https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/charlie-kirk-legacy
"In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, part of a distressing wave of
political violence stalking this country, it would seem that the United States
is coming apart at the seams, poised at the precipice of disintegration. So
much hatred, so much anger, so much toxic rot, and so many, many guns. We are
boiling a poisonous stew. Can anyone save us? Is there anyone or anything that
can possibly cool us to a simmer, at least? At this time, it appears not—in
fact, frighteningly, the rage that got us to this grim, spooky moment seems
only to be spiraling.
Charlie Kirk had barely been declared dead when President Trump hideously used
his killing to falsely blame and attack the Left. Trump seized the moment of
widespread mourning to spread more hatred and division, in a reckless, angry
televised speech that hurled blame at the Left despite not a scintilla of
evidence about Kirk’s assassin or their politics. In a predictable yet
grotesque display, Trump raged, “For years, those on the radical Left have
compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass
murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the
terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”
Trump went on to enumerate the attempts on his own life, the shooting of United
Healthcare’s CEO, the shooting of Steve Scalise, and “attacks [on] ICE
agents”—zero mention of the assassinations of Democratic Minnesota lawmakers or
others who don’t fit Trump’s vision of worthy right-wing martyrs.
The man who said there were “good people on both sides” of the Charlottesville
killings by right-wing white supremacists could not bring himself to even
mention the tragic shootings of people on the other side of the political
aisle."
Via Joyce Donahue.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
