What is WRONG with people?
Connecticut has another assassination fantasist
Connecticut is one of the bluest of states, so it came as a shock when earlier this month, Brookfield’s First Selectwoman Tara Carr posted several times something that Twitter (and others, including me) interpreted to be a suggestion to assassinate Pres. Biden.
Twitter suspended her account.
Carr insisted when she wrote “one shot, one kill,” she was referring to the Chinese spy balloon, but read Kevin Rennie’s account. No. I’m sorry, but no.
And then a couple of days ago, a small regional newspaper in Connecticut published the letter to the editor, “If Only...” The assassination fantasy poem ran in Rivereast News Bulletin, owned by the same family that owns The Glastonbury Citizen.
I mean it rhymes, but Lord. Word got around. Rather quickly, the below appeared online (though there was no way to remove the nastiness from the print version):
We know how these things go. Someone does something awful, the world cries foul, and occasionally, there follows an apology. Here’s the apology:
This kind of thing is disgusting and disappointing and disconcerting, and the staff at Rivereast should spend some serious time reviewing their editorial process. Meanwhile, we who are left must wonder: What is it about people who live in Connecticut that makes them fantasize about killing someone important?
The more things change , the more they stay the same
Although it is a more recent phenomenon to hear elected officials calling for violence against their opponents , it really isn’t that new when it comes from the goofballs that I know
Usually the calls for violence are aimed at foreign countries or people
Usually
Just nuke em was uttered by goofballs that I know during the Vietnamese war , the gulf war , in Somalia and more recently some of the goofballs actually call for nuclear war against Mexico and Canada
There is an immaturity problem that definitely exists in this country , although it is becoming more clear that it is also a problem elsewhere
Many of the goofballs that I know that have a bloodlust for anyone and everyone that they perceive to be a threat are the same goofballs that scream Yankees suck Red Sox suck
Was the goofball that wrote the poem aware that John Wilkes Booth assassinated a Republican president???
The party of Lincoln has some bizarre issues that they refuse to deal with
This is deeply disturbing and a stain on the human condition. We see it with racist rants captured on video, we see it in those perpetuating conspiracy theories over mass murders in our schools (think Sandy Hook), society continues to devolve into the abyss.