hey MAGA, remember this?

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We knew there was going to be violence, didn’t we. I mean, the threat of violence has been a constant theme in the MAGAverse. Just a few days ago, Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, announced, “[W]e are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Hell, Trump his ownself, during the George Floyd protests, asked his Sec. of Defense, “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”

Of course there was going to be violence. We just didn’t expect the violence would be directed at Trump. It’s always been MAGA that’s been doing the threatening. They’re the ones with all the guns. Democrats and the left have all been threatening to…you know, vote. We’ve been threatening to…you know, hold criminal investigations and give Trump and his MAGA fuckwits a chance to defend themselves in court. We’ve been threatening them with the Constitution of the United States. Or the tattered shreds of the Constitution after SCOTUS ripped it up.

And MAGA? This is their approach:

A pickup tailgate with the image of a kidnapped President Biden.

We post images of Trump in an orange jumpsuit on social media. They celebrate the imagined kidnapping of Joe Biden. And let’s not forget, just four years ago 13 men were arrested by the FBI and charged in a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and ‘try’ her for the crime of…you know, implementing Covid public health restrictions.

But the MAGAverse is trying, once again, to turn reality on its head. Here’s one of the headlines in the morning’s Washington Post.

Trump allies immediately blame Biden, Democrats for their rhetoric

There are LOTS of examples of GOP politicians and supporters blaming Democrats. I’ll just mention one. Senator Tim Scott, once a hopeful VP candidate, said “This was an assassination attempt aided and abetted by the radical Left and corporate media incessantly calling Trump a threat to democracy, fascists, or worse.” Scott ignores the fact that Trump actually IS a threat to democracy.

At this point, we know very little about what happened yesterday. We know the shooter was a 20-year-old registered Republican armed with an AR-15 style rifle. That’s about it; that’s about all we actually know at the moment. We’ll know more by the end of the day. We’ll also be inundated by a cascade of conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation, and outright bullshit. It’ll be hard to separate what we know from the bullshit. Hell, a lot of folks won’t even try to separate it. MAGA won’t.

But we can count on this: Democrats and folks on the left will be held to a higher standard of behavior than Republicans and other MAGA fuckwits.

6 thoughts on “hey MAGA, remember this?”

    • You can always say what you think here. I’m guessing you’re thinking it’s a shame that the round wasn’t two inches in one direction. A LOT of people are thinking that.

      Me, I’d rather see Trump defeated at the ballot box than killed. But I admit, I can’t see MAGA surviving without Trump–and the sooner the MAGA movement is gone, the safer the nation (and the world) is.

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      • Goodness so would I, rather see him defeated at the ballot box. But I’m not confident that he can be anymore. The level of scheming and lying, the gaslighting and coercion, are so alarmingly high it’s putting the vote under huge strain. We are seeing this around the world too, not just in America.

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  2. Up here in Canada, I just continue to be appalled by everything Trump says or does, and, honestly, I’m sorry the shooter missed. I asked my husband what he thought, and he said it could have been a false flag event, staged by the Republicans themselves. The whole thing seems weirdly choreographed.

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    • It’s almost always a mistake to assume complexity when simplicity offers a reasonable answer. There’s no reason to assume conspiracy when this crime can easily be explained by rage or hatred on the shooter’s part, complacency and incompetence by the Secret Service and local law enforcement, laziness and the desire to save a buck on the part of event planners.

      It’ll probably turn out to be a kid with emotional and personality issues who had access to a highly effective firearm and no obvious reason to live.

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      • Indeed, “Never assume conspiracy when stupidity will do.”

        And I think you’re right about the kid.

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