#Finnerty

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ken Klippenstein:

Donald Trump’s incoming counterterrorism czar wants you to join the government’s war on terrorism. That’s the message he conveyed yesterday in a little-noticed interview following the reportedly ISIS-inspired vehicle ramming attack in New Orleans. The remarks paint an alarming picture of the incoming administration’s plans to take the war on terrorism to “the streets of America” — a war in which “you are the first responder,” as the Trump nominee put it. “You are on the front line of the war against global jihadism,” Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s incoming senior director for counterterrorism, told Newsmax. His rhetoric reminds me of the post-9/11 paranoia of the Bush administration, during which the national security state crept into American civic life in all sorts of ways that remain with us today. In much the same fashion, Gorka stressed that preventing terrorism is a responsibility you — not in the plural sense but you personally — share with even the elite operators like the Navy SEALs(!) As he told Newsmax:

[“You need to understand — every single one of our Newsmax viewers. You are on the front line of the war against global jihadism. It's not just our tier one operators. It's not just the guys at Dam Neck, the SEALs, or the guys over the wire at Bragg. You. You, like the people on Bourbon Street, are on the front line. So be aware. Keep your head on a swivel…it's not about warzones 8,000 miles away in Central Asia. It's about here on the streets of America. You are the first responder.”]

Several troubling implications arise from Gorka’s counter-terror vision. Deputizing ordinary people as volunteers for the national security state induces them to view the world through that framework, which just doesn’t map onto civic life. Should a teacher really adopt the worldview of a Navy SEAL? Also, Gorka’s rhetoric implies that terror attacks happen because the public wasn’t vigilant enough, rather than that our lavishly funded national security state failed to anticipate them. (There’s already plenty of signs that New Orleans authorities failed to properly deploy barriers that would have prevented the attack.) Gorka’s extreme views may well make him the most dangerous figure in the incoming Trump administration, as I’ve previously reported. While the major media have tended to obsess about Tulsi Gabbard and her supposed ties to the Russians (despite there being no hard evidence), Gorka has basically completely avoided scrutiny. Particularly alarming are his views on “radical Islamic terrorism,” a phrase he is fond of. When asked if Trump believes Islam is a religion, for instance, Gorka has repeatedly declined to answer. “Anybody who downplays the role of religious ideology,” Gorka said in 2017, “they are deleting reality to fit their own world.”

Rabid Islamophobe and soon-to-be former Newsmax host Sebastian Gorka went on Newsmax’s Finnerty Wednesday told Americans that “you are on the front line of the war against global jihadism.”

[punk-asskid]

if i had a nickel every time brennan played a character whos loyal to a fault and because of prior events see themselves as a monster which makes them feel that using great violence to protect their loved ones is the only way to justify their existence all while also heavily leaning into the guard dog motif id have two nickels

[johnnyspells]

"Hey, have a cigarette or something."

[utilitycaster]

[chaosgenasi]

I love you.

[isaacthedruid]

he’s back bitch

[yeehawpim]

meet you on the way out

hi candela ch2 finale gave me emotions and now I'm making it everyone's problem 😂

[killherfreakout]

i love her

[counterspelling]

Endless Candela Obscura

[t-hirstreview]

[5ftboy]

[cowgirls-blues]

... I'm smoking, and I'm moving around a baseball around in my hand. And I'm counting the stitches. 'Cause it's a Möbius loop, it's just one line of stitches, I'm counting - kind of like a rosary. "Take me out to the ball game..."

I'm watching Candela Obscura for the first time and my brain just went "hey what if we drew Sean with huge Ghibli tears wouldn't that be fun???

[johnnyspells]

"As you stare down at the road where the letter used to be, you feel blood pouring down your face. You feel pain in your shoulder. And just as quickly as it started, you're brought back and you're holding a letter unopened in your hands."

[bitchfitch]

Sean Finnerty for @dimension20stuff :}

[yummysweetroll]

Late-night studies in the Restricted Section.

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[chaosgenasi]

Know that I am working every day to leave this place so I can be with my boy again. I hope to be there to tuck you into bed again real soon. Until then, with all my love, Mom.