Not saying a few things about mental illness and shooting Republicans.

Jun 17 2017

I don't advocate violence. Period. Please don't go out and shoot people. Wait for them to come to you – just kidding! I'm with Bernie. He said he denounces this despicable act in the strongest possible terms. I wish he'd actually used the strongest possible terms to denounce it, instead of just saying he denounces it in the strongest possible terms. But maybe he couldn't come up with the strongest possible terms, and figured we could fill in the blank with our own. He's letting us think for ourselves. I like that.

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen thinks but doesn't say a lot of things about violence after that shooting up of Republican baseball practice the other week, from the warm-up possibilities of swinging a rifle in the on-deck circle, to the realities of martyrdom for the GOP senators before they finish their divine task of mass killing via health care legislation.

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Guest

Jeff Dorchen

@jdorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He writes the Substack, Right Twice A Day.

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