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malaise

(277,759 posts)
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 03:27 PM Sep 17

So was it an assassination attempt on Obama when that man was found in a vehicle with weapons in his neighborhood after

the CONvicted felon posted Obama’s address?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/man-guns-arrested-obama-home-attempted-evade-secret/story?id=100721557

What about the gag orders imposed by judges after threats from the Slobfather?

A guest on Nicole’s program was pointing out the only users of violent rhetoric.

Enough of this effin bothsideism.

And for the record, Jan 6 was more than violent rhetoric. And so was the attempted kidnapping of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer

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So was it an assassination attempt on Obama when that man was found in a vehicle with weapons in his neighborhood after (Original Post) malaise Sep 17 OP
Absolutely! SheltieLover Sep 17 #1
The Obama suspect was a Jan 6 criminal malaise Sep 17 #3
And did they get a firm finger wag from the judge for "sentencing?" SheltieLover Sep 17 #13
K&R Blue Owl Sep 17 #2
Or the guy carrying an AR-15 around the Phoenix parking lot where President Obama was campaigning for re-election. marble falls Sep 17 #4
Yep malaise Sep 17 #5
Great point. flying_wahini Sep 17 #6
And note that he was a Jan 6 goon malaise Sep 17 #8
Absopositively. Kingofalldems Sep 17 #7
Funny, I don't remember any of the media framing it that way. Bev54 Sep 17 #9
If that wasn't neither was this one malaise Sep 17 #10
This is the USA, Malaise. Home of the heroes who, along with the Brits, won WWII pretty much 'single handed'. jaxexpat Sep 17 #11
"Home of the heroes who, along with the Brits, won WWII pretty much 'single handed'." HUAJIAO Sep 17 #14
My dad always gave Russia credit for WWII. ananda Sep 17 #19
So did both of my parents malaise Sep 17 #23
27 million Russians died in ww2 including 19 million civilians. HUAJIAO Sep 17 #31
in fact 27,000,000 Russians died in ww2 HUAJIAO Sep 17 #32
I'm so sorry. I didn't think the "sarcasm" smilie was necessary. jaxexpat Sep 18 #33
Sorry i misunderstood.. HUAJIAO Sep 18 #35
Media referred to Obama stalker SomedayKindaLove Sep 17 #12
The MSM only cares about the convicted felon kimbutgar Sep 17 #15
Excuse me, but which side of the political spectrum are these groups on: surfered Sep 17 #16
Great post malaise Sep 17 #20
Woah, I don't remember that! But I also Wasn't Yet on DU. Otoh, I Knew President Obama was getting like 3xs the amount.. electric_blue68 Sep 17 #17
I remember well malaise Sep 17 #18
It's possible it got buried w other other problems I had 2 rough years during his Presidency... electric_blue68 Sep 17 #24
Been listening to European vloggers Warpy Sep 17 #21
Very interesting malaise Sep 17 #25
Great points! PortTack Sep 17 #22
Kick dalton99a Sep 17 #26
Here's the answer. BurnDoubt Sep 17 #27
Sorry that is not the answer to this OP malaise Sep 17 #28
Yep. Ooooops! That is all. BurnDoubt Sep 17 #30
Should have been MichMan Sep 17 #29
The person that got into the White House AwakeAtLast Sep 18 #34

marble falls

(61,996 posts)
4. Or the guy carrying an AR-15 around the Phoenix parking lot where President Obama was campaigning for re-election.
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 03:50 PM
Sep 17

malaise

(277,759 posts)
10. If that wasn't neither was this one
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 04:49 PM
Sep 17

and again. I repeat he was A Jan 6 goon and it was the CONvicted felon who posted the Obama home address.
Fuck this shit.

jaxexpat

(7,678 posts)
11. This is the USA, Malaise. Home of the heroes who, along with the Brits, won WWII pretty much 'single handed'.
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:00 PM
Sep 17

The laurels we rest on are padded with racism and laced with bigotry. The shiny lining is the carefully woven fabric of lies we've told ourselves for hundreds of magically ignorant years. Some folks would say Barrack Obama was smart, and lucky, to have lived through his whole two terms unscathed. That talk, in some ugly circles, is still called free speech.

Can we, will we, change? Yes, if there is enough time for the truth to sink in far enough. Said truth, though discovered in the 1960's, has not been served much since. One of the major political parties still regularly uses Red-White-and-Blue red meat and spicy "greatest generation" white power powder in the special sauce of their political stew. It's an old recipe, but some people still eat it up. So many refuse to accept the coming, and infinitely sublime, reality of a "brown-majority" demographic in the USA. The worm is turning faster.



