Thread by @kateneuropsych

SIGNS OF THE TIMES THREAD: Yup ongoing warning since 2004. This “plane” taking off with Trump HAD A DECADES LONG RUNWAY (backed by centuries of clothing changes and writing words on paper that provided no equality in practice or policy) ALL OF WHICH WAS ECLIPSED BY 9/11 & some
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https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1460721719539294211

might even argue given the reasons we got into t/Iraq/AFG/GWOT was not only b/c it corruptly suited Halliburton Cheney & Rumsfeld but that t/GWOT took t/heat off WS as an emerging domestic threat (see OK City, Ruby Ridge, WACO, formation of FBI DomTer Unit &
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their badass 2006 report which laid it all out cold to Congress & was promptly buried & tho subsequent reports were informative the DomTer Unit WOULD NEVER AGAIN BE AFFORDED THAT LEVEL OF CANDOR OUT IN T/OPEN!
Point being WP DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW & STILL DON'T. These folks are
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after all the same fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, sisters Wives that sit around the table with them come Thanksgiving and while their views were maybe considered crass, THIS IS AMERICA AND EVEN WHITE SUPREMACY GETS A VOICE; a declaration which in itself is full of
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White privilege and makes a mockery of what is actually meant by the first amendment (see incitement clause etc & see Af-Am from founding onward when agitating for Equality (not even genocide like WS) get labled Dom Terrorists. Further using the disclaimer "tho I may disagree
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w/their views, WS is just an opinion" DID US IN & IN MANY WAYS CONTINUES TO; not in t/least b/c in t/end WP are not t/targets & they benefit from the great American Faustian bargain they make w/WS Extremists which has always been to return to Status Quo White Supremacy
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