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Laura Loomer is pitching her new opposition research firm to White House officials
Loomer is pushing her new company after several National Security Council staffers were fired last week when she met with Donald Trump at the White House
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Self-described “MAGA leftist” Batya Ungar-Sargon confidently declared on Thursday night that President Barack Obama’s “first act in office” was passing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program that bailed out financial institutions during the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
Ungar-Sargon would double down on that claim the following morning, tweeting that “in 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street” while defending Donald Trump’s tariffs, insisting that “in 2024” the current president “screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street.”
There is just one small problem with The Free Press columnist’s analysis: TARP was signed into law by then-President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 — a full month before Obama was elected president and four months before he entered the White House.
During an appearance on CNN Newsnight with Abby Philip, Ungar-Sargon — who has been making the media rounds to passionately defend Trump’s chaotic tariffs that have sparked a global market meltdown — attempted to contrast the factors that led to the Great Recession to the current economic environment……..
Ungar-Sargon would double down on that claim the following morning, tweeting that “in 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street” while defending Donald Trump’s tariffs, insisting that “in 2024” the current president “screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street.”
There is just one small problem with The Free Press columnist’s analysis: TARP was signed into law by then-President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 — a full month before Obama was elected president and four months before he entered the White House.
During an appearance on CNN Newsnight with Abby Philip, Ungar-Sargon — who has been making the media rounds to passionately defend Trump’s chaotic tariffs that have sparked a global market meltdown — attempted to contrast the factors that led to the Great Recession to the current economic environment……..
‘MAGA leftist’ blames Obama for 2008 bank bailout that was signed by George W. Bush
‘It’s another thing to log on in the morning and go: To be clear, Obama, who became POTUS in 2009, hates the common man so much he traveled back thru time to sign TARP,’ one journalist remarked about Batya Ungar-Sargon’s assertion
www.independent.co.uk
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Self-described “MAGA leftist” Batya Ungar-Sargon confidently declared on Thursday night that President Barack Obama’s “first act in office” was passing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program that bailed out financial institutions during the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
Ungar-Sargon would double down on that claim the following morning, tweeting that “in 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street” while defending Donald Trump’s tariffs, insisting that “in 2024” the current president “screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street.”
There is just one small problem with The Free Press columnist’s analysis: TARP was signed into law by then-President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 — a full month before Obama was elected president and four months before he entered the White House.
During an appearance on CNN Newsnight with Abby Philip, Ungar-Sargon — who has been making the media rounds to passionately defend Trump’s chaotic tariffs that have sparked a global market meltdown — attempted to contrast the factors that led to the Great Recession to the current economic environment……..
‘MAGA leftist’ blames Obama for 2008 bank bailout that was signed by George W. Bush
‘It’s another thing to log on in the morning and go: To be clear, Obama, who became POTUS in 2009, hates the common man so much he traveled back thru time to sign TARP,’ one journalist remarked about Batya Ungar-Sargon’s assertionwww.independent.co.uk
Yeah, anyone paying attention to the economic meltdown in 07-09 knows Bush signed TARP. That's pretty basic stuff.
A real bad piece of work.
'Massive rift' at ESPN over Pat McAfee's response to Ole Miss 'sex scandal'
ESPN star Pat McAfee’s reaction to the Ole Miss sex scandal rumors has reportedly caused significant tension behind the scenes, a source at the network claimed. Student Mary Kate Cornett said…
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Hopefully this will cost him 4 or 5 million.
Yeah, I saw that earlier. Just awful for that girl and I read even her grandfather got some calls about her.A real bad piece of work.
'Massive rift' at ESPN over Pat McAfee's response to Ole Miss 'sex scandal'
ESPN star Pat McAfee’s reaction to the Ole Miss sex scandal rumors has reportedly caused significant tension behind the scenes, a source at the network claimed. Student Mary Kate Cornett said…www.the-sun.com
Hopefully this will cost him 4 or 5 million.
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Police have arrested a man suspected of setting alight Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’shome Saturday night, and authorities say he will be charged with attempted murder and terrorism.
Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher Paris later identified the man in custody as Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg.
“We don’t know the person’s specific motive yet,” said a visibly frustrated Shapiro in an emotionally charged press conference. “But we do know a few truths. First, this type of violence is not OK. This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society. I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one party or another, or one person or another, it is not OK. It has to stop. We have to be better than this.”
