Breaking - Someone set himself on fire outside the Trump courthouse.

Yasmine saying fire went 50 ft in the air. EMTs had a problem putting out the fire because of the accelerant.

Trump trial is on fire!

It was just on CNN - jeez - can you imagine what the rest of the election year is going to be!!

KKKult

Just another flamer.

Was the accelerant Trump's hair spray that he uses by the gallon?

Yep, cult member. Trump will watch replays over and over chortling "see what they'll do for me?!"

A devoted deplorable felt sorry for his leader after Trump complained it was so cold in the courtroom.

I hope to see S'more of this behavior from his devoted sickofans

Kimberly Guilfoyle was running to get a seat and the friction of the pantyhose on her fat thighs caused them to burst into flames.

The ultimate delay tactic to get the trial moved. Maybe this will be crazier than OJ's?

Grim.

From the NYTimes:

A young man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon near the Lower Manhattan courthouse where jury selection continued in the criminal trial of former President Donald J. Trump.

The man doused himself with a liquid around 1:35 p.m. in Collect Pond Park, across the street from the courthouse. Onlookers screamed as bright orange flames engulfed the man. It was unclear what motivated his action.

People rushed over to try to extinguish the fire, but the intensity of the heat could be felt several hundred feet away.

After a few minutes, dozens of police officers rushed over and tried to smother the flames. The man, who appeared to be alive, was loaded into an ambulance and rushed away.

The man was in an area of the park that was cordoned off for supporters of Mr. Trump.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

CNN's Coates and Perez are on the scene reporting this tragic scene as it happened.

Public self-immolation is a shockingly serious statement for a person to demonstrate, and is usually politically or religiously motivated.

I hope he's dead.

There are some situations worse than death and being alive to experience the pain of multiple degrees burns is one of them.

This is probably the wrong reaction, but I wonder how it smelled?

Like pork

All for you, Damien! All for you!

Yikes. This is the third self-immolation in recent months (one in Atlanta in December and Aaron Bushnell in February).

The NYTimes reported that "The man was still moving as officers knelt beside him and asked his name. He was loaded into an ambulance and taken away."

The breaking news I long for: Donald (Madea) Trump goes to jail, supporters commit mass suicide.

On a positive note, I think this will damage Dump’s election chances (to what extent remains unclear). People who are on the bubble who are not enamored of Joe will be reminded how truly bonkers his supporters are.

I'm not convincd this was a Trump supporter. It may have been a pro-Palestinian protestor who knew that there would be a large media presence outside the courthouse and wanted his act to receive maximum exposure.

Crispy!!

Don Lemon auditioning for a new show

You certainly could be right r22. On another note, when has that ever worked?

It's working now, r25, insofar as it's getting a lot of media traction.

Meanwhile, inside the courtroom, Trump is falling asleep, farting, and maybe shit his pants.

R22 I was thinking the same thing. Either way, it’s a cultist.

The NYTimes just reported that some of the pamphlets he threw into the air "referenced former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Al Gore and the lawyer David Boies, who represented Mr. Gore in the 2000 presidential election recount."

R21

Or maybe the exact opposite happens. It became a pretty powerful protest tool in VN. Have we heard any report of last words?

Sadly, as we witnessed during the Vietnam era, this will likely be the first of similar public suicides.

Damn you, donald trump, damn you to the Hell you deserve.

You see how much we love our President, libtards? You see? When has anyone set themselves on fire for Joe Biden, hmmm? I THOUGHT SO!

Just wait, we'll own you all as we burn ourselves for our president Trump! YOU'LL ALL SEE HOW MUCH WE LOVE HIM!

R29

No GOP supporter is going around today protesting Bush v Gore

The New York City Fire Department said the man who set himself on fire was transported to New-York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition.

Remember, too, it was David Boise who successfully argued gay marriage before the then-supreme SCOTUS.

r10, GREASE FIRE!

r32, we need more Trump Freedom Torches!!!!

[quote] No GOP supporter is going around today protesting Bush v Gore

Well at least one poster thought through his comment

Party.

Have they blamed this on the vaccine yet?

NYTimes: The pamphlets the man threw into the air before he lit himself on fire appeared to be published online before the incident. The documents espoused anti-government conspiracy theories as well as criticisms of New York University.

R26, I meant when has it actually resulted in policy change?

It's a start.

