Who's Killing Us, Again?
I ran across this bit of happy talk from the 2014 CPAC convention, courtesy of former gun-industry lobbyist—aka NRA mouthpiece—Wayne LaPierre:
"We know in the world that surrounds us, there are terrorists and there are home invaders, drug cartels, carjackers, and knockout gamers, and rapers and haters and campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers, and killers who seek to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids or vicious waves of chemicals or disease that could collapse our society that sustains us all."
Sounds awful, no? Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is, none of that stuff destroyed our country in the ten years since, and Wayne LaPierre was just found guilty of defrauding NRA members so he could buy fancy duds in Beverly Hills and enjoy fancy trips a la Clarence Thomas. The bad news is, there are indeed those who want to "destroy our country with violence" and "collapse our society that sustains us all." And the people doing the destroying and collapsing came out last month and said, "We're heeere!" right in front of a giant microphone. At the 2024 CPAC convention:
“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely."
Remember that, everyone. To destroy our country, you don’t need terrorists, home invaders, drug cartels, carjackers, knockout gamers, rapers, campus killers, airport killers, or shopping mall killers. Nah. To destroy our country…just vote Republican.
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