Dauphin County District Attorney Francis Chardo said the man will be charged with attempted murder, terrorism, attempted arson and aggravated assault.
Shapiro said he and his family were woken up just after 2 a.m. to state police banging on their door after a fire to the governor’s residence in Harrisburg.
The fire broke out overnight on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which Shapiro and his family had celebrated at the governor's official residence in the state capital of Harrisburg. Shapiro had shared a photo of his family’s Seder table just hours prior.
Shapiro said the fire was set in the same room where they had celebrated Passover with a seder with members of Harrisburg’s Jewish community just hours earlier.
The governor’s mansion is monitored by state troopers. Officials said that Balmer hopped over a nearly 7-foot-high (2.1-meter-high) iron security fence, eluding officers, and then entered the home and set it on fire. He was inside the residence for about a minute before he escaped, and had a homemade incendiary device on him. Police later arrested him nearby.……..
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Police have arrested a man suspected of setting alight Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’shome Saturday night, and authorities say he will be charged with attempted murder and terrorism.
Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher Paris later identified the man in custody as Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg.
“We don’t know the person’s specific motive yet,” said a visibly frustrated Shapiro in an emotionally charged press conference. “But we do know a few truths. First, this type of violence is not OK. This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society. I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one party or another, or one person or another, it is not OK. It has to stop. We have to be better than this.”
Dauphin County District Attorney Francis Chardo said the man will be charged with attempted murder, terrorism, attempted arson and aggravated assault.
Shapiro said he and his family were woken up just after 2 a.m. to state police banging on their door after a fire to the governor’s residence in Harrisburg.
The fire broke out overnight on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which Shapiro and his family had celebrated at the governor's official residence in the state capital of Harrisburg. Shapiro had shared a photo of his family’s Seder table just hours prior.
Shapiro said the fire was set in the same room where they had celebrated Passover with a seder with members of Harrisburg’s Jewish community just hours earlier.
The governor’s mansion is monitored by state troopers. Officials said that Balmer hopped over a nearly 7-foot-high (2.1-meter-high) iron security fence, eluding officers, and then entered the home and set it on fire. He was inside the residence for about a minute before he escaped, and had a homemade incendiary device on him. Police later arrested him nearby.……..
Suspect arrested for arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s home
“This kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society. I don’t give a damn if it’s coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one party or another, or one person or another, it is not OK. It has to stop,” said a furious Gov. Shapiro.
www.independent.co.uk
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An active-duty serviceman in the US army is openly following a proscribed neo-Nazi terrorist group on social media, one that has vowed to recruit soldiers in preparation for a so-called race war.
Experts say examples like this shows how under Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon is allowing extremism to go unchecked.
On the surface, following a TikTok account might seem like a minor infraction for a young private in the 1st Infantry Division. But not only has that private followed the Base, a violent neo-Nazi terrorist organization once the target of an FBI investigation, there are directives issued under Joe Biden that discourages that kind of social media activity.
But in February, the DoD issued a memo halting a major counter-extremism initiative rooting out white nationalists and far-right influences among servicemen, citing that it was not in line with Donald Trump’s executive orders. Since, the efficacy of rooting out the far right within the ranks remains unclear.
In the wake of the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill and early revelations that at least 151of those attackers had a military background, the Pentagon issued a historic stand-down order and created a working group on extremism.
By December 2021, it released new policies on what constitutes extremist activities, namely policing how soldiers behave on social media, which included any affiliations to extremist organizations.
On an obscure and secretive TikTok account the Base operates for recruitment, counting just 30 followers, a private and mortarmen in the 1st Infantry Division is listed as a follower. Posts on the account promote the Base’s assassination and sabotage mission in Ukraine, neo-Nazi iconography, and plans to create “platoon-sized units of highly dedicated, trained men”.
The Guardian provided the name and rank to the US army, which said it was now investigating the matter.
“The army will not tolerate harmful behaviors and activities – including active participation in extremist activities,” said a spokesperson in an email, affirming that the army complies with tracking extremist activities and submitting data to the Pentagon’s inspector general.……
But under the reign of the new Pentagon, extremism and the far-right are an afterthought, while policing and deleting away “woke” ideologies remains paramount. Hegseth has his own connections to Christian nationalism and was reported by a servicemember for alleged extremist tattoos that prevented him from attending president Biden’s inauguration.
“I think it’s pretty obvious that soldiers interested in the far right have less to fear – Hegseth has made it clear he doesn’t care about this issue,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
“So why would a soldier be worried about getting into trouble for associations with white supremacists and neo-Nazis?”…….
