The former president and VP are engaged in a high-profile battle over the Georgia gubernatorial race in what many see as a prelude to the 2024 presidential primary, and the world’s richest man took to Twitter to make light of allegations that he acted inappropriately towards a woman on his private plane. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
In addition to every other way he’s a nightmarish human being, Donald Trump has always been a bloodthirsty freak. https://t.co/cmpXYo6KBh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2022
Why doesn’t Texas pass a law that pays citizens a bounty for every mass-shooting planner they turn in? #Uvalde
— Liddle Pizza Pie 🇺🇦🌻🌈🍕 (@Pie_Overlord) May 25, 2022
Abbott is giving a presser. Can’t hang. Just can’t.
TX GOV ABBOTT - “There was no known mental health history with regards to the shooter.”
Proceeds to ramble on about the community having problems with mental health.
Look in the mirror, Greg.— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) May 25, 2022
Texas Gov. Abbott: “It could have been worse.”
— Neda Toloui-Semnani (@Neda_Semnani) May 25, 2022
jfc
Not a typical video from me but I almost felt like it would seem as though I was ignoring the horrible tragedy in Texas (much like our sorry ass government consistently does) if I didn’t say something so…here’s something. My heart goes out to everyone affected. pic.twitter.com/gZYXsoA7wt
— Trae Crowder ON TOUR this Summer (@traecrowder) May 25, 2022
NEW: Texas Gov. Abbott says the shooter’s grandmother called police after being shot in the face.
The shooter may have a juvenile record, he says.
He also posted on Facebook saying, “I am going to shoot an elementary school” just 15 minutes before the shooting, Abbott says.— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) May 25, 2022
Beto O’Rourke just interrupted Greg Abbott’s press conference — and heated confrontation ensues
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 25, 2022
Imagine how many children wouldn’t be slaughtered in school if being pro-life was more than just a talking point for Republicans in Congress.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 25, 2022
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
The shooter had a gun, Greg.
This is me, cheering for Beto O’Rourke. It’s long past time to keep playing politics as usual. We need more Democrats like this, who will stand up to the relentless evil bullshit pouring out of the GOP. https://t.co/kLjaLNK0Q3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2022
I’m grateful to be able to share this sneak peek of @TheSimpsons season finale, where @RealHughJackman and I team up to tackle inequality and the demise of the middle class.
Here’s a sneak peak of the episode. Be sure to tune in at 8pm ET/7pm CT/8pm PT this Sunday for the rest! pic.twitter.com/ziu7Mp6ef1— Robert Reich (@RBReich) May 19, 2022
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Who’s the asshole saying Beto is out of line? Fuck. Him.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Everyone in the Democratic Party, take note. If our country is going down in flames, let us all be like Beto and simply not sit down and watch it happen as if we can’t do a damn thing about it. There are several things we can do about it.
Get in Republican politician faces. Get right up in there.
General strikes.
Targeted strikes.
Boycotts of the arms Industry and its enablers including businesses owned or BOD controlled by NRA shills.
Mass protests including in front of homes of Texas politicians.
Mass Billboard buys calling for the political heads of Republican Do-nothings.
A lot more other stuff as well.
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“It’s on you.”
In a striking moment, Texas gubernatorial candidate @BetoORourke interrupts Gov. Greg Abbott’s press conference about the Uvalde shooting. pic.twitter.com/jINIAave6Y— The Recount (@therecount) May 25, 2022
San Jose Police believe they averted a mass shooting after arresting a man they said had a plan and arsenal to carry it out. https://t.co/fGnJEWPuTI
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 25, 2022
re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He’s way better than I am.
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) May 25, 2022
Beto is now gaggling outside of the Abbott presser with what appears to be every television camera in America, raging in English and in Spanish, and msnbc cut away from Abbott to carry Beto live.
— Meredith Shiner (@meredithshiner) May 25, 2022
Clearly we need more public shaming, not less.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 25, 2022
go fuck yourself @tedcruz https://t.co/XYeyLlQxHo
— darth™ (@darth) May 25, 2022
grandstanding garbage
— darth™ (@darth) May 25, 2022
On a slightly funnier note: these waiters have decided I don’t speak German because I couldn’t navigate the online menu
So I go out to smoke and they are rating every woman that walks by and then I, in perfect fucking German, say: I don’t think she’d fuck you though
The men: pic.twitter.com/k5xVplo7d5— Linda Tirado (@KillerMartinis) May 25, 2022
Abbott chose to let it happen again. And again and again. https://t.co/D0FkVY6Q9q
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) May 25, 2022
The demonstration of a little fight — and a little imagination about what might work after cold proof of what won’t — can go a long way, I’m saying.
— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) May 25, 2022
re: #21 The Pie Overlord!
Fuck yes. I hope he’s on all the alphabet nightly news segments tonight.
re: #21 The Pie Overlord!
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The way the channels present this later will tell the tale of how effective this will be, unfortunately. Fight is good and necessary, but the media has found ways to turn Dem feistiness into something worth shock and appall that somehow manages to drive everyone away (including the folks who were demanding fight to begin with).
Gov. @GregAbbott_TX asked why he didn’t cancel fundraiser last night.
He says he “stopped in” and said he couldn’t stay. Background: https://t.co/Y54Wv7FPih #txlege— 🌟 Lauren McGaughy (@lmcgaughy) May 25, 2022
This is a great speech. https://t.co/ncqGCpXPF5
— Teri Carter (@teri_atthepaper) May 25, 2022
Guess who can’t even make eye contact? pic.twitter.com/4DSwXNaH1X
— Clarity, PsyD 🇰🇷🇺🇸🧢🌊 (@clarityforusa) May 25, 2022
Those guys in their cowboy hats think they’re so tough. They can’t stand a question from a real hero. https://t.co/hvqw8A2Mkc
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) May 25, 2022
Abbott is talking about the reason is there are no mental health facilities nearby. Let me tell you something about mental health. You have to walk in, you can’t be committed even if you are in danger of harming yourself of others THEY KEEP YOU OVERNIGHT AND RELEASE YOU
— Sandi Bachom (@sandibachom) May 25, 2022
After defending her AR-15 profile picture as being unrelated to the recent elementary school shooting, Katie Williams, a Trump-supporting Clark County School Board trustee, invited people to “walk into our schools” and see for themselves just how unsecured they are. pic.twitter.com/RZWizwftKn
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 25, 2022
This is Katie Williams’ profile picture. pic.twitter.com/pY03wdE950
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 25, 2022
That town is something like 80% Hispanic. I know they increasingly support the GOP, but doesn’t look like much representation on that stage. Anyway, stay safe, Beto.
re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth
Katie Williams also tweeted that: “People in prison are safer than kids in our schools… #JustSaying” pic.twitter.com/nkZSprpmIn
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 25, 2022
Yeah, he’s not the one whose response to mass shootings is to get more guns into the hands of unhinged people. You complete fucking ghouls. https://t.co/lRWwWrUlmF
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) May 25, 2022
One of the “liberty” groups that sent out attack mailers against Reps. Koenig and King and Sen. Douglas in the Kentucky primary election has this public take after the Uvalde massacre of 19 children and two teachers: pic.twitter.com/X8DCiRWD3e
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 25, 2022
This. https://t.co/pPBROZPPsV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2022
Republicans oppose the domestic terrorism bill and aren’t going to vote to proceed, so that won’t allow for any gun votes this week
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) May 25, 2022
If I didn’t know better, I’d say books about racism and the lgbt folks are not the biggest threat to school kids.
— Capitol Hill Books (@chbooksdc) May 24, 2022
Transporter 5 launch in about 5 minutes.
re: #44 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Transporter 5 launch in about 5 minutes.
I can’t be enthusiastic about anything that asshole does.
Ron Desantis’ lap dog Rep. Randy Fine tries to justify his tweet about Biden this morning, and says he is for carrying concealed firearms with no permit. “I’m not all that interested in what Democrats have to say .. I’m not interested in their ideas.”pic.twitter.com/BYX2TMjIFe
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 25, 2022
I’m done with moments of silence.
Not doing it anymore.
I’m here for serious policy convos on this national disgrace.
But I’m not gonna be silent.— Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow) May 25, 2022
whenever a @GOP Senator says something like this why dont you ever ask the follow up question “if you believe that, why should we have any law at all?”
— TX_Vet (@TX_Vet1) May 25, 2022
The Taliban’s statement on yesterday’s school shooting. Not the Onion. https://t.co/pxtLlWBwxz
— Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸 (@alexplitsas) May 25, 2022
50 GOP Senators could vote for H.R. 8, universal background checks, TODAY. Every Senator who backs McCONNELL in blocking a vote has the blood of children on their hands.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 25, 2022
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
I don’t think this dude has ever touched a gun in his life.
Interesting factoid about the Ga primary:
The results tonight confirm what many Republican consultants say privately: that the hardcore Stop the Steal vote is somewhere around 30 or 35 percent of the G.O.P. electorate. You can’t win a primary on that alone.
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) May 25, 2022
The answer is unfortunately obvious. https://t.co/Y9arkSSsFM
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTdove) May 25, 2022
No shit. Jake created this damn fake outrage cycle about Chuck even as we were doing all the procedural moves for the vote. Shameful. https://t.co/SaLbRmS7gy
— What Biden Has Done 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@What46HasDone) May 25, 2022
Predictably, all the comments to that Sherman tweet are full of grousing about it being performative or accusing Schumer of trying to hide the vote past the recess or something. Once again, those demanding Republicans be put ‘on the record’ are the first ones to call the vote pointless and attack Dems for it once it actually happens.
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, look at that. I’m not interested in Republican ideas, because all Republican ideas are dog shit. The difference is I can prove my case, and this GOP asshole can’t prove his.
re: #51 GlutenFreeJesus
I don’t think this dude has ever touched a gun in his life.
Beyond looking at it as a fashion accessory. The sociopathy he wears everyday, though.
re: #52 ckkatz
Interesting factoid about the Ga primary:
One that is not true if there are more than two candidates. With those numbers and four candidates, one a Trump cultist, the Trumpanzee would win every time.
Having 30-35% of Republicans living in a malignant narcissist’s inner-world after the monster betrayed the nation is a huge problem. They could easily win primaries with those numbers.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 25, 2022
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
The answer to that is, “and yet you think that you can regulate every woman’s period.”
