What is all this stuff about the Kraken?

[femmocrat]

Please forgive me if this has been asked before. Even Rachel referred to it last night.

It has something to do with the recount in Georgia I think?

[niyad]

1. Thank you. I have been wondering the same.

[Bucky]

2. this video explains it

[Submariner]

3. FYI

from Wikipedia: The kraken is a legendary sea monster of gigantic size and cephalopod-like appearance in Scandinavian folklore. According to the Norse sagas, the kraken dwells off the coasts of Norway and Greenland and terrorizes nearby sailors.

from Sidney Powell: During the 2020 United States presidential election, American attorney Sidney Powell repeatedly threatened to "release the Kraken" (a catchphrase from Clash of the Titans) in reference to filing a series of lawsuits asserting claims of voting fraud responsible for Joe Biden's election victory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken

[Clash City Rocker]

4. It was a lawsuit that was supposed to overturn the election

It turned out to be nonsensical, and not even properly formatted. It was just comically bad.

https://thebulwark.com/the-kraken-lawsuit-was-released-and-its-way-dumber-than-you-realize/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[demmiblue]

5. Sidney Powell promised she would release the kraken on voter fraud. Here is an article:

Ever since Trump-aligned attorney Sidney Powell went on Fox Business and promised to “release the kraken”—a reference to her plot to expose baseless accusations of voter fraud and overturn the election results in favor of President Trump—the phrase has exploded in popularity as a rallying cry among QAnon supporters and members of Trump’s orbit, and become a butt of jokes among others as her nationwide legal effort fails at almost every turn.

Powell, a former federal prosecutor who rose to prominence as former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s attorney, first uttered the phrase—which is a catchphrase from the 1981 movie “Clash of the Titans”—on Fox Business in mid-November during an interview with Lou Dobbs, claiming Trump’s legal team had a mountain of evidence to overturn the election results in several key states.

Since then, the Trump campaign has cut ties with Powell as she floated increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories and the “Kraken” conspiracy theories have been almost entirely debunked, but the phrase has lived on as the attorney continues her longshot bid to change the results of the election.

After Powell first used the phrase on November 13, the word “kraken” racked up hundreds of thousands of interactions on Facebook, according to the social media analytics tool CrowdTangle.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/12/08/how-sidney-powells-kraken-pushed-by-qanon-went-from-cable-news-to-trump-mainstream/

[Mike 03]

6. I've read, too, that the irony of the "Release the Kraken" meme is that

in the movie Clash of the Titans the Kraken is almost immediately defeated as soon as it is released. But I haven't seen it so I don't know the details.

[Wicked Blue]

7. Could they have actually meant

Release the Crackers, i.e. white supremacists to menace and threaten any official who stands in their way?

[femmocrat]

16. LOL

Makes a lot of sense!

[Baclava]

8. Another in a long line of conspiracy whackjobs trying to out-lunatc Trump, pay them no mind

[jmg257]

9. As explained above, but from what I can determine, a major part of the kraken

was the nonsense about Dominion being rooted in Venezuela, along with Iran and China involved in flipping the election.

I think it was SO crazy they haven't pushed for weeks, and removed Sidney back to just cashing the grift checks.

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.283580/gov.uscourts.gand.283580.6.14.pdf

8 pages of goofy Chavez history, for a 1 paragraph money shot consisting of lies about vote count stoppage - and how "because trump lost it reminded me of Venezuela from 2013, so I called some people..."

"...The circumstances and events are eerily reminiscent of what happened with Smartmatic software
electronically changing votes in the 2013 presidential election in Venezuela. What happened in the United States was that the vote
counting was abruptly stopped in five states using Dominion software. At the time that vote counting was stopped, Donald Trump was significantly ahead in the votes. Then during the wee hours of the morning, when there was no voting occurring and the vote count reporting was off-line, something significantly changed....

[jmg257]

13. If you notice, at least in GA, they moved away from "Dominion flipped votes"

to "illegal counting at the SFA" {long since debunked as legal ballot counting.}

kraken screwed themselves, at least as smart people can see, 'cause once it was shown that the 1AM ballot counting was legal, it totally justifies the "vote dump" in GA at 1:19 that gave Biden the big bump.

Also totally shoots to hell the false claims that "vote counting stopped"... Vote counting into the early morning is on video, and was totally legal!

[BruceWane]

10. Yeah, it's more a movie reference

Clash of the Titans, loosely based on the story of Perseus from Greek mythology. In the movie, they renamed Cetus as "the Kraken". Guess they liked the sound of it better.

The Kraken is actually from Norse mythology. Like Cetus, it is a sea monster.

Anyway, in the movie The Kraken is a sea monster that's kept locked up at the bottom of the ocean 'cause it's prone to destroying entire cities, etc., and is only released under the most dire circumstances. It's basically "the nuclear option".

In the movie, Zeus commands Poseidon to "release the Kraken" in a last-ditch effort to defeat Perseus.

The original 1981 version's a cool movie, fun to watch. Harry Hamlin was born to be Perseus, perfect casting. By today's standards the special effects are pretty corny, which only adds to the fun.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. And as people have said, in both movies it's defeated in short order

It may terrify people, but for the side that 'releases' it, it achieves nothing. Not the metaphor she should have chosen, but I think she spent too much time hanging out with people who like cliched memes to think it through. "Thinking it through" really isn't her strong point at all, I suppose.

[niyad]

11. Thank you to all who responded with such great information.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Another sci-fi fantasy reference. "Release the Kraken" from the movie 'Clash of the Titans'.

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While the Kraken is old folklore, her use of it is based on a movie, an ancient Greek sea monster that cannot be stopped. Although one of the gods tell Perseus that the head of Medusa will stop it.

All of their sci-fi references, such as The Death Star and Operation Warp Speed are other lame attempts as showing the dorkish and lame-assed mentality that is pervasive within the Trump camp.


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[Gothmog]

14. This is the lawsuit filed by Sidney Powell

She claims that Hugo Chaves (who is dead) controlled the election. This lawsuit is amusing in that they may have used a kraken to type the pleadings

Link to tweet

[Throck]

15. Trump is Kraken everyone up..............

[femmocrat]

17. Thank you all who replied.

Sometimes I just feel out of the loop! (virtual group hug of course!)