Day: June 3, 2024

A Call To Arms?

We do not need Paul and his horse anymore for we have the internet and social media.

Of course I am referring to the re4sponse from MAGA loyalists after the conviction of their hero recently…..

Is it truly a call to arms?

After a jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony charges yesterday, Bronze Age Pervert, the alter ego of the edgelord influencer Costin Alamariu, retweeted one of his own posts from March. It is a movie clip depicting a scene of armed men storming buildings and gunning people down. In the text accompanying the post, Bronze Age Pervert jokes that the clip is real footage of a “well-planned neutralization operation” that will take place after Trump wins his reelection campaign.

The MAGA faithful are once again on the internet threatening violence. Lots of Republicans, of course, responded to Trump’s felony verdict with simple outrage rather than calls for a “neutralization operation.” But more extreme language has appeared all across the right-wing posting ecosystem. Some Proud Boys chapters responded with the word “war” on their Telegram channels, as reported by Wired, and Reuters found instances of Trump supporters calling for violence against jurors and the judge in the case, as well as calls for civil war and insurrection.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/trump-trial-maga-internet-violence/678571/

The rhetoric is getting very disturbing…..

As supporters of Donald Trump flood right-wing platforms with threats against the jurors and judge following guilty verdicts Thursday in his criminal case regarding hush money payments, fears are growing that the influence the Republican presumptive presidential nominee has over his supporters will soon lead to violence.

“Until and unless he accepts the process, the extremist reaction to his legal troubles will be militant,” Jacob Ware, a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, toldReuters.

The former president gave no sign of accepting the legal process Friday as he held a press conference at Trump Tower, repeating claims that the case had been “rigged.”

Shortly after a New York jury announced its verdict in the case regarding documents that were falsified to cover up payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniel just before the 2016 election to keep her from publicizing an alleged sexual encounter she had with Trump, right-wing websites like Gateway Pundit, Truth Social, and Patriots.Win saw an uptick in violent posts from users.

One commenter called for “someone in NY with nothing to lose” to “take care of” New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, while another on Gateway Pundit directed a threat at any and all opponents of Trump.

“Time to start capping some leftys,” said the user. “This cannot be fixed by voting.”

The reaction is a direct result, said Ware, of Trump’s “insistence that he is being mistreated.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-supporters-2668430042

Social media could possibly make the reality of violence very likely….for we know how some creeps take all this tough talk to heart.

Just a hint at what they propose….

Shortly after a New York jury announced its verdict in the case regarding documents that were falsified to cover up payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniel just before the 2016 election to keep her from publicizing an alleged sexual encounter she had with Trump, right-wing websites like Gateway Pundit, Truth Social, and Patriots.Win saw an uptick in violent posts from users.

One commenter called for “someone in NY with nothing to lose” to “take care of” New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, while another on Gateway Pundit directed a threat at any and all opponents of Trump.

“Time to start capping some leftys,” said the user. “This cannot be fixed by voting.”

The reaction is a direct result, said Ware, of Trump’s “insistence that he is being mistreated.”

https://www.alternet.org/violent-trump-supporters/

Even more calls for violence….

“Pick a side, or YOU are next,” wrote conservative talkshow host Dan Bongino on the Truth Social media platform in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions.

The replies were even more so.

“Dan, seriously now,” one user wrote in response to Bongino. “I see no way out of all this mess without bloodshed. When you can rig an election, then weaponize the government and the courts against a former President, what other alternative is there? I’m almost 70 and would rather die than live in tyranny.”

That’s a common version of how many people on the US right reacted to the ex-president’s verdict, drawing on a “mirror world” where Trump is seen as the selfless martyr to powerful state forces and Joe Biden is the dangerous autocrat wielding the justice system as his own personal plaything and a threat to US democracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/02/far-right-mobilizing-biden-presidency

How likely will all this escalate into a situation of terrible conflict?

Will the idiots heed this call to arms?

In the days of my ‘pinko’ ways we were accused of wanting to destroy democracy and now the very people doing the accusing are doing what we were accused of wanting.

We never wanted to destroy democracy….but my accusers cannot say that.

Thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Biden: “I Have A Plan”

After 8 months of death and destruction using American ordinance the Biden Group now has a plan for the war to end…..and it comes as few Americans support the carnage in Gaza and the election grows near and Biden needs all the help he can get to survive the vote.

Here is his plan….

President Biden on Friday detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza and could end the nearly 8-month-old Mideast war. Biden added that Hamas is “no longer capable” of carrying out another large-scale attack on Israel as he urged Israelis and Hamas to come to a deal to release hostages for an extended ceasefire. In remarks from the White House, the president called the proposal “a road map to an enduring ceasefire and the release of all hostages,” the AP reports. “It’s time for this war to end,” he added, per the New York Times. The increments:

  • First phase: Implementation would start with a “full and complete ceasefire” for six weeks; a withdrawal of Israeli forces from all populated areas of Gaza; and the release of a number of hostages, including women, the elderly, and the wounded, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. American hostages would be released, and remains of hostages who have been killed would be returned to their families. Humanitarian assistance would surge during the first phase, with 600 trucks being allowed into Gaza each day.
  • Second phase: All remaining living hostages would be freed, including male soldiers, and Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza. “And as long as Hamas lives up to its commitments, the temporary ceasefire would become, in the words of the Israeli proposals, ‘the cessation of hostilities permanently,'” Biden said.
  • Third phase: Major reconstruction would begin in Gaza, which faces decades of rebuilding from devastation caused by the war.

Biden acknowledged that keeping the deal on track would be difficult, saying there are a number of “details to negotiate” to move from the first phase to the second.

Another plan by the US to solve a problem that can only be solved by those involved in the carnage….at least one of those does not want an end to this thing and the other sees the error of their ways……or do they?

For me this is just the same type of dodge that the 2 state solution has become….just something to appease those voters that are being turned off by Biden’s overall strategy.

BiBi has a plan…..

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday provided a quick answer to President Biden’s three-part plan to end the war in Gaza by saying Israel’s goals have not yet been met. “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: the destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel,” Netanyahu said in a statement. Although he did not clearly endorse or reject the proposal Biden made the day before, the New York Times reports, Netanyahu seemed to dim hopes of a quick end to the fighting even as political pressure on him increased.

Biden’s proposal, which includes the release of the hostages in Gaza, matches an Israeli ceasefire plan that the war cabinet already has approved, two officials told the Times. And a senior political leader in Hamas said the militant organization “will go for this deal” if Israel does, per the BBC. Analysts in Israel suggested that Netanyahu’s statement, which referred to the plan as a nonstarter, appears to be an attempt to delay; two far-right members of his coalition threatened to resign Saturday night if he signs on to Biden’s plan.

At the same time, thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tel Aviv demanding a deal to free the hostages, Netanyahu’s removal, and early elections. Organizers said it was the largest turnout since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, per the Times of Israel, though that couldn’t be verified. Family members of hostages addressed the crowd.

Have you seen the Israelis protesting on your favorite MSM?

The whole world wants the carnage to end including many Israelis….but I guess those voices do not count when  you are a bloodthirsty by-stander.

Now we get to hear what BiBi has to say……I am sure it will be applauded vigorously by thew paid performers in our Congress.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”