The FBI said that he had declared he wanted to call attention to the “war between the believers and the disbelievers.”
“Rally around the Trump, Musk, Kennedy, and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans!”
Just below that “Secret Radicalization” headline on its homepage, the Times had a story about what apparently brought Livelsberger to Las Vegas: “Soldier’s Struggles Began Long Before Las Vegas Blast, Nurse Says.”
Those people were plain crazy, and Trump was talking about the People’s Republic of China, not anyone in America.
A president who tried to overthrow the constitution must have been too sick in the head to really be president.
About Jan. 1. Using a rented truck to carry out a sensational act of violence in a prominent location in a popular tourist destination, two different American-born veterans of the occupation of Afghanistan perished. After allegedly swearing allegiance to ISIS, Shamsud-Din Jabbar allegedly drove through a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more before being shot and killed by police. His goal was to draw attention to the “war between the believers and the disbelievers,” according to the FBI. “,”.
As he set a load of fireworks and other flammable materials on fire in a Tesla Cybertruck outside the doors of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas a few hours later, Matthew Livelsberger, an active-duty Green Beret, reportedly shot himself in the head, leaving seven other people with minor injuries. Livelsberger’s “stunt with fireworks and explosives” was described as “a wake up call” to the nation in the text messages that investigators made public from his phone. “For all Americans, rally around Trump, Musk, and Kennedy, and ride this wave to the highest hegemony!” he wrote.
The New York Times published several pieces regarding the perilous global ideological impact of ISIS in reaction to Jabbar’s attack, including “Amid New Orleans Attack, Telltale Signs of Islamic State’s Brutal Legacy,” “How the Islamic State Radicalizes People Today,” and “‘I Joined ISIS’: The New Orleans Attacker’s Secret Radicalization.”. Investigators concluded that Jabbar had acted alone and that his pledge to ISIS seemed to be strictly one-way, with no known connection to any of the group’s affiliates, but the pieces continued to come in.
The Times featured an article about what reportedly led Livelsberger to Las Vegas, just beneath that headline about “Secret Radicalization”: “Soldier’s Struggles Began Long Before Las Vegas Blast, Nurse Says.”. The day before, a different story about his messages was published with the headline, “Soldier in Tesla Blast Had PTSD and Feared U. S. The reader had to read “‘Collapse,’ Officials Say” two-thirds of the way through, past Livelsberger’s statements that “our soldiers are done fighting wars without end states or clear objectives” and that he “needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took,” before he could get to the section where he concluded that people should “try peaceful means first but be prepared to fight” in order to remove Democrats from the federal government. “..”.
Long before they rented their trucks, Jabbar and Livelsberger were both reportedly displaying signs of instability, with the kind of turbulent personal lives that nearly always appear in the backstory of violent public acts. A lesson on the threat of ideological radicalization was only given to one of them after his disturbance.
This was inevitably influenced by the fact that Livelsberger was white and Jabbar was Black. However, there were less sinister explanations for each crime’s distinct media coverage. Even if a suicide involves explosives and arson, a mass murder is a more serious crime. The Times, in particular, saw Livelsberger as just another case to fit into its grand investigative theory about the enormous hidden toll of traumatic brain injury, which now affects everyone from Top Gun pilots to young football players.
But underlying all of the justifications and explanations was the well-known reality that the American media would prefer to blame violence on ISIS’s influence than Donald Trump’s. ISIS is a foreign organization that conforms to the widely accepted definition of “terrorism.” More importantly, ISIS is not expected to take the oath of office as president in two weeks.
What was remarkable about Livelsberger’s writing was how commonplace it sounded. Trump’s primary campaign message, “We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist! But right now we are terminally ill and headed toward collapse,” was featured on the cover of one of the two statements that officials released. The typical doomer and/or influencer populism that fuels the Trump movement and that Elon Musk repurposed Twitter to focus on and magnify was what ensued.
Livelsberger stated, “The top one percent made the decision long ago that they would not bring everyone else along.”. “To them, you are like cattle. Additionally: “Many of us are merely waiting to pass away.”. No fresh air, no sunlight, no steps, and no hope. Our kids are dependent on screens by the time they are two years old. We are consuming a lot of processed foods. Additionally: “Pay attention to winning and strength. Men need to be leaders, and masculinity is a virtue. Fear is the product, and strength serves as a deterrent. “We are done with the blatant corruption,” he said, criticizing homelessness and calling DEI a “cancer” while supporting Donald Trump. “..”.
