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This doesn't happen after a coup, does it?
I've never lived in a place where the people in power took over in a coup. But, when I read about them, I never hear of the people who live there sending bomb threats to judges who are siding with the perpetrators of the coup. When a group takes power in a coup, they're normally ruthless, they kill people who threaten them, and they make it clear that dissent won't be tolerated.
So, these MAGA / Q-Anon types believe that Biden took power in a coup by stealing the election. But, they also believe that it was such a soft coup that they didn't bother to jail or kill Trump. It was such a gentle coup that the only "political prisoners" are the people who stormed the capitol, and then only after long investigations and public trials. It's such a kind coup that they are happy to allow demonstrations, TV networks that oppose them, discussions on the Internet that they can't control. These people also think that they can get away with sending bomb threats because the regime that took power in the coup is even softer on crime than the typical government, which would arrest people who sent bomb threats.
How do you send a bomb threat to a judge without thinking are we the baddies? At some point you have to stop and think: our side is doing X, their side is doing Y.
Like, how do you make a list like that and never once consider whether your side might be the baddies?
dude they know they are the bad guys they literally go to militia meetings and went to jan 6 lmao /[ssss
They do those things because they think they're the good guys fighting "the deep state" or something.
Oh, they know what they're doing, 100%. Just like people readily forward misinformation that's convenient to their cause fully knowing that it's false, these folks will continue to parrot right-wing talking points for the same reasons. I think one relatively famous but small YouTuber came out and said so in their podcast openly and caused a stir on the Left. Even Musk has shared some mask-off images about forwarding false narratives. They know.
This is the product of the opportunistic and amoral abusing The First Amendment to influence the greedy, selfish, and hateful to act against their own self interest to preserve the status quo of the former. This is literally The Jerry Springer Congress. It's intentional. They know that a lot of people love this trashy high school mean girl bullshit. All of the new Right Wing Grifters know this, and bank on it.
Being mildly autistic, and maybe from learning to think critically from neglect and abuse in my childhood, causing me to distrust authority, I've never the understood the need of some people to belong to a tribe, and the need to have an authority figure to make them feel safe, and tell them what to think and do. I don't get it. But apparently, half of the population does. Fascists understand this, and use it.
This country is in big trouble. Half of the voters seem to want a King. Capital K. They want to be ruled. By an overgrown child who is an entitled, spoiled, emotionally stunted narcissist who is incapable of empathy, compassion or kindness. Who is clearly suffering from early stage dementia, or Alzheimer's. Which his father died of. Who literally argued that he could have his rivals in a democratic election murdered, and be immune from criminal charges.
That should scare the shit out of everyone not stupid.
Like Stephen King? Great. I wouldn't want a monarch, but if it's a capital-k King, that's fine.