Klingon Ambassador: Vulcans are well-known as the intellectual puppets of this Federation.
Sarek: Your vessel did destroy U.S.S. Grissom. Your men did kill Kirk's son. Do you deny these events?
Klingon Ambassador: [proudly] We deny nothing. We have the right to preserve our race.
Sarek: Do you have the right to commit murder? ~From Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home.
So, Mike Lindell AKA the "My Pillow guy" and washed-up 1980's child star Ricky Schroder paid the $2 MILLION bail for Kyle Rittenhouse, so now the murderous little asshole is out on bond.
And then the Black Rifle Coffee company gave him an endorsement deal.
Hold the fuck on...murderers get endorsement deals now? As if he's some college basketball star that just was the number one draft pick for the NBA?
Now hold the fuck on. I had absolutely no issues with endorsement deals when it was Michael Jordan or Shaquille O'Neal or even Colin Kaepernick, Hell, I had absolutely no issue even with an athlete like Kurt Schilling being extremely political and supporting Trump. Agree with people or disagree with them if somebody who is famous for their contributions to acting or sports or society in general wants to endorse a product to get paid or support a cause or a candidate, I'm fine with that.
But I draw the line at anybody giving an endorsement deal to some kid who's only even known...much less famous...because he murdered two people. This isn't a case of some rapper with a couple big albums out there who shot somebody, or Plaxico Buress shooting himself , or some actor who beat somebody up. No, any of those people right or wrong at least had to do something else, something somewhat positive or that involved doing work, to get to where they were before they did the crime.
The only reason anybody in the world other than his family and some people at school know who Kyle Rittenhouse is, is because he killed two people who were only even there because they were exercising their Constitutional rights or walking down the same street as other people doing that.
And neither protesting nor walking down a street where there's a protest going on is even remotely a criminal act, both are in fact protected under the law. Neither act is, in the slightest way, deserving of death. And they sure ain't deserving of some little punk ass from another state who can't even drive his own self there to be taking it upon himself to be judge, jury and executioner all at the same time.
As my African-American (and Christian) friend Tim would say...maybe he can make a rap album when he gets out of jail?
But the American political Right immediately tried to make a hero out of the little fucker.
And a Trump ally with a ubiquitous presence in late-night TV commercials ponied up the money to bail him out of jail
And the Black Rifle Coffee Company gave the little asshole an endorsement deal?
Murderers getting endorsement deals for products. Think about that for a second.
Now, when the glory and the spit-shine have faded and time and tide have moved on and Kyle Rittenhouse is Inmate 20R7B simply trying to avoid boredom, drug addiction, insanity or jailhouse booty bandits and not catch COVID-19 or get poisoned by the toilet wine like everybody else, will he still be their hero, their murderous Michael Jordan?
Or will these absolute motherfuckers have moved on to somebody else by then, keep in mind this dude is likely looking at a minimum of 40 years before he'd even get parole.
What about when he gets out, as a 60 year old man, in need of care, a job, and support?
I am here to tell you, the transactional Far-right will not give a shit in four months, much less 40 years. In point of fact he's served his purpose already as far as they're concerned.
Chances are by then, the only people who will notice let alone care are those organizations like Prison Fellowship Ministries that specifically exist for the purpose of helping inmates.
The people who want to live vicariously through what he did will not give a shit.
That is exactly the stuff of Christian End Times Prophecy and Christian fiction except that LaHaye and Jenkins were too chickenshit to think it up and work it into Left Behind, except they decided they liked shitty non-subtle dog-whistles against homosexuality better.
The thing is, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is in the Ten Commandments, which don't say anything about being gay or not being conservative. If any of these people believed in even one damn thing that they said they did you'd think this would be something at least some of them would take issue with.
But they don't.
And with Trump clearly on his way out of office and all the guns and hate and political power they could muster having proved insufficient to keep him there, these motherfucking people will absolutely fall back on using shitty little criminals to try and accomplish their political goals.
Think about that for a second, think about what that will do to our society or where that might lead us. Think about that the next time some conservative talks to you about "Supporting" the troops or the police.
Makes you wonder who they'll "Support" next, doesn't it?
The same fucking people who will tell you all day that they believe in a God that says "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder" and that profess ironclad support for laws that declare murder illegal and in fact fanatically support the Death Penalty for many crimes, but especially murder, just gave an endorsement deal to a fucking murderer.
If Kyle Rittenhouse was a Black kid who'd shot two people over a dice game or a dime bag of weed these same fucking people would be all up in everybody's face saying that murder is wrong and a sin and bemoaning the decline of the family and demanding more "Law and Order" and asking where were the parents.
But he's a suburban vaguely upper middle class white kid who apparently professes far-right politics and likes guns. So it's all cool, or something.
There's nobody in the world who acts more like they believe there is no God than the American "Conservative" Christian.
And that's why I believe in Revelation, or at least, the American kind.
Left Behind Is A Lie, Revisited.
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