Isn’t life grand? The yous and mes get up, do something productive, make a dollar, take care of the necessaries of living and hopefully have a little joy and a few laughs along the way. While we go about our business in la de da fashion, those who know The Truth, obsess on four granite tablets erected to “withstand a catastrophe” located 666 miles from the United Nations. It’s Gawd v. Satan time, friends. And either you are somebody who does not believe in apocalyptic conspiracy theory or you are a MAGA loving, holy rolling, snake handling, AR-15 packing Christo-fascist running for office in the State of Georgia.
Kandiss Taylor is in third place in the Republican primary for Georgia’s governor. She sees battling the New World Order as the real business of governing the Peach State. And the first order of business in doing that is getting rid of those accursed tablets, known as the Georgia Guidestones. (I wish the Righteous Gemstones, which is set in South Carolina, would mosey over to Georgia and do an episode on the Guidestones. Maybe one of their writers has already thought of it.) Until those comedy writers get to the task, read what the Great Screenwriter In the Sky hath wrought. Daily Beast:
On May 2, Taylor unveiled a draft executive order related to the Georgia Guidestones, a set of enormous rocks in the city of Elberton. Taylor’s proposed order is simple: “Demolish the Georgia Guidestones.”
“The New World Order is here, and they told us it was coming,” Taylor said in a video showing her standing defiantly in front of the tablets she describes as symbols of human sacrifice. “This is a battle.”
To most people not steeped in the online lore that surrounds them, the Guidestones might appear to be only a tourist trap a two-hour northeast from Atlanta. Erected in 1979, the 19-foot-tall Guidestones’ true origins and purposes are unclear. Based on the messages on the Guidestones and their design, though, the people involved in the stones’ construction have said that they’re meant to help a human remnant rebuild in the aftermath of nuclear war.
Either way, the Guidestones are likely safe for now. Despite endorsements from Trump allies like MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and pro-QAnon lawyer Lin Wood, Taylor is polling a distant third in the gubernatorial race behind Kemp and Trump’s pick, former Sen. David Perdue. Taylor received just 4 percent in a recent poll. But her proposed executive order highlights the far-right’s increasing hostility to the Guidestones, which have taken on an outsized importance among conservative conspiracy theorists as a symbol of a nefarious plot to kill off 95 percent of the world’s population.
And it will come as no shock that Marge Greene is on board for this.
In a 2018 Facebook post, future Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) endorsed the idea that the Guidestones revealed a world genocide plot. In the pandemic, the Guidestones have come to be seen as proof of an impending “Great Reset” of the world, with Covid-19 vaccines used to kill off most people. […]
The conspiracy theorists do have one thing right about the Guidestones: they’re mysterious. Officially, no one alive knows the identity of the person who paid to put up the Guidestones. In 1979, a man using the alias R.C. Christian appeared in Elberton, claiming to represent “a group of loyal Americans” from outside who wanted to erect a massive granite monument that could withstand a catastrophe.
I think the catastrophe the gentleman was thinking of was more along the lines of physical force, an explosion perhaps, and not the disintegration of the Republican party, which is a many splendored catastrophe that is seeping into all aspects of life right now.
In an email to The Daily Beast, Elberton mayor Daniel Graves brushed off Taylor’s suggestion that the Guidestones be demolished, saying she should focus on celebrating the city’s granite production instead of “some outlandish conspiracy theories she watched on YouTube.”
It would be nice to have candidates running for office who were focused on the issues of the real world instead of fantastic bullshit, wouldn’t it?
I think Kandiss Taylor’s chances of getting the GOP nomination are slim to none, but wouldn’t it be something to see this wingnut debate Stacey Abrams? Just think about it. Maybe that’s the way this election is shaking down in some other Earth dimension, parallel political universe.
I wish the GOP would filter out the nutjobs they have for candidates. That should be part of their duty as a party.