(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . "in May you’re going to see some of the disciplinary hand of God come down upon those people" [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-12 One example from last year in terms of stochastic terrorism was the destruction of the Georgia Guidestones. A privately constructed monument ostensibly celebrating ideals championed by the right, the Stonehenge-esque structure was targeted rhetorically by conspiracy theorists and those associated with QAnon. Within a very short span of time, the Guidestones were targeted in real life, brought down by explosives, damaged so badly that they had to be demolished altogether. Later in the year, in the wake of Paul Pelosi’s attack, there seemed to be a ratcheting up of rhetoric from right-wing spokespeople. This came not from prominent politicians but persons more lateral to the movement. Charlie Kirk, for example, “joked” that some patriot should post bail for the assailant. Donald Trump, Jr., posted to Instagram a photo of mens’ underwear with a hammer strewn across. Taunting. But the tide turned when conservatives did not get the red wave that they had prophesied for weeks on end; and their followers, I’m sure, were dispirited. Momentum had died. Several things did happen in the interim, however. Elon Musk took over Twitter and became one of the most public proponents of conspiracy theories. Donald Trump announced his bid for office and then held an anti-Semitic Thanksgiving dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, for which he never paid any price; no Republican ever distanced themselves from him on that score. Kevin McCarthy elevated the MAGA caucus in his bid for apex power in the House. The GOP seemed to be settling back into a narrative of “Deep State” undermining and other nostrums (crime, immigration) related to their war on our culture. What’s happening now? In the wake of high-profile mass shootings, including several at colleges and elementary school (a Christian private academy, no less), Republicans have admitted that they mean to do nothing to rein in the proliferation of guns. They instead turned their ire immediately toward the trans community, with Tucker Carlson (just weeks after re-creating for his audience a fantasy version of January 6th) intoning that this is obviously no time to give up your AR-15. Marjorie Taylor Greene, true to her QAnon roots, said in an interview that Democrats were pedophiles, and 60 Minutes thought theirs was the platform by which to boost this message. And now Donald Trump has been indicted. It’s a five-alarm fire over in right-wing circles right now, and they are communicating to their audience the dire straits. The Lincoln Project drew up a compilation: Tucker Carlson: This is what it seems to be. It’s a political purge. Josh Hawley: This is burning down the rule of law. Lindsey Graham: This is going to destroy America. Donald Trump, Jr.: This is, like, communist-level shit. Madison Cawthorn: This is exactly like what happened during the fall of the Roman republic. Laura Ingraham: It’s like Stalin’s purges. Lindsey Graham: This is literally legal voodoo. Glenn Beck: The Bill of Rights is gone. ✂️ Charlie Kirk: We must make them pay a price. Glenn Beck: They’ve wanted violence from the Right from the beginning. Alex Jones: This is the season of them staging terror attacks and blaming it on Trump supporters. Dan Bongino: I mean, we’re in a police state. I’m not even arguing this. ✂️ Tucker Carlson: This is too great an assault on our system, much greater than anything we saw on January 6th. Josh Hawley: They will regret doing this. Tucker Carlson: What you’re seeing now is lawlessness, and the question is, “Who can stop it?” That gives you a sampling of how widespread this outrage is playing, and in what tones. Other voices have joined the fray. Charlie Kirk just this week said that gun violence is the price we’re obligated to pay for the freedom to possess guns: (cue to 1:24) Kirk: The Second Amendment protects all of the other amendments. That’s a fact. And there is a cost to any form of liberty. That’s a fact. If you have cars, you get 50,000 auto fatalities every single year. If you have planes, you’re going to have some planes crash. If you have the Open Skies Act, you’re going to have a bad pilot. You have pools, unfortunately you have kids wander into the pool and they die of suffocation. Happens far too often in Arizona. You have peanuts, people could eating alone in their home and they could choke to death. You get the point. Liberty has some costs. But yes, liberty is worth it. And I say that because we live under this delusion that somehow we can get gun deaths down to zero. So if you come from the premise that we’re going to have an armed citizenry, you’re going to have a cost. Lance Wallnau—megachurch pastor with an unhealthy obsession with Trump, an advocate of the Seven Mountains doctrine—now is prophesying that, in May, God will start killing lots of people. (cue to 1:34) Wallnau: Satan’s whole Antichrist activity is him trying to consolidate control, because he knows he’s about to lose everything. So you have to really reinterpret what’s going on in the news. Watching what’s happening with Donald Trump, as we’re praying into that. I believe this is the time. Maybe the election wasn’t the time. But this is the time for the imprecatory prayers that would be answered, which is going to be, “May they fall into the pit that they have dug.” Now what would that look like? Well, it could be that there’s such an outrageous backlash over the clear political persecution of an innocent, uh, political candidate that we’re really becoming like a Venezuela or a Soviet Union where we find a crime to put, to lock up or assassinate our political rivals. The American people won’t put up with it. Now that the elites in Washington, well, they shrug their shoulders. They’re half happy that this is happening. But I’ve been listening to prophecies lately about sudden deaths. And it looks to me like there could be some sudden deaths coming in May. And in May you’re going to see some of the disciplinary hand of God come down upon those people that have been standing in the path of what He wants to do. I’m not talking about Democrats only. We have Republicans also. This hearkens back to the ReAwaken America tour, where Julie Green, another Trumpified prophet, laid out a roster of people on God’s hit list, including some in the GOP. Does this mean anything? No one can say for sure. And that’s the whole point. They’re not directing anyone to commit acts of violence. They’re merely using the rhetoric of white-hot anger to rile up their base and to imply that what they’re witnessing is the end of the world, and that God will strike down the troublemakers thwarting His will. Plausible deniability. This is where we are. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/12/2163421/--in-May-you-re-going-to-see-some-of-the-disciplinary-hand-of-God-come-down-upon-those-people Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/