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Here’s one Grandma Democrats don’t have fooled As a kid, I asked my grandma “Why are you a Republican?” She told me…”it was the Democrats who did the lynching & were the KKK” God love this new Trump Republican Grandma!
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Former Florida Elections Chief Apologizes for Blackface
ORLANDO, FLA. (AP) — Florida's former top elections official on Sunday apologized for dressing in blackface as a Hurricane Katrina victim, more than a week after he resigned when photos of his Halloween costume were made public.
Michael Ertel, who was Florida's Secretary of State for less than three weeks, said in a personal Facebook post that what he did in 2005 was stupid and he is a better man than he was 14 years ago.
"For those who have not received a personal apology yet — I'm sorry," he wrote.
Ertel also said that someone made the photos public out of revenge. He didn't elaborate. The Tallahassee Democrat first published the pictures.
"Because while public revenge may be sweet for them, my private redemption, new family, and blessed life have been sweeter," Ertel wrote. "Regardless of the circumstances which ended my public role, I'm a better private citizen for having served my fellow countrymen, first in the military, then in elected office and most recently as Secretary of State."
Ertel didn't respond to a phone call seeking comment.
Before being appointed Florida's top elections official by Gov. Ron DeSantis, he was the elections supervisor in Seminole County, a suburb of Orlando.
DeSantis announced last week that Circuit Judge Laurel Lee would replace Ertel.
Currently, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is under pressure to resign after his medical school yearbook page was made public, showing a person in blackface and a person in Klan regalia.
Northam said he wasn't either person in the photo.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/florida/articles/2019-02-03/former-florida-elections-chief-apologizes-for-blackface
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Down the rabbit hole of outlandish conspiracy theories
OPINION: I suspect we all secretly believe one or two crazy things. Here's mine: the All Blacks perform better if I'm not watching. This dubious superpower was handed down by a mother who will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid looking directly at the television in do-or-die moments. That aside, I'm largely immune to wacky ideas, (so is Mum, to be fair), and this is especially true when they take the form of conspiracy theories.
I've been at or about the nexus of media and politics for the better part of three decades, and what it's taught me above all else is that nobody – I mean nobody – can keep a secret. Everyone is blabbing, all the time, about everything – especially the very people you'd need to stay quiet to conceal conspiratorial shenanigans. Only during my brief, entirely undistinguished, stint in amateur theatre did I encounter people as prone to gossip as politicians, journos and diplomats. Good luck with them staying mum about an alien invasion.
Have you heard the one about JFK Jr and his wife crashing the White House Christmas party dressed as Santa and Mrs Claus? But what about the plane crash that allegedly killed the couple in 1999, I hear you ask. Staged, obvs – as almost goes without saying. Faked deaths are a staple. As for the yuletide get-up, we're told it was to disguise their involvement in the impending takedown of the Deep State foreshadowed in cryptic Reddit posts by a mysterious high-ranking Trump Administration official known simply as Q.
And as for why John and Carolyn Kennedy would emerge after two decades in hiding to take part in Donald Trump's planned mass incarceration (and summary execution) of America's liberal elites when nobody embodies that cohort more than a scion of the Kennedy clan and his fashion publicist wife, I guess that's quibbling. As the first reply to the original post raising the subject said: "Wow. I did not know that. Thanks!"
There's a lot more to the whole #QAnon thing than I'll canvass here. A word of warning, though: it's a rabbit hole from which it can be hard to escape. After days wading through the weirdly specific, ever more outlandish, lunacy that grips Q's acolytes, it's tempting to reach one of only two conclusions: either the world has gone completely mad, or I have.
It's easy enough to explain the proliferation of conspiracy theories in the digital age. Before the internet, there was no shortage of fodder – Freemasons, papist plots, presidential assassinations – but it was a comparatively slow-moving affair. These days, hysteria spreads at the speed of light.
Fascinated by the eagerness of so many to embrace wild conspiracies like QAnon, I sought an explanation from a leading scholar on the subject, Dr Karen Douglas from the University of Kent.
"Conspiracy theories seem to appeal to people who have specific needs to satisfy," she told me. "[They are] looking for knowledge and certainty, wanting to feel safe and secure and good about themselves and the groups they belong to. So when these needs are unmet, people might turn to conspiracy theories in an effort to fulfil them".
In the case of QAnon, there seems to be another factor at work: for its true believers, it serves to relieve cognitive dissonance produced by relentless attacks on their beloved president. The Mueller probe, an existential threat to Trump's hold on power, has thus been twisted into an epic ruse whose real target is not the White House, but its enemies.
more: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/110256425/down-the-rabbit-hole-of-outlandish-conspiracy-theories
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