I have some news for Republicans: your prayers aren’t worth shit.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2022
re: #51 GlutenFreeJesus
I don’t think this dude has ever touched a gun in his life.
But he has touched plenty of cheeseburgers. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a heart attack right after that video was shot.
re: #45 Crush White Nationalism
I can’t be enthusiastic about anything that asshole does.
I can understand that. But I also don’t think he has much to do with Space X day to day operation except as an obnoxious spokesman.
re: #59 Charles Johnson
That’s only because there is no prayer in school! Amirite?
Fox Propagandist inadvertently reveals the Fox Final Solution doesn’t work: https://t.co/CORumdArN3
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 25, 2022
re: #61 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I can understand that. But I also don’t think he has much to do with Space X day to day operation except as an obnoxious spokesman.
He sets the tone there.
Former SpaceX engineer alleges in essay that company culture is ‘rife with sexism’ (cnbc)
FIVE FORMER SPACEX EMPLOYEES SPEAK OUT ABOUT HARASSMENT AT THE COMPANY (TheVerge)
SpaceX Settles With Underpaid Employees for $4 Million (Entrepreneur)
I’d like to see NASA take back space travel from these billionaires.
re: #45 Crush White Nationalism
I can’t be enthusiastic about anything that asshole does.
Regardless of Musk’s shenanigans, I’m looking forward to starship. If/when it works (and unlike some of his other ventures, SpaceX has delivered), it’ll be a massive game changer.
<*snork*>
Congress does not have to organize the entire militia. But it can. It has, in Scalia’s words, “plenary power” to do so.
In simple terms: if Congress wants to mandate that all gun owners spend a week doing military training every year, it can.https://t.co/K5awMaIUsV— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) May 25, 2022
re: #65 JC1
Regardless of Musk’s shenanigans, I’m looking forward to starship. If/when it works (and unlike some of his other ventures, SpaceX has delivered), it’ll be a massive game changer.
If I were running a Galactic empire I would put all star systems whose inhabitants are nearing space flight capability under surveillance.
If those inhabitants bring bad habits with them into space, like trashing the environment of their home planet so badly they need to flee to space, I’d give a shoot to kill order vs. all their space ships.
It would be pest control.
The Uvalde murderer was a “law-abiding citizen” right up to the moment he started killing.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2022
re: #67 EPR-radar
If I were running a Galactic empire I would put all star systems whose inhabitants are nearing space flight capability under surveillance.
If those inhabitants bring bad habits with them into space, like trashing the environment of their home planet so badly they need to flee to space, I’d give a shoot to kill order vs. all their space ships.
It would be pest control.
It’s a good thing that space is so vast that it’s unlikely that anyone is watching us.
The conversation we’re gonna damn well have is “is children shot so many times they’re collecting DNA samples an acceptable price to pay for a right to bear arms that’s totally disconnected from anything well-regulated.”
Because that’s the price you’re demanding.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) May 25, 2022
re: #60 Crush White Nationalism
But he has touched plenty of cheeseburgers. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a heart attack right after that video was shot.
He got Covid too.
This was my reflection this morning. Ten years ago I have said there is no price at which you should ever give up a right. Once the unit in which the price is calculated is the corpses of children I no longer believe that.
— WolfLawyer (@thewolflawyer) May 25, 2022
They’re not fooling anybody with this transparent bullshit. https://t.co/7P7UaD1gDh
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 25, 2022
re: #69 JC1
It’s a good thing that space is so vast that it’s unlikely that anyone is watching us.
Yeah, even with my pest control idea, I would be a much more benign Galactic Emperor than one would expect from any real first contact situation.
re: #73 Charles Johnson
These people do not operate in good faith. The Republicans are gone, and can’t help in any crisis, especially in this crisis that they created.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 25, 2022
You’re always having to keep the knives out of their reach…#SignsYouLiveWithAMurderer pic.twitter.com/tMAAHAVvm3
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) May 25, 2022
re: #6 Dave In Austin
Beto just got in Abbott’s face.!!! Wow???
I just saw this…awesome.
Beto interrupts pic.twitter.com/sh8wbJgQZh
— Daniel Marans (@danielmarans) May 25, 2022
Mais um vídeo do Bicicharger Sun+Wind
Estação de carregamento de e-bikes que funciona a energia solar e eólica#bikecharger#bike#bicycle #ebike pic.twitter.com/RHeFknlWoB— Biciway (@BiciwayPortugal) May 25, 2022
Another video from Bicicharger Sun+Wind
E-bike charging station that runs on solar and wind power
I think I speak for everyone who will be there, but if I get shot while protesting the NRA convention, I want y’all to politicize it immediately and without end. pic.twitter.com/yeSDPvrc2q
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) May 25, 2022
The “special interests” we think important are also known as “children”. pic.twitter.com/539TiRZbJM
— Martin Chavez (@MartyChavez) May 25, 2022
NRA announces their convention in Texas this Friday featuring Abbott, Trump and Cruz will go ahead as planned, and they offer prayers for the latest victims of their insane and reckless policy positions. pic.twitter.com/MwEnad93s1
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 25, 2022
Our hearts break for the people of Uvalde. Enough is enough. As a nation, we must have the courage to stand up to the gun lobby and fight for sensible gun safety laws to ensure nothing like this happens again. pic.twitter.com/UATBzMwDHK
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) May 25, 2022
The teenagers who survived Columbine are in their late 30s and early 40s. They have kids in elementary schools.
— Paige Cornwell (@pgcornwell) May 24, 2022
Columbine survivor here. My oldest son just finished his first year of college. This is America. There is no end in sight for the steady cadence of mass gun violence we seem unwilling to ever address. A reality my peers could not have imagined on our worst day in April 1999.
— Craig Nason (@nasoncraig) May 24, 2022
re: #31 jaunte
The ability of a woman to get an abortion has been in place for over 50 years. Doesn’t seem to bother him that will be taken away.
re: #69 JC1
It’s a good thing that space is so vast that it’s unlikely that anyone is watching us.
And if they watching us they are likely machines or mostly machines. Outer space simply wreaks havoc on living organisms and life support would eat up an enormous amount of much-needed energy onboard any spacecraft.
I am assuming FTL is never going to happen which means sub-light speeds and hundreds if not thousands of years between star systems. A theory is that those species that are able to create machines/ robots/androids will be able to conduct interstellar travel. Whether or not consciousness itself can ever be loaded into these machines is still a big question.
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wonder if his office would stop me if I walked in with a gun?
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
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‘The nation’ can not stand up to gun lobbyists. The ones who are lobbied, the elected and the candidates, must stand up. ‘The nation’ must vote accordingly.
“It’s fucking nuts to do nothing about this,” Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly tells reporters.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 25, 2022
No, I am not inclined to believe that the party of “fuck your feelings” is concerned about mental health.
— Trung Lê Capecchi-Nguyễn (@Trungles) May 25, 2022
I wrote this six years ago. It applies today as it did then. https://t.co/Z8N3DiYWky
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) May 24, 2022
re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Republican party became a cult some time ago. That cult is the reason that we can’t have sane gun laws and are the only developed nation where this happens.
Voters need to smarten up and sweep the Republicans from our government if they don’t want these massacres to continue.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 25, 2022
love the guy screaming HOW DARE YOU MAKE THIS POLITICAL, sorry sir we’re just trying to squeeze it in before the next mass shooting https://t.co/OM5WzEBXnP
— shauna (@goldengateblond) May 25, 2022
Do you want to be told that there’s no constitutional right to live children? I think that may be where we are today.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 25, 2022
GOP: “This is a mental health problem.”
So does this mean after decades of defunding mental healthcare, you’ll start supporting it?
GOP: “No. They just need more JAY-SUS in their lives.” https://t.co/6zQFfYfMox— Kragar🌻 (@Kragar_LGF) May 25, 2022
“It now appears the suspect was not wearing body armor as previous information had indicated.”
…so how did he manage to crash his car, get out, then get into the school, when police were right there and had already “engaged” him? https://t.co/fuAqdlNIZG— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 25, 2022
After further inspection of the deceased suspect’s clothing, it now appears the suspect was not wearing body armor as previous information had indicated. Instead, Ramos is said to have been wearing only a plate carrier with no ballistic armor inside when he exchanged gun fire with several officers at the school.
Only “forewarning” of event, per Abbott, were three real-time Facebook posts (not really a forewarning given timing):
1) Gunman said he planned to shoot grandmother
2) Gunman said he shot grandmother
3) Gunman said he would shoot elementary school
Except…
The gunman in Tuesday’s elementary school massacre was a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered from a fraught home life and lashed out violently against peers and strangers recently and over the years, friends and relatives said…
Valdez said Ramos drove around with another friend at night sometimes and shot at random people with a BB gun. He also egged people’s cars, Valdez said…
“He posted videos on his Instagram where the cops were there and he’d call his mom a b—— and say she wanted to kick him out,” Reyes said. “He’d be screaming and talking to his mom really aggressively…”
As he grew older, problems at home became more acute and more apparent to neighbors, Flores said. He described seeing police at the house and witnessing blowups between Ramos and his mother…
Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference after Gov. Greg Abbott spoke about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
O’Rourke, as he was being escorted out, said: “This is on you until you choose to do something different. This will continue to happen.” https://t.co/Y2OuhA3yb0 pic.twitter.com/LSQiiZ1UnD— The Associated Press (@AP) May 25, 2022
re: #78 Eclectic Cyborg
Someone is happy I am back from a 10 day trip…
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The enthusiasm is contagious!
21 people died “in the moment,” @GregAbbott_TX https://t.co/0ffhPtRNJH
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) May 25, 2022
The cable news washing machine is asking what motivated Salvador Ramos to kill all those children. The answer is simple: He did it because he could. The guns were available. America needs to ban assault weapons in almost all cases.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 25, 2022
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Learn more about Witold Pilecki and Polish military resistance movement at KL Auschwitz.
