The end is near

You know that moment in a cartoon when the character has stepped off a cliff, but doesn’t start to fall until he realizes there is no ground under his feet?

That’s the state of the birther movement today. They got their way by electing what they thought was a birther candidate for president, only to find out that he could care less about their final vindication.

If anyone fits the image above, it’s Carl Gallups, radio preacher, end-times prophet and birther. For years now, Gallups has been on the radio, and posting on Facebook about the eminent release of the Cold Case Posse’s proof what Barack Obama was not really eligible to be president. But who gives a rat’s ass about that now? On January 20, Obama leaves office. Birther predictions of martial law, or a rigged election, just didn’t pan out. The country will move on, whether over a cliff or not remains to be seen.

Gallups has been promising results for 3 years now, following the debacle that was the Cold Case Posse press conferences, where Mike Zullo presented incompetent evidence, some of which was even fabricated. Now Gallups, thinking that he is still standing on terra firma, tells his followers this past week on Facebook that there is still something to the birther movement:

The Arpaio/Zullo announcement is being meticulously planned. We will keep you poste (sic) and informed along the way. Be Patient. You WILL be vindicated! This is the year of “Revelations!”

On May 24 of 2014 Gallops wrote:

We had announced at PPSimmons that we would have some breaking news, as well as some updated info concerning the upcoming news conferences by Arpaio and Zullo.

So what was being done between May of 2014 and November of 2016 when you should have been doing your “meticulous planning”? You use that word “vindicated” but I don’t think it means what you think it does.

Birther Report site failures drag on into 4th week

On May 3, reports Dr. Conspiracy on his leftist propaganda site Obama Conspiracy Theories, somebody screwed up the DNS records for Birther Report, and now its users have a 20% chance of being unable to reach the site for extended periods of time. He noted that the site may have been failing earlier; May 3 is just the last update to the DNS records.

Dr. Con (as the denizens of Birther Report call him) provided a detailed analysis of the problem and how to fix it over a week ago, and other commenters at BR have pointed out the problem too. Nevertheless, inexplicably, even though Dr. Conspiracy went even so far as to post the information on BR itself, the site remains in its half broken state.

Dr. Conspiracy, known for excessive bragging over his intelligence and technical superiority, has been rubbing salt in BR’s wounds by a series of pedantic, know-it-all comments on the BR site, which have been met with righteous profanity. His mocking remarks citing examples where birthers had attributed the failure to all manner of nonsense, not the least of which included blocking of the site by Obots and Google censorship, were not well received.

Some obots have speculated that the faulty DNS record points to the server in Bob Nelson’s trunk that BR commenters donated money to pay for, so that BR could be free from the threat of Google stopping them from serving malware. Over 2 years have passed and that server was never deployed. Of course deploying the new server would require someone know something about DNS records, which seems to be beyond the technical capacity of the present BR management.

Further speculation says that BR owner Bob Nelson has been incapacitated and is unable to repair the site, noting that he has made no comments on the site since late April, when he made the enigmatic post:

Because it has been under constant attack for over a month now.

The crisis is ongoing.

Update:

Still broken 5/28/2016

Still broken 11/13/2016