Condolences to the family of the young woman killed today, and best regards to all of those injured, in Charlottesville, Virginia. So sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2017
Sounds like it was tweeted out from a golf cart between the practice putting green and first tee.
Regarding James Alex Fields Jr., the young owner of the Dodge Challenger: I've been stewing about how, according to his mother, he dropped off his cat with her before heading to Charlottesville for a long weekend. It doesn't seem like something you should have to do before embarking on a road trip for the purpose of attending a white supremacist rally. Maybe he's a 21st-century version of Chaucer's Madame Eglantine, who used up her two spoonfuls of humanity on her pets. Or maybe I, a cat lover, just don't like sharing any characteristics with this specimen of stunted humanity. In any event, I'm not giving up golf.
Watching the coverage on cable-tv, I at first felt inclined to demur from all the handwringing. What these nuts deserve is not earnest analysis but dismissive disdain of the kind spouted by someone I follow on Twitter:
Without white supremacists the art of using facial hair to create the illusion of a chin would be lost to the ages
— Erin 🎶Gloria🎶 Ryan (@morninggloria) August 12, 2017
And it is indeed true that by the light of their tiki torches one does not detect any signs of The Master Race. On the other hand, someone was killed on Saturday, which is nothing to snark about, and our president seems confused about whom to blame. Don't vex him, however. He could cause a million people to die before we have a chance to enjoy another summer weekend.
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