🔹 @googlearts exhibition: https://t.co/2q6lFnWp2q⁰
🔹 online lesson about resistance in the camp: https://t.co/RDn0HeCjVx https://t.co/jv9SmcG77M— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) May 25, 2022
re: #72 ckkatz
I have never held that any right is absolute, and it ends when it can affect someone else. I cannot, for instance, call around and make accusations in order to destroy someone’s life, no matter what the first amendment says.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) May 25, 2022
Apparently the DC convoy is still sort of in the area. If you are familiar with DC Region traffic, this is not unexpected:
About 20 cars formerly with The People’s Convoy - now 1776 Restoration Movement - were planning on rolling into Washington D.C this morning. Yet, they still aren’t in the city, as they were stuck in traffic and continually have to “slow it down to a crawl” over cars getting lost.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) May 25, 2022
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Jogged next to the convoy this afternoon, and they accomplished nothing after spending 5 hours in traffic getting to the city. They rode through downtown D.C. for 15 minutes and are now back sitting in rush hour traffic.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) May 25, 2022
I am so frustrated with fucking idiots like this one. Do they not stop to consider that if they let Republicans win their shit will get fucked up faster? Also sinking Joe Manchin’s boat (or shooting his dog) is a felony.
actually i’m not sorry
— amy brown (@arb) May 25, 2022
people in the QTs still carrying water for the democrats. you sound like children. you sound like linus waiting for the great pumpkin. surely this is the election cycle where nancy pelosi will deliver. i admire your faith. godspeed
— amy brown (@arb) May 25, 2022
honestly sink joe manchin’s boat even if you don’t have to, he’s earned it
— amy brown (@arb) May 25, 2022
re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
I am so frustrated with fucking idiots like this one. Do they not stop to consider that if they let Republicans win their shit will get fucked up faster? Also sinking Joe Manchin’s boat (or shooting his dog) is a felony.
My response to her is Mute/Block.
re: #104 Belafon
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Your fist, my nose
Your pig farm, public water supply
Your religion, no live human sacrifice
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re: #108 Dangerman
All rights come with some responsibility
Your fist, my nose
Your pig farm, public water supply
Your religion, no live human sacrifice
On and onExcept It seems the 2a
Or any damn thing Republicans get up to. They never got the memo on rights coming with responsibilities. Responsibility is for poor people.
Guy who was a fixture on the right wing grifter circuit and who was regularly seen with key GOPers at the national, state, and local level, was convicted to 12.5 years in prison for child porn.
That’s after his dad and pastor covered up abuse of his own sister.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) May 25, 2022
House Sergeant at Arms William Walker, one of the top security officials on Capitol Hill, revealed that he does not believe lawmakers should be allowed to carry firearms in the U.S. Capitol Complex, in a new letter provided exclusively to CNN.
Yeah that’ll go well
re: #108 Dangerman
All rights come with some responsibility
Your fist, my nose
Your pig farm, public water supply
Your religion, no live human sacrifice
On and onExcept It seems the 2a
Naw, the right to not wear masks trumps other people’s rights not to get sick.
The cult of selfishness has grown and been cultivated by Republicans. Only THEIR rights matters; other people don’t have rights.
THIS THIS THIS
Saw this and had to share. #Uvalde #ProLifeMyAss #GunSafetyNow pic.twitter.com/cnSS4YpTDj
— Rachael 🏳️🌈 (@NastyPersists) May 25, 2022
re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
I am so frustrated with fucking idiots like this one. Do they not stop to consider that if they let Republicans win their shit will get fucked up faster? Also sinking Joe Manchin’s boat (or shooting his dog) is a felony.
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re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
I am so frustrated with fucking idiots like this one. Do they not stop to consider that if they let Republicans win their shit will get fucked up faster? Also sinking Joe Manchin’s boat (or shooting his dog) is a felony.
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Literally no political action, no demonstration, no protest, no nothing, has an effect without the vote. If someone sympathetic to your pleas isn’t in office to help push your concerns forward, then all it amounts to is screaming in the wind. And if someone isn’t in office that will listen, the point becomes putting someone there who WILL listen and will help give you want you want, or at least tell those in office that those concerns must be heeded or they’ll be out on their ass.
If you do not leverage your vote behind your demonstration, then its pointless. Those who do not understand this are either political naifs or have so bought into accelerationist revolutionary woo that they thing they can just burn it down and build on the ashes. As someone put it well on twitter though, no one renovates a house by demolishing it down to the foundations.
re: #106 The Pie Overlord!
None of these “Amy Browns” seem to think that voting out GOPers might improve the chances that legislation gets enacted. They just think that the onus is entirely on Democrats to do something when the House is essentially split 50/50, and the Senate is 48/2/50, and Manchin/Sinema largely caucus as Democrats while blocking any rule changes that would facilitate passage of legislation.
The only reason that the filibuster has any power is that you can’t find 10 GOPers, let alone 1, who’d support changing the laws that need changing. They’re obstructionists precisely to deny action that would help all Americans.
Hold those responsible for this responsible, instead of throwing up your arms and claiming that the Democrats made me vote GOP. Fuck that.
How else was he supposed to get a head in life?
— Gocart Mozart (@EdMix13) May 25, 2022
Schumer: “We are going to vote on gun legislation. The American people are tired of moments of silence, tired of the kind words offering thoughts and prayers.”
He added that the Senate can use the domestic terrorism bill “to begin considering gun safety amendments.” https://t.co/6qYyFptRQp— Jack Turman III (@jackturmanIII) May 25, 2022
Some of my colleagues are saying they oppose gun safety reforms because “criminals won’t obey them.”
That isn’t an argument against gun laws – it’s an argument against ALL laws. And it’s utter nonsense.— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) May 25, 2022
Jon Cooper
@joncoopertweets
* 4h
Kill the filibuster or kill more kids. That’s the choice.
This seems to counter the claim that the increased overdose deaths were caused by the lockdown causing despair, rather than being its own epidemic.
A grim prediction made half a decade ago by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health epidemiologists and modelers has come true: More than 100,000 people are now dying from drug overdoses annually in the U.S. The milestone comes as the International Journal of Drug Policy publishes a special section of the June issue reflecting on the exponential growth in drug-related deaths the Pitt team uncovered in 2017.
The special section—based around the Pitt team’s landmark research article in Science that analyzed nearly four decades of U.S. drug overdose data—contains commentary by four teams of epidemiologists, addiction specialists, modelers and drug policy experts, as well as an update from the original authors and an editorial by one of the journal’s senior editors.
“Since 1979, drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have inexorably climbed along a near-perfect exponential curve, despite changes in the popularity of different drugs, new drug control policies, changing demographics, economic upswings and downturns, wars—and now a global pandemic,” said Donald S. Burke, M.D., Distinguished University Professor of Health Science and Policy in Pitt Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology and senior author of the Science publication. “The fact that we’re still seeing this exponential growth in another five years of data—413,000 more young Americans dead—shows that we really don’t understand the deep drivers of the epidemic.”
Nearly 108,000 overdose deaths in 2021 bear out a prediction from five years ago forecasting the devastating toll (Medicalxpress)
More than 300,000 students in K-12 schools have experienced gun violence on their campuses since Columbine. This afternoon, that number grew. Again.https://t.co/rD51g2y52I
— John Woodrow Cox (@JohnWoodrowCox) May 24, 2022
More than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine
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Beyond the dead and wounded, children who witness the violence or cower behind locked doors to hide from it can be profoundly traumatized.
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The count now stands at more than 311,000 children at 331 schools.
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re: #119 gocart mozart
This is the third mass shooting on Abbott’s watch that has killed more than 20 people. The second school shooting to kill 10 or more. Texas is the largest, most prosperous state to still have a firearm death-per-100,000 rate over 10.
There is nowhere else where it is worse. https://t.co/gM2woXTo6w— zeddy (@Zeddary) May 25, 2022
First, we absolutely do have to vote for Democrats because the alternative is a nightmare.
But second, it’s not wrong to criticize the Democratic Party for inaction and weak responses to this kind of shit. Beto O’Rourke demonstrated how I’d like Democrats to start acting, and he’s being covered on all the news channels for it. This is how to get media attention, and he isn’t just acting either - you can tell his heart is in this.
Compare to Chuck Schumer saying no, we’re not gonna try to bring any legislation and besides it’s time for our vacation. I understand why people are upset with Democrats; I am too. Maybe I’m expecting too much but I don’t think so.
Let’s keep things bad forever because if we improve them there is a chance the other party will make things as bad as they are now again in the future. https://t.co/J4LHGwjF87
— Jon Walker (@JonWalkerDC) May 25, 2022
— Having Said That 🗣 (@Lalaej) May 24, 2022
once a video goes viral on social media there’s an assignment editor at every news outlet that says “do we have that” and then “can we get something on that” and then “can we get that out now please” so just do stuff https://t.co/LpKaYzXday
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) May 25, 2022
re: #128 Charles Johnson
I also loved Gallego dropping F bombs on Ted Cruz.
We need more of this intensity.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
First, we absolutely do have to vote for Democrats because the alternative is a nightmare.
But second, it’s not wrong to criticize the Democratic Party for inaction and weak responses to this kind of shit. Beto O’Rourke demonstrated how I’d like Democrats to start acting, and he’s being covered on all the news channels for it. This is how to get media attention, and he isn’t just acting either - you can tell his heart is in this.
Compare to Chuck Schumer saying no, we’re not gonna try to bring any legislation and besides it’s time for our vacation. I understand why people are upset with Democrats; I am too. Maybe I’m expecting too much but I don’t think so.
The problem, Charles, is when folks rush to criticize Dems for inaction that they 1) let Republicans slide because of hyperfocus on Dems’s supposed inaction, and 2) they bash Dems for things that are the exact opposite of what’s happening, because the rush to lay blame at Dem fecklessness overwhelms everything else. Case in point:
Of course I was right. They are taking the procedural steps for the vote. @JakeSherman should delete his tweet in shame and consider a change of profession. https://t.co/Jck8jrSyhY
— What Biden Has Done 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@What46HasDone) May 25, 2022
Is this one of those pedos Republicans been warning us about? https://t.co/1sutpcEXVq
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 25, 2022
re: #134 Citizen K
The problem, Charles, is when folks rush to criticize Dems for inaction that they 1) let Republicans slide because of hyperfocus on Dems’s supposed inaction, and 2) they bash Dems for things that are the exact opposite of what’s happening, because the rush to lay blame at Dem fecklessness overwhelms everything else. Case in point:
I don’t think anyone could ever accuse me of letting Republicans slide on anything.
But if we shut down valid criticisms of the Democratic Party and make people feel like they shouldn’t do it, that’s a terrible way to deal with it. We can’t affect what the Republican Party does, but we CAN affect the Democratic Party. It’s important to allow and welcome valid criticism.