R42

The pictures of those monks burning helped influence American public views on the war in VN . Helped

It’s certainly an attention grabber. But in this case just another mentally ill anti govt QAnon conspiracy type doing stupid stuff,

We have those types on DL so don’t laugh

I don’t think it did r44. That was in 1963. People barely knew Vietnam existed back then. It was all of the video of our boys being killed that turned the tide.

What an embarrassing way to die. Loser.

MISCHIEF!

MISCHIEF!

CITY ON FIRE!

So he is a Qanon/"EVERYTHING IS A UNIPARTY!" degenerate? What a loser.

Well, we all have to go sometime.

It was probably Don Jr trying to bring attention of the injustice to his poor father and his trials.

With all the talk about Trump's flatulence, I do worry about any open flames near that court house.

R45

Helped was a word chosen on purpose and for a reason. Body bags always wins out in the end as far as public support.

There were anti war protests that started in 1965. Before US body bags became a big issue. And for many Americans those burning monks were their first look at VN.

All the pieces matter

That was one fucked up war

Maybe Trump can play Antique’s “Die for You” on his campaign ads.

Horrible.

Pretty awesome. He deserved it.

He's alive.

Florida man named Maxwell Azmarila(sp).

Why did I do it? What did it get me?

What a drama queen.

He was just an average joker in Florida but man did he light up NYC.

If you can make it in NY you can make it anywhere

He went out a bright light and a media sensation.

This guy had to be hot.

He is one fucked up dude.

Florida Man

Another QAnon warrior

Sssssshhhhhhhmokin'

Maxwell Azzarello.

Burial plots at Westminister Golf Club are now available for short-term lease.

I’ll be flying out from LA for a special performance of “You Light Up My Life” tomorrow on fox and friends.

Obsessed with crypto, Epstein,and Peter Thiel

Such a shock to learn that the guy was from Florida!

He was posting on Reddit recently. Pretty much a garden variety conspiracy whackjob. His mugshot says it all.

This is what I would expect from all my people

Mental illness....and a horrible way to die. I hope he passed - if he lived, he is fucked for sure.

And, why do people do this, nothing is remembered about it and it has no effect.

[quote] The NYTimes reported that "The man was still moving as officers knelt beside him and asked his name. He was loaded into an ambulance and taken away."

Similarly, during the admission process, the hospital will try to get him to answer if he has insurance.

[quote] His mugshot says it all.

Not certain what all it says since you'd see dozens of slobs like that while walking across any mid size college campus

Absolutely not an elite jingoist cult. Said no-one ever. Now if only the other 75 million Trumpers would follow suit.

It’s reassuring to me that most posts on DL are not nearly as nutty as his posts are.

[quote] Mental illness

We mainly only talk about it after a mass killing, but here again we see an instance where the evidence of mental illness is visible, but there’s no system to identify people who need treatment and to prevent them from hurting themselves or others. Maybe AI could be used to go through online posts and screen for ill people. For example, it could be used by health authorities to find people on DL who put words in all caps on the political threads and other mentally ill people.

He is ALIVE!! Fire guy you in danger gurl!!

Self-immolation and defenestration are the preferred methods of suicide and homicide this decade.

[quote] It’s reassuring to me that most posts on DL are not nearly as nutty as his posts are.

I was reading through a different Trump trial related thread earlier today and seeing that it was wall-to-wall DL insane asylum material, even more so than normal. It makes me wonder if the people who post about Trump literally every day on DL somehow present as “normal” in real life, or would it be clear to rational people that there is something really wrong with them.

Mentally ill people supporting people who are mentally ill.

For those with a strong stomach, here's the full video...

This is my most favorite post, thank you, R27! I fucking laughed out loud. Can you imagine sitting next to this filthy f uck? And his lawyers have to defend him. I hope they are so overcome, they will convince Trump to just plead it out and ask the judge for mercy.

This guy was an 'investigative researcher ' ! Wonder of he will share his research with us on setting oneself on fire ?

For those with even stronger stomachs and plenty of morbid curiosity, here's his body being rushed to the ambulance.

What? No desperate shrieks of "I Love You President Trump!"?

Dump couldn't care less and nothing of value was lost.

Probably smelled like burned bologna and regrets.

He does his own research, just like me!

Filed personal injury lawsuits against Mark Cuban, Mark Zuckerberg, the Clinton Foundation, Peter Thiel, and others

I feel bad making fun of him. It sounds like he was a paranoid schizophrenic.

What was on his iPod?

That will show Charles Schwab and the Elites, Max!

