The death of a terrorist leader, monster, rapist, slavery-enabler and an all-around terrible person should be easy for everyone to celebrate.
But for some, it was a bad day.
And unfortunately for Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), those are his key supporters. It didn’t have to be this way.
Doug Jones actually did something right in the beginning. After President Donald Trump announced that a United States military operation resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Doug Jones released a completely reasonable statement in which he congratulated the president on making the world safer, which it is now, and applauded our brave soldiers for carrying out a successful operation.
No reasonable person looks at his statement and finds anything wrong with it.
However, we are in stupid times with some pretty unreasonable people, and they let Doug Jones have it.
Somehow, Jones’ statement wasn’t good enough for those on the left because he did not bring up impeachment.
Actress Michaela Watkins, who nobody has ever heard of, responded to Jones’ tweet, saying, “I congratulate our troops and leaders for the operation. Trump is a traitor. Impeach now.”
According to the outraged leftist responses, Jones’ initial tweet should have looked something like this: “RIP al-Baghdadi, screw Trump #Impeach45.”
What disappointment @DougJones has turned out to be. He’s the Tulsi Gabbard of Joe Manchins. ?
— Sue Cole (@mscole227) October 27, 2019
He blew himself up. The President of the United States has just become Isis biggest recruiter and has taken America into the abyss. Also, answer this. How can the US military kill someone when the president has stated we haven’t any ammunition?
— ????????? ??? ???! (@AriesaSandino) October 27, 2019
Please name those countries you deem civilized. You’re brave forces were taken out so genocide could be committed and then redeployed for oil. I hope Donald Trump is worth you throwing yourself on the sword and jeopardizing your family’s reputation
— ????????? ??? ???! (@AriesaSandino) October 27, 2019
Totally reasonable.
Jones had a bunch of options to respond to these morons. He could have said he stands by his statement, he could have said that this is a good thing for the country and a time to come together and celebrate as Americans or he could have even said nothing and ignored them.
Instead, he appeased his base of supporters on Twitter.
Folks, for everyone who is sending me what Trump tweeted at Obama after Bin Laden’s death please know that I too remember that and did not like it at all. But we are better than that. Donald Trump did not put country over party, but we will. Let’s transcend partisan hackery. https://t.co/Vwif0pXNg4
— Doug Jones (@DougJones) October 27, 2019
He actually retweeted himself.
Doug Jones needs to know Twitter is not real life.
A Pew study found only around 22% of American adults today use Twitter.
Pew wrote, “That means the conversation on Twitter is dominated by extremely active (or, in their parlance, “extremely online“) users. That means a large majority of Twitter’s content is created by a small number — 10 percent of users are responsible for 80 percent of all tweets from U.S. adults on Twitter.
Despite what the media and their Democrats tell you, killing terrorists is a good thing and warning them that we will keep doing it is a great thing.
Doug, your donors and friends out of state may not like it. For the rest of us, we’re OK with a psychopath who killed thousands of people dying by blowing himself to pieces while cowering in a tunnel “like a dog.”
We like that the president spiked the football.
Senator Doug Jones has shown time and time again he can’t side with this president or normal Americans. The people in New York City, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C. may love this stuff from our senator, but they can’t vote for him and we won’t.
Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 7-11 am weekdays on WVNN
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