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This wasn't really covered by anyone except for Rolling Stone, as far as I've seen, which I find curious because this is fairly newsworthy...
This was a few days ago (May 23) but since the trump campaign campaign is sending emails to their marks, grifting them for more money for their felonious messiah, using words like "FIGHT BACK" and "Corrupt judicial system" how long till someone like this asshole takes the message to heart and kills a lot of people?
This isn't a joke, it's not misinterpretation, it's not something to be taken lightly... this is a deliberate call for violence and eventually one of these guys is going to take those pipe bombs and do something evil with them.
We learned NOTHING apparently from Oklahoma City.
As per the article, Mattus said in an April 2023 TikTok video "To everybody that is disgusted with the way our government is being ran... There needs to be, like, a call to arms. Something needs to happen -- now."
Nothing concerning there... Right?
"a call to arms"... from a guy with pipe bombs is kinda... I dunno... dangerous sounding... like maybe a little bit?... No?Authorities haven't said what they believed Mattus planned to do with the bombs, but he allegedly told police that he had made them for protection from "undocumented immigrants and a corrupt government,"
Yet somehow the police believe that's NOT something to be deeply concerned about because, according to the article, Police told a local TV station that "the general public was not at threat."
No, not at all... just anyone this fucking racist nut believes is a government agent or too brown...
This is the Rolling Stone article (it's got a paywall)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/illinois-man-arrest-bomb-ready-for-civil-war-1235027015/
There's this, but it's a lot shorter...
https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/il-man-had-pipe-bombs-called-civil-war-social-media-reports
(Sorry if the links don't work at the moment Imgur keeps saying "Sorry, link failed to upload")
Nobody should need to be told this at this point, but unless you want the fascist MAGA party to unleash these violent racist paranoid maniacs on their enemies as they are already trying to do... VOTE BLUE, VOTE DEMOCRAT ONLY... Whatever you think the Republican Party used to be, that died long ago and all that is left is a loosely affiliated band of grifters and thieves who've aligned themselves with violent fascists who will destroy all vestiges of freedom and democracy.
bertchstudio
Blues is the same as red
READ Jasmine Shermans policies
Frothington
Protection Pipe Bombs....
therealalansmithee
https://www.american-doom.com/p/im-ready-for-civil-war-american-dooms
Midgarmerc
It would seem they've progressed to the Find Out phase
killbillsexwife
Batten down the hatches USA…this too will pass.
CallMeMcGyver
I hope… each timeframe in history presents challenges that didn’t exist before, sometimes they are overcome quickly by honorable people whose determination and courage brings about change in time to minimize suffering… but there is always the possibility that the gap between when that change can come to fruition may last a couple of generations.
Ih8thisSoMuch
I watched a Fox News host (I forget which, as I make myself watch an hour or two a week just to see how bad it's gotten) look into the camera and say [paraphrasing] "Joe Biden tried to assassinate trump with the Mar-a-lago FBI raid - what are *you* going to do about it?"
The most watched "news" channel in this country is a 24/7 propaganda machine devoted to riling up gullible rubes and aiming them at the other half of the population. This guy above is exactly what they are hoping to produce.
Deoxyribonucleicacidwashedgenes
I don't think Fox gives a shit either way. What they're hoping to produce is income, and they just decided that stoking fear is what makes them that sweet moolah.
turbodog
Don’t bother looking up the definition of “stochastic terrorism”. It’s literally right here.
graehall
It's not a matter of it, I feel it's a matter of when we're going to see some MAGA psycho commit an act of domestic terrorism again
CallMeMcGyver
Law enforcement doesn’t seem to take it seriously either because the fuckwits in Illinois seemed to believe he “wasn’t a threat to the public”… despite him saying “this is a call to arms” and advocating violence against minorities and government employees.
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
Most of them probably agree with him
anonaltone
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
"These are my emotional support pipe bombs. This one is a rescue"
TheobromineAddict
This is now "stochastic terrorism" works. Trump has 30 MILLION brain damaged cult followers. If trump is constantly telling 30,000,000 people that they are "under attack" and they "must take action now", some tiny percentage of them will be deranged enough to build pipe bombs and drive cars through Pride parades. And trump, the perpetrator of stochastic terrorism can safely say, "I never told anybody to blow up libraries", yet here we are.
BenjaminPannell
I was a bit skeptical of an article with so little coverage, even though Rolling Stone is decently factual. However, it looks like Associated Press is covering it too.
https://apnews.com/general-news-7ad4292c9f094c5eb1e8e609c612b276
CallMeMcGyver
Thanks for that link... I like AP... RS is pretty good usually, but it's good to have a source like AP to cite too.
earthtokelly127001
I’ve said it before here….libs with guns is a thing.
Arm yourself before the next election. You don’t want to be unprepared for what they are planning.
You know Im right…..
bertchstudio
They are planning to put a bunch of people in prison, and that's what the whole thing is. Same as Jan 6 they don't care which of is breaks the law just that someone does
ayers231
This is what Maxine Waters wants to investigate. Identify the instigators, and shut them down.
bngd
Too late. The “but her emails” crowd did this.