A disillusioned democrat.

𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨

“We’re victims of a bi-partisan, totalitarian con that will soon collapse the economy,” he wrote on Instagram. His social media pages rail on the wealthy and is critical of politicians of both political parties, including Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.

“That Bill Clinton was secretly on (former CIA Director) George H.W. Bush’s side, and that the Democrat vs. Republican division has been entirely manufactured ever since: Clinton is with Bush; Gore is with Bush; Trump is with Hillary, and so on,”

, “As it turns out, we have a secret kleptocracy: Both parties are run by financial criminals whose only goals are to divide, deceive, and bleed us dry.”

Azzarello wrote that he had previously worked for California Democratic Congressman Ami Bera and Democratic New York Representative Tom Suozzi in 2013 and 2014, although his manifesto indicates he had come to be disenchanted with both political parties; he also railed about cryptocurrency and “ponzi schemes.”

“This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.”

It continues, “These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not. They are proof of conspiracy. If you investigate this mountain of research, you will prove them too. If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you will discover that our life is a lie. If you follow this story and the links below, you will discover the rotten truth of ‘post-truth America’. You will learn the scariest and stupidest story in world history. And you will realize that we are all in a desperate state of emergency that requires your action.:

He added: “To my friends and family, witnesses and first responders, I deeply apologize for inflicting this pain upon you. But I assure you it is a drop in the bucket compared to what our government intends to inflict. these words are true, this is an act of revolution.”

On his IPod :

Burning Up For Your Love - Madonna

I'm Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult

Hot Stuff - Donna Summer

Through the Fire - Chaka Khan

This is all the fault of Joe Biden and goes to show he must be impeached! Max is a martyr, like John the Baptist, preparing the way for the Messiah, who is being prosecuted by the infidels.

Pity. He had BDF.

Is he cut?

Thought crypto was a plot by Peter Thiel to crash the economy

He even mentions Thiel's dead boyfriend!

All- I triple checked.

I had my haunches spread for all and sundry on my porch.

My pork chop was sizzling in the spring time sun.

I was 1200 miles from that courthouse and my fumes have been studied, and only lethal within 50 feet. And combustible at 20 feet.

Give or take.

He is so smoking hot

R94

There it is

His post in that link and many posts on DL could have been written by the same person. Not all. Not most. Many.

It’s sad that all these MAGA figures stoke the crazy.

There are lots of emotionally/mentally vulnerable and unstable people out there who fall prey to it.

R103

Yea I thought it was all maga as well. Then I found DL.. Being fucking nuts crosses political lines.

Is there anyone here who isn't sure that the first thing in Trump's mind when he heard about the man was " What does this mean for me?"

R105, oh, he was excited, I’m sure. He’d like a month’s worth of followers to light themselves on fire on his behalf.

He’s hot.

I can't believe he didn't die...

With greasy hair like that, who needs accelerant?

what kind of person does this?

someone I knew used it as a way out of this world.

"Hey Johnny .."

I have to admit I can’t imagine anyone doing this for Biden.

Anyone voting for Biden would never be that stupid, R112.

He has an Aaron Rodgers thing going at R107.

Mental illness. Sounds like a a lot of Q influence.

The manifesto reads as non-partisan; that, or I need a nap.

Or not enough Quaaludes.

Hey Max, can you flame broil me up some burgers while you’re at it?

He’s really not a bad looking guy.

Is he an organ donor?

Sad that anyone is that fucked in the head. But. I would rather these tortured souls light themselves on fire and die than get a gun and shoot innocent people. I have seen plenty in my lifetime as many of you have. I feel like we are getting into a new level of fuckery. Glad I went to the weed store today.

On his ipod

[quote] Azzarello wrote that he had previously worked for California Democratic Congressman Ami Bera and Democratic New York Representative Tom Suozzi in 2013 and 2014

That’s going to hurt the narrative.

[quote]He’s hot.

One might even say he's smokin' hot.

He truly sizzles.

It’s the gays!

He blames crypto-facist-billionaire Peter Thiel

r108 he is not expected to survive, as per the NYTimes.

I'm with you, r91. Everything about this story is terrible.

Long Island native

Bah—if you’re that disturbed, is it really that much greater self-harm?

He looks pretty dead already, as they're wheeling him to the ambulance he's already assumed the post-mortem Boxer Stance

I’ve seen anti-Thiel comments on DL, probably from the same sources.

