Seth Cotlar: The faction that considers itself more "in touch with the grassroots" & wch almost got their candidate appointed to be OR's representative to the RNC, consists of radio hosts/podcasters like this "noncompliantus" guy who thinks Israel maybe killed JFK, chemtrails will kill you, & Alex Jones rules.

A big fault line has opened up inside the OR GOP between two factions. The relatively more moderate faction believes the 2020 election was stolen, Covid was a hoax, GOP county chairs will be rounded up & arrested by the FBI any day now, & Dems are communists. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/down-the-d...

Down the Derp State Rabbit Hole with the Chair of the Marion County (OR) GOPsethcotlar.substack.com Cleon Skousen's conspiracy theories, Chinese commandos invading from Mexico, and other oldies but goodies from the right wing playbook

The faction that considers itself more "in touch with the grassroots" & wch almost got their candidate appointed to be OR's representative to the RNC, consists of radio hosts/podcasters like this "noncompliantus" guy who thinks Israel maybe killed JFK, chemtrails will kill you, & Alex Jones rules.

If you feel like spending a few hours listening to two of the far right, conspiracy-obsessed media figures behind the movement that is on the verge of taking over the OR GOP from the far right, conspiracy-obsessed people they think are RINO squishes, here you go. rumble.com/v4krkg0-frid...

Friday Night Rant with Joshua Michael & Rob Taylorrumble.com 7:00 PM Friday, March 22, 2024 So much to rant about and so little time, but we are going to do it anyway. Joshua and I are going to rant about the state of the Oregon Republican Party, the Yue Crew,

For you Cleon Skousen fans out there, one of his relatives, Joel Skousen (who makes Cleon seem like a very sober-minded, reality-based commentator) is running for president. That further right faction in the OR GOP is quite Skousen-curious. Spread the word! rumble.com/v4k159h-pres...

Presidential Candidate Joel Skousenrumble.com 3 PM Monday, March 18, 2024 The Constitution Party has asked Joel Skousen to be their presidential candidate for the 2024 General Election. Joel and I had a very intriguing conversation about his cand

It should probably go without saying that the further right faction in the OR GOP is in favor of removing fluoride from the public water supply. noncompliantamerica.transistor.fm/episodes/joe...

Playing all of your favorite hits from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s!!! sethcotlar.substack.com/p/those-funn...

Thosesethcotlar.substack.com Or, how I learned to stop laughing and love talking seriously about the anti-fluoridation movement

The more moderate OR GOP faction has already embraced a conspiracy theory to explain where the further right "grassroots insurgency" is coming from. It's ackshually a bunch of Democrat/CCP chaos agents who have been sent into state GOPs to sabotage the party. bsky.app/profile/seth...

New explanation for GOP infighting just dropped. It’s the fault of the Democrats who moved to purple states and became GOP precinct captains!

Anyway, when an interlocking set of cockamamie conspiracy theories come to dominate a party's political culture, it can produce situations like this where your party gets ripped apart by competing conspiratorial factions who each think the other are commies. sethcotlar.substack.com/p/the-anti-c...

The anti-communist circular firing squad that is the Oregon GOPsethcotlar.substack.com Some observations on yesterday's failed effort to recall Oregon Republican National Committeeman Solomon Yue

wait so is it too late to reveal our secret years-long scheme to infiltrate the oregon GOP and turn it into a dysfunctional sack of wingnuts worried about Fluids?

My casual observations of local Republicans is probably as close as it gets to "infiltrating" them around here. I signed up for their newsletter! I've even attended some events! It was three years into my very publicly writing about them before they even noticed...

It's interesting how the "party of personal responsibility" is never to blame for their own actions...

This checks out. Ds are so bad at organizing themselves - insert overused Will Rogers quote here - that seeding R party organizations with D secret disruptors will bring the same chaos to the R table. We're brilliant.

I hope they cut themselves on Occam's Razor.

Of course the party of "remember when it was ok to be racist, sexist, homophobic? It sure was great. Let's bring it back" have people who are actually democrats infiltrating them to make them look bad? Bc that's more believable than "the extremes are extending"?

So I recently learned that Portland itself doesn't put flouride in the water, and if put to voters, they will vote No Flouride. I can't understand what is going on there?

Put most simply, it’s the horseshoe merger of far right anti-government and anti-science suspicions with a left variant of the same impulses. Sometimes being suspicious of what “the man” is up to is quite wise and healthy. Sometimes it’s just silly.

A lot of people are proud of the purity of the Bull Run watershed, where the city gets its water (mostly.) To add anything to it is considered is akin to hocking a lugee on da Mona Lisa. Plus, dentists are cool.

Omg. Never knew this connection. I was astonished to learn that we would have to give our kids fluoride supplements because the water wasn't fluoridated. I thought it was national best-practice.

Yeah, many communities in Oregon have a very odd relationship to things like fluoride. It isn't all about fascism, but the fascists were part of an odd anti-fluoride coalition of food faddists, organic gardening types (JJ Rodale was a big anti-fluoride guy), etc.

Not Dr. Bonner! 😭😣

I was disappointed to learn that as well.

... But Seth, we don't HAVE fluoride in Oregon drinking water?... maybe that's why we are rich in mental cavities...

Oh, Jesus. I grew up w/o fluoridated water, you you should see my molars -- it isn't pretty.

Cleon “Instant Insanity Drugs” Skousen is the more sober-minded relative?

"political therapist"

Well, that’s my Saturday night sorted

Why would anyone listen to someone who says things like "JFK got pew pewd[sic]"?

Indeed. FWIW, I'd say that there are maybe 500 people, 1000 tops, who listen to this guy's radio show/podcast. The problem is, almost all of them (aside from me) are fairly active and vocal Republicans in Oregon and so have outsized influence over the party's culture & direction.

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