Bill Press
To say it was shocking is the understatement of all time. For those of us living in the Bay Area, the news of the Jonestown Massacre was the equivalent of an earthquake, monsoon, and tornado striking at the same time.
A year earlier, Jim Jones, pastor of San Francisco’s “People’s Temple” and pal of the city’s Democratic politicians had lured most members of his congregation to a compound called Jonestown in the jungles of Guyana. On Nov. 18, 1978, after a visit by Congressman Leo Ryan (murdered upon his departure) threatened to expose horrific conditions at the site, the charismatic Jones convinced his followers to commit mass suicide. Over 900 perished, one-third of them children, after dutifully lining up and drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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By Rex Huppke
I realize Iâm just a simple newspaper columnist, but it seems having a lame-duck U.S. president openly advocating a coup is a bad and insane thing, yet the people who most loudly call themselves patriots donât appear to give a whit.
Maybe Iâm on an island here, but the conclusion that can be drawn from the following string of facts concerns me:
1. Joe Biden unequivocally won the 2020 presidential election.
2. The loser, President Donald Trump, refuses to acknowledge his loss and is goading Republican state legislators to find ways to subvert the election results, all while filing dozens upon dozens of frivolous lawsuits that have all been dismissed because they are preposterous and grounded in unhinged speculation.