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CA Tesla Kills Two, Including Right-Wing J6er

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Police say excessive speed was related to a Tesla failing to handle a curve in the road, killing its passengers.

“A Tesla was traveling westbound on Copper at a high rate of speed, failed to negotiate a turn in the roadway, struck the center median guardrail, overturned and then came to rest on another guardrail in the center median,” says CHP Sgt. Bryan Hunt. Two of the three people were thrown from the vehicle. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

Update: Fresno news mentions the deceased Tesla driver was an anti-vaccine (“anti-shelter“) right-wing political agitator connected with the J6 treasonous insurrection.

History, Security

Trump Invokes 1868 Seymour Presidential Campaign KKK Tactics With “Bloodbath” Threat to America

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The threat of a “bloodbath” if Americans don’t vote for a white supremacist is something right out of the history books. This sort of domestic terrorism as a campaign platform sounds like Horatio Seymour in 1868:

In Ohio campaign rally, Trump says there will be a “bloodbath” if he loses November election

Or as the Washington Post put it in modern context…

Notably, Seymour put up campaign ads like this one illustrating how Americans would be lynched if they dared to vote against him.

Source: Encyclopedia of Alabama, 1 Sept 1868 Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor. The KKK threatened that March 4, 1869 — first day of rule by avowed racist Horatio Seymour — would bring lynchings of white Americans (“scalawags” and “carpetbaggers”).

Indeed, in 1869 “First-Class Men” tried to torture and murder a congressman because he had voted against Seymour in the Presidential election.

Colby: On the 29th of October 1869, [the KKK] broke my door open, took me out of bed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead. They said to me, “Do you think you will ever vote another damned Radical ticket?” I said, “If there was an election tomorrow, I would vote the Radical ticket.” They set in and whipped me a thousand licks more, with sticks and straps that had buckles on the ends of them.

It was bad, really really bad, as the author of “Klan War” explained. The “bloodbath” tactic what Trump is invoking again as a shout-out to American history:

“[The organized terror movement after Civil War] stock-in-trade was violence – intimidation and violence. People were beaten, people were flogged, people were lynched, people were shot. People’s homes were raided, they were dragged outdoors and flogged in the streets.” And, he says, the violence often included “truly horrifying sadism”.

What was Seymour’s actual campaign slogan?

After President Grant crushed the KKK political platform, it rebranded itself a Christian nationalist “America First” platform

Another political cartoon, using clever puns, attempts to make light of threats from the KKK and foreshadows its use of prohibition to criminalize Black and Catholic voters (portraying anti-racists as radicals drunk on the “bottle”).

Print by Brown & Barrett, 65 8th Ave. N.Y. [1868]. Source: Library of Congress

Far too few Americans realize that the 2024 racist “America First” campaign is literally a throw-back to the horrible KKK and a Seymour ticket all over again.

If Trump Gets Convicted, Blame Ulysses S. Grant

“America First” since the late 1800s has been a known violent nativist/racist political campaign slogan, yet it persists.

We can thank Grant (easily the best American General and President in history) for creating National Parks, the Department of Justice, Civil Rights and defeating domestic terrorists like the KKK… perhaps yet again.

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CA Tesla Kills One, Injures Seven Including Four Children

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Source: KCAL

A pickup appears to have rolled multiple times, before it ended up on the hood of a Tesla.

Five people were hospitalized following the crash, all of which are said to be in serious-to-critical condition. The victims include four boys aged 3 months, 6, 7 and 10, as well as one 29-year-old woman. A man, who has not yet been identified, was declared dead at the scene.

I’m reminded of the Tesla that “veered” into a Suburban, killing several members of a family and injuring the rest.

Two girls and a woman were killed and three other children and a teenager suffered major injuries Sunday morning…

In other words, the erratic and explosive Tesla design has made roads significantly less safe for families with young children.

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Six Years in Jail: TX Gun-Hoarding Anti-Government Extremist Sentenced for Arson Destroying Dozens of Cell Towers

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For a whole year some guy was running around San Antonio, Texas burning down dozens of cell towers. And nobody figured it out to stop him after the fourth, fifth, sixth… time? All that talk about a wall seems cheap when Texas can’t seem to keep a door closed.

And then to top it off it was a “witness” and an “accomplice” who finally turned him in? Either this criminal mastermind wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, or Texas was too busy being tough on innocent immigrants to notice the domestic terrorist destroying critical infrastructure over and over and over again.

Coley Lane Dupre was 19 at the time when she said she was Sean Smith’s lookout as he entered a cell site dressed as a construction worker. When she was identified on a surveillance photo, she confirmed to authorities that Smith was the arsonist.

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“Witnesses reported the defendant was on a ‘mission’ [April 2021 to May 2022] to destroy the 5G towers because he hated the Government and believed they were spying on him,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Roomberg wrote in a sentencing memorandum.

“The SAFD arson investigator’s expert opinion is the modus operandi of the other 16 cellular tower arsons match the six towers for which the Defendant pled guilty and that the same person committed all 22 arsons,” said Roomberg.

A bonfire party at a cell tower twice a month for a whole year where it reads like he wore the same disguise (orange shirt and white hard hat), used the same accomplice and methods? Seriously, how did this guy not get caught and exposed after the first or second time?

He was just sentenced a couple months ago to 78 months on his guilty plea. Notably he’s already a felon who has been in jail before.

The 30-year-old was arrested during a traffic stop on May 13, 2022, during which law enforcement officers located a handgun on the floorboard in front of the driver’s seat. Investigators executed a search warrant for Smith’s apartment on May 15, 2022, and found additional firearms. Smith had previously been convicted of possessing firearms on two occasions, serving more than a year imprisonment on each.

The seemingly lax response to arson by this guy reminds me of a Texas musician from back in 1991 who sang about it as a hobby…

But seriously, this seems to be a case of an American idiot who was easily duped by Russian propaganda.

…RT’s disinformation campaign against 5G – seemingly created to hinder the global roll-out of the technology so Russia can catch up – has since spread to a network of blogs and social media accounts, where it has been decoupled from Moscow’s propaganda firehose. […] In a Facebook post on March 30, the attorney and anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former US president John F. Kennedy, also shared the conspiracy theory linking 5G to coronavirus. Global lockdown, he said, was stopping people from protesting to prevent “5G robber barons from microwaving our country and destroying nature”.

Oh, the irony of instigating bored Texas gun-nuts to light cell towers on fire by convincing them that it somehow will preserve nature. That’s Russian humor for you.

In actual fact, Russia’s disinformation campaign to hinder the 5G rollout in the West proved so effective that starting April 2020 nearly 80 towers were burned in the UK.

Tough talkin’ Texas (known for generating the phrase all hat no cattle) clearly missed the security memo.