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Latest Trump Terrorist Needs to Figure Out Who The Real Enemy Is

Right-wing propaganda keeps working class angry at the wrong people

Manny Otiko
4 min readAug 21, 2021
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It’s not surprising that Floyd Ray Roseberry is the latest angry white man to inflict his pain on the American public. We’re currently witnessing a surge in Trump-inspired Terrorism in the United States (TITUS.) Roseberry briefly brought Washington DC to a halt when he threatened to blow up what he thought was the Capitol building. Instead, he was actually parked outside the Library of Congress, which only shows his derangement.

But Roseberry’s rants are a good example of the danger of uninformed voters. Listening to his complaints, which were livetreamed on Facebook, it was clear that he was a Trump voter and also a big consumer of disinformation media such as FOX News Channel. He ranted about “illegals” coming into the country and getting free healthcare, he wanted to take this country back, complained about socialism, and wanted all Democrats to resign. So you had a good idea of what networks he was watching.

Roseberry is not the first of his kind. A few years ago, America was terrorized by Caesar Sayoc, the so-called MAGA bomber, who targeted Democratic politicians and members of the media with pipe bombs. But what’s interesting about Roseberry’s rants is they indicate…

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Manny Otiko
Manny Otiko

Written by Manny Otiko

Manny Otiko writes about race, politics and sports. He has been published in Salon and LA Weekly. Follow him at @mannyotiko.bsky.social

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