My trap card has been activated. I play “Personal PTSD”.
January, 6th 2021 was not fucking, “bare speculation that third parties might interact with the individuals President Trump comments on”.
Through social media posts, he summoned up a goddamned army of lunatics to overthrow my goddamned country. They captured the Capitol of the United States of my fucking America. I’m so pissed off I could fucking choke.
I watched 01/06 go down live on CNN, all fucking day. Anyone else? I can’t watch 60-seconds of those videos, not 60 damned seconds. The fear and anger and revulsion and hate and revenge lust, I can’t do it. Can anyone else? Now I truly know what “triggered” means.
I’d comment more, but I can’t think straight, and the words “gallows and a mass grave for traitors” don’t generally get good reception.
But seriously, his social media posts are harmless, just a man practicing free speech.
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I watched it on the internet. I fucking saw those clowns with my own eyes. They were livestreaming it themselves, even!
Trump’s called those seditionists “hostages” in a speech the other day.
EDIT: Also, January 6th was the day I quit my online gaming group. I just didn’t feel like having that sort of magical fantasy life when this shit was happening for a while. I regret it now, but the group broke up anyway (not because of me quitting).
I was shocked that it happened, but I knew it wasn’t going to amount to anything. I’m actually surprised that only one of those fuckers got shot. What sickens me more is I’m probably distantly related to her (her last name is my mom’s maiden name).
The punishment for treason is death.
I still can’t understand how no one has been executed for their involvement in Jan 6.
You need to be less online if this is how it affects you. None of this is healthy.
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
For some reason I always misremember it as “pestilent priest”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest%3F
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Of course it is. It’s amazing that he is allowed to do this.
on September 25, Trump’s lawyer John Lauro argued against the special counsel’s motion for a gag order in the DC case, calling it “bare speculation that third parties might interact with the individuals President Trump comments on.”
Sigh, his f’in lawyers. Yes, that’s the concept.
…except it’s not speculation at all. There’s a long history of Trump saying shit like ‘somebody oughta do something about [x specific person, for y reasons]’ and then randos in his audience volunteer to do ‘something’ like mail pipe bombs to them, or make threats to them and/or their families.
It’s the definition of stochastic terrorism.
You’re right on the mark, and or anyone who may not know:
Stochastic terrorism refers to political or media figures publicly demonizing a person or group in such a way that it inspires supporters of the figures to commit a violent act against the target of the speech. Unlike incitement to terrorism, this is accomplished by using indirect, vague, or coded language that allows the instigator to plausibly disclaim responsibility for the resulting violence.
I mean, it’s literally their job to do everything they can to protect their client from the legal system.
Don’t blame the lawyers, blame the client.
People who work for him deserve their forthcoming disbarments.
We’re not talking about Saul Goodman defending gangsters by enforcing the law.
How many of his lawyers have been complicit, prosecuted, and convicted already? That should tell you what kind of people they are.
The only lawyer willing to take his cases should be a public defender at this point. He never pays his bills and he’s in serious trouble. He’s gotten the shittiest lawyers money can buy at this point, but they’re still lawyers that actually think he’s going to pay them. Meaning they believe in his lies.
So I do blame the lawyers.
Does this surprise anyone? I mean, Trump has already been shown to cause a spike in hate crimes (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3102652). Any minority or non-white male voting for Trump is either 1) insane or 2) thinks they are immune to hate crimes (which is also insane).
Is it insane? Look at Rittenhouse, or the fact that so many racists are in law enforcement or the military.
No it isn’t. And if you weren’t already aware of the FBI report from 2006, here it is: https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Jan-6-Clearinghouse-FBI-Intelligence-Assessment-White-Supremacist-Infiltration-of-Law-Enforcement-Oct-17-2006-UNREDACTED.pdf
Wow these people really are idiots, calling up judges and sheriffs threatening to murder them 🤦♂️
If enough do it, the GOP will have their prison slave population.
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Trump has probably personally paid for at least a dozen abortions.
I almost cut off my relationship with my mother in 2020 because of her politics and some stupid shit she quoted me from Fox News that was exposed with a five second web search. I really feel your pain.
A friend gave me the wisdom that “it’s harder to open a door than to shut one.” That saved us. I implemented a “no politics” rule with my mom and we’ve been good ever since. She still (accidentally, I think) makes off-hand remarks that are silly, but we stick to the rule and we’re much better off. I can’t save her from her shitty views and it’s best that I not try.
Terrorists. The funny thing is that they don’t seem to understand what a terrible light they shine on their cause.
Not among the cult. If you listen to his followers, having the gag order lifted was the only way to defend himself publicly and that order was San affront to his first amendment rights and placing it in him should be prosecuted as election interference.
This surprises anyone ?
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We all know captain bone spurs wouldn’t do anything himself. It’s all the crazies that worship him and have a basement with more weapons and ammunition than a gun store.
How all those ‘manly men’ supposed ‘patriots’ could follow “a guy with Umpalumpa makeup, doll hands, and a penis that looks like Toad from Super Mario Bros”… That’ll be a subject for multiple dissertations in a future, hopefully better society to be built after this one has either been fixed or upon its ashes.
It’s simple, he validates them.
He hates (is afraid of) the same people they hate (are afraid of), and makes them feel like it’s OK to be public about that hatred (compensating for being afraid).
What they haven’t realized is that he hates them too.
Remember, he said himself he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters.”
He controls his followers.
The hands and penis - he didn’t choose those. We don’t mock people for things they didn’t choose.
Hit the makeup as hard as you want.
Or a guy with a robotic army of violent right wing extremists hanging on his every word and worship his as their messiah.
