Eschaton
Monday, January 25, 2021
Total Mystery
How do people find all this information about Fauci’s kids.
It was the harassment of my wife, and particularly my children, that upset me more than anything else. They knew where my kids work, where they live. The threats would come directly to my children’s phones, directly to my children’s homes. How the hell did whoever these assholes were get that information? And there was chatter on the internet, people talking to each other, threatening, saying, “Hey, we got to get rid of this guy. What are we going to do about him? He’s hurting the president’s chances.” You know, that kind of right-wing craziness.
His kids are obviously not “kids” in the sense of being young, but there is really no divide between “The MAGA Chuds who engage in online harassment” and “The MAGA Chuds who worked in and around the White House and their friends.”
The net keeps expanding
https://sportsgrindentertainment.com/accused-capitol-rioter-from-ny-idd-thanks-to-varsity-jacket/
The public’s reaction to the FBI’s call for tips on these guys
Words fail me. Twenty-six years old and wearing a high school varsity jacket?!
These people weren’t even trying to hide. They seriously thought that they could just amble on home to a hero’s welcome.
The threats would come directly to my children’s phones, directly to my children’s homes. How the hell did whoever these assholes were get that information?
There’s a writeup on Heavy with quite a lot of that info. Including screenshots of a linkedin profile. Posted in March.
You barely need to work for it.
WOLVERINES!
But seriously I just saw this for the first time the other night. After stories like this conditioning Americans for years, how did we not freak the F out as Trump called for the Russians to damage his political rivals?
Insane.
It’s because they just say shit. They’ll happily retcon anything or ditch symbols and slogans whenever it suits them. The only thing that the Republican Party stands for is the Republican Party.
This goes somewhere, not sure where.
Seems like there’s an awful lot of this “if you just use this one weird trick, the law doesn’t matter” nonsense floating around. We have the “Sovereign Citizens” and “Moorish Nation” here, “Freemen on the Land” in the Commonwealth, the “Reichsbürger” movement in Germany, etc., etc., all who think that by uttering certain incantations in lawyerese, they’re absolved of all responsibility for their actions and all tax liabilities.
I can’t help but think these “movements” have a single origin, given that they work so much alike.
We saw them on the Garden Grove (22) Freeway in OC on Sunday. They know their target audience.
Should have had a drummer and done it slow march.
The worst ones are that they think they can “hold someone to their oath” on the spot, and that they have unlimited powers of “Citizen’s arrest” (which doesn’t work at all like they think), seguing into convening an ad-hoc “trial”. These “one weird tricks” somehow making them different from a lynch mob.
They are going to be very upset when they exceed their privilege pandering, and police slot them as terrorist rather than tourist.
This is the earliest example I can think of off the top of my head but I’m sure there are earlier examples.
They all go about it in the same way. It’s an obvious enough tactic if you’re looking to set up some sort of insurrectionary movement in a highly legalistic society. If you think the laws are being used to oppress you (and especially if they actually are being used to suppress you), an obvious response is to say that because of some legal quirk (which given the opaque nature of the legal system may not even seem that unlikely to the believer) the laws don’t apply to you or at least apply differently than to the mainstream.
@GoatCheezInfrnoI can’t help but think these “movements” have a single origin, given that they work so much alike.
Found it…Sorry, couldn’t resist…
I’ve always wanted to drive a police car. I think I’ll just help myself to one since I’m a taxpayer.
Or, you know what, maybe the royal yacht?
