politics

Please permit me to vent for but a moment.

Enough of this fucking grandstanding.

If I have to hear one more time how this is a somber moment for the country and that this is a tragedy and both sides must make peace, my lord does that dodge the elephant in the room.

I mean, Hello, McFly!? These fuckers are out there engaging in full-throated stochastic terrorist threats on a daily basis. These right-wingers are responsible for the VAST majority of political violence both in present day (that's per the FBI and DOJ) and throughout our fucking history. ProPublica reports these right-wing extremist groups are actively trying to instigate a civil war.

I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that the blood of Sandy Hook and Uvalde children fall squarely on the same fuckers whose convention listed, "We Are All Domestic Terrorists." All the trained shooters, security detail, preparedness couldn't stop some dumbass from taking pot-shots at a President... And yet, these people try to argue that MoRE GuNz = Safer Society? Please.

They can go fuck themselves. My concern stops beyond the bystander father who protected his family. Beyond that, I have no more tears to give. While I agree the fight needs won at the ballot, and that we should always use brains over bullets — I just cannot abide by hearing the incessant BoTh SiDeS bullshit as though Democrats are even remotely responsible for the heightened tensions in this. No. This is a response to blatantly clear fascism and a threat to our Democracy as we know it. Godwin himself said that it was okay to compare Trump to Hitler because it's fucking accurate.

The rules may be different for Democrats and Republicans, but those are the ones by which this game must be played. If Trump is to be defeated, it can only be by honestly adhering to norms and principles that Trump has long since torn down. The Democrats must make the case to voters that the election is a choice between these norms, and permanent rule by an explicitly fascist political party.

If the best way to defeat Trump was to honestly adhere to established political norms, Hillary Clinton would have won the election in 2016. There has hardly been a more established political candidate than Clinton. Yet, she lost. I think a candidate adhering to norms matters more when the people are generally happy with the status quo, but when the people become less satisfied with the status quo, candidates adhering to norms matters less. In fact, I think as people become less satisfied with the status quo, the more they like candidates to deviate from the norm. I mean, if people aren't very satisfied with normal, offering them more normal probably isn't going to get you very far.

A couple years ago? Sure

Now? We are on the brink. The supreme court is so corrupt that they have given trump immunity for everything he has ever or will ever do. This includes a literal violent fucking insurrection where he attempted to lynch congress and the VPOTUS.

In a world where people gave a shit about any of the above? Yeah, this would be a problem. But Democrats and The Left are hellbent on tearing down their candidate for a multitude of reasons and have consistently refused to do anything that could possibly have prevented the current mess of a supreme court.

Attempted political violence doesn't make stopping trump harder. Yes, it emboldens his base but nobody else is going to feel sympathy and the Democrats were always going to kill their own chances anyway.

This kind of moral lecturing is always directed at moderates and the left. Even when it's right wing in fighting. I'm sorry but I'm not laying down my life to keep people that constantly say I should be dead or in prison, from fighting each other.

Oh do fuck off. A republican shot him. What the fuck do you want from us?

Guys, everyone be sad for the wonderful human killed that day, who full-heartedly supported a mass-mudering fascist domestic terrorist, who wants four more years to create more fucking misery. I am so sad this former fire chief is dead. He loved his own personal family. 🎻

I don't buy the argument. This doesn't Trump more sympathetic. He doesn't look like a tough guy. He still the same incoherent fuckhead he was eight years ago. Just ask him about gun control and get his incoherent response. Thanks NRA and Republicans for making this assassination attempt easy. Too bad the assassin was incompetent. I guess Nicki Haley or whoever would have replaced DJT would probably have been younger and therefore more capable of attacking Joe's age.

A great demonstration of how right-wing violence results in lectures about how to coddle the violence of the right-wing.

No one to the left of fascism was involved. And yet.

It sure woulda got a lot easier if somebody knew how to shoot.

It only makes it harder cause he missed.