Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 6:21 PM for 11h 18m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1936, Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit…
Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Elections
Daily Bread for 10.7.21: Michael Gableman’s Candid, and Disqualifying, Ignorance
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 70. Sunrise is 7:00 AM and sunset 6:24 PM for 11h 24m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.5% of its visible disk illuminated. There will be a meeting of Whitewater’s Finance Committee at 4:30 PM, of the Landmarks Commission…
City, Conspiracy Theories, Development, Disinformation, Economy, Ignorance, Local Government, Medicine, School District, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.26.21: The Vaccine Divide and the Economic Divide
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 6:47 AM and sunset 6:43 PM for 11h 55m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 73% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1789, George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary…
Conservative Populism, Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Elections, Liberal Democracy, Populists
Daily Bread for 9.16.21: The Biased Leading the Biased
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 7:01 PM for 12h 24m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 77.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater Fire Department, Inc. meets at 6 PM. This day in 1959, the first successful photocopier, the…
Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Disinformation, Education, School District
Daily Bread for 8.19.21: ‘People Into Chimpanzees’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with scattered afternoon thunderstorms and a high of 88. Sunrise is 6:06 AM and sunset 7:49 PM, for 13h 42m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 88.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1812, the American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate…
Bigotry, Conspiracy Theories, Covidiocy, Crackpots, Disinformation, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trumpism, U.S. Senate, Unfit
Sen. Ron Johnson: ‘An all-access purveyor of misinformation’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Ron Johnson, one of the two United States senators representing Wisconsin, has earned a new epithet: BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Senator Ron Johnson incited widespread outrage when he said recently that he would have been more afraid of the rioters who rampaged the Capitol on Jan. 6 had they been members of Black Lives Matter and…
Congress, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation, Insurrection, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson Reads Lies about the Capitol Riot
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
In for a penny, in for a pound: Sen. Ron Johnson hopes someone will believe that the rioters who marched from a Trump rally to the Capitol on 1.6 weren’t Trump supporters at all. (Most likely, he does not expect rational people to believe this; he hopes to soothe the feelings of the irrational faction…
Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Crime, Disinformation, Fellow Traveler, Insurrection, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson: ‘No Enemies to the Right’?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
During an interview yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson declared of the Capitol riot that ‘this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.’ Tim Elfrink reports that As a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol last month, rioters battered police with a multitude of weapons: metal flagpoles, baseball bats, wrenches and clubs. Many soaked police in caustic…
Congress, Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Disinformation, Mendacity, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson Searches for the Real Killer
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
United States Senator Ron Johnson wonders if, possibly, maybe, perhaps it is Nancy Pelosi who is responsible for the Capitol riot. He doesn’t have any proof for this contention, and after all, he’s only askin’ questions, so don’t ask Johnson for substantiation: “Is this another diversionary operation? Is this meant to deflect away from potentially…
Conspiracy Theories, Covidiocy, Elections, Fellow Traveler, Law, Never Trump, Presidential race 2020, Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
Ron Johnson Attracts Attention
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The Never Trump conservatives at the Lincoln Project aren’t going away: they have lingering Trumpism in their sights. U.S. Senator Ron Johnson – who accepts every conspiracy theory but rejects Wisconsin’s certified electoral votes for president – has caught their attention. .@RonJohnsonWI I wanted to let you know what we are talking about at @ProjectLincoln…
Conspiracy Theories, Elections, Fellow Traveler, Presidential race 2020, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trump, Trumpism, Wisconsin
Whether Ambitious, Compromised, or Crackpot, Sen. Ron Johnson Doesn’t Disappoint
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Embedded below, Sen. Ron Johnson’s nine minutes, thirty-three seconds of lunacy on Sunday’s Meet the Press. A full transcript is available at NBC News. Previously: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson: Ambitious, Compromised, or Crackpot?, National Reporting on Sen. Ron Johnson, and Ron Johnson’s 12.16.20 Senate Hearing on Election Security.
Conspiracy Theories, Elections, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson, US Senate
Ron Johnson’s 12.16.20 Senate Hearing on Election Security
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson held a hearing as the (outgoing) chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. A video of the full hearing appears above. Johnson may run for a third term, and even if he doesn’t, his role in support of Trump and his affinity for a Trumpist outlook make him a subject of…
America, Authoritarianism, Conspiracy Theories, Elections, Law, Trump, Unfit
Attempts
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
When a burglar walks through a neighborhood, and tries doorknob after doorknob to see which one might be unlocked, no reasonable person would say that his attempts to enter are innocent acts. On the contrary, he’d rightly been seen as dangerous. In the same way, when Trump challenges election results through lies, his attempts to…
2020 Presidential Election, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation, Facebook, Justice, Law, Presidential race 2020, Social Media
Meanwhile, on Facebook…
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Jeremy B. Merrill and Jamiles Lartey report Trump’s Crime and Carnage Ad Blitz Is Going Unanswered on Facebook (‘The president has spent millions on misleading Facebook ads targeting undecided voters, while Joe Biden has been virtually silent’): With unprecedented protests around race and policing dominating the news all summer, it was all but certain criminal justice would emerge as a key…