Experts say examples like this shows how under Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon is allowing extremism to go unchecked.
On the surface, following a TikTok account might seem like a minor infraction for a young private in the 1st Infantry Division. But not only has that private followed the Base, a violent neo-Nazi terrorist organization once the target of an FBI investigation, there are directives issued under Joe Biden that discourages that kind of social media activity.
But in February, the DoD issued a memo halting a major counter-extremism initiative rooting out white nationalists and far-right influences among servicemen, citing that it was not in line with Donald Trump’s executive orders. Since, the efficacy of rooting out the far right within the ranks remains unclear.
In the wake of the January 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill and early revelations that at least 151of those attackers had a military background, the Pentagon issued a historic stand-down order and created a working group on extremism.
By December 2021, it released new policies on what constitutes extremist activities, namely policing how soldiers behave on social media, which included any affiliations to extremist organizations.
On an obscure and secretive TikTok account the Base operates for recruitment, counting just 30 followers, a private and mortarmen in the 1st Infantry Division is listed as a follower. Posts on the account promote the Base’s assassination and sabotage mission in Ukraine, neo-Nazi iconography, and plans to create “platoon-sized units of highly dedicated, trained men”.
The Guardian provided the name and rank to the US army, which said it was now investigating the matter.
“The army will not tolerate harmful behaviors and activities – including active participation in extremist activities,” said a spokesperson in an email, affirming that the army complies with tracking extremist activities and submitting data to the Pentagon’s inspector general.……
But under the reign of the new Pentagon, extremism and the far-right are an afterthought, while policing and deleting away “woke” ideologies remains paramount. Hegseth has his own connections to Christian nationalism and was reported by a servicemember for alleged extremist tattoos that prevented him from attending president Biden’s inauguration.
“I think it’s pretty obvious that soldiers interested in the far right have less to fear – Hegseth has made it clear he doesn’t care about this issue,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
“So why would a soldier be worried about getting into trouble for associations with white supremacists and neo-Nazis?”…….
Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower
US army investigates after young private follows the Base, which has vowed to recruit soldiers for so-called race war
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INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis mom is facing multiple charges for allegedly bringing a gun to Valley Mills Elementary school in Decatur Township.
Carrie Rivers' charges come after she withdrew her daughter, a sixth grader, from the school on April 9.
Rivers allegedly told police that her daughter's teacher had given an assignment dealing with same-sex relationships.
The teacher told police the assignment was about flags, and that she brought up the flags of several countries and states before referencing the flag in her classroom, which is a rainbow flag with the words "be kind" on it.
The teacher also said that once Rivers complained about the assignment, the teacher dismissed Rivers' daughter from needing to complete the assignment.
Rivers withdrew her daughter from the school on April 9, but she went to the school to complain anyway.
When officers responded, one of them saw a gun holstered at Rivers' waist and took it. Possessing a handgun on school property is a felony in Indiana.
Police say they interviewed Rivers, who assumed they were there to confront the teacher, not her. After Rivers was released, police say she sent a message to the teacher. According to court documents, it included:
"...your a child predator and your only hope is your b**** a** wife that is a cop otherwise someone else woulda already delt with u for ur wrongs. U messed with the wrong family. I'll tell you that so please say ur prayers and kiss ur kids goodbye and goodnight u never know when god says its our time so always be prepared."
That same day, an account that police believe belongs to Rivers, sent the teacher a friend request on Facebook.
It contained a message that allegedly said: "sick, nasty teacher, you should never tell precious innocent kids that it's okay to be in a same sex relationship."
Police asked the teacher how Rivers would know her wife was a police officer. They said she had a family photo showing the couple with their children on her desk.
Rivers is charged with possession of a firearm on school property and harassment. Her initial hearing is scheduled for April 15. …….
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INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis mom is facing multiple charges for allegedly bringing a gun to Valley Mills Elementary school in Decatur Township.
Carrie Rivers' charges come after she withdrew her daughter, a sixth grader, from the school on April 9.
Rivers allegedly told police that her daughter's teacher had given an assignment dealing with same-sex relationships.
The teacher told police the assignment was about flags, and that she brought up the flags of several countries and states before referencing the flag in her classroom, which is a rainbow flag with the words "be kind" on it.
