When the going gets weird … the weird turn pro.
Mark and Patricia gained fame and esteem from the Trumpanzees last year when they “guarded” their suburban St. Louis home from Black Lives Matter protestors who were just walking past on the street.
Their eagerness to flaunt their guns made them right-wing heroes of Donald Trump’s last summer in the White House, joining the pantheon of folks like Bernhard Goetz (1984’s subway vigilante) and George Zimmerman. There’s fame and fortune to be made in the good old USA by behaving like an asshole.
Or in the case of the McCloskeys, dual assholes.
So much of what happens these days seems to turn people into media heroes for one side or the other.
The Fox crowd loves the McCloskeys, and they were back in the news this week when Missouri Gov. Mike Parson pardoned them from the firearms charges to which they had pleaded guilty.
To be fair, the gun-toting couple didn’t actually fire their guns. They didn’t kill anyone like Zimmerman or even wound anyone like Goetz. And as much as the McCloskeys get points with the Trump crowd for their gunplay, it might be balanced out by the fact that both husband and wife are personal-injury attorneys.
The exact type of law makes it even worse. Mark and Patty are personal injury lawyers, the kind who take cases on contingency and try to win big awards for their clients. The kind you see all over cable television and roadside billboards. The kind who get hundreds of thousands of dollars from McDonald’s when the coffee is too hot.
Mark is in his 60s, so he has decided to join the Old Men’s Club, aka the U.S. Senate. He’s going to run in the next senatorial election in Missouri. Since it’s a fairly red state, getting the Republican nomination will be the key. I imagine he’s expecting help from the Head Trumpanzee, Mister Donald himself.
Stay tuned. This one has the potential to get really disgusting.