Thursday Reads

The U.S. military has a lot of problems, but now it appears to be infested with the extreme/fascistic right's boogaloo horseshit.

Because the military is an authoritarian institution, it naturally breeds a lot of these wingnuts, but these boogaloo types are beyond the pale.

Meanwhile, there’s growing concern among intelligence officials about the public-safety risk posed by the boogaloo movement. In late May, the Department of Homeland Security warned law enforcement around the country that “anarchist and militia extremists” could try to exploit the protests against police brutality with the goal of sparking the “boogaloo,” Politico reported.

In early June, the FBI arrested three “Boogaloo Bois” — an army reservist, a Navy veteran, and an Air Force veteran — for allegedly planning to throw explosives into a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas to sow confusion and chaos.

On June 15, authorities issued an intelligence assessment warning that “violent adherents of the boogaloo ideology” could target Washington D.C. due to the “significant presence of U.S. law enforcement entities.”

Of course, Trump will do little to denounce these idiots.  They make up much if not most of his base.
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Trump predicts Joe Biden will be the next president.

"He's gonna be your president because some people don't love me, maybe" -- Trump sure sounds resigned to losing to Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/UQTrzJVSXR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2020

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