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White nationalists feel threatened. Hard working and more intelligent immigrants are a threat. They fight a losing battle.

Thanks G! You have forgotten more about this case then most will ever learn. I feel like people point to this when dismissing the grudge as just part of the conversation and mistakenly attribute Tina to bringing the word up when it was in fact Cooper. Whoever this guy was he had an ax to grind. Maybe nothing specific as his comment suggests but just in general. The system? Society? The current state of affairs in America? Did he want money sure but I think he was striving for something more. There are less bold ways to acquire 200k criminally. He is on the low end dollar wise as far as parajacking ransom requests go. Cooper imo was a peculiar and complex individual. A man with strong opinions and convictions. Like lxchilton said it’s too general to narrow down the suspect pool but I think it should be baked into the psychological profile of Cooper.

The question should be. Does anyone think Trump's secret service protections lasts 30 minutes into the next democrat administration?

Hi Phil, Re: The majority of MAGA are old White people that are not adapting to changing employment and social dynamics. ^^^^ This. IMO their fear is that they will lose their jobs & not be able to find one. For the most part, the days of coming out of high school & finding a job, using one's labor, that will last all of one's working life, are long gone. Ad Darwin explained it, adapt or perish. Jerry Baumchen PS) While I think most of these 'Dear Abbie' columns are nothing but junk, this one caught my eye: DEAR ABBY: My husband was let go from his job due to restructuring. He’s understandably upset, and I see him sink further into depression with every rejection letter he receives for the positions he has applied for. How can I help him? -- SUPPORTIVE WIFE IN OHIO

Some of them were the middle-of-the-road iconoclastic types 50 years ago, who more and more feel as though this protects what they have, because they’ve mastered this system. They weren’t die hard evangelicals then, many of them quite the opposite. WW2 and the depression were the unifying forces of their parents; that and the smaller number of mass media outlets. Everyone listened to the same news Wendy P.

Well, mine doesn't say "liberal," but I do speak French and Spanish, and am polite. Never had an issue (yes, not even in France). I have a feeling it's that polite part that really helps, and not thinking that we have the solutions to all of the world's problems. Wendy P.

Sorry the sarcasm got lost in translation. Trumps answer to everything is an executive order.

Well, she asked if he had a grudge against the airline and he replied that he had a grudge but not against her airline...she put the word in his mouth. As to the literal interpretation of said "grudge," the state of America in 1971 is the very reason I think it's impossible to use it as a reliable investigative tool. You can choose any almost industry a there was a downturn in profits, layoffs, lives being destroyed, etc. Because the options are essentially limitless, Cooper didn't bring it up himself, and he never elaborates on the exact importance of his "grudge," I'm disinclined to take it further than that he was responding to a question in a conversational manner. He asked for a certain amount of money, tried to give some of it away, and was uninterested in any other specific items save for those used in his escape. Cooper seemed hesitant to do anything that would help identify who he was; deflecting questions about his past, thoughts on current places, reclaiming items that he had left identifying information on...why would his vague elaboration to Tina about his motive be anything other than another deflection. I will not say that he didn't have a motive; Cooper was motivated by something to commit so brazen a crime, but money was the ultimate goal. He could have been dissatisfied in a divorce or in some kind of money trouble elsewhere. He could have been unhappy with his retirement from an affected industry or even the military and decided he'd rather have a bundle of cash to launder in Vegas. tl;dr the grudge is useful only to the point that a suspect has to be at an inflection point in their life in November of 1971 that would explain why they wanted $200,000 so badly. It's something that we can use if we find a promising suspect...but it's a double edged sword because it does little to narrow down the suspect pool at all.

We spend most of the year out of the US. We associate with Europeans more than Americans along the way. We feel like we are taken for who we are, admittedly liberal Americans, and have yet to feel slighted because of Trump or Trumpism.

Sure Trump. Sure American patriots that believe every race can be and are Americans.

Agree, even AI couldn't find statistics on the humour component of international attitudes towards America's Trump blight.

As a by the by, things are better in the fam. Not great, but definitely better — seems like a progress better, not just a crisis averted better. We’ll see And thanks, folks Wendy P.