The teacher also said that once Rivers complained about the assignment, the teacher dismissed Rivers' daughter from needing to complete the assignment.
Rivers withdrew her daughter from the school on April 9, but she went to the school to complain anyway.
When officers responded, one of them saw a gun holstered at Rivers' waist and took it. Possessing a handgun on school property is a felony in Indiana.
Police say they interviewed Rivers, who assumed they were there to confront the teacher, not her. After Rivers was released, police say she sent a message to the teacher. According to court documents, it included:
"...your a child predator and your only hope is your b**** a** wife that is a cop otherwise someone else woulda already delt with u for ur wrongs. U messed with the wrong family. I'll tell you that so please say ur prayers and kiss ur kids goodbye and goodnight u never know when god says its our time so always be prepared."
That same day, an account that police believe belongs to Rivers, sent the teacher a friend request on Facebook.
It contained a message that allegedly said: "sick, nasty teacher, you should never tell precious innocent kids that it's okay to be in a same sex relationship."
Police asked the teacher how Rivers would know her wife was a police officer. They said she had a family photo showing the couple with their children on her desk.
Rivers is charged with possession of a firearm on school property and harassment. Her initial hearing is scheduled for April 15. …….
'Kiss ur kids goodbye' | Mother charged after allegedly bringing gun to Decatur Township school, accusing teacher of indoctrinating kids
Carrie Rivers accused the teacher of pushing an agenda because the teacher's wife had visited the classroom before.
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Donald Trump supporter and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell sobbed to a judge that he is “in ruins” and cannot pay a court-ordered $50,000 fine.
Lindell has been ordered to pay voting software company Smartmatic the hefty fine over false claims he made about the company flipping the 2020 election for Joe Biden. It is one of a number of lawsuits Lindell faces over false election claims.
Now the troubled CEO claims that he doesn’t even have 5 cents left to pay the company the $56,396 he owes.
“I borrowed everything I can. Nobody will lend me any money anymore. I can't turn back time... but I will tell you, I don't have any money,” Lindell, who was described as being “teary” by ABC News, said while appearing via Zoom Wednesday at the hearing in a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
“I’m in ruins,” he added. “I don’t have $5,000 or 5 cents,” Lindell told Judge Carl Nichols and asked for more time to pay the fine.
He claimed he has “nothing” except for two houses which are being liquidated, and a truck. The MAGA loyalist was recently forced to lay off hundreds of MyPillow employees as a result of his financial hardship, the court heard.
Lindell also claimed he and his company owe more than $70 million in back payments to the IRS.
Nicholas ruled that Lindell must prove the claims and gave him until Friday to provide documents.
“I have nothing to hide,” Lindell said.
Lindell is facing lawsuits in D.C. and Minnesota over his false election claims. Dominion Voting Systems is seeking $1.3 billion in a defamation lawsuit against him...........
Lindell has been ordered to pay voting software company Smartmatic the hefty fine over false claims he made about the company flipping the 2020 election for Joe Biden. It is one of a number of lawsuits Lindell faces over false election claims.
Now the troubled CEO claims that he doesn’t even have 5 cents left to pay the company the $56,396 he owes.
“I borrowed everything I can. Nobody will lend me any money anymore. I can't turn back time... but I will tell you, I don't have any money,” Lindell, who was described as being “teary” by ABC News, said while appearing via Zoom Wednesday at the hearing in a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.
“I’m in ruins,” he added. “I don’t have $5,000 or 5 cents,” Lindell told Judge Carl Nichols and asked for more time to pay the fine.
He claimed he has “nothing” except for two houses which are being liquidated, and a truck. The MAGA loyalist was recently forced to lay off hundreds of MyPillow employees as a result of his financial hardship, the court heard.
Lindell also claimed he and his company owe more than $70 million in back payments to the IRS.
Nicholas ruled that Lindell must prove the claims and gave him until Friday to provide documents.
“I have nothing to hide,” Lindell said.
Lindell is facing lawsuits in D.C. and Minnesota over his false election claims. Dominion Voting Systems is seeking $1.3 billion in a defamation lawsuit against him...........
Weepin Mike Lindell tells judge he has no money to pay fines: ‘I’m in ruins’
A ‘teary’ Mike Lindell told a judge he doesn’t even have 5 cents to his name and cannot pay a court-ordered fine
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The suspect in the Florida State University shooting shared white supremacist views with concerned classmates before yesterday’s attack that killed two people and injured six others, it is claimed.
