Watch Live: Trump’s “Listening Session” With High School Students and Teachers
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Afternoon Lizardim. So, this is going on… the town next to where elder fishspawn goes to school. I am freaked out right now. Why is this shit a thing?
Forgive me. I just can’t. I have to allow people with stronger stomachs than I have to fill me in.
Listening to this moron makes me sick.
I don’t personally know how the White House selected this group of Douglas students, but so far, Trump hasn’t heard any criticism or any calls for gun control.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 21, 2018
something smells https://t.co/Se1ZagWEa7
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 21, 2018
Has Trump said that there were bad people on both sides of the school shooting yet?
re: #3 JordanRules
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obviously the yam is too afraid to be in the same room as Emma, David, and the rest of Douglas students.
This is going to, once again, blow up in his face. Of course FOX will eat it up.
I know there’s the old line about never being the smartest person in the room, but I’m not sure Trump should have gone to this extreme…
Definitely a hand-picked group that agreed to keep it fairly docile.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 21, 2018
re: #11 Charles Johnson
The look of someone who really doesn’t want to be there.
I don’t get why the yam makes that triangle thing with his fingers between his knees whenever he sits down. What is up with that?
re: #10 Charles Johnson
To the surprise of absolutely no one.
— SteelPH (@SteelPH) February 21, 2018
The “expired ID, 5 minute” claim has been relooked. I hope this wasn’t a softball to be knocked out of the park.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
He’s fraimng “it”.
re: #12 KGxvi
The look of someone who really doesn’t want to be there.
He hates his fucking job, he hates that people are telling him what to do. Cuts in to precious TV and golf time.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t get why the yam makes that triangle thing with his fingers between his knees whenever he sits down. What is up with that?
Illuminati signal.
God damn, this is like watching a footage of North Korea where children are expected to praise Dear Leader.
re: #12 KGxvi
The look of someone who really doesn’t want to be there.
He doesn’t like it when other people get to talk.
re: #18 teleskiguy
He hates his fucking job, he hates that people are telling him what to do. Cuts in to precious TV and golf time.
That sums it up quite well.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t get why the yam makes that triangle thing with his fingers between his knees whenever he sits down. What is up with that?
He’s signaling what he is.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t get why the yam makes that triangle thing with his fingers between his knees whenever he sits down. What is up with that?
He’s signaling to the ladies that his dong is “this big around.”
re: #15 Charles Johnson
This is really strange.
Let’s find pictures of other people who kind of look like the people in the “Listening Session”, then post photos of them next to each other and claim they are all actually actors paid by the Mercer family!
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t get why the yam makes that triangle thing with his fingers between his knees whenever he sits down. What is up with that?
Either when he was younger he didn’t know what to do with his hands and someone told him to do that and so he always does; or, he heard that it was some sort of business power move (tm) and he has been living the gimmick so long he doesn’t know anything else.
“I’m just begging for a change. We need a change,” says Jonathan’s mother, Melissa Blank. pic.twitter.com/rsyqLGi7aM
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) February 21, 2018
“I’m just glad there’s a table between us,” says the girl to Trump’s right. https://t.co/20wQj4Nq44
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 21, 2018
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t get why the yam makes that triangle thing with his fingers between his knees whenever he sits down. What is up with that?
Vagina Envy…
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t get why the yam makes that triangle thing with his fingers between his knees whenever he sits down. What is up with that?
He leans forward on his knees with spread legs when sitting without a desk because he thinks it hides his gut. The steepling is just something to do with his hands, I guess, but it is also a body language signal that is supposed to project superiority and power, as opposed to clasping hands which suggests defensiveness.
Fuckface Von Clownstick is bored out of his mind, no doubt. He’s going to cuss out everybody while watching TV tonight. Might even get some more fucked up tweets.
re: #32 teleskiguy
Fuckface Von Clownstick is bored out of his mind, no doubt. He’s going to cuss out everybody while watching TV tonight. Might even get some more fucked up tweets.
So a standard night for the guy then.
You showed the whole world just how much of an asshole you are!
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) February 21, 2018
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
Vagina Envy…
LOL…MrBWS just remarked that, before I said anything, he looked at that picture and thought “vagina” what with all the pussygrabber stuff (oh and the fact that the yam is a pussy).
I REALLY love MrBWS sometimes.
why is being alive so expensive. im not even having a good time
— reaghan (@reaghanhunt) February 20, 2018
Most of us already knew what he is, but this seems to have been too much for even the people he sells his hateful propaganda to. Maybe he’ll be selling “supplements” on InfoWars soon.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 21, 2018
re: #36 PhillyPretzel
This is how a CEO with a G-d complex “listens” to his underlings. This is also known as a BS session.
I can’t listen…or I should say, won’t. This is trying to make Trump look Presidential. The kids won’t say anything to upset him, and neither will their parents. Be nice if one kid just shouted, ‘Fuck this! We’re being used as props!’ and walked out.
Regarding new regulations, Dump said “We’re gonna get it done; no more talk.”
Translation: “As soon as this shit blows over, you kids can fuck off.”
re: #41 darthstar
I can’t listen…or I should say, won’t. This is trying to make Trump look Presidential. The kids won’t say anything to upset him, and neither will their parents. Be nice if one kid just shouted, ‘Fuck this! We’re being used as props!’ and walked out.
the extreme vetting process kept all of those kids out of the event.
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
obviously the yam is too afraid to be in the same room as Emma, David, and the rest of Douglas students.
Aren’t a couple of them Douglas students? They may be hand picked for not being too, uh, colorful…liberal…mouthy, but I thought they were students.
Is it just me, or is this listening session sounding weirdly like a cross between a Trump praise-fest and people uttering conservative talking points on free speech, etc. interspersed with comments on gun violence, etc.? What was that weird bit fr/the Columbine dad on diversity?
— Barbara Walsh (@AtreiyaN7) February 21, 2018
re: #41 darthstar
Please excuse me but I am not watching the listening session because I am in the middle of a good movie. Also I do not want to ruin my birthday by watching something disgusting.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me but I am not watching the listening session because I am in the middle of a good movie. Also I do not want to ruin my birthday by watching something disgusting.
Happy Birthday!
re: #47 ObserverArt
Aren’t a couple of them Douglas students? They may be hand picked for not being too, uh, colorful…liberal…mouthy, but I thought they were students.
only have their word about that, but evenso it’s not surprising that there would be a handful of wingnut family students…so of course the WH would find them.
re: #18 teleskiguy
He hates his fucking job, he hates that people are telling him what to do. Cuts in to precious TV and golf time.
But, he’s like, smart. Can you believe he is president?
The last guy seems like he’s auditioning for a position.
this is trump’s “im listening to a parent talk about the murder of his child” face. which … looks like all his other faces. pic.twitter.com/N9cykr0vHa
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) February 21, 2018
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me but I am not watching the listening session because I am in the middle of a good movie. Also I do not want to ruin my birthday by watching something disgusting.
Happy Birthday Philly!!!
I CAN THINK OF 10 DIFFERENT THINGS TO STOP SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
Yes, he really did say that. And no, he didn’t list them at all.
re: #24 teleskiguy
He’s signaling to the ladies that his dong is “this big around.”
I thought maybe he was depicting the female genitalia, you know, grabby Trumpy.
“10 great ideas, right now!”
That sounds like every “team-building” exercise that I have participated in, ever.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
That body language always seemed to me to be a modified ‘figleaf” position. (Extreme defensive posture) With clasping hands. (Self calming. Denotes person is uncomfortable.) Add to this the slouching.
GIVE GUNS TO THE LUNCH LADIES!!!1!!1!1!!
re: #59 Ace Rothstein
More bullets in the air should fix it.
A guidance counselor with a firearm? This is a sham!
re: #51 makeitstop
Thanks. I got my gift from amazon and I have a special birthday dinner waiting for me in the fridge.
the lamp I bought for me:amazon.com
This guy speaking right now is a Fuckface Von Clownstick scat muncher.
“Thank God it was only 17 lives….”
WHAT THE FUCK?!
re: #61 The Vicious Babushka
“10 great ideas, right now!”
That sounds like every “team-building” exercise that I have participated in, ever.
God, how I hate those.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me but I am not watching the listening session because I am in the middle of a good movie. Also I do not want to ruin my birthday by watching something disgusting.
Happy Birthday!
re: #43 teleskiguy
All these people, with their good intentions speaking at this dog and pony show are screaming at a
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Some are pounding their heads on it.
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me but I am not watching the listening session because I am in the middle of a good movie. Also I do not want to ruin my birthday by watching something disgusting.
re: #55 jaunte
this is trump’s “im listening to a parent talk about the murder of his child” face. which … looks like all his other faces.
It’s his Resting Mussolini face.
re: #67 PhillyPretzel
Excellent!
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday!
re: #80 HappyWarrior
Only seventeen lives?
Let’s telegraph to the next nut that 17 is acceptable. So they then know how to go for gold.
Nobody thought to use multiple boom mics or lavaliers to make sure there’s good audio of everyone speaking. Fucking rank amateurs in this White House.
there is a certain cruelty to the listening session when you know Trump took 30 mil from the NRA
its almost as if the listening session was sponsored by the NRA#ListeningSession— m i t h (@ManInTheHoody) February 21, 2018
Waukesha school superintendent backs down on suspension threat, says students will be excused if excused by their parents for the planned walkout.
IN TEH GOOD OLD DAYS THEY COULD JUST SEND SOMEONE TO TEH LOONEY BIN!! WHY DON’T WE HAVE LOONEY BINS ANY MORE!!!1!! OPEN UP ALL TEH LOONEY BINS!!!1!!!
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 21, 2018
re: #86 The Vicious Babushka
IN TEH GOOD OLD DAYS THEY COULD JUST SEND SOMEONE TO TEH LOONEY BIN!! WHY DON’T WE HAVE LOONEY BINS ANY MORE!!!1!! OPEN UP ALL TEH LOONEY BINS!!!1!!!
Uncle Ronnie Raygun closed them all. To expensive, donchano?
re: #49 PhillyPretzel
Please excuse me but I am not watching the listening session because I am in the middle of a good movie. Also I do not want to ruin my birthday by watching something disgusting.
The Republican establishment: “We can’t be held responsible for all these crazy fringe elements” pic.twitter.com/dWPlCHfNQ7
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) February 21, 2018
re: #86 The Vicious Babushka
Do you think Byberry would be a good choice for the uncouth one?
So this is this direction this dumbfuck is going to go- Arm the teachers. Run with it you fucking loser.
re: #61 The Vicious Babushka
“10 great ideas, right now!”
That sounds like every “team-building” exercise that I have participated in, ever.
Are we going to have the motivational comedian to liven things up about mid-way through the program?
re: #2 MsJ
Forgive me. I just can’t. I have to allow people with stronger stomachs than I have to fill me in.
Listening to this moron makes me sick.
Not enough money in the world to make me watch this or the CNN special tonight. All just a bunch of bullshit to placate the kids. I will march and vote with them.
Grieving father AndrewPollack gets no response from Trump only when he offers something that could be construed as praise for the president. pic.twitter.com/NHtkXbLvML
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 21, 2018
Trump’s big solution: More guns concealed carry, more bullets.
It’s not a listening session if he only hears and repeats gun lobby talking points. What a shame. What a missed opportunity. What a sad failure of leadership. He will let down our kids again.#ParklandStudentsSpeak— Liz Gumbinner (@Mom101) February 21, 2018
Remember, near half the country remain complete fucking numbskulls:
Q poll: “do you think President Trump has been loyal to his wife throughout his marriage?”
Republicans: 42% yes, 14% no, 44% don’t know
everyone else: 11% yes, 68% no, 21% don’t know— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) February 21, 2018
re: #98 Ace Rothstein
The students look terrified.
Are any of them female? They should be especially terrified.
We’re going to solve our meth addiction with more meth.
re: #94 teleskiguy
Goin’ off on GUN FREE ZONES and GUNZ FOR EVERYBODY!!!. Excuse me while I
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re: #101 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Are any of them female? They should be especially terrified.
Most of them.
re: #100 Barefoot Grin
Remember, near half the country remain complete fucking numbskulls:
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They’re a cult.
re: #98 Ace Rothstein
They should. He has a history of abuse.
Republicans: give the teachers guns.
Also Republicans: cut the teachers’ pay and benefits.
re: #108 jaunte
Republicans: give the teachers guns.
Also Republicans: cut the teachers’ pay and benefits.
Also Republicans: Teachers are forcing leftism on kids.
re: #100 Barefoot Grin
Remember, near half the country remain complete fucking numbskulls:
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I’d really like to see polls like this come back as “0% Yes, 0% No, 100% Don’t Know.”
Because we may have our guesses and speculation and innuendo, but the fact of the matter is that the only people who actually know what’s going on in their marriage are the two of them, perhaps some Secret Service agents, and whoever they’re cheating with, if they are.
And unless any of them are among the people being surveyed, the only accurate answer remains…
“Don’t know.”
re: #91 PhillyPretzel
Do you think Byberry would be a good choice for the uncouth one?
Is Byberry still there? I used to live right up the road when I was a tyke, by where the State Police barracks is.
Used to love going down that way. Everything smelled like Oreos.
re: #109 HappyWarrior
Also Republicans: Teachers are forcing leftism on kids.
I forgot how they would play it: “Make the teachers buy their own guns as part of the job requirement.”
Family values:
Florida Pastor Accused of Sexually Assaulting Two Teenagers in Rutherford County (Tenn.) (Goes to WSMV TV Channel 4)
MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV) -
A Florida pastor is accused of sexually assaulting two teens in Rutherford County.
According to a police report, Pastor David Rowan was a guest speaker at a church in the area.
During an interview with detectives, he said the 14-year-old and 15-year-old victims looked up to him for spiritual guidance.
According to police, Rowan asked the sisters to get a hamburger and milkshake back in 2014. Their mother gave them permission.
Rowan then allegedly took the young women to a local hotel, which is where police say he “took advantage of the girls’ trust and naivety” and molested them.
Rowan is facing multiple charges. He is currently awaiting extradition from a jail in north Florida.
re: #36 PhillyPretzel
This is how a CEO with a G-d complex “listens” to his underlings. This is also known as a BS session.
On second thought, I think that you are correct. It really does have that look.
Like what a 1980’s media consultant would recommend for claiming personal power while listening to underlings.
re: #111 makeitstop
I do not know. There were many projects suggested for that site. The Oreos scent was from the Nabisco factory and I think that is closed. I have not been to that area in a very long time.
re: #110 ipsos
I’d really like to see polls like this come back as “0% Yes, 0% No, 100% Don’t Know.”
Because we may have our guesses and speculation and innuendo, but the fact of the matter is that the only people who actually know what’s going on in their marriage are the two of them, perhaps some Secret Service agents, and whoever they’re cheating with, if they are.