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If we eliminate the filibuster, then the voters will have to decide what outcome they want.
re: #137 Charles Johnson
But if we shut down valid criticisms of the Democratic Party and make people feel like they shouldn’t do it, that’s a terrible way to deal with it. We can’t affect what the Republican Party does, but we CAN affect the Democratic Party. It’s important to allow and welcome valid criticism.
Fuckin’ A.
re: #136 Charles Johnson
I don’t think anyone could ever accuse me of letting Republicans slide on anything.
It was as much about the tweet I linked as it was you, but my point about rushing to bring out the torches and pitchforks on Dems still stands.
re: #137 Charles Johnson
But if we shut down valid criticisms of the Democratic Party and make people feel like they shouldn’t do it, that’s a terrible way to deal with it. We can’t affect what the Republican Party does, but we CAN affect the Democratic Party. It’s important to allow and welcome valid criticism.
Yes, Dems shouldn’t be immune to criticism, but so much of what I hear is trying to strangle and shitkick them for either doing things that they aren’t even doing, or for not doing things that they’re already doing. And because the reason we never hear about it, even us in the heavy political junkie circles, is because so much of the ‘real’ media finds ways to twist what’s happening or just refuse to report what’s happening so no one knows what actually is or isn’t being done unless you’re mainlining C-SPAN and the pols’ twitter feeds. Meanwhile, the misinformation about what is or isn’t being done disseminates without any filter because people are so quick to believe anything bad about what Dems are doing that they don’t care if it’s easily disprovable or not. It SOUNDS like them, thus it must be real. The same exact thing buried Hillary, and it’s threatening to bury Biden and the current slate of Dems, because whatever valid missteps they do make are being drowned out by the bullshit pipeline and makes it impossible to actually address the real problems underneath.
Just got a tornado warning to take shelter via my phone. I should probably take a look out the window.
re: #141 Crush White Nationalism
Grey and white skies. Sirens just started.
re: #141 Crush White Nationalism
Just got a tornado warning to take shelter via my phone. I should probably take a look out the window.
I’m pretty sure that means get in your car and drive around.
But it’s Wednesday, which means they’re testing you ability to keep track of time.
Sirens have stopped. re: #143 Belafon
I’m pretty sure that means get in your car and drive around.
But it’s Wednesday, which means they’re testing you ability to keep track of time.
The rotating winds are a county west of me, so the weather could hit here later today.
Event: Tornado Warning
Alert:
…A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN KANE COUNTY…
At 334 PM CDT, a shower capable of producing a tornado was located
over Gilberts, or near Elgin, moving north at 30 mph.
HAZARD…Tornado.
SOURCE…Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT…Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage
to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is
likely.
Locations impacted include…
Elgin, Carpentersville, Algonquin, South Elgin, Gilberts, West
Dundee, Barrington Hills, Sleepy Hollow and East Dundee.
This includes… Elgin Community College.
Including the following interstate…
I-90 between mile markers 50 and 56.
TORNADO…RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE…0.00 IN
Instructions: TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris.
re: #143 Belafon
I’m pretty sure that means get in your car and drive around.
But it’s Wednesday, which means they’re testing you ability to keep track of time.
Illinois tests on first Tuesdays. I thought everyone did until someone recently mentioned Wednesday, and I realized that it varies by state.
re: #144 Crush White Nationalism
My old place to live - Carpentersville.
This picture shows it all in one moment The fear of the @GOP and the bravery and courage of @BetoORourke. pic.twitter.com/nGMBc5akyg
— 🛹Betocrat🌱 (@MichaelforBeto) May 25, 2022
re: #146 Captain Magic
My old place to live - Carpentersville.
I’ve driven nearby on I90 when going to Rockford when a friend lived there, but I don’t think I’ve ever been to Carpentersville.
The video capturing the absolutely correct assessment of the Republicans’ industry of selling people Licenses To Kill School Kids by @BetoORourke just now. I can’t spare this man - he fights: pic.twitter.com/ldMF1DbAjo
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 25, 2022
On June 22, 2016, members of Congress, including John Lewis, began a sit-in to force a vote on gun control legislation after the Pulse nightclub shooting.
The result? The House passed rules to prevent future sit-ins.
It doesn’t get clearer than that.— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) May 25, 2022
re: #140 Citizen K
Yes, Dems shouldn’t be immune to criticism, but so much of what I hear is trying to strangle and shitkick them for either doing things that they aren’t even doing, or for not doing things that they’re already doing. And because the reason we never hear about it, even us in the heavy political junkie circles, is because so much of the ‘real’ media finds ways to twist what’s happening or just refuse to report what’s happening so no one knows what actually is or isn’t being done unless you’re mainlining C-SPAN and the pols’ twitter feeds. Meanwhile, the misinformation about what is or isn’t being done disseminates without any filter because people are so quick to believe anything bad about what Dems are doing that they don’t care if it’s easily disprovable or not. It SOUNDS like them, thus it must be real. The same exact thing buried Hillary, and it’s threatening to bury Biden and the current slate of Dems, because whatever valid missteps they do make are being drowned out by the bullshit pipeline and makes it impossible to actually address the real problems underneath.
But Beto O’Rourke just showed how to get media attention - you just do shit. His one action to confront those fuckers in Texas was inspirational and heartfelt, and it’s all over the media now. That’s what Democrats need to do more of, instead of standing up in the House chamber and asking the Republicans to please play along when we KNOW it ain’t gonna happen.
BREAKING: @POTUS signed an executive order on police reform. Among other changes, this order rolls back the militarization of police, restricts the use of chokeholds and no-knock warrants by federal law enforcement, and imposes use of force standards at the federal level.
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) May 25, 2022
“A gun and a loaded magazine were found in a second-grader’s desk at a Sacramento school [on Tuesday] after other students alerted the staff that a classmate had brought a weapon, officials said.” https://t.co/kkxX1nMsHz
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 25, 2022
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was told that the Democrats do nothing. That does not look like nothing. That looks like lives saved.
Facebook now saying these were private messages: https://t.co/SSDOQsb1WF
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 25, 2022
This Meta/Facebook rep is saying the posts from the Uvalde shooter that Gov. Abbott just spoke about were private messages, presumably to explain why they couldn’t have stopped him.
Keep in mind, Facebook monitors private messages for advertising opportunities. https://t.co/wPR5pthThG— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) May 25, 2022
re: #152 Charles Johnson
But Beto O’Rourke just showed how to get media attention - you just do shit. His one action to confront those fuckers in Texas was inspirational and heartfelt, and it’s all over the media now. That’s what Democrats need to do more of, instead of standing up in the House chamber and asking the Republicans to please play along when we KNOW it ain’t gonna happen.
Yeah, we need to get past this “the media” excuse-making. It’s become the go-to to explain inaction, that there’s really a whole lotta stuff happening that would totally win voters over, but “the media” are suppressing all of it so the party looks bad. You know what “the media” is paying attention to, which is totally killing party morale at the moment? Joe F’ Manchin and Krysten “Name Your Price” Sinema out there telling the press out loud that the party ain’t gonna do nothin’ because the two of them will squash it flat without any fear of consequences.
Christ almighty. What were the cops doing pic.twitter.com/4JQKF5QlU1
— Jordan (@SLCLunk) May 25, 2022
I don’t believe the media are biased against the left OR the right. They’re after the scoop, whatever’s “viral” at the moment. For the most part they aren’t driven by ideology, but by profit and careerism.
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’d be happy if police had to have a college degree before applying….
re: #141 Crush White Nationalism
Just got a tornado warning to take shelter via my phone. I should probably take a look out the window.
Me too! Telling me to get to the basement…. I don’t think so..
re: #159 Charles Johnson
I don’t believe the media are biased against the left OR the right. They’re after the scoop, whatever’s “viral” at the moment. For the most part they aren’t driven by ideology, but by profit and careerism.
I think we have sensationalist media that Republicans call “liberal media” and straight up white nationalist propaganda that Republicans call “news.”
Wordle for Thursday, your guess is good as mine.
Wordle 341 3/6
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On the evidence so far, a par 3.
re: #159 Charles Johnson
I don’t believe the media are biased against the left OR the right. They’re after the scoop, whatever’s “viral” at the moment. For the most part they aren’t driven by ideology, but by profit and careerism.
But they are so abused from the right for the last 20+ years that they are fearful of crossing the right and incurring their wrath and accusations of bias.
re: #152 Charles Johnson
But Beto O’Rourke just showed how to get media attention - you just do shit. His one action to confront those fuckers in Texas was inspirational and heartfelt, and it’s all over the media now. That’s what Democrats need to do more of, instead of standing up in the House chamber and asking the Republicans to please play along when we KNOW it ain’t gonna happen.
Hi, my name is Lucy van pelt.
I’ll hold this football…
re: #162 Crush White Nationalism
I think we have sensationalist media that Republicans call “liberal media” and straight up white nationalist propaganda that Republicans call “news.”
Even Fox News isn’t really driven by ideology - they’ve monetized hate speech and bigotry because there’s always been a market for that, especially in the US, and people who are susceptible to it are easy to con.
It’s made Rupert Murdoch one of the richest men in the world.
re: #141 Crush White Nationalism
Just got a tornado warning to take shelter via my phone. I should probably take a look out the window.
We just got a tomato warning
I think dinner is soon
We banned murder, and people still commit murder, so let’s repeal that law. https://t.co/gqOEoCaHYc
— Craig Pittman (@craigtimes) May 25, 2022
re: #166 Charles Johnson
Even Fox News isn’t really driven by ideology - they’ve monetized hate speech and bigotry because there’s always been a market for that, especially in the US, and people who are susceptible to it are easy to con.
It’s made Rupert Murdoch one of the richest men in the world.
I have to disagree with this. They are driven to make Right wing voices stand out. Their audience is smaller than the left. If it were about profit, he’d make a left leaning station.
But, more importantly, he lets Tucker spew all of his crap.
