D L:
Trump has made a pact with the devil, will get his wish for a second term, and will then have hell to pay, hopefully. The question is whether all his ennabler's will also have hell to pay. But to carry the metaphor further, Biden too made his pact with the devil when, after making one good decision -- to just end the US war on Afghanistan without worrying about losing -- he made a pact with Israel to support it's theocratic/racist state with increased free weapons, and is now paying for it with the loss of his presidency. and the penalty of being a black smudge in the history of the Presidency.
S H:
I believe I'm another victim of desensitization. Mass shootings (I know yesterday's assassination attempt is not considered a mass shooting) in/at American classrooms, libraries, shopping malls, dance clubs, box stores, post offices, concerts, restaurants, churches, synagogues, and now political rallies have become so common as to have normalized the gunning down of human beings. It saddens me to write those words. Maybe I "should" feel appalled, scared, outraged, shocked, distressed, or anxious about yesterday's attempt on Donald Trump's life, but frankly, I don't feel any of those ways. Hold on: come to think of it, had the news reported that twelve kids had been killed by a gunman (always a gun-man) at a swimming pool in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I would have walked through the day grievous and heartbroken. Apparently, some biased sensitivity remains.
H B:
I didn't even know of the incident until your email. I still even then did not spend more then three minutes looking into the nightmare. Exposing myself to these atrocities is in a way taking on and then emanating their energy...to my kids, to my wife, my neighbors, my plants, my land. I think we are all "looped in" to the point we are constantly entrenched in the battles of other people's demons. We forget our positive/constructive gifts to this living world as we drown in the negative/draining/twisted media barrages.
N S:
For a country drenched in bloodbaths from the beginning of its inception, losing a speck of one's ears is a miniscule reminder of the violence in the heart of darkness of the American soul. With media images saturating the brains of an American and global audience, along with the endless permutations of corporate junk news and alternatives views, the truth of the event will likely be parsed into some outstanding fiction. Whatever lunacy you can fabricate in your own imaginations, the elite echelon of this culture/society/civilization are professional perpetrators of division, discord and mayhem. The target's unpredictability unsettled this predictable tier of American society and, in his madness, is likely to show his like-minded mentors the depths of the American soul. / What happens next augurs crimson which in ancient Rome was associated with Mars, the god of war.
J G:
Biden is alive enough to rule as a "wise" old man. The age issue is a red herring. Plus, while I'm not a Biden fan, Biden is sounding more FDR every day; lots of talk about unions and raising taxes on the rich. As I see it, we have a powerless left heavily made up of women and other marginalized people versus the Identity Politics backlash of angry males in the Trump World armed to the teeth and fueled by Trump's cruelty and sadism. In the Nazi period, the left didn't have a chance versus the violent right and the inept Weimar regime. It feels like a similar equation, now -- except the US "deep state" government is much more capable than the Weimar Republic. / In the realm of history, I think a Trump second term would be something to be profoundly regretted. Yes, things can get a whole lot worse than they are now. Sure, Biden is a hack and as corrupt as they come. I can't stand the man, but I'm gonna vote for him. As an atheist, I don't buy that God & Jesus lined up that bullet and Trump's head on Saturday to give him an amazing "million dollar wound" as he takes his campaign of martyrdom into the GOP convention. A whole bunch of evangelical right wing a**holes will see it that way. / There's no easy, righteous answers for this one.
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