And unless any of them are among the people being surveyed, the only accurate answer remains…
“Don’t know.”
“whoever they’re cheating with, if they are.”
So, those women are coming forward now. Have we decided we’re not going to believe them?
re: #110 ipsos
I’d really like to see polls like this come back as “0% Yes, 0% No, 100% Don’t Know.”
Because we may have our guesses and speculation and innuendo, but the fact of the matter is that the only people who actually know what’s going on in their marriage are the two of them, perhaps some Secret Service agents, and whoever they’re cheating with, if they are.
And unless any of them are among the people being surveyed, the only accurate answer remains…
“Don’t know.”
Well, if there was a trial, there is more than enough evidence to convict Trump of infidelity, exhibit 1 being the EW tape.
re: #101 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Are any of them female? They should be especially terrified.
You know…until your comment, there are two long-haired blonde girls to his sides.
Now that can be totally happenstance. But this is another reality show and well, you know the rest.
I got $500 in Trump casino chips that says Trump brags about how great the ratings were for this farce.
Would be great if one of the students could get a chance to speak.
Trumpkin says “I’m not here to debate” and proceeds to debate.
re: #120 Ace Rothstein
Would be great if one of the students could get a chance to speak.
So this “listening session” is the students listening to him, not the other way around?
re: #116 BlueGrl21
“whoever they’re cheating with, if they are.”
So, those women are coming forward now. Have we decided we’re not going to believe them?
It’s not cheating if he and his wife had an agreement.
Are conservatives complaining they are not seeing “legitimate grief” the same as when conservatives say they need to know if it is “legitimate rape?”
And there’s gonna be a bill that has some modest gun regulation (banning bump stocks) twinned with something insane, like purchasing a tank for every school.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 21, 2018
re: #115 PhillyPretzel
I do not know. There were many projects suggested for that site. The Oreos scent was from the Nabisco factory and I think that is closed. I have not been to that area in a very long time.
My dad used to run a farm for the Commonwealth that supplied Byberry with dairy products.
I remember looking at the Nabisco factory and thinking it was the tallest building ever. (I’ve seen taller ones since.)
I’m sick of this shit.
We are literally going to have mandatory gun ownership pushed on us before we as a country even consider any sort of reasonable gun regulation. Guns are our savior, guns are our icon, without gun, there is no protection. All hail Gun….
I’ve said it before, but in American, guns are treated like literally the only security ever. The NRA has successfully sold the idea that lack of gun is literally wanting death upon people. #ThisIsNotNormal #WeCallBS
— Citizen K Calls BS (@Citizen_Kryptik) February 21, 2018
“I was just trolling” seems to be the favorite new excuse of right wing shitbags.
While it aimed at media manipulation, my tweet was insensitive to students who lost friends in a terrible tragedy. I’m truly sorry
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 21, 2018
#BREAKING Trump says he is considering arming teachers after shooting tragedy
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 21, 2018
More guns and more bullets. Now we’ll have crossfires in future school gun massacres. U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! #MURKA https://t.co/S8Ve5UxSJ8
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) February 21, 2018
re: #116 BlueGrl21
“whoever they’re cheating with, if they are.”
So, those women are coming forward now. Have we decided we’re not going to believe them?
I read the poll question as referring specifically to his current marriage. And even there, you may be right - Stormy Daniels’ accusations pertain to this marriage, don’t they?
Be that as it may, this sort of poll just seems pointless to me. If he’s unfaithful, he’s unfaithful. How does polling uninformed Americans about it make anything better?
re: #128 KingKenrod
“I was just trolling” seems to be the favorite new excuse of right wing shitbags.
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Except your comments had nothing to do with the media. Maybe if you actually admitted you were being a dick simply because they went after your views on guns.
Arming teachers is insane.
It’s a goddamn shame that this country is here.
It is insane.
You know…it is hard to hold back on some of this. I have a lot of questions, the same as it appears many have. It is amazing how ‘on point’ some of the comments are with NRA thinking.
A Sandy Hook parent is speaking and just got applause for basically saying that arming teachers is bullshit.
re: #116 BlueGrl21
“whoever they’re cheating with, if they are.”
So, those women are coming forward now. Have we decided we’re not going to believe them?
I remember the discussions around Moore of Alabama on the issue.
The voters have the responsibility to make decisions based on what information they have.
This is different from responsibility of a court and due process. As are the consequences.
re: #127 Citizen K
I’m sick of this shit.
We are literally going to have mandatory gun ownership pushed on us before we as a country even consider any sort of reasonable gun regulation. Guns are our savior, guns are our icon, without gun, there is no protection. All hail Gun….
Conservatives had their chance to negotiate about what sort of safety regulations they might want. Liberals bent over backward to try to get any sort of conversation going. Conservatives who live or die by their NRA ratings would have none of it.
The second liberals are in charge of the government (Eris willing) after the November election, they have no reason at all to negotiate.
It’s time to enforce the first half of the II Amendment, and enforce the IV Amendment (you have the right to be secure in your person).
The four students near Trump are not buying any of it.
re: #112 jaunte
I forgot how they would play it: “Make the teachers buy their own guns as part of the job requirement.”
Seriously…I think part of the back end of “arm the teachers” is that it will drastically change who goes into the job, another way of completely changing the function and functioning of education.
And I stand by my earlier assessment. This isn’t about mass shooters, it’s about another advance in the ever-expanding definitions of who gets deserved to be shot, when. If the measure of threat is a subjective read by an amateur shooter, and the system encourages and shields that judgement, who dies will reflect the prejudices and preconceptions of the larger (unhealthy, biased) society.
Ford’s president of North America is out over ‘inappropriate behavior’https://t.co/IQ5shg3WVc
— ⚓️Nam Vet™Resist💙 (@VFW_Vet) February 21, 2018
Uggh. Want an uninspiring clod.
Our president is an asshole.
And the fuckin’ asshole leaves the room as quickly as he can, no hugs for the bereaved, nothing.
More armed guards! 1/
ODESSA, TX - An investigation is underway in Odessa following an accidental discharge of a campus police officer’s weapon. https://t.co/lcje281xxs— David Waldman, LLC (@KagroX) February 21, 2018
re: #138 The Ghost of a Flea
Seriously…I think part of the back end of “arm the teachers” is that it will drastically change who goes into the job, another way of completely changing the function and functioning of education.
And I stand by my earlier assessment. This isn’t about mass shooters, it’s about another advance in the ever-expanding definitions of who gets deserved to be shot, when. If the measure of threat is a subjective read by an amateur shooter, and the system encourages and shields that judgement, who dies will reflect the prejudices and preconceptions of the larger (unhealthy, biased) society.
The Military Education. Good for American.
You will like, yes?
re: #141 teleskiguy
And the fuckin’ asshole leaves the room as quickly as he can, no hugs for the bereaved, nothing.
Not true. He tried to get the girl in the black skirt’s phone number.
NRA board member Ted Nugent promotes ‘crisis actor’ conspiracy theory following Parkland shooting https://t.co/KAPWoAz4YK pic.twitter.com/OFUOTOeEjh
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) February 21, 2018
Your NRA poster child.
re: #144 Ace Rothstein
Not true. He tried to get the girl in the black skirt’s phone number.
Ace!!!
Gol’dammit. Choked on my water I was sipping.
re: #138 The Ghost of a Flea
another way of completely changing the function and functioning of education.
I just started really thinking about this recently.
And, the history of how our law works for certain people often takes me closer to the ‘fuck 2A’ position than most.
This is insane.
re: #145 DodgerFan1988
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Your NRA poster child.
Reminder that both Romney and Trump happily sought out this asshole’s support and the latter invited him to the WH.
MAGA: gun control leads to tyranny
ALSO MAGA: let’s create another standing army & turn schools into prisons— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) February 21, 2018
re: #145 DodgerFan1988
That’s the fuck stick that went to the White House with Kid Rock, and neither one of those shitheads took their hats off.
Let’s forget for a moment that arming teachers is a bugfuck stupid idea. If you actually tried to do that, this is what you buy:
Insurance Liability.
Range time approaching that of a police currency requirement.
Shoot/don’t shoot legal training.
Weapons and training ammunition.
Salary increases to overcome teacher/staff resistance.
Additional teachers to cover training lost time.
Teachers’ union reaction.
Parental lawsuits, before and after the first shooting.
Michael Steele on another MSNBC panel is saying what a lot of us have been saying.
He thinks the kids have the upper hand in the politics of this because the adults are too weak and scared to do anything.
He said the politicians are up against it and will be for all year maybe longer unlike a lot of people that are being cynical about the student movement and how long it will last.
A Tweet for every occasion!
Crooked Hillary said that I want guns brought into the school classroom. Wrong!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2016
re: #152 Decatur Deb
What the terrorists really want is for us to give in and shut down all those black schools.
re: #154 JordanRules
School to
prisonmortuary pipeline efficiency.
Why would anybody become a teacher if your $30,000 job includes paying for your kids’ school supplies AND training to be a paramilitary fighter expected to face down homicidal maniacs spraying the school with assault rifles? What kind of armed camp country do these people want?
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) February 21, 2018
You might be surprised to learn that more guns = more shootings https://t.co/AgepMTLXng
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) February 21, 2018
re: #157 Decatur Deb
Until you realize it’s smarter to get some labor.
The elite will be in their private schools.
re: #153 ObserverArt
Michael Steele on another MSNBC panel is saying what a lot of us have been saying.
He thinks the kids have the upper hand in the politics of this because the adults are too weak and scared to do anything.
He said the politicians are up against it and will be for all year maybe longer unlike a lot of people that are being cynical about the student movement and how long it will last.
Even though he has an uncanny resemblance to a Sesame Street muppet, Steele does seem to be fairly smart on politics. He well may be the last moderate out of the GOP, hopefully he remembers to turn the lights off when he finally does leave.
re: #130 ipsos
I read the poll question as referring specifically to his current marriage. And even there, you may be right - Stormy Daniels’ accusations pertain to this marriage, don’t they?
Be that as it may, this sort of poll just seems pointless to me. If he’s unfaithful, he’s unfaithful. How does polling uninformed Americans about it make anything better?
The left a pertinent question off the list: Do you care?
re: #155 Ace-o-aces
A Tweet for every occasion!
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re: #161 JordanRules
Until you realize it’s smarter to get some labor.
The elite will be in their private schools.
We don’t need labor, we’ve got automation!
re: #153 ObserverArt
Michael Steele on another MSNBC panel is saying what a lot of us have been saying.
He thinks the kids have the upper hand in the politics of this because the adults are too weak and scared to do anything.
He said the politicians are up against it and will be for all year maybe longer unlike a lot of people that are being cynical about the student movement and how long it will last.
And the standard RW counter-tactics of smear and defame are going to backfire massively. These kids have given a face to the gun control movement.
re: #153 ObserverArt
Michael Steele on another MSNBC panel is saying what a lot of us have been saying.
He thinks the kids have the upper hand in the politics of this because the adults are too weak and scared to do anything.
He said the politicians are up against it and will be for all year maybe longer unlike a lot of people that are being cynical about the student movement and how long it will last.
Forgot to add: This was not an endorsement of Michael Steele!
I just thought it was a backhanded comment to his party’s congressional members telling them they are taking the wrong road and are going to pay.
At Columbine, the armed Sheriff’s Deputy outside the building saw the assailants exit and fired his gun at them (which chased them back inside).
He swore he fired only at street-level targets.
They found bullets from his gun in the second floor library.
1/— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 21, 2018
re: #162 KGxvi
Even though he has an uncanny resemblance to a Sesame Street muppet, Steele does seem to be fairly smart on politics. He well may be the last moderate out of the GOP, hopefully he remembers to turn the lights off when he finally does leave.
He has the advantage of not being beholden to GOP primary voters. He’s not a bad guy imo but Steele benefits from not being an office or prospective holder.
re: #161 JordanRules
Until you realize it’s smarter to get some labor.
The elite will be in their private schools.
They won’t be much safer. All private schools have going for them is the ability to expel problems back to the public system.
re: #165 KGxvi
Touche!
It’s harder to get your authoritarian jollies off with bots tho.
How could you say that someone with which you entrust your child for one-third of their time cannot possibly be burdened with the responsibility of ensuring their safety?
— Kevin (@Ghar_Car) February 21, 2018
I trust teachers with the safety of my kids every day.
I do not trust teachers to:
-fight a grizzly bear
-singlehandedly put out a 3-alarm fire
-defuse a handmade explosive device
-take on a team of ninjas
-wield an assault rifle with the expertise of a trained SWAT team https://t.co/OTCezBsXym— Liz Gumbinner (@Mom101) February 21, 2018
If not for the debased Republican party, scum like this would have no place in society.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 21, 2018
The one thing that struck me about this was how matter-of-factly so many of the speakers spoke about the “next one” as if it’s just accepted that these shootings will always happen and are a way of life.
Trump’s Plan:
“Ok guys, we’ve got good news and bad news.
The bad news is we’ve had to get rid of the lunch, music & arts programs, & we’ve let go of all our special education teachers.
The good news is the entire English Dept is now fully SWAT certified!”#ListeningSession— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 21, 2018
Add another tweet to the Woke Bill Kristol canon.
About CPAC, what needs to be said was said by Eric Hoffer: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 21, 2018
They do not understand how many teachers would walk off the job if told to carry guns. If they know their fellow teachers have guns. If they know counselors or cafeteria workers have guns. There are already officers with guns on their campuses.
Teachers are not on the job to shoot students. Period.
My husband would walk off the job, no thought, he’d be gone the moment he was told to carry a gun.
re: #171 JordanRules
Touche!
It’s harder to get your authoritarian jollies off with bots tho.
Nah, then it’s just “watch this, I can make them all do swan lake with this remote” kinda like Missy and the Cybermen.
I wouldn’t want to be that teacher with a gun when SWAT shows up looking for a “shooter.” That good guy with a gun will be dropped, questions will be asked later. #ParklandStudentsSpeak
— NYrod (@Nyrod) February 21, 2018
Also this: how will SWAT know who’s the gunman when lots of people are packing and shooting? https://t.co/r5u6vBJyYg
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) February 21, 2018
Fucker used notes and still fucked it up.
President Donald Trump holds notes during a White House listening session with students and parents affected by school shootings. (AP Photo by Carolyn Kaster) pic.twitter.com/Z0lZbSVaoF
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) February 21, 2018
It takes a special kind of stupid to listen to the concerns of the #ParklandStudents and offer up “Lets put more guns in schools” as a solution#ListeningSession
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 21, 2018
re: #181 darthstar
Look at the cuff of his left arm.
re: #111 makeitstop
Is Byberry still there? I used to live right up the road when I was a tyke, by where the State Police barracks is.
Used to love going down that way. Everything smelled like Oreos.
