10/10/20: What else happened this week while my
wife and I were driving home from Oregon?
Right-wing militia types in Michigan were arrested and charged with
plotting to kidnap the
governor and other
state officials and attack the Michigan capital building. A group called the Wolverine
Watchmen went so far as to stake out Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s family vacation
home. Fortunately, the F.B.I. had a mole inside the group and the plot was
thwarted.
In fact, F.B.I.
Director Christopher Wray said recently that the biggest domestic terror threat in the U.S. today was not Antifa – which Trump wants all of his
supporters to believe.
Antifa,
Wray said, was “an idea,” not even an organization.
The gravest
danger, he told a congressional panel, was white supremacist groups like the
Watchmen.
Naturally, Trump
attacked…F.B.I. Director Wray…not the Watchmen.
Then he said
Gov. Whitmer should be thankful for the fine work done by federal agents in
exploding the plot, and she should pile credit on his head.
Whitmer
insisted that Trump’s calls to right-wing groups like the Proud Boys, to “stand
down, but stand by,” in case the vote in November went against him, his
constant labeling of opponents as “traitors” and “scum,” and his
less-than-subtle embrace of QAnon encouraged the nuts to come out and play.
With guns and bombs.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP was toying with the guns and bombs idea too. He called in to Rush Limbaugh’s show, so he could sound tough and threaten
Iran.
(He probably should
have been reading the situation reports, instead.)
The two non-fighting, out-of-shape lard asses took turns talking
tough for two hours. And Don offered this warning. They had better respect the
good old U.S.A, with a Trump in the White House. “Iran knows that, and
they’ve been put on notice: If you f**k around with us, if you do something bad
to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before,” he
says.
It’s “Fire and Fury
2.0.” And Iran keeps right on doing what it was doing despite the hollow threat.
They keep enhancing uranium to new high levels, now that Big Talking Don has
torn up the treaty deal that we had. The more than a hundred U.S. personnel who
received brain injuries in the most recent Iranian strike at their base were
just thrilled to hear Trump talk tough.
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