikes me as alarming.

Indeed.

How did someone so clearly unhinged get so high?

Meth.

[grumbler]

Indeed.

How did someone so clearly unhinged get so high?

Perhaps he became unhinged after rising so high.  He'd not be the first crazy person to develop craziness later in life after being normal for most of it.

[garbon]

My thought is that such reports just magnify his inane thoughts for little tangible benefit.

But it is news, isn't it?

If Susan Rice was out there calling for a Communist revolution I think it would deserve reporting.

Although with Flynn the thing I always find baffling/alarming is how he rose up through the army and ended up head of the DIA before Trump, which strikes me as alarming.

Is it? He has been irrelevant for a while and always says crazy things. Not sure why he needs his words repeated nationally and internationally.

[Razgovory]

People who know him say he went nuts after Obama fired him.  Obama fired him because he was just making up stuff (a bad trait in an intel guy), so I think he probably went started cracking before he that.

There is another possibility, that he his deranged raving are not simply the result of a menially ill man, but that he was simply more and more influenced by a political culture that has become deranged.  The kind of stuff he was putting into intel reports were "Fox News" type things like "Iranians are sending militants into America".  When he was fired, Flynn was trumpeted as a bold truth-teller who was punished by Obama.  His recent ravings are the crystalizing dogma  of what is now the right-wing of the Republican party.

[The Brain]

Indeed. His insane ravings put him smack in the GOP mainstream.

[Barrister]

IS this the closest we have to a QAnon thread?  I think so.

Apparently dozens of people are gathering in Daly Plaza in Dallas today expecting to see the return of John F Kennedy, who will in turn restore Trump to power.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgd85a/qanon-dallas-jfk-trump

Not JFK Jr (who is also dead, but will also be there), But President Kennedy, whose murder was recorded for all to see.

They're back (or never left) because you have to calculate these things with the Julian calendar (naturally).

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4awvyb/qanon-dallas-jfk-protzman

These predictions are all made by a fellow named Michael Protzman.  Here's a recent photo apparently (no joke):

[viper37]

That's smiley has never been more appropriate...

[The Larch]

So, apparently this is a real poster for the event...

[Razgovory]

That is wise.  You don't want to attract kids with Matt Gaetz lurking around.

[Syt]

That is wise.  You don't want to attract kids with Matt Gaetz lurking around.

Gaetz might be busy training his new intern.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Kind of young for Gaetz isn't he?

[Syt]

17?

[Sheilbh]

So, apparently this is a real poster for the event...

And of course CPAC 2022 will in Budapest - I believe it's their first trip out of the US.

[FunkMonk]

Secretary of Homeland Security Kyle Rittenhouse in the upcoming Gaetz administration.