Byberry is gone (the tunnels are still there) - Nabisco building is gone too.
re: #181 darthstar
Looks like Hope Hicks’ handwriting?
re: #179 KGxvi
I want to go to this world where sadism is gone and robots twerk.
Actual AP photo of the President’s notes during the listening session (Carolyn Kaster) pic.twitter.com/jQtBvYTP3g
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) February 21, 2018
Semret Hailie, a senior from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland: “If they don’t want to listen to us right now, that’s okay, because we’re going to vote them out in 2018 and 2020.” pic.twitter.com/39oaSo34Kz
— Kara Voght (@karavoght) February 21, 2018
About crack SWAT teams.
Anyone ever notice that with all their training when they come onto the scene it takes them some time before they take their first action. They don’t swing open the doors of an armored vehicle guns ablaze on the attack.
Trained SWAT teams. At the ready.
And gun nuts expect an everyday person to take them right out.
How many other kids are being shot as the crack SWAT team gets into the building to find and end the situation?
And gun nuts expect an everyday person to take them right out.
re: #177 teleskiguy
Wasn’t Kristol always a neo-con, which tended to be more about foreign policy rather than anything else?
re: #152 Decatur Deb
Let’s forget for a moment that arming teachers is a bugfuck stupid idea. If you actually tried to do that, this is what you buy:
Insurance Liability.
Range time approaching that of a police currency requirement.
Shoot/don’t shoot legal training.
Weapons and training ammunition.
Salary increases to overcome teacher/staff resistance.
Additional teachers to cover training lost time.
Teachers’ union reaction.
Parental lawsuits, before and after the first shooting.
All of that would be required to make it work on paper.
But none of this is being proposed to work at all, towards the goal of safety of schoolchildren.
This is much like the Iraq invasion: okay, you’ve launched the shitty idea, theoretically you can make the best of the situation by doing X, Y, and Z. But the people making the plan—you know who—aren’t actually interested in the premised reason for executing Shitty Plan Alpha: it’s the feint to allow Shitty, Venal Plans Bravo through Whiskey to start.
Let’s say this plan actually goes forward. Where we’ll start learning what the actual objective is, is where the money and the legalese get allocated. The equivalent of “nothing fucking works and we’ve got Christian college interns running major bits of infrastructure, let’s really dig in the spurs to privatize oil.”
Look for the equivalent in this situation.
It’s a Trojan horse.
re: #181 darthstar
Fucker used notes and still fucked it up.
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By golly, Trump ‘is’ No. 45. I can see it on the cuff of his shirt.
Actual AP photo of the President’s notes during the listening session (Carolyn Kaster) pic.twitter.com/jQtBvYTP3g
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) February 21, 2018
He’s reading #6 on the back which says, “DO NOT GROPE THE GIRL ON YOUR RIGHT” https://t.co/ZDlc8nuvJe
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 21, 2018
This fucker has “45” monogrammed on his goddamned shirts.
re: #196 Charles Johnson
This fucker has “45” monogrammed on his goddamned shirts.
That’s how many years he’ll be spending in prison.
re: #178 BlueGrl21
They do not understand how many teachers would walk off the job if told to carry guns. If they know their fellow teachers have guns. If they know counselors or cafeteria workers have guns. There are already officers with guns on their campuses.
Teachers are not on the job to shoot students. Period.
My husband would walk off the job, no thought, he’d be gone the moment he was told to carry a gun.
especially if they were expected to do so without any raise in salary or if the costs came out of some other part of the school budget…
re: #178 BlueGrl21
They do not understand how many teachers would walk off the job if told to carry guns. If they know their fellow teachers have guns. If they know counselors or cafeteria workers have guns. There are already officers with guns on their campuses.
Teachers are not on the job to shoot students. Period.
My husband would walk off the job, no thought, he’d be gone the moment he was told to carry a gun.
[Libertarians]Good way to privatise schools.[/Libertarians]
I understand he’s the first president to use the Oval Office.
re: #193 The Ghost of a Flea
All of that would be required to make it work on paper.
But none of this is being proposed to work at all, towards the goal of safety of schoolchildren.
This is much like the Iraq invasion: okay, you’ve launched the shitty idea, theoretically you can make the best of the situation by doing X, Y, and Z. But the people making the plan—you know who—aren’t actually interested in the premised reason for executing Shitty Plan Alpha: it’s the feint to allow Shitty, Venal Plans Bravo through Whiskey to start.
Let’s say this plan actually goes forward. Where we’ll start learning what the actual objective is, is where the money and the legalese get allocated. The equivalent of “nothing fucking works and we’ve got Christian college interns running major bits of infrastructure, let’s really dig in the spurs to privatize oil.”
Look for the equivalent in this situation.
It’s a Trojan horse.
Yeah. That’s the “bugfuck stupid” part.
Check my math, check my facts. Don’t want to get it wrong. Dept of Education says there are about 150,000 school buildings in the U.S, including private schools and college. Put an average of 10 guards per school (less for small, more for universities), that means we need 1.5 million guards. Jobs jobs jobs. Figure pay plus benefit plus all the training and management etc. plus equipment totals $100,000 each. So that means we spend $150 BILLION per year (not including metal detectors/up-armoring schools) so some fat fuck in camouflage can have fun on the weekend. Plus overthrow tyranny of course.
This tell.
Trump proposes arming school staff: “It could very well solve your problem” https://t.co/9flnRR1Qo4 pic.twitter.com/XUL0hz2DC6
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 21, 2018
“Your problem.” https://t.co/Vb4JjynM40
— Olivia Messer 💀 (@OliviaMesser) February 21, 2018
well here’s a take for the ages:
this dude wants to arm the school kids https://t.co/OrH0pSdStS pic.twitter.com/K0jbSgDc0p— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) February 21, 2018
Jesus.
re: #206 Ace Rothstein
That’s hit ‘em back twice as hard Jesus.
New ending of “Mr. Holland’s Opus.” pic.twitter.com/GoOcsYKoUE
— Will Leitch (@williamfleitch) February 21, 2018
re: #196 Charles Johnson
This fucker has “45” monogrammed on his goddamned shirts.
When he bangs another porn star he’ll change the shirts to read “46”
Burn
I want to know why Emma Gonzalez and the Parkland students in the national spotlight aren’t at the President’s listening session. The focus seem to be focused on everything but easy access to guns.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 21, 2018
We uh… were not invited.
But we have important things to do and talk about, we don’t have time to thank these people for taking half a step in the right direction.
Watch the CNN town hall tonight. Trust me. #NEVERAGAIN #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/tuQdpnbW1T— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) February 21, 2018
Trump: “If you had a teacher who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly, and the good thing about a suggestion like that — and we’re going to be looking at it very strongly…but the good thing is you’ll have a lot of [armed] people with that.” pic.twitter.com/wGRSTDK38o
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 21, 2018
Dear High Schoolers:
This is what you’ll get from the GOP.
Their assault rifles mean more than your lives.
They’re scared of the NRA.
The NRA is scared of millions of dues-paying gun nuts.
The gun nuts vote GOP.
Register, vote, and smash them at the polls.
Love,
Grandpa https://t.co/M807KJ75x4— Charles Jaco (@charlesjaco1) February 21, 2018
re: #203 JordanRules
This tell.
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Uh no Donald it won’t. And it’s our problem not “yours.”
re: #181 darthstar
Fucker used notes and still fucked it up.
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“I hear you”
they had to write that out
I found a parody of a lefty @robb_chavez . I had to look up Edwin Booth, he is John Wilkes Booth brother! Not sure what i am supposed to make of that.
So I looked at your Twitter feed: Greenwald, Stein, Tracey, Assange, a Putin/Trump apologist and a school shooting truther to boot. The quintessential pseudo lefty usefull idiot tool of fascism conspiracy crank.
Have a nice day moron— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 21, 2018
re: #208 JordanRules
(Photo from this rather insane site I just discovered: https://t.co/6NFWIuduxP)
— Will Leitch (@williamfleitch) February 21, 2018
Internet Movie Firearms Database
I think there is one of these for boobs in movies too.
re: #201 Decatur Deb
Yeah. That’s the “bugfuck stupid” part.
I’m trying to cut down on my use of the phrase “corpse-fucking” in the panopticon age, but it’s the adjective that springs to mind.
re: #211 jaunte
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FFS. They’re teachers. Let’s say we do Dumb Donnie’s idea. That’s one more weapon that could get in the hands of a shooTed.
I hear “arm the teachers!” and I think of that shooting last year where the cops were stuck clearing every single “good guy” at a Wal-Mart while the shooter was out walking the streets because they had to consult the security camera footage.
I also think of all the wingnuts who are already convinced that “liberal” teachers abuse their authority to “brainwash” their students. How long before you have the future Young Republican in the class insisting that the “liberal” teaching the class uses his gun to silence dissent and has threatened to shoot any students who question him?
re: #218 HappyWarrior
FFS. They’re teachers. Let’s say we do Dumb Donnie’s idea. That’s one more weapon that could get in the hands of a shooTed.
By the time they get out of their classroom and into the correct hallway, there will be 17 dead kids from an AR-15
re: #181 darthstar
Fucker used notes and still fucked it up.
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He did not write those notes.
re: #215 gocart mozart
OMG
The Russian Greens are CIA tools—controlled opposition. The US Green Party actually has some ideological autonomy. And there is no “Green International.” But, your disinformation is to be expected, from one who has CIA South Asian operatives like Sarah Kendzior on your sub list.
— Robb Chavez (@robb_chavez) February 21, 2018
Trump is so devoid of basic empathy he needs note cards written by someone else just so he can fake it.
if you wanna know what kind of personalities are disproportionately gonna sign up for getting to play self-deputized sheriff of their old high school all day every day: pic.twitter.com/HO80e0mZAZ
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) February 21, 2018
re: #221 The Vicious Babushka
Nikki Haley wrote those in his bed this morning.
How long before we’d get the first armed teacher testifying “…and that’s when I saw him reach for his waistband”
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) February 21, 2018
re: #204 jaunte
Jesus.
Dave Daubenmire (“Coach Dave”) is a first-class wingnut preacher. He is well-known amongst many of we outspoken atheists as to why Christianity has a problem attracting and maintaining membership (Christian churches refuse to call out people such as him).
As long as only individual Christians call people out like him, and not churches themselves, churches will continue to lose membership (churches are seen more and more as fifth columnists).
There is nothing to prevent a church or a church organisation from speaking out to say “people like this man do not represent what we believe.” The fact no church body takes an official stand against people like Dave Daubenmire, Creflo Dollar, Joel Olsteen, &c says more about churches than it does about atheism …
re: #226 JordanRules
How long before we’d get the first armed teacher testifying “…and that’s when I saw him reach for his waistband”
we will have to have a budget to equip them all with body cams…
re: #153 ObserverArt
Michael Steele on another MSNBC panel is saying what a lot of us have been saying.
He thinks the kids have the upper hand in the politics of this because the adults are too weak and scared to do anything.
He said the politicians are up against it and will be for all year maybe longer unlike a lot of people that are being cynical about the student movement and how long it will last.
Geeze! Despite being a career Republican party-wheelhorse hack, since when* did Michael Steele suddenly become The Voice Of Reason?? Strange days….
* I know, I know: Jan. 21, 2017
That notes photo by the AP photographer is yet another GREAT campaign ad for November.
re: #226 JordanRules
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And it’s going to happen. The more pressure we put on teachers to be the “first line of defense,” the more pressure they’re going to be under to shoot first and ask questions later.
re: #204 jaunte
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Jesus.
Gee another wingnut loser who feels the need to attack the manhood of men who don’t worship guns, and they wonder why we mock them as using their guns as a substitute for their manhood’s.
re: #231 Ace Rothstein
That notes photo by the AP photographer is yet another GREAT campaign ad for November.
“We want a president who doesn’t need notes in order to play-act at being sympathetic.”
re: #218 HappyWarrior
FFS. They’re teachers. Let’s say we do Dumb Donnie’s idea. That’s one more weapon that could get in the hands of a shooTed.
Any teacher who wanted to be armed has no business being in a school and anybody who thinks arming teachers is a good idea hasn’t spent 5 seconds thinking about how that would be supposed to work.
Will they have a gun in their hand at all times? If not where will the gun be?
What if the shooting takes place no where near where the nearest armed teacher is? Should the teacher abandon the class to try to get there?
Calling this idea stupid isn’t the correct term. Insane is closer.
re: #235 Skip Intro
Any teacher who wanted to be armed has no business being in a school and anybody who thinks arming teachers is a good idea hasn’t spent 5 seconds thinking about how that would be supposed to work.
Will they have a gun in their hand at all times? If not where will the gun be?
What if the shooting takes place no where near where the nearest armed teacher is? Should the teacher abandon the class to try to get there?
Calling this idea stupid isn’t the correct term. Insane is closer.
Absolutely. It’s insane. But then again these people think bringing guns on to airplanes is sound policy too.
re: #183 Ace Rothstein
Look at the cuff of his left arm.
He is getting this > < close to wanting to wear the medals.
re: #235 Skip Intro
I refuse to discuss this as if it’s not just flat out, bugfuck insane.
By the way, the response of shooters like Cruz to armed teachers? Kevlar. Most teachers are going to armed themselves with 9mm or lighter firearms because the recoil is manageable and it will be easier to attain the sort of precision that any insurance company crazy enough to take on a school system requiring armed teachers will insist upon. So that “lone wolf” is gonna invest in type II body armor and now that teacher who’s been drilled on aiming center-mass is SOL.
All I’m saying is, PMCs and private prisons hear this whole “fortress school with armed teachers” thing and get a raging hard-on.
…because that’s at least one version of fuckery that could come out of this: turn this security issue over to The Bureau of Indian Affairs allotment system public-private partnership.
$500 in Trump Casino chips says that the AP photographer, Carolyn Kaster, has her White House credentials revoked for that photo.
Parkland students sit in protest outside of the offices of Florida state Reps. Sprowls and Oliva.
“He is hiding like kids in Parkland had to hide in closets last week,” one screams. pic.twitter.com/6fvUUmI3jc— Ana Ceballos (@anaceballos_) February 21, 2018
re: #239 Targetpractice
By the way, the response of shooters like Cruz to armed teachers? Kevlar. Most teachers are going to armed themselves with 9mm or lighter firearms because the recoil is manageable and it will be easier to attain the sort of precision that any insurance company crazy enough to take on a school system requiring armed teachers will insist upon. So that “lone wolf” is gonna invest in type II body armor and now that teacher who’s been drilled on aiming center-mass is SOL.
Easy, then they’ll suggest teachers wear body armorz
.@CKaster captured this image of @POTUS’ note card during WH listening session w/students and parents affected by school shootings. pic.twitter.com/0cHsWeJtWO
— Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) February 21, 2018
Looks like Trump has lines.