“The Second Amendment did not come down from Sinai,” the archbishop of Chicago said. “The right to bear arms will never be more important than human life. Our children have rights too. And our elected officials have a moral duty to protect them.”https://t.co/WPtAguAgvq
— NPR (@NPR) May 25, 2022
Former Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) explains in The Hill:
“In the elevator, a friend - a pleasant, reasonable, moderate Republican - complained that the votes were politically motivated — …
“Then came the news. He admitted that despite personally supporting the measures, he had no choice but to vote against them. In a heavily polarized House, where districts were increasingly ruby red versus bright blue, any vote for any gun safety would invite a primary opponent and ignite his likely defeat. No issue, he told me, motivated his base more intensely than guns. Moderates would forgive and forget that he voted against background checks; but his base would never forgive him for voting for them.”
So fuck what’s right
Fuck what I’d like to do
Fuck the kids, let em die
My job is more important
I am not going to jeopardize it
100% craven self interest
principled politician? Nope. Just a fucking toad
In a world full of Abbotts, be more like Beto. pic.twitter.com/oRG7gRlDNb
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) May 25, 2022
re: #170 Belafon
I have to disagree with this. They are driven to make Right wing voices stand out. Their audience is smaller than the left. If it were about profit, he’d make a left leaning station.
But, more importantly, he lets Tucker spew all of his crap.
But their audience isn’t smaller than the left - Fox News dominates the cable rankings and Tucker Carlson’s show averages more than 3 million viewers nightly. Do they push right wing views? Obviously, because it’s highly profitable. Some of the people who work at Fox are actual right wing ideologues, but the reason this network is so corrosive is precisely because they have no ideals or morality — it’s all about feeding the hate monster they’ve created. And it’s working for them.
It is a literal fact that ammosexuals love their guns more than their children.
One of the “liberty” groups that sent out attack mailers against Reps. Koenig and King and Sen. Douglas in the Kentucky primary election has this public take after the Uvalde massacre of 19 children and two teachers: pic.twitter.com/X8DCiRWD3e
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 25, 2022
Find someone who looks at you like Roger looks at a barbecue. pic.twitter.com/ADT65KuTCI
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) May 24, 2022
State Rep. Angie Nixon of Jacksonville scolded Rep. Randy Fine: “You’re a damn disgrace Randy Fine. A disgrace.” https://t.co/7JmROOPAPy
— WJCT News (@WJCTNews) May 25, 2022
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
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America is pretty much alone in the civilized world in believing that it’s impossible to prevent mass shootings and the only solution is to further arm the populace as a form of “prevention.”
re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A more salient question for Sen. Rubio (or any other ammosexual-humping GOPer) - if the Uvalde shooter [or insert any other recent American mass-killer HERE] had had to use a [machete, knife, baseball bat, etc.] to assault his victims instead of an assault rifle: how many of those targets would now be alive?
re: #181 Targetpractice
America is pretty much alone in the civilized world in believing that it’s impossible to prevent mass shootings and the only solution is to further arm the populace as a form of “prevention.”
It’s sometimes seems like gun manufacturers make policy here, because they do.
“If you’re lookin’ to get silly,
you better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don’t need you,
and man, they expect the same.”
-Bob Dylan— Gocart Mozart (@EdMix13) May 25, 2022
re: #181 Targetpractice
America is pretty much alone in the civilized world in believing that it’s impossible to prevent mass shootings and the only solution is to further arm the populace as a form of “prevention.”
Evergreen Onion headline. theonion.com
re: #181 Targetpractice
America is pretty much alone in the civilized world in believing that it’s impossible to prevent mass shootings and the only solution is to further arm the populace as a form of “prevention.”
No other country in the civilized world is burdened with a Republican party.
re: #177 Charles Johnson
But their audience isn’t smaller than the left - Fox News dominates the cable rankings and Tucker Carlson’s show averages more than 3 million viewers nightly. Do they push right wing views? Obviously, because it’s highly profitable. Some of the people who work at Fox are actual right wing ideologues, but the reason this network is so corrosive is precisely because they have no ideals or morality — it’s all about feeding the hate monster they’ve created. And it’s working for them.
It’s smaller than all regular news media that they call “the left,” but it was the easy, fast, evil, path to make lots of money. I don’t know which of you are right about why Fox exists, but either way, Murdoch is a monster.
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
Someone take this to the Meme Machine!!
re: #186 darthstar
Fleur.
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That’s clearly a dog wearing a big hat. It may be from Easter.
Wordle semi-spoiler behind tag:
Wordle 340 5/6
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Saddened by the news, I started today’s Wordle with MOURN….
Narrator: There wasn’t even one Republican. Not one. https://t.co/QeZBydVy0J
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) May 25, 2022
re: #190 Crush White Nationalism
That’s clearly a dog wearing a big hat. It may be from Easter.
One of my favorite flowers that pops up almost overnight around here. The ones on the other side of the fence are about 15 feet tall.
Some people just do whatever they want to do with zero thought of consequences.
Deputies from the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office made the oddest of housecalls over the weekend, specifically because the house in question was sitting in the middle of a road in the middle of the night.
“Deputies responded to Berard Road in Loreauville regarding an illegal transport of a house. IPSO deputies arrived to find an abandoned truck, trailer and house blocking the 400 block,” IPSO said.
The illegally-parked domicile was discovered early Sunday morning around 3:30 a.m. blocking both lanes of a residential road in Loreauville, La., a small town that lies to the southeast of Lafayette.
Police discover entire house abandoned by movers in the middle of a Louisiana road (Audacy)
re: #181 Targetpractice
America is pretty much alone in the civilized world in believing that it’s impossible to prevent mass shootings and the only solution is to further arm the populace as a form of “prevention.”
excuse me, did you say “in the civilized world”?
Assumes facts not in evidence. (alternatively… Citation needed.)
re: #194 Crush White Nationalism
Some people just do whatever they want to do with zero thought of consequences.
Police discover entire house abandoned by movers in the middle of a Louisiana road (Audacy)
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re: #192 No Malarkey!
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Nah, they need at least 12 Republicans, because Manchin and/or Sinema will inevitably find something in the bill (read: lobbyists will find something in the bill) that their “conscience” will not allow them to support.
re: #152 Charles Johnson
But Beto O’Rourke just showed how to get media attention - you just do shit. His one action to confront those fuckers in Texas was inspirational and heartfelt, and it’s all over the media now. That’s what Democrats need to do more of, instead of standing up in the House chamber and asking the Republicans to please play along when we KNOW it ain’t gonna happen.
Yeah, if you already agree with him it was heartfelt and inspirational, for folks on the other side it was grandstanding from a publicity hound interrupting a serious press conference trying to get important information to the public. You’re damned if you do damned if you don’t, pick your poison…
Anyway, I just wanted to comment that it gave me hope that Trump’s hand picked election stealers, Perdue and Hice, didn’t even win the Ga GOP primary yesterday. Not that Kemp and Raffensburger are good guys, but at least they didn’t try to steal Biden’s electors after he won Georgia. Now we need Mastriano to lose in Pa. In November.
re: #181 Targetpractice
America is pretty much alone in the civilized world in believing that it’s impossible to prevent mass shootings and the only solution is to further arm the populace
as a form of “prevention.” anyway
The Right of course used the tragedy to promote hatred of a minority group with lies. Sound familiar?
Posts using Sam’s likeness and falsey saying the killer was trans were spread on Facebook and Twitter and were up for hours. The baseless claim was echoed by Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Rep Paul Gosar. https://t.co/sD8VOwqgcH
— Benjamin Goggin (@BenjaminGoggin) May 25, 2022
ask Republicans to choose what is most important:
- a gun
- a fertilized egg in a uterus
- a child
Simple straightforward question.
I wonder if theyd squirm
Three women murdered by their husband and father in Lexington this afternoon.
Tornado warned storm from O’Hare @nwschicago pic.twitter.com/UvjZZ5SaZ8
— Jacob DeFlitch (@WxDeFlitch) May 25, 2022
re: #205 No Malarkey!
Three women murdered by their husband and father in Lexington this afternoon.
He shot them, of course. More blood to water the Tree of Liberty.
An important thing to remember when reading this article is that police lie. All the time. About big things, about small things. They lie and lie and lie some more. https://t.co/pZ2XO0a7Us
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) May 25, 2022
re: #194 Crush White Nationalism
Some people just do whatever they want to do with zero thought of consequences.
Police discover entire house abandoned by movers in the middle of a Louisiana road (Audacy)
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They could bring it to me. I have a lot I could put it on.
Republicans have worked overtime to make laws and norms so if you see someone in tactical gear and brandishing an assault weapon you don’t automatically think ‘shooter.’ https://t.co/ktWaETGDuU
— zeddy (@Zeddary) May 25, 2022
Literally the ” ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” Onion article is now all over the Onion homepage right now
They filled up the entire front page with these articles. Just different locations
MORE from the Richardson Police Department: pic.twitter.com/RArcQ5bHfM
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 25, 2022
“staged” what a pathetic joke our political media is. https://t.co/mnklg9MlcW
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) May 25, 2022
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Scared boys dressed in camo, carrying assault rifles into the grocery store
CNN’s @AlisynCamerota asks Texas State Rep. James White (R) ” we’ve all seen how quickly and creatively Texas, your local legislature, can act when it wants to, say, protect the unborn embryo. Why not act with that alacrity
to protect living, breathing 10-year-olds?” pic.twitter.com/L64rT2urQB— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 25, 2022
Person, Woman, Douchebag on TV Camera
— For Profit Non-Prophet (@EjSolomon) May 25, 2022
Priorities
At least no one was teaching CRT to those kids, amiright?
re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Roberts Court has demonstrated that “this little thing called the Constitution” is infinitely malleable if someone has the will to hammer on it.
re: #219 Dangerman
Priorities
At least no one was teaching CRT to those kids, amiright?
Just think of the future abortions the gunman prevented.
re: #201 No Malarkey!
The Right of course used the tragedy to promote hatred of a minority group with lies. Sound familiar?
Yep. We’re the root cause of all this County’s problems and if we would just go away, everything will be returned to a much more joyous time.
re: #201 No Malarkey!
The Right of course used the tragedy to promote hatred of a minority group with lies. Sound familiar?
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Candace Owens still has tweets up claiming the shooter was trans.
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“A gun and a loaded magazine were found in a second-grader’s desk at a Sacramento school [on Tuesday] after other students alerted the staff that a classmate had brought a weapon, officials said.” https://t.co/kkxX1nMsHz
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 25, 2022
Turns out it was just a clip so no biggie
re: #64 Crush White Nationalism
He sets the tone there.
