he seems like your typical authoritarian minded right wing youtube commenter who probably used words like demonrats and thinks a new civil war is inevitable.
Respect to all points of view in this thread. Everybody's passion points and argument is interesting and well stated. I still have a lot of questions about what exactly has gone down. I'm not one to rush to judgement without all the facts. Clearly though, Trump is a pivot point, an actor in the drama. Just a few days ago he was promoting body slamming journalists. Is it any surprise one of our millions of jut jobs would take him at his word and start something?
I'm a veteran of 1960s activism. I thought the world was coming apart then. Seems a lot worse now.
Not saying this isn't a worthwhile discussion to have, but it doesn't seem entirely relevant, beyond the bomb:bomb connection. Maybe in another thread where it won't get ignored?
99.9% of "False Flag Attack" claims are utter BS.
The Spanish-American War was started after an accident was spun by American media to justify a war that the nation was badly wanting. The media purposely avoided reporting the valiant efforts of the Spanish troops at the harbor who worked hard to save as many American sailors as possible. There was a very concerted effort by power players in the American government to drum up support for a war regardless of justification. US business interests in Cuba were desperate to avoid losing control of resources on the island so they pushed hard for a war.
World War One was started because the Germans sank the Lusitania. The claim was that the Lusitania was not a valid military target. Thing is, the government put 4 million rounds of ammunition in the belly along with many other types of weaponry. Leaders in both England and the USA wanted passenger ships to carry supplies of war to get them past German blockade, and according to their own words many in the interventionists faction in the USA along with Winston Churchill were specifically hoping such ships would get attacked so as to lure Americans into the war.
World War Two was entered in to by the USA after the Pearl Harbor attack. FDR claimed that he did not know that the attack was coming but he actually did know ahead of time and purposely put a large portion of the Pacific Fleet in a death trap and fired the admiral who objected to his order to do so.
The First Gulf War was started after a false flag operation in which the Kuwaiti royal family and their friends in the Bush family conspired to convince the public that Iraqi troops were killing infants in Kuwaiti nurseries. It never happened.
The Vietnam War was directly in response to the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident(actually two incidents). The first incident was claimed to be North Vietnamese aggression but it turned out later that the American vessel the USS Maddox fired first and provoked the fight. The second incident never even happened. Congress knew this and still authorized the president to engage in unrestricted warfare for the goal of "stopping communist aggression".
The Second Gulf War was started under the pretense that Iraq played a role in 9/11 and that they were also supporting international terrorism(not true). It was also justified under the notion that they were imminently going to have weapons of mass destruction(they weren't and the president and the media knew it).
False flags are extremely common in American history. In fact, even the American Revolution was arguably started under deceitful justification. American colonial propagandists spun some events way out proportion to the truth. The most egregious example of this is the so-called "Boston Massacre" in which colonial agitators attacked British soldiers for hours and only eventually provoked a limited response after trapping a few of them and forcing their friends to rescue them.
If only the rest of the world could build a ginormous wall around America, we'd all (the rest of the world) be a lot safer.
It would have to be immediately torn down because the rest of the world can't even take a shit without asking the USA for help.
Ehhh...I beg to differ mate.
After having completed my ablutions this morning - I certainly didn't require any assistance from the USA.
The UK isn't all of the rest of the world Gypsy. The UK is America's one true ally. But my point is valid and can't be debated. The USA helps more countries, gives other countries more money than the rest of the countries combined.
The wall couldn't even be completed because the flow of money would be like a raging, flood swollen largest river in the world pouring out and could never be dammed up for a wall.
The Trump Bomber has just been topped by the anti-Trump Synagogue Shooter. The guy hated Trump.
The only reason the Synagogue Shooter hated Trump was because in his opinion Trump didn't show enough hatred for Jewish people. It's hard to imagine someone hating Trump because Trump doesn't show enough hate, but sure enough we found it in this psycho.
Don't lose sight of the bigger picture. Just like Trump is funded by Russia the NRA is funded by Russia. Their investment in both is to cause as much damage as possible to the United States. Why do you suppose the Russians want the United States to be flooded with semi-automatic weapons? Why do you suppose they bombard our social media with endless attempts to sow hatred and division in every way imaginable? Hint: It isn't for their great love of our democracy.
They're sitting out in their boats this morning with the world's best hookers and vodka watching our citizens kill each other in hate-fueled anger and they're laughing their asses off.