Deplorables insist the Austin bomber, a right-wing Christian, was AntiFa or a “deep state sleeper agent”

@ Tree Person:

re: white shakira

http://www.shakira.com/img/default_fb.jpg

@EJ: I don’t think there’s much to it, other than the feeling of superiority they cultivate by “getting the joke” and “being in the know”, except that there’s no real knowledge and the joke is painfully unfunny.

And as I stated earlier, if reality is completely thrown out the window, it’s easier to impress their version of the Truth on the public discourse. It’s a question of control, as is everything when dealing with fascists.

I find it so hard to believe that his 25 minute confession recording offers absolutely no insight whatsoever to his motives. Especially since I’d bet money they had FBI profilers all over this case during the investigation. I wonder if it’s ever going to be released?

Disclaimer: I just woke up, so if things came out overnight I wouldn’t know yet.

So he was homeschooled, called himself a conservative, called himself a Christian, was against abortion and homosexuality – well, colour me not surprised – and was against sex offender registers?

I mean… whut?

Since when did that get added to the off-the-peg deplorables kit?

Since when did that get added to the off-the-peg deplorables kit?

Two words: Josh Duggar.

One thing to remember: The bomber’s “blog” was written in 2012, and it was written for a poli sci course apparently? So the political comments are there to answer specific questions.

Not that it changes how awful they are or makes him less culpable! It’s sort of ironic, really – in the self description, he said that he was taking the course because he felt like he didn’t see how his his conservative views lined up with the real world (And yes, Patricia, he describes himself as very conservative and his beliefs line up with that). I guess he learned from that course “I’m right, and everyone else is wrong!”

F’n Conservativism.

@ Shadowplay

Josh Duggar

I had to google. Yikes!

I was thinking maybe since Roy Moore.

So the message we’re supposed to take away, if I have this correct, is that in a society where blacks are at best treated like second class citizens, whose status could be stripped away in an instant, whose murders by agents of the State are not only condoned but celebrated, who are considered subhuman by a distressingly large amount of the population…it is somehow impossible to figure out a motive for why a white racist conservative (but I repeat myself) would go out and murder black people. So incomprehensible, in fact that the killer (not a terrorist!) must have been mentally ill. And also definitely a liberal because only liberals do bad things ever.

Trump’s lawyer John Dowd resigns.

No wonder I’ve been getting such heavy doses of 90s nostalgia; it’s Timothy McVeigh conspiracies all over again. We just didn’t have an internet in 1995 that could spread them around so quickly. He’s Muslim! No, he’s white. Must be a radical leftist with foreign backing! No, he was at Waco and had pages of The Turner Diaries in his car. False flag! False FLAAAG! They’d kill children for a false flag? They never existed! CRISIS ACTORS!!!

The one things conservatives fear above all is a good memory. This is not new terrain, Patricia. It’s as old as Tamagotchis, POGs and the Macarena. And what’s sad is that it’s all unnecessary obfuscation. There’s a reason I’m not running up to Paul Ryan demanding he answer for a terrorist in Texas, because despite being a zombie-eyed granny starver, Paul Ryan isn’t actively going around dehumanizing minorities. But Donald Trump is, and the conservative base does traffic in the dehumanizing language regarding black people, so I think that’s where this defensiveness comes in.

As much as basic human decency is rapidly becoming a leftist-only thing, it doesn’t have to be.

@EJ

There’s this weird, almost nihilistic sort of doublethink that one gets on the far Right, where everything is simultaneously easily dismissed but also deadly serious at the same time.

It’s a defense mechanism. If your abhorrent views are coated with 17 layers of lacquered irony, it makes it not only more palatable to you, but lets you deploy the “it’s just jokes bro” defense if you’re called to account while offering an easy means for other deplorables to identify you.

There’s a reason it’s so hard to pin these people down on their exact stances on anything. Because if they have a concrete set of ideological principles, they open themselves up to direct criticism and refutation. So instead, they proclaim themselves “rational freethinkers” free of all ideologies (or if they have one at all, it’s only “freedom of speech”). It’s cowardice is what it is. But they can get away with it because they’re so far removed from the consequences that they can retreat to the comfort of a video game and forget they were ever one of the Pepe/MAGA brigade.

This tells me that Trump is so toxic the lawyer himself is afraid it’ll stick to him. Either that or Trump is so frustrated with the “incompetence” of lawyers (who can’t magic him out of trouble) that he’s been constantly berating him, past his breaking point.

Apparently Dowd and his other attorney Ty Cobb had convinced him to be more cooperative and Trump was under the impression that this would cause the investigation. Whether his attorneys were bullshitting him because Trump has to be treated like a child who will throw a massive tantrum if he hears anything uncomfortable for him or whether Trump was just being willfully delusional is not clear. The rumor his he’s bringing back his old attorney Cassowitz (probably misspelled, sorry) who had resigned after sending someone a threatening profanity laced email. This is a possible sign that he’s headed down the path of trying to fire Mueller. I can’t tell if this is a terrible thing because constitutional crisis. Or a good thing because this could finally be the thing that kills the last shred of benefit of the doubt people have been giving to Trump.

On that note, I’ll drop this link again for USian Mammotheers

https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/search/

MoveOn is arranging immediate rallies in the event that Trump fires Mueller. If you RSVP you’ll get an email if it happens telling you where to go.

@Lumipuna (which I keep trying to write Lumipuma – cats on the brain)

Vaguely disapproving words, I think.

No thinning your lips disapprovingly?

Interestingly RIOT is also the name of a Christian music album by Carman. It stands for righteous invasion of truth… doesn’t sound violent at all does it?

Some lyrics:

Righteous – to conform to the Bible
Invasion an armed attack
Of truth – the real state of affairs
Like a church on the move that will not double back
From the fight, ’cause we’re salt and light
And we thrive on Jesus, the theme of our lives
And here’s the spin
Love nothin’ but God, hate nothin’ but sin
It’s true, now the time to win nations for the Lord
And it’s true, now the hour, the saints must go to war
We’ll preach it, we’ll sing it
We’ll shout it, we’ll cry it
‘Cause desperate times need desperate action and that means
We need a R.I.O.T

The album also contains a song called whiter than snow… hmmmmmmmmm