There Ain’t No Coup d’état Hiding at the Bottom of a Cracker Jack Box

America This Week: 01/30/22

Luella Schmidt
8 min readJan 31, 2022

Dispatches from the front lines of the Disinformation War: A weekly news roundup for people fighting for the right to be self-governed.

Props to Meatloaf for the title of this week’s piece. Meatloaf, like so many before him, was misled into believing that denying himself a free, life-saving vaccine was “freedom”. He died of COVID this month.

Republican Voters: Your Country Needs You

The Republican Party continues to splinter before our eyes as party elites try to decide whether to go down with the Trump/Carlson fascism ship or to salvage the Party by holding on for dear life to their pro-democracy, conservative values. Every time I search for a conservative viewpoint on an issue, I’m met with all idiocy and zero policy ideas. I believe conservative voices are important because I believe having different viewpoints is important. But fascism is not a “viewpoint”; fascists get their asses stomped and there’s no compromising with them. Ever.

This disinformation war is threatening, injuring, and killing people, every single day. A frightening large swath of GOP party elites have joined forces with foreign adversaries to attack Americans in this war. And I…

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Luella Schmidt
Luella Schmidt

Written by Luella Schmidt

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Thanks, Luella, for your report. Keep your eyes open and keep them coming.
I, for one, can use all the perspective I can get. Your analysis is helpful in making sense of it all.

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