Yeowzers !! Comedian Michael Ian Black Goes there...

[Pluvious]

Comedian Michael Ian Black, star of Wet Hot American Summer, just tweeted his two cents about the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia. His take was pretty controversial, and has people on both sides of the aisle pretty riled up:

Link to tweet

[WiffenPoof]

1. Wow...Just Wow! NT

[sunonmars]

2. He's not wrong, Trump has riled them all up and let them loose with impunity.

[lunamagica]

3. Snap!

[Wounded Bear]

4. We used to call it stochastic terrorism...

guess that term has gone out of favor, but yeah, Trump incited this and riled his "base" up.

[maxsolomon]

11. That's what I call it

but I keep having to explain Stochastic to anyone I say it to...

[grantcart]

20. lol. have to put it in "gun terms". How about richochet terrorism?

[Raster]

24. !!DING!! I think we have a winner on the messaging!

[NewJeffCT]

12. That terminology

is too complex for at least 50% of the Trump voters out there.

[Lucky Luciano]

14. The shitgibbon's base has no idea what that word means.

Since there is a 100% chance they don't know the meaning of the word, it is quite deterministic that it is too complex for all of them!

[Angry Dragon]

5. hat tips to Mr. Black

[Caliman73]

6. I lean more toward agreement with the statement than disagreement

He said, "Metaphorically". The reality is the Trump has stoked racial resentment from White supremacists who feel that the inevitable march toward truer equality is an attack on their survival. He certainly facilitated the events that took place by casting Black people as savages, but also as victims of "liberal oppression" living in hell holes, rather than intelligently discussing the factors that contribute to increased violence in areas where there is less economic opportunity, more crowding, and racial tensions.

Trump has never explicitly ordered anyone to commit violence, but as seen at his rallies throughout the campaign, he certainly danced right up to that line and arguably stepped across it.

I don't actually see that much controversy in his statement.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. I'd even use the word "indirectly" instead of "metaphorically"

[samnsara]

7. YES!!!!

[GeorgeGist]

8. Trumpism kills people.

[workinclasszero]

9. And it's far from over sadly

[SaveOurDemocracy]

10. K&R!

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. stochastic terrorism. Sadly, he is spot on. Very accurate.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Heather Heyer

Michael Ian Black tweeted:

Metaphorically speaking, yesterday the President stood in the middle of 5th Ave and shot somebody. Her name was Heather Heyer.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Incitement

tough to prove legally

but he sure does look like the sheriff who looks the other way while the bank robbers carry the loot out of town

most importantly because he's in on it!

[Moral Compass]

17. Heather's blood is on his hands

This was inevitable.

He gave the racists, the neo-nazis, the kkk, and the white supremacists permission to express their hate. At his rallies he encouraged crowd violence against peaceful protesters.

He hired Steve Bannon the inheritor and guiding hand of Breitbart as his chief strategist--an avowed, unapologetic racist and anti-Semite. Oh yeah, Bannon hates Muslims too.

What did anyone expect?

This was as inevitable as night following day.

[Duppers]

28. Bravo!!

Preach, preach it - it's the Truth.

[WinkyDink]

19. Jesters and children have always spoken Truth to Power.

[Mme. Defarge]

21. Depraved indifference...

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. During the campaign, 45 said he could do just that.

And now he has. Metaphorically.

[yuiyoshida]

23. K&R Tweeted

[iluvtennis]

25. Love it,love it, love it!

[riversedge]

26. That was a Pause for me.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

27. nailed it! n/m

[Duppers]

29. THIS!!

Best.

[UTUSN]

30. It's called a "metaphor" - a TRUTH TELLING metaphor.

[zentrum]

31. I'm with Michael Ian Black!

He's right.

[gristy]

32. he sure made me think

[Rural_Progressive]

33. Ahh, did the big, bad man

hurt the little,iddy biddy, snowflakes' feelings?

TOO FREAKIN' BAD, YOU BOUGHT IT, YOU OWN IT, DEAL WITH IT.