Andrew Sweet Andrew Sweet

Kill Them All…Publicly

You know what’s wrong in the United States and why crime rates have gone up? If you listen to a certain person in a certain political party, then the answer you get is simple: need more public executions. But this is from the same person who says that the southern border has been “abolished.” What does it mean to abolish a border?

We don’t know.

What we do know is that every week almost someone slated for the death penalty is found to be innocent, even as others are killed by the state. Further, what’s up with Texas? The ten commandments in the classrooms isn’t enough to fix the murder problem in the state? Banning all those books (more than Florida, it’s just not covered as much because of course Texas is banning books) didn’t help fix the problem?

But where goes Trump (damn, I said it), there goes the Republican party. Remember in 2019 when the Republicans were leading getting rid of the death penalty? Yes, that was real. And that’s from the Wall Street Journal—hardly a bastion of liberal ideas. Where’s the Republican party now?

I can’t recognize them anymore.

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