Now a second loon has pointed a long gun at the thankfully-ex-president. One loon pulled the trigger in July and clipped The Only One Who Can Fix It in the ear. The other one, this past weekend, was subdued before he got the aspiring King of the World in his sight.
So what do No. 45 and his Ohio messenger boy say afterward? That the Democrats are responsible for these attacks. And their brother in evil spirit, Elon Musk, wonders publicly why our holy land’s mental patients can’t start opening fire on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
And, to think, some 45 percent of the electorate wants this capo and his mob to move back into the White House next January.
People, we Americans are a fucked up bunch.
And I’m not going to let those on my side of the fence off easily either. My social media feed is rife with folks swearing to their goddesses that the Trump crew has staged one, the other, or both of the assassination attempts.
I’m going to say the same thing I say to Trumpists when they spew their “theories”: show me evidence. Until then, these dramatic, fantastic allegations are irresponsible. It’s not that it’s impossible for a demagogic, wannabe emperor and his co-conspirators to stage a phony attack. Hell, The Hillbilly Elegist just a couple of days ago admitted he and his boss made up the lie about Haitian immigrants eating pet pooches and kitty cats, reasoning, “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” Old Joey Goebbels would have grinned in approval. The Trump/Vance syndicate is more than capable of exaggerating, cherry-picking, fibbing, lying, and even choreographing false flag incidents to serve their malevolent ends.
Would your jaw drop if you learned the sniper at Trump’s Florida golf club was a put-up job? Me neither.
That kind of thing is not unheard of in American history. For instance, consider the bounty alleged to have been offered for anyone ambitious enough to tail and kill Martin Luther King, Jr. until the very day someone actually did it. The same year James Earl Ray hoped to earn his hefty financial bonus, the FBI and the Chicago Police actually planted agents provocateurs in the local antiwar movement, hoping to smear the peaceniks. The G-men and the cops also teamed up to cultivate a plant within the local Black Panther Party chapter. The plan resulted in the state-sanctioned murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on December 4, 1969.
The fact is, even in our land, there exist powerful people as amoral as Nazis, Stalinists, Iranian mullahs, and even the fictional sadists of the book, 1984.
All that said, we still need proof to convict the Trump gang and there is none as yet regarding its staging of the assassination attempts.
Just because we want something to be true doesn’t make it so.
My team sneers at Trumpists for that very sin.