The 2024 Holiday Season Shpiel: Kook vs Kink
It depends on the working definition of kook. Arguably, this single member LLC website selling 52-card playing decks that focus on the 52 senators who chose to acquit Donald Trump of his first impeachment charges, is a bit kooky. Not Building 7 kooky, but in the same neighborhood. According to this website, holding Ronald Reagan responsible for convincing the mullahs of Iran to hold onto our hostages until after his inauguration isn’t very kooky, because there’s proof. Still being upset at the injustice of the Supreme Court voting 5-4 to stop the vote count from continuing in Florida so as to end the drama of the 2000 election, and thereby appoint the presidency to a popular vote loser, isn't very kooky, because that, too, had happened. So did the fact that a Diebold executive died in a plane crash while conducting landing and take-off maneuvers for certification months before the 2004 election despite being an experienced pilot. Now, whether that exec was going to blow the whistle on his company's business practices is up for speculation as there's no news [...]