Actor Mark Hamill posted an image on BlueSky depicting President Donald Trump lying dead in a grave, captioned with two words: "If Only." This came just days after an actual assassination attempt against the president. Not a hypothetical one. Not a movie plot. A real one. With real bullets. And Luke Skywalker thinks that's comedy material.
Imagine — just for one second — if any conservative celebrity had posted an image of Barack Obama dead with the caption "If Only." The FBI would've been at their door before breakfast. CNN would've run a 72-hour panel discussion. But it's Trump, so apparently wishing death on a sitting president is just edgy content.
Hamill posted this on BlueSky, a platform that LifeZette notes is "widely recognized as leaning left politically." So naturally, his post found a warm, welcoming audience of people who think fantasizing about presidential assassinations is free speech but misgendering someone is violence.
"If Only." Two words. That's all it took for the mask to slip completely off.
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The Rapid Response 47 account on X fired back immediately: "@MarkHamill is one sick individual. These Radical Left lunatics just can't help themselves. This kind of rhetoric is exactly what has inspired three assassination attempts in two years against our President." Three assassination attempts in two years. Let that sink in. And Hollywood celebrities are still posting death fantasies for likes.
This isn't a joke. This isn't political commentary. This isn't satire. A man who has had three attempts on his life in two years is being depicted dead in a grave by a celebrity with millions of followers, captioned with a wish that one of those attempts had succeeded. That's not free expression. That's incitement wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
And where is the outrage from the left? Where are the "when they go low, we go high" Democrats? Where are the media panels about dangerous rhetoric? Where is the Secret Service investigation? Nowhere. Because the rules only apply in one direction. Always have.
Remember, these are the same people who blamed every act of political violence on conservative speech. Every heated rally. Every mean tweet. Every "lock her up" chant. That was all "dangerous rhetoric" that would "get someone killed." But an actor literally posting an image of a dead president with a wish that it were real? That's just Mark being Mark.
The left spent years telling us that words are violence. They built entire academic departments around the idea. They deplatformed people for far less. They called jokes "stochastic terrorism." And now one of their own is openly fantasizing about the death of a sitting president days after someone tried to make it happen — and the silence is deafening.
Mark Hamill used to pretend to fight evil in a galaxy far, far away. Now he's cheering for it from his couch on BlueSky. The Force isn't with this one. Never was.