When Ronald Reagan was shot on 30 March 1981, his wound was not immediately noticed. It wasn’t until he started bleeding from the mouth that the car was diverted from the White House to the hospital. The story goes that upon arrival, the president said to the surgeons, ‘I just hope you’re Republicans.’ A doctor is said to have replied: ‘Today, Mr. President, we’re all Republicans.’
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American politics has sunk so low into the cesspit of political despair, there will be a rare few who can’t bring themselves to say this. Rather than muster up the humour of Reagan, or the humanity of the doctors, they won’t hesitate to keep pouring petrol onto a nation already ablaze. Those takes won’t be received very well. If there is anything left tying America’s national fabric together, it’s that such instances of violence can’t be tolerated.
No the fuck we aren’t. I’m not going to openly advocate for political violence because I find it to be a tactical mistake, but don’t think for a second that the world wouldn’t be better off without that fucker in it. He needs to be crushed today, just like he needed to be crushed yesterday. Let’s do it the peaceful way in November so we don’t have to use other options later.
VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.Get others to vote.
The thing about political violence is only one party has been advocating for it so I’m not going to feel too bad when they get what they want even if I never wanted it in the first place.