I'm doubting it:

1. human remains found in wreckage
2. No BOLO
3. Not telling the public to be alert, look for this guy, or call the police if you see him
4. They quietly searched his residence today, without SWAT or fanfare
5. They have said there is no further danger, a very risky thing to say if your perp is still alive (unless he's in custody)

Depending on the motive, some of these types of individuals really do

want credit for what they've done and they foreshadow it on social media somewhere. I'm beginning to think the "shots fired" was so that somebody could see and appreciate their work before the bomb exploded. "Hey, somebody come and see what I've done before this baby blows."

Also, we have the rumor about human remains possibly being discovered. There's the possibility that this was a grandiose suicide. Let's see, too, if the person/s responsible left a "manifesto".

Um, I guess so. Like, in the same way that "Lethal Weapon" is a Christmas movie?

December - Collective Soul

The Origins of World War I (Yale lecture)

A basic but fascinating introduction to the decades leading up to WWI. The professor explains that most Europeans had "expected" a war for the preceding two or three decades, but predicted a war between Britain and France. This fear was so endemic it spawned a genre of horror/sci-fi type novels predicting a fantastical invasion of Britain by France. Brits feared they were underprepared for a war they felt was inevitable. Throughout this period tensions rose as Germany rattled its sabers, and unlikely alliances formed, first between France and Russia, then between France and Britain. Russia was anxious about Austria-Hungary. Ethnic and nationalistic tensions, economic competition and also old resentments, figured into the toxic mix. As for Germany, Germany believed they had two weeks to conquer France before Russia would leap in (something they wanted to avoid), foreshadowing the same bizarre and unrealistic calculations that Hitler would later demonstrate in WW2.

I hope he tries #3. It's one thing to play rope-a-dope when you're the president

of the United States, but he won't be able to ignore subpoenas and delay document disgorgement forever as a citizen. I think he will have trouble finding serious lawyers to even take his cases. Unfortunately, he will have a war chest, but he's got severe financial problems around the corner.

EDIT:

I guess I'm in the minority in that I don't believe Pence will run for president. I see him going straight to the Christian Nationalists, where he is idolized.

"Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness

that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3 of your people while 1/3 watches." - Werner Herzog

https://twitter.com/RK_Hayes/status/1341468156745842688

That's right.

Also, the French invasion was the height of his popularity in Germany. It was all downhill after this.

EDIT: My favorite part of WW2 to read about is that last part, "The Downfall." Although to be honest it's scary as hell how he mentally deteriorated while trying to run the war, at the same time he was militarily incompetent, and lashing out at the German people for failing him. He turned against nearly everybody at the very end. And it was a living hell for the people still in the concentration camps.

We need to make room for AOC and others like her.

She is capable of doing that elusive, ephemeral thing Masha Gessen keeps saying Democrats need to do in order to ensure our own survival: speak to people in a new language of aspiration.

And I'm betting Ezra Klein would agree.

We need people to identify with our party the way Republicans identify with their "party" and the way blue collar and working people used to identify with the Democratic party. (i.e., if you were in a union, who else would you vote for?) It goes beyond policy, but it doesn't exclude policy.

I think the reason Dr. Fauci is urging us not to "overreact" is in part because

COVID mutates into new variants once or twice every 4 weeks.

Back during the summer we (here in the U.S.) had a variant that made COVID more transmissible.

COVID-19 Update: Coronavirus is Mutating and Becoming More Contagious; CDC Now Projects Up to 226,000 Deaths by mid-October; ; and More

https://www.docwirenews.com/docwire-pick/covid-19-update-coronavirus-is-mutating-and-becoming-more-contagious-cdc-now-projects-up-to-226000-deaths-by-mid-october-and-more/

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