QUITE the contrary.

...or the photo of a devastated firefighter carrying the shreds of a dead baby.

Thanks to Charles Pierce for remembering where this leads too.

Trump should ban everyone from that country or who looks like him.

a few years ago.

He said, "Well, I haven't seen any blonde-haired, blue-eyed terrorists lately."

Two of my three children, and I, said in unison, "Timothy McVeigh."

were registered Republicans.

He's not fooled by the fool.

For his wit, of course, but when he hunkers down in the dead-serious department, he's just as brilliant, if not moreso. He's got these bastards SOOOOOOOOO pegged.

He was one of the earliest, along with Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, to have antennae up, full, on the Russian connection. They both warned about this last year while the campaign was still, if not in its infancy, then its toddler phase.

But I think it unlikely the militia types will target the government again until a Democrat gets back in charge. Right now they appear to be targeting mosques and synagogues, because they think they can get away with it. Can they?

I'm am reminded of Quinn's line at the end of the movie Reign of Fire, where he says, "If they come, they'll burn, we'll build. Or maybe I'll just kill 'em."

Or my other favorite line, "Only one thing worse than a dragon... Americans."

Not really sure why I'm telling this in this thread other than it's a story I've wanted to tell. It haunts me.

My husband and I were driving cross-country with our dog in '05. We didn't have much time so any stops had to be right along our route. One of those, on our way back, was the OKC memorial. We didn't want to leave our dog in the car so when we went into the memorial site, we took turns.

Now, I didn't know much about the design of the site at the time. I thought the reflecting pool was the footprint of the building. I walked along the reflecting pool and thought about the building that *I thought* had stood there and the countless photos I had seen of the destruction. I reflected. About two thirds of the way up, I left the pool and crossed over to the side with the chairs. Shortly after crossing, I felt this blast (no other word to describe it) of pure evil.

I couldn't stand being there after that. I started walking really fast. Really, really fast. I told myself I was just hurrying because hubby and the dog were waiting for me but I felt panicky and disoriented. My husband said I was white as a sheet when I got back. I felt strange for hours afterwords. We stopped at a trading post and I swear, I was walking into walls and displays. We had to get out of there before I broke something.

That night, I looked up the OKC Memorial website and read more about it. I was surprised to read that the reflecting pool was not the footprint of the building as I had thought, but that the field of chairs was where the building had stood. Then I realized, by looking at the design and photos of the bombing, that the spot I was standing on when I felt that blast of evil was pretty much exactly at the site where the Ryder truck was parked. I swear, I have never felt anything as strong and sickening and evil as I did that day. It still gives me chills when I think about it.

They're drooling for it.

and they think they can profit from them.

they are more than happy to have a few violent extremists (homegrown or otherwise) commit a few acts of terrorism.

they'll just say, see i told you so and demand the curtailment of more liberties and enjoy a bump in the polls.


our institutions are broken. we lack an effective way to make politicians pay a price for their stochastic terrorism. there's too much incentive to re-elect incumbents and too many overly safe districts. not to mention heavy propaganda and a whole lot of voter suppression.

"The first steps in unlocking the cage happened years ago, when modern conservatism attached itself to the reanimated corpse of American apartheid and rode it to glory. "

CONservative republicans attached themselves to the South, offering safe harbor to angry "Southern Democrats" who felt verrrrrry angry at the awareness of shared humanity coming from leaders such as JFK, RFK and MLK and the fight for Civil Rights that was gathering Northern "Elite" support.

I haven't read really deeply, though. I don't know the who's and how's.

I Apprecify Dat!

Sometimes when your info is minimal, it's hard to even think of what to google next.

Gee...I wonder why?

What a powerful reminder of hate.

The Border Patrol union out and out endorsed Trump in the election, first time ever that they pick a side on an election. And the police unions did too. We saw how slow border agents were to follow judicial order after the botched executive order on immigration and how Trump's admin refused to cooperate by giving clear direction to the agents to cease and desist.

Police departments are militarized now and no where near as disciplined as our military. We know they many individuals within are hostile to the communities they patrol (many are not). Some already behave like an occupying force (not all). We know that many within (not all) are raging against any type of review or transparency and are vicious to anyone who questions them (just like Trump).

I'm not saying that all police are disloyal. Just that enough might be to make the situation dicey if they decide to start cracking down on protest in any widespread manner. We KNOW that this administration does not play be the rule book. They shit on the rule book. And we know they want chaos to advance their white supremacist views. Anyone with a brain who can read should be deeply concerned with where this all goes.

" ... that out-and-out white supremacy is operating at the very top levels of the executive branch of the government ..."

Let's please call it what it is however, he's a nazi. Java the Butt spews this shit out like he is working for the National Enquirer. To bad for us, that isn't where he actually works.

"The whole campaign stank of this kind of thing, but there was a great scrambling during the campaign to minimize or to ignore it"

Sadly enough the sentiments and hatred was so white hot the media was to afraid of being burned by an impotent man-child with the IQ of a 5 years. It was all right there every day all day and no one had the balls to stand up to a grade school bully. For over a year we watched as the media thought all this was a great joke, then did NOTHING to correct or show the light on the darkest of all cockroaches.

"No political gain is worth that."

This ending totally slayed me.