I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan.
Reckless global militarisation including a threat at the UN to annihilate Iran, a litany of sexual misconduct allegations against the commander in chief, claims of blatant presidential corruption … they have all ceased to surprise and shock us, so inured has the world become to Donald Trump’s monstrous narcissism and maladministration.
But now we have execution TV.
I’ll admit it’s a bit hypocritical of me to simultaneously abhor the idea of televising this execution whilst also hopelessly awaiting the executions of many current top US officials.
Theyre doing it to glorify violence. Youre doing it to remove cancerous scum from power.
Theyre not the same.