Former SpaceX engineer alleges in essay that company culture is ‘rife with sexism’ (cnbc)
FIVE FORMER SPACEX EMPLOYEES SPEAK OUT ABOUT HARASSMENT AT THE COMPANY (TheVerge)
SpaceX Settles With Underpaid Employees for $4 Million (Entrepreneur)
I’d like to see NASA take back space travel from these billionaires.
Elon owns 46% of SpaceX now. That’s a lot but not a majority. It should be possible to squeeze him out completely. I would look for a major move in that direction.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that the Senate will begin the process of voting on gun legislation tomorrow.https://t.co/99m0weJfZ2 via @politicususa
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) May 25, 2022
I wonder when Alex Jones tries to monetize this?
I had my second booster on Monday and as I suspected I felt like crap. Not as bad as before, but sweaty, achy and tired for all day Tuesday.
A lost day. Cooper was my companion and sensed I was under. Snug bug Coop.
And even though it is a witches brew, Nyquil works for me when I feel like that.
So I had to buy another bottle since I finished that 3 dose left bottle.
And when you buy Nyquil, well it’s on that list of THINGS that need ID and a sign off for and I almost said to the clerk “Be easier to buy a gun and shoot kids, wouldn’t it?”
Almost.
It will never end until you and me and America remove Republicans from any lever of power.
re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter
Candace Owens still has tweets up claiming the shooter was trans.
I hope she winds up broke from the lawsuit that the trans person that the Republicans were accusing needs to file against every one of these assholes.
Does anyone else think Dan Patrick is looking more and more like Steve Bannon? I am not sure what it is, but it appears to be contagious. Soul rot, maybe?
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
a comment:
Thank God someone had the brains & the nerve to “stage” this.
Abbott’s press event was also “staged.” Why did he have a crowd up on stage behind him? And why was Dan Patrick even there? Does he monitor all Abbott pressers for the Far Right to make sure Greg stays on message?
i saw this headline and thought it was from today, but it was from 2018. pic.twitter.com/BF7hZ7UYiG
— Pam Vogel (@pamela_vogel) May 25, 2022
re: #227 nines09
I wonder when Alex Jones tries to monetize this?
I had my second booster on Monday and as I suspected I felt like crap. Not as bad as before, but sweaty, achy and tired for all day Tuesday.
A lost day. Cooper was my companion and sensed I was under. Snug bug Coop.
And even though it is a witches brew, Nyquil works for me when I feel like that.
So I had to buy another bottle since I finished that 3 dose left bottle.
And when you buy Nyquil, well it’s on that list of THINGS that need ID and a sign off for and I almost said to the clerk “Be easier to buy a gun and shoot kids, wouldn’t it?”
Almost.
It will never end until you and me and America remove Republicans from any lever of power.
If someone held a gun to my head and said drink Nyquil or die, I’d die. My gag reflex kicks in so quickly that I can’t even get a single gulp down.
re: #230 retired cynic
another comment:
Every major right wing leader in the state was literally ON STAGE giving BS talking points about how it was not the fault of guns.
THAT is what you call staged.Beto came in and upstaged them by standing up for Texans while they sputtered in anger at being called out.
re: #229 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Does anyone else think Dan Patrick is looking more and more like Steve Bannon? I am not sure what it is, but it appears to be contagious. Soul rot, maybe?
I always have an impression of a fleshless skull when I see a picture of him. I’m not sure why, but if I were an Evangelical Christian, I’d say it’s demonic possession.
TEXAS SCHOOL SHOOTING: State leaders and lawmakers are calling on Congress for federal action on gun control. Gov. Ned Lamont says Connecticut’s laws are a good model to start with.https://t.co/oYMBHCu6R2
— News12CT (@News12CT) May 25, 2022
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This isn’t normally what I post but I had to get this out.
If you didn’t know already, I’m a 9th grade English teacher in Texas. Earlier today my school had a lock out which immediately turned into a lock down cause a student of the school had a g/u/n. —— 🥑 (@phu4ng) May 25, 2022
Threatening people who don’t care if they survive their crime with prison isn’t the deterrence he thinks it is.
JUST IN: CNN reporter Alisyn Camerota just confronted a Republican Texas state representative who said gun reform is unnecessary because we should just “convict” the shooters: “Sir, you can’t convict him. He was killed along with 19 children in the school behind me.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 25, 2022
re: #184 gocart mozart
Christ almighty. What were the cops doing
Took Cleveland cops about 12 seconds to kill Tamir Rice. Texas cops are more…deliberate.
re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter
Candace Owens still has tweets up claiming the shooter was trans.
I have reported it.
re: #238 Decatur Deb
The Cleveland gang knew Tamir was an easy target.
The same police department that failed to step in between a shooter and our children were pretty quick to stand in the way of Beto criticizing the state leadership.
— Uncle Dion (@UncleDion) May 25, 2022
DPS Director Steve McGraw said twice that the cops were the ones who barricaded the shooter into a classroom.
That contradicts previous statements by other DPS spox, who said the gunman barricaded himself and immediately began shooting kids. https://t.co/OZO4JOJcwk— Tess Owen (@misstessowen) May 25, 2022
The cops have been extremely vague & contradictory on the timeline.
It is clear that the gunman was inside the school for more than an hour. The question is whether there were children inside the classroom that the cops “contained” him into. https://t.co/OZO4JOJcwk— Tess Owen (@misstessowen) May 25, 2022
LGF is gettin’ cold, man. Cremation planning adverts in the sidebar, micro-targeting my decrepit ass.
Former Kentucky GOP legislator and runner up in gubernatorial primary Robert Goforth pleads guilty to health fraud and financial charges https://t.co/C4zIw6jAJM
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 25, 2022
There was the strangulation indictment
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 25, 2022
Salvador Ramos was a legal gun owner - until he wasn’t.
He got his AR-15 bc GW Bush killed the assault weapons ban & Abbott lowered the purchase age to 18.
Rap songs killed 0 kids this year.
Stop pretending you’re Christian, you spoiled, empathy-free, soulless, racist ghoul. https://t.co/d4DZod3f4v— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 25, 2022
Illuminating exchange with Daniel Defense CEO Marty Daniel after Sandy Hook via Forbes. Fear of gun control drives sales, and it will again. pic.twitter.com/hCv1M3eQ0g
— Nick Penzenstadler (@npenzenstadler) May 25, 2022
re: #225 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Elon owns 46% of SpaceX now. That’s a lot but not a majority. It should be possible to squeeze him out completely. I would look for a major move in that direction.
46% might as well be the majority. No one is squeezing him out.
For 21 families, it could not have been worse. https://t.co/8cBNGd9sqa
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) May 25, 2022
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
He knows he is going to profit, and he keeps lying so that the massacres and gun sales continue.
re: #248 No Malarkey!
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Every time I think Abbott has finally hit rock bottom, he somehow manages to bring a shovel and dig deeper.
This is what @EliseStefanik sold her soul for? Seriously? To be the last one to board the Trump Titanic? pic.twitter.com/TbGkH4BaQT
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 25, 2022
florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe pic.twitter.com/OqLbar5bwq
— matt (@mattxiv) May 24, 2022
Partial transcript part of this diary: m.dailykos.com
re: #232 Crush White Nationalism
It works for me. Ever since I first took oh so many years ago. Not on my list of favorite shots but it ain’t no party.
You get the call. A bullet has taken your child’s life. You fall to your knees begging for it not to be true. You clutch your chest and scream from a place so deep you don’t recognize your own voice. You weep, sobbing uncontrollably struggling for each breath. https://t.co/jUvAzEFem1
— Patti Piatt (@PiattPatti) May 25, 2022
You don’t know where your child is. They are lost and you are lost. You have to get them, move them, to someplace, anyplace. You think about how to bury your baby. The fog of grief sets in, you move, you plan and you take care of your baby for the last time.
— Patti Piatt (@PiattPatti) May 25, 2022
Then you try to survive. You survive for one minute. Then two. Then an hour. Then a day. You wake up and again, for one brief, blissful moment you forget. You walk, mindful of picking up one foot, then the other. You don’t realize you’re sobbing, loudly, deeply, viscerally.
— Patti Piatt (@PiattPatti) May 25, 2022
You make it through a day, a week, a month. You go one because you have to. Sometimes it hurts so much you want to tear off your own skin, but you take a breath and go on. You survive, for them.
— Patti Piatt (@PiattPatti) May 25, 2022
Her son died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2014.
The grief never leaves you, it just becomes part of who you are. It is part of my story, of his story, and I share it with people who I hope never understand what it is like. I share with hope that somehow no other parent ever has to get that phone call.
— Patti Piatt (@PiattPatti) May 25, 2022
re: #248 No Malarkey!
His family wasn’t affected. That’s what they mean. Like Welfare. Everyone is a leech until a family member needs it. Then it’s suddenly a good thing.
A day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, President Joe Biden said “common sense gun reforms” can be passed that would have “no negative impact on the Second Amendment.”
“The Second Amendment is not absolute,” he said. pic.twitter.com/RjVofXtYnI— The Associated Press (@AP) May 25, 2022
re: #232 Crush White Nationalism
If someone held a gun to my head and said drink Nyquil or die, I’d die. My gag reflex kicks in so quickly that I can’t even get a single gulp down.
It actually makes me ill. Last time I tried to take it I was in the bathroom puking my guts out.
“There is little worse you can say about a place than that it can’t protect its most vulnerable, but it’s something we can say about America now, without dispute…When are we going to do something?” – Dan on the tragic Uvalde, Texas school shooting.
📺 https://t.co/UX80ySaB0s pic.twitter.com/iZeNx54qVN— Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) May 25, 2022
I’m a teacher at my desk listening to this. I don’t want to be armed. I don’t want my kids (including my own) having to walk through metal detectors every morning. And I damn sure don’t want to worry about this every day. What I want is someone do something about this.
— Steve Rodriguez (@78bearsfan) May 25, 2022
re: #258 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
It actually makes me ill. Last time I tried to take it I was in the bathroom puking my guts out.
I took it last night for my head congestion from Covid. Today my nose is still runny, but I’m not stuffed up (not saying the Nyquil is the reason, of course).
It’s not the guns, it’s the doors!