His other message, in a slightly different key—the apocalyptic operator key of Steve Bannon and the Jan’s most militant members—was equally familiar. 6. The Capitol attack.
Veterans and military personnel are moving to Washington, DC, immediately. Militias support and enhance this endeavor.
The hundreds of thousands should occupy the campus of Fed buildings and all major roads along the Fed buildings.
Once everyone is inside, use semis to lock down the highways. Wait until the purge is finished.
Be ready to fight to remove the Democrats from the federal government and military by any means necessary, but first try peaceful methods. To keep our nation from collapsing, they must all leave and a complete reset must take place.
Yes, was this the voice of someone with a mental illness? Furthermore, it is undeniably true that it was the tone of the ruling Republican Party faction.
The media and politicians who are not Trump supporters have been obsessed with the notion that mental illness and political beliefs must be distinct from one another and that one should never be held responsible for the other during the Trump administration. It is not indicative of the broader political climate when someone mails pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and the media, or when someone chases and attempts to strangle a non-white person while yelling, “This is Trump’s America now!”. During the peak of Trump’s delusions about the “Wuhan flu” and the “Chinnnnna virus,” insane street people began punching Asian American bystanders, which was impossible to be related to the president. Those individuals were utterly insane, and Trump was referring to the People’s Republic of China rather than any American.
In her disastrous gambit following the Capitol attack, Nancy Pelosi urged Trump’s cabinet to declare him mentally unfit and remove him under the 25th amendment, instead of having the House impeach him immediately. This was the most ridiculous example of the reflex to separate politics from insanity. A president must have been too mentally ill to serve as president if they attempted to overturn the constitution. Trump threatened the Republicans back in line during the time Pelosi squandered and managed to get away with it without damaging his career.
Two years later, a Trump supporter, motivated by a deep MAGA conspiracy theory, broke into Pelosi’s home and used a hammer to smash her husband’s head. That individual was undoubtedly out of touch with reality, but that didn’t diminish his support for Trump. Trump himself included the attack into his crowd-pleasing rally routine because he thought it was funny enough.
Trump addressed a boisterous assembly of California Republicans at a state party convention, saying, “We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco—how’s her husband doing, anybody know?”. Additionally, despite having a wall around her home that clearly didn’t work very well, she opposes the construction of a wall at our border. “,”.
In these conditions, what does responsibility mean? Or sanity? The president-elect only engages in fantasy, paranoia, and confusion. The organizing principle of the incoming government is the readiness to accept his message, or at the very least, to declare it. He and the leaders of his party employ the same rhetoric as mass murderers.
Even if Livelsberger had PTSD—or even the traumatic brain injury the Times is speculating about—the political movement he backed continued to influence his violent and destructive tendencies. According to law enforcement, nothing he said was outside the bounds of the MAGA coalition; his incoherence was no worse than that of the man he hailed as a “real President.”. His claim that it was “not a terrorist attack” to set off a truckload of fireworks and combustible materials in front of a hotel that was occupied was neatly consistent with Trump’s speech on January 1. 6. Insisting that the mass disruption be carried out “peacefully and patriotically,” he told his audience that they had a constitutional obligation to march on the Capital and “stop the steal,” as well as to “fight like hell”. “..”.
The Trump administration, both past and present, is the product of a system that was developed over many years to incite people’s rage and fear through a series of political narratives. A part of the machine’s operators merely want the fear and rage to be directed at people who vote for representatives who will lower top tax rates, purchase supplements and other scams, post sludge to keep the fear and rage going, and harass officials at school board meetings. Yet, an increasing number of them—apparently including the president-elect—either believe it or have lost the ability to differentiate it from other, more verifiable worldviews. If some members of their audience become even more motivated and take action, none of them gives a damn. It has been reported that Trump is about to pardon a large number of his peaceful and patriotic supporters, four years after they gassed and clubbed police to force their way into the Capitol.
“Americans,” Livelsberger wrote, “only take in spectacle and violence.”. “.”.