HUAJIAO

(2,567 posts)
14. "Home of the heroes who, along with the Brits, won WWII pretty much 'single handed'."
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:42 PM
Sep 17

The Russians might object to that view.

ananda

(30,689 posts)
19. My dad always gave Russia credit for WWII.
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 06:05 PM
Sep 17

If Hitler hadn't tried to take Moscow, he thinks
we would have lost the war.

HUAJIAO

(2,567 posts)
32. in fact 27,000,000 Russians died in ww2
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 10:53 PM
Sep 17

so don't tell me the USA and the British did it almost single handed.

SomedayKindaLove

(1,079 posts)
12. Media referred to Obama stalker
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:13 PM
Sep 17

Using only his first and last name. If the media had considered it an assassination attempt, we would have learned his middle name as well.

Was amazing all the wrong information that was conveyed just merely in the breaking headlines on Sunday. All seemed to make Trump more “heroic”.

kimbutgar

(23,171 posts)
15. The MSM only cares about the convicted felon
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:43 PM
Sep 17

They get all excited when incidents like Sunday happens because they get more clicks to their sites.

They gush with ecstasy reporting on him and they still want to be in the bad boys club with him!

surfered

(2,791 posts)
16. Excuse me, but which side of the political spectrum are these groups on:
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:44 PM
Sep 17

The KKK, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Militias, Three Percenters, and the Boogaloo Bois?

Who are ones still living in the basement of their mother’s house and dressing up in paramilitary gear and playing Army on the weekend?

Who wants to ban assault weapons and who doesn’t, thinking they’re more important than the lives of school children?

Who said he would pay the legal fees of his supporters if they beat up a protester at his rally?

Who ask their Secretary of Defense to shoot Black Lives Matter demonstrators in the leg?

It’s always Trump and his supporters on the right.

electric_blue68

(17,732 posts)
17. Woah, I don't remember that! But I also Wasn't Yet on DU. Otoh, I Knew President Obama was getting like 3xs the amount..
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:51 PM
Sep 17

of death threats of any modern President (thinking of Lincoln), if not all of them.
Yikes! 😞

electric_blue68

(17,732 posts)
24. It's possible it got buried w other other problems I had 2 rough years during his Presidency...
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 06:20 PM
Sep 17

Anyway... Sure sounds like one to me after the Orange Goon opened his mouth!
Coincidence?

No!

I'm a spiritual person and I prayed for him & his family's protection practically every night knowing how some white people were/still are! Especially w drumphf blabbing his birtherism crap back then.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
21. Been listening to European vloggers
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 06:12 PM
Sep 17

who say this asshole was a well known grifter over there after the Ukrainian forces took a hard look at him and said "thanks, but no thanks, kid" when he tried to join up. He then apparently spent much of his time over there until his visa ran out collecting money that no one ever saw being used for its intended purpose

Maybe he was going to ;plug the Secret Service guys so he could approach TFG for some pointers. Or maybe he was going to shoot TFG, a shitty course of action because we'd end up with President Vance (shudder) if he succeeded.

His pedigree (rap sheet) lists over 100 arrests, probably small stuff since the last one was for destruction of a machine, whatever that might be.

Politically, he's all over the map, supporting Sanders and TFG and Biden and now Harris. He doesn't strike me as stupid or even particularly malicious. I have to think there are some untreated mental issues going on.

BurnDoubt

(59 posts)
27. Here's the answer.
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 06:28 PM
Sep 17

ALL media needs to adopt a policy to STOP reporting anything that stinks of attacks on personality, or contains unsupportable claims or unverifiable "facts" ("alternative facts&quot . "Tabloid" (ALL, now, apparently) journalism needs to print a warning at the beginning and end of each piece indicating if the information is unsupported and unverifiable (you know ATTRIBUTION, Accountability, a person to OWN the responsibility for the veracity of their statement)... you know... a lie, or, charitably a fantasy. Failure to do so should be punishable by a LARGE fine, prison time, and a lifetime prohibition on publishing or otherwise disseminating anything at all, punishable by Life in prison. I can't over-state how important it is to protect the integrity of the information that citizens need in order to make any of the many, many decisions they must make in this life. (And... I want to know what Loopy Laura Loomer was doing when she SAW Ms. Harris "sucking dick to get ahead", or shut the fuck up. And how it was when she was trying to get the flaccid out of THAT Deplorable Mushroom. America Wants To Know.) I'm old, but I remember something called "Libel", but apparently such things as that are now rendered "quaint" and "moot" in a world beset by "Invisible Hands", "Imaginary Friends", "Alternative Facts", and "Magical Thinking". I mean they PROMISED to contrive any kind of fantasy to showcase the "suffering" of the American (White) People!?!?!?!? Can I get A "WTF"?

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