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Trump Allies Lin Wood and Marjorie Taylor Greene Attack Each Other

 

Prominent Trump supporters attorney Lin Wood and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, are feuding in public after Wood accused Greene of being "a communist."

 

Wood filed multiple 2020 election challenges along with pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell in the wake of President Joe Biden win. He has gone on to promote various election conspiracy theories. Greene, also a staunch Trump loyalist, has similarly promoted misinformation about the 2020 election.

 

While their interests may align when it comes to Trump, the two right-wing figures now appear to be starkly at odds with each other.

 

"In my opinion, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a communist," Wood said in Friday remarks. "If Marjorie Taylor Greene is running around saying 'impeach Biden,' that says that Biden won—he didn't," the attorney said. "And you would never impeach him with a communist Congress. It's a waste of time."

 

Wood went on to suggest that Greene may be a "traitor."

 

"A traitor will come at you as a patriot. Be careful," Wood said.

 

Greene responded on Saturday with an attack of her own. She suggested that Wood attempted to take money donated to his former client, Kyle Rittenhouse. The young man has been criminally charged with fatally shooting two people during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Wisconsin last year while he was still a minor.

 

"People donated money through Fightback Law (Lin Wood) to Kyle Rittenhouse's legal defense. Kyle fired Lin in Dec. People didn't donate to Lin Wood, so why would he want $2M back?" Greene wrote in a post published to her Telegram channel.

 

"Only monsters hurt innocent people in their greatest time of need," she continued. The GOP congresswoman urged followers to donate to a different fundraising campaign for Rittenhouse. Greene then raised questions about the motives behind Wood's actions in the wake of the 2020 election.

 

"If Lin Wood has fought so hard against the election like he claims, even encouraging people to go in the Capitol on J6 [January 6], why isn't he a target of the J6 witch hunt?" she asked.

 

"The J6 [House select] committee is only focused on Trump's biggest defenders. But not Lin Wood," Greene wrote.

 

Wood later posted more criticism of Greene on his Telegram channel. "I love Marjorie Taylor Greene, but I have raised serious concerns about her failure to take meaningful action to FIX 2020," he wrote.

 

"I believed in Marjorie. Now that I have questioned her failure to act to FIX 2020, it appears that Marjorie no longer believes in me. To the contrary, she has attacked me with lies and misrepresentations," the attorney continued.

 

"A 'monster???' Are you kidding me???" he asked. Wood then suggested that Greene was becoming part of the so-called "deep state."

 

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The circle is complete. 

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‘Let’s Go Brandon’ is the latest meme that Trump fans are using to mock Biden

 

Earlier this week, a video from a NASCAR race at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway went viral on social media after a reporter claimed the crowd were chanting ‘Let’s go Brandon!’ when they were actually shouting ‘F*** Joe Biden.’

 

The awkward and quite frankly hilarious moment, occurred when NBC reporter Kelli Stavast was interviewing Brandon Brown following his victory, so you can see how easily this mistake happened.

 

Yet, the internet being the internet, has latched on to this unfortunate moment and created a meme out of it and as you can probably guess it’s become a favourite of the American right-wing who are using it to mock president Biden.

 

You’ve only got to search through Twitter or look at the replies to any of Joe Biden’s tweets to see the phrase pop up.

 

 

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[Captain Wiggles]

Ah Cowboy Coffee and pee funnels. A perfect pairing like lamb and tuna fish. 

[Mooka]

I work right next door to Cowboy Coffee.

 

I haven't tried the special blend yet. 

 

They do have a drive-through though. 

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Black flag: Understanding the Trumpists' latest threatening symbol

 

It's an old truism that the "real bad men" (and bad women) "move in silence and violence." That's certainly true for the most dangerous and most effective of Donald Trump's allies, henchmen, henchwomen, and other followers. But for Donald Trump himself, and most of his political cult, that rule does not apply.

 

Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6. The lethal attack on the Capitol had been publicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. Trump's rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge — and specifically of "getting even" with Trump's "enemies."

 

Steve Bannon, Trump's former campaign chairman and White House strategist, has now threatened to recruit Republican-fascist "shock troops" with the apparent goal of undermining the U.S. government, and by implication multiracial democracy, if and when Trump and the Republicans regain control of both Congress and the White House.

 

In one troubling new development, Trump supporters have begun flying all-black American flags, in an implicit threat to harm or kill their opponents — meaning nonwhite people, "socialist liberals," Muslims, vaccinated people and others deemed to be "enemies" of "real America." As media critic Eric Boehlert recently noted, the liberal opinion site Living Blue in Texas is sounding the alarm about the specific meaning of the black flag and the Republican-fascists support for terrorism and other political violence. That post, "Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning on Killing You?", merits lengthy quotation:

 

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It didn't take long to find hundreds of videos where these Trumpers and so-called patriots were hanging black American flags. ...

 

Black American flags are the flags that mean "no quarter shall be given." They are the opposite of the white flag of surrender.