I think if I ever witnessed someone self-immolate, it would haunt me until my dying day.

"He blames crypto-facist-billionaire Peter Thiel"

Thiel claims another death!

If you search the guy on Facebook, you can see he’s generally nuts, and anti government. He was protesting against Dump AND Biden. It’s a shame because he’s kinda cute (this is Datalounge, after all).

R123, You won’t see that on MSNBC.

R132 are you dead yet!🔥

r135, you won't hear his anti-Clinton, anti-Biden comments on Fox....

You might, R137.

Bonfires of the Vanities.

Do these self-immolators really think their actions will change anything or that anyone will remember them in a week?

Maybe we can give those exploding cigarettes to Trumpers?

r139 he doesn't seem like he was very capable of rational thought.

It's too bad Ashlii Babbitt is dead. I think they'd have a love connection!

He fit right today^ ¿Si?

Was he upset over Lempicka’s reviews?

Why is Turd going to states he already has in the bag? Was the upper midwest just too chilly this weekend- even with his black gloves?

Maybe his chills mean death is soon.

They’re not in the bag. That’s why. Not yet anyway.

R145. $$$$$ there's a lot of grifting to be done and handshakes to sell.

This is horrifying. And I don’t mean in the overused Buzzfeed sense of the word, it’s truly awful.

Now having said that, if the die hard qanon trump loving Marjorie three toes types feel the need to show their orange blimp master support in this way, I encourage them to follow their heart.

It was a crazy moron.

The only truly sad thing is that he apparently survived.

Who can do what the court system won’t?

This is why mental health hospitals need to exist.

He gave himself the full Anne Heche experience.

What was his stand on ordering Lunchables via Uber Eats at 2:30am?

HIs Instagram

Where’s that college kid in TX?

His mom died two years ago, and he wrote the following. I wonder if he had been on antipsychotics and then became non-compliant after her death, because he sounds very lucid here:

My mom, Libby Azzarello, passed away peacefully with her family at her side yesterday morning. We're all so touched by the outpouring of support from those who knew her, and the fond memories they've shared.

I couldn't be happier to have been able to be close to her these last few months. She suffered from COPD, but I am immensely proud to say that she navigated the awful challenges of this disease with strength, dignity and spirit through the very end. I'm honestly not sure I understood what those words really meant until I saw her continuous willingness to adapt to her limitations and to push herself in ways I can only imagine.

And throughout it all, she never let go of those beautiful traits that have touched so many. She never stopped being gracious and warm, silly and catty, compassionate and supportive. I can honestly say that the recent time I've spent with her was as fun as any I've had.

I love you mom, and I already miss you dearly XOXO

No cares, sob sister. He was mental.

As R157 said, you can see from his Instagram when he went insane. And he truly did go off his fucking rocker.

That’s what I wondered, R157. If he was a medicated schizophrenic who lost it when his mom died and stopped his meds. Or something like that. Prior to that, there was none of the political nonsense. It’s really quite sad and I thank the universe that I don’t have a mental illness.

It is indeed very sad, r160. Reading the post about his mother was particularly gut-wrenching. I suppose if there is any silver lining to this horrible event, it's that she didn't live long enough to see it.

At least he didn't hurt anyone else. Didn't stab or shoot anyone. Didn't run anyone over or blow anyone up. So, as crazy as he was, he still had the grace and forethought to not become a terrorist.

R157 That's incredibly sad. I have a sibling around his age who is Bipolar with Psychotic Features—so severe she was misdiagnosed with Schizophrenia for the first few years she was symptomatic. Many of this guy's screeds could have come directly from her journals. She's been non-compliant with her meds for most of her adult life and has wreaked untold havok and heartbreak on our whole family. But when she's stable, it's like you get a brief glimpse of this bright, funny, caring, amazing person that you remember and you can't imagine them leaving again, but they always do, and it's like you have to mourn their death over and over.

As horrible as this was (and it WAS), I can't imagine the chances of him choosing to turn things around and staying on his meds at his age—statistically, they're incredibly low. I can guarantee you this isn't the first time his family has had to grieve the loss of his life, it's just the last. And if he was a Paranoid Schizophrenic, which I suspect he was, he'd likely been suffering for decades.

He’s not completely off the mark, though.

Crypto IS a scam. Theil IS a fucking fascist prick who would LOVE to enslave all of us.