Reports have also emerged on Phoenix Ikner’s tumultuous childhood, with court records showing the biological mother of the 20-year-old was accused of removing him from the US when he was 10 years old.
He later changed his name from Christian Eriksen to share the surname of his mother, Leon County Deputy Jessica Ikner, whose former service weapon he used during the shooting, police say.
Following the attack, a classmate at Ikner’s former school, Tallahassee State College, claimed to a local news outlet how the suspect was told to leave a “political round table” club over far-right views he shared.
Reid Seybold said: “He [Ikner] espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric, and far-right rhetoric as well, to the point where we had to exercise that rule.”
Investigators in the shooting have not yet revealed a motive for the shooting…….
Reports have also emerged on Phoenix Ikner’s tumultuous childhood, with court records showing the biological mother of the 20-year-old was accused of removing him from the US when he was 10 years old.
He later changed his name from Christian Eriksen to share the surname of his mother, Leon County Deputy Jessica Ikner, whose former service weapon he used during the shooting, police say.
Following the attack, a classmate at Ikner’s former school, Tallahassee State College, claimed to a local news outlet how the suspect was told to leave a “political round table” club over far-right views he shared.
Reid Seybold said: “He [Ikner] espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric, and far-right rhetoric as well, to the point where we had to exercise that rule.”
Investigators in the shooting have not yet revealed a motive for the shooting…….
FSU shooting latest: Suspect Phoenix Ikner ‘had white supremacist views’
Phoenix Ikner was removed from a school political club over ‘far-right rhetoric’ he shared, his classmates claim
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……….Fast-forward those 30 years, and the movement is not only very much revived but has moved from the outer fringes of American politics to the very centre.
McVeigh wanted to strike at what he saw as a corrupt, secretive cabal running the US government – what Donald Trump and his acolytes refer to as the Deep State and are now busy dismantling.
McVeigh believed the US had no business extending its influence around the world or becoming entangled in foreign wars when white working-class Americans from industrial cities like Buffalo, his home town, were suffering – an early expression of Trump’s America First ideology that won him tens of millions of blue-collar votes last November.
McVeigh’s favourite book, a white supremacist power fantasy called The Turner Diaries, blamed a cabal of Jews, black people and internationalists for perverting America’s true destiny – a sentiment now finding coded expression in Trump’s twin wars on immigration and on diversity, equity and inclusion.
McVeigh believed it was up to ordinary citizens like him to take up arms and fight against a tyrannical ruling order, no matter the cost in innocent lives, because that was what the country’s founders had done during the American civil war.
The T-shirt he wore when he was arrested carried a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
During the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, the QAnon-friendly Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert expressed much the same as she cheered on the rioters smashing and bloodying their way past uniformed police officers into the halls of Congress. “Today is 1776,” she tweeted.
The parallels have not been lost on political veterans of the 1990s. Clinton himself observed in a recent HBO documentary: “The words [McVeigh] used, the arguments he made, literally sound like the mainstream today. Like he won!”
The threat the far right poses to the US government is no longer a physical one – not when it comes to the executive branch, anyway – since the radicals intent on cleaning house now have like-minded leaders like Trump and Elon Musk doing it from the inside.
It’s hard to imagine McVeigh, who was executed by lethal injection in 2001, objecting to the administration’s campaign to hollow out the international aid agency, kicking career prosecutors and government watchdogs out of the Department of Justice, or vowing to refashion “broken” institutions like the FBI……
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……….Fast-forward those 30 years, and the movement is not only very much revived but has moved from the outer fringes of American politics to the very centre.
McVeigh wanted to strike at what he saw as a corrupt, secretive cabal running the US government – what Donald Trump and his acolytes refer to as the Deep State and are now busy dismantling.
McVeigh believed the US had no business extending its influence around the world or becoming entangled in foreign wars when white working-class Americans from industrial cities like Buffalo, his home town, were suffering – an early expression of Trump’s America First ideology that won him tens of millions of blue-collar votes last November.
McVeigh’s favourite book, a white supremacist power fantasy called The Turner Diaries, blamed a cabal of Jews, black people and internationalists for perverting America’s true destiny – a sentiment now finding coded expression in Trump’s twin wars on immigration and on diversity, equity and inclusion.
McVeigh believed it was up to ordinary citizens like him to take up arms and fight against a tyrannical ruling order, no matter the cost in innocent lives, because that was what the country’s founders had done during the American civil war.
