A Florida man with a long criminal history was taken into custody Friday in the nationwide mail-bomb scare targeting prominent Democrats who have traded criticism with President* Donald Trump. It was a first break in a case that has seized the national conversation and spread fear of election-season violence with little precedent in the U.S.This isn't the only piece of disturbing news about Trump supporters:
Law enforcement officials identified the man as [The Asswipe of Aventura], 56, of Aventura, Florida. Court records show [Asswipe], an amateur body builder with social media accounts that denigrate Democrats and praise Trump, has a history of arrests for theft, illegal steroids possession and a 2002 charge of making a bomb threat.
Far-right extremists have ramped up an intimidating wave of anti-Semitic harassment against Jewish journalists, political candidates and others ahead of next month’s U.S. midterm elections ... “Prior to the election of President Donald Trump, anti-Semitic harassment and attacks were rare and unexpected, even for Jewish Americans who were prominently situated in the public eye. Following his election, anti-Semitism has become normalized and harassment is a daily occurrence,” the report says.The far-right, whether they be described as "alt-right", "neo-Nazis", or "white nationalists", all comprise different flavors of a movement that, at its core, uses violence and threats to intimidate everyone.
Trump is their guy. Oh, he says things like this:
“We must never allow political violence to take root in America. We cannot let it happen. And I am committed to doing everything in my power as president to stop it — and to stop it now.”But by his past words, he clearly doesn't mean it. What did he expect would happen when he calls the free press "enemies of the people"? Trump approved of bodyslamming a reporter (the Trumpist congressman who did it pled guilty). He said he was thinking about paying the legal fees of a Trumpanzee who sucker-punched a protester. He made that offer at other rallies and called on his security guards to be harsher.
Trump has embraced violent acts against his opponents. That one of his more-batshit-crazed supporters took him at his word should be no surprise.
SO are you gonna step up and blame all those Dems for the shooting of Scalise last year?
ReplyDeleteI mean, they have called for violence.
Or are the standards different for Liberals? Is it ok because they aren't Trump?
Please show where Democrats called for violence prior to the Scalia shooting. I call bullshit. Your attempt to deflect the conversation to put the left on defense won’t work.
ReplyDeleteTrump has insulted or degraded people or organizations 487 times with his Twitter account according to the New York Times. Some were before he became president, many afterward. This does not count the number of times he has said things at his rallies, on the ‘chopper talks’, or talking in the Oval Office. Trump’s rhetoric has fueled the decisive atmosphere we are currently in.
You claim that these devices are not real bombs (referencing your blog). The FBI director has stated that these were not hoax devices. They may not be bombs in the classical sense, but they were intended to cause harm to someone. The suspect is a registered Republican. His social media footprint echoes the sentiments stated by Trump. His actions attempted to harm people and organizations Trump has called out. Facts. They are irrefutable.
You are grasping at straws in your defense of the Trump administration. For you to play “what-about-ism” is an extremely weak response to the Blog entry. It shouldn’t even merit a response, but I guess you win, you picked on one of my nerves to get this response.
Dale
What he said, B. Show where a major party leader in the Democrats has called for violence against Republicans.
ReplyDeleteNot just yelling at them in restaurants or otherwise making them feel unwelcome. Show the calls for physical violence. Show anyone who even comes close to what Spanky has said.
At least nailing this asswipe's hide to the wall will deter a nonzero number of other asswipes from acting out.
ReplyDeleteThis asswipe has a history, also. A woman complained to Twitter that he was threatening her there after she had appeared on Fox. They wouldn't take her seriously at the time, and he turned out to be this particular asswipe.
ReplyDeletePerhaps this asswipe is not capable of producing a working mail bomb. I would assume that doing so is harder than it sounds, just going from the limited exposure to demolitions explosive guys I have known. Perhaps he never intended for the devices to actually detonate.
That does not, in fact, reduce or mitigate what he actually did. Remember the kid with the digital alarm clock?
So now we, what? Wait for the next propaganda consumer off his meds to decide that the targets of the two minutes hate he is addicted to need to be blown into chunks and hope he's not any more clever, bold, or lucky than this one?
Or maybe just buy the full-scale denial on copious display right now all over the internet and call the whole thing fake news or false flag, or whatever other horse shit they've dreamed up to try and keep this from counteracting their vote suppression efforts?
I can only hope that the folks I just voted for win, and take this a little more seriously than the folks currently running things, or someone's gonna get hurt, and we'll still be living under terrorist threat.
-Doug in Oakland
Corey Booker.
ReplyDeleteMaxine Waters.
If you bother to look for it, you can find many more. But you won't, because y'all have different standards of behavior for "your folks".
And threats when eating, or shopping, or going to a play are still threats.
“Lock her up!” “Lock her up!”
ReplyDeleteTwo wrongs don’t make a right, B. Did you not learn that in childhood?
Also, I don’t remember any Democratic candidates calling Fox News “fake news” and offering to pay the legal bills of any followers who beat up protestors.
Your disgusting alibi for the Orange God Emperor is noted.
B.:
ReplyDeleteCorey Booker. I assume you are referring to the suggestion made by Kelley Paul. The problem is that the quote is completely lacking context, and actually is a call for activists to make their voices heard. Please review the entire comment before running off half-cocked.
Maxine Waters. Again, a call to confront and harass Trump administration officials and make it clear they are unwelcome is NOT a call to violence. It is a call to action and to make your views clear.
Let’s comapre this to Donnie, telling law enforcement not to worry about an arrestee hitting their head when they put them in a car, telling people that he’ll pay their legal bills if they rough up some protestors, suggesting a “Second Amendment solution” to Hillary, etc. Now, if yelling at an official is the same as manhandling them, you’d have a point, but it isn’t, and you don’t.
When you disturb my repast by getting in my personal space and not allowing me to eat, then yes, it is the same. When you "stick your finger in my salad, then yes, it is the same.
ReplyDeleteAnd your bruises will make you understand that that is bad behavior.
So how do you get from "roughing up an arrestee" to "Mail bombs are OK"?
And, if YOU BOTHER TO LOOK, you can find many other leftist leaders advocating bad and violent behavior. If you are honest, that is.