It took Joe Biden over a week to finally pretend like he cared about the devastating fire in Maui. Last week there was a mass shooting in California that only involved white people, and Joe didn’t even acknowledge it. Yesterday, a deeply disturbed white person killed three black people in Florida, and Biden finally gives a shit.
The NY Post reports that 21-year-old white dude, Ryan Palmeter, walked into a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday, and killed three black people before taking his own life. He reportedly left a racist manifesto and had swastikas painted on his guns, so the liberal media finally has a “white supremacist” mass shooting to orgasm over.
The thing is, Palmeter was a loner who still lived with his parents, so he’s clearly not associated with any groups, white supremacist or otherwise. Also, it’s been said that he had crippling mental issues that he was taking drugs for and recently went off his meds. Maybe he was a racist, but more than likely he was deeply disturbed.
Also, if he was driven by racism to kill as many black people as possible, how did he only manage to kill three in all of Jacksonville? There’s over 300,000 black people in Jacksonville and yet this crazy f*cker only found three of them? This was a suicide, not a white supremacist attack.
I’m not defending what this asshole did, it was f*cked up, but what I’m saying is it was not domestic terrorism, it was a violent manifestation of mental illness.
In any case, Joe Biden wasn’t about to let this tragedy go without trying to score some political points so his handers crafted this statement:
On Saturday, our nation marked the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington — a seminal moment in our history and in our work towards equal opportunity for all Americans. But this day of remembrance and commemoration ended with yet another American community wounded by an act of gun violence, reportedly fueled by hate-filled animus and carried out with two firearms.
Yesterday in Jacksonville, Florida a white gunman went on a shooting rampage at a store near a Historically Black University and killed three Black individuals. While we still need to learn more about the motivation for Saturday’s shooting, law enforcement has opened a federal civil rights investigation and is treating this incident as a possible hate crime and act of domestic violent extremism.
Even as we continue searching for answers, we must say clearly and forcefully that white supremacy has no place in America. We must refuse to live in a country where Black families going to the store or Black students going to school live in fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin. Hate must have no safe harbor. Silence is complicity and we must not remain silent.
Jill and I are praying for the victims and their families, and we grieve with the people of Jacksonville.
Yet, over a hundred people died in the Maui fire, with hundreds more still missing, and the Biden’s couldn’t find time to issue an empty statement about how they were grieving.
Even worse, there was an equally deadly mass shooting last week at a biker bar in Orange County California. 59-year-old ex-cop, John Snowling, walked into a Trabuco Canyon bar and shot his ex-wife in the face, who miraculously survived. He then opened fire on patrons at the bar, killing three and wounding 6 more. The shooter and the victims were white.
You probably didn’t even hear about that shooting, because is was completely ignored by the national media. It was also ignored by Joe Biden, who issued no statements or even tweets. A crazy white guy killing three white people is not news, but a crazy white guy killing three black people is a national disaster.
