Son of a [fluent swearing redacted]!
Jul. 13th, 2024 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter1944So. Someone took a shot at the giant orange toot. They apparently grazed him, while they themself are dead, as is one rally attendee.
I don't want it to have been a liberal who tried this. We are not known for political violence, quite the opposite, in fact, and I'd sooner we never be. I want it to have been someone even further to the right than TFG. Not that it's likely to have been. We are the people of musical instruments and songbooks and hand-lettered protest signs in multiple languages, elegant artwork and wicked wordplay. The weapons we carry around are our vocabularies and fluent historical references, come on. A sick verbal scorching, sure, but physical harm? No.
This had better galvanize us on the left, get us all behind keeping TFG out of power by strictly *nonviolent* means. His response, which I'm sure will be a sh-!tstorm of bloody retribution rhetoric and open hostility, had better get us all to coalesce. The right's about to have a screaming hate tantrum with us as the focus; we need to coalesce.
I'm terrified, and sick, to think what will happen if we don't.
Dammit, I need a drink or two to deal with tonight.
I don't want it to have been a liberal who tried this. We are not known for political violence, quite the opposite, in fact, and I'd sooner we never be. I want it to have been someone even further to the right than TFG. Not that it's likely to have been. We are the people of musical instruments and songbooks and hand-lettered protest signs in multiple languages, elegant artwork and wicked wordplay. The weapons we carry around are our vocabularies and fluent historical references, come on. A sick verbal scorching, sure, but physical harm? No.
This had better galvanize us on the left, get us all behind keeping TFG out of power by strictly *nonviolent* means. His response, which I'm sure will be a sh-!tstorm of bloody retribution rhetoric and open hostility, had better get us all to coalesce. The right's about to have a screaming hate tantrum with us as the focus; we need to coalesce.
I'm terrified, and sick, to think what will happen if we don't.
Dammit, I need a drink or two to deal with tonight.
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Date: 2024-07-15 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-07-15 12:35 am (UTC)Yeah, he had barely any internet presence.. (a 20yr old, that in of itself is a bit suspicious and makes me think he was really good at hiding his tracks) but he was known to frequent a discord server which is affiliated with the Alex Jones podcasts (among other things) and Alex has been very critical of Trump lately for those reasons.
Add that to the fact he was a shy nerdy kid that got bullied on daily basis and maybe what we are looking at is a next-level school-shooter who decided to take out someone portrayed as a known paedophile bully and danger to America and commit suicide by cop at the same time.
Who knows... unfortunately it doesn't appear he left a manifesto or anything.