About a year ago, an armed nutcase showed up outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house. Remember that? The guy was suicidal, angry about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and ready to take out some judges on his way out the door. It’s scary shit, no doubt, but, fortunately, the guy called the cops and turned himself in. And his gun was unloaded, but the situation was still scary,
For a couple of weeks, right-wing media and the GOP lost its goddamn mind. The Republican National Committee put out a statement calling the guy “The Democrat SCOTUS Assassin.” Fox “news” went batshit, with Jesse Watters who just asked questions about the clown’s intent, like “Do you think that idea just popped into his head? Or did the orders come all the way from the top?” On Newsmax (whose motto is: “Giving a handjob to crazy every night”), some host whose name no one will ever know wondered, “Are Americans right to question if [Nancy] Pelosi was actually hoping for or encouraging violence that could lead to Joe Biden appointing a new Supreme Court justice?” Other conservadrones said that the national media wasn’t spending enough time on the “horrific assassination attempt on Kavanaugh” (really? “Horrific”?) It didn’t matter that it was covered extensively everywhere. Republican officials blamed Chuck Schumer, who had said, “You will pay a price” over the Roe decision to the Supreme Court and to GOP members of Congress, meaning, clearly, you’ll face hell at the ballot box. Canadian citizen Rafael “Ted” Cruz, manly but fleeing Josh Hawley, and the corpse of Chuck Grassley all attacked Schumer and Democrats for the “assassination attempt.”
In other words, it was an occasion to pile on Democrats. Republicans are always good at making poisonous lemonade out of bullshit lemons. And this batch had the bonus effect of distracting from all the violence by right-wing nutcases who far outnumber the lefty ones.
So when we learned that Taylor Taranto, a QAnon-believing shit-for-brains who was already wanted for whatever he did at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was arrested on June 29 with weapons near former President Barack Obama’s house in DC, certainly it would be different. Certainly those same people who complained about an alleged lack of coverage of the incident with Kavanaugh would be eager to cover the Obama assassination attempt and Taranto’s desire to kill Jamie Raskin, Kevin McCarthy, and others. He was live streaming his search for tunnels in the neighborhood because QAnon morons think children are always being dragged into Democrats’ houses through tunnels so they can be eaten and raped. Probably not in that order. Probably. Taranto didn’t turn himself in. No, the cops found him and even chased him for a bit. Taranto is obviously insane, but he had two guns, a machete, and 400 rounds when he was caught. Crazy can still kill.
Then, it turns out that Donald Trump, on June 28, posted a 2017 garbage dump of a piece praising his first 100 days in office and it included the addresses of both Obama and his former chief of staff John Podesta. Taranto said he was targeting both of them. In fact, “Taranto reposted a Truth Social post from Trump containing what Trump claimed was Obama’s home address. In a post on Telegram, Taranto wrote: ‘We got these losers surrounded! See you in hell, Podesta’s and Obama’s.'” You got that? The wannabe killer is saying he got his intel from Trump.
So, tell me, where the fuck is the outrage from the right over this assassination attempt against a former President>
