Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 4/20

[SVPete]

Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Officially Gone Completely Off the Rails

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-has-officially-gone-completely-off-the-rails-n4951970

Ever since the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024, the far left has been pushing conspiracy theories that the whole thing was staged. It was their coping mechanism because they were angry that Trump survived, and because they felt Trump would benefit politically from the incident.

Now, the liberal media is trying to turn it into a MAGA conspiracy theory, and they’re getting help from none other than Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Yes, really.

Greene recently took to X to post a question about what “really happened” in Butler. "Corey Comperatore's family deserves to know the truth about Matthew Crooks and what happened in Butler on July 13, 2024," she wrote. "President Trump, of all people, should be leading the charge. Why isn't he? That's the question."

The facts about what happened that day are quite straightforward. A gunman opened fire at a Trump campaign rally in Butler. Corey Comperatore was killed shielding his family from the bullets. The Secret Service neutralized the shooter. Trump survived.

The facts aren't complicated, yet in the immediate hours and days after the shooting, it was left-wing commentators and Democrats who floated the idea that the whole incident was staged to boost Trump's campaign. That's where this nonsense was born. The fact that a handful of former Trump supporters have since picked it up doesn't make it a MAGA phenomenon — it makes it a useful recycling project for people who've decided that burning their bridges with Trump is now their entire political identity.

I don't think MTG has been within sight of the "rails" for a year or three. Progs and truth have been estranged strangers wrt Trump for 11 years and counting, but this "Even MAGAs" claim is at the intersection of Fallacy-of-Composition St. and Straw Man Blvd.

More broadly, I think (possibly wrongly, of course) there is a pattern in the "questions" about the Trump assassination attempt and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Federal courts have placed significant limits around pre-trial publicity and evidence chain-of-custody. Prosecutors, local through Federal, are being extremely careful and muted about what they make public. CTists are transmogrifying that court-imposed silence and not publicizing every bit a evidence into a CT, like  MTG, like Candace Owens.

[SVPete]

Lefty love boat: Greta Thunberg’s freedom flotilla rocked by sexual misconduct allegations

https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/world-news/greta-thunbergs-freedom-flotilla-rocked-by-sexual-misconduct-allegations/

Greta Thunberg’s freedom flotilla, which set sail from Barcelona Sunday for another anti-Israel voyage to Gaza, has been rocked by scandal after one of its woke leaders was accused of “sexual misconduct” with at least three volunteers.

“A senior leader within the flotilla — a member of the steering committee, the highest governing body of the organization — engaged in sexual relations with multiple activists while on the boat heading to Gaza. Not one person. Not two. Three different individuals,” claimed Palestinian group Heart of Falastin in a social media post earlier this week.

“To do it on the boat, while heading to a nation undergoing genocide, with volunteers who are under your authority . . . is a clear violation of ethics and power.”

Well Greta's safe, , but what would one expect from followers of a religion that treats women like @#$% and Proggies who reject moral absolutes?

[SVPete]

U.S. Forces Disable Vessel Attempting to Enter Iranian Port, Violate Blockade

https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2045969284690788615

TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. forces operating in the Arabian Sea enforced naval blockade measures against an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel attempting to sail toward an Iranian port, April 19.

Guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) intercepted M/V Touska as it transited the north Arabian Sea at 17 knots enroute to Bandar Abbas, Iran. American forces issued multiple warnings and informed the Iranian-flagged vessel it was in violation of the U.S. blockade.

After Touska’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings over a six-hour period, Spruance directed the vessel to evacuate its engine room. Spruance disabled Touska’s propulsion by firing several rounds from the destroyer’s 5-inch MK 45 Gun into Touska’s engine room. U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit later boarded the non-compliant vessel, which remains in U.S. custody.

The Spruance's 5"/62 gun is pretty BA. The max range is 20 nautical miles, and it can fire up to 20 shells a minute (fully automatic). The Touska is a ~66,400 ton container ship, so if it was fairly loaded rooting through its cargo will take some time.