The T-shirt he wore when he was arrested carried a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
During the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, the QAnon-friendly Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert expressed much the same as she cheered on the rioters smashing and bloodying their way past uniformed police officers into the halls of Congress. “Today is 1776,” she tweeted.
The parallels have not been lost on political veterans of the 1990s. Clinton himself observed in a recent HBO documentary: “The words [McVeigh] used, the arguments he made, literally sound like the mainstream today. Like he won!”
The threat the far right poses to the US government is no longer a physical one – not when it comes to the executive branch, anyway – since the radicals intent on cleaning house now have like-minded leaders like Trump and Elon Musk doing it from the inside.
It’s hard to imagine McVeigh, who was executed by lethal injection in 2001, objecting to the administration’s campaign to hollow out the international aid agency, kicking career prosecutors and government watchdogs out of the Department of Justice, or vowing to refashion “broken” institutions like the FBI……
‘The bomber’s words sound mainstream. Like he won!’ Oklahoma City’s tragedy in the time of Trump
Revulsion at deadly Oklahoma City explosion in 1995 has faded. But echoes of the blast, and its perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, are heard today as far-right ideas storm the US
www.theguardian.com
Americans are, as Heinlein said, as susceptible to charlatans as a dog is to fleas.Wasn’t sure where to put this
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……….Fast-forward those 30 years, and the movement is not only very much revived but has moved from the outer fringes of American politics to the very centre.
McVeigh wanted to strike at what he saw as a corrupt, secretive cabal running the US government – what Donald Trump and his acolytes refer to as the Deep State and are now busy dismantling.
McVeigh believed the US had no business extending its influence around the world or becoming entangled in foreign wars when white working-class Americans from industrial cities like Buffalo, his home town, were suffering – an early expression of Trump’s America First ideology that won him tens of millions of blue-collar votes last November.
McVeigh’s favourite book, a white supremacist power fantasy called The Turner Diaries, blamed a cabal of Jews, black people and internationalists for perverting America’s true destiny – a sentiment now finding coded expression in Trump’s twin wars on immigration and on diversity, equity and inclusion.
McVeigh believed it was up to ordinary citizens like him to take up arms and fight against a tyrannical ruling order, no matter the cost in innocent lives, because that was what the country’s founders had done during the American civil war.
The T-shirt he wore when he was arrested carried a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
During the Capitol riot on 6 January 2021, the QAnon-friendly Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert expressed much the same as she cheered on the rioters smashing and bloodying their way past uniformed police officers into the halls of Congress. “Today is 1776,” she tweeted.
The parallels have not been lost on political veterans of the 1990s. Clinton himself observed in a recent HBO documentary: “The words [McVeigh] used, the arguments he made, literally sound like the mainstream today. Like he won!”
The threat the far right poses to the US government is no longer a physical one – not when it comes to the executive branch, anyway – since the radicals intent on cleaning house now have like-minded leaders like Trump and Elon Musk doing it from the inside.
It’s hard to imagine McVeigh, who was executed by lethal injection in 2001, objecting to the administration’s campaign to hollow out the international aid agency, kicking career prosecutors and government watchdogs out of the Department of Justice, or vowing to refashion “broken” institutions like the FBI……
‘The bomber’s words sound mainstream. Like he won!’ Oklahoma City’s tragedy in the time of Trump
Revulsion at deadly Oklahoma City explosion in 1995 has faded. But echoes of the blast, and its perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, are heard today as far-right ideas storm the USwww.theguardian.com
The theomythology of this society is highly toxic.
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Berlin reports rise in attacks on refugees amid surge in far-right crime
Call for greater protection for asylum seekers and policies targeting rightwing violence as report sounds ‘alarm bell’
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White Tennessee GOP rep calls Texas Democrat Al Green, 77, ‘boy’ in putdown
Diana Harshbarger also implied that Texas Representative Al Green, 77, may have been hiding a gun in his cane as he protested during Donald Trump’s speech in Congress last month against reported planned cuts to Medicaid
www.independent.co.uk
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White Tennessee GOP rep calls Texas Democrat Al Green, 77, ‘boy’ in putdown
Diana Harshbarger also implied that Texas Representative Al Green, 77, may have been hiding a gun in his cane as he protested during Donald Trump’s speech in Congress last month against reported planned cuts to Medicaidwww.independent.co.uk
I mean, birds of a feather voting for these birds.
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