Boo Radley's Porch

I'm not the typist I was, so I wish I could talk-to-text on here and then edit it. I could probably do that on my phone, but the editing part would suck. Here goes.

In the 24-36 hours since Rob Reiner was murdered and Trump posted his unnecessary comments, I've had all the reactions, read and heard a few, too. Scott Adams in his livestream from the hospital today expressed something unique to him, as usual, and it turned me, which happens often enough that I realize I'm not as deep a thinker as I sometimes think I am. 

My spin, however, my thing to add to the conversation is this: empathy. You see, all everyone is doing is wanting Trump to be like them, to react like they did (or would, or rather think they would). It's always ALWAYS projection of a kind. They never, ever have that end-of-To-Kill-A-Mockingbird moment when Scout is on the porch, looking up the street, seeing everything, physically, from Boo Radley's view, which leads to maybe, just maybe, grasping a part of his perspective. Everyone thinks they are Boo in this story, finally being "seen" like they all say these days, but almost never does anyone think or say "what's their perspective?" Especially when it's someone you dislike as much as they hate Donald Trump, when they hate Trump....just as much as Rob Reiner did. People want others to behave like they imagine they would have behaved, and that's ridiculous. Most empathy is fake, I guess, it's neediness disguised as connection.

Today, we see a memo from the FBI that advised the Justice Department that there was NOT cause to raid Mar-A-Largo, but they ignored it and did it. That's a part of it, people. They literally went through the First Lady's underwear drawer. Through his son's belongings. They made it personal.

Why? Well, let's trace it back to the Russia collusion hoax (and we know without a doubt that it was always a bogus investigation to undermine Trump initiated by Hilary Rodham Clinton). Do you know who helped create and fund the Committee to Investigate Russia with 3 (eventually 7!) former CIA heads to push that and quash contradictory (which means true, in this case) information? Do you know who relentlessly went after Trump and his entire family publicly as well? Rob Reiner. Trump's comment was, as Scott Adams says, honest. Hell, it could have been worse, he could have said "Sad news from Hollywood about Rob and Michelle Reiner. He hated me more than anyone, he spent the last 10 or more years saying horrible things about me, he tried to get me jailed for the fake Russia collusion that was an op against me which may have led to people trying to kill me. So while I feel bad for the family, I won't mourn him any more than he would have mourned me." How does that fall upon your ears? 

So forgive me if I think that while it was politically clumsy and ugly to couch his statement of sympathy with "it was TDS that ruined this guy's life and now, look, he's dead and that's regrettable" I can stand on Trump's porch and say "From here, I can kinda see why. Maybe."

Do I wish he hadn't said what he said? Yup. But that's my problem, not his.