A modest proposal, re: Trump and his "very good people"

The Governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire. These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 1, 2020

These "very good people" brought tactical military weapons onto the grounds of the statehouse, which vividly signaled violent intent against elected, local authority. And they did so with the express encouragement of the president of the United States. 

Unlike the American Revolution, unprecedented in U.S. history is armed, top-down rebellion — which is precisely what the Michigan protests are. If President Washington were still around, he'd mobilize a federal militia against his 45th successor, much as he did with the Whiskey Rebellion's rabble-rousers of 1794. He would then order the proper hanging of the executive instigator, the thoroughly unAmerican Donald J. Trump.

Trump's tweet was also, of course, just another sick adventure in galloping distraction from having committed negligent homicide against tens of thousands of American citizens. Rather than more headlines and top-of-the-hour cable news about his premeditated murders, a refocus on his subversive exhortations is what he aimed for. Once again he's outraging and thus "owning the libs" by trashing his office and burning the Constitution — but this time by fomenting armed rebellion as well.    

In a just and, as Trump would have it, barbarous world, this traitorous 45th president would be summarily hanged at dawn. To paraphrase the 3rd president of the United States, many would hold it that a little execution now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is, perhaps, a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. 

But, being fundamentally opposed to capital punishment, I for one would be fine with simply exiling the insurrectionist jackass to some little shithole of a country.

Comments

[ren]

At least they're wearing PPE.

[Anne J]

Oh they want their lives back? I'm sure there are 63,000+ families in mourning wanting their loved ones' lives back.

[Peter G]

The goofiness of these militia idiots transcends normal idiocy. But at least some are smart enough to conceal their faces. Won't help much since the same idiots like to reveal themselves on social media. Do I think later repercussions will befall them at the behest of the government? Nope. They demand the economy be reopened for their pleasure. That's nice. Though it kind of presumes any government could order a general reopening of the economy. They can't order you to go to a theater. Or buy a fridge. Or eat out in a restaurant. Or anything.

What I am trying to imagine is what small business wants these assholes as employees or customers. I would not let one of these assholes near my business. I would not let one of them so much as cut my lawn. And I happen to be a perfectly normal kind of guy who doesn't want paranoid screaming gun nuts anywhere near me or mine. This has played out before. If you watched what happened to the Proud Boys or those racist dirtbags that infested Charlottesville much becomes clear. What happened was that in the pre-covid time of the lowest unemployment in decades, those nitwits got fired or couldn't get one in the first place. And given the immortality that the internet offers, probably never will.

[Anne J]

I doubt many of them need to work if they can afford high powered weaponry and are out protesting on a weekday. They are selfish assholes protesting in favor of forcing workers to choose between their livelihoods and their lives.

[Liam]

One day, in my fondest dreams, El Douche will get the full Mussolini treatment.

[shsavage]

It looks as if Trump is planning to monetize the protest movement by marketing Trump MAGA branded facemasks. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-face-masks-campaign-older-voters-coronavirus_n_5eaca1f9c5b68d884dffd7da

The irony stings. It burns. Nothing says MAGA like 66,154 dead and counting, 30 million out of work, and the worst depression since 1929. Not that it will resonate with the base. As I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, even in 1932, Herbert Hoover collected about 40% of the vote.