Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left - Victor Davis Hanson

Now, it as if the imagined killing of Trump had been mainstreamed and become acceptable in a way inconceivable of other presidents.  - Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson
(Do we remember the rodeo clown who merely wore an Obama mask during a bull riding contest and was punished by being permanently banned by the Missouri State Fair authorities?) 
So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump: 
  • By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), 
  • by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), 
  • by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), 
  • by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), 
  • by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), 
  • by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), 
  • by bounty killing (George Lopez), 
  • by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), 
  • by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), 
  • by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), 
  • just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or 
  • by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”). 
Or should we deplore the use of telescopic scope imagery, given that the Left blamed Sarah Palin for once using bullseye spots on an election map of opposition congressional districts, claiming that such usage had incited the mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner?..

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