Fascism IS trying to make a comeback, supported and funded by Crow, Theil, Mercer, Addelson, Zuckerfuck, Leonard Leo and dozens of other filthy rich pricks we don’t know by name.

He’s not wrong. But he sure could’ve chosen a better way to bitch about it than going up in flames.

"NYTimes: The pamphlets the man threw into the air before he lit himself on fire appeared to be published online before the incident. The documents espoused anti-government conspiracy theories as well as criticisms of New York University."

I don't know why, but the NYU shot made me laugh.

Well, broken clocks, r165.

And, he's not getting the media attention he wanted.

He filled the tag anarcommunist.

I wish Susan Sarandon would follow his example. It might jump start that revolution, Suze.

Thiz nod eppen ven implant burst yes?

He's dead.

He died for our sins!

How horrible for his poor family.

I’m not sure the fact that he worked for a Democrat over a decade ago matters that much. Hell, Don Jr’s fiancée was married to Gavin Newsome less than two decades ago.

People change.

R166 exactly!

He made a great candle but couldn’t live forever…

I too think he went off the deep end because un-medicated after his mom passed.

One of my roommates was schizophrenic and fine when on meds. She would get to a point where she felt she didn't need them - they made her tired or slowed her down so she would stop. And after she was hospitalized once she was released to a 'supervised residence' but could go out though she had a curfew. And then we would get together and hang out. But when she stopped taking her meds she would fairly quickly revert to alarming behaviors.

She was brilliant. I still think about her and wonder where she is now.

[quote]R123: That’s going to hurt the narrative.

I don't see how, considering the source. Azzarello posted "Hey guys, I met Bernie Sanders!" accompanying a pic of himself standing next to Newt Gingrich. Untethered from reality. (And no, I don't think it was a joke that Azzarello was in on.)

This is 'bothsiderism' taken to its furthest extreme.

[quote]For example, it could be used by health authorities to find people on DL who put words in all caps on the political threads and other mentally ill people.

I hope they pick up that One Guy on TRUTH SOCIAL. He really is NUTS!!!!

R160

Hey buddy you need to go back and take another better look. You are missing something.

[quote]criticisms of New York University

Whew. Dodged a bullet there!

There was great joy in Mudville when the kids thought the Bright Burning Light from Florida was maga. But the joy faded quickly when the kids found out he was just nuts.

At least we are all predictable

Like chicken R16.

R164 that was my quick take as well. He's nuts but it's all intense spin in put on kind of true interpretations of the zeitgeist.

Better to burn out than fade away.

He makes Mama's mussy sizzle like Thic Quang Duc.

So this slightly over done guy once worked for democrats and met Bernie? We were all so wishing he was MAGA. It was the first fucking thing we thought I hope he is a Trumper

Just another dem that has decided not to vote for Biden like a few here on DL.

If he wasn't a datalounger he should have been. He would fit

Cooking up potatoes and mashing them before they go off. I hate wasting food.

Oops, wrong post. As you were.

I’m having a good chuckle at all of the Log Cabinettes here who are taking a victory lap just because this guy didn’t have a picture in a MAGA hat as his Instagram avatar as everyone assumed he would.

It’s so amusing to see the few of you relishing being able, after hardly ever getting the chance, to look down your noses at the rest of us and take the high road. Wag those fingers girls, because this is likely one of the few chances you’ll have until the election!

My ass. Have a little honesty. The first thing both left and right do is see if that burnt guy could be pinned on the opposition. It’s human nature to think that way. And everyone does it. And they do it every time. There is no fucking high ground this is the DL.

It’s a missed opportunity that he was not a full on trump loving maga who had worked for the GOP.

We are not Log Cabin we are just making fun of you and your high ground..

If I had to spend too much time with Bernie Bros, I would also go insane and off myself so my heart goes out to this dude.

If only there had been some sort of sign.

Horrific way to die.

Nothing about this story is good. (I am r22, by the way.) It's really a tale about the state of mental health treatment in our country.

Many adults are thrown by the deaths of one or both parents, even though intellectually they realize death is inevitable.

That doesn’t make them mentally unstable.

I doubt his mother's death CAUSED his psychosis, r197. But I do speculate that her presence helped him keep it together, kept him compliant with meds, etc. After he lost her, he might have thought, "What's the fucking point?"

Just a hunch.

Before his mother's problems look to when he was disillusioned working for those democratic congressmen

He will be missed by all his dear friends here at DL. He was the best of us every day.

Told you I was hardcore.

