@Route10 When I was middle-school age my annoying brother would put on Apocalypse Now whenever I started trimming the tree to drown out any Christmas music

@DARSB1 A heart full of love she has.🙄

@Jadeabliss nop

@Treebugz She looks so perfectly happy.

While the focus of domestic extremists has changed since 2017, this tendency to underestimate them has not, We saw that on January sixth and during several recent tragedies. 8/8

"Others with whom Bundy has aligned himself include Gregory Burleson who was sentenced to 68 years in prison for threatening a federal law enforcement officer, obstruction of justice, and interstate travel in aid of extortion. He also has ties to Bill Keebler who has been charged with detonating a bomb at a BLM facility in Arizona. " 7/8

"Bundy has aligned himself at various times with anti-Muslim extremists such as Jon Ritzheimer, who has travelled cross-country to confront Muslims for practicing their faith and Blain Cooper (aka Stanly Hicks) who made one video where he “tore out pages of the Koran, wrapped them in bacon, threw them into an outdoor fire pit and then shot arrows at the Koran.” 6/

"Some articles have characterized the Bundys as part of the right-wing militia movement. It might be more accurate to say that he is willing to use the militia movement (and in turn be used by the militia movement) to further his goals. The disparate Bundy supporters vary from goat farmers to hardcore militia members. What they have in common is that they are tools in the Bundy self-declared war upon the federal government as embodied by the BLM." 5/

"The image of the cowboy that he and some of his followers have adopted gives a sense of naiveté that he does not, in fact, possess....

When Bundy organized a second confrontation on federal land at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon in 2016, many in law enforcement did take the threat seriously, but much of the general public found the group’s ineptitude and pleas for snacks funny rather than threatening." 4/

The Misleading Cowboy Persona
Ammon Bundy, like his father, has promoted a folksy, albeit at times cartoonish, image of the misunderstood cowboy fighting for rural America. Unlike his father, he has avoided the major slipups like Cliven Bundy’s ridiculous comments about the “negro.”
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"Federal officials who were vastly outgunned called off the roundup in order to prevent violence.

Ammon Bundy is a good representation of the kind of extremist threat that often gets overlooked or at least grossly underestimated by many in our society." ..."Why does Ammon Bundy not engender the same forceful negative reaction as others who encourage armed takeovers?" 2/

#rightwingextremists #politics Back in 2017, I wrote about how we should not underestimate the threat from #AmmonBundy and other #domesticExtremists. Since it is still true, I thought I'd share some of it. " in 2014, the Bundys, along with their armed supporters, prevented the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from rounding up Bundy cattle that were illegally grazing on federal land. This followed decades of legal wrangling to get Bundy to pay $1 million in grazing fees." 1/

@Martha I asked my brother how I was supposed to use this long spear he made to chip away at a gigantic icicle. He said, 'the same way you would flay the fat off a whale to make lamp fuel.' Yes, my mother birthed a 17th century whaler.

@DJNoneYa

I think it is more like this, https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/6ssaeTaiOlsXthBnmYHb

This is what the #aiart generator thinks mean as a snake looks like https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/6ssaeTaiOlsXthBnmYHb

Feeling mean as a snake tonight. Nope, no reason.

@Oma_Trisha great song

@jjmacnab I’d donate