Unfiltered Trumpian ad lib in the classic style. Telling a room of first graders about the terrible explosions and plumes of smoke and people trying to escape the towers and how when they collapsed everyone was trapped, boom, just like that, just like that, and it was so awful. Then seamless pivot to talking about some personal grudge with an 80s celebrity or maybe how he used to do real estate deals with the Bin Laden’s and they were the best deals.
Massive potential as a meme template, I’d windmill-slam that BUY button and invest heavily now to get in on the ground floor. Imagine if you could’ve bought in early on the Mac and Charlie Crying meme - this could be your shot at that.
I’m wondering if there are parallels where commentators have so quickly and viciously mocked the victim of a crime like this. It feels somewhat new but I recall when George Floyd was murdered 5 years ago the boot lickers disgustingly tried to blame drugs or his health, and when Heather Heyer was murdered by a car attack in 2017 trolls pointed to her health.
Recine makes a good point here IMO - plus when Erika came out with those leather pants she looked too couch-like for JD to resist. It was I think Taylor Lorenz’ video on Charlie Kirk where she makes the point that his whole job was to go out there and say the thing, whatever the thing is that has the most invective and is most inflammatory towards whatever minority they’re trying to bully that day, and for having so publicly made that his identity people genuinely did not care when he met his end. She also says that it is natural that another chud grifter will always come next to stick their head up and replace him.
That is a fun fact!
I think comrade Che wrote about this in his treatise on guerilla marketing. He suggests that one or two promoters might surprise a whole group of club-goers in the back of a party van and dispense their whole tube of concert flyers. He leaves it as an exercise to the reader to imagine how many organic advertising impressions this creates, but assures us it is substantial.
I think that was the weapon mounted light. I saw that flash which really caught my attention, because it would be a big deal if that fall caused a negligent discharge.