connecting some weird dots: did the extreme right want this to happen?

Alex Jones called it the ”best case scenario”

nobody knows a fucking thing right now.

this twerpy little incel Thomas Matthew Crooks — no one knows shit about him. the only facts we have are that he was a registered Republican, that he voted Republican in 2020 2022, and, according to a high school classmate, he had ‘conservative’ views.

everything else is a mystery. we don’t know his motive. we don’t know who he was listening to, who he was following on social media, or what lunacy they were filling his ears with — and he’s not going to be telling us any of this shit any time soon, seeing as he’s now a bullet-perforated meatsicle.

but what we do have is a lot of weird dots. so what I’m going to do today is lay out these weird dots — feel free to connect them any way you see fit.

weird dot one:

five month ago, infuriatingly not-yet-bankrupt conspiracy loon Alex Jones had Ivan Raiklin on his show. Ivan’s been in the news lately because he’s the unhinged grievance-baby who calls himself “Trump’s Secretary of Retribution.” he’s the dipshit who’s vowing to round up “deep state operatives” and chuck them into Dear Leader’s Trumpcentration Camps™ — but five months ago he was pretty much unknown outside of the far-right’s fever-swamps.

check out this batshit exchange.

Ivan Raiklin: “if they [assassinate Trump], option 2, behind Trump, is going to be so much better for us and so much worse them.”
Alex Jones: “I was about as to say, if they kill him, that’s best-case scenario from a sick level. from a sick level medium, ‘oh, please kill him.’ I mean, it’s so good after that.”
Raiklin: “oh, it’s going to be the best cleansing and the fastest cleansing that we’ve ever seen in my lifetime. I guaran—, I assess, with almost certainty, with the highest level of confidence, that if they assassinate Trump, it is so game over for them.”

a bit later on they get into this “option 2” that’s going to be “so much better” for them:

Raiklin: “I just think that General Flynn becomes the inevitable.”
Jones: “oh General Flynn, obviously, yeah.”
Raiklin: “it’s inevitable … think about it, the people that General Flynn would bring into the administration.”
Jones: “the globalists are all going to prison.”

“General Flynn,” is of course, is Vlad Putin’s favorite dinner guest Mike Flynn, Donny Convict’s disgraced national security adviser.

these days, General Mike’s been touring the country to promote his own Project-2025-adjacent plan to turn America into a christofascist theocracy.

weird dot two:

rabid anti-semite and gay porn enthusiast Nick Fuentes — another one of these way-too-influential ultra-far-right extremists with a way-too-massive audience — has been fucking pissed at “Zionist shill” Donny lately — over his support for Israel, and for his fake disavowal of Project 2025. Nick’s been all over twitter these days, screaming that he’s “done” with Dear Leader.

“Trump is out there giving a speech about how the water pressure in the shower is too low because of the green new deal. really? who need him? step aside. get out of the way.”

weird dot three, and this may be the weirdest dot of all.

this story was in the news about three weeks ago. it’s the kind where you go “huh, weird” and forget about it, because it seems so random and insignificant — but in light of the lunacy of the past forty-eight hours, it’s suddenly relevant.

PHOENIX — Arizona delegates to the Republican National Convention gathered this month in a Phoenix suburb, showing up to get to know each other and learn about their duties.

Part of the presentation included a secret plan to throw the party’s nomination of Donald Trump for president into chaos.

extreme-right operatives cooked up a plan to shitcan Donny using the pretext of “what if he gets sentenced to prison” — this was before SCOTUS ruled that Donny is a Very Special Boy who gets to crime all he wants — and the whole enchilada was about as clownshoes as you’d imagine.

One idea, discussed as attendees ate finger foods, was for co-conspirators to signal their allegiance to one another by wearing matching black jackets.

oh my god, let’s all play dress-up and wear black jackets! these nitwits sure do love their skulduggery cosplay.

Among some on the far right, suspicions have intensified that the former president has surrounded himself with too many advisers beholden to the “deep state.”

imagine being so far to the right that Day One Dipshit is insufficiently fascist. some people are just never satisfied.

you’ll never guess who these ur-Nazis wanted to replace Donny.

Most of the dozen GOP officials or activists interviewed by The Post even ventured that the aim may have been to substitute former national security adviser Michael Flynn for Trump.

Mike Flynn! weird how his name just keeps popping up whenever christofascists get together.

apparently I’m not the only one who finds all these dots weird.

“It could certainly be politically motivated,” Winter told Mitchell. “We know how individuals approach this. There’s been so many things said about Donald Trump that are negative. There are some people that don’t think Donald Trump is conservative enough. There’s a whole gamut of feelings and what people think about Donald Trump, and so is that what motivated this person? Certainly, obviously a possibility.”

so there you have it. three fucking very weird dots. do with them what you will. we’ll probably never find out if there’s any provable way of connecting them.

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BREAKING NEWS, just as I’m finishing up writing this post: Judge Fangirl down in Florida just became Trump Organization Employee of the Century.

Judge dismisses classified documents case against Trump

Florida judge cites unlawful appointment of special counsel Jack Smith in dismissal of Trump’s Florida classified documents case

fucking hell. obviously, Jack Smith will appeal this to the 11th Circuit, but Christ on a biscuit, what a clusterfuck.

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