Wednesday, August 17, 2022

All Those Little Keyboard Warriors?

The ones who didn’t show up at FBI headquarters in D.C.? The guy who tried to shoot out bulletproof glass with a nail gun, and died in a cornfield? The guy who swore in-line they’d never take him alive and is now in jail?

The threats are real, FBI employees are right to be concerned, their union is right to demand politicians denounce the threats.

But the idea a revolutionary force will rise up in righteous anger and save Trump from prosecution? Pure bilge water spewed to frighten the nervous Nellies of the intertoobs. These are the same clowns who came to D.C. on January 6 because they thought Trump told them to (he did); that they were following Trump’s orders (they were), and that he had their backs (he didn’t). They didn’t organize it, it wasn’t spontaneous, and they got bored and left after a short time. The violence was mob violence, not organized, and even the people who brought guns didn’t use them because they realized Trump wasn’t backing them and (obviously) wouldn’t pardon them.

And somebody thinks there will be mass violence on an even larger and more inchoate scale? Like the man said: “You and what army?” The keyboard warriors don’t have an army. Individuals are dangerous, but we had more dangerous and organized groups in the’60’s and’70’s.

Trump announcing his supporters will defend him is the last pitiful gasp of a man running out of options and ideas.
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