I've been reading your thoughtful newsletters for quite some time now, but THIS ONE is why I upgraded to a paid subscription. The corruption, nihilism, and cruelty of this government must be shouted from the rooftops, so that even the Foxnews-addled masses might hear it. Thank you!
The thing about Trump's "grief" is that we know it was all for show. Recall Jimmy Kimmel's line about Trump's mourning Charlie Kirk being like "how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish." He looked irritated at Kirk's remembrance ceremony, too, like he was upset that he wasn't the star. The man is incapable of genuine sympathy.
While you're right that Trump probably won't face any serious backlash about his post, maybe some of his supporters will be turned off by how reprehensible his comments are. A man can hope, eh?
Given that Lauren Vaughn posted “thoughts and prayers,” and that she meant that sincerely, we now know that we were right in our assumption of what that phrase actually means.
The persecution of people post Charlie Kirk brought to mind neighbors turning in neighbors throughout Hitler’s Germany and occupied nations or during the Cultural Revolution in China or during our era of McCarthyism. Encouraging and rewarding this type of behavior is a way to multiply fear and obedience by empowering and encouraging some to police others. Much suffering is inflicted and it does not ultimately end well for the persecutors or those who are persecuted. We need to be documenting these collaborators and preparing to hold them to account when we are able. At our own peril, we let them slink off into the darkness to continue their hate mongering as we have in the past (post Civil War, post Tulsa Massacre, letting Roy Cohn be resurrected to mentor Trump, not going after Bush and Cheney for war crimes and grifting for their made up War on Terror and instituting the modern surveillance state ie Patriot Act and ICE. )
Thank you, Ms. Molloy; I salute you for your courage. And I wonder at the deluded blindness of those who yet imagine this infinitely hateful nation -- so conquered by its white majority's racio-mysogynistic malice, it voted itself into a Failed State -- will somehow shed the Christonazi shackles with which, like jewels of triumph, it now bedecks itself so proudly. Though I remain agnostic about the psychics' claims Trump is the literal reincarnation of Hitler, I have no doubt that, with his morally imbecilic finger on the planetary doomsday button, he is in reality bottomlessly worse, that -- short of some miracle we cannot foresee -- there is no rational possibility of rescue from the Evil he has unleashed, and that the best for which we can therefore hope is a warrior's death, its honor earned by our refusal to surrender.
I've been reading your thoughtful newsletters for quite some time now, but THIS ONE is why I upgraded to a paid subscription. The corruption, nihilism, and cruelty of this government must be shouted from the rooftops, so that even the Foxnews-addled masses might hear it. Thank you!
The thing about Trump's "grief" is that we know it was all for show. Recall Jimmy Kimmel's line about Trump's mourning Charlie Kirk being like "how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish." He looked irritated at Kirk's remembrance ceremony, too, like he was upset that he wasn't the star. The man is incapable of genuine sympathy.
While you're right that Trump probably won't face any serious backlash about his post, maybe some of his supporters will be turned off by how reprehensible his comments are. A man can hope, eh?
Given that Lauren Vaughn posted “thoughts and prayers,” and that she meant that sincerely, we now know that we were right in our assumption of what that phrase actually means.
The persecution of people post Charlie Kirk brought to mind neighbors turning in neighbors throughout Hitler’s Germany and occupied nations or during the Cultural Revolution in China or during our era of McCarthyism. Encouraging and rewarding this type of behavior is a way to multiply fear and obedience by empowering and encouraging some to police others. Much suffering is inflicted and it does not ultimately end well for the persecutors or those who are persecuted. We need to be documenting these collaborators and preparing to hold them to account when we are able. At our own peril, we let them slink off into the darkness to continue their hate mongering as we have in the past (post Civil War, post Tulsa Massacre, letting Roy Cohn be resurrected to mentor Trump, not going after Bush and Cheney for war crimes and grifting for their made up War on Terror and instituting the modern surveillance state ie Patriot Act and ICE. )
Does Trump think Reiner was killed by one of his stochastic terrorists?
Bravo for those filing suit. That they should have to do so is deplorable. Clinton was correct. There are way too many deplorables in this country
Thank you, Ms. Molloy; I salute you for your courage. And I wonder at the deluded blindness of those who yet imagine this infinitely hateful nation -- so conquered by its white majority's racio-mysogynistic malice, it voted itself into a Failed State -- will somehow shed the Christonazi shackles with which, like jewels of triumph, it now bedecks itself so proudly. Though I remain agnostic about the psychics' claims Trump is the literal reincarnation of Hitler, I have no doubt that, with his morally imbecilic finger on the planetary doomsday button, he is in reality bottomlessly worse, that -- short of some miracle we cannot foresee -- there is no rational possibility of rescue from the Evil he has unleashed, and that the best for which we can therefore hope is a warrior's death, its honor earned by our refusal to surrender.