the violence Trump experienced wasn’t political violence, it was America’s ordinary gun violence that almost took Trump’s life.
The shooter wasn’t a democrat.
Wasn’t an illegal immigrant.
Wasn’t an LGBTQ person.
Wasn’t an African American.
It wasn’t anyone Trump said is poisoning the blood of Americans.
The shooter was white, male, young and a registered republican, this wasn’t political violence, it was the same old gun violence that has always cursed America, a gun violence that Republicans hypocritically refuse to do anything about!
Trump wasn’t attacked by a transgender member of MS-13 who snuck in with the Mexican caravan to be radicalized by Black Lives Matter while majoring in Critical Race Theory at Antifa University, he was shot by another white boy Republican who was bullied at school and who took vengeance at his own insignificance into his own hands at an attempt at immortality.
These are Republicans worshipping the gun this sad lonely white boy Republican used…
…so the violence that Trump experienced wasn’t political violence, it was just America’s ordinary crisis of wounded masculinity mixing with easy availability of guns. The very same wounded masculinity that Trump appeals to with Kid Rock, Dana White and Hulk Hogan is the same wounded masculinity that drives bullied white boys into mass murder with AR-15s.
That Trump has managed to make an assassination attempt that his culture poisonously worships and celebrates into an attack on the Left righteously calling out his Orange Fascism is an audacity that Americans are dumb enough to fall for.
This is America now…
…this is America now…
…this is America now…
…and this was always America…
…now Trump has claimed he was saved by God, we inch terrifyingly closer to the American Midnight.
Same thing coming to NZ with the gun lobby pulling strings in the ACT party .We will be walking around armed to the teeth because of the hatred they are festering on kiwis ,some of whom are stupid enough to believe DA MAORIS ARE STEALING THE WATER OR HE IS TRYING TO STEAL YOUR COOKIE .
You have ACT because we are sick of emotional, knee-jerk reactions writing gun laws.
So instead they come on TDB writing comments!
Just keeping you honest.
Yeah, blame the guns, not the poor lost boy.
First sensible thing you have ever said even if you are being sarcastic.
You could have added something about the dickheads who write the law that allows this immature adult to have access to guns.
Here comes Act trying to do the same here.
Unfortunately, we’ve had too many idiots here writing nonsense laws, cutting funding for vetting etc in NZ, now it’s time for some sensible laws.
Like the laws you’d like Erik N.
I’d pass a law that forced every gun nut to take an E then watch an animal die of gunshot wounds. Listen to it trying to breath through the blood in its lungs, watch it kick its last, listen to it wail in fear.
If you can do that you can have your cock-extender bang-bang stick back.
I’ve never seen a steel target bleed, if you have, probably lay off the LSD.
Who scrapped the proper vetting system we used to have? Who armed Tarrant?
Probably NatAct coalition 2014/2017.
Certainly Labour/NZF wouldn’t have made getting guns any easier.
Wouldn’t have had time to amend the legislation and Peters only voted for change after the event because it was politically expediant at the time.
Now he’s flipped for the same reason.
It was Ardern & the Police.
Look it up.
It’s why need need laws that aren’t built on ignorance & emotion.
Since it was only the gun that the poor lost boy had that caused the problem the most rational response is to blame the gun. That might not suit your gun fetish but normal people can distinguish between rational uses for guns & rapid-fire military-style weapons that are all about ego for the owner & mass destruction.
If he’d used a bolt action 303 with a scope, the Republicans would be looking for a new candidate too.
That’s a fair statement. Calling this kid an assassin is rather overstating his credentials. But my word, aren’t they getting mileage out it. Let’s face it, that orange SOB had his fist in the air because he instantly realised it was worth a lot of coin, and that it couldn’t have been Melania
In terms of publicity & sheer visual impact, you couldn’t ask for better.
Lovely post Martyn. Totally agree. I’ve read some of the YT comments, especially on the right wing sites, and they’re strangely muted on pretty much every point of you make. On some of the left wing sites over there, there’s a wide range of opinions, from deploring gun violence entering the political scene, to “why the hell didn’t the shooter make sure by using an RPG instead of an AR15”. As outside observers, we kiwis can draw lessons and parallels with the polarisation in USA, but overall, our turnout for elections is around the 80%+ mark; there’s is usually just over the 50% mark. The reality is that just as baseball and gridiron dominate there, rugby and cricket get more interest here. Politics, it seems, takes second place to the 21st century “opiate of the masses”. In both countries, people don’t get involved unless personally affected, or have an interest.
While there are times I deplore the apparent disinterest, I think fundamentally, it’s healthy that we by and large, trust the institutions developed over the last 200 years, and leave it to activists to agitate. That’s where this blog comes in.
Delightfully said. My Appalachian second cousins. Scoots. Booze, battling, bastardry and bare-arse braindead religion.
Or, if you haven’t noticed the similarities between NZ and America you haven’t been following the evidence. Imprisonment, teenage pregnancy, violence, but, thankfully, the Scots religion seeped out here. Poor Amerika.
What’s with this post? It is like a new sort of table tennis using bouncing grenades. Go away you nasty boys and play your games away from the adults and children.
If Martyn stuck to his knitting, I wouldn’t need to be here.
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