@SenTedCruz Fuck you Fled
— SEZ Time for Consequences 🇺🇦 (@sezblue46) May 25, 2022
In a kindergarten class, parents show up for a day with the kids. Heather has two mommies who show up. Little Sandy is confused because she has one mommy, so she asks the teacher why Heather has two mommies.
And the teacher says _______ (fill in the blank.)— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 25, 2022
The gap between rhetoric and reality:
President Obama did not take anyone’s guns.
President Biden does not intend to take your guns.
If you can get to Camp Perry OH early tomorrow morning, President Biden will sell you a highly-prized ex-military M1 rifle. (Expect customer purchase limits, so bring the wife.)
thecmp.org
Hungary To Confiscate Profits From Multinationals - https://t.co/mhWeZZQfWg pic.twitter.com/vDc9YIGhxM
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 25, 2022
re: #250 (((Archangel1)))
Every time I think Abbott has finally hit rock bottom, he somehow manages to bring a shovel and dig deeper.
That’s the generic Republican way.
re: #262 HRH Stanley Sea
Just for home protection.
That’s all.
Hoping you see the insanity in that remark.
re: #265 Captain Ron
Picture looks like folk trying to do a Trump-family parody.
re: #263 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Someone here is a bigoted idiot that has no idea what they’re talking about, probably because they’re attracted to far-right propaganda from a bigoted subculture as a substitute for news. It’s time to grow up.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 25, 2022
re: #236 jaunte
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Today was a sit in the driveway day with NPR 1A with Jenn White.
Moms & teachers were calling/texting in. One of the guests said that gun violence is not just those shot & their poor families, but everyone affected & scared shitless is a victim of gun violence.
-60% of guns recovered in Chicago come from out-of-state, including 20% were from Indiana
-25% came from just ten gun dealers (7 in Illinois; three in NW Indiana)
But by all means, let’s keep using Chicago gun violence victims as a dodge every time other people die from guns. 🙄 https://t.co/0dtQfSZhBD— Robert Downen (@RobDownenChron) May 25, 2022
re: #269 Crush White Nationalism
His twitter timeline suggests he’s not a right wing parrot but on the other hand people get set off by the weirdest things.
Those gun related killings are not happening in schools. They are happening in Democrat-controlled inner-cities with the strictest gun control in the nation. https://t.co/7N9vFZR39m
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) May 25, 2022
Baton Rouge, North Charleston, St Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans, etc. You know what these cities have in common? They all have a higher murder rate than Chicago and they all have less strict gun laws.
Try reading a book sometime instead of having someone write one for you.— Joe F Spaulding 🦉 (@beyond_process) May 25, 2022
good grief, she is stupid
It’s going to be Kristi Noem. https://t.co/fDRhRPHznI
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 25, 2022
— 🇺🇸Keith✨K🖤💛🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@HereWeGo_KeithK) May 25, 2022
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
good grief, she is stupid
Yet it works for her. The most jacked up thing about our culture is the inversion of reward and societal contribution.
Misinformation and conspiracy theories about Tuesday’s deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, began to spread online only hours after the carnage.
Experts say the claims reflect broader problems with racism and intolerance. https://t.co/ZQWNUCdoKh— The Associated Press (@AP) May 25, 2022
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
A propagandist who sold her soul to the lying authoritarian right for a job she’s terrible at wants to tell you not to believe your own eyes right after a school massacre. The nerve of these right-wing assholes.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 25, 2022
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
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One of the replies to Fugelsang showed another gross tweet by Daniel Defense
Here are two ads posted by the shop owner. The first was posted on the day Salvador Ramos purchased his gun. The second was posted on Easter Sunday. I have no words for this sort of fetishizing of guns religion and children, but it feeds into their baby, guns and Jesus narrative. pic.twitter.com/sU62Lo2xSG
— Mary Manno Sweeney (@MaryMSweeney) May 25, 2022
Protesting against too revealing swimwear on a Florida beach, 1985. pic.twitter.com/Qivn4vy7TC
— History Defined (@historydefined) May 25, 2022
Reviving the Art of Tunisian Glass
aramcoworld.com
Wonderful article, with good photos and video.
re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Apples to oranges comparison: more people shot in Chicago than Texas schools. Let’s talk about illinois schools vs Texas schools.
Why even be in Congress if you don’t believe in doing your job?
Just quit and let someone who actually gives a damn do it instead of acting like a useless piece of furniture when babies are shot with AR15s that we let teen boys impulse buy before they can legally have a beer. https://t.co/f9rdJ40kEJ— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 25, 2022
Interestingly words CAN create policies, and policies can make change. You are one of 100 with a voice in the United States Senate. Use it to exert your power, not for this meaningless lip service that does nothing.#aksen #akelect https://t.co/9CgxF3plCy
— Mudflats (@Mudflats) May 25, 2022
Demented https://t.co/q1R6myW7mN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 25, 2022
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
Have one door. And have it locked. And have a fire.
Fucking inbred cretin.
re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s time to get serious about gun control. We can’t let the efforts of Russia, their tool the NRA, and the corrupt politicians they’ve bought, control our politics to the point where children keep being massacred. It’s time for change.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 26, 2022
Ted, the cops were there when the shooter entered the school. Take your self righteous bullshit and sit the fuck down.#EnoughIsEnough https://t.co/UO4K9JQCq9
— Patti Piatt (@PiattPatti) May 25, 2022
re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
Talking to Lisa like screaming at passing cars. And just as rewarding.
re: #287 nines09
Have one door. And have it locked. And have a fire.
Fucking inbred cretin.
They can’t accept the real solution, so they flop around like this coming up with absolutely insane alternatives.
re: #291 Crush White Nationalism
They can’t accept the real solution, so they flop around like this coming up with absolutely insane alternatives.
The people who buy this are the problem. They couldn’t count to ten without a cheat sheet.
re: #283 Belafon
Apples to oranges comparison: more people shot in Chicago than Texas schools. Let’s talk about illinois schools vs Texas schools.
My sister taught in a Chicago inner city high school in the 1970’s. A few students came to school armed but there were no mass shootings; there was occasional conflict between members of different gangs but I do not believe there were any deaths on the school property.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
My bill, the “Safe Students Act” H.R. 7415, would repeal the dangerous “Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990.”
The “Safe Students Act” would make it easier for state and local governments and school boards to unambiguously set their own firearms policies.https://t.co/UoPRLkMm8z— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 25, 2022
re: #247 JC1
46% might as well be the majority. No one is squeezing him out.
Consider:
-Musk is losing interest in SpaceX while Tesla remains his baby. Tesla is also the larger of the two operations.
-SpaceX is healthy while Tesla faces increasingly strong competition and Musk’s alienation of a not inconsiderable number of potential buyers.
-I think he will sell SpaceX stock, further eroding his percentage, to buttress Tesla.
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
One door. Yeah, sure. That’d be great for the fire code. 🙄
We need moats around schools filled with man eating sharks that shoot lasers from their eyes but the woke liberals won’t allow that.
— Gocart Mozart (@EdMix13) May 25, 2022
School. Fortifications. This one is 80 miles out from Key West. If the would-be assailant doesn’t know the route, his boat will founder upon the coral reefs surrounding Fortress Jefferson High.
Should he approach by air, staff will be forewarned. pic.twitter.com/nf9x6CNc87— FortGeek (@FortGeek) May 26, 2022
Single point of entry. Armed security. Protect our schools like we protect our airports and federal buildings.
— Hunter Pollack (@PollackHunter) May 25, 2022
THIS SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY AT A FUCKING SCHOOL.
re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg
airports have just a single point of entry?
re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth
airports have just a single point of entry?
I think he means the TSA checkpoint all travelers have to go through. He’s still wrong.
re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg
THIS SHOULD NOT BE NECESSARY AT A FUCKING SCHOOL.
No, but he’s a wingnut Parkland kid fighting against doing the right thing on guns.
They only come up with these stupid ideas because the thing to do to actually improve the situation is unacceptable to them.
Republicans are worse than useless on this issue.
re: #301 Crush White Nationalism
No, but he’s a wingnut Parkland kid fighting against doing the right thing on guns.
They only come up with these stupid ideas because the thing to do to actually improve the situation is unacceptable to them.Republicans are worse than useless on
thisany topic.
FTFY
Tucker Carlson is blaming mass shootings on covid precautions, I am not fucking kidding pic.twitter.com/isibulEclr
— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) May 26, 2022
re: #304 Backwoods_Sleuth
Republicans all come across as batshit insane because they’re politically unable to address gun violence. When you know you have a problem, and the solution is off the table for political reasons, you’ll come up with all kinds of stupidity. Dewormer for covid is another example.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 26, 2022
.
There was a time in this country where we didn’t have armed cops at our schools.
There was a time when parents didn’t think about school shootings.
There was a time when kids didn’t have to learn to hide from gunmen
It was in the 1990’s we don’t have to live this way! https://t.co/injhRONI5b— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) May 25, 2022
Not even Republicans will argue that tax cuts for the rich and business deregulation will help with school shootings.
That means they have absolutely no ideas on this issue.
Meanwhile there is menstruation control:
BREAKING
Oklahoma’s Governor has signed the strictest abortion ban in the country into law. It prohibits abortion after fertilization. pic.twitter.com/1j0Q0DSrB0— Kate Smith (@byKateSmith) May 25, 2022
BREAKING: “Restricting the Constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens doesn’t work,” says @tedcruz. “It’s not effective. It doesn’t prevent crime.” pic.twitter.com/wxXgTdhFY2
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) May 26, 2022
This was either pandering to absolute morons, knowing the courts would never allow this, or a test to see if the courts would fail us all.
A federal appeals court panel has unanimously ruled that a Florida law intended to punish social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, NPR reports. The ruling is a major victory for companies that had been accused by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of discriminating against conservatives for not allowing hate speech on their platforms.
The law, called the Stop Social Media Censorship Act, was proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in January 2021. The measure was passed by the state legislature passed last year, and was the first of its kind to be signed.
But the three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that it was overreach for DeSantis and the Republican-led Florida Legislature to tell the social media companies how to conduct their work under the Constitution’s free speech guarantee.
“Put simply, with minor exceptions, the government can’t tell a private person or entity what to say or how to say it. We hold that it is substantially likely that social media companies — even the biggest ones — are private actors whose rights the First Amendment protects,” said Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, in the opinion.
