There's plenty of idiocy on every side and from every angle. People are celebrating news that people are dead in the streets of the USA, but it's ok because he was a "fash" anyway, A 17 year old kid is going away for life because he carried a gun to a nearby state and killed two people. Or.....maybe I shouldn't leap to conclusions.....maybe the real story is that a 17 year old kid was violently assaulted in the streets and had to resort to deadly force to save his own life.
A pair of brothers where I grew up were both violent drug traffickers. Beat women, raped teenaged girls, etc. Eventually, one killed the other, and the cops couldn't ignore it, so he was hauled off to prison, when he rotted and died.
We called it a 2-for-1 special.
Once you pass a certain point, I genuinely no longer care if you're hauled off or killed. And we do, all to often, imprison people for petty crimes, tossing away both talen and money without cause...but some people gotta go, and it's all their own fault.
Murdered two people because someone threw a plastic bag at you? Buh-bye!
Joined a white supremacist gang and went rampaging through a city until someone shot you dead? Here's an alternative idea, and it's virtually free. Stay in your damn home and bitch about it online, like I'm doing. Nobody's busting shots in *my* direction.
A trial will decide which of those two things happened, at least in the official version, but which one of them is good? Oh, that's a relief. The other side is responsible.
To be fair...Very few people see any point in setting fires in buildings either - although this supposed fire that would burn down Wheeler's apartment building seems to have actually been a minor trash fire in the middle of the street. And I've said my piece about shooting off fireworks around people who've been dealing with police-fired explosives for months before - it can trigger PTSD, don't be a jerk.
But yeah, the guys ranting about how they're going to open fire, who then drive through cities opening fire on everyone? **** 'em.
As for the specific comment, it's just idiocy to think that elected officials are not only inciting violence, they are "purposefully" encouraging terrorism. I want to sit around that conference table in the Mayor's office or with the DA or wherever it is supposed to be happening. What would I see? "Bob, our terrorism numbers are way down. What can we do to meet our quota this month?"
I can easily see Dolt 45 doing exactly that, mostly because he's a willfully ignorant sociopathic white supremacist. I wouldn't say the same of the majority of US politicians, regardless of political party. Granted, republicans look like a pack of cowards groveling in front of Cheeto Benito's Twitter Armada and his death cult worshippers. But they're the ones that walked into the lion's den, so I'm hoping the lions are satisfied with eating them.
