The Very Fine People On a Very Particular Side

Imagine for an instant your Kyle Rittenhouse was outside of a movie theatre, or a school, or a shopping mall, or a country music concert, kitted out in that very same weapon, and ask yourself if there isn't something about this picture that doesn't seem half-familiar. This lad showed up very deliberately at a very particular place with a very particular weapon with a definite intention which he in fact carried out.

There just happen to be people who think this was fine. Wasn't he defending himself by shooting people? (Was he anywhere he needed to be? Was he extravagantly armed? Was he not indicating he meant to use his firearm to extralegally defend the people who were there doing it for their actual living--why? Should his youthful behind not have been home instead of looking for the trouble he got? Why weren't the cops enough to protect and serve themselves?)

There's a reason we don't use kids as soldiers or cops. Yet somehow this kid got hold of a firearm and travelled across state lines to stand up for people we expect to be capable of standing up for us, with his underage barely trained ass supporting trained law enforcement? Are we seeing the problem with this?



So let's forget, for an instant, whether this kid was in the front row at a Trump rally. Even if we know what kind of people have also been there. Maybe even forget that Trump really did say there were fine people on both sides at Charlottesville. And that Trump referred to supporters who beat up on a Latino homeless man as having been "passionate". And that Trump not only hates BLM protesters, but the silent protest of athletes who merely take a knee during the national anthem.

Let's talk about the hard shit--we love guns in his country, and we historically don't even respect Black people.  We idolize people in uniform. So look at this young man. He didn't choose random soft domestic targets to attack. He was raised to know exactly what kind of target might even be acceptable. And when that much is the case, your daddy hands you a gun, and your mama drives you to the place you do your murders.

And if you want to know if I think there are any fine people on the particular side that raised up a child to do and be this, well, no. And I don't want the kind of law and order that is order for some and law for others. (Andrew Sullivan is gone, babies, he disappeared up his own ass and I don't think anybody has the right size calipers to get his head out again.) And I don't think Joe Biden needs to do any "Sistah Souljah" thing when my 20 year old ass was mad enough about Clinton over Ricky Ray Rector, a man so brain damaged he wanted to save his pie from his last meal until after his execution, that Clinton's broad dismissal of an insubstantial hypothetical from a music artist couldn't have meant a thing--other than I was already bloodyminded positive that Republicans weren't shit. (Thanks to their position on god, guns, free speech, and LGBT rights.)

The era of Trump has only not only demonstrated not-shitness, but glorified race riots and murder. And it's proponents have the gall to blame it on civil rights, mostly peaceful protests and Democratic governance while celebrating this very young and dopey cop-defender.