The enemy within

 Trump has frequently promised to unleash the military against "the enemy within," like Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, as soon as he seizes power, but his cult are not waiting for Der Tag.   Jeffrey Michael Kelly was arrested for shooting at the Democratic National Committee office in Tempe, Arizona, three times in the past month.  He had 120 guns and 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his house and a machine gun in his car, among other playthings.  Police think he was planning "a mass shooting."  In other election news, an unnamed county in the suburbs of Atlanta thought it wise to spend $50,000 on panic buttons for election workers and $14,000 to hire an extra security guard.  

Also in Arizona, ballots were damaged when someone set fire to a collection box in heavily Democratic Maricopa County, the epicenter of election fuckery in 2020.  A 35-year-old man was arrested when identified from surveillance video.  

Republican op Cliff Maloney is in hot water with the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, after claiming that no one lived at their monastery although 53 mail ballots were sent there.  It's not nice to lie about nuns, Cliff.  The prioress, Sister Stephanie Schmidt, has a metal ruler with your name on it.

You probably didn't learn about any of this unless you read the Guardian (or live in Arizona).  American media are remarkably circumspect about pointing out the acts of terrorism being planned or carried out unless they concern actual assassination attempts.  The Times and Washington Post carry daily updates about the resentencing of the Menendez brothers, who killed their parents in 1996.  They're impressed that Beyonce will join Kamala Harris at campaign events tomorrow.  The Times has two articles today about the future of the McDonalds Quarter-Pounder.  I don't see General John Kelly or the N-word (Nazi) anywhere.

Also not being covered on CNN (I just checked) -- Trump's claim in Duluth, Georgia, that he kept us out of war with France.  Did anybody know about this?  I'm determined to learn more.  Of course it could turn out to be merde and then they'd have to talk about Trump's cottage cheese brain and that would be -- election interference?  Liberal bias?  Real journalism?

What a fine Superintendent of Public Instruction Michele Morrow will be for North Carolina, as long as she isn't required to sign anything.  Jason Selvig asked her to autograph a tweet calling for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, James Comey and Eric Holder to be executed, and she refused.  (Also Sally Yates, Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci -- she can't get along with anyone.)  Generally speaking I'm not a supporter of home schooling, but if she wins it's something to think about, Carolinians.

In other education news, Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat was scheduled to deliver a lecture to the Naval Academy on "Militaries and Authoritarian Regimes:  Coups, Corruption, and the Costs of Losing Democracy," which sounds both prescient and timely.  But a couple of Heritage Society clowns heard about it and convinced the USNA to cancel her.  (It's not "cancel culture" when Rightzis do it.)  They had help from Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, who further demanded "impartiality and intellectual rigor" from future lecturers.  Michele Morrow sounds like what they're looking for.

Look who's back on the Trump circuit:  Russian tourism minister Tucker Carlson.  At yesterday's Duluth klavern he -- well, let's give you the flavor.  "There has to be a point at which Dad comes home...Dad is pissed.  He's not vengeful, he loves his children, disobedient as they may be.  And when Dad gets home, you know what he says?  You've been a bad girl.  You've been a bad little girl and you're getting a vigorous spanking right now.  And it's not going to hurt me more than it hurts you, no it's not.  I'm not going to lie.  It's going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me."  The mob began chanting "Daddy Don," which is certainly one level of interpretation.  Another is "I know far more than I needed to about Carlson's perverse inner life."  Yet another is "Trump hates America and will make it howl," which fits everything he has ever said about American cities, veterans, laws, traditions, history and people.  And the Trumpanzees love it because they are masochists who are willing to suffer as long as people they hate are suffering more.  

The gendering is pretty straightforward, too -- that uppity bitch KaMAla needs a beating and will get one, perhaps literally.  Trump and Carlson do not respect women on any level.  (Purely by coincidence, former model Stacey Williams has been talking about being molested by Trump under the auspices of Jeffrey Epstein in 1993.)  We have the MAGA preacher in Michigan calling for the public execution of women who accuse men of rape, and the mortifying description of naked Arnold Palmer, and this is officially the weirdest political campaign since that Italian porn star ran for parliament.  No, weirder.

It just occurred to me that Trump probably never met Palmer but had a senile episode when he saw the name of the airport.  I always assume every word and pseudo-word he emits is a lie.  I hope he holds a tiny hate rally at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, and relates the same thing.  ("The Duke, he liked me very much, OK?  And he was all man, believe me...")  How I long for a more innocent time, when all we talked about was a member of Congress giving a hand-job at a musical.