John Schneider Wants To See Joe Biden Hanged For Christmas

That's hardly a good old boy who doesn't mean any harm.

Actor John Schneider is trending today, and not because he’s spreading joy and holiday cheer. No, he publicly threatened President Joe Biden with execution.

Biden had posted Wednesday on the generic social media site, “Trump poses many threats to our country: The right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and America's standing in the world. But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy. If we lose that, we lose everything.”

This clear statement of fact apparently infuriated Schneider, who’s an avowed Trump supporter. Early this morning, he responded:

Mr. President,

I believe you are guilty of treason and should be publicly hung.

Your son too.

Your response is..?

Sincerely,

John Schneider

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My friend, journalist Victoria Brownworth, pointed out that it’s “hanged” not “hung.” The president isn’t a Picasso. I’m normally not a stickler for grammar when I otherwise comprehend the intended meaning, but if you’re calling for someone’s death, it’s only fair to do so correctly.

Schneider is just 63 years old, but he still composes his unhinged social media messages like formal business letters. Anyway, Title 18 U.S. Code § 2381 states, “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or imprisoned and fined, and incapable of holding any US office.”

Donald Trump is the obvious traitor here and Schneider is fully prepared to vote for him a third time. The MAGA cult demands that its mad king’s worst offenses are projected onto Democrats, especially Joe Biden, an overall decent man even if he’s never rode in the “General Lee,” the Batmobile for the Lost Cause with a Confederate battle flag painted on the roof and a car horn that blared “Dixie.” The US president proudly owns an American car with no Confederate traitor, white supremacist iconography.

Schneider requested a response to his less-than-subtle death threat, and that would normally arrive in the form of a Secret Service visit. Maybe Schneider realized that, because he’s since deleted the post from the generic social media site.

This was probably not the attention Schneider wanted after his recent, thrilling appearance on “The Masked Singer,” where he was revealed as the Donut.

Panelists Robin Thicke and Ken Jeong guessed that Donut was Tom Jones, which is insulting to a man with so distinctive and sultry a voice. (I mean Jones, obviously, not Schneider). Former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger thought the Donut was Engelbert Humperdinck, who is in fact still alive. Only Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg correctly identified Schneider as the man in the humiliating outfit.

Schneider is no Sarah Palin, though. He’s an actual singer, who’s released records that have topped the country charts. Here he is performing “Georgia On My Mind” in 1980 with Ray Charles. They presumably had very different types of Georgias in their mind. It’s unclear if he’s dressed in character as Bo Duke from the “Dukes of Hazzard.” That’s just sort of how every white southerner I grew up with dressed at the time … OK, fine, I might’ve had that shirt, as well. “The Dukes of Hazzard” was very popular. White northern liberals might find it shocking that even Black southerners enjoyed the show, but our schools and roads were named after Confederate generals. I think they played “Dixie” in place of the school bell.

Entertainment Weekly has an interview with Schneider about how performing on The Masked Singer helped him cope with the loss of his wife, who died February from cancer at 53. He sounds like a normal man with human feelings. It’s somewhat tragic to consider how many of Trump’s followers aren’t the twisted, soulless sociopaths that he is. They just sacrifice their humanity on his altar.

[Newsweek / Entertainment Weekly]

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