A 2017 blog post by the nonprofit Strong Towns, since offline, features Max Azzarello and announces him as their new growth manager. The civic engagement-focused organization says Azzarello’s “passions” include “chess, creative writing, and Medieval Scandinavian poetry.”"– NY Post

--- "Police said that Mr Azzarello’s drivers license showed he was born in 1987 and was a native of St Augustine, Florida. A registered Democrat, he attended the University of North Carolina.

He is believed to have arrived in New York at some point between April 13 and April 19, family members who spoke to police said they were unaware that he was in the city.

Mr Azzarello was unknown to police prior to the incident and did not have a criminal history in New York, police said.

He's dead...and yet Keanu still walks among us

The Forum Suicide post is an Internet forum tradition , saying a sad good by to all your friends but whatever cunt fucking forum you are on is now the worst and you are leaving. And you won’t be back. Fucking pussies.

This guys last post was

I have just set myself on fire

When I first saw this thread I thought for a moment that the title said someone set Trump on Fire at the courthouse...but alas.

Agh- the inferno of the human mind!

R187, he sued the Clintons and spread conspiracies about them, so he apparently has a lot in common with conservatives like you

With a makeover, he would have been a looker, the basics were there.

Hilary done him in! Another for the #ClintonKillCount! It's obvious to anyone using their brains!

People that take themselves out in dramatic, violent spectacles usually have serious mental problems. See also Anne He he.

R197 . ..

“On 3 February 2010, Alexander McQueen wrote on his Twitter page that his mother had died the day before, adding: "RIP mumxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx." Four days later, he wrote that he had an "awful week" but said "friends have been great", adding "now I have to somehow pull myself together".

On the morning of 11 February 2010, his housekeeper found McQueen had hanged himself at his home in Green Street, London W1. Paramedics were called and they pronounced him dead at the scene. He was 40 years old.“

Trumpers are screaming that this guy’s “manifesto” was publicized right after he died but “the Tennessee shooter” manifesto has not been published. Why not?

Hey assholes - it’s because self-immolators only kill themselves. Mass shooters kill other people. After Columbine, the notebooks of the shooters inspired other angry misfits to go out and kill others.

LEO and media decided not to publicize the violent, insane ramblings of mass shooters after that. The relatives of victims also asked media not to make shooters celebrities with name recognition while the victims were dead and forgotten.

If this self-immolator’s extremely painful and pointless death inspires others to kill themselves, it won’t result in 45 victims. It means like maybe 3 crazy people will kill themselves.

Oops.

R213 must be new here.

No, just absent-minded sometimes, r215.

From R214's article:

On her show on Friday night, Ms. Coates said she initially thought Mr. Azzarello was an “active shooter” because of “the times we live in.” In the moment, she was “shocked,” she said, noting that she came to CNN as a legal expert, not a typical journalist with field experience. “My mouth narrated my eyes,’’ she said, “but my eyes — I wish I could unsee it; my nose wishes to unsmell it, my heart breaks for that man and his family.”

Manchurian candidate meant to paint anyone who expresses anti-government views as mentally ill or a "threat to democracy" and locked up or executed.

Change my mind.

Take your meds, r218.

[quote]Change my mind.

You mean the one you lost, r218?

[quote] It may have been a pro-Palestinian protestor who knew that there would be a large media presence outside the courthouse and wanted his act to receive maximum exposure.

Good to see hasbara up to their usual tricks, although this one didn’t age well.

I’m always happy to get an update as to the wishes of Laura Coates’ nose.

You forgot to add the first part of my post, r221, which aged perfectly:

[quote]I'm not convinced this was a Trump supporter.

That was just in there to open up for your batshit idea that it was someone who opposed your beloved genocide, r223. Which aged like Trump’s jism.

People have criticized Coates for her ongoing highly detailed commentary during the tragic event, but in reality she was doing her job as a trained journalist: give the live audience the details of what was happening just off camera, since the cameraman was probably instructed not to show the actual immolation.

I thought she did a great job under pressure, with no warning about what was going to occur. The awful burning smell was part of the live details.

r219 and r220 are sheep.

Coates isn’t really a “breaking news” journalist. She’s a legal expert who was at the courthouse to provide commentary on the Trump trial. Her reactions shouldn’t really be judged the way a reporter’s would.

[quote]R187: So this slightly over done guy once worked for democrats and met Bernie?

No, he didn't meet Bernie. The photo was of Newt Gingrich.

