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mickeyrat said:

https://apnews.com/article/michigan-republican-march-madness-6217e5cda406954993a299329b98572b   Michigan GOP lawmaker falsely claims that buses carrying March Madness teams are 'illegal invaders'

 

Michigan GOP lawmaker falsely claims that buses carrying March Madness teams are 'illegal invaders'

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI

26 mins ago

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan state lawmaker involved in former President Donald Trump’s election denials is being widely criticized after the Republican made false claims that buses carrying college athletes to Detroit for March Madness were shuttling illegal migrant “invaders” into the city.

State House Rep. Matt Maddock made the claim Wednesday night in a social media post accompanied by photos of three buses near an Allegiant plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Maddock wrote that the buses “just loaded up with illegal invaders.”

“Anyone have any idea where they’re headed with their police escort?” the Republican wrote on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Maddock describes himself as Michigan's “most conservative state representative” in his profile on the platform.

Four college basketball teams traveling to Detroit for the second weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament arrived by plane Wednesday evening, the Wayne County Airport Authority said in a statement. The “buses seen in a photograph circulating online were transporting the basketball teams and their respective staffs,” the statement added.

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Maddock's post drew swift criticism on social media, with multiple accounts noting that an earlier post on the Gonzaga men’s basketball team’s social media page had indicated their departure for Detroit, featuring an Allegiant plane.

“A sitting State Representative sees a group of buses at the airport and immediately yells ‘illegal invaders’ which is a pretty rude (and also, frankly, dangerous) way to greet the Gonzaga Men’s Basketball Team arriving for March Madness,” state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a Democrat, wrote on social media.

Maddock doubled down on his posts Thursday, adding that hundreds of thousands of “illegals are pouring into our country," and into Michigan. In a text response to The Associated Press, Maddock declined to acknowledge that the buses were transporting basketball players.

“I haven't heard a good answer yet,” Maddock wrote. “I took a tip and asked because this is happening in many places and it is well documented.”

Some Republicans who had initially echoed Maddock's claims made in his original post, such as Michigan GOP chairman Pete Hoekstra, quickly backtracked.

Maddock, a Republican representing parts of metro Detroit, was endorsed by Trump while running for reelection in 2022. Trump said in his statement endorsing Maddock that Michigan needs leadership "who will investigate and document the 2020 voter fraud, the crime of the century.”

His wife, Meshawn Maddock, the former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, is one of 15 Republicans facing eight criminal charges on accusations of acting as fake electors for then-President Trump in 2020. All defendants have pleaded not guilty.

Halifax2TheMax said:

WaPo doing the POOTWH voters a favour by ensuring their accurate reporting doesn’t lead to false beliefs.

mrussel1 said:

Go Beavers said:

And when someone first hears how it’s determined which Sunday it’ll fall on, they give the “really?” response with that look on their face where they’re pondering the Pagan implications. 

Keep me honest, but I think Christmas is linked to the pagan calendar (solstice) but Easter is linked to the Jewish lunar calendar, which tells them when to celebrate Passover.  And Passover is the same week as Good Friday.  That's why the day moves. 

Although there is certainly something pagan about connecting it to the lunar cycle. 

Vitalogensia said:

mrussel1 said:

Go Beavers said:

And when someone first hears how it’s determined which Sunday it’ll fall on, they give the “really?” response with that look on their face where they’re pondering the Pagan implications. 

Keep me honest, but I think Christmas is linked to the pagan calendar (solstice) but Easter is linked to the Jewish lunar calendar, which tells them when to celebrate Passover.  And Passover is the same week as Good Friday.  That's why the day moves. 

Although there is certainly something pagan about connecting it to the lunar cycle. 

I've done research on this, and it's complicated.  Easter is known as a “moveable feast.”  Instead of having a fixed date like Christmas, Easter occurs in accordance to a lunisolar calendar – one that describes both the solar time of year as well as moon phases.  Easter is supposed to follow a full moon after the Spring equinox (between March 22nd and April 25th) and on a Sunday if you’re a Western Christian. Also, no one know when Jesus was actually born or died, but theThe First Council of Nicaea decided to separate computus (determine when Easter is) from Jewish tradition in AD 325. Due to the impending completion of Cyril of Alexandria’s 95-year Easter table, Dionysius Exiguus created his Easter tables in AD 525, setting the date of Easter from AD 532 to 626. (On top of that, Dionysius Exiguus created the use of “AD.”)  Beda Venerabilis championed Dionysius Exiguus’s work, and continued his Easter cycle through AD 721.  (o compliment Dionysius Exiguus’s use of AD, Beda Venerabilis also created “BC” to denote “Before Christ.”)  Then you have to add in the Gregorian calendar being implemented in 1582, and leap days, as well as the countries/societies that adhered to the Julian calendar until relatively recently, like the 1700s.  

mrussel1 said:

Vitalogensia said:

mrussel1 said:

Go Beavers said:

And when someone first hears how it’s determined which Sunday it’ll fall on, they give the “really?” response with that look on their face where they’re pondering the Pagan implications. 

Keep me honest, but I think Christmas is linked to the pagan calendar (solstice) but Easter is linked to the Jewish lunar calendar, which tells them when to celebrate Passover.  And Passover is the same week as Good Friday.  That's why the day moves. 

Although there is certainly something pagan about connecting it to the lunar cycle. 

I've done research on this, and it's complicated.  Easter is known as a “moveable feast.”  Instead of having a fixed date like Christmas, Easter occurs in accordance to a lunisolar calendar – one that describes both the solar time of year as well as moon phases.  Easter is supposed to follow a full moon after the Spring equinox (between March 22nd and April 25th) and on a Sunday if you’re a Western Christian. Also, no one know when Jesus was actually born or died, but theThe First Council of Nicaea decided to separate computus (determine when Easter is) from Jewish tradition in AD 325. Due to the impending completion of Cyril of Alexandria’s 95-year Easter table, Dionysius Exiguus created his Easter tables in AD 525, setting the date of Easter from AD 532 to 626. (On top of that, Dionysius Exiguus created the use of “AD.”)  Beda Venerabilis championed Dionysius Exiguus’s work, and continued his Easter cycle through AD 721.  (o compliment Dionysius Exiguus’s use of AD, Beda Venerabilis also created “BC” to denote “Before Christ.”)  Then you have to add in the Gregorian calendar being implemented in 1582, and leap days, as well as the countries/societies that adhered to the Julian calendar until relatively recently, like the 1700s.  

Jesus Christ, why couldn't they just pick one day like the gays did on March 31st??