And that’s my point. These people have never thought there might be a legitimate basis for something they’ve been told/conditioned to hate. But now they know, and their “outrage” has been tempered.

Trump supporters know there’s an investigation accusing Trump of “collusion” with Russia by a guy named “Mueller”. But they also know: “there’s no such crime as collusion. So what’s the point of the investigation?” Beyond that, they don’t know ANY of the details. “Manafort who?” Mike Flynn? Michael “The Rat” Cohen maybe (now). If they’ve even heard of “George Papadopoulis” or “Maria Butina”, I’d be stunned. They are SO uninformed, they are going to be overwhelmed by the tidal wave of criminal investigations that’ll hit them next year. And because they are already convinced Trump is “the most successful president since Ronald Reagan” (if you believe everything Trump says), it’s all going to seem like a litany of fabricated “scandals” invented by Democrats desperate to derail Trump’s “amazingly successful presidency”.

No one is out there preparing them for what’s coming. And anytime you dump a truckload of anything on someone who’s not prepared for it, the backlash is going to be angry, extreme (and considering the demographic) violent.

Prepare.

Boris Johnson has been cleared of breaching the Conservative Party’s code of conduct by comparing veiled Muslim women to letter boxes and bank robbers.

An independent panel decided the former foreign secretary was “respectful and tolerant” and was entitled to use “satire” in his newspaper column in August.

A police department calling on God to fight crime instead of relying in their own capabilities isn’t a very good look.

In a letter to Opp Chief of Police Michael McDonald, the Freedom from Religion Foundation called on the department to retract the portion of the post that links secularism to murder and Satanism.

The department’s promotion and rejection of specific religious beliefs — turning toward “GOD” and away from “SATAN” — is illegal. Our Constitution’s Establishment Clause, which protects all Americans’ religious freedom by ensuring the continued separation of religion and government, dictates that the government cannot in any way endorse religion. Encouraging readers to “ASK FOR GOD’S HELP” on the official department Facebook page violates the department’s obligation under the Constitution as a government entity. We ask that the department edit the post to remove that message and refrain from posting religious messages in the future.

With the deletion of the post, the department seems to have gotten the message. But this isn’t the first time they included a religious theme in posts on their official page. Numerous past posts show the department calling on God to “bless” and “protect” its city’s citizens.

“I believe that this is God’s country and I believe that Donald Trump is the man that he has chosen at this time,” Mitchell said. “Look back throughout the Bible. Donald Trump is exactly the kind of man that God has picked throughout time. Why? Why would God pick the Abrahams? Why would he pick the Davids? Why would he pick the Samsons? Why would he pick the Solomons? Why would he pick the Pauls, who was Saul and used to murder Christians and ended up writing about half of the New Testament?”
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“It’s like Han Solo in Star Wars,” Mitchell then explained. “You know, if Han Solo was a hero from the very beginning, was a great guy, it would have made kind of a boring story … He was a rapscallion. He was a smuggler. He was a bad guy. I remember when Luke was on the ice planet and, you know, that big Sasquatch grabbed him and Han was like, ‘I’m leaving, I’m out of here.’ And Leia was like, ‘Oh yea, I expected that of you.’ And the audience is like, ‘No, Han! How can you do that? Luke is in trouble.’ And then Han all of a sudden shows up and finds Luke and saves Luke.”

In his resignation letter, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis made jabs at Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria — and his apparent disagreement with it.

“Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects,” Mattis wrote, “I believe it is right for me to step down from my position.”

On August 13, the school district once again offered to extend her contract for another year by sending her essentially the same contract and set of certifications she has received and signed at the end of each year since 2009.

She was prepared to sign her contract renewal until she noticed one new, and extremely significant, addition: a certification she was required to sign pledging that she “does not currently boycott Israel,” that she “will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract,” and that she shall refrain from any action “that is intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with Israel, or with a person or entity doing business in Israeli or in an Israel-controlled territory.”

The language of the affirmation Amawi was told she must sign reads like Orwellian — or McCarthyite — self-parody, the classic political loyalty oath that every American should instinctively shudder upon reading