Federal Appeals Court Blocks Florida’s Free Speech Law For Violating Free Speech (Daily Boulder)
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
Whoa! That guy really has to cut back on the spicy foods. Looks like his circulatory system is about to explode.
‘We saw something that wasn’t right, and we acted on it’ — New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern addressed ‘pragmatic’ gun reform on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ in response to the Uvalde shooting pic.twitter.com/TdvKoZVDGI
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 26, 2022
Almost tea-time & Old Fox suddenly realised that Wolf was missing. He’s only gone to buy some sweeties, said Pine Marten, he was very sad on account of the news. He said he was misliking the whole world this day & he needed something sweet & the rain on his fur. pic.twitter.com/Ehk0bKUyMc
— Anne Louise Avery (@AnneLouiseAvery) May 25, 2022
Texas! The state where women are forced to give birth to children who will be gunned down in their 4th grade classrooms. The template for pro-life states!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 26, 2022
I did not expect this result of Winnie the Pooh entering the public domain. It looks terrible, but might be terrible enough to be enjoyable.
‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ — Violent New Horror Film Reworks A Childhood Classic [Images] (Dread Central)
At last.
A massive asteroid over a mile wide is about to make a closer-than-normal trip past the Earth near the end of May, an approach so close that it could be spotted in the sky. https://t.co/BSjX3rscYt
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) May 26, 2022
Trust fall…😲😇🐶 pic.twitter.com/JU6A0YNniK
— Laughs 4 All 🤟 (@Laughs_4_All) May 25, 2022
“If you’re lookin’ to get silly,
you better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don’t need you,
and man, they expect the same.”
-Bob Dylan— Gocart Mozart (@EdMix13) May 25, 2022
re: #112 gwangung
Naw, the
rightpower to not wear masks trumps other people’srightspower not to get sick.The cult of selfishness has grown and been cultivated by Republicans. Only THEIR
rightspower matters; other people don’t haverightspower.
Corrected for the actual meaning when the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives us the word “rights”.
Actually all rights are about power. But the GOP no longer care about the responsibility that comes with power.
re: #295 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Consider:
-Musk is losing interest in SpaceX while Tesla remains his baby. Tesla is also the larger of the two operations.
-SpaceX is healthy while Tesla faces increasingly strong competition and Musk’s alienation of a not inconsiderable number of potential buyers.
-I think he will sell SpaceX stock, further eroding his percentage, to buttress Tesla.
SpaceX is privately he held and thus far less liquid. I can see him taking loans against it, but he’d be much more likely, and much better off to sell TSLA.
I knew this one was coming. https://t.co/mtFkJpNKv0
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 26, 2022
Jim Jordan wants to see all the evidence against him before complying with Jan. 6 subpoena: report https://t.co/Vx5Yf15GCK
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 26, 2022
He must be afraid of getting caught in a perjury trap.
In the past few weeks, we’ve had three outrageous tragedies that have really shaken America to its core: a sidewalk defacement in Maine, a house protest in Maryland, and now a press conference interruption in Texas. We can’t go on like this.
— J. Van Wyck (@TheRealJVanWyck) May 26, 2022
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
‘We saw something that wasn’t right, and we acted on it’ — New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern addressed ‘pragmatic’ gun reform on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ in response to the Uvalde shooting pic.twitter.com/TdvKoZVDGI
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 26, 2022
New Zealand gun laws.
It is holy writ among NRA dupes that New Zealand has banned guns entirely and the population is defenseless against rampaging hordes of someone or another. Muslims? Chinese? Crazed transgender cannibals?
In fact, New Zealand has taken effective action but they have hardly banned guns. Currently, some 300,000 New Zealanders (6% of the population) own about 1.5 million firearms. A license is required, as is insurance and good storage. Semi-auto guns are banned, with the exception of rimfires holding less than 10 rounds and shotguns with permanent magazines for 5 rounds or less. There are no restrictions on manual action rifles that hold 10 rounds or less.
Pistols must be less than 400 mm long, have a barrel at least 101 mm long and a muzzle velocity no greater than 1600 fps. This was designed to rule things like the AK and AR pistols.
Hardly seems draconian to me. All 7 of my guns would qualify.
re: #324 Captain Ron
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He must be afraid of getting caught in a perjury trap.
Let me know what I need to lie about!
We should rename the “AR-15” the “Republican Senator” because it costs lives and is too easy to buy.
— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) May 25, 2022
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State Bar of Texas files complaint against AG Ken Paxton over longshot Supreme Court bid to overturn election: “His allegations were not supported by any charge, indictment, judicial finding, and/or credible or admissible evidence”
Link c/o @MikeScarcella https://t.co/G2OGP1MYfb pic.twitter.com/zRpPT7Obn3— Jacqueline Thomsen (@jacq_thomsen) May 25, 2022
re: #324 Captain Ron
Jim Jordan wants to see all the evidence against him before complying with Jan. 6 subpoena: report https://t.co/Vx5Yf15GCK
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 26, 2022
If I ever get subpoenaed I’m gonna opt for the Jordan treatment please.
Lay it all out then I’ll tell you if I care to comply.
I am allowed to do that, right?
Surely, a locked door would have deterred someone with the disposition AND THE GUN from executing 19 kids and their teachers. A snag with the back door would have sent him right home. To where he had just shot his grandmother in the face. https://t.co/bKQvcwtHge
— Sarah Boxer (@Sarah_Boxer) May 26, 2022
We cannot normalize the mass murder of children. pic.twitter.com/IjnYBR3eM1
— Governor Roy Cooper (@NC_Governor) May 25, 2022
re: #227 nines09
I wonder when Alex Jones tries to monetize this?
I had my second booster on Monday and as I suspected I felt like crap. Not as bad as before, but sweaty, achy and tired for all day Tuesday.
A lost day. Cooper was my companion and sensed I was under. Snug bug Coop.
And even though it is a witches brew, Nyquil works for me when I feel like that.
So I had to buy another bottle since I finished that 3 dose left bottle.
And when you buy Nyquil, well it’s on that list of THINGS that need ID and a sign off for and I almost said to the clerk “Be easier to buy a gun and shoot kids, wouldn’t it?”
Almost.
It will never end until you and me and America remove Republicans from any lever of power.
Indiana was mostly covered by Blue laws when I lived there—no alcohol sales except for restaurants on Sunday. One Sunday night I went to get some Nyquil and the checkout person gave me serious stinkeye. Later I learned it’s something alcoholics use in a pinch.
Are they really gonna make it about “too many doors on the school”? They are, aren’t they?
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 26, 2022
Humbled and honored to be sworn in yesterday by @VP Kamala Harris.
I placed my left hand on a unique Talmud printed by @USArmy in Germany in 1946 to meet the needs of Jewish survivors in displaced persons camps, as well as on my beloved mother’s Book of Psalms. pic.twitter.com/kZk3lacbo2— Special Envoy Deborah Lipstadt (@StateSEAS) May 25, 2022
Police funding is at some of its peak levels. US prog 1033 transfers billions in military equip to PDs. Mass surveillance has exploded.
If throwing more money at police worked, it would have by now. At this point it’s a band aid politicians use to avoid actually solving problems— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 25, 2022
We should end so-called gun-free zones and allow sane adults to protect children from insane individuals.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 25, 2022
and just who decides which adults are sane and what is that process, Tommy?
re: #334 gocart mozart
Next loon shows up with a gun and a brick and breaks in via a window
Then they’ll come for the windows..
Are they really gonna make it about “too many doors on the school”? They are, aren’t they?
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) May 26, 2022
re: #302 darthstar
While we’re discussing “cum”, music Twitter takes off…
— Threatening Music Notation (@ThreatNotation) May 25, 2022
re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do you think Republicans would go along with the sanity requirement? The people who insist that a narcissistic sociopath won an election that he couldn’t accept losing, and are obviously insane?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 26, 2022
I know it’s not a requirement. He wants any lunatic with a gun to start shooting, potentially hitting innocent people, or being killed by police when they arrive.
He’s an antisocial fool who has no business being anywhere near government.
re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth
We should end so-called gun-free zones and allow sane adults to protect children from insane individuals.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 25, 2022
So like when tfg speaks at NRA this weekend.
Cause right now it’s deemed “gun-free”
re: #264 Decatur Deb
The gap between rhetoric and reality:
President Obama did not take anyone’s guns.
President Biden does not intend to take your guns.If you can get to Camp Perry OH early tomorrow morning, President Biden will sell you a highly-prized ex-military M1 rifle. (Expect customer purchase limits, so bring the wife.)
thecmp.org
$1100 for a “curated” M1 Garand? Prices have really gone up.
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000’s it was primarily used to get rid of thousands of 40-50 year old WW2 rifles that the US had provided to Allies and occupied countries at the aftermath of WW2. At the time a lot of militaries and police organizations were upgrading from those firearms. Various Italian, West German, and Israeli police organizations were sending their old M1-Carbines back to the US. Korea, Greek and others were returning their M1 Garands. You could mail order a 50 year old worn out M1 carbine or M1 Garand made by Underwood Typewriter corp, GM’s auto parts division, or IBM for, maybe, $400.
They were also selling the returned ammunition as well. Cans of 50 year old 30-06 in machine gun links that had been stored and handled in who knows how. At least until the powers that be realized that every 5th round in the machine gun belt was armor piercing, which was illegal. The cartridges that were corroded were okay to sell, though.
re: #311 Crush White Nationalism
This was either pandering to absolute morons, knowing the courts would never allow this, or a test to see if the courts would fail us all.
Federal Appeals Court Blocks Florida’s Free Speech Law For Violating Free Speech (Daily Boulder)
I’m gonna go with the “pandering to morons” interpretation- with a sidebar of “fundraising exploitation”. Pure Legislation Theater true to the stock GOP script: get the GOPer Lege to pass some BS law, with a well-publicized signing ceremony replete with tough-talk rhetoric. If the courts uphold it, WIN!: if they knock it down, no BFD: just another opportunity to campaign and fundraise on whatever horseshit grievance they passed the bad law over. With an extra helping of “activist judges” whine on the side
re: #194 Crush White Nationalism
Some people just do whatever they want to do with zero thought of consequences.
Police discover entire house abandoned by movers in the middle of a Louisiana road (Audacy)
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Check the bedrooms. They may have had a couple too many and needed to sleep it off.
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