 

According to the people on TikTok and the Sun (British tabloid), the black American flag originated in the civil war and was flown by the Confederates.

 

It means that they will not surrender, will not take prisoners, and are willing to die for their cause. It means they will execute their enemies.

 

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Sidney Powell, who faces $4 billion defamation lawsuits from election-tech firms, baselessly claimed there is a 'secret server' where all US votes go to be manipulated

 

Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell has shared a baseless claim that all US votes are sent to a secret server where they are manipulated to rig the outcome of elections.

 

"What I think really has to be discovered is that there is a secret server that all the votes go to where they manipulate the heck out of it," Powell told "The Ledger Report," a conservative talk show, on Friday.

 

"We need to know where their servers are and what they're doing with them, and we need the data from them and we need the data from the machines.

 

"But they're going as fast as they can, right now, everywhere they can to completely revamp the machines with new software that erases everything that shows what they did."

 

 

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[TheGreatBuzz]

2 hours ago, China said:

Black flag: Understanding the Trumpists' latest threatening symbol

 

It's an old truism that the "real bad men" (and bad women) "move in silence and violence." That's certainly true for the most dangerous and most effective of Donald Trump's allies, henchmen, henchwomen, and other followers. But for Donald Trump himself, and most of his political cult, that rule does not apply.

 

Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6. The lethal attack on the Capitol had been publicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. Trump's rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge — and specifically of "getting even" with Trump's "enemies."

 

Steve Bannon, Trump's former campaign chairman and White House strategist, has now threatened to recruit Republican-fascist "shock troops" with the apparent goal of undermining the U.S. government, and by implication multiracial democracy, if and when Trump and the Republicans regain control of both Congress and the White House.

 

In one troubling new development, Trump supporters have begun flying all-black American flags, in an implicit threat to harm or kill their opponents — meaning nonwhite people, "socialist liberals," Muslims, vaccinated people and others deemed to be "enemies" of "real America." As media critic Eric Boehlert recently noted, the liberal opinion site Living Blue in Texas is sounding the alarm about the specific meaning of the black flag and the Republican-fascists support for terrorism and other political violence. That post, "Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning on Killing You?", merits lengthy quotation:

 

 

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I can’t keep track of all these symbols I have to look out for.  
 

Any chance we can treat them with the same circumstances?

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Thank you, AT&T.

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“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself

 

This is the story of the mastermind behind one of the largest "fake news" operations in the US.

 

For two years, he ran websites and Facebook groups that spread bogus stories, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. Under him was a dedicated team of writers and editors paid to produce deceptive content—from outright hoaxes to political propaganda—with the supreme goal of tipping the 2016 election to Donald Trump.

 

Through extensive efforts, he built a secret network of self-reinforcing sites from the ground up. He devised a strategy that got prominent personalities—including Trump—to retweet misleading claims to their followers. And he fooled unwary American citizens, including the hacker's own father, into regarding fake news sources more highly than the mainstream media.

Pundits and governments just might have given Russia too much credit, he says, when a whole system of manipulating people's perception and psychology was engineered and operated from within the US.

 

"Russia played such a minor role that they weren't even a blip on the radar," the hacker told me recently. "This was normal for politicians, though… if you say a lie enough times, everyone will believe it."

 

Previously dubbed "Hacker X," he's now ready to reveal who he is—and how he did it.

 

The fake news impresario who has now decided to break his silence is "ethical hacker" Robert Willis.

 

Some in the information security community might know "Rob" today as an active member who speaks at conferences and works with the Sakura Samurai ethical hacking group. (The Sakura Samurai have, on many occasions, responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in the computer systems of government and private entities. I have previously interacted with Rob on about two occasions, minimally, when I had questions regarding Sakura Samurai's vulnerability writeups.)

 

Should he get the job, his primary role would be to rapidly expand a single, popular website already owned by Koala Media. For this, they needed someone with Willis' diverse skill set.

Then the interview took a political turn. "They told me that they were against big companies and big government because they are basically the same thing," Willis said. They said they had readers on the right and the left. They said they were about "freedom." That sounded OK to Willis, who describes himself as a social liberal and fiscal conservative—"very punk rock, borderline anarchist."

 

But back in 2015, Willis was just another hacker looking for an IT job. He had already received one job offer—but still had an interview scheduled at one final company.

 

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Then the interviewers told him, "If you work for us, you can help stop Hillary Clinton."

 

"I hated the establishment, Republicans, and Democrats, and Hillary was the target because she was as establishment as it got and was the only candidate that was all but guaranteed to be running on the main ticket in the future 2016 cycle," said Willis. "If I were to choose a lesser evil at the time, it would have, without a doubt, been the Republican Party, since I had moved to the new city due to the Democrats literally destroying my previous home state. It felt like good revenge."

 

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'I'm not into golden showers': Trump brings up Steele dossier at private dinner with donors and GOP senators and says Melania 'didn't believe' pee tape allegations made against him

 

Donald Trump reportedly made an unprompted reference to allegations in the Steele dossier that he hired Russian prostitutes to pee on him in a Moscow hotel during a private GOP dinner on Thursday.

