Over the weekend, Recoil—”the ultimate firearms destination for the gun lifestyle”—interviewed former White House adviser Seb Gorka for a feature about his love of guns and his time serving President Donald Trump.
It is… amazing.
Gorka never leaves home without two pistols, two flashlights, a copy of the Constitution and a tourniquet https://t.co/tlEWDcC3F5 pic.twitter.com/TcFCZCChps
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) November 25, 2017
Not only did they misstate the number of pistols Gorka carries every day (it’s only one!), the site compares Trump winning to a movie about Russia invading the United States. Which is maybe a metaphor you want to, you know, shy away from these days.
For Gorka, a European-born counterterrorism expert, November 8 was like a scene from Red Dawn. The MAGA team was a scrappy bunch of insurgents who won despite overwhelming odds.
“A rank outsider that nobody took seriously,” said Gorka, “destroyed 16 establishment candidates and, against everybody’s expectations, beat a woman who’d spent at least $700 million for a position she thought was owed to her.”
But, by August, 2017, the elation dimmed as the tide turned against the MAGA Wolverines and their efforts to reform American politics. “A lot of good guys were fired from the National Security Council,” said Gorka, “Steve [Bannon] eventually decided to leave, and after the Afghan speech the President was given had no mention of radical Islamic terrorism, I decided the best way to support the president would be from the outside.
But it is the pictures of a heavily armed Gorka that the internet couldn’t get enough of.
Gangstaaaaaaaaaaasss… what's up guys? pic.twitter.com/2nTxnlunAg
— zeddy (@Zeddary) November 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/AlexHortonTX/status/934945780598824960
Gorka's a poser
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) November 25, 2017
whenever I leave my freedom hole I carry:
12 handguns and pictures of me lovingly kissing each one
2 nostril cannons
1 red hot iron poker to immediately cauterize wounds
tactical shinguards
Wayne LaPierre himself pic.twitter.com/peVV28k5bf
https://twitter.com/ErinEph/status/934579656522588163
https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/934478843238387712
https://twitter.com/iAmTheWarax/status/934980644698050560
https://twitter.com/susie_meister/status/934491714487799809
https://twitter.com/DabAggin/status/934470940225925121
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/934487976108789761
Gorka, meanwhile, called the people reacting to his online celebrity ‘beta-males’
Beta-males and Progressives have been fainting because of my @RecoilMag interview.
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) November 26, 2017
Here it is again!https://t.co/6yNLzxQ93o pic.twitter.com/vvDmGAjtNl
You can read it here. And you should.