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The seven are accused of attempting to find the home addresses of law enforcement officers to target them, making threats of violence intended to "instigate a civil war" and engaging in planning and training to attack the Michigan capitol building and kidnap government officials, including Whitmer.

 

Thirteen men are arrested including 7 members of right-wing Michigan militia Wolverine Watchmen over foiled plots to kidnap Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and 'incite a civil war'

Six people were arrested in a raid on Thursday morning over the alleged plot
They are Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, Brandon Caserta and
24-year-old Ty Garbin
Another seven men were charged by the AG's office over a plot to 'incite a civil war'
They are part of a known militia group called Wolverine Watchmen
They also planned to storm the Michigan State Capitol Building in Lansing
They plotted to kidnap Whitmer at her family's vacation home in Michigan
The men practiced shooting, combat drills and even made their own explosives
They carried out surveillance at Whitmer's vacation home in Michigan
Their plan was foiled by an FBI informant who they had tried to recruit to help

13 arrested over plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and incite a civil war | Daily Mail Online

 

Why because they can turn off his microphone so he can't interrupt Biden during his two minutes?

I can almost picture the Split-screen with Biden standing there looking Presidential and answering the questions, while
Trump being the control freak that he is trying to interrupt to no avail

 

A group of armed men visited the Michigan state capitol in the spring. Trump said they were good people and that governor Whitmer should make a deal with them.

This time a nefarious stunt was in the works.

 

Expect the usual response from Trump and the gang: It's only 34 people.


34 people connected to White House, more than previously known, infected by coronavirus: Internal FEMA memo

 

Chris Christie has been in the hospital for five days after testing positive for the coonavirus after attending Trump's Rose Garden ceremony.

Christie has a history of asthma.


Chris Christie still hospitalized with COVID-19: Here’s the type of treatments doctors say he may be getting

 

White House security official Crede Bailey is said to be gravely ill with the coronavirus.


White House security official Crede Bailey gravely ill with COVID-19

 

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will be speaking live at 3:00 pm should be interesting to hear what she says.

 

Expected Trump remark to Whitmer: They're good people. Make a deal with them.

 

So let me get this straight, Pelosi clams Trump is currently in an Altered State…….

And we should consider invoking the 25th amendment....lol...

 

yeah but then we end up with a fly as acting Prez.

 

A normal president would condemn this.

 

Biden answering questions you say?

That would be a first

He doesn't actually need a Presidential debate to do that

 

In the same way the Dem presidential candidate condemned 100,000 rioters, looters and arsonists May to September?

 

You need to keep up. Biden has condemned them.
That's not the point though. Seems like you are condoning the actions of idiots to not only take over a state government, but kidnap a governor, possibly kill innocent civilians, and kill your beloved LEOs.

 

how many questions did flyboy answer last night?

 

If the Whitmer thing was about the Covid response, I'm surprised that kind of thing hasn't happened the world over many times already

 

2nd dude looks like the guitarist from Limp Bizkit

 

Has flyboy ever answered any question, ever?

He always deflects and answers a totally different question that nobody asked...

 

Sounds like right wing humor to me especially Trump's. He gives out nicknames like a bitchy 8th grade girl and the voters laugh like it's George Carlin.

Study finds that right-wing authoritarians aren’t very funny people

A new study has found that right-wing authoritarians – that is, people who are hostile to non-conformity – are considerably less funny than people who do not share that disposition.

The study appeared on October 6 in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. It looks at the effects of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) on humor production. The authors define RWA as a combination of factors such as submission to authority, aggression towards deviant and marginal groups, and adherence to traditional social norms.

Studies dating back to the 1950s and 1960s already found that people who score high in authoritarianism enjoy jokes that disparage low-status or marginalized groups. Likewise, they are less likely to enjoy jokes that express hostility to authority figures.

Yet researchers know very little about the links between RWA and humor production, i.e. coming up with funny ideas of one’s own. One 1957 study found that people who score low in authoritarianism wrote funnier cartoon captions, whereas a 1980 study found hardly any correlation.

But the assessment of RWA and humor production have improved in the intervening decades, prompting the researchers to revisit this question.

Measuring humor production
For this study, the researchers recruited 186 adults from a university in North Carolina. The participants’ average age was 19, though they ranged in age from 18 to 53. They were 77% female, and ethnically diverse.

The researchers measured the participants’ humor production skills on several creative tasks. Throughout these tasks, the instructions encouraged them to be funny, to express themselves freely, and to feel comfortable being “weird, silly, dirty, ironic, bizarre, or whatever,” as long as their responses were funny.

In the first task, the participants generated funny captions for three cartoons. One depicted an astronaut talking into a mobile phone. Another showed a king lying on a psychologist’s couch. The third showed two businessmen, one with a gun, standing over a body on the floor.

The second task presented the participants with unusual noun combinations, such as “cereal bus” or “yoga bank,” and asked them to come up with funny definitions for them.

The final task asked the participants to complete a quirky scenario with a punchline. One scenario, for example, involved telling people about a horrible meal. The other two scenarios involved describing a boring college class, and giving feedback on a friend’s bad singing.

Eight independent raters scored the responses on a 3-point scale (not funny, somewhat funny, or funny). The raters did not know anything about the participants, including their responses on other items.

Authoritarians, openness, and conscientiousness
The researchers measured the participants’ degree of right-wing authoritarianism using a 15-item scale on which they indicated how strongly they agree or disagree with various statements. Examples include “Our country desperately needs a mighty leader who will do what has to be done to destroy the radical new ways and sinfulness that are ruining us,” or “Everyone should have their own lifestyle, religious beliefs, and sexual preferences, even if it makes them different from everyone else.”

The researchers also measured the participants’ personality traits (using the HEXACO-100 personality test). They focused on the traits of openness to experience and conscientiousness, as past research has found that these traits relate to both humor production and right-wing authoritarianism. Some research, for example, has linked openness to creative thinking and humor. Other studies have found that conscientious people perform worse on creativity and humor tasks.

Results: right-wing authoritarians aren’t very funny
Right-wing authoritarianism had a significant negative relationship with humor; people who scored high in RWA generated responses that the raters considered to be much less funny.

RWA also correlated negatively with openness to experience, and positively with conscientiousness. As the researchers expected, openness correlated positively with humor production, and conscientiousness correlated negatively with it.

These findings, the authors write, “strongly suggest that people high in RWA are less funny, defined as the ability to create humorous ideas, even when global personality traits with established ties to RWA, humor, and creativity are controlled for.”

The authors also add that their findings “should be viewed in the context of the sample, which was young, enrolled in a university, and predominantly female.”

They suggest that future studies should look more closely at the components of right-wing authoritarianism that impair humor creation. One possible mechanism is that RWA correlates with cognitive rigidity and seriousness, versus flexibility and playfulness.

In sum, the authors write, “the findings suggest that people high in RWA just aren’t very funny.”