10-27-2018, 01:29 AM
Well, believing Donald Trump alone shows a 'lack of comprehension of reality'.
...It is best that elected officials not speculate publicly about criminal cases before some resolution (typically an arrest) occurs. Law enforcement nailed a suspect within three days of the first mailing of a bomb. I am glad that law enforcement got Sayoc fast, if only to stop him before he could send a deadly parcel that maimed or killed someone. Some right-wing talking heads suggested that it might be a false flag operation in which a Democrat might try to win unwarranted sympathy for his Party. Predicting such was at best a gamble of a guess. What difference would it have made if one of those pundits had been right, in view of the swift arrest of a suspect? Practically nothing. What does it mean now that such a theory is debunked? It looks bad.
...It is best that elected officials not speculate publicly about criminal cases before some resolution (typically an arrest) occurs. Law enforcement nailed a suspect within three days of the first mailing of a bomb. I am glad that law enforcement got Sayoc fast, if only to stop him before he could send a deadly parcel that maimed or killed someone. Some right-wing talking heads suggested that it might be a false flag operation in which a Democrat might try to win unwarranted sympathy for his Party. Predicting such was at best a gamble of a guess. What difference would it have made if one of those pundits had been right, in view of the swift arrest of a suspect? Practically nothing. What does it mean now that such a theory is debunked? It looks bad.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.