The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats.

State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began at around 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Saturday, sources told local news outlet FITSNews.

Goodstein was reportedly not at home at the time of the fire, but at least three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries. According to the St. Paul’s Fire District, which responded to the scene, the occupants had to be rescued via kayak. Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack.

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    We all know who was responsible. This was a blatant attack by maga, plain and simple. There will be no real investigation from the government or police, and they want us to know that.

    If you’re looking for something to do to feel less powerless, gear up to stay safe. Get cameras, fire extinguishers, defense materials, anything helps. The more of us that are prepared the safer we all are.

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    It was declared an accident. I still haven’t heard a cause of said accident. But that’s a helluva blaze to be accidental considering two people were home at the time.

    Edit: Article says there was an explosion. Doesn’t say what flavor of explosion.

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    Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and later reversed by the state Supreme Court. The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers, of over three million registered voters as part of President Donald Trump’s March executive order restricting non-citizens from registering to vote. (Non-citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal and state elections.)

    This whole entire thing is fucked yep. Even more so now that Trump is deploying national guard troops everywhere.

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    “set”? But " Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack."

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    Still being investigated as to whether it’s arson or not. Time begging for clicks these days apparently.

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    I’m sure this was political violence perpetrated by someone who also disagrees with trump right?

    Right?

    Huh.

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    The word “could” is doing heavily lifting there.

    Remember at this moment we have no idea why this home caught fire. We might later but at this point this is all clickbait.

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      What’s funny about that is if a judge’s house caught fire during the Biden administration, this kind of speculation wouldn’t even happen because Biden didn’t run a mafia State like the Trump regime.

      Whether it’s true or not at this point is irrelevant. The point is that under a mafia State, it’s more likely and believable, tells you everything you need to know about living in Trump’s Amerika.

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        Biden didn’t run a mafia State

        You’re right, but I couldn’t tell you how many times I heard “Biden crime family” in the past 5 years. They’re deluded into thinking that Biden did run a Mafia state, so even if they understood what trump is doing as Mafia shit, they’d excuse it as “just doing what the other side does”.

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        Except it isn’t more likely. Arson is not the most common cause of house fires. It is entirely possible this was an accident.

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          It’s also possible you did it. Neither is particularly likely, but it being a random accident is about as likely as you actually being the person who did it. So I suppose the cops should raid your house just to check. After all, we can’t be sure. Better send the SWAT team to your home just in case.

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            Neither is particularly likely, but it being a random accident is about as likely as you actually being the person who did it.

            No? This is an insane argument.

            I found a random statistic online that a home has a 1 in 413 chance of a fire in a given year, lets round up to 1 in 1000. It may be not exactly right, but within an order of magnitude. Trump criticized this judge, any time within about a month would get people saying this- so lets say the stats are there is a 1 in 12,000 chance of any particular person’s house burning down within a month of when Trump criticizes them. But Trump doesn’t criticize just 1 person a year, lets lowball estimate he criticizes 100 people a year. So that’s a 100 in 12,000 or 1 in 120 chance that in any particular year someone Trump criticizes house will burn down within a “suspicious” amount of time. That is nowhere near impossibly low, and now if you add in all the other unlikely but bad things that could happen to them- it happening sometimes is increasingly likely.

            Now compare that with the one person writing this comment of the lowball estimate of 100 million people in America who could commit arson(again assuming it was arson).

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            We currently have no evidence at all forany conclusion so any version of “x or y is more likely” isn’t coming from an informed place.

            IRL the most common cause if home fires is not arson. Until we have evidence that it is arson we should not presume it to be. This is how logical thinking works.

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              You’re being purposefully dense. There’s having an open mind, and then there’s having a mind so open your brain falls out. I don’t assume you’re a complete idiot, which is why malice on your part is most likely.

              And we do have evidence. The three components of a crime are means, motive, and opportunity. And we have abundant evidence for motive. If you tried your argument in court, you would be laughed out of a courtroom.

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                No, I am not being dense. We have zero evidence backing any theory right now so presuming violence rather than the much more common cause of fires is a stretch. It could be arson but right now you have nothing that suggests this other than vibes.