Hmm. I can't find independent confirmation online of the first quote in that linked article: "“We're looking at the entire spider web for any of these attacks,” FBI director Kash Patel told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, when asked about shootings by trans individuals."
He
did reportedly say that they were going to run down everyone involved in that Discord chat with the suspect. That's a valid law enforcement move.
It's also valid in these times, sad as they are, for us to be concerned about agency overreach and going rogue, especially in Homeland Security's purview.
But in this case I'm gonna unhood my inner cynic and let it fly: the wannabe American fascists are limiting themselves, for the moment, to targets that will least ruffle ALL of white America. There is no way, especially with an election next year, that they will stir up the "Rainbow Alphabet" group and their major supporters just yet.
That would come later, as it did in Nazi Germany.
If this were true, imagine what PBS and all the others would be screaming to the rafters about right now.
What such stories do is play on the feeling most of us have that it might not be a coincidence that three major murder episodes now have a "trans angle." At least I've thought about it.
We must not smear all trans people -- that's a Nazi thing to do.
We Americans must try to unite and face the serious question it raises about whether gender-bending (is that a good term for it all?) is more about human rights or human pathology (inclusive of those triggered into cruelty, repression, and/or assault when they see it in others).
And I don't think we are ready to do that yet, what with the Republican majority giving off strong cult vibes and our national will as a people paralyzed by the series of gut blows we and our institutions have received since January.
Which brings me to Obama (what I came here to post about). That tweet needs to be accompanied by recognition of the fact that you don't get to the top of the greased pole of US politics without having an uncanny ability to simulate human emotion while remaining very calculating inside; he was good enough at it to have an eight-year run.
I think the billionaire boys' club is trying to brainwash us out of democracy into fascism. Trump is the stick. Obama is very likely to be the carrot.
I mistrust anything right now that makes me react emotionally rather than as a responsible adult American voter.
Being responsible is hard work. Mike is right -- we really could use another national humorist right now.