Maybe he’s the “crisis actor”. https://t.co/9SCKiW7AMg— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) February 21, 2018
re: #235 Skip Intro
Any teacher who wanted to be armed has no business being in a school and anybody who thinks arming teachers is a good idea hasn’t spent 5 seconds thinking about how that would be supposed to work.
Will they have a gun in their hand at all times? If not where will the gun be?
What if the shooting takes place no where near where the nearest armed teacher is? Should the teacher abandon the class to try to get there?
Calling this idea stupid isn’t the correct term. Insane is closer.
My brother-in-law is a crack shot. He is also a science teacher in Texas.
He says that if any sort of requirement came down to force teachers to be armed in school is the day he would quit. (He’s already looking at coming here because Texas is too crazy for him and our part of the state is desperate for teachers.)
re: #228 Anymouse 🌹
Dave Daubenmire (“Coach Dave”) is a first-class wingnut preacher. He is well-known amongst many of we outspoken atheists as to why Christianity has a problem attracting and maintaining membership (Christian churches refuse to call out people such as him).
As long as only individual Christians call people out like him, and not churches themselves, churches will continue to lose membership (churches are seen more and more as fifth columnists).
There is nothing to prevent a church or a church organisation from speaking out to say “people like this man do not represent what we believe.” The fact no church body takes an official stand against people like Dave Daubenmire, Creflo Dollar, Joel Olsteen, &c says more about churches than it does about atheism …
Coach Dave’s son was convicted of pandering obscenity 10 years ago. He was put on probation and later went to law school. He was not allowed to sit the 2011 bar because he still had to register as a sex offender until sometime last year. The earliest he will be allowed to sit the Ohio bar is July 2018.
Dave Daubenmire sits and rants about how everything is in the toilet. He needs to look to his own home first before ranting at the rest of us.
6. NO COLLUSION! pic.twitter.com/unfr011DsE
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) February 21, 2018
re: #246 mmmirele
Coach Dave’s son was convicted of pandering obscenity 10 years ago. He was put on probation and later went to law school. He was not allowed to sit the 2011 bar because he still had to register as a sex offender until sometime last year. The earliest he will be allowed to sit the Ohio bar is July 2018.
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Dave Daubenmire sits and rants about how everything is in the toilet. He needs to look to his own home first before ranting at the rest of us.
There’s a lot of people like that. Moore’s son, Huckabee, etc.
re: #242 JordanRules
Good. Let them cower in fear from the might of teenage protestors.
If school shootings aren’t near the top of the Dems talking points for this year’s election, the Dems would be fools.
2: What can we do to help you feel safe?
Answer: BAN FUCKING ASSAULT RIFLES.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 21, 2018
Crisis actor, false flag, etc. Man fuck Alex Jones and Infowars so much.
re: #246 mmmirele
Coach Dave’s son was convicted of pandering obscenity 10 years ago. He was put on probation and later went to law school. He was not allowed to sit the 2011 bar because he still had to register as a sex offender until sometime last year. The earliest he will be allowed to sit the Ohio bar is July 2018.
Dave Daubenmire sits and rants about how everything is in the toilet. He needs to look to his own home first before ranting at the rest of us.
I didn’t know about the pandering charge. More family values from those who say I’m not a moral person and cannot be.
Just in case you thought Trump might not be ranting later…
#FLASH - Paul Manafort’s newest indictment involves his effort in “selling White House jobs to the highest bidder” according to NBC News and the Associated Press.
— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³º¹ (@th3j35t3r) February 21, 2018
re: #242 JordanRules
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Trump sets up a “Dear Leader”-style “listening session” where he gets no real pushback on what he’s already decided is the proper “solution” to “[their] problem.”
Meanwhile, the students who actually matter are showing why he didn’t invite them.
The cynic in me still says that nothing will come of this. The American in me is watching these students and hoping.
re: #204 jaunte
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Jesus.
As soon as I saw the JESUS on his visor I knew it had to be Dave Daubenmire. He is too well known around central Ohio. Shut up coach.
re: #254 Anymouse 🌹
I didn’t know about the pandering charge. More family values from those who say I’m not a moral person and cannot be.
They think morality is linked with theism. Even when I was more religious, I found that absurd because belief or lack of belief in a God or Gods isn’t a reflection of character, your actual character is.
Gotta be Kellyanne or Hope…no grease smudges.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 21, 2018
About armed teachers and SWAT response — remember the slaying in Wichita of an innocent man on his own porch, when the SWAT team was responding to a hoax hostage situation?
The SWAT member who fired was told he was responding to a hostage situation, and he went ahead and “fired after seeing Finch raise then drop his hands near his waistband. Finch was unarmed.” Link
And they want untrained or poorly trained or half-trained teachers making those same kind of split-second decisions?
The utter insanity of this is just too bizarre to accept as reality.
re: #257 Ace Rothstein
The cynic in me still says that nothing will come of this. The American in me is watching these students and hoping.
I’m in the middle: I don’t expect anything to happen in the near-term because even if Trump comes up with a “solution” it won’t get passed by this Congress.
In the long-term, I expect there to be a figurative bloodbath in Congress over the next two election cycles that takes care of both obstacles.
re: #259 HappyWarrior
So where did all the laws and social order come from 50,000 years ago when no one had even conceived of a higher being yet?
re: #257 Ace Rothstein
The cynic in me still says that nothing will come of this. The American in me is watching these students and hoping.
We are seeing a more determined effort thankfully. Long overdue and I think pardon the pun the NRA may actually be sweating bullets for once.
re: #263 Ace Rothstein
So where did all the laws and social order come from 50,000 years ago when no one had even conceived of a higher being yet?
Exactly.
re: #261 Scout
About armed teachers and SWAT response — remember the slaying in Wichita of an innocent man on his own porch, when the SWAT team was responding to a hoax hostage situation?
The SWAT member who fired was told he was responding to a hostage situation, and he went ahead and “fired after seeing Finch raise then drop his hands near his waistband. Finch was unarmed.” Link
And they want untrained or poorly trained or half-trained teachers making those same kind of split-second decisions?
The utter insanity of this is just too bizarre to accept as reality.
It seems not a day goes by when you can open the newspaper without reading about a “bad shoot” by cops who are supposed to be able to think on their feet and assess in a matter of milliseconds if a person is a threat or not. Now move that situation to a teacher who gets confronted by an angry student over a bad grade…
He told me the feeling when Mueller got appointed was that maybe this investigation might end up with a hazy narrative of what happened, but the minute people read the Manafort indictment “the air came out of the balloon.”
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 21, 2018
Nobody I talked to was engaged in these meetings or negotiations with Russian nationals. They’d always heard these rumors and innuendo and were always suspicious of Manafort, Flynn, et al. The rumors and innuendo, however, have all been reflected in what’s made it out.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) February 21, 2018
re: #261 Scout
About armed teachers and SWAT response — remember the slaying in Wichita of an innocent man on his own porch, when the SWAT team was responding to a hoax hostage situation?
The SWAT member who fired was told he was responding to a hostage situation, and he went ahead and “fired after seeing Finch raise then drop his hands near his waistband. Finch was unarmed.” Link
And they want untrained or poorly trained or half-trained teachers making those same kind of split-second decisions?
The utter insanity of this is just too bizarre to accept as reality.
It’s simply a recipe to make already difficult situations even more so.
re: #250 HappyWarrior
I knew a guy who claims that being exposed to his dad’s porn turned him into an idiot that had unprotected sex, knocked up a bunch of teenagers, and treated his girlfriends like they weren’t people. Absolutely none of his shitty behavior is really his fault.
He saw a titty at age nine, so he’s a forty-year-old manchild with barely-concealed misogyny issues and a bunch of bastards he doesn’t see.
Guess what his politics and view of social progress are like. Fucking guess.
It’s always someone or something else’s fault. Something alien and from outside. Can’t fail, can only be failed. Failing? Something conspiring to make that failure happen.
re: #129 teleskiguy
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@Jeffro: No way in hell am I bringing a gun into my classroom. I am a decent shot…and I shoot regularly. I know perfectly damned well I am nowhere NEAR good enough to try to engage a shooter in a crowded hallway or surrounded by screaming students.
Special Operators do that shit and they train with live ammo three or more times a week. I was an M60 gunner on my helicopter…not a Delta operator. I know my weapons and I know my limitations…and it is fucking madness to expect educators to act like SEAL Team 6. What the holy fuck?
And keep in mind that I DO have military training and that I shoot and I am comfortable with weapons? What the hell about my colleagues who never touched a gun before? Why in God’s name do that want to put this fucking unforgivable burden on us? So the manufacturers can keep selling AR platforms? So nuts can get ready for their wet dream race war?
NO! FUCK NO!!
My students, my colleagues and I am not their goddamned blood sacrifices.
Me at Balloon juice.
re: #241 Ace Rothstein
$500 in Trump Casino chips says that the AP photographer, Carolyn Kaster, has her White House credentials revoked for that photo.
Worth it.
re: #235 Skip Intro
Any teacher who wanted to be armed has no business being in a school and anybody who thinks arming teachers is a good idea hasn’t spent 5 seconds thinking about how that would be supposed to work.
Will they have a gun in their hand at all times? If not where will the gun be?
What if the shooting takes place no where near where the nearest armed teacher is? Should the teacher abandon the class to try to get there?
Calling this idea stupid isn’t the correct term. Insane is closer.
Stupid and insane.
Democrat Margaret Good won a special election in Florida by 7 points on February 20, taking a Florida senate seat.
That represents the thirty-sixth state seat taken by Democrats from the GOP.
yourobserver.com (more at the link)
Democrat Margaret Good won the Florida House of Representatives District 72 special election on Tuesday, taking a seat that’s long been in GOP control and capping a campaign that attracted national attention and stronger-than-average voter turnout.
Good heads to Tallahassee to take her seat with less than half the 2018 legislative session remaining. She plans to take her seat and join the session Wednesday.
“We won for the people who, like me, have had it with our state government and want to see some change,” Good told supporters Tuesday night at an election night party. “With this win, we’re saying ‘enough has been enough’.”
Good, a Sarasota lawyer and first-time candidate, secured 52.17% of the vote. Republican James Buchanan finished second with 44.8% and Libertarian Alison Foxall finished third with 3%.
re: #263 Ace Rothstein
So where did all the laws and social order come from 50,000 years ago when no one had even conceived of a higher being yet?
The world is only six thousand years old. /s
re: #241 Ace Rothstein
$500 in Trump Casino chips says that the AP photographer, Carolyn Kaster, has her White House credentials revoked for that photo.
Sucker bet…you could even risk something of actual value, like Dogecoin.
re: #35 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hardly - it’s that the @WhiteHouse is only having those who will tow @POTUS’s line….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 21, 2018
re: #270 The Ghost of a Flea
I knew a guy who claims that being exposed to his dad’s porn turned him into an idiot that had unprotected sex, knocked up a bunch of teenagers, and treated his girlfriends like they weren’t people. Absolutely none of his shitty behavior is really his fault.
He saw a titty at age nine, so he’s a forty-year-old manchild with barely-concealed misogyny issues and a bunch of bastards he doesn’t see.
Guess what his politics and view of social progress are like. Fucking guess.
It’s always someone or something else’s fault. Something alien and from outside. Can’t fail, can only be failed. Failing? Something conspiring to make that failure happen.
Obviously he must be black, because we’ve been assured that such behavior is strictly limited to them and why the black community needs to have a “serious discussion” about what to do about young black men.
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re: #277 The Major
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He ignored them for days, then suddenly stages this “listening session” where he faces no real opposition and receives nothing but fawning praise.
Don’t for a second bullshit us that if the political situation were reversed and it was Obama or Clinton up there calling for a ban on guns, that you’d be going “Well, at least they listened to the students,” Ben.
re: #277 The Major
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Do you ever shut the fuck up, Ben? Do you ever think I just may be a condescending little twit who offers nothing to the debate because I’m a little whiner who can’t accept that I have to share my country with liberals? Go fuck yourself you grandstanding douchebag.
re: #279 Targetpractice
He ignored them for days, then suddenly stages this “listening session” where he faces no real opposition and receives nothing but fawning praise.
Don’t for a second bullshit us that if the political situation were reversed and it was Obama or Clinton up there calling for a ban on guns, that you’d be going “Well, at least they listened to the students,” Ben.
He’s such a pathetic fraud. I can’t wait for him to join his pal Milo in misery.
Bernie Sanders just sent out a long statement on Russian electoral interference, hours after he was pressed hard on the matter in a @vprnet interview (https://t.co/iJt2IqlE5W) > pic.twitter.com/0sf4PuAfY9
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) February 21, 2018
Let’s not forget that none of the students and parents of Parkland would allow him to use them as props during that brief photo session he staged over the weekend in between bouts of brooding at Mar-a-Lago. You know, the ones where he gave his idiotic grin and thumbs up while standing with first responders and complimented how quickly they got kids from the scene to the ER.
Fulshear, Tex. Chamber of Commerce cancelled Dinesh D’Sousa as a speaker at an upcoming event.
He was sponsored by the Fort Bend County GOP.
Fulshear Area Chamber of Commerce Dinesh D’Sousa: The Case for Capitalism (Fort Bend Co. GOP announcement)
fulshearareachamber.com (Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce event page. He’s gone.)
Only slightly OT: The lockdown in our local area was lifted after 5 hours, when a high schooler was arrested for making terrorist threats. He was at the school, but no gun was found. This shit is beyond ridiculous.
re: #283 FormerDirtDart
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I’ll give it to Bernie, he addressed the issue without portraying himself as a victim. He’s already shown more integrity than Jill Stein ever could.
re: #286 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Only slightly OT: The lockdown in our local area was lifted after 5 hours, when a high schooler was arrested for making terrorist threats. He was at the school, but no gun was found. This shit is beyond ridiculous.
Did anyone found out who put that Da’esh flag at a high school in Utah over the weekend?
re: #268 darthstar
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My great fear is that the ultimate findings of the investigation will be that Trump had no clue what his staff were up to; that his “hire the best people” bullshit was so totally ignorant that he was just the dupe all along…
Ari just played a clip from “Heat” when DeNiro and Pacino are in the diner. If you haven’t seen the film, it’s DeNiro’s most underrated performance, and has the greatest action scene in the history of cinema.
A challenge of some sort is proffered, what should I do?
Robb Chavez:Another CIA “asset”(?), Floppy Boot Stomp, comes out of the (bugged) closet (Come at me, bro. 👁):“So I looked at your Twitter feed: Greenwald, Stein, Tracey, Assange, a Putin/Trump apologist and a school shooting truther to boot. The quintessential pseudo lefty..
