About 7 a.m. this morning (Sunday, June 12), just hours after people were killed and more than 50 others injured in a mass shooting inside an Orlando gay bar, Texas’ right-wing asshole lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, tweeted a Bible verse about “reaping what you sow.” He has since deleted it, I believe, but not before the whole world saw it.
And now, the man who would be king … uh, president, I mean … has almost outdone Patrick in the realm of tasteless, vulgar, hateful tweeting. Almost.
About noon CST, Trump tweeted: “Appreciate the congrats on being right about radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!”
As PoliticusUSA.com says: “There is something morally repulsive about anyone receiving congratulations on a day when over 100 innocent Americans were killed and wounded in an act of terror. Instead of thinking about the victims of this horrific attack, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is patting himself on the back.”
I still say that Dan Patrick’s tweet suggesting that the shooting was God’s vengeance on gays trumps Trump. But then there’s Pat Robertson to consider. He just came right out and declared that the shooting is God’s punishment on the country for the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling a year ago on marriage equality.
