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October 06, 2005

Liveblogging NYC Subway Threat

Confederate Yankee has been covering the coverage and has lots of links.

Meanwhile, of course, left-wing blogs "question the timing."

I really want these people to decide if terrorism is a real threat or a fictitious one. If it's the latter, don't blame Bush the next time terror strikes, as you are on record as deeming it a phantasmal fear. If it's the former, then shut the fuck up when prudent steps are taken to thwart potential attacks.

And of course Bush is willing to do more than gin up a phony terrorist threat to "divert attention" from... well, from whatever it is Democrats would rather be talking about at any particular time.

Case in point: a Daily Kos diarist informs you how to "protect yourselves" when the evil sadists (her words) in the Bush Administration start "lashing out" over the always-on-the-horizon indictment of Karl Rove.

How will Bush lash out? Why, he'll push the nuclear button, that's what he'll do.

I have worked with some sadistic patients. They feel empty inside and/or full of rage. They are certain they have been deprived of love and do not carry a fund of memories of being cared for inside them. They find ways to be with others - charm, but they often haven't a clue as to why people don't really like or trust them. Oh yes, they know how to exert power over people and keep them in their place. That is the essence of sadism - I am the master - you are the slave. Bush and Rove clearly deserve each other.
Why this matters now is the possible reaction of Bush to Fitzgerald's next serious move. My fear is that the inner emptiness in Bush will respond with absolute panic to the potential loss of Rove and his other pals. Panic in a sadist who believes in the apocalypse is something serious about which we all should be worried.

He could set off a nuclear holocaust. He could merely nuke Iran or North Korea (the latter is less likely for the moment). He will be drawn to do something to make him feel powerful and less humiliated. What can we do about it?

I am writing this diary because I think there is something we can and should be doing now before he is "compelled" to react to the worst news of his life.

We should be predicting his irrational destructive reaction to everyone. With any luck it will get back to him and his courtiers and could slow him down. Or at least some of his marginally sane advisors could slow him down.

Btw, I was worried about his creating a "terrorist attack" just before the election for the obvious reasons and was reassured to learn that the democratic leadership and Kerry campaign were well aware of that possibility and the repugs knew that he was being watched for any such dirty trick which reduced the likelihood of it happening.

In the same spirit, I think we should make sure that as many people as possible should be aware that a man with such a hair-trigger response to humiliation and who has his finger too close to the wrong buttons will be watched and prevented by saner minds from doing his best (which is unfortunately everybody else's worst.)

I liked it better the first time I heard this, when it was called The Dead Zone.

The Kosmonaut in question wants you to always remember we're dealing with fundamentally deranged people here.

Point. Well. Taken.

Thanks to cutaway for the last.

Oh... Remember the left going bananas over Bush's failure to imagine using aircraft as missiles?

They can't seem to imagine bombing a subway system, despite the fact that it happened in another major city, just three months ago.

posted by Ace at 07:33 PM

Comments

The missiles are flying. Hallelujah.

Actually, from what I remember of the book, at least, wasn't the scary-bad President more of a faux populist, like the bastard child of Howard Dean and Huey Long?

Posted by: Knemon on October 6, 2005 07:40 PM

All I remember is that he looked a lot like the cat from The West Wing.

Posted by: ace on October 6, 2005 07:47 PM

"I loved you in Wall Street!"

Posted by: Knemon on October 6, 2005 07:57 PM

Ace, did ya notice it wasa joint FBI-CIA team that brought these guys down?

So much for Jamie Gorelick's "wall of separation."

Posted by: Confederate Yankee on October 6, 2005 07:58 PM

Hot Shots Part Deux: Rowan Atkinson as you've never seen him before!

Posted by: Knemon on October 6, 2005 08:02 PM

I am writing this diary because I think there is something we can and should be doing now before he is "compelled" to react to the worst news of his life.
We should be predicting his irrational destructive reaction to everyone. With any luck it will get back to him and his courtiers and could slow him down.

This bit of paranoia and ridiculously hyper-inflated ego ("My Kos diary can so prevent Bu$hitler's nuclear holocaust!") is brought to you by someone who claims to have "worked with" mental patients in some sort of capacity.

Maybe the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.

Posted by: Sean M. on October 6, 2005 09:25 PM

I did computer support for a psychiatric hospital for 2 years- trust me, there is often a very fine line between the patients and the staff.

Posted by: KJ on October 6, 2005 09:48 PM

Yeah! Bring it down, bring it all down! Fiery death on us all!