— Robb Chavez (@robb_chavez) February 21, 2018
Just between us, I may be CIA deep cover
re: #283 FormerDirtDart
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Bernie’s comments are pretty unequivocal, I’ll grant him that (except for a brief whiff of manure about that “campaigned hard for Hillary” bit) - I’d be more impressed if it didn’t seem like he’d been shamed into making the statement, but there we are.
re: #289 sagehen
My great fear is that the ultimate findings of the investigation will be that Trump had no clue what his staff were up to; that his “hire the best people” bullshit was so totally ignorant that he was just the dupe all along…
If his kids go down and take his empire with them it will all be worth it.
Well, he is such an actor that he won a WORST Supporting Actor RAZZIE for his work in “Ghosts Can’t Do It”!https://t.co/Q8fVyKcXf2
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) February 21, 2018
re: #291 gocart mozart
Report him. That is the only thing I can think of at the moment.
re: #289 sagehen
My great fear is that the ultimate findings of the investigation will be that Trump had no clue what his staff were up to; that his “hire the best people” bullshit was so totally ignorant that he was just the dupe all along…
Ultimately that’s probably the best that can be hoped for. America’s not ready to send a president to prison, even after their term is concluded. The US media would never allow their biggest cash cow to be removed.
re: #270 The Ghost of a Flea
I edit erotica and my wife and I have a sex blog and I don’t have these problems. I’m guessing his problem is conservative sexual repression, not porn.
re: #222 gocart mozart
Source for your assertion that @sarahkendzior is a CIA South Asian Operative?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 21, 2018
re: #291 gocart mozart
A challenge of some sort is proffered, what should I do?
Just between us, I may be CIA deep cover
Troll him. Hard.
I’m gonna lay off this Robb Chavez guy for a while because he seems a little touched in the head.
Source for your assertion that @sarahkendzior is a CIA South Asian Operative?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 21, 2018
re: #298 The Major
Sarah Kendzior, South Asian Operative writing for the Toronto Globe & Mail. Sure, why not?
re: #302 Anymouse 🌹
Sarah Kendzior, South Asian Operative writing for the Toronto Globe & Mail. Sure, why not?
lol the fuck?
re: #277 The Major
Hardly - it’s that the @WhiteHouse is only having those who will tow @POTUS’s line….
Toe.
re: #295 PhillyPretzel
Report him. That is the only thing I can think of at the moment.
Report him for what, being stupid on the internet?
re: #239 Targetpractice
By the way, the response of shooters like Cruz to armed teachers? Kevlar. Most teachers are going to armed themselves with 9mm or lighter firearms because the recoil is manageable and it will be easier to attain the sort of precision that any insurance company crazy enough to take on a school system requiring armed teachers will insist upon. So that “lone wolf” is gonna invest in type II body armor and now that teacher who’s been drilled on aiming center-mass is SOL.
Another arms race.
re: #285 Anymouse 🌹
Fulshear, Tex. Chamber of Commerce cancelled Dinesh D’Sousa as a speaker at an upcoming event.
He was sponsored by the Fort Bend County GOP.
Fulshear Area Chamber of Commerce Dinesh D’Sousa: The Case for Capitalism (Fort Bend Co. GOP announcement)
fulshearareachamber.com (Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce event page. He’s gone.)
Ah, so that is why the little pathetic worm is squirming and tweeting apologies that aren’t worth anything.
Don’t worry! Tomorrow that little worm will go back to being his full asshole self again!
re: #151 Ace Rothstein
That’s the fuck stick that went to the White House with Kid Rock, and neither one of those shitheads took their hats off.
and Sarah the Biggest Loser Palin
Interesting bit of trivia from Pennsylvania. Alex Trebek will be the moderator for the PA Governor’s Debate. I can just see the moment: Governor you forgot to phrase your answer in the form of a question.
Who needs a teleprompter.
#5= I hear you.
jesus
fucking
christ
This photo of Trump’s notes captures his empathy deficit better than anything https://t.co/0n4kpsOoJ8
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) February 21, 2018
True?
As if it would not be?
re: #305 gocart mozart
I would. Then again I am not on twitter. I would be probably reporting everyone.
re: #306 ObserverArt
Another arms race.
Ayep. The answer will be heavier pistols, which will lead to heavier vests. And the NRA throwing a bone to their buddies in the ammo industry by pushing for AP/overpressure rounds being made “available” to teachers.
re: #285 Anymouse 🌹
Fulshear, Tex. Chamber of Commerce cancelled Dinesh D’Sousa as a speaker at an upcoming event.
He was sponsored by the Fort Bend County GOP.
Fulshear Area Chamber of Commerce Dinesh D’Sousa: The Case for Capitalism (Fort Bend Co. GOP announcement)
fulshearareachamber.com (Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce event page. He’s gone.)
Jesus, he has managed to work his way down to the County Fair circuit, and he can’t even keep THOSE gigs.
Puppet Show
and
Dinesh D’Souza
A couple of comments:
A. Are people reading the notes? Christ almighty, his sociopathy is deep if needs notes to ask “What can we do to help you feel better?”
B. On guns in the classrooms…anyone catch the video of the SWAT team entering and securing the room at Parkland? They required everyone to show their hands to ensure no one had weapons. Now imagine that all the staff is armed, and how much longer it would take to clear everyone with a gun. Further imagine that the shooting is still ongoing while they are having to clear rooms on the other side of the school.
re: #297 Anymouse 🌹
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We got a contract to put this up as a billboard. Then I got my lawyers ok. pic.twitter.com/QMjQuydt5h
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) February 21, 2018
re: #312 Targetpractice
Ayep. The answer will be heavier pistols, which will lead to heavier vests. And the NRA throwing a bone to their buddies in the ammo industry by pushing for AP/overpressure rounds being made “available” to teachers.
Aw, fuck it. Let’s just give them Vibranium shields.
re: #291 gocart mozart
A challenge of some sort is proffered, what should I do?
Just between us, I may be CIA deep cover
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re: #317 Blind Frog Belly White
Aw, fuck it. Let’s just give them Vibranium shields.
Paging Howard Stark…
re: #313 Blind Frog Belly White
Jesus, he has managed to work his way down to the County Fair circuit, and he can’t even keep THOSE gigs.
I’m sure Dimwit D’Stupid will wind up like Dennis Miller—working the piano in the Bar at the Bronson Ramada Inn…
New polls numbers roll in from around the nation….
A profile of voters who still endorse President Trump becomes more clear..
Numerous polls were cross checked with face identification and ID validation…
We believe this to be the most accurate picture to date of Trump supporters to date..
Actual photograph of average Trump voter now available….
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re: #312 Targetpractice
Ayep. The answer will be heavier pistols, which will lead to heavier vests. And the NRA throwing a bone to their buddies in the ammo industry by pushing for AP/overpressure rounds being made “available” to teachers.
When we start firing bullets made of neutronium, then we’ve truly reached peak wingnut.
Sigh. I have now wasted 2+ hours trying to sign up for Medicare.
Private because it’s just a rant of no real importance.
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YEP. Him.
Also, the president appears to have embroidered “45” on his shirt cuffs pic.twitter.com/f5gCJA0Mnb
— David Mack (@davidmackau) February 21, 2018
re: #314 Mike Lamb
I have previously attributed his communications issues to non-clinical narcissism and low empathy, but…
That list is so fucking basic that I’m tempted to move towards “something is actually cognitively wrong that’s an impairment.” I mean, he still has no skill for empathy, but he needs notes for the wipe-your-ass equivalent level of faking sincerity.
re: #305 gocart mozart
Report him for what, being stupid on the internet?
Too bad you can’t do that. “Stupid on the Internet” is why I hang out in places like Little Green Footballs and Wonkette, where stupid is banhammered with loving correction.
(Maybe I should submit a book to my publisher: “The Banhammer of Loving Correction.”)
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re: #314 Mike Lamb
A couple of comments:
A. Are people reading the notes? Christ almighty, his sociopathy is deep if needs notes to ask “What can we do to help you feel better?”
B. On guns in the classrooms…anyone catch the video of the SWAT team entering and securing the room at Parkland? They required everyone to show their hands to ensure no one had weapons. Now imagine that all the staff is armed, and how much longer it would take to clear everyone with a gun. Further imagine that the shooting is still ongoing while they are having to clear rooms on the other side of the school.
In regards to A. he might just have serious memory issues. Which doesn’t rule out sociopathy.
I knew Trump sounded familiar
— Mac McKinsey (@psgent92264) February 21, 2018
re: #324 calochortus
Sigh. I have now wasted 2+ hours trying to sign up for Medicare.
Private because it’s just a rant of no real importance.
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re: #310 nines09
It also captures the fact that there’s a divorce in the works 💁
— Dina Marie (@Dinas_Herbalife) February 21, 2018
re: #263 Ace Rothstein
So where did all the laws and social order come from 50,000 years ago when no one had even conceived of a higher being yet?
God works in mysterious ways.
re: #315 The Ghost of a Flea
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re: #329 gocart mozart
I couldn’t tell if that was from 1973 or 2018.
re: #170 Decatur Deb
They won’t be much safer. All private schools have going for them is the ability to expel problems back to the public system.
Here in my part of TheBackwoods of eastern Kentucky, the private/Christian school in my county is the place where the problem kids expelled from the public school system end up. It’s not pretty.
re: #330 Decatur Deb
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re: #324 calochortus
Sigh. I have now wasted 2+ hours trying to sign up for Medicare.
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Seen on Facebook: ‘Concealed carry for teachers. Do you really want your annoying kids to be surrounded by underpaid people with guns?’
They started the “listening session” today with thoughts and prayers. How fitting.
re: #329 gocart mozart
I new Trump sounded familiar
Archie Bunker: The Conservative You Need for the XXI Century!
re: #328 calochortus
In regards to A. he might just have serious memory issues. Which doesn’t rule out sociopathy.
I’m not sure memory issues explain that list. “What would you like me to know about your experience?” shouldn’t be something that you need to “remember”.
What are the odds that NRA spokesidiot Dana Loesch proposes the exact same “solutions” at the CNN town hall tonight as Trump proposed this afternoon?
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) February 21, 2018
NRA board member Ted Nugent scrubbed his Facebook page of his post claiming that a survivor of the Parkland, FL high school shooting is an actor. Here’s a screenshot of his post: https://t.co/ZRcDDVXTkP pic.twitter.com/JGHDdlS39G
— Timothy Johnson (@timothywjohnson) February 22, 2018
What? Cowardly fake patriot who shit his pants rather than actually serve his country, deleted his fake bullshit rather than own up to it?
Shocked. I’m just shocked. This is my shocked face. https://t.co/A5rI4Fwzjm— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) February 22, 2018
re: #321 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m sure Dimwit D’Stupid will wind up like Dennis Miller—working the piano in the Bar at the Bronson Ramada Inn…
Alongside Yakov Smirnov - “But, een Trahmp’s Amereeka, bank robs you!”
re: #340 Anymouse 🌹
The odd thing of it is that Carroll O’Connor did not think Archie Bunker would be very popular.
re: #320 Ace Rothstein
LOVE THAT MOVIE.
One of the few movies where Jeff Goldblum plays a bad guy…he just chews the scenery up.
re: #337 Joe Bacon 🌹
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re: #331 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
As if. One thing I figured out a long time ago was the reason one person was with the other after the scent went away was because the same need to use.
I mean, in all my misery, how could I lose this and then be exposed to the fact I cannot blame my miserable existence on anyone else?
I need my excuse.
Melania is Donald and Donald is Melania. They are of the same.
It’s either by design or damage, but with all that money, misery is so much easier to manage.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes it easier to manage.
Nah.
Suffer in wealth.
re: #341 Mike Lamb
I’m not sure memory issues explain that list. “What would you like me to know about your experience?” shouldn’t be something that you need to “remember”.
If it’s not something you’re used to doing and have memory issues, you might need a little help.
re: #342 JordanRules
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Even odds. She’ll call for armed teachers, alongside “more” armed guards, metal detectors, fences, and other measures to turned our schools into armed camps. If there’s one constant in modern conservatism, it’s that they believe schools are about everything but learning.
So Cheeto Pendejo wants to open up all the insane asylums that Ronald Reagan shut down, because they were too expensive to maintain.
Who will pay for it? MOAR TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH!!!!
How will the newly reopened insane asylums get populated? Well, you know that kid with learning disability and socializing issues that the other kids don’t like but “bullying is bad mmkay”?
SWAT him into the looney bin!
re: #334 Ace Rothstein
I couldn’t tell if this was from 1973 or 2018.
Conservatism doesn’t change much. Norman Lear called it.
re: #349 calochortus
If it’s not something you’re used to doing and have memory issues, you might need a little help.
Also to keep him from wandering off into “Have I shown you my electoral map?”
re: #330 Decatur Deb
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Both @sarahkendzior and myself are Nepalese Gorkhali working undercover for the Deep State and currently assigned to Twitter duty. Don’t tell anyone.
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 22, 2018
President Trump on concealed carry for teachers: “If you had a teacher who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly.” pic.twitter.com/ashuxSUYFl
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 21, 2018
This comes from watching too much television. https://t.co/MyjOtlc7HP
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) February 22, 2018
re: #274 Anymouse 🌹
Democrat Margaret Good won a special election in Florida by 7 points on February 20, taking a Florida senate seat.
That represents the thirty-sixth state seat taken by Democrats from the GOP.
yourobserver.com (more at the link)
It sure is good to see all these wins in the lower elected state positions. And many many of them are women. I saw Cecile Richards on Ari’s show tonight and she was real proud of that fact. She said it is the highest number of women to run for elected office in this country’s history.
Bodes well for the future.
re: #255 darthstar
Just in case you thought Trump might not be ranting later…
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How many years did Blago get for trying to sell a Senate seat?
Sarah liked my Tweet.
Both @sarahkendzior and myself are Nepalese Gorkhali working undercover for the Deep State and currently assigned to Twitter duty. Don’t tell anyone.
— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 22, 2018
re: #356 makeitstop
I liked Jame Arness in “Gunsmoke” as a kid. But I knew it was make believe.
Trump can’t tell the difference.
re: #359 gocart mozart
Very creative reply.
Still fascinated by the implementation phase of Teacher Team 6.
Will teachers with bone spurs be exempt? Can Amish teachers go Conscientious Objector? Will the COs be formed into stretcher bearer teams? We’re gonna need a lot of stretcher bearers.
re: #361 PhillyPretzel
I had to use some Google
re: #358 MsJ
How many years did Blago get for trying to sell a Senate seat?
14 years, per wikipedia. An this is the last line in that section (and it must terrify Trump the most):
Because hair dyes are not allowed in prison, Blagojevich’s dark hair soon turned white.
re: #354 allegro
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JUST IN: NRA comes out against any bill creating age limits for gun purchases https://t.co/hcSq2OLN8E pic.twitter.com/8055zaqQf2
— The Hill (@thehill) February 22, 2018
BREAKING: Sheriff: Deputies to begin carrying rifles on school grounds in Florida county where shooter killed 17.
