Here is my post from yesterday about why I’m feeling the barest glimmer of hope. I am experiencing a deep sense of schadenfreude (again) because Greg Bovino, the duster coat wearing, swaggering macho asshole with a Napolean complex and a filthy mouth (filthy as in nasty to humans not like him, not filthy as in swear words), the man who had relentlessly mocked others as he pumped himself up is on his way on.
That’s not the reason I’m snickering to myself, though. I have included a video below of Chris Hayes from MS NOW who is here. He included a snippet of Trump saying (timestapmp 2:50):
You know, Bovino’s very good, but he’s, uh, a pretty out there kind of a guy, and in some cases that’s good maybe it wasn’t good here, and, uh, that’s all working out….
Hahahhahahhah! Hey, Bovino. how do you like the view from under the bus?
For all his scrapping and bowing, for all his muscling and bravado, for all that he’s become the face of Border Patrol (and to a lesser extent, ICE, because people blend the two together. For example, Alex Pretti was murdered by Border Patrol, but everyone says he was murderd by ICE.Personally, it’s a diference without distinction, and if people want to think it’s ICE, I have no qualms with that), for all that he’s relished swinging his dick around, it’s gotta hurt how quickly and easily he got thrown in the trash like yesterday’s garbage.
I know that this isn’t the end of anything, by far. but I’m allowed my moment of pure happiness that Bovino has been humiliated in this fashion. Yes, he was allowed to ‘retire’ (read, demoted/fired), but he knows as we all know that heh was fired. And it has to hurt. It has to sting his oversized ego. And I am relishing every fucking moment.
I am not the better person when I reach the end of my compassion, so it seems. I just can’t at this moment. Let me rephrase that. I have so much compassion for my fellow Minnesotans, especially people in Minneapolis. I have compassion for others who are suffering. But for this administration or their former supporters? Hell, nah. I just can’t do it. And I’m fine with it.
I have to admit that Iw as wrong about something–kind of . As per usual, it’s not that simple because ideas are complicated. But, here goes. I was mostly wrong to be frustrated with the peaceful protests. I’m going to get into that along with my many caveats.
The peaceful protests are a powerful thing because they contrast the unhinged response from those on the right, ranging from the federal officers to the rest of the federal administration to the pundits to the MAGA supporters. They want to call Minnesotan protestors hateful and angry, and they haven’t been able to do it.