Whew, I feel better.

Posted by: adolfo velasquez on October 6, 2005 10:24 PM

Sean M. nailed it: narcissism is unusually prevalent among the uber-virulent Left. Nothing matters but their political fetishes. They can't stand the idea that everyone else in the world isn't obsessing about the same infantile crap they mull over all day long. This loon won't rest until everyone is as agitated over Rove as she is.

Which, as Ace mentioned, explains why they think it matters if the media is "diverting attention" from their pet topics.

These nutjobs have always been out there. INTERNET brings them out from the musty crawlspaces of the world.

Posted by: Phinn on October 6, 2005 10:46 PM

Why aren't the MSM covering the Oklahoma suicide bomber?

Which reminds me: You know why Texas doesn't fall into the Gulf of Mexico?

'Cause OU sucks.

Posted by: Karl Maher on October 7, 2005 12:11 AM

"someone who claims to have 'worked with' mental patients in some sort of capacity"

Read the entry itself on the Kos site. The flake says he's a "psychoanalyst"!

He says, "We have no right to diagnose from afar but" he goes right ahead anyway.

Physician, heal thyself. If it isn't already too late, which is, unfortunately, all too likely..

Posted by: Jim C. on October 7, 2005 12:42 AM

The flake says he's a "psychoanalyst"!

Curiously, so am I.

My considered opinion on this - after weeks of research and exaustive testing of this person's responses and behaviors, under a myriad of different stimuli, is that they are in clinical terms: "a batshit fucking crazy loon".

Other colleagues differed in their assesments. One made a diagnosis of: "paranoid dipshit moron".

I'm going to stand by the "batshit fucking crazy loon" diagnosis.

Posted by: Purple Avenger on October 7, 2005 02:42 AM

Ace,

The comments here are why I keep reading you day after day. The only blogs with a real sense of humor. You guys make my day.

Can I get a diagnosis on this post? Please????

Subsunk

Posted by: Subsunk on October 7, 2005 08:49 AM

Note that the threat is supposed to be credible since details "slipped out" during the arrest of some AQ thugs in Baghdad. Slipped out my ass. "Kicked out" is more like it.

Posted by: spongeworthy on October 7, 2005 08:50 AM

Wasn't there OUTRAGE! on the part of the Left about Chertoff and Subways a while back.

iirc, Chertoff said something along the lines of 'We can't protect the entire subway system and, besides, there'd be many fewer casualties on a train bombing compared to an airplane , so we're putting our efforts into airline security'.

The Left then when batshit crazy. ... again.

Posted by: BumperStickerist on October 7, 2005 08:55 AM

spongeworthy, yeah, right after he slipped up he said "D'oh"!

in Farsi.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on October 7, 2005 08:59 AM

It's a pretty genius example of solipsism: Bush is always plotting, but because of us screeching, he will be restrained by his "courtiers" from acting. Therefore, any example of his NOT acting is due to our agitation, and since we're agitating, therefore, it's because of us that nothing has happened.

IOW, by our speculating that he'll do something, he won't do anything.

Posted by: Steve in Houston on October 7, 2005 12:28 PM

In a time of fear and uncertainty, it's reassuring to know that we have people like artebella at dailykos.com who can weigh in with level-headed, rational commentary dispensed from the steady, rock-solid foundation of psychoanalysis.

Truly, we are fortunate beyond measure to be blessed with the fruits of such wisdom.

Posted by: Majic on October 7, 2005 01:40 PM

Ace,
I'm a Dr.(MD);one of my brothers is a clinical pschologist(Ph.D).I mentioned to him how hard it is to know the qualifications of the people in the mental health field.He told me it's by design.The moonbat says he's a psychoanalyst,but there's nothing beyond that.I'd bet your left nut,he's not a psychiatrist.He's determinedly vague about his qualifications.It's a classic lefty ploy.

Posted by: corwin on October 8, 2005 07:41 AM

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"It's f**king f**ked."
-- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source"
Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

Only a cult does this.

Now they've lost 84%.

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If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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Reform are basically wiping Labour out in the North. It's not a defeat. It's not even a rout. Labour are simply ceasing to exist.

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Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party

STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98.
Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years.
Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.

Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that.
People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs.
Oh, and if Starmer loses about as badly as expected, Labour will toss him out of a window Braveheart style and replace him. He will announce he is resigning to spend more time with his Gay Ukrainian Male Prostitutes.

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