This latest shitpost from Musk falls into the genre of open & obvious effort to “trigger the libs.” Judging by the engagements, it worked like a charm. At the risk of giving the Chief Twit even more unwarranted attention, this bait is, indeed, too juicy not to take.
So. He has some handguns. As far as we know, he’s never killed anybody. Of course, he’s never had to, and will never need to, for as the world’s richest man, he can afford several fleets’ worth of private security. Bully for him.
Guns do, however, kill and maim 40,000+ Americans per year — part of the issue many have with those who obnoxiously choose to make guns their Whole Personality.
As for George Washington: Slave ownership aside (how’s that for a caveat), he was overall a cool dude, the ultimate Founding Father, who had infinitely more patience and wisdom and far-sightedness and patriotism than any number of traitor-simping MAGA morons who love to appropriate his image while understanding nothing of what he was about.
Look up Shays’ Rebellion. Look up the Whiskey Rebellion. This is how Washington dealt with his day’s equivalent of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Traitors were, especially in those early days, a live threat to the ongoing unity of the Republic. Washington would doubtlessly be disheartened and angered by the fact they continue to be, 230 years later.
And meanwhile, in our time, Musk dropped a cool $44 billion to, among other things, reverse the ban on the only former President to have ever assembled and launched a mob-like attack on the Legislative Branch.
Washington and those who marched alongside him spin in their graves.
