I’m still trying to understand the broader relevance. Was the idiot’s plans in alignment with MSM themes or direct political clarion calls? Does it demonstrate a growing and tolerated assassination movement?John D wrote: ↑I don't agree that the Right-wing nut job Coast Guard guy is being swept away. It was the second lead story yesterday on Fox's Special Report. They showed the number of guns the guy had, and explained about his notes about who he would target.CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: ↑ Let's address this right-wing violence. Twitter and MAGA heads everywhere are going nuts over Smollett, but a plan to assassinate left politicians and pundits gets quietly swept under the table. TDS writ large over all, but let's get distracted by a B-List factor looking for attention. Squirrel!
People know that there are nut jobs out there and this is the latest one. While this is a story about a horrible person, people have come to expect to find a wack-job like this every once in a while. To me, the real story on this Coast Guard guy would be to find out how the caught the guy before he hurt anyone. Good policing for the win! So, while this is a terrible man, few people are really surprised by this story.
The biggest reason, IMHO, the Smollett story is getting so much attention is that it is very unusual. The ego of Smollett is almost staggering. Go back and watch his interview. Wow. The other interesting thing is how fucking stupid the Nigerian brothers are. I laughed for a good solid minute when I heard the cops were able to find the magazines in their apartment that had the letters cut out of them. So... haha... they sent a fake threatening letter... and used magazine letters to make it untraceable... and... they didn't destroy the magazines. They just left them in their apartment. Haha.... what idiots. Cosmic level stupidity.... really.
The other reason the story is interesting is how the left is not condemning Smollett. They should be just as angry as the right... actually... they "should" be more angry with him. But, all the lefty people can say is something like "Well... okay... it didn't really happen....BUT... it COULD have happened." Pathetic.
Energised politics is like fly paper and America has plenty of blowies on the wing.
If the dude was going to do a clearing patrol along the border there may have been a more meaningful connection. Especially if he formed the tip of a discernible spear. Are vigilante Trump inspired Texan modern squads on the rise?
CFB hasn’t enacted any labour - and thus hasn’t raised let alone proved a point.