I’ll admit it. I believe there could be some psychopaths so extreme on the conservative right spectrum they would believe killing Donald Trump would be better for America. But also, the right has spread so much about hoaxes and crisis actors, why should we be expected to believe them when something real happens to one of their own?
Trump’s second assassination attempt comes about two months after the incident in rural Pennsylvania, which had been mostly forgotten a good week or two after it happened. We didn’t hear much about the suspected shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks. (And I had to Google that again.) For the most part, the media has turned its attention away as if it’s something that happens all the time.
And the second attempt comes less than one week after Trump’s outrageous performance at the Presidential Debate with Vice-President Kamala Harris. And less than two weeks after the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., people were questioning better security measures for Trump rather than many other kids.
And several schools in Springfield, Ohio along with other government buildings have been rocked with about three dozen bomb threats. Despite this, J.D. Vance, the U.S. Senator from Ohio stands firm on this claim that Haitian immigrants are abducting, killing and eating people’s pets, mostly cats and dogs. However, there hasn’t been any confirmation. And the women who first said that in a social media posts admits she didn’t really witness.
Also, the suspected missing cat that is believed to have set off this horseshit idea is no longer missing. I mean, it’s a cat. They go off an have some fun and come back. I had a cat that was stuck up in a tree for at least a day. I had another cat that would leave for days and come back. I had a cat go missing for about a month and then return. You even hear stories of cats who are able to track their humans down when they’ve moved miles away.
Vance, who only became popular following the release of an questionable autobiography, has said it’s not his duty to stick to the truth, but the media needs to question him. It sounds like to me, he’s using the same rhetoric Homer Simpson used on an older episode of The Simpsons when he said, “It takes two to lie – one to lie and one to listen.” To which Marge responds, “What does that mean?”
Exactly! What does it mean? It’s basically put the whole onus on the recipient of a lie. It’s our fault for believing it, even if we didn’t know it’s correct. But Vance got upset with Dana Bash with CNN when he asked why reporters weren’t fact-checking Vice-President Kamala Harris as much as Trump. To which she replied, most of what what Harris says is based in facts that most people already know. She doesn’t lie as much as Harris. A five-year-old literally caught with their hand in the cookie jar doesn’t lie as much as Trump does.
And that’s the problem. Trump and Vance are building a campaign based solely on lies. They know angry white Americans will get mad those Haitian immigrants, even if they’ve become naturalized citizens, are bringing their “sick voodoo culture” to America. Except there is one problem, Haiti has a higher per capita Christian population than America.
About 9 out of 10 people who live in Haiti consider themselves to be Christians or their faith is based in Christian beliefs. There are 11.58 million people who live in Haiti. That means over 10 million people who live in Haiti are Christians. It was introduced to them from Spanish and French colonizers. And the Haitians who have immigrated to America are probably 85-90 percent Christian. Maybe more.
And let’s not forget that some of the Haitians are in America because they had to relocate following the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake that registered 7.0 on the Richter scale. It also led a lot of devastation along with hundreds of thousands of dead people. Of course, a lot of MAGA people don’t care about this. Facts don’t matter. The only thing that matters is how they think things should be.
Vance has also said that he hopes to deport the immigrants and rescind their temporary protection. Sound familiar? You may not recognize it because the audio was in German and it was the 1930s. But that’s what Trump and Vance are hoping for. If only a small percentage of people believe something, it could be enough to get them the extra votes they need.
It’s the same way a litigator during a trial will ask a question they know the other counsel will object to. They want to get it out there. And even though the judge sustained the objection, there might be one hold-out on the jury who thinks if the other side objected to a line of questioning, there must be something wrong. This is the crazy mindset of the world. Getting 12 people to come to a conclusion can be a difficulty.
As someone who’s covered courts and crime as well as politics, you’re not getting the smartest people in both arenas. A lot of people get elected because of their name recognition. It’s been rumored Franklin Pierce, the 14th President, only got so far because he was best friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne who wrote a book about his life. Well, if Hawthorne admired him, maybe he is a good person to be a leader, people must have thought.
That’s how Vance became popular. And there’s been so many questions about his book, Hillbilly Elegy, that people are questioning its authenticity. Most autobiographies are bullshit. At least Chuck Barris made Confessions of a Dangerous Mind a fun read. However, we live in a society that loves “poverty porn” and “supercrips.” We love the notion that you can grow up poor and become a rich adult or have a disability and overcome it.
And I’m saying this as someone who had a small drinking problem in college and my early 20s, you got clean and sober, now get on with your life. People really want attention. They crave it. That’s their drug. That’s why Vance is the perfect running mate for Trump. They both have to have the media fawning over them. Yet now, even Fox News is turning away from Trump’s rallies as the boredom of saying the same old thing over and over don’t work anymore.
Trump has used lies and manipulation as part of his business deals because that’s all he’s used to. At 78, if this was your father, uncle and grandfather saying this, you would be thinking he’s got dementia, senility or Alzheimer’s. And they’re not even “white lies” which is what someone will tell to make people feel better or even boost them into doing something. The lies by Trump and Vance are going to get people killed.
The lies by Trump have gotten people killed. People believed the 2020 election was rigged because Trump can’t go down as a loser, even though he’s admitted it here recently. And why he’s even the front-runner of a major political party saying all this says more about the political party and the people who are involved. It’s obvious the GOP’s endgame is just to get back in power and remain in power as long as they can.
We hear about this great divide but it’s always been this way. The good news was most of the people who were part of the problem stayed out of politics. Even some conservatives are considered too light on their policies. And they even see Trump as too light on the policies.
People have been saying crazy shit for years, centuries to get others to believe it. There’s no mention of The Rapture in the Bible. It was all made up in the 1830s by a theologian John Nelson Darby. Yet, people swear that it’s the word of God. They also swear that God also commanded homosexuality is a sin, slavery is ok, so is spousal abuse, rape as long as it’s meant to conceive a child as well as child abuse and sexual assault is just fine.
Just because someone keeps saying it, doesn’t make it real. However, it can and has led to a lot of people being hurt. And when two people who wanted the highest sought offices in the country are lying to you like this, you can either deny it or go along with it. As the saying goes, “Who’s more foolish – the fool or the fool who follows him?”
What do you think? Please comment.
Zane Says 