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Periscope up…

As I said in my last posting, I’ve been immersed in the latest Corrosive Knights novel and that’s why I haven’t been posting as much as I usually do of late.

But the events of the last day or so…

It’s disheartening, to say the least, even as it isn’t unexpected.  When you have someone sowing the seeds of anger as fervently as Donald Trump does, it shouldn’t be a surprise when some unknown -and deranged- person out there takes all that rhetoric to heart acts on it.

Thank the Gods no one has been injured yet it is terrifying to think that a series of what look like pipe bombs were floating around post offices and were delivered to various people who are on the so-called leader’s enemy list.

What’s even more depressing is that many of those right wing pundits who carry Trump’s water are so quick to label these terrorist attacks (and that’s what they are, even if none of the bombs so far went off and killed/injured someone) some kind of “false flag”, ie bogus operation intended to slap mud on them and their daily rants.

Actor James Woods, an actor who frankly I’ve enjoyed in many roles (though the movies I enjoyed him in appeared a very long time ago) has turned into one of those repellent angry right wing types.  Upon hearing the news that the Clintons, one of, if not the first family reported to have received these bombs, tweeted that the bomb sent to them was somehow “an obvious political stunt”.

Those last four words in quotes are actually from Mr. Woods, people.

He has since then deleted that tweet.  I guess once subsequent news reports revealed the Clintons were but one of many people to receive these terrorist bombs over the mail (this morning there’s breaking news that one of Robert DeNiro’s restaurants received such a device as well) there was no longer the possibility -even for someone as hog tied in right wing politics as he is- to still excuse this as a “political stunt”.

Maybe there’s hope for you yet, Mr. Woods, though I doubt it.

(You can read about Mr. Woods’ tweet about these mailed bombs here.  The article is by Aris Folley and found on TheHill.com)

Fun times we live in, eh?