Blowing the bloody doors off

 OF COURSE it was terrorism.  It's not useful to distinguish between personal grievance and ideological program when trying to understand the thinking of a suicide bomber.  It's not significant (though gratifying) that he tried not to harm anyone else.  It's not important that he parked in front of AT&T rather than a library, a synagogue or the Grand Ole Opry.  And it doesn't matter that he didn't leave a hundred-page manifesto that anyone has yet found or deciphered.  If Anthony Warner just wanted to listen to Petula Clark and kill himself -- and who hasn't been there on Christmas morning? -- he could have parked his RV in the woods, injuring only trees and squirrels.  Several blocks of a major American city (and state capital) are now a blackened crime scene and lots of people were terrorized.  Reason not the need.  As Mr. Pierce observes, "Had Warner been a Black Lives Matter activist or a Muslim cleric, we would not be having these angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin discussions about who is or isn't a terrorist."  

You don't need a bomb or a gun to be a terrorist.  A few hours after Mr. Warner merged with the infinite, the Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court had to issue a statement condemning "threats of actual or proposed violence" against herself and others from citizens displeased by the court's recent ruling against another ludicrous Trump lawsuit.  In particular, Justices Dallet and Karofsky have been subjected to "a torrent of misogynistic and anti-Semitic messages."  Justice Brian Hagedorn, a Republican, was especially shocked to find himself accused of membership in the Chinese Communist Party.  I'm shocked that he's shocked.  This is your party's base, Mr. Justice.

In Prince William County, Virginia, a sheriff's deputy was fired for suggesting that the life of Chief Justice Roberts "needs to be shortened" after two more anti-Trump rulings.  (He claims his Parler account was hacked.)  He also proposes to kill nurses who administer vaccine, "the mentally ill," Barack Obama, you know, the usual.    

Louie Gohmert, one of the more creative crazy people, has sued Mike Pence in a Texas federal court, so expect another quick dismissal and more death threats.  The suit seeks to overturn the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and force Pence, who will preside on January 6 when the Senate confirms the Electoral College, to throw out electors from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and Michigan and appoint others who will do it to Louie's liking.  If nothing else, we are learning a lot about obscure laws.

If Gohmert v. Pence doesn't excite you, how about Geraldo Rivera rowing away from the Trumptanic?  The TV personality who wanted to name a vaccine in Trump's honor barely a month ago is now officially done with the "entitled frat boy" who no longer takes his calls, and with his "pathetic lawyer" Sidney Powell, too.  Could it get worse?

Apparently.

No, it's not photoshop, it's yesterday's Murdoch Post.  "Here's how to save your legacy," it says.  Oh, Rupert, the destruction of the democratic system is Trump's legacy, and history will record your role.  Why jump ship now?  Do as scores of real journalists have had to do and hire more bodyguards.  Let's hope the next Cesar Sayoc or Tony Warner doesn't find out where you live.