030 The Erickson Report for January 21 to February 3, Page 3: Two Weeks of Stupid, Clowns and Outrages [the Clowns]

030 The Erickson Report for January 21 to February 3, Page 3: Two Weeks of Stupid, Clowns and Outrages [the Clowns]

And now for a regular feature, Two Weeks of Stupid, Clowns and Outrages. And we start, as  usual, with the Clowns.

Following the deadly Capitol riot on January 6, Twitter announced it was suspending thousands of QAnon-related accounts for using the platform to incite violence.

On January 10, Sarah Huckabee Sanders whined that she had lost over 50,000 followers and tweeted a screenshot from Secretary of State Mike Pompous claiming some right-wingers had lost followers while Blahden, Harris, Pelosi, and Schumer had gained - which to her was proof that right-wingers are being censored by the far left in cooperation with giant telecommunications corporations. (Strange bedfellows, indeed.)

AOC observed that Sanders was implicitly acknowledging that her followers were "Neo-Nazis and violent insurrectionists" being kicked off the platform, while for my part I wondered why it was such an unfathomable concept to her that people connected to an outgoing administration losing followers while those leading an incoming administration were gaining them.

Either way, major clown material.

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Last week, fanatical evangelical pastor Robert Henderson angrily deranged* that Joe Blahden couldn't have won the 2020 election legitimately because God wouldn't have allowed it to happen.

"You're going to tell me that a man that has been the best friend that Christianity and the kingdom of God has had is going to be removed by God and replaced by a baby-killing socialist?"

Leaving aside the fact that Henderson is elevating an inveterate liar and serial adulterer who has, Jesus said, less chance of getting into heaven than a camel has of passing through the eye of a needle, he is actually arguing that God wanted Blahden to lose but was incapable of doing anything about it. Which puts a kinda weird twist on the evangelical view of God.

But not too weird, it seems, for a clown like Robert Henderson.

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But our winner this time took us on a double-barreled excursion into paranoia town.

On January 5, the day before a riotous mob attacked the Capitol, newly-elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, best known as the Congresswoman from QAnon, appeared on extremist rightwing lie channel Newsmax to decry a "fraudulent, stolen election" and describe the next day's rally as "our 1776 moment."

But in the wake of that clownish failure of an attempted insurrection, Greene, like most of her ilk, turned coward and ran away from her own words and was all about "peaceful and patriotic" opposition.

Which makes her a good example of every right-wing bozo out there. But wait, there's more:

Back on Newsmax on January 13, Rep. TheColorofNausea said she plans on filing articles of impeachment against Joe Blahden on his first full day in office because "the American people will not tolerate this" - without being able to specify any actual charges to be included.

Which again makes here a pretty good example of the rightwing.

By the way, during the first week of the House session, she appeared on the floor wearing differing COVID masks with slogans of the paranoid right on them. Y'know what? As long as she wears the damn mask, I really don't care. Blather on, bozo.

*I happily claim credit to originating the use of "derange" as an intransitive verb.