He would later say he didn’t really mean it, but at the time, it sure looked like he did.
Brendan Hunt (photo), 37, of Queens, New York, got 19 months in prison for urging his fellow Trumpers to return to the Capitol with guns on January 20 and slaughter Democrats. (Read story here and here.)
In Facebook postings, he called on Trump “to hold a public execution of Pelosi, AOC, Schumer, etc.,” and warned, “if you don’t do it, the citizenry will.”
For good measure, he threw in “start up the firing squads, mow down these commies, and let’s take America back!” Prosecutors said Hunt also praised violence against police. (That one seems gratuitous; why go out of your way to piss off the police when you don’t get anything out of it? He also told a relative, “I’ll stick a knife in your kid,” see story here, which helped prosecutors persuade a judge to lock him up.)
He also posted a video on a sharing site titled “Kill your senators” in which he said, “We need to go back to the US Capitol when all of the Senators and a lot of the Representatives are back there, and this time we have to show up with our guns. And we need to slaughter these motherf**ers. Put some bullets in their f**king heads. If anybody has a gun, give me it, I’ll go there myself and shoot them and kill them.”
The cheapskate wants someone to give him a gun? Instead of buying his own? (He didn’t have a criminal record before now, so presumably he could have.) He may not have realized this would make “someone” an accessory to whatever he did with the gun(s), but his dad, a retired judge, could’ve told him that if he had asked.
He was employed as a court worker, but now that he’s a convicted felon, I don’t think he’ll be returning to that line of work. Maybe after he’s paroled he can change his name and get a job with a traveling carnival, or a job sorting trash in a recycling plant; whatever his future holds, it won’t be as good as the life he threw away. And for what?
Don’t ask me what motivates people like him, or those who stand on bridge railings to show off, or take horse pills to ward off Covid-19. I can’t peer into their thought processes. The only explanation that comes to mind is it’s statistically inevitable that half of the population is gonna be born with below-average IQs. And he’s gotta be one of ’em. Perhaps I oughtn’t stereotype, but he even looks stupid. Maybe we should pray he never figures out how to reproduce.