"I Sat Through Michelle Bachmann's Crazy Election Conference So You Didn't Have To"

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I Sat Through Michelle Bachmann's Crazy Election Conference So You Didn't Have To
It was something.
overtime.thebulwark.com
3:41 PM · Mar 24, 2021

https://thebulwark.com/trumpists-still-pushing-election-fraud-claims-and-conspiracy-theories/

Because I am a masochist, I subjected myself to a cavalcade of crazy yesterday. I watched / listened to much of the seven hours of a nutso livestream from Regent University masquerading as an academic forum on “election integrity.”

Enough falsehoods were spewed by the speakers sponsored by Pat Robertson’s school yesterday to merit two-dozen rebuttal articles—but in the interest of time, I’ll just give you some broad strokes.

First, I would like to note that the emcee of the event was former Republican congresswoman, failed presidential candidate, and dean (!) of the Robertson School of Government, Michele Bachmann.

This is a woman who, after election day last year, asked God to #StopTheSteal in a prayer. I am not kidding:

Her opening statement yesterday was . . . really quite something. Do our votes even count anymore? she wondered. Did the pilgrims give us Biblical principles that are no longer being followed today? What about the elites and their pursuit of continued power? Is cancel culture coming after people who question the results of the 2020 election? (Brad Raffensperger, don’t answer that.)

Already I knew it was going to be a long day.

*snip*

[marble falls]

1. Jebus. What a terrible thought: Bachmann as a Dean. The rest of the speakers were turkeys, too.

[Skittles]

2. OMG

"The Robertson School of Government has crafted an academic team whose mission is to train the next generation of principled Christian leaders."

[Bristlecone]

3. I think she sees a renewed opportunity in the GQP for her brand of crazy

Not sure she'd be wrong.

[struggle4progress]

4. She has that "possessed by Satan" stare, so popular with the rightwing

[crickets]

5. Entertaining read. Score: five hanging chads. nt