Manchurian Candidate...or the RW view of Vegas...
So the RW is nuts...but you guys knew that. Here’s a little insight into that madness from my own little world here in TN.
Backstory, for those that don’t know, I’m a physician in middle TN near Nashville, grew up here in this community and went away for several years and moved home about a year ago. The Nashville area is pretty purple, a blue dot in a sea of red, and the suburb I work in is now extremely red, wasnt always that way but I digress.
In our OR, we have a nurse who is a Navy vet. The guy likes to try to buddy up to me because I’m also a Navy vet. The thing I can’t stand is that this guy is like the boisterous vet in a bar that can’t stop talking about his service and all the amazing things he participated in, in other words a bullshit artist. So this dude claims that he was in “intelligence” and he knows things that are top secret and most Americans don’t know...cough, bullshit.
Yesterday, the guy was pontificating about the mass shooting in Vegas and he goes “Clearly this Guy was a ‘Manchurian Candidate’. His brother was on the news saying how normal he was and how he got a phone call out of the blue and took off to Vegas. I’ve seen that type of thing before. They probably were playing ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ and triggered his training and the real question is who is behind this!”
I heard this walking by the front desk of the or and stopped dead in my tracks. I said “What’s so hard about accepting that this was a middle aged white dude that did this? If it was a POC or a Muslim would you be saying that crap?”
His response, “I’m just saying...that’s what the brother said and it’s just too convenient.”
My response: “Dude, you need to turn off the Alex Jones and watch some real news like CNN...cause that crap is frying your brain” and I walked off.
That folks is the epitome of the RW mindset...that’s why Trump was elected, and that’s why Jesus Christ himself as a Democratic candidate wouldn’t be able to convince these fools to vote for him!
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