I just recently saw a video shared of an extremist in Maine who attacked his wife, and then recorded himself during a prolonged shootout with the police.

Given that he finds it possible he may die in the next few hours, there’s a sort of honesty to his voice; and it’s scary to regard the sort of world he believes in, where vaccines are obviously “lethal”, etc. The one bit that stood out to me, and maybe not to himself, was his mentioning that he had been out of work for over a year. It’s quite possible any employers saw his violent habits and turned him away, but even if that’s a suitable explanation, it’s a heavy feeling of abandonment.

This is astounding.

I mean, not the Deepseek or jailing stuff. I mean a Senator actually proposing a law. I thought the way our government worked was, the annoying orange declares a vague uncited threat to be bad, and signs an executive order on it!