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 21, 2018
This is dystopian https://t.co/OF2fOxn3Dc
— de bleck penta (@fivefifths) February 22, 2018
re: #347 calochortus
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re: #364 KGxvi
And that was partly due to his new cellmate “Baby Huey”.
So, instead of figuring a way to reduce gun violence, the GOP/NRA/Trump solution is to put armed folks into schools.
That didn’t prevent Parkland.
In fact, it didn’t prevent attempted assassinations of Reagan, Ford, etc.
It didn’t prevent other school shootings where cops or armed security was present.
Mass shootings aren’t prevented by having more guns available.
Arming teachers just means that a shooter is likely to take out teachers first and take their guns to add to their own. After all, many teachers conduct class with their backs to the students as they write on the whiteboards. Shooters will have the initiative, even when you’ve got folks who are trained.
Teachers aren’t going to be SWAT team trained, and practice so regularly that they can handle active shooter situations.
And schools are just one of a nearly infinite places where mass shootings can happen.
This does nothing to improve security or safety. It’s security theater.
re: #359 gocart mozart
Goddammit - you were supposed to keep yer mouth shut! Now I have to cobble up a tapeworm and wipe everything clean….I’ll be communicating with your cell leader in the morning…..
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 22, 2018
re: #367 JordanRules
Kid shoot to death cutting through grounds to catch smoke.
Details at 11:00
re: #368 Joe Bacon 🌹
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re: #366 FormerDirtDart
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And thus begins the “walking back,” as the NRA starts listing the things it won’t support in a gun control bill, until any such bill is effectively neutered while bills that only further the ability of gunmen to purchase their weapons of choice continue to sail through on partisan votes.
re: #371 lawhawk
Academia and bullets do not mix well.
re: #366 FormerDirtDart
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WTF! He’s doing his “power jerk handshake” on Wayne LaPierre!
@realDonaldTrump you had @IvankaTrump write a cheat sheet on how not be a repulsive piece of shit for 20 minutes? I guarantee @BarackObama never needed humanity lessons from his kids (although unlike yours, they could actually provide them) #IHearYou #TrumpCheatSheet
— THE Angry Troll (@realangrytroll) February 22, 2018
re: #369 nines09
Interestingly, this is the same prison where Jared from Subway was sent, as well as the crooked Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona (now at a halfway house), and Jeffrey Skilling (though he’s been moved)
They just showed a student protester with an Obama t-shirt on. I’m sure Dim Jim will doxx her in the next five minutes.
re: #367 JordanRules
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Future headline: “Sheriff’s deputy fired over accidental shooting of student.”
There are nearly 100,000 public schools in the United States. Let’s say every school got 4 armed guards who worked in shifts and a supervisor. That’s equal to the active duty end strength of the US Army. And thats not counting training facilities and adminstration of the programs
— David B Larter (@DavidLarter) February 22, 2018
re: #375 Targetpractice
And thus begins the “walking back,” as the NRA starts listing the things it won’t support in a gun control bill, until any such bill is effectively neutered while bills that only further the ability of gunmen to purchase their weapons of choice continue to sail through on partisan votes.
NRA sponsored bill on gun control: USE BOTH HANDS!
re: #268 darthstar
I’m curious who “et al” are. Players we’re not yet taking not of (Jarvanka? Others?) I’m dying of curiosity. (And action.)
re: #381 Targetpractice
Future headline: “Sheriff’s deputy fired over accidental shooting of student.”
Actually: Fired Sheriff’s Deputy Reinstated After Accidental Shooting of Student
re: #385 KGxvi
Actually: Fired Sheriff’s Deputy Reinstated After Accidental Shooting of Student
There might be a shade of difference.
President Donald Trump holds notes during a White House listening session with students and parents affected by school shootings. (AP Photo by Carolyn Kaster) pic.twitter.com/Z0lZbSVaoF
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) February 21, 2018
Is this doctored? https://t.co/XoxRDWUnmW
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) February 22, 2018
re: #386 Decatur Deb
There might be a shade of difference.
Target’s will be first, mine will be two months later.
Can we call the #TwitterLockout the Trolling Green Massacre?
— Taylor Wright (@mynamehear) February 21, 2018
re: #378 The Vicious Babushka
That’s the least concerning thing here. Trump needs crib notes to even appear empathetic and compassionate.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 21, 2018
re: #364 KGxvi
14 years, per wikipedia. An this is the last line in that section (and it must terrify Trump the most):
I don’t think he actually tried to sell the seat — he just talked about it. In any case, the prison term was unconscionable. He was an idiot but not a vicious person nor a traitor. 14 years is way too long for stupidity,
After Stoneman Douglas shooting, Broward County deputies will now carry AR-15 rifles on school grounds, sheriff says. https://t.co/F8dfW2BKbQ pic.twitter.com/GWzk0e3KWe
— ABC News (@ABC) February 22, 2018
We as a country seem to consistently learn the exact fucking wrong lesson from everything. The last year or so especially. Nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to guns. #WeCallBS #ThisIsNormal #GunReformNow https://t.co/v4JR0YjWVd
— Citizen K Calls BS (@Citizen_Kryptik) February 22, 2018
We are such a backwards-ass fucking country.
re: #387 gocart mozart
No, his hands really are that small.
— Dirt Mcgirt (@DirtMcgirt21) February 22, 2018
re: #388 KGxvi
Target’s will be first, mine will be two months later.
Yours will be at Maya Angelou Middle School.
re: #379 KGxvi
Must be relatively “safe” so to speak.
re: #339 Ace Rothstein
They started the “listening session” today with thoughts and prayers. How fitting.
You always begin the program with the most important topic while everyone is fresh and attentive.
Then you work your way down the list until you reach the least of importance, or the things you want to hide.
That why the last thing they wanted to talk about was guns.
re: #385 KGxvi
Actually: Fired Sheriff’s Deputy Reinstated After Accidental Shooting of Student
You’re right, my headline should have been “Sheriff’s Deputy Under Investigation Over Student Death.” The “accidental” doesn’t factor in until they’ve decided enough time’s passed that people have “gotten over” the death.
re: #371 lawhawk
It’s worse than security theater.
If implemented as stated, this will get kids hurt or killed, just in a different way.
Always, what is underneath is: who is entitled to use lethal force? How do they learn to discern when to use lethal force? Who deserves use of lethal force and why?
Because—and I know I’m repeating myself a lot—the mostly likely result of this is going to be like the result of the vigilante and “warrior cop” ethos but worse: who will be judged deserving of hard discipline will reflect not who is actually dangerous, but how society blames chaos on stigmatized groups.
re: #391 Hecuba’s daughter
I don’t think he actually tried to sell the seat — he just talked about it. In any case, the prison term was unconscionable. He was an idiot but not a vicious person nor a traitor. 14 years is way too long for stupidity,
He was convicted on one count of lying to federal agents, and retried on 23 others due to a mistrial/hung jury. In that second trial, he was convicted on 11 counts related to selling the seat and 6 counts related to fundraising extortion. Apparently in the second trial he took the stand, and members of the jury found him to be manipulative and otherwise untrustworthy.
re: #395 nines09
Must be relatively “safe” so to speak.
It’s a low/minimum security prison. Probably mostly white collar cons in there.
Snowfall in central China. Dark grey spots and lines are cities and roads. Photo Credit: JOSHUA STEVENS / NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY
Inside a city hit by a snowstorm all is blanketed in white. From street level, the concrete, steel and glass that reveals the presence of humans can seem to disappear.
From space, however, these human-made “heat islands” and the web of roads that connects them are clearly visible.
The image above, taken by NASA’s Terra satellite on 10 January 2018, shows the results of waves of snowstorms across central China. Cities stand out as dark grey spots on the white background, joined together by the lines of major roads.
Which teachers get guns?
Where will the guns be stored?
Who decides when guns can be brandished?
What penalties will apply if teachers mishandle a weapon?
Will teachers volunteer for gun duty?
Can teachers refuse it?
Who will audit their adherence to regulations?— Paul Musgrave (@profmusgrave) February 18, 2018
This is an exceedingly thorough thread of permutations that would have to be considering for implementing this plan.
You don’t need a list with Kendzior. She talks freely about her research & overseas work. All for neutral, scholarly purposes, of course. That her field is primarily of interest to gov’t. “country specialists” is just a fortuitous coincidence.
— Robb Chavez (@robb_chavez) February 22, 2018
Just watched the local news about how school districts are reacting to student protests. There are the asshole authoritarians “there will be consequences!” and then there is the H(ouston)ISD Superintendent. He said if the students want to participate in a peaceful protest that’s what we teach them to do, express themselves peacefully. That’s how it’s done. Hat off to you, sir.
re: #403 The Ghost of a Flea
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This is an exceedingly thorough thread of permutations that would have to be considering for implementing this plan.
Just imagine the first time a class gets especially rowdy and a teacher pulls out a gun to shut them up…
re: #406 KGxvi
Why did the pipe break? Well you see the class was rowdy and to shut them up I shot up the ceiling.
Was Ivanka perhaps
It looks like Ivanka wrote her dad’s notes on how to handle himself during the “student listening session” . The photo on the left is from @CKaster took. pic.twitter.com/ifiFHT1L5i
— Ray [REDACTED] (@RayRedacted) February 21, 2018
All this talk of arming teachers is a reminder of what happened to one employee of the Saint Paul (MN) Public School System who had a concealed carry permit.
RIP Philando Castile https://t.co/pTyDOh8FdV— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) February 21, 2018
re: #410 gocart mozart
I remember that incident very clearly.
re: #408 gocart mozart
Was Ivanka perhaps
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Absolutely. Look at where W and H. Totally Ivanka.
She writes like a kid.
This 100% what is happening.
Image credit: @moby_dickhead pic.twitter.com/Jh1mg1DYgo— Soldier Jane (@sgtjanedoe) February 22, 2018
re: #410 gocart mozart
Okay, so only WHITE teachers and staff get guns. That’s almost certainly what Trump and the NRA were thinking anyway.
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“Sir, I’m a teacher and I am armed…”
“HE’S GOT A GUN!!! *BLAM!*”
re: #216 JordanRules
Hey goddamnedfrank, an internet wormhole for you!
re: #401 KGxvi
Can’t find where Subway Jared is serving. Probably to protect him. Inside he would be a “short eyes” piece of meat.
Not a good incarceration.On both sides of the bars.
Low-mid- high security, sometimes within the same grounds.
Allenwood Pa was once a purely white collar hotel, and treats were thrown over the fences before full security came around. Now it’s a 3 tier house with all the insanity that goes with that.
Gotta go bend strangs.
See, I was done with him and then this
Actually, you’re a painfully pale, over-educated, ethnocentric, corporate abscess, leeching off the Dem crooks who are identical to Long Island gangsters like Trump. Your benefactors just have a “better” zip code.
— Robb Chavez (@robb_chavez) February 22, 2018
This is cool: Let’s All Obsess Over This Intricate Map of Alt Music History
It uses the schematic from the first transistor radio as a template.
re: #418 gocart mozart
I stand by my suggestion. report it.
re: #417 nines09
Can’t find where Subway Jared is serving.
He’s in FCI Englewood in suburban Denver, a low-security facility.
Food for thought: Conducting a national study to see how many teachers currently in classrooms could actually pass a background check under the current laws (federal/state/local) to purchase a firearm.
re: #223 KingKenrod
Trump is so devoid of basic empathy he needs note cards written by someone else just so he can fake it.
This ‘sincerity’ intrigues me, teach me to fake it. (V)(,;,;,)(V)
re: #421 teleskiguy
He’s in FCI Englewood in suburban Denver, a low-security facility.
Rod Blagojevich is serving his time there.
re: #422 Targetpractice
Good idea. Personally I do not think many would qualify.
re: #414 Blind Frog Belly White
Okay, so only WHITE teachers and staff get guns. That’s almost certainly what Trump and the NRA were thinking anyway.
White, right-wing, former-military, teachers. Replacing all the teachers with RWNJ gun nuts will turn the schools into right-wing indoctrination centers. They can keep the kids dumb, and teach them to be superstitious bigots who feel like they live in a war zone.
And let’s look at states like Kansas and Oklahoma, which are cutting education budgets to the bone and (in the case of the latter) actually cutting school weeks back to 4 days a week because they can’t afford to pay teachers and keep schools open on Friday.
Where are they supposed to get the money to hire even a single rent-a-cop per school? You might say “Just pay an off-duty cop/deputy,” but their departments are fighting for funds and manpower as well.
re: #418 gocart mozart
Of course, I had to pile on….
Goddammit - you were supposed to keep yer mouth shut! Now I have to cobble up a tapeworm and wipe everything clean….I’ll be communicating with your cell leader in the morning…..
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 22, 2018
And Sarah Liked it….
re: #419 makeitstop
This is cool: Let’s All Obsess Over This Intricate Map of Alt Music History
It uses the schematic from the first transistor radio as a template.
Cool, but not quite ‘$43 for a poster’ cool.
This is the Robb Chavez guy’s pinned Tweet by the way
Here is a video compilation of various students reporting drills, more than one report of students saying active drills with blanks. Not to mention the narrative of the students doesnt match official story. https://t.co/zqkO9tjMCa
— Debbie Lusignan (@saneprogressive) February 21, 2018
I’d rather have a myelogram that goes bad than watch @seanhannity…..
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 22, 2018
InfoWars Sends Professional Troll Laura Loomer to Parkland (The Daily Beast)
I think she’s mentally-ill and doesn’t even know she’s a troll.
re: #434 gocart mozart
No problemo…It was a good opportunity to come at some of these jokers when they least expect it.
In case you missed: Adam Schiff says Democrat Memo will be released this week!
Get ready for a tweet storm from the very intelligent person— Luisa Haynes (@wokeluisa) February 21, 2018
You’re all scared shitless, because your worthless mandarin role is ending, even as you whistle in the dark.
— Robb Chavez (@robb_chavez) February 22, 2018
Parkland student during listening session with President Trump: “How is it this easy to buy this type of weapon? How have we not stopped this after Columbine, after Sandy Hook?” pic.twitter.com/xYRYPkRm46
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 21, 2018
The video is powerful.
And it’s safe - it doesn’t include the yam’s reply.
I’m in total awe of the extraordinary students in Florida. Like every movement for progress in our history, gun reform will take unyielding courage and endurance. But @barackobama and I believe in you, we’re proud of you, and we’re behind you every step of the way.
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) February 22, 2018
re: #367 JordanRules
I’m not sure why people are so surprised that the students are rising up—we’ve been feeding them a steady diet of dystopian literature showing teens leading the charge for years. We have told teen girls they are empowered. What, you thought it was fiction? It was preparation.
