We’re getting used to it now

Even in our miserable and degraded age, how is this not a bigger story?

Federal prosecutors on Thursday said they plan to file felony charges against the man who was arrested last week with firearms in former President Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, neighborhood and accused of threatening several politicians.

Taylor Taranto, who had an open warrant for his arrest related to charges stemming from his involvement in the US Capitol riot, was arrested last week after claiming on an internet livestream the day before that he had a detonator. . .

The following day, on June 29, “former President Donald Trump posted what he claimed was the address of Former President Barack Obama on the social media platform Truth Social,” prosecutors wrote in their memo. “Taranto used his own Truth Social account to re-post the address. On Telegram, Taranto then stated, ‘We got these losers surrounded! See you in hell, Podesta’s and Obama’s.’”

“Shortly thereafter, Taranto again began live-streaming from his van on his YouTube channel. This time, Taranto was driving through the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington D.C.,” prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said Taranto parked his van and began walking around the neighborhood and that because of the “restricted nature of the residential area where Taranto was walking, United States Secret Service uniformed officers began monitoring Taranto almost immediately as soon as he began walking around and filming.”

Secret Service agents approached Taranto, prompting him to flee, according to the filing, but he was apprehended and arrested.

The government told the judge that among the items found in Taranto’s van were a “Smith and Wesson M&P Shield” and a “Ceska 9mm CZ Scorpion E3.” They also found “hundreds of rounds of nine-millimeter ammunition, a steering wheel lock, and a machete,” as well as signs, a mattress and other indications Taranto was living in the van.

So one former president of the United States posts the residential address of another former president of the United States, in the hope that someone in the army of heavily armed lunatics that constitute much of the former former president of the United States’s political base will undertake an assassination attempt against the latter former president of the United States.

I’m typing all this out because it seems completely insane on every level even, or especially, when it’s stated straightforwardly.

Note that it takes Even the Liberal CNN 14 paragraphs before it even mentions this particular little detail of the story!

I mean what can you even say at this point?