as political violence becomes normalized online, particularly among ideologically extreme left in America

https://meidasnews.com/news/mass-shootings-at-two-homeless-camps-after-fox-host-called-for-homeless-to-be-killed

It’s a bit late in the game for that isn’t it?

I mean - she’s right, but the SC has already cast aside law, precedent and the Constitution at this point, and is ruling almost entirely based on opinion. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say, “preference.”

In the book, set for publication on 9 September, Barrett asserted her belief that the June 2022 ruling that struck down abortion rights nationally “respected the choice” of Americans.

Ah… so she’s not just contradicting the plain reality of the current SC, but her own statements.

Or more precisely, just spewing whatever line of bullshit might serve her current purposes.

Which is undoubtedly the reason she was nominated in the first place, and the exact thing she was expected to contribute.

Helluva timeline we’re living in here…

The director added that he wanted more security services centralized under the DCSA to accomplish its mission.

Ah… yes. Clearly the solution is to expand the reach of his incompetence and malfeasance.

I’ve been especially impressed by the prescience of Bo Burnham’s line in Welcome to the Internet - “Obama sent the immigrants to vaccinate your kids.”

As far as I know, it hasn’t become a quote from an actual right-wing nonsense-driveler yet, but it might as well be.

Behind the password “SuperHacker123”

Conservatives live in such a bizarre world.

Trump is the ultimate example - firing and/or suing anybody who dares to present facts that contradict his preferred delusions - but he’s far from alone. It’s a nearly universal trait as far as I can tell. Pretty much without exception they cobble together some fanciful set of misconceptions, delusions and lies, then insist that anything that contradicts them is part of some sort of insanely vast conspiracy.

No wonder they’re so prone to rage and hatred - that much cognitive dissonance has to be literally painful.

Sure a good thing that the responsible and conscientious conservatives elected a right-thinking president who’s going to cut wasteful spending and balance the budget, hmm?

Imagine what it would be like if instead a rabble of petulant, frightened assholes elected a deranged overgrown toddler who pissed away billions on whatever idiocy happened to trigger his stunted emotions on any given day.

It’s cynically amusing that at this point Trump isn’t even doing any of the things his apologists pointed to.

Supposedly it was okay if he had some personal ethics issues, because he was going to drive down prices and inflation, cut wasteful spending, balance the budget and keep the US out of foreign wars.

And instead, he’s driving up prices and inflation, increasing wasteful spending, increasing the deficit by the greatest amount ever in history, and warmongering around the world. And his personal ethics issues have exploded into a veritable orgy of ridiculously brazen corruption.

And the apologists just keep shambling along, leading a parade of morons who still can’t see it.

Teachers from California and New York who want to work in Oklahoma public schools

So nobody ever.

I just think it’s funny that “AI” (which is “artificial intelligence” not in the sense of “human-made” but in the sense of “fake”) is contemperaneous with Trump.

This is going to go down in history (if humanity survives long enough) as the Idiot and Lunatic Age.

From what I’ve gleaned of the ravings of the angry stupid right blogosphere, a lot of people actually do think that only tree huggers want green energy.

And I have little doubt that that’s an opinion that Trump shares, but that’s not his main motivation in all of this. His main motivation is big fat bribes from the fossil fuel industry.

And thanks to Trump, the US is perfectly placed to be entirely left behind.

The more I think about it, the more confident I am that at least the basic outline is actually the truth - that “Big Balls” - entitled, sheltered 4channer that he undoubtedly is - got his ass kicked for being a racist dickhead and/or creepy pervert.

Okay - as of right now, I think there’s much more to this story that we haven’t been told and this is all damage control.

Like it wasn’t actually a carjacking at all, and instead, for instance, “Big Balls” tried to buy sex with one or the other or both of them, then when she/he/they not coincidentally refused, he went on a drunken racist tirade, so they kicked his ass.

Yes.

Nice to get that in official testimony, but duh. It was obvious all along that there was nothing even close to the sort of threat that might colorably justify the deployment.

But of course, that was never the point. The Trump regime was just trying to establish a precedent that they could send troops in to violently suppress protests, and as far as that goes, the fact that the protests posed no real threat was a good thing, because what they want is to be able to violently suppress whatever protests they want, whenever they want, for whatever reason they want.

I would’ve guessed that but didn’t know it. Thanks for the clarification.

Especially notable to me that the article made its point without even getting into things like Trump effectively handing leadership in EV technology and alternative energy broadly to China, or giving the Chinese chip-making industry just the boost it needed to potentially be able to supply China’s needs on its own, or making the US so hostile to scientific reseach that China will likely end up leading the world in that as well.

Yes - he could hardly do more to more thoroughly destroy the US’s standing in the world if he set out to deliberately do exactly that.

Oddly though, that at least provides him with a bit of cover - if he wasn’t such a blithering idiot, I’d suspect that that really was his goal. But I don’t think he’s even capable of maintaining focus on a straightforward strategy, much less a subtle and multilayered one.

“Shoor iz a nice university you got here. Shoor would be a shame if sumpin wuz ta happen to it mmm?”

I suspect sometimes that the power-brokers are preparing to dump Trump.