— Jennifer Ansbach (@JenAnsbach) February 19, 2018
And that’s why the kids are taking charge: https://t.co/ezUa0V19LT
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 22, 2018
re: #435 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
InfoWars Sends Professional Troll Laura Loomer to Parkland (The Daily Beast)
I think she’s mentally-ill and doesn’t even know she’s a troll.
I’m quite sure she knows. Wingnut Welfare pays pretty good, and Alex Jones has a lot of money.
re: #441 stpaulbear
NBC News ✔
@NBCNews
Parkland student during listening session with President Trump: “How is it this easy to buy this type of weapon? How have we not stopped this after Columbine, after Sandy Hook?”5:07 PM - Feb 21, 2018
That young man was wanting so much to tell everyone where they could put their guns. And I think he even went against the thinking of the mother of his murdered friend that he went with to the meeting.
He’ll probably be targeted now like the others.
re: #61 The Vicious Babushka
“10 great ideas, right now!”
That sounds like every “team-building” exercise that I have participated in, ever.
I once participated in an exercise where we had to create a pinata with a job related theme. So we created a pinata like this:
When presenting our pinata, I explained that it represented our processes/methodology. Two points with a lot of bull in between.
I was a hero. Except to management. ;-)
re: #442 Belafon
He has so many notes, some are written on his shirt.
Me in every relationship I’ve had. pic.twitter.com/jRvXOz7DDa
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) February 22, 2018
re: #444 Belafon
I’m not sure why people are so surprised that the students are rising up—we’ve been feeding them a steady diet of dystopian literature showing teens leading the charge for years. We have told teen girls they are empowered. What, you thought it was fiction? It was preparation.
— Jennifer Ansbach (@JenAnsbach) February 19, 2018
For example: The Hunger Games and the Harry Potter franchises.
re: #445 Anymouse 🌹
I’m quite sure she knows. Wingnut Welfare pays pretty good, and Alex Jones has a lot of money.
And it’s time to stop that revenue stream once and for all.
re: #432 gocart mozart
This is the Robb Chavez guy’s pinned Tweet by the way
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Whenever an alarm goes off that you practice regularly for, the first thing people ask is if it’s a drill. I’ve been running drills for about 15 years now.
Every time another one of these mass shootings happen - right when the Republicans start telling us that the answer is more guns, guns for everyone, guns for teachers, guns for students - I think about Chris Kyle.
— dame judi dench’s secret woodland (@markpopham) February 15, 2018
Righties are about to become upset again.
We are also using our anti-spam and anti-abuse tools to weed out malicious automation around these individuals and the topics they are raising. We have also verified a number of survivors’ Twitter accounts.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) February 21, 2018
re: #455 Eventual Carrion
No, that teacher would just be the first causality.
It’s Tactics 101: eliminate any adults you come across in the building, as any and all of them are armed and tasked to stop you.
Which one? There were two tweets. The first one where you mocked their suffering? Or the second one where you doubled down and said they’re lazy? FUCK. OFF. You gutless little coffin-worm. pic.twitter.com/jzs7AQ4YwX
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) February 22, 2018
re: #457 The Vicious Babushka
Every time another one of these mass shootings happen - right when the Republicans start telling us that the answer is more guns, guns for everyone, guns for teachers, guns for students - I think about Chris Kyle.
— dame judi dench’s secret woodland (@markpopham) February 15, 2018
Yeah, speaking of Chris Kyle…notice the ammosexuals don’t tend to bring him up in relation to incidents like this.
It’s almost like they know they’d be shut down or something.
re: #452 The Major
And it’s time to stop that revenue stream once and for all.
I’m not sure how to do that. As long as the I Amendment protects speech as long as it is not libelous, slanderous, or criminal, you can say pretty much anything you want.
All I can see that can be done is more lawsuits when libel or slander occur, and not settling out-of-court to ensure a judgement against those who spread lies.
You’re not getting it, Simon. We need Jesus in our classrooms…armed with an electrically-operated gatling gun that fires 20 millimeter explosive rounds. pic.twitter.com/A3ecO8ML6r
— Brian McLaren (@ivordocumentary) February 22, 2018
Punk-ass Romans bringing a crucifix to a gunfight. https://t.co/jg5UCsTBq8
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 22, 2018
Soon he’ll be selling “supplements” on InfoWars like Milo is. Dinesh has always been a hateful, lying, shit, but he seems to have crossed a line this time.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 22, 2018
re: #455 Eventual Carrion
No, that teacher would just be the first causality.
Makes it easier for libertarians to privatise schools. Private school hires armed militia. Teacher is safe. Public schools eventually shut. No one gets an education unless they have enough money to pay the late-stage capitalists.
So Jim Hoft is persona non grata at CPAC, but they’re still going to have the French far right well-represented with Marion Marechal-Le Pen as a featured speaker, the latest fascist offspring of National Front Nazi-sympathizing caveman Jean-Marie Le Pen.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 22, 2018
The original weapons ban, backed by the NRA outlawed machine guns, which were used by mobs against each other and to rule their turf. And it worked. Don’t let them tell you that a ban won’t reduce these weapons.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) February 22, 2018
Q: Know why Trump didn’t write his notes on his hands?
A: Not enough room…
re: #463 Anymouse 🌹
I’m not sure how to do that. As long as the I Amendment protects speech as long as it is not libelous, slanderous, or criminal, you can say pretty much anything you want.
All I can see that can be done is more lawsuits when libel or slander occur, and not settling out-of-court to ensure a judgement against those who spread lies.
That’s why I like the fact that the guy suing Hoft is demanding a jury trial.
And while I do want Hoft to lose his shirt, what I’d really like to see is a lifetime ban from the internet.
re: #469 Blind Frog Belly White
Someone should ask them about the Parkland students.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone at CPAC was running a gun raffle.
We had a gun raffle here in my town last year to raise money, the prize was an AR-15 from the gun shop (the guy I beat in the last election).
I bought $25 worth of tickets from him (the fund raiser was for the public library). He asked me what I would do with an AR-15 if I won it.
I told him “have it cut up at the machine shop.” I didn’t win the rifle, but the fellow who did had it cut up himself.
Redstatia is not hopeless yet.
Suspected school shooter Nikolas Cruz could lose his public defender after after reports that he could stand to inherit $800,000 from his late parents. https://t.co/U7Uec4p8tE pic.twitter.com/kj1rv9dbF5
— ABC News (@ABC) February 21, 2018
“They swarm around me and are friendly to me. Because they know that I am friendly to Israel and so forth. But they don’t know how I really feel about what they’re doing to this country, and I have no power and no way to handle them.”
- Graham to Nixon in 1972 (Nixon Tapes)— Floppy Boot Stomp (@the_edwin_mix) February 22, 2018
re: #476 gocart mozart
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That’s a good thing. Buckley and Graham were awful people.
re: #477 HappyWarrior
That’s a good thing. Buckley and Graham were awful people.
But they pretended not to be, maybe it is the thing that is no more?
re: #478 bill d. (b.d.)
But they pretended not to be, maybe it is the thing that is no more?
You have a point.
hey @smod4real - can you possibly appear right now at @CPAC ?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 22, 2018
re: #461 TedStriker
More guns didn’t stop attempted assassination of Reagan.
How many USSS were there with uzis and handguns? How many Capitol Police?
Didn’t matter; he was shot anyways, along with several others (including Brady).
Ford had multiple attempts on his life despite similar USSS protections.
All those guns didn’t deter or prevent shootings.
Then you’ve got the mass shootings where cops were specifically targeted. Dallas comes to mind.
Then there were the targeted killing of cops, such as when a NYPD officer was killed while sitting in their patrol car. The gun didn’t stop him from being killed (and the assailant got the drop on him).
The president sat in his chair.
A group of survivors was there.
He looked at a note
An aide of his wrote
And thus was reminded to care.— Limericking (@Limericking) February 22, 2018
re: #476 gocart mozart
That’t right - we’ll never have a respectable anti-semite the way Billy Graham was. Everybody else is far,far worse and so far in the open it’s repulsive.
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 22, 2018
Oh look, another lovely bonus of concealed-carry in places of education -_-
MORE INFO: UT student claims pistol left in bathroom as a second pistol turns up https://t.co/kmUppBffOe
— Austin Statesman (@statesman) February 21, 2018
A holstered pistol left Tuesday in a women’s bathroom at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business has been claimed by a student who has a license to carry a handgun, according to UT police.
Meanwhile, the police said Wednesday that they received another report of a pistol found unattended in a women’s bathroom, this time at the Commons Learning Center on UT’s Pickle Research Campus, about 9 miles north of the main campus.
Police said they would work with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the dean of students to determine the “future course of administrative action” regarding the student who claimed the handgun left on top of a toilet paper dispenser in a restroom stall at the McCombs Graduate School of Business building.
Another Republican caught in a sex scandal, this time in Utah. He was arrested in a prostitution sting one week after another Republican stepped down from his office.
The Iron County, Utah GOP Treasurer was arrested after paying $100 for sex.
This is the third prostitution story for conservatives in one week in Utah.
My issue isn’t prostitution, which would probably work better if it was regulated or licensed, it’s conservative “family values” BS. That is just adverts for the voters; they’re hypocrites.
(video from Utah Outcasts, 7:36, NSFW for language)
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#NowPlaying Sturgill Simpson > High Top Mountain > You Can Have the Crown https://t.co/y2Wm5hURkR
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) February 22, 2018
White nationalist Jared Taylor sues Twitter for banning him https://t.co/NCr9PJVLAt pic.twitter.com/bMXsbz8RKU
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 22, 2018
re: #488 MsJ
White Nationalist isn’t a protected class…yet.
It’s amazing to me how many people spread disinformation. The sad part? They think they’re the informed ones.
An ad for The Church of Scientology on the Olympics.
Funky.
re: #485 Interesting Times
Back to Jim Wright’s (Stonekettle’s) suggestion, on which a Democrat in Texas is running for office:
Enact the NRA’s own safety rules as law, with penalties for breaking them. Negligently leaving a gun behind in a bathroom would qualify as not being in control of your weapon.
Make the NRA either back their own rules or repudiate them in public. Call their bluff.
Hey, I’m the crew leader
I notice that Josh Manning mentions on his Twitter page that he worked for Army Intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), & was a strategic analyst on Russia. Good fit for Floppy’s crew.
— Robb Chavez (@robb_chavez) February 22, 2018
re: #488 MsJ
I hope he’s thrown out of court with prejudice, and made to pay for wasting the court time and Twitter’s legal fees.
re: #498 MsJ
Cosign! I can’t watch it.
I need a lizard filter.
re: #488 MsJ
Ah, going the UpChuck route. Probably more competently than the Rage Furby. Still, the lawsuit is dead in the water because people like Taylor don’t have the slightest clue about free speech and the First Amendment.
re: #495 Unshaken Defiance
Anyone watching the town hall CNN?
Watching the live stream.
Rubio is being very much the politician who is trying to deflect, deflect, deflect.
re: #505 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Watching the live stream.
Rubio is being very much the politician who is trying to deflect, deflect, deflect.
That’s the job he was born to do.
re: #505 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos
Is he drinking water?
Recap thus far: the 2 Dems said we gotta get the assault weapons off the street and have universal BG check. Marco Rubio blah blahed about how we’re so divided and we gotta try to work together. NOthing of substance.
re: #503 JordanRules
Cosign! I can’t watch it.
I need a lizard filter.
Same here. If CNN lives up to my worst expectations and allows Dana “muh gunz” and Little Marco to filibuster and gish-gallop and talk over the students, I’ll end up throwing things at the TV.
Marco Rubio is trying to earnestly blame gun violence on a divided media landscape and not on LEGISLATION HE LITERALLY CONTROLS. How does he even stand up straight without a spine? It’s a miracle of modern science.
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) February 22, 2018
re: #506 HappyWarrior
That’s the job he was born to do.
I can’t watch CNN here. I hope to read that the students when they are done with Senator Rubio …
Link to CNN Parkland Town Hall live
local10.com
re: #506 HappyWarrior
That’s the job he was born to do.
It’s sad.
The RWNJ will not embrace him, otherwise he’s an orphan.
Sad to watch, but he built his posture on being squishy.
Here we go. A pissed off dad of a dead kid going at Rubio.
Guy just told Rubio that his and Trump’s comments this week were pathetic
They’re booing Rubio. Fake ass motherfucker.
re: #510 I Would Prefer Not To
Marco Rubio is full of shit.
And he was my parents’ choice for President over the Trump-thing. Ahahahahaha. Maybe someday, before they die, they’ll realize that all these GOP’ers are cut from the same cloth.
re: #508 allegro
Recap thus far: the 2 Dems said we gotta get the assault weapons off the street and have universal BG check. Marco Rubio blah blahed about how we’re so divided and we gotta try to work together. NOthing of substance.
In other words he said nothing. He’s useless.
Thread assessment fund. Right. Won’t support assault weapon ban.
Next question: “SENATOR RUBIO, WILL YOU FROM TONIGHT FORWARD REFUSE ONE MORE DOLLAR FROM THE NRA, YES OR NO?”
OHHHHHH SHIT DAD GOES OFF ON LIL MARCO: “Your comments this week have been incredibly weak… look at me and TELL ME that guns arer the factor in the shooting this week.”
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) February 22, 2018
The right wing’s response to the school shootings, brutally attacking bereaved families and traumatized survivors, has pretty well snuffed out any slight spark of humanity I might still have been willing to attribute to them. I will not advocate violence but I will laugh, mock and gloat the first time some crazy person mows down a pack of conspira-liars and Nazis.
Good luck at that new job at Wendy’s, Marco.
Why is rubio doing this.
Sacrificial lamb of the NRA.
or something.
why
re: #476 gocart mozart
WF Buckley was a piece of shit who disguised his shittiness with $10 vocabulary words.
He will not be missed by any decent person.
re: #526 Ace Rothstein
Next question: “SENATOR RUBIO, WILL YOU FROM TONIGHT FORWARD REFUSE ONE MORE DOLLAR FROM THE NRA, YES OR NO?”
Love it. Put him on the spot.
re: #530 Stanley Sea
Why is rubio doing this.
Sacrificial lamb of the NRA.
or something.
why
He’s going to retire. He has to know he’s done.
re: #530 Stanley Sea
I was wondering that too!
re: #512 Anymouse 🌹
I can’t watch CNN here. I hope to read that the students when they are done with Senator Rubio …
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Streaming?
People are standing up and showing pictures of the dead on their cell phones while Rubio speaks.
re: #530 Stanley Sea
Why is rubio doing this.
Sacrificial lamb of the NRA.
or something.
why
Somebody’s gotta fall on that sword. They picked the most disposable one.
re: #533 MsJ
He’s going to retire. He has to know he’s done.
He just won re-election. I think the only reason he ran is he thought Trump would lose and he he’d be next in line. He’s a terrible senator.
re: #513 gocart mozart
Link to CNN Parkland Town Hall live
local10.com
When does it start? (I’m not sure my IP will allow me to stream it; it appears to be blocked).
