A couple of months ago, I talked about a person I had known since high school who unfriended me over a very brief Facebook discussion about cadet bone spurs. I called it exhibit a as to why you cannot talk to a maga. Today, I present exhibits b and c.
Exhibit B
I have known this person for about twenty years. He is a colleague in the legal profession. He is an ex-marine. I have known for years he is a conservative; however, we have always been reasonably friendly and our conversations always respectful to each other, and something I rather enjoyed.
Until this past Monday night.
The fun and games started when cadet bone spurs addressed the nation prior to making his way out to St. John's Church for his photo op with the Bible. In his brief remarks before heading out into the wilds of Lafayette Park, cadet bone spurs noted he was out there protecting our second amendment rights, as if that had anything to do with the ongoing protests. I said exactly that in a facebook post, wondering why he would mention the second amendment at that moment. I did not say how ridiculous it was to encourage anyone to bring weapons to public protests that were already tension filled.
My now ex-friend responded heatedly that anyone would have the right to bring their weapons to protect themselves against the marauding mob of looters out there who were setting fires, throwing bricks, etc. I responded simply that I disagreed with him and could not disagree more. I did not explicitly say that I was referring to weaponry in a tension filled public protest; only that I could not disagree more with what he said. I was not advocating looting, arson, etc.
His response was to invite me out into the street with the hoodlums, where he sort of hoped I would be bashed in the back of the head by a hammer wielding thug, that I had obviously not paid any attention to anything taught to me in law school and good luck with whatever is left of the rest of my life. He not only unfriended me, but blocked me from any attempt to tell him he had completely misinterpreted anything I had said in my post.
A number of people thereafter told me I was not missing out on anything having been unfriended by him.
Exhibit C
This one involves a friend of mine. I will only use her first name --Karen.
Karen posted on Facebook after cadet bone spurs made his heroic pilgrimage across the mountains and deserts of Washington, across the street to St. John's Church, waved his Bible and posed for photos with a bunch of folks from the office, who all looked like they may have preferred to have been sunbathing on Mars. Her post showed a photo of his highness, holding the Bible in front of the church, with the caption, "He tear gassed Americans to get a photo in front of a church he doesn't go to holding a book he never reads".
The response?
Several defended the indefensible. Many claimed everything said was a lie. My favorite was this guy -- no names this time -- who questioned if there was really tear gas used, if the crowd was peaceful, as opposed to his claim of being unruly and violent, that we really did not know if he does not belong to the church and that he does not read the Bible. It was pointed out to this MAGA that the teargassing was on several videos shot by several different news organizations, clearly showing tear gas being shot at a peaceful group of protesters. Some pointed out that the pastor and the bishop of the church both said that cadet bone spurs is not a congregant there, and hardly ever shows up at all. No priest, pastor, reverend, bishop, cardinal, pope, rabbi, or holy man of any kind has come forward to say he is a member at their house of worship. It is conceded that we do not have personal knowledge as to whether or not he has ever cracked open the Bible, read a single passage of if, or did anything with the Bible other than autograph it next to a reference to God.
The next response?
Our MAGA worshiping hero told Karen that this is why he does not read newspapers or watch the news, but that he knows in his heart that none of this can be true...
As we say in court, no further explanation is necessary. I rest my case.
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