"lives w/mom, has no furniture"
That laconic notation on a bankruptcy filing from 2012 might have been the epitaph of Cesar Sayoc, Jr., who failed at everything -- school, work, crime -- until he was arrested this morning in south Florida and charged with sending bombs to people and organizations demonized by Donald Trump. What he had was a van covered in Trump stickers, in which he may have lived; a Twitter account because every lunatic does; and a lot of anger. He also had a record of violent crimes, including threatening to bomb things, domestic assault and theft, which means he was "in the system." After his fingerprints were recovered from one of the lethal packages, an investigation we were told might take months ended abruptly. What he apparently didn't have was a pair of latex gloves and the wit to make the packages look different: postal workers all over the country knew exactly what to look for, which enabled them to intercept three more addressed to Cory Booker, James Clapper and Kamala Harris.
In short, Sayoc -- who may be known to Facebook as the more glamorous "Cesar Randazzi" -- had what Stephen Robinson called "the will but not the talent" to commit mass murder. He may have fantasized about being Trump's knight-errant, carrying out the exploits that are maddeningly out of his reach. If Putin or Kim or Duterte wants an enemy of the people expunged, it is done; why shouldn't Trump have the same power? And if the legal and political structures of the United States, tottering but still in place, constrain him, I, Cesar, will step up. He has a place in Florida; so do I. He's a bankrupt; so am I. We're both Republicans! We can't spell! If I had been born rich, who knows? We're practically the same person.
Now that the MAGAbomber has been identified as Trump's biggest fan this side of Trump himself, and only the most deranged Rightzi can still yelp "False flag!" we can expect the story to change to "Nothing to see here, giant distraction from the important work of election-winning, move along, Cesar who?" But the rage and the hate haven't gone away -- as I type, Trump is stirring up more of it in Las Vegas, scene of our worst mass shooting. History has been changed by people just as insignificant and crack-brained as Sayoc: Guiteau, Czolgosz, Oswald, Ray, Sirhan, and that's just American history. The body politic is sick. It does no good to treat an ingrown toenail and ignore the malignant tumor in the brain.
In short, Sayoc -- who may be known to Facebook as the more glamorous "Cesar Randazzi" -- had what Stephen Robinson called "the will but not the talent" to commit mass murder. He may have fantasized about being Trump's knight-errant, carrying out the exploits that are maddeningly out of his reach. If Putin or Kim or Duterte wants an enemy of the people expunged, it is done; why shouldn't Trump have the same power? And if the legal and political structures of the United States, tottering but still in place, constrain him, I, Cesar, will step up. He has a place in Florida; so do I. He's a bankrupt; so am I. We're both Republicans! We can't spell! If I had been born rich, who knows? We're practically the same person.
Now that the MAGAbomber has been identified as Trump's biggest fan this side of Trump himself, and only the most deranged Rightzi can still yelp "False flag!" we can expect the story to change to "Nothing to see here, giant distraction from the important work of election-winning, move along, Cesar who?" But the rage and the hate haven't gone away -- as I type, Trump is stirring up more of it in Las Vegas, scene of our worst mass shooting. History has been changed by people just as insignificant and crack-brained as Sayoc: Guiteau, Czolgosz, Oswald, Ray, Sirhan, and that's just American history. The body politic is sick. It does no good to treat an ingrown toenail and ignore the malignant tumor in the brain.
posted by Buttermilk Sky at 5:20 PM
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A. J. Liebling said he had known a ballplayer who was proud that he knew how to spell "the name of the guy that assinated [sic[ McKinley." It's something.
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