But what if it had been Trump himself who had been shot away, and only Trump’s ear fragment had been saved by security? Could Trump’s meat ear rim itself have been persuaded to run for the presidency? Could Trump’s ear flesh fragment have beaten Biden in a democratic election? Almost certainly. And would an America governed by a small severed slice of Trump’s ear have offered the world a more secure future than an America governed by Trump, or an America governed by Biden? Again, the answer, sadly, is a resounding yes.
The American Christian right believes that Trump, despite his obvious moral corruption, is a massive tool of a God bent on shaping America into their own twisted theocracy. Evangelical Christian America believes their selectively myopic deity actually intervened to save Trump from the gunman, while leaving a heroic volunteer firefighter to take the bullet. Blessed are the firefighters. But how much more useful to this morally equivocating God is a simple severed ear, unencumbered by accusations that it tried to overturn an election, or paid an adult film star hush money, or stole classified documents, or sexually assaulted a woman in a department store. The ear would be innocent and pure and good, like Jesus, or the unborn child.
And if an ear had, as Trump did, repeatedly socialised with the unsavoury sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his young friends, it is unlikely it would have been able to do anything inappropriate, due to its being an ear. And should the ear be found to have lost the public trust, it could, due to its inability to defend itself or argue its case, be easily dispensed with by the Republicans without too much fuss. Ear today, gone tomorrow.
My dude, he was at a Trump rally. Wanting to take away women’s rights, demonizing immigrants, disenfranchising non-white voters, pushing for a white Christofascist ethnostate, increasing taxes on the poor while removing them for the rich, and supporting a criminal who wants to be a dictator (among other evils) more than offsets anything he might have done as a firefighter.
I am not saying he deserved to be shot (because no American does) but he also doesn’t deserve any amount of worship either.
Saw a FB post from him with the “Killdozer” drawing, and the text of ‘Tread on them’. He may have done good work, but that does not make him heroic.
I know Americans like to say “American” instead of “person” all the time, but are you really implying the rest of us deserve to get shot?
Way to put words in their mouth. They said American because it was an American who was shot on American soil.
I think they’re implying that the rest of you are much less likely to.
There is that, I suppose. Would just be nice if this self-centred speech pattern weren’t a thing. I don’t really see it in other English speaking countries, but all the time in US news and media.
Maybe. I am an American, so I don’t have a decent perspective from the outside. I don’t see it here as much, though; at least not outside the MAGA crowd.
Most of the rest of the civilized world effectively banned individual ownership of guns. Aren’t you more worried about getting stabbed?
Not really?
It only takes one of you who deserves to be shot to invalidate “no person”. But I think there are plenty of Americans who DO deserve to be shot.