A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
The police named 62-year-old Frank R. James as a “person of interest” in the case.
Just check the local MAGA bar for the subway shooter.
about those gooper Qanon candidates
despite the movement’s penchant for lies and violence, key Republicans — from influential megadonors to prominent elected officials — are welcoming the QAnon movement into the party, Grid found. In sum: QAnon appears to be a growing political movement with increasing clout and significant mainstream appeal.
Arizona has the most Qanon candidates with 13 followed closely by Florida with 12. There’s a sickness in our society being fed by an immoral political cult and our greed-consumed corporate media.
It seems Youngkin is all in on pissing off voters. I guess the fear of cooties is something he never grew out of.
Here is what’s next for us. They just get more silly all the time.
“The party has, in many ways, moved beyond what we think of as traditional conservative policies,” said Will Sommer, a politics reporter who has written a forthcoming book about QAnon. “Certainly, I think people in Congress still want to cut taxes. But that doesn’t really seem to get a lot of the grassroots riled up.”
Maybe the grassroots don’t get riled up over tax cuts but they never seem to get the advantage of said tax cuts.
I doubt that he’s a MAGA type. This guy has mental health issues. They are well known.
“I have been in crisis, as a patient. I have a diagnosis that goes back to 1980, and I have been in crisis. I have acted out, so to speak, to the point where I had to be locked up because I was using illegal narcotics, I’ll just say.” James adds that he hasn’t “had an episode since that time.”
James also notes that he has spent time in the city’s mental health day treatment centers, stating that those places are filled with “violence, not physical violence, but the same kind of violence that’s similar to what a child may experience in grade school.” He then goes on to describe a situation in which “people keep talking and picking, picking, picking to the point where they go and get a gun and shoot motherfuckers. That kind of violence.”
Looks like this guy took his name Frank James, to heart.
Those suffering from bipolarism (not saying he is bipolar, but it’s possible) do have those moments of clarity where they can identify and realize and communicate that they know something isn’t right, but don’t have the tools to fix it. Sounds like that statement from him is part of a clarity moment.
MAGAs can Qrazy if they want to, and likely will. It isn’t what they need. It isn’t what anybody needs.
Sigh I do hate being pushed into seeming to defend the “corporate” media when they’re used as a universal whipping boy and suggested as the cause or contributor to every societal ill, but a thing like Qanon is a creature of social media. I will bet you a thousand dollars that you could make a list of all the mainstream media figures you hate and not one of them has sat down in front of a camera or a keyboard and ever once suggested that Donald Trump is leading a secret movement fighting liberal pedophiles who drink blood yadda yadda. Not once ever. Social media, where there are few or no gatekeepers, are the main cause of this phenomenon. There are other factors in play, and FOX and the others like Limbaugh and Beck helped make the world safe for wild, outrageous conspiracy theories, but you can’t put this one on the “corporate” media, the main problem of which is not ownership but a general and profound mediocrity.
A question:
If so few are following social media (as has been suggested), then how do we know about all these ‘social media’ groups and the philosophy they espouse? Are not the late Limbaugh, not so late Beck and Alex Jones still getting a megaphone through corporate media to shill their QAnon nonsense? Someone’s paying for their toxins. There’s at least one story on TPM a day that references some QAnon idiot. If corporate media isn’t responsible at least in some part, then how do we know so much about them?
Shout out to Ronald Reagan for emptying out mental health facilities and sending so many out to fend for themselves on the streets … nothing says American individualism like telling people trapped in a mental health twilight zone to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and get their shit together!
Except it is by no means, silly. It’s f’kin dangerous as hell.
I always knew you were an asshole. It started at Raw Story years ago. Anyways, see ya in the movies.
Back up. Who ever suggested that few are following social media? Where did that come from? Billions follow social media. Secondly, I said in what I thought was a fairly clear way that Qanon did not emerge from mainstream people, Chuck Todd, say, lending it credence. It just didn’t. Stuff like that used to be spread by mimeographed newsletters; today it goes reverberating out on massive social media platforms. Your attempt to suggest, with no evidence, that “corporate” or mainstream media must be partly to blame somehow is laudable for the dogged determination you show but less so for being in any way true.
That didn’t start with St. Ronnie.
My late mother was an RN at the big hospital in my hometown until she retired in 1976. The hospital had a locked ward and an unlocked ward for mental health issues (A-1 North - locked - and A-1 South - unlocked).
There was a head of psychiatry in the 60s or 70s there, can’t remember which, who decided that there should be no more locked wards. My mother said she challenged him for who was going to be chasing down escaped patients with their open-backed gowns floating in the breeze while they ran. The guy had no answer for her.
For the record, she often did supper relief for the nursing staff in that section of the building, so she knew first-hand, but limited, what happened in these wards.
Were she alive today, she wouldn’t be at all surprised where we are today.
Feel free to disagree. I won’t be offended.
Strenuously. 
