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Luke Skywalker put out a graphic on his Bluesky account—that's Twitter for all the leftists who ditched X after the Elon Musk buy—showing Trump dead in a graveyard with the caption "if only." And he meant it, too.
"If Only," he wrote, "He should live long enough to witness his inevitable devastating loss in the midterms, be held accountable for his unprecedented corruption, impeached, convicted & humiliated for his countless crimes. Long enough to realize he'll be disgraced in the history books, forevermore. don_TheCON."
I was no fan of George Bush, either one, when they were president, but I never wished them dead. I wasn't a fan of Clinton or Obama, either, and I never wished ill upon them or their families. This persistent penchant to want the president dead, to see the country spiral into chaos and turmoil, to want a family to be deprived of their patriarch, is absolutely insane.
Three times, that we know of, assassins tried to kill Trump. Two of those times, the would-be assassins even got a shot off. One of them killed a retired firefighter who was protecting his family from gunfire. Another shot at a Secret Service agent who was protected by his bulletproof vest. Hamill shared a post saying he thought the latest assassination attempt may have been staged.
Like the president, don't like the president, there's no reason to wish him ill. After each attempt on Trump's life, there were calls to "lower the temperature," meaning that media pundits and elected leaders should quit calling each other Nazis, pedophiles, criminals, rapists, fascists, racists, and the like. And each time, there has been hemming and hawing about how this should happen, but at no point has it actually happened.
Charlie Kirk was murdered by a man who believed the hype, who literally thought we were living in some kind of German Third Reich hellscape where Hitler must be murdered before he could do any harm. But it's not true, none of it has been true.
Mark Hamill was beloved as Skywalker, the scrappy orphan kid fighting the evil Empire with his rag-tag team of convicts, princesses, ancient Jedi, and Wookies. They were fighting against a guy who was happy to blow up planets and take out terrorists by any means necessary, and the whole thing was well-scripted so we root for Luke and his merry band of Death Star plan-stealing bandits.
But this was a film, and now in real life, Hamill is trying to play out some faulty hero's story. In a series of posts he made with former President Barack Obama, Hamill and Obama use the Skywalker story to boost Obama's presidential library. These leftists are living in a fantasy where they think they should act in the world as though the world is the way they wish it to be. There's nothing noble about that, and everything stupid about it.
Mark, you're not a hero, you're not a freedom fighter, you've never had a decent role after Skywalker, and even that character, in the Star Wars films, found a way to redeem the evil villain Darth Vader. Trump is not the problem, the incessant drumbeat calls for violence are.
Libby