I get the strangest responses to my newspaper columns. Really bizarre ones.
These responses often do nothing but confirm my conviction that politics makes people stupid.
Take yesterday's column for example. One reader (obviously a product of gov-school) wrote to tell me that MLG, the Wicked Witch of the West, is doomed. What he actually said is:
They can impeach her right now she has nobody on her side that political power Wan,t save her she has a target on her back she is finished Trump 2024I responded in my usual fashion:
They can, but will they? And impeachment isn’t enough. Will she be arrested for her crimes? If not, she or someone like her will do it again and again.
Trump pushed through an illegal ban on bump stocks and said “Take the guns first, go through due process second”. He is no friend of gun owners or liberty.
https://kentmcmanigal.blogspot.com/2023/08/real-gun-crimes-are-committed-by.html
That elicited two email responses in a row:
Trump is a friend of gun owners you are wrong with him we will make America Great Again he never lied to us like you are doing you must be a democrat God is protecting Trump i see it you sure don't you lose
And:
They will impeach her she not getting away with anything God is watching you must be a democrat or a Rino
Sigh.
I'd like him to tell me where he imagines I lied, if he can. Is he unaware of Trump's bump stock ban, or that Trump said what I quoted? Also, did he try to call me a "loser"? I think he did.
Well, I might just have to try to feel insulted!
Not sure if I'll write back to toy with him or just let it go. Depends on my mood tomorrow. What do you think I should do? What would you do?
UPDATE: I haven't responded, but that hasn't prevented him from digging himself deeper into the stupid-hole. I got another email, probably because he clicked on the link in my email to him. He says, in an email with the subject "War":
"That flag does not say time up it says don't tread on me The Trump Train is here to stay you don't care about this country God is able you believe in lies i will tell you the truth"
I'm actually starting to pity the guy.
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