Either he didn't know one from the other, or he was making a poor joke that they're the same. Both amount to the same thing: he was a goddamned nut.

Paywall

[quote] After Columbine, the notebooks of the shooters inspired other angry misfits to go out and kill others.

That’s a load of bullshit.

The Nashville shooter was a deranged tranny. We all know why they never came clean about the motive.

It was bad enough when we got psychos from LSA invading DL and now we have to put up with MAGAs starting to invade.

The Lewiston, Maine shooter was a deranged transphobe like r231. He even retweeted transphobic comments from Donald Trump Jr and Elon Musk

r233 It's almost like people of all beliefs, ideologies, and backgrounds can be criminally insane. Weird.

Fellas, when you find yourself reading the manifesto of someone who doused himself with accelerant and lit himself on fire but still think: yes, he makes some sense!, perhaps it's time to see a mental health professional.

This dude ought to have been in lockdown not posting on his socials. He wasn't tuned in, he was bonkers.

R233 is a tranny. Stop exposing your front hole to kids, sicko.

Agree r208, he wasn’t bad.

[Quote] and now we have to put up with MAGAs starting to invade

Good morning, rip van winkle!

Funny thing I've noticed. Media is tagging this guy 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 when he was making the identical comments about Biden, Obama, Clinton, and Trump.

You can always count on the media.

Best looking pic of him yet.

[quote]Best looking pic of him yet.

I was expecting flames on the side of his face,

R228

Not me of course I am far too nice. But others here are calling you a goddamned nut as well based on your comments.

[quote]Funny thing I've noticed. Media is tagging this guy 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓

Link?

He protested at the Trump trial sooooo…

His mother died. She was probably the one who cooked for him, made him take a shower, take his meds, see his therapist. Without her taking care of him, he jumped in the rabbit hole.

My BIL was schizophrenic. Without his mother he’d literally starve because he’d forget to eat.

And in other news Kennedy currently has 9% support in Michigan. It’s on topic because the topic is crazy people and nut cases

r246 are they all would-be Trumpers?

[quote] And in other news Kennedy currently has 9% support in Michigan. It’s on topic because the topic is crazy people and nut cases

In that context, the crazy people and nut cases are the Biden supporters who don’t take bad polling results and third parties seriously.

This isn’t what they meant by going scorched earth.

R247

I would guess a heavy dose of conspiracy people, anti vax, anti govt anti in general types

I have no idea how that 9% breaks down D vs R but I’d sure like to know

I'm sure he's heavily medicated for the pain. I knew a guy who was in a fire as a kid and the scars on the front of his thighs looked like someone had taken a waffle iron to them. Tears sprang to my eyes when I saw that.

He died, R251.

Please try to keep up.

I hope he was unconscious during his time at the hospital, because there is no respite for the pain that a burn brings, and it was full body.

He was intubated, r253. I doubt he was conscious. Also, see r130

R253 = Jack Cassidy

[quote] his thighs looked like someone had taken a waffle iron to them

I don’t know about nowadays but years ago they used to use a little device for skin grafts that looked like a cross between a wringer and a cheese grater. They’d “wring” the skin to stretch it out then the stretched skin would be punctured by the sharp points on the “grater” and the skin would look like Swiss cheese. The device elongated the skin and the holes later filled in a bit, but always looked different from the rest of the graft. So I could see how it might resemble a waffle iron.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

People are going to have rights! We’re going to have a functioning government! OMMMMGGGGGG

Would be a terrible way to go

And how, R259.

[quote]R242: [addressed to R228] Not me of course I am far too nice.

Well, your posting history certainly says you're not. And you didn't have any problem calling others "fucking nuts" at R104. There's lots of other instances. But you were just looking for an opportunity to throw some shade at me.

[quote]But others here are calling you a goddamned nut as well based on your comments.

See, this is the cue that you and I have a history; nobody's said that about me in this thread. So naturally I had to research you.

You're a former participant in the religious threads, having argued (among other things) that the Holiness Code exhibits preternatural wisdom in disease prevention. The claim itself is Anscher-esque, 'tho there's probably some others who also think that.

No, nobody calls me a nut 'based on my comments.' My detractors are never really able to successfully assail what I've said. They generally avoid the substance of my posts. Calling me a nut is purely for ad hominem's sake. And it's not lots of "others," but just a few of really bitter posters who've lost arguments (usually about the existence of Jesus Christ, but also politics), who like to express their grudge through their sock accounts.

