Travis McMichael and his father Gregory killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Kyle Rittenhouse is the teenage idiot who killed two protesters in Wisconsin.
One of those times an Oxford comma adds ambiguity…
Right. The main unamended text of the Constitution says the militia is to be used to repel invasions and insurrections and enforce the laws. And the 2nd Amendment says the militia is necessary for the security of a free state. Yes, there’s a militia of the citizens, but it is subordinate to and serves the constituted law.
If being an organized armed group pursuing their interests makes someone “a militia” as prescribed by the constitution, then why do we have laws and police action against gang violence?
Y’know, all other things aside, that brings up a Seinfeldian “what’s up with THAT?”
What is the beardism (neck or otherwise) about?
You’re either new at English, or you’re a disingenuous [so-and-so]. I’m going with disingenuous because your spelling is usually pretty good.
Evidently some of them were…yesterday. At least a few of the same people as I understand it.
Fitting a mold, belonging, wearing a uniform…
The fact of the matter is that these kinds of people are susceptible to being programmed, be it through language, appearance, popular culture appealing to the lowest common denominator. You have a president who repeats monosyllabic catchphrases which are ingrained in the public consciousness, and voilá, you have stupid people, willfully under-educated, bending to the will of the Master of Puppets.
It’s a lot like the scene toward the end of “Life of Brian,” where everyone is so desperate to belong that they are looking for any- and everything that “the messiah” says as a sign. When he implores them to be individuals, they respond in unison…
They’re MEN!
These militia types always remind me of an online meme, too – one I’ll have to try to paraphrase:
“If you wish a difficult life on others because ‘you had a difficult life and you turned out okay …’ then you really didn’t turn out okay.”
We’re bombarded with the term ‘toxic masculinity’ these days, but … this is a case where it resonates with me. I don’t find it that hard to imagine what kind of fathers/upbringing a lot of these wounded wannabe warriors had.
Two of them are brothers. I’ll bet their dad is/was a prize.
I wonder if anyone has introduced them to Conchita Wurst.
I agree, wholeheartedly.
I have seen many comments on the Board discussing the potential for a violent outcome to this election. There was an article in The Atlantic titled something like “This is the Election That Will Break America,” or something to that effect, saying essentially that Trump has openly projected that he won’t accept the outcome of an election he loses. The author was interviewed on NPR, and laid out his case, convincingly, that all Trump’s balderdash amounts to clever maneuvering to delay and offset the Red versus Blue votes so he may declare the whole thing rigged, should he lose.
If this were ten years ago, I would chalk this all up as pearl-clutching hysterical fantasy. The existence of people like this truly has me worried that it is true, and it is on the way. It scares me shitless.
There was another thread about the use of “coup” in discussing this, and how important it is to be prepared, and for the life of me, I can’t recall who posted it. (I’m new at this, and I am presently on Percocet due to an outpatient procedure… I’ll do better, I promise.)
When you have interstate groups of über-militant knuckleheads like these plotting to kidnap and, let’s face it, murder a governor, we can’t be too far away from open hostility and widespread violence being the norm.
Aside from being surrounded by MAGA signs, I’m glad I live in the country…
In many ways, this seems like a reverse image of '60s left-wing militant groups, which the country survived, and I believe we will survive this. Admittedly, the '60s-era group didn’t have a sitting President egging them on.
And that, to me, is the caveat that counts. This sort of behavior wasn’t normalized, at all, in the 1960s. Today, people have made careers out of excusing abhorrent behavior.
Maybe he has the wit to realize that if we normalize abducting and killing members of government his head might wind up on the chopping block at some point.
Turns out he used it as an opportunity to scold the target/victim
Uh… yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head, there.
I’m not sure if by “treason” the founders meant only those working against the Federal government or included the state level in that, too. But in any case, they’re looking at life in prison.
I’ve always thought it was to hide any chin-related abnormalities - either too many, or not enough…
#3 actually has the unmitigated gall to ask Gov. Whitmer to thank him for the FBI foiling the plot.
First, that’s their job.
Second, it was Trump himself who lit the fire. “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” “Talk to them, listen to their demands!”
And she spent quite awhile thanking the FBI, law enforcement, pretty much everybody but Trump. As it should be.
It goes to show how fragile these snowflakes are. Dick Snyder poisoned thousands of people in Flint because it was cheaper to deliver water with harmful levels of lead and nobody showed up with guns to put a stop to it. These weaklings have to wear a mask to go to the Cracker Barrel and they go nuts.
Timothy mcveigh used the same kind of words.
Timothy McVeigh also ate at McDonalds. Does that make all McDonalds customers evil?