Trump Shot

What are the odds that the person who advocated for the most violence over the past eight years got shot? OK, in this case…grazed in the ear.

First of all, this was a horrible event. I don’t advocate violence against anyone. While I’ll satirize, I think the “dammit he missed” jokes are too far. Let the other side be vile, like when Donald Trump Jr spread conspiracy theories and jokes about Paul Pelosi being attacked inside his home.

I don’t believe this was staged either. If you’re posting online that you think it was, stop. Leave the conspiracy theories to the MAGAts. We’re supposed to be better than this.

The most horrible part to me, even worse than someone trying to a former president’s (sic) life is that the grifter will make the most of it to boost his image, campaign, and merch. Donald Trump seized the moment for a photo-op and his cult is eating it up. He’s now a living martyr. Now they’ll claim he’s risking his life “for us.” That makes me sick when he’s the most selfish person in the world.

This will play into the claims of being victimized. Someone at the podium during the Republican National Convention this week will claim “they” tried to kill him,” despite the shooter being a Republican.

I’ve already seen idiots on Twitter claim Biden sent the gunman. Now they’ll claim he registered as a Republican just to throw people off, and he probably was registered while President Obama’s birth certificate was being placed in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin when he was born in Kenya.

I’ll write more about this but I have to pack for Milwaukee, which should be even more interesting now.

I was doing laundry last night and I was going to start this cartoon after I put my load into the dryer (hee hee…load)…and I locked myself out of my apartment. It was around 10 p.m. The super of my building is the soundest sleeper in the world as banging on his door and windows while shouting his name will not wake him up, even in his tiny studio apartment. I was locked outside for eight hours. EIGHT FUCKING HOURS.

After I got into my apartment, I kicked out this cartoon, and then I went to bed.

Let me close with this.

Elon Musk posted last night that Trump is the toughest person to ever run for president since Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech. Trump made himself look fierce and tough by pumping his fist in the air while shouting “Fight, fight, fight.” Again, he’s pushing violence.

The difference between Teddy’s and Trump’s shootings is that Teddy was actually shot, not grazed, in the chest. Trump was grazed in the ear. Trump immediately went to the hospital. Teddy finished his speech.

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