Sunday Morning. Brings the Dawn In.

One of the many rhythms we've gotten used to in a 2025 America in which we insist everybody be strapped to the gills with loaded assault rifles is anytime there's another shooting and someone deigns to ask why it happened Republicans automatically recoil in FURY!!!! that the shooting is being "politicized!" with such a question and that it's disgusting to point fingers this soon after a shooting etc etc etc.

Meanwhile, before the Charlie Kirk killer was even caught Donald Trump, the sitting American president, during a time of crisis in which the #1 concern would be a country already bracing itself for some sort of “civil war” waiting for a sign to start shooting with any of its millions of guns, said:

"The radicals on the left are the problem," Trump continued, "and they're vicious and they're horrible and they're politically savvy, although they want men and women sports, they want transgender for everyone, they want open borders."

I don't consider it to be an overstatement or hyperbole for me to say that this is by far the most dangerous thing a sitting U.S. president has said to the public in my lifetime. It is shocking in its irresponsibility, even by Trump's standards.

And yet I can't remember the last time I ever really watched any of the Sunday morning political shows but I just might this morning, because I *have a feeling* that somehow this won't even come up, and if someone DOES bring it up then whichever Republican is there will blow their stack in faux outrage, and instead of the first person simply saying "well, that’s what the president said, here it is again on video" they'll scurry on to the next softball question after a flurry of "sorry!"s, despite being part of the media that is of course "out to get Trump!!". For some reason these shows are terrified they may slightly upset some Congressman from a county in Arkansas with 4,000 people; I submit that if they started saying "okay if you don't want to talk about XYZ, which is the reason we asked you here in the first place, we're more than happy to call the next Republican nobody's ever heard of on our list" and I think we'll all be amazed at the number of Republicans *suddenly* willing to talk about XYZ once the camera time via the media they pretend to hate so much is taken away from them, since being in front of a tv camera is the oxygen they need/crave more than anything else.

I've always said the only honest thing Trump's ever said was that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue without losing a single vote; I'm pretty sure now that not only could he do it but there's a 50% chance it wouldn't even make the news as we all remain in some weird holding pattern of thinking we're watching a movie, during which we can only stare at the repulsive ogre stomping around and wonder what he's going to do next.