Ah-rah, dee
Soo-guh-goo-gee-goo-gee
Goo-guh fli-goo gee-goo
Guh fli-goo, ga-goo-buh-dee
Ooh, guh-goo-bee
Ooh-guh-guh-bee-guh-guh-bee
Fli-goo gee-goo
A-fliguh woo-wa mama Lucifer!
I’m about ready to move on, how about you?
Not from the shooting, that’s bad and we definitely shouldn’t have that. But the rehabilitation of Donald J Trump? The deification of Saint Donald? As the Great Unifier?
Gimme a bucket.
Just to re-iterate, even though Trump is a terrible human being, and may be disastrous for the future of mankind, it would have been a bad thing if he’d been killed and I’m glad he wasn’t.
It seems so obvious and so unnecessary to have to say it. Like having to preface every comment about Gaza with a statement that Hamas are bad and the Israeli hostages didn’t deserve to die either. Like why? Surely that’s a given?
Why can’t we just say that what Israel is doing is horrific, without having to declare our obvious opposition to a terror group?
It goes without saying. Yet the sustained killing of civilians, month after month, by a democratic nation can only be spoken of by first declaring opposition to a terrorist act. As if that somehow justifies it.
The following is not intended to suggest for a moment that political assassination is acceptable, warranted in any circumstances, or to be taken lightly.
But…
Are we allowed to say “but” yet?
I don’t know Nick, do you want to lose subscribers?
Well not really, they’re a good bunch, but I reckon they know me well enough that if I perhaps ask some questions, or maybe slip in the odd piece of dark humour, they’ll understand that it isn’t intended as a call to… well, you know, shoot anyone.
Most of them probably understand you’re not really into guns or shooting people, in fact you write against those things quite a bit.
Yeah I do, but I also write about what an absolutely execrable excuse for a human being the Orange guy is, and how people really ought to do everything they can to stop him.
But not shoot him though, right?
No. That would be bad. Obviously.
Ok, what could possibly go wrong?
I don’t know - maybe ask Jack Black? He seems like maybe he might have some sort of insight.
Because he cancelled his tour over a flippant remark that the other guy said when he was making a birthday wish?
Yeah that. Seems kind of weird don’t you think? I mean at the time he didn’t even flinch. Not even a minor reel away, or an expression of horror - and he’s quite an expressive guy.
How do you know? Were you there? Maybe the crowd all boo’ed, maybe Jack recoiled in shock and fled the stage knowing only an immediate cancellation would suffice?
Well, we could take a look…
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