SirPumpUp
Didn't you not learn from Oaklahoma City or 1940s Germany. Going to be an absolute hellscape when he gets back in.
ironwill2008
Not surprising that at least a few of these nutjobs surface. Guys like this moron should be placed UNDER the jail.
twisteddkarma
homoerection
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Raenon
Solkanarmy
"man who posted right-wing content arrested with bombs" is probably the better way to put that
Bhargo
we are just going to sit patiently and wait until one of his lunatics murders someone, then we will pretend it isnt exactly what they are trying to do and change nothing about how to combat these people
deaconshadow
If the big press outlets report on every right wing crackpot, the right wing will lose their fucking minds and attack the “liberal press” because of “bias” and those corporate puppets will be petrified into pretending you can be objective about fascists.
whitefoxkei
Man, Zod really let himself go
CallMeMcGyver
Yeah… upvote for the Zod reference I didn’t notice till you said it.
rubypilgrim
Find a politician you can support and volunteer to help their campaigns. Your involvement DOES matter. I worked the phone banks for Obama's first campaign. We were told not to mention the opposition's names, not to argue, just remember it's people like us we're calling, be genuine and respectful, and ask for their vote. You saw the result. We even had a guy phoning in bomb threats to the DNC office where I was working. He was dumb enough not to block his number - so we called him back -
rubypilgrim
and invited him over for pizza. He came over! Again, we didn't pitch him or argue, just hung out with some pizza and beer. He was lonely, and had been watching nothing but FOX News. A week later he was on the phones with us. People complained about all those calls, but they voted for Obama anyway - because Obama's campaign was the one that personally reached out to voters, and didn't give up on them. Get a pol like that in office!
psmith00
Civil War 2.0, Guerrilla phase, already underway and the first shots are coming from the RIGHT.
ToSisPoS
And the greycoats will all be blue this time.
GoodChange
How is trump not charged with incitement to violence for all his tweets, truth posts and speeches?
benjamindco24
He did recently say he's ok with possible jail time but the American people won't stand for it.
CaldariBob
A lifetime of all the privilege & leverage that daddy's money could buy.
CallMeMcGyver
…and don’t forget all the dirt the Russians have been accumulating on republicans since the the 90s… and all the favors they owe their oligarch masters… that buys a lot of “get outta jail free” cards… and don’t forget the Murdoch/Putin propaganda machine 24/7 brainwashing the brainless into believing he’s innocent.
RobBobertyYT
Money and the good guys play by the rules (well the better people try to follow some of the rules at least) which makes everything take forever.
DJOldguy
And why has there been so little mention of the producers of '2000 Mules' admission that they actually have no evidence of ballot box stuffing in Georgia?
CallMeMcGyver
This why we need to post articles that call attention to such matters… Mainstream media doesn’t care about democracy or anything but ratings… They worry about calling out people for being liars and fascists, while conservative propaganda just makes up lies and says they are the only ones to trust… if you fight back with feathers don’t expect the guy with the mallet to hold back.
Redyls
this is why we need to shut down propaganda sources like fox news. we need truth in media laws. just like we have for truth in advertising laws. this is only gonna escalate
forelle
For this to even have a chance of happening you need to get the one party that would maybe consider that a strong majority in both senate and house.
IAmGodot
I want you to think about who is currently in Congress, who is currently sitting on the Supreme Court, and who is currently campaigning for president in between court appearance. And now I want you ask yourself: Do you trust THOSE people to define what is or isn't the truth? Cause I certainly don't.
DVSBSTrD
But 2016 taught me that problems don't matter until you can blame them on a woman.
bertchstudio
In reality problems often don't get fixed until a woman feels empowered to change them
homoerection
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Iaimtomisbehave
We used to have them, Reagan and his sycophants did away with them for his good buddy Rupert Murdoch.
agonarch
There's still enough that it should've worked, but Fox has argued a few times "haha no it's fine we're just like war of the worlds, it's not real" in court and that's been OK for some reason.
They should be required to put a 'the following show is intended for entertainment only and isn't intended as a source of news' disclaimer like the 'this is a parody' disclaimers if that's the case IMO, but one of those protects people and the other business IP, so I can see why it's that way around.
Redyls
they also shouldnt be allowed to call them selves "news" at all in any way shape or form
Ffudmethen
The FBI is going to have a busy few months
CallMeMcGyver
It wouldn’t even take a law, all that’d be needed would be for cable and satellite providers to be responsible and refuse to carry conservative propaganda machines that are pushing violent rhetoric and blatant lies… but you know… money.
JellyChopper9
Yeah but have you ever horded resources? I hear it's twice as nice if a poor has to suffer./s
Greymalum
Yeah, but money.
VikingsAreNinjaPirates
Absolutely. Part of the problem is places like Fox News keep invoking the defense that they aren't news, they are opinion (in one case defending Tucker Carlson going so far as to basically say, "No one would be stupid enough to believe what we are saying are facts."). However, they use all the visual language of legitimate news (straight to camera talking, side-third graphics, news-crawl chyrons, etc.) and have the word "news" in their name. They need to get busted for deceptive practices.
bertchstudio
The onion has to clearly state it's satire online for this reason, ANY entertainment masquerading as news should have to do the same thing