Fifth-generation Atlantan, handsome, beautiful family, rich, fancy private school (he’s been banned from its grounds for threatening to kill someone who came to speak there), and then the incomparably beautiful Sewanee/University of the South for college, where he got a degree in economics.
Meredith is also a “habitual drug user and has a history of mental illness,” plus a history of threats against women (or, in his nomenclature, ‘cunts’), plus a history of general violence. Plus immense numbers of guns.
And ain’t it the beauty of the United States that a man like this, a deeply disturbed and violent man, with the insane political fanaticism and insane conspiracy theories that accompany his profile, has had no trouble at all… will never have any trouble… amassing a personal arsenal more than worthy of the terrifying terrorist that he is.
You can thank the National Rifle Association for many, many of the Cleveland Merediths pissing and shitting all over the Capitol building on January 6, hauling their rifles into the seat of the American government and killing and threatening to kill people. You can also thank Fuckface for enticing Cleveland Meredith out of his cage.
The question is how to put him back in. It’s going to be difficult.
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The January 6 insurrection was better planned and better armed than we first believed. The mob was not a bunch of yahoos, but often middle-class, well-educated professionals, integrated with trained former military and cops.