Open Thread - The Internet, Amirite?

"Bad Faith" is a documentary about the rise of Christian Nationalism that is nightmare fuel. However, every American needs to watch this doc to understand the dangerous extremism coming from within our country. The documentary shows how Christian Nationalist leaders have spread disinformation and successfully turned culture wars into a "battle between good and evil." In the 2024 election, Christian Nationalists now rule the Republican Party and are powerfully organized under the Project 2025 plan.

Fox News's Sean Hannity had an interesting take when a caller named John said he was wondering about all of the "corruption" in the Biden administration. Ironically, it's former President Donald Trump who is facing 91 felonies, 34 of the charges in New York City, where he is currently on trial.

On Tuesday, Biden announced an increase in tariffs on a variety of Chinese imports, including electric vehicles, solar cells, semiconductors, and advanced batteries, to protect strategic American industries from a new wave of competitors that the President said were unfairly subsidized by Beijing, according to the New York Times. Of course, Trump grabbed credit for that, and he was all about tariffs, but at the same time, he criticized Biden for it from the courthouse because, of course he did. "They've also got to do it on other vehicles, and they have to do it on a lot of other products," he told reporters before entering court for his hush money/election interference trial in New York.

Thornapple, Wisconsin is a little, podunk town in Northern Wisconsin, with a population of 711 people. But despite being set in the scenic Northwoods of the state, this little out of the way is in hot water with the federal government. In June 2023, the town board decided to get rid of their electronic voting machines because of The Big Lie, even though the last three years was filled with failed lawsuit by Trump and is supporters and Fox had to pay $800 million to Dominion for spreading The Big Lie, the town's elected leaders were still afraid that Biden and the Communists were stealing elections with those devil voting machines. Don't believe me, just listen to this ten minute conversation between Jack Zupan, town supervisor and one of his constituents.

Recapping Michael Cohen's testimony during Trump's trial Monday, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow simulated puking off-camera when Trump bragged about how the women wanted him at the golf tournament instead of Ben Roethlisberger. Maddow: Trump's denials that he had sex with Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen testified today that when he asked Donald Trump if anything had happened between him and Stormy Daniels, Trump bragged to Michael Cohen that yeah, even though he was there at this golf event with Big Ben Roethlisberger, the women there, like Stormy Daniels, they wanted him more than they wanted Big Ben.

Ballot drop boxes have been popular in Wisconsin for decades. And like every other state, there was a tremendous surge in their popularity in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. Then Trump came along with his Big Lie and tried to cast dispersion and doubt on drop boxes, saying they allowed tremendous amounts of fraud.