Like you. You sought an opportunity to say what you said at R242, and you didn't care if your own posting history made you a hypocrite to do it.

[quote]No, nobody calls me a nut 'based on my comments.'

It's based on your 'everyone who disagrees with me is a sock' bullshit, sir. You're exhausting.

[quote]And how, R259.

[quote]—Linda Darnell

Tell me about it, Linda.

[quote]R262: It's based on your 'everyone who disagrees with me is a sock' bullshit, sir. You're exhausting.

Ah, one of the surviving 'BlackMillennial' trio of socks. How apt that 𝑦𝑜𝑢 should respond. It's not 'everyone who disagrees with me is a sock,' it's the identical specific opinions and set of insults which give the socks away; lack of originality on the part of the sock users.

There's an easy solution. You could

𝐚) Stop socking, and/or

𝐛) Put me on ignore.

One would think the latter option would be the most attractive, but it's something you've always refused to do. With any of your accounts.

So, I guess you'll just keep having to be called out.

R261

JHC what kind of an adult gets so invested in this stupid shit? No one actually gives a fuck about you . You are not at all important, It’s the DL it’s entertainment, Nothing more,

What a fucking dork

He is not good looking, you whores!

[quote]R242/R265: JHC what kind of an adult gets so invested in this stupid shit? No one actually gives a fuck about you . You are not at all important, It’s the DL it’s entertainment, Nothing more, What a fucking dork

Well, it's the return of Mr "far too nice" sock, crying about being exposed. I'm evidently important enough for you to have spoken to to begin with, and also to reply to yet again.

If you think what you post here constitutes 'entertainment,' don't quit your day job.

Unless shitposting here 𝑖𝑠 your day job. Is it? Are you paid in rubles, potatoes, or vodka?

You are the typical entertainment here. And I will try and make fun of anyone. You are not special or important. The is DL special and important is not part of the deal. . You are just an easy target and easy to make light fun of.

Don’t over think it

Think of the police, EMTs, doctors and nurses who are traumatized by this shithead. Have you ever seen anyone covered in burns and accelerant? Try to get an IV in one? It’s a horror show

He was very mentally ill, r269. I doubt he had the capacity to think rationally about how his act would affect those around him.

I can only muster sympathy for him and his family.

I don’t think it minimizes sympathy for him or his family to have sympathy for the first responders. Sympathy isn’t under ration.

I agree, r271, but calling him a "shithead" is unnecessary. By "I can only muster sympathy for him and his family," I meant that I can't blame him or hold him responsible for the trauma he caused those who witnessed his death.

[quote]Sympathy isn’t under ration.

With all due respect Elder Lez, do you read some of the posts here at the Data Lounge?

Very fair, R273, very fair.

If I knew a fire fighter that was going to be traumatized by seeing a burnt body I’d suggest they had picked the wrong line of work. Same for an emt or police. Grow a pair

These are the kind of days they signed up for.

Yeah, nobody called the fire department R275. Cops on the scene put out the fire.

R276

Close.

Police and others responded first. New York fire dept responded and credited with putting the fire out.

Either way police and fire were there and saw Mr Burnt Burger. Likely not the first or last burnt body they have seen on the job.

Amd they will be telling stories about this day as they have a few beers with friends for years to come. And they won’t be sad DL stories. They will see the humor in it all.

[Quote] If I knew a fire fighter that was going to be traumatized by seeing a burnt body I’d suggest they had picked the wrong line of work. Same for an emt or police. Grow a pair R275

So I’ll assume the same go for all Americans and seeing dead bodies from gun violence. You should expect it. It’s part of your culture. Grow a pair and stop complaining.

[quote] seeing dead bodies from gun violence. You should expect it. It’s part of your culture.

It depends on your neighborhood

R278

If you assume that then you are not nearly as smart as I assumed you were. Most Americans are not fire fighters or police and they don’t have a job working with the violently dead . They did not opt for a job where they would be dealing with the violently dead.

Surely you understand this?

it would be the same thing in combat. If an 0311 is going to be traumatized by seeing a KIA from a gun shot that 0311 should have demanded a,pogue job in supply

Overly sensitive fire fighters who can’t stand to deal with fire victims——the DL story continued

Was he cremated?

It's a form of communication..

[quote] they don’t have a job working with the violently dead

What a bizarre turn of phrase, R280.

Being boiled alive in water real slow I am going to guess is worse.