23 state capitols got bomb threats yesterday. what the fuck is going on?

acts of political violence have become normalized and the press is asleep

wherever Little Donny Fuckface goes, violence — or the threat of it — isn’t far behind.

whenever shit happens, after the smoke clears, there’s always a self-satisfied bloated dotard lurking in the margins, giggling to himself over a job well done.

Donald Trump’s greatest sin may be that he has given his unhinged worshipers permission to be the ugliest possible versions of themselves — and now we’re forced to live in the world he created.

want to be racist? you’ve come to the right place. misogynistic? go right ahead. homophobic? transphobic? antisemitic? just generally all-around hate-filled? have at it.

want to lie and cheat and steal? knock yourselves out.

want to live out your grievance-fueled fantasies of violent mayhem? fucking go nuts, my dudes. stand back and stand by.

here’s a fun thing that happened yesterday and barely made a ripple in the news.

Capitol buildings in multiple states were temporarily shut down and evacuated Wednesday because of threats.

“It was a mass email sent to several (Secretaries of State) and state offices across the country,” said Michon Lindstrom, a spokesperson for the Kentucky of Secretary of State’s office.

A copy of an emailed threat obtained by CNN showed government offices in at least 23 states listed as recipients. The sender claimed to have placed explosives inside “your state Capitol,” although no specific state was mentioned in the email. It’s not clear if other email threats were sent.

at least 23 state capitol buildings were shut down yesterday because some moron or morons thought it would be cool to threaten to blow shit up.

we don’t know who’s responsible but we do know of one person out there who never stops goading his worshipers into committing acts of violence.

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Donald Trump has been all but begging MAGA to fuck shit up on his behalf.

after getting tossed off the ballot in Maine, Trump took to his failing app and posted a link to the official site for Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows — which inspired some shitbag to figure out her home address and phone number and post it to social media. you can guess what happened next.

“What was concerning on Friday was the level of vitriol and just abusive communications directed at my staff and furthermore the threatening communications targeting not only me but my family and people around me,” Bellows said in an interview.

she even got swatted.

A call was made to emergency services from an unknown man saying he had broken into a house in Manchester, according to the Maine public safety department.

The address the man gave was Bellows' home. Bellows and her husband were away for the holiday weekend. Maine State Police responded to what the public safety department said ultimately turned out to be a swatting call.

the same scenario played out in Colorado, after Trump got bounced from the ballot there.

this shit has been going on since forever. somone “wrongs” Trump, he pulls his ‘will no one rid me of this troublesome priest’ act, and the predictible plays out, after which he feigns innocence. who me? I didn’t tell anyone to do anything specific.

— after Cassidy Hutchinson testified in front of the January 6th Committee, she had to go into hiding.

— Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who ended up on the wrong end of some dipshit MAGA conspiracy theories, have had their lives turned upside down.

hey, remember this idiot?

this utterly charming woman decided it would be a cool thing to leave threatening voicemails on Judge Chutkan’s phone.

just another dope who fell under the spell of Donald Trump’s siren song — and because of it, now knows what the inside of a jail cell looks like.

and then there’s the grandaddy of them all — the failed insurrection on January 6th.

the third anniversary of this totally peaceful tourist event is in two days. even though hundreds of morons have been held accountable, there are still so many unanswered questions.

— who told the dipshits with the zip ties where everyone’s secret offices were?

— who disconnected the panic buttons?

— how did the insurrectionists know which Capitol Building windows were vulnerable?

— who disabled Mike Pence’s access card?

— why was Mo Brooks wearing body armor?

— why did Jim Jordan and Louie Gohmert and Marjorie Three Toes and so many other GOP congresspeople beg Donald Trump for pardons?

— who planted pipe bombs all over DC the night before? and did she have three toes on each foot?

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meanwhile, Donald Trump’s army of morons are happily going about their violent business, because they truly believe that once King Fuckface the First is restored to power, he’s going to pardon them all.

A MAGA rioter who has been convicted of attacking law enforcement officials with a baseball bat at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 is enthusiastic about the potential of being pardoned if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.

In an interview with NPR, Jan. 6 convict Jacob Lang encouraged Trump to deliver a blanket pardon to all people convicted for taking part in the riots, including people like himself who assaulted police.

“It’s a beautiful pledge,” Lang said of Trump’s pardon promise. “No Jan. 6-er left behind. Bring us all home, 47, Donald Trump. Bring us all home.”

but even after all this, the courts are still showing Donny every deference.

anyone not named Trump would have been chucked the fuck into jail long ago for multiple violations of gag orders and protetive custody agreements.

and the twenty-three bomb threats from yesterday? as I said, it barely made a ripple in the news. our media has so normalized right-wing acts of political violence that they can no longer be bothered to rouse themselves from their slumbers and report on it.

what’s it going to take?

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