2017 Feb 6^th

Donald Trump was on O’Reilly’s show on Fox news to declare that “we have killed people too.” This remark came when O’Reilly reminded him of the risk people ran if they disagreed with his dear friend Vladimir Putin. His seeming insistence on a moral equivalence between Putin’s Russia and the US has finally aroused the lethargic right wing to respond negatively to their hero, Donald Trump. Even somber Senator McConnell said that any equivalence was nonsense, or words to that effect.

In another attempt to bring the country together Kellyanne Conway continues to fume that none of those “lyin’ journalists” have been fired. Kellyanne does not specify the particular lies, nor the particular journalists, none of whom seem cowed by the possibility of being on Trump’s “enemies list.” We had a presidential enemies list once before; that was shortly before President Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment. Fighting with the press is not good for any politician’s tenure. Trump will learn this if he stays in office long enough…and it he has the ability to learn.

Now we have at least one Republican office holder throwing out physical threats against unruly protestors. (In the eyes of many Republicans, the phrase “unruly protestor” is clearly redundant.)

Dan Adamini, Secretary of the Marquette County, Michigan, Republican Party, made a pair of controversial remarks on his Facebook and Twitter accounts Thursday, Feb. 2. The tweet and Facebook post have since been deleted, but the Michigan Democratic Party shared a screenshot of each in a news release: 

“The violent protests at our universities certainly indicate Portage acacian (I have no idea what Portage acacian means; H) at the lower level. I’m thinking another Kent State might be the only solution protest stopped after only one death. They do it because they know there are no consequences.” (Actually, there were four deaths at Kent State.)

Afamini (Facebook)

Violent protesters who shut down free speech? Time for another Kent State perhaps. One bullet stops a lot of thuggery.

Adamini (Tweet)

Adamini has apologized for his murderous suggestions claiming his words were a “poorly worded tweet.” No they weren’t; they said exactly what Adamini, and probably others like him, wanted to say. You will notice that he hasn’t been thrown out of his Republican Party job in Marquette County. I guess the folks up there believes that advocating the murder of those who disagree with you isn’t so bad…unless you actually do it yourself.