# Is Sidney Powell insane? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 22, 2020, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169 "2020-11-22T04:25:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/201 "2020-12-02T14:21:00Z")
That blog author is a whiz at pithy headlines. You can have fun just paging through the list of articles reading nothing but the headlines. He writes his prose a lot like I wish I did mine: precise but punchy. My work is precise but ridiculously wordy. Which often obscures the intended precision. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/202 "2020-12-02T23:46:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If we have to explain the joke, it just doesn’t work. It was pretty obvious to me. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/203 "2020-12-03T02:10:10Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > As I said, that passing reference to “305th Military Intelligence” is pretty much only meaningful to someone already immersed in the emerging Trumpist eschatological mythology. I’ve heard it referred to as “the Fox News Cinematic Universe”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/204 "2020-12-03T05:48:04Z")
[Sindey Powell held a rally in Georgia today where they implored republicans not to vote in the upcoming runoff.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/sidney-powell-trump-georgia-election-rally-b1765389.html) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/205 "2020-12-03T07:40:57Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > [Sindey Powell held a rally in Georgia today where they implored republicans not to vote in the upcoming runoff.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/sidney-powell-trump-georgia-election-rally-b1765389.html) > . Immanentizing the Conservative Apocalypse? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/206 "2020-12-03T15:10:07Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > [Sindey Powell held a rally in Georgia today where they implored republicans not to vote in the upcoming runoff.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/sidney-powell-trump-georgia-election-rally-b1765389.html) See also starting here for more on that topic. > [@The American Coup: 11.9.2020 -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182/790): > > The president’s lawyers are telling Republicans [not to vote for the Republicans](https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1334227769115484161) in the Georgia Senate race because the election is fraudulent. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/207 "2020-12-03T19:10:58Z")
Usually I think their ideas are batshit bullshit, 🤪 but I heartily endorse this suggestion. In fact the polls were so close that this may be the tiny edge the Dems need. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/208 "2020-12-03T20:31:53Z")
Powell makes Kanye West seem normal. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/209 "2020-12-03T21:23:42Z")
That is just cruel. You should not be mean to the handicapped. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/210 "2020-12-03T22:27:24Z")
What if Powell was secretly (known just to herself) working on behalf of Democrats? In this crazy election cycle you could almost get me to believe it. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/211 "2020-12-04T00:44:28Z")
She would have to really really love the Democrats. I mean LOVE them. Maybe not as much as Rudy Giuliani loves the Democrats. But probably more than Roger Stone. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/212 "2020-12-04T19:23:15Z")
Competence, i tells ya, massively bigly competence. > ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/213 "2020-12-04T20:43:25Z")
With friends like this, His Trumply Dudeliness doesn’t need enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/214 "2020-12-04T20:53:35Z")
My theory is looking better every day. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/215 "2020-12-04T20:54:57Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > But @eschereal’s joking point is that the voting sticker in the pic has just half an exclamation point. Like on an Olde Tyme TypeWritere. > > uh, guys, isn’t that an accent? " _yo voté_ is Spanish for _I voted_ . Argh. No wonder I was confused! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/216 "2020-12-19T00:40:01Z")
Frankly I think that’s how all this QAnonsense got started. Borat, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/217 "2020-12-19T02:42:27Z")
Borat is not nearly so outlandish. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/218 "2020-12-19T07:14:19Z")
Detroit is going to Rule 11 her: > **[Detroit Is Trying To Punish Sidney Powell For ‘Kraken’ Lawsuit—Legal Experts...](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/12/16/detroit-is-trying-to-punish-sidney-powell-for-kraken-lawsuit-legal-experts-say-it-could-work/)** > > While courts are typically hesitant to dole out these sanctions, legal experts told Forbes that there’s a fairly strong argument against the pro-Trump legal team. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/219 "2020-12-20T00:24:48Z")
> **[Trump wanted conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell as special counsel on voter fraud](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/19/sidney-powell-trump-special-counsel-election-fraud-claims)** > > Rudy Giuliani and other advisers opposed president’s suggestion, according to New York Times Can this man ever stop picking winners? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169/220 "2020-12-20T01:15:46Z")
If you are so far off the pier that even Rude E Ghouliani thinks you are a bad idea, call the little white men in their little white coats. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sidney-powell-insane/926169.md?page=12)