Open Mouth, Insert Foot

 

It just keeps getting worse for Trump and his willing accomplices.

Alex Pretti is murdered on national TV, as it were, or its modern internet "viral" equivalent and it's like the Selma church bombing, or the murder of the Freedom riders, in that it will have true believers shouting, "Good riddance! Go kill those trouble makers!" but America is only 40% true Maga believers. America, near as Mad Dog can tell, is 30% alert/ 30% asleep/40% flat out insane.

Insane, as in homicidal maniac, paranoid lunatics. Those are the soulless MAGA mob, and irredeemable.

But it's that somnolent 30% who just want to drink their beer at the sports bar and watch six games on TV simultaneously, and not think too much about whether the Second Coming of Trump is actually the Fourth Reich, or whatever.

And those men and women, who don't know Stephen Miller from Pete Buttigieg, do occasionally shift their eyes to their phones or their home screens, and notice a nurse got shot 10 times in the back or a mother in an SUV got shot in the face, courtesy of those brave Seal Team 6 wannabes, of ICE and CBP. 

It's that 30% Trump worries about.

So, first they try to blame the victim, (he was a domestic terrorist attempting to kill CBP agents) and when that didn't work, they put out a (possibly faked) video showing the nurse make have had a temper, and while not violent, was at least provocable, and when that made it look like his murder may have been pay back for an encounter 11 days earlier, so the shooting was not just random boys-will-be-boys when you give them lethal toys, but a planned, calculated pay back for stomping on our taillight, the MAGA crowd just kept trying to move away from the whole murder thing, but they find themselves in the quicksand of MAGA mewling, and the more they move, the quicker they sink. 

What Mad Dog thinks they need is a wardrobe makeover.

Shuck the whole Seal Team 6- I- am- a-predator thing and maybe adopt the New Hampshire National Guard look: During COVID, which is the only time Mad Dog actually saw them outdoors, they were wonderful, and you drove up and got your vaccine through the car door window or inside their tent, and they thanked you, and you thanked them, and mothers mentioned their unmarried daughters might be needing a jab, and the Guardsmen's faces were hidden behind their masks so you couldn't actually see their reactions, but they were disciplined enough to not roll their eyes.

Now those guys were actually GUARDING the community.

Mad Dog loved the COVID vaccination programs--it was actual public health and real community, and even though some of it happened during the first Trump administration, it worked very well.

Oddly enough, Operation Warp Speed was the only good thing Trump ever did--actually, not really. He didn't actually DO that operation so much as he got out of the way, but that was something, but Trump rarely acknowledges he had anything to do with vaccinations, Mad Dog is guessing because so many of the MAGA weird think vaccinations cause autism, and public health is government tyranny, and, oh, right, RFKJR is saying they are BAAAD.