Tuesday, October 22, 2019

No, Mr. Graham, this is not a lynching in any sense

In a time where brazen dishonesty has become the norm it is sometimes necessary to belabor the painfully obvious, to wit, the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump are not even remotely within spitting distance of the same ballpark as a lynching.  I feel it necessary to point this out, particularly to Lyndsey Graham, who actually said, in no uncertain terms, "this is a lynching in every sense."

Mr. Graham, let me explain this at you in terms that I hope you will be able to understand: you see, a lynching is when some fine upstanding southern gentlemen go out and kill themselves a nigger.  Now our Mr. Trump here, last I checked, was still alive and kickin' and physically, if not mentally, intact.  Furthermore, Mr. Schiff ain't no fine upstanding southern gentleman.  He's from (brace yourself) California, the same state that Nancy Pelosi hails from.  So there might be something fishy goin' on here, but it ain't no lynching cuz we ain't got ourselves no nigger hanging from a tree.

If we somehow manage to get through this witch hunt and return to the recognition that Mr. Trump has been anointed by God Himself to free us from the scourge of liberalism and Mexican rapists, then maybe, just maybe, we can get ourselves some good old-fashioned legitimate lynchings.  But for the moment, those halcyon days are behind us.  This country hasn't seen a real lynching since 1981.

This is the point at which I would normally come up with a snappy line to close this post, but I'm coming up empty today.  Sorry.  I am just so fucking tired of all this shit.  Life is too short.

3 comments:

Publius said...

A high-tech lynching.

Publius said...

Joe Biden describes Clinton impeachment as 'partisan lynching.'

Looking forward to you top-level post condemning Joe Biden.

Ron said...

@Publius:

Biden made his remarks in 1998. I started blogging in 2003. If I were to go back and write a top-level post condemning every politician who ever made an odious remark then I'd have an awful lot of catching up to do. (But I'm pretty sure I'd be calling out more Republicans than Democrats.)

Still, for the record: Biden should not have used the L word (same goes for Thomas). That, and the way Biden treated Anita Hill, are two of the many reasons I do not support his presidential campaign.