Warning #7: Killing Liz
Killing Liz.
With about 120 hours left until the first polls close on the east coast of the United States, a seething Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson the following:
Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.
No doubt, soon, Donald Trump will deny making the comments, deny knowing Liz, claim that he was joking, claim that Tucker Carlson really said it, or maybe pretend that it never happened at all. Perhaps he will do all of that, and then say he was reading love poetry to a woman whom he will protect no matter what. Whatever confusion remains, someone will attempt to clean this up.
Just for the record, I’m old enough to remember when Donald made clear that whether they like it or not, he is going to protect women like he did the Miss Teen USA contestants in Atlantic City. Last time I checked, Liz is a woman. Obviously, she didn’t make the cut.
At any rate, the candidate of love and unity has decided that Liz should face nine rifles at execution — which frankly is a bit much, given that most firing squads are made up of three or five members with one firing a blank round. Donald is a generous guy. He’s praised his daughter’s body, buried the wife whom he raped on his golf course, and no doubt wants to make sure that every executioner gets a live round and a chance to kill.
Trump told Carlson that he really wants Liz Cheney to see the rifles pointing at her. At least he can’t be accused of not knowing her character. Typically, the executed are given a blindfold or a hood, but can request to face the fire clear-eyed. Knowing Liz, she will be the one doing the staring down right until the end.
I have a few questions:
Why does Liz have to die?
What did she do?
I have a thought experiment. It’s about killing.
I want you to think about the Madison Square Garden rally, and ask yourself some honest questions. I know that there are a great many members of the media who read these warnings, and I want them to think about something fairly and deeply.
Here are the questions:
If Donald Trump asked for nine volunteers from the audience to join the firing squad to kill Liz would nine people have volunteered?
What about if he asked for 90 people?
How about if he asked for 900?
What if the number was 9,000?
Coverage that focuses on Trump wanting to kill Liz Cheney misses the much larger point. Trump has built a fascist political movement that wants to kill Liz Cheney, or maybe it just wants to kill someone or something.
Remember her — Corey Lewandowski’s dog-killing mistress?
The cruelty is the point. An enduring facet of human nature is that when evil manifests itself the first instinct always seems to be denial.
Americans have just over 100 hours left to work through the last of our denial about the pancreatic cancer that has metastasized in our country known as MAGA.
See it for what it is.
When politicians promising autocracy commit to killing their opponents it is a promise that has never not been kept.
October has ended. November has arrived.
Wake up, America.
Kamala Harris for president.
I agree 100% Steve! I was criticized yesterday on Substack for calling demented Trump a narcissistic psychopath! I DO NOT KNOW WHAT EVIDENCE ANY RATIONAL AMERICAN NEEDS TO DETERMINE THAT TRUMP IS INSANE AND NOT FIT FOR ANY OFFICE LET ALONE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!
Last night, I attended a screening of a film, showing the 1/6 Insurrection, made in connection with the UVA Center for Politics. In attendance were Officers Grennell and Hodges, both who testified at the Congressional hearings chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson. Reliving that day brought tears to many of us in the audience. I spoke to Officer Grennell after the film and the pain that I saw in his eyes will probably never go away. Nor will it for me. We are all on our last nerve as Election Day approaches.