[SVPete]

'60 Minutes' accused of using left-leaning Cardinals to bait Trump into feud with Vatican

https://www.foxnews.com/media/60-minutes-accused-using-left-leaning-cardinals-bait-trump-feud-vatican

Some conservative commentators accused CBS’s "60 Minutes" of airing a segment featuring three "left-wing" cardinals who criticized the Trump administration’s immigration and Iran policies.

Father Gerald Murray and author Robert Royal joined Raymond Arroyo on "The Prayerful Posse" to discuss whether the situation was meant to spark a conflict between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV.

"The three of them are billed as so-called influential, but none of them hold offices in the U.S. Bishops' Conference, and they have never been elected," Royal said.

He compared the group to "The Squad" in U.S. politics, calling them "a very definite and pretty left-wing group of just three."
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Arroyo suggested the media framed the conflict to bait the White House into a dispute with the Vatican, which he labeled "pope-a-doping."

"They were trying to get Trump to overreact, and he did," Arroyo said.

After the "60 Minutes" episode aired, Trump and the pope publicly criticized each other.

Hmmmm ... Cardinal Joseph Tobin is Archbishop of Newark ... Cardinal Robert McElroy is Archbishop of Washington, DC ... not named in the article, Cardinal Blase Cupich is Archbishop of Chicago. To this outsider, these seem to be pretty influential positions. Maybe there's something way "inside baseball" I'm not aware of, but it seems more accurate to have said that SeeBS Skews cherrypicked the most left-leaning, anti-Trump high-level Catholic leaders to fit the story they wanted to craft.

FWIW, Raymond Arroyo is the sort of faithful and observant Catholic that LIEden's FBI might have been surveiling.

[SVPete]

The DOJ Has Found HOW MANY Dead People on Voter Rolls?

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/04/20/the-doj-has-found-how-many-dead-people-on-voter-rolls-n4951972

The Department of Justice has been quietly building what could become one of the most consequential voter integrity efforts in American history — and the woman running it says the results are already alarming.

Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, sat down with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures on Sunday morning and laid out exactly what her office has been finding as it works through voter rolls state by state.
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Dhillon came on to discuss a range of issues — from the slow grind of accountability for the Russia collusion hoax to the CIA's role in manufacturing the fake Hunter Biden laptop narrative. But when the conversation eventually turned to elections, that's where things got genuinely jaw-dropping.
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"We have to interview a lot of witnesses. We don't wanna do what the other side did, which is just jump to conclusions, and so we're building strong cases." She acknowledged the frustration — years of documented abuse, and still no perp walks — but pushed back on the idea that nothing is happening behind the scenes. "I can assure you that the whole Department of Justice is very committed to this," she said, adding that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is continuing the work that Pam Bondi started.

She also took a moment to call out what she framed as judicial resistance to the Trump DOJ's legitimate work. Judges, she said — particularly recently appointed ones — have been "doing their own form of lawfare by simply denying the Trump administration's valid cases in court." That obstruction, she made clear, extends to her office's efforts on voting integrity.
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Part of her job, she explained, has involved housecleaning — rooting out career DOJ staff who weren't exactly on the team. "People have been burrowed in there for decades doing political partisanship," she said, "and that's just not what we're supposed to be doing at the DOJ."

Then came the voter rolls.

Dhillon said she's requested voter roll data from every state and the District of Columbia. About a third have cooperated voluntarily or reached settlements. The rest? She's suing 29 states and D.C. for refusing to hand over records the attorney general is legally entitled to under the Civil Rights Act of 1960. "States are not in compliance," she said, "even those ones who want to."

Regarding the records she's already been able to run, 60 million of them, the findings are stunning. Her office found at least 350,000 dead people currently listed on voter rolls across those jurisdictions as active voters. That’s an alarming number, especially when you consider the fact that the 2020 election was decided on fewer than 50,000 votes across the battleground states. This is why Democrats in Congress oppose the SAVE America Act, even though an overwhelming majority of Americans support it.

Keep in mind, that 350,000 dead people on the voter rolls id just from 21 states! Among the states that are "resisting" voter roll scrutiny are populous Dem-run states like California, Illinois, and New York. IOW, it would be utterly unsurprising, IMO, if the number of dead on voter rolls topped 1 million.