A Wisconsin man was apparently upset over the on again/off again TikTok ban and allegedly set Rep. Glenn Grothman's district office on fire:
The Fond du Lac Police Department said the Menasha man was arrested after being found near a strip mall, 525 N. Peters Ave., that contained Grothman's district office.
Police and fire officials initially responded to the strip mall about 1 a.m. after receiving a report of a fire. The building was unoccupied at the time and no injuries were reported, police said. Fire personnel extinguished the blaze, which began outside the building and burned the building's outside siding and an air conditioning unit.
Police said the 19-year-old suspect “admitted to starting the fire in response to recent talks of a TikTok ban.” Grothman was among a bipartisan majority of 360 House members who voted last year in favor of a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the app or face a ban in the U.S. That ban went into effect over the weekend.
No one should be surprised by actions like these. The Orange Felon and the Republicans arbitrarily shut down what was a money source for many Americans and a source of entertainment. To add insult to injury, this on again/off again ban was supposedly due to concerns over security and Chinese information mining. However, the Orange Felon has welcomed people like Elmo Musky and Mark Zuckerbook with open arms despite their history of illegal data mining. Go figure.
But back to that slob Grothman. There was one part of the story that struck me as odd:
Grothman told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the fire was contained to outside the building. He said the fire did not appear to get inside but said a staff member who visited the scene told him the office smelled of smoke.
A photo provided to the Journal Sentinel by Grothman's office shows what an aide said was the burned back door of the congressman's district office.
“I don’t even know yet (what happened) other than somebody tried to set a fire over TikTok,” Grothman said in a brief interview Sunday morning.
Grothman didn't know what happened but was able to provide all these details that was forwarded to him by an aide? Where was Grothman that he couldn't or wouldn't check things out first hand like a normal person would. And he sure knows a lot about something he knows nothing about - oh, wait. Scratch that last one. That's normal for a Republican.
