75 combat knives, hatchets, and an unreasoning hatred for the United States.
They’re serious. They’re fucking serious:
On Jan. 12, federal agents and police flooded [Eduard] Florea’s neighborhood in Queens, driving an armored truck onto his street and raiding his basement apartment, the New York Daily News reported. Agents discovered more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, plus hatchets, swords and 75 military-style combat knives…
And why did they know to raid his apartment?
Hours before the special Senate runoff in Georgia was called for the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock (D) in the early hours on Jan. 6, Eduard Florea went on the conservative social media platform Parler and wrote: “Warnock is going to have a hard time casting votes for communist policies when he’s swinging with the … fish.”
In a later post, he wrote in reference to Warnock: “Dead men can’t pass [expletive] laws.”
He was a Proud Boy or maybe just a Proud Boy supporter. I’m sure there’s a difference that someone can detect, someone who’s more interested in drawing nuanced distinctions among Nazi-adjacent extremists than yours truly.
As more details emerge, it becomes clear that it was only sheer luck that stood between the fatal mayhem of January 6 and mass slaughter. Luck and some underpaid and utterly indispensable fast-thinking police officers.