The wonderful thing about living in your own world, and not the real one, is that you can dream all manner of impossible dreams and they never have the unhappy ending of you ended up wounded, dead, or in prison. Here’s another candidate for one of those states of being. His name is Henry Hastings and God spoke to him about training minutemen to take back the government, which is being unlawfully occupied by “domestic enemies.” I don’t know whether to be happy or sad that he’s pushing the stolen election fable as opposed to the fantasy that Joe Biden is a clone or a hologram. I’m fond of those other theories, they’re so entertaining. In any event, this is straight out of Righteous Gemstones, enjoy.
Hastings now leads "Shoot, Move, Communicate" programs to train right-wing Christians "to be like those men who stood on the bridge at Concord and said, 'You can come no further.'" pic.twitter.com/XWrPdRbURE
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 23, 2023
And this loon names names as well. I sincerely hope that the people on this list have ample security, particularly Adam Schiff. He’s been riling up the wingnuts for quite a few years now.
Hasting proceeded to list those "domestic enemies" by name—Fani Willis, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Merrick Garland, Adam Schiff, and Katie Hobbs—telling them to repent for daring to challenge "the Lord's anointed" (i.e. Trump). https://t.co/30Dwsjf7K4 pic.twitter.com/KQqEcjxb4G
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 23, 2023
I joke about this being something out of Righteous Gemstones, but in all seriousness, this is not normal. People with religious delusions and access to military weaponry are not a good mix.
They are the American Taliban and it would not surprise me one bit if one of the MAGA crazies put on a suicide vest and blew themselves up to honor their Mango Messiah. There’s a point at which this stops being comical and starts being tragic and we may see the tragic portion soon.
— Mad Mom (@cstx924) August 23, 2023
That’s the view from right-wingnuttia. Although, on the other side of the coin, Trump has called for demonstrations in the past and gotten bupkis. Rachel Maddow commented on this. She said that what’s happening now “is individual acts of violence and threats of violence by radicalized people and groups that support them.” What we saw above is most definitely threats of violence by somebody radicalized.
Trump will be arrested again in Georgia tomorrow. I wonder if this “minute man” clown will be there.
It’s worth noting, for the nth time, that if only Donald Trump had been man enough to simply accept defeat and do a concession speech, January 6 would not have happened, and this loon wouldn’t be talking this way. And Georgia would not have happened, either. Trump still would have the Stormy Daniels case, but that’s the weakest one against him, and he would have the classified documents case. But those two cases and the insurrection and election interference are what’s going to finish him and what’s going to be his legacy. And all because he lacked the character to simply admit he lost.
Talibangelicals are a dangerous lot.
……and the gall of these filthy pigs to wear the Sons of Liberty flag on their chests like they are patriots……you shitstains aren’t patriots…..you are traitorous scum and deserve a traitor’s death…..break dancing at the end of a FN rope.
The orange stain was never “man enough” for anything, other than impregnating females. His issue have nothing to do with “manliness”. He NEVER intended to leave office. None of them did. It was (and is) a forty year slow moving coup. It is still progressing. These asshats simply wish to speed it along.
And orange slime didn’t create these guys. They’ve been “training” and playing army in the back woods of Ohio, Nevada, Montana, Idaho and other states for decades. These are the guys for whom NO government, no matter what party is leading it, is good. Personal freedom for them to not pay taxes, graze their cattle on someone else’s land, carry around their war weapons in public to show how manly they are, do whatever they want when they want, and hate and persecute everyone who is not white hetero Anglo-Saxon and x-tian. All the slime ball did was release them from their hidey holes and give them another reason to hate out loud.
“These are the guys for whom NO government, no matter what party is leading it, is good.”
Well, that may be but I’ll guarantee you they vote for the party that accommodates them at every turn, especially the party that’s spent the better part of the last 40 years trying to put Grover Norquist’s theory into practice. (And, the other party has spent much of that time bending over backwards to protect these idiots’ “political free speech”–while ignoring all their violent behavior in the process.)
Forgot to also mention that these morons are–in all likelihood–living off as much of the largesse provided by that very government they so love to denounce. They may keep ranting about the government but just as soon as a “no government” reality comes along and bites them on the nether regions by their being deprived of some aspect of government services (something tells me they’re not making their own bullets for their guns or creating their own gasoline for their vehicles), they’ll be right there *demanding* the government give them their due. Kind of like when the Teabaggers were demanding an end to high taxes but also demanding their Medicare and Social Security be left alone.
Irony. R.I.P.