 

He was speaking at a high-dollar retreat in Palm Beach, Florida for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a group working to elect more GOP senators to Congress.

'I'm not into golden showers,' Trump told his audience of GOP senators, donors, lobbyists and strategists.

He then seemed to bring up former First Lady Melania Trump and claimed she doubted the salacious claim in the former British spy's report.

 

'You know the great thing, our great first lady - "That one," she said, "I don't believe that one",' Trump said according to the Washington Post. 

 

He decried Democrats' Russia investigation and impeachment efforts in a profanity-laced tangent.

 

'It was all phony s**t,' Trump said. 'All phony stuff.'

 

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Peter Thiel bets on the far right: Tech tycoon spending millions to bankroll "Trump wing" of GOP

 

Billionaire Republican donor Peter Thiel is bankrolling election conspiracists and primary challengers against Republicans who backed Donald Trump's impeachment after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including an Arizona Senate candidate who is literally on his payroll.

 

Thiel, the Facebook board member who co-founded PayPal and later the controversial data-mining company Palantir, has long been a top Republican benefactor, donating millions to GOP candidates and political action committees. But in the wake of Trump's 2020 defeat, Thiel has grown more aggressive in his political investments, dropping more than $20 million to support two far-right Senate candidates and helping to fund primary challengers against Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and other Republicans who called for Trump's removal after the deadly riot.

 

"He wants to be the patron of the Trump wing of the Republican Party," said Max Chafkin, a Bloomberg reporter and author of "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power." Thiel is focused on building out "Trumpism after Trump," Chafkin said in an interview with Salon, describing the tech billionaire as "in many ways further to the right than Trump."

 

Thiel, who donated $1.25 million to back Trump in 2016, has made an even bigger splash this election cycle with a $10 million donation to back his protégé Blake Masters, who plans to run for the Republican nomination in next year's Arizona Senate election. Masters is uniquely connected to Thiel, serving as the chief operating officer of Thiel Capital, the billionaire's venture capital fund, and co-writing Thiel's book "Zero to One."

 

While candidates like Virginia's Glenn Youngkin have stepped away from their corporate careers to run for office, Masters appears to still be on Thiel's payroll.

 

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'I'm not into golden showers': Trump brings up Steele dossier at private dinner with donors and GOP senators and says Melania 'didn't believe' pee tape allegations made against him

 

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So much going on here I'm not sure which thread to put this in, Assault on Voters, QAnon, Trump Supporters?  Anyway, here it is:

 

Trumpist county clerk barred after leak of voting-system passwords to QAnon

 

A Colorado judge on Wednesday barred Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from supervising elections due to the leak of voting-system BIOS passwords to QAnon conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Mesa County registered elector Heidi Jeanne Hess had petitioned the court for a ruling that Peters and Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley are unable to perform the functions of the Designated Election Official for the November 2021 election.

 

The "court determines that the petitioners have met the burden of showing that Peters and Knisley have committed a breach and neglect of duty and other wrongful acts," Mesa County District Court Judge Valerie Robison wrote in Wednesday's ruling. "As such, Peters and Knisley are unable or unwilling to appropriately perform the duties of the Mesa County Designated Election Official. The court further determines substantial compliance with the provisions of the code require an injunction prohibiting Peters and Knisley from performing the duties of the Designated Election Official."

 

In August, Watkins released photos of information on Dominion's Election Management Systems (EMS) voting machines, including an installation manual and "BIOS passwords for a small collection of computers, including EMS server and client systems," as we reported at the time. While Watkins, a former 8chan administrator, was trying to prove that Dominion can remotely administer the machines, the documents actually showed "a generic set of server hardware, with explicit instructions to keep it off the Internet and lock down its remote management functions."

 

Peters, who promoted Trump's conspiracy theory that voting machines were manipulated to help Joe Biden win the 2020 election, "'holed up' in a safe house provided by pillow salesman and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell" when the FBI began investigating her, according to an August 19 Vice News article. Her location was described as a "mystery" for a while, but she appeared at an event in Grand Junction, Colorado, last month.

 

Judge Robison's ruling details how Peters brought a man named Gerald Wood into a meeting on a "trusted build" software update that ensures a secure chain of custody for the voting system. The meeting was intended only for authorized staff, but Wood was not a county employee even though Peters introduced him to staff "as an administrative assistant with her office who was transitioning from the motor vehicle division to the election's division." The judge wrote:

 

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During the Mesa County "trusted build", confidential passwords were required. The passwords were maintained on a spreadsheet contained on a laptop [that Colorado Department of State Senior Voting Systems Specialist Danny] Casias brought with him from Denver. At some point, during the four plus hours of the "trusted build" process, video and photos were taken of Casias' laptop and the passwords contained on his screen.

 

Later, the confidential passwords were publicly posted to an online social media site. On August 2, 2021, the Secretary learned that the confidential passwords had been publicly disseminated and an investigation began.

 

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