The survey<\/a> concluded that 41 percent of respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 \u2013 a percentage that far exceeds any other age group \u2013 found the shooting to be either \u201csomewhat\u201d or \u201ccompletely\u201d acceptable.<\/p>\n\u201cAdditionally, 23 percent of adults in their 30s thought the shooting was acceptable, along with 13 percent of adults in their 40s, 8 percent in their 50s and 10 percent in their 60s and 70s.\u201d<\/p>\n
–Raw Story<\/p>\n
Donald Trump (R-Rich White Trash) weighed in, saying, \u201cI think it\u2019s really terrible that some people seem to admire him (Luigi Mangione), like him. And I was happy to see that it wasn\u2019t specific to this gentleman that was killed. It\u2019s just an overall sickness, as opposed to a specific sickness. That was a terrible thing. It was cold-blooded. Just a cold-blooded, horrible killing. And how people can like this guy is \u2014 that\u2019s a sickness, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n
As usual, Trump got it completely wrong. It was specific, if not to Brian Thompson personally, to his role in the medical coverage system. Pretending it was result of of \u201coverall sickness\u201d is just giving protection to our screwed-up medical system.<\/p>\n
That America has an overall sickness is beyond dispute. Just the other day we had another school shooting, three dead including the shooter, a 15 year-old girl. Just as I was responding to a gun nut on Facebook who called me \u201cevil\u201d for advocating for gun licenses. (Haven\u2019t heard back from him.)<\/p>\n
And of course, the fact that Trump got elected is proof that a plurality of voters have lost their minds and their sense of decency.<\/p>\n
But Trump\u2019s personal contributions to that \u201coverall sickness\u201d could fill volumes. He swears he\u2019s going to issue a blanket pardon to all the rioters jailed in the wake of the January 6th<\/sup> insurrection, quite a few of whom are violent, unrepentant criminal filth. He wants to try members of the J6 Congressional committee for treason, apparently unaware that quite aside from the fact that they were committing the opposite of treason, the Constitution explicitly protects members of Congress for anything said in the chambers while in session. Doesn\u2019t matter, I suppose: none of Trump\u2019s supporters care what the Constitution says.<\/p>\nHe hasn\u2019t hesitated to call for the execution of protesters\u2014yes, including peaceful protest\u2014who didn\u2019t riot on his behalf. Death is cheap under Trump; he has a long list of people who he thinks should be executed or thrown in prison for life. He very avidly wants to execute people, and has stuff the once-proud Supreme Court who have allowed executions to proceed, even when the prosecutors and the family of the victims begged them not to. He has proudly posed with the likes of Daniel Penny and Kyle Rittenhouse. Both indisputably killed people, but got off in court. More of that overall sickness, I suppose.<\/p>\n
But then, we\u2019ve established that under fascist rule, you don\u2019t have to actually be guilty of any crime in order to justify being executed by the state. Trump has made that clear. His<\/i> criminals get pardons, of course.<\/p>\n
Sebastrian Gorka, who looks and sounds like an extra from a film about Stalin\u2019s Politburo, came out the other day and said that anyone who expresses approval of the slaying of Brian Thompson should be executed. Gorka may sound like the dreary, bitter old drunk at the end of the bar whom everyone hope will pass out soon, but he is slated to serve as deputy assistant to the president and serve as senior director for counterterrorism in the NSC.<\/p>\n
Gorka is probably something of a pretend intellectual and self-styled political scientist, but even he ought to be aware that while advocating for someone\u2019s murder is a criminal act (as well it should be), expressing approval that someone died is not. \u201cThey ought to shoot so-and-so\u201d can get you arrested and possibly convicted. \u201cThat son-of-a-bitch had it coming\u201d is not a crime. It\u2019s just an opinion.<\/p>\n
But Gorka is more interested, like his empty, vainglorious master, in causing suppression and fear, and has no use for any moral niceties that may be involved.<\/p>\n
But he likes history, so he should be aware of a saying about powerful leaders that has applied everywhere throughout history: \u201cWhen you make dissent impossible, you make revolution inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n
I doubt Gorka or Trump possess the wisdom to know when to slip the iron fist back into the velvet glove. Meanwhile, the new regime will add me to their list, if I\u2019m not already there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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