If you had asked me, I would have guessed that Donald 'Read My Hat' Trump had let his subscription to Guns & Ammo lapse many, many moons ago.
He just never struck me as a guy who cared much for firearms, despite his combat record 'in country' in the free-fire zone that men call The Now Bankrupt Military-Type Academy For Rich White Assholes.
Trump must be going to heaven, 'cause he spent his time in Hell...well, Cornwall-on-Hudson, actually. But let's not nitpick.
We recently learned that--in an act of clear political calculus--Trump had gone from a man who backed the ban on assault weapons and longer waiting times for gun purchases, to:
“I’m a very, very big second amendment person”.
OK, so far, so predictably cynical.
Now comes the really scary news: Trump is packing heat. Yeah...I thought that might get your attention.
As he told a Nashville crowd yesterday:
Trump said in a rally in suburban Nashville that he has a handgun carry permit in New York. He added that any attacker would be “shocked” if he tried to assault him, because he would emulate (Charles) Bronson in the vigilante film Death Wish.
Trump as vigilante Charles Bronson? Oh, brother...
Like this, I guess:
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So, let me get this straight: Trump, a corpulent, multi-chinned, billionaire douchebag with a dead raccoon on his head; a guy who doesn't get up out of a chair without a gaggle of flunkies on hand, ready to wipe his nose for him; a guy whose idea of 'sport' is golf; a guy who would probably drop dead of a massive coronary if anyone discharged a firearm in his vicinity, that guy is Mister Rough Justice?
Oh sure...that seems plausible.
If you needed any further evidence of Trump's essentially vapid, adolescent mindset, this will do.
It's the 'revenge' fantasy of most kids: all of sudden, you have super powers and now you'll show...whoever. You saw it on the back of comic books and matchbook covers advertising Charles Atlas and his courses.
Many of you (of a certain vintage) will remember the classic 'The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac'. It ran for decades.
In it, Mac, a 97 lb. weakling, has sand kicked in his face at the beach. A swim-suited girl sneers at him, ineffectual wimp that he is. Mac sends away for the Charles Atlas course, returns to the beach newly enmuscled and gives the bully a drubbing.
The punch line, delivered by the same swim-suited lovely: "Oh, Mac, you are a real man after all!"
Death Wish--the ugly, violent revenge fantasy from the late British schlock-meister Michael Winner--was basically 'Mac gets a handgun and a taste for slaughter'.
It is an exceptionally repulsive film and, predictably, it was hugely popular. Let's face it--a lot of men never really grow up. The ones that do grow up understand that vigilante 'justice' is always a bad idea.
And then there's Donald Trump:
Trump reminisced about Bronson’s Death Wish and got people in the crowd to shout out the title of the 1974 film in unison. In the movie, an affluent, liberal architect embarks on a vigilante mission after his life is shattered by thugs who kill his wife and rape his daughter.
“Today you can’t make that movie because it’s not politically correct,” Trump said.
Say
what? Has Trump been to the movies at any point in the last 40 years?
Because if he had, he might have noticed that film after film is essentially about vigilante 'justice'. A 'good' guy is forced to take extreme measures to...well, fill in the blanks.
The premise is always the same: the state has failed; a man is on his own and he will have 'justice'. The list of such films is too long to enumerate, but here's one off the top of my head:
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Perhaps even more telling is the fact that a remake of Death Wish is on the cards.
If this country ran on 'political correctness', Donny, you and your fat, entitled, whining ass would be in San Quentin. But it doesn't and you're not...more's the pity.
Saturday marked the second time Trump had spoken in the Nashville area in five weeks. Tennessee is among the states holding their primaries on 1 March, also called Super Tuesday, and he noted that his comments brought a strong response from the overflow crowd in gun-friendly Tennessee.
“As soon as I mentioned it the place went absolutely wild,” he said.
It's a crowd...in
Nashville...who've come out
especially to see a dimwitted blowhard like
you.
Who were you expecting? The Algonquin Round Table? Of course they 'went wild'...they're imbeciles. Your base.
I don't know...can I really stand another 12 months of this mishegas before I begin to reconsider my views on vigilante 'justice'?
Or should I just resign myself to hoping that Trump becomes so delusional that even the goobers sit-up and take notice.
What's next, Donny?
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You talkin' to me, Donny?