Feed the trolls and a congresswoman gets shot.

While details are still pouring in about the assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) There are a few things I think it is safe to say, someone needs to stop feeding the trolls.

Much in the same sense that boxing matches and violent movies are not allowed to be shown in prison, Sarah Palin should perhaps be muzzled given the fragile minds of the audience to whom she speaks. This mess has been brewing for a few years now and we all knew at some point it would come to this. Christ, there was even a huge “restore sanity” rally in D.C. last year to try to calm the drooling, rage filled masses down a little. Whelp, no fucking dice. I really am no fan of politics (or discussing politics) since to me it is like a never ending flame war on a topic very few of us have direct influence over, or apparently any interest in having said influence. It's like arguing over the drapes while the house is on fire in my book. But I am an idiot, so no harm to anyone if I stay out of it I figure.

But here is an exception: Lunacy. I feel the need to say something when I see people acting in a way that even I, in my redbull and cigarettes addled mind see as insane.

While I am sure Giffords had a typical leftist agenda, and many on the right thought she was the devil incarnate, she also has a family and a full life ahead of her. Rest assured at the end of the day she went home like everyone else, switched off the politics, and went about her life just like normal people. I would wager that she even occasionally talked to people that would never vote for her, and maybe even did things that she had pushed legislation against. Because it is a job. She was doing a job, and really no one should ever be shot for doing their job, especially if it is something as ineffectual as a congressperson’s job.

Either way, I can already see the massive, massive shit storm coming our way over this. Palin’s website will disappear for a few days and be scrubbed of all the talk about “taking aim” and “taking out” people on her shit list. The left will jump up from chairs and red-assed-baboon themselves all over the new networks, which will be followed by more of the same from the right. At the end of the day what we are left with is that rot-gut feeling of being a part of something shameful. So many of us out there think all this political fervor is good entertainment, give the trolls bigger clubs and prod them in the asses to really get them riled up then set them loose on one another. We all knew something like this would happen, but I guess we considered it the price of admission.