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Thursday, June 28, 2018

Thoughts and prayers? Fill in the blanks

One day the #fakepresident says the press is the enemy of the people. The next day some asshat
shoots up a newsroom killing five people. To which the #fakepresident tweets:
@reealDonaldTrump: Prior to departing Wisconsin, I was briefed on the shooting at Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to all of the First Responders who are currently on the scene.
You can only imagine what he said aside to his cohorts who encourage his constant assaults on the #fakenews, #failingnewyorktimes, #criminalCNN and every other shot he has taken at the news media. Perhaps we will hear it from him in a tweet overnight.

Here's what I think of that:
@reealDonaldTrump: Prior to departing xxxx, I was briefed on the shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to all of the First Responders who are currently on the scene.

@reealDonaldTrump: Prior to departing xxxx, I was briefed on the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to all of the First Responders who are currently on the scene.

@reealDonaldTrump: Prior to departing xxxxx, I was briefed on the shooting at the Pulse in Orlando Florida. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to all of the First Responders who are currently on the scene.

@reealDonaldTrump: Prior to departing xxxx, I was briefed on the 154 mass shootings in the United States this year. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to all of the First Responders who are currently on the scene.

Do you get the picture? Fill in the blanks for tomorrow's headline:
@reealDonaldTrump: Prior to departing ___________, I was briefed on the shooting at _____________ in _____________. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Thank you to all of the First Responders who are currently on the scene.

Last Friday the #fakepresident was at some sort of ceremony for the families of 11 people supposedly killed by immigrants illegally in this country. Eleven. He signed large pictures of the victims and used the occasion to continue his assault on folks crossing border so he can separate their families and hide their children as if the perpetrators of these crimes constituted the majority of the people seeking refuge. I don't remember and thoughts and prayers for these 11 people, at least until it is politically advantageous (he thinks) to parade their families in front of the whole country in order to convince us his immigration policies are just.

With sincere sympathy for those 11 families, I wonder how big a stadium he would need to bring out the families of people killed by mass shooters just since he took office. Yet there is no concern from the administration for those people .

No, instead of that a Stoneman Douglas student sees his home surrounded by police in a SWAT prank. An articulate student is vilified with every insult you can imagine hateful people coming up with for a high school girl who shaves her head. No thoughts and prayers there. And no action. But of course the overwhelming majority of those shooters are white American males, the same group whose families are based among the immigrant people and include the #fakepresident himself.

Gawd I am sick of thinking about this stuff, let alone writing about it. In the late of the evening as the fascism shroud pulled over the land he reached for the whiskey.

1 comment:

  1. Not funny, not interesting, not cool...this new administration is truly frightening. The future is bleak with this bizzare leader of lies, bankruptcies, Russian associates and best fiend Putin that just have stolen the election for this monster in the White House, the People's house.

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