I’m def familiar with your posting history Sydney, as usually when I see you’ve replied I let an ‘awww shit here comes the truth live and in color’. You’re absolutely right it was a strategic misstep to give those clowns on the stage, Fox, the 2A nuts, etc a reason to dismiss the Beto outburst as ‘out of line’.
But damn man, what we’ve been doing for decades isn’t working. Trying to play the long game, following ‘decorum’, thoughts and prayers, GoFundMe, etc. Nothing has changed. If it hurts Beto oh well, it got people talking and I bet it’ll get more airplay than just another press conference…playing the long game just lets the cycle repeat where it quickly fades from the public eye until the next time.
The first black man to be elected President, who had an eight year career in the highest office, said Sandy Hook was his worst day.
It makes me fucking sick. They wanted it all to calm down again so they can go about fuckin up everyone’s lives by worshipping paper that is hundreds or thousands of years old in the name of securing their voting base that’s fed lies and constant inflammatory rhetoric in the name of viewership. It’s a vicious cycle and our collective response has gone nowhere.