Make no mistake: The choice of Marco Rubio was no accident. Everybody knew that the CNN town hall wasn’t going to be “President Trump’s Listening Session”. There would be no softballs. There would be real, raw emotion. They picked somebody that is effectively useless to throw under the bus so they could live to fight another day.
People in the crowd of this town hall are holding up iPhones with photos of their dead kids while Rubio is explaining why even a little bit of gun control legislation is a bad thing. What a fucking coward.
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) February 22, 2018
re: #536 allegro
Marco goes pedant.
I’m sure the victims and their families love being gunsplained by Marco. Fucker.
re: #543 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Make no mistake: The choice of Marco Rubio was no accident. Everybody knew that the CNN town hall wasn’t going to be “President Trump’s Listening Session”. There would be no softballs. There would be real, raw emotion. They picked somebody that is effectively useless to throw under the bus so they could live to fight another day.
Like a lizard shedding its tail to escape a predator.
re: #541 allegro
He just did. No one bought it.
Hey what about Dana? Hasn’t she raised her “clenched fist of truth” and threatened to shoot Jake Tapper? 9_9
re: #530 Stanley Sea
Why is rubio doing this.
Sacrificial lamb of the NRA.
or something.
why
Maybe he figured he had it handled?
Is Dana Muhguns there?
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnnnnn……………..
Storm wanted to contribute.
The look on Rubio’s face, LOL. He knows he has no chance.
re: #546 EPR-radar
Like a lizard shedding its tail to escape a predator.
I prefer the trapped animal chewing off a limb in the trap analogy when I’m around here.
:-)
re: #543 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Make no mistake: The choice of Marco Rubio was no accident. Everybody knew that the CNN town hall wasn’t going to be “President Trump’s Listening Session”. There would be no softballs. There would be real, raw emotion. They picked somebody that is effectively useless to throw under the bus so they could live to fight another day.
I wish he had just left the Senate. He only sees it as a steppingstone to high office. He could care less about serving the people of Florida.
re: #549 makeitstop
Trucks band back up live. Checkout the amps.
There is no way in hell that Lash lady shows up now. They will eat her alive.
re: #554 HappyWarrior
None of these GOPers are showing that they care for their constituents.
Not Rick Scott.
Not Marco Rubio.
Not Trump.
They’re all in it for themselves.
What is your argument for not restricting AR15 availability?
— Dave Cochrane (@onetwtuser) February 22, 2018
Head, shaped like a penis. https://t.co/tRPyynLNak
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 22, 2018
Thoroughly enjoying drunk Simon
— tony glazier (@tglazi) February 22, 2018
re: #547 Interesting Times
Hey what about Dana? Hasn’t she raised her “clenched fist of truth” and threatened to shoot Jake Tapper? 9_9
She is not there yet.
Gun violence restraining order is one of the best ideas going.
re: #542 Anymouse 🌹
When does it start? (I’m not sure my IP will allow me to stream it; it appears to be blocked).
Hesus Christ.
This guy has White House press credentials?
What a morally lost person. https://t.co/2WzQ1TwFxL pic.twitter.com/YR7jQF7JcM
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) February 22, 2018
Don’t need effing Rubio to define courage today
I can’t watch the stream here (thanks, CenturyLink). I will need others to live blog it for me.
Wow. Dems make sense. Who knew.
Now here’s Marco… blah blah. You would have to ban every semi-automatic weapon. CHEERS. But his colleagues don’t wanna.
Rubio sez we have a valid point. Thanks, Rubio.
re: #564 bill d. (b.d.)
This guy has White House press credentials?
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Where’s Tommy Lee Jones with the newspaper with the stink eye?
Rubio will never be elected to any office of any kind for the rest of his life after tonight.
re: #575 Ace Rothstein
Rubio will never be elected to any office of any kind for the rest of his life after tonight.
Never underestimate Florida.
re: #575 Ace Rothstein
Rubio will never be elected to any office of any kind for the rest of his life after tonight.
Sorry, but we’re talking about America here. He could very well be the next president.
Rubio is lying. Many guns even some semi auto can not do what the AR-15 can do with a 30 rd mag and a bump stock.
Is Rubio subject to a recall vote? Honestly don’t know. What’s the law down there?
re: #572 Ace Rothstein
Now Rubio is being a pedantic dick.
Makes sense. That was what he appealed to in the GOP primary.
re: #575 Ace Rothstein
Rubio will never be elected to any office of any kind for the rest of his life after tonight.
I certainly hope not. I’d love to run against him if he moves here …
re: #580 makeitstop
Is Rubio subject to a recall vote? Honestly don’t know. What’s the law down there?
I doubt it.
So aside from the costs for training and arming the teachers or guards, how much will the insurance premiums be for the schools and who is covering that?
The hostility toward Rubio puzzles me during this town hall. I get Dems think he is too smooth for his own good. Fine. But he showed up knowing it was going to be all heat on him. I give him credit for being there.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) February 22, 2018
Rubio doesn’t get a cookie for doing the right thing — he’s a public servant and should be held accountable by his constituents. Showing up is his damn job, even when and especially when it’s hard. No kudos for that. https://t.co/KhynUbIAhd
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman) February 22, 2018
re: #585 Mike Lamb
So aside from the costs for training and arming the teachers or guards, how much will the insurance premiums be for the schools and who is covering that?
The middle and poverty classes. You expect the rich to pay for anything in a public school they can get out of?
re: #577 Scout
Sorry, but we’re talking about America here. He could very well be the next president.
That’s old thinking. Now he has to deal with these kids.
Yeah, he’s drunk
David Simon, @aodespair is now trending in #Minneapolishttps://t.co/vnb7ZZGv93 pic.twitter.com/XPlb1EZmDa
— Trendsmap MPLS (@TrendsMPLS) February 22, 2018
Fuck Minneapolis. How am I doing in Des Moines? Jesus, I am lit. https://t.co/fu3FZnfC09
— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 22, 2018
Buh bye, snowflake.
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) February 22, 2018
I’d like to congratulate Marco Rubio on being the first Republican to lose the 2020 primaries. #StudentsStandUp
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 22, 2018
Rubio scores an own goal when he says the assault weapons ban “would literally ban every semi-automatic rifle that’s sold in America” and the crowd erupts in cheers pic.twitter.com/VfIqxCloyo
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 22, 2018
re: #586 JordanRules
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No Jon sorry he doesn’t. He just doesn’t deserve our respect.
Ya know when the police file reports on violent threats or actions, HIPAA just might not be an issue.
I just posted this page:
The demographical projections look very bad for Puerto Rico.
I have strep. Awesome. Suggestions on how to deal with a seriously sore throat until the antibiotics do their work?
re: #586 JordanRules
You get no credit for still being on the wrong side of the issue for years on end and refusing to act when there have been countless mass shootings and you had a chance to do something more than thoughts and prayers.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 22, 2018
re: #597 Belafon
I have strep. Awesome. Suggestions on how to deal with a seriously sore throat until the antibiotics do their work?
I’ve always found tea helps me immensely. Hot tea with lemon and honey.
re: #597 Belafon
I have strep. Awesome. Suggestions on how to deal with a seriously sore throat until the antibiotics do their work?
Booze?
Me, being a dork.
I’m a week late and a dollar short but I think it would be an honor to just take one run down Forever with you.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) February 22, 2018
re: #574 Anymouse 🌹
I hesitate to fact check you.
You have internet to do your websites, etc.
You can watch the townhall.
re: #592 JordanRules
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And that’s a bad thing, how?
This is why Republicans shy away from rational debates, and take refuge in LOUD MEMES.
re: #590 Scottish Dragon
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Yawn. Try talking with gun nuts like yourself sometime and being told you’re not a real man or American if you don’t like guns.
re: #589 gocart mozart
Yeah, he’s drunk
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“Fuck Minneapolis”
Fuck you too, asshole.
re: #585 Mike Lamb
So aside from the costs for training and arming the teachers or guards, how much will the insurance premiums be for the schools and who is covering that?
I was thinking about that earlier. I figure the liability coverage for each carrier would be at least $15 million, which means the premium would be at least $12,000 annually?
re: #531 EPR-radar
WF Buckley was a piece of shit who disguised his shittiness with $10 vocabulary words.
He will not be missed by any decent person.
Carl Sagan could do a perfect impression of Buckley, goggly eyes and all. I don’t know if any video survives but I saw him do it a couple of times at Cornell. Reduced the whole room to stitches
re: #604 Sea Mexican!
And that’s a bad thing, how?
This is why Republicans shy away from rational debates, and take refuge in LOUD MEMES.
Come on a chick in daisy dukes posing sexually but incorrectly with a gun doesn’t change your mind?//
re: #597 Belafon
I have strep. Awesome. Suggestions on how to deal with a seriously sore throat until the antibiotics do their work?
Hot-as-you-can-stand-it saltwater gargles, hot tea of your choice (I prefer peppermint tea, personally), throat lozenges and a lots of chicken soup would be a good starting point.
A Trump supporting teacher asking about arming teachers. Does not like the idea.
Awesome. A teacher is now asking Rubio about how is she supposed to carry a weapon.
Still tweaking that New Mexican Purity Pony….
You still haven’t offered any definitive proof of her involvement with the CIA outside of innuendo. To me, that makes you no better than the alt-right liars.
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 22, 2018
re: #476 gocart mozart
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Harry Truman on Billy Graham Cracker:
“He claims to be a friend of all the Presidents, but he was no friend of mine. I truly despised him after he totally embraced that son of a bitch Nixon”!
Rubio says he’s not COMFORTABLE with teachers carrying, but doesn’t specifically say he would vote against it.
re: #597 Belafon
I have strep. Awesome. Suggestions on how to deal with a seriously sore throat until the antibiotics do their work?
Chloroseptic. It freezes the throat so it doesn’t hurt as much. Secrets, too. Halls as a last resort. I never took riccola.
Rubio make necessary point about SWAT teams not being real picky about adults with guns in schools….
re: #590 Scottish Dragon
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“UGH why do I have to listen to these whiny baby snowflakes complain? Just because their children have been killed? SO BORING!”
Some of the Republicans in this country won’t be happy unless Dana comes out with a chaingun and kills everyone in the studio.
re: #597 Belafon
Awesome. Suggestions on how to deal with a seriously sore throat until the antibiotics do their work?
A message about the inspiring students in Florida and across our nation: pic.twitter.com/XCkSoIGBaZ
— Bill McRaven (@billmcraven) February 22, 2018
Former head of US Special Operations Command… https://t.co/2aDobGqmYN
— paul mcleary (@paulmcleary) February 22, 2018
re: #603 Stanley Sea
I hesitate to fact check you.
You have internet to do your websites, etc.
You can watch the townhall.
I tried. It is blocked.
I suppose if I had something like a VPN I might be able to get around it, but I can’t afford that sort of service. In deference to our esteemed host Mr. Johnson, I can barely afford the support fee here on top of the 15% of my income I pay for Internet service at all.
re: #613 Ace Rothstein
Awesome. A teacher is now asking Rubio about how is she supposed to carry a weapon.
Exactly. You’re lecturing. I don’t care if you’re fucking Rambo. A person with the gun is going to have the element of surprise. People who propose shit like this are not surprising to me people who have never experienced combat like Trump or Rubio or Loesch.
re: #613 Ace Rothstein
Awesome. A teacher is now asking Rubio about how is she supposed to carry a weapon.
No shit. Wondering that one myself.
re: #613 Ace Rothstein
Awesome. A teacher is now asking Rubio about how is she supposed to carry a weapon.
Teachers spend significant amount of their time with their backs to their students. How exactly can they prevent a shooting when they’re at a white board writing?
Where are they supposed to keep the firearm? Hip holster? Because anywhere else is going to mean life and death since the shooter has upper hand.
How much training? SWAT level training is a full time job, but that’s what’s needed for active shooter situations. That’s a full time training on top of their full time teaching gig.
Who pays? Where is all this money suddenly coming from?
re: #597 Belafon
I have strep. Awesome. Suggestions on how to deal with a seriously sore throat until the antibiotics do their work?
Cepacol lozenges always worked better for me when I have a sore throat!
re: #616 Ace Rothstein
Rubio says he’s not COMFORTABLE with teachers carrying, but doesn’t specifically say he would vote against it.
He’s a coward.
OMG today is a dead girl’s birthday. Tears. Her brother is speaking.
re: #626 lawhawk
Teachers spend significant amount of their time with their backs to their students. How exactly can they prevent a shooting when they’re at a white board writing?
Where are they supposed to keep the firearm? Hip holster? Because anywhere else is going to mean life and death since the shooter has upper hand.
How much training? SWAT level training is a full time job, but that’s what’s needed for active shooter situations. That’s a full time training on top of their full time teaching gig.
Who pays? Where is all this money suddenly coming from?
These are the same idiots who think an airplane cabin is a smart place for a gun.
re: #625 Scottish Dragon
No shit. Wondering that one myself.
I wondered that too. Not only insanely stupid but un feasible too.
re: #606 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Might as well find out what he’s imbibing…
So, what’s yer poison?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 22, 2018
Marco Rubio gets eaten alive here. Absolutely amazing. pic.twitter.com/Yu3Ebvl9tV
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) February 22, 2018
Well, that’s as good as it gets, these days. https://t.co/tCQa8wbJtI
— Kathleen Phillips (@katlovesflowers) February 22, 2018
re: #629 allegro
OMG today is a dead girl’s birthday. Tears. Her brother is speaking.
If Dana were smart, she’d refuse to go out there. They’re going to eat her alive.
re: #633 allegro
That’s a setup for a Rubio NRA donation question.
re: #437 nines09
AWESOME!! Thank you so much! My fave live band.
cameron Kasky, whoa, what a kid. Staring Rubio right down. Asking Rubio will you accept further donation from the NRA?
re: #635 scottslemmons
If Dana were smart, she’d refuse to go out there. They’re going to eat her alive.
We all know she’s not smart.
re: #635 scottslemmons
If Dana were smart, she’d refuse to go out there. They’re going to eat her alive.
She gets paid to do it. It’s her job.
re: #623 Anymouse 🌹
OPERA menu top left can guide you.
Free VPN search engine. can’t get you everywhere, but can help. Clean your cache and type in new search, go private on top. Nothing ventured.
re: #624 HappyWarrior
Exactly. You’re lecturing. I don’t care if you’re fucking Rambo. A person with the gun is going to have the element of surprise. People who propose shit like this are not surprising to me people who have never experienced combat like Trump or Rubio or Loesch.
Spec ops people train to do that shit. Engaging a target in a crowded place like an airplane or a hall surrounded by people..and they practice with live ammo all the time.
I am competent and comfortable with firearms. I am absolutely not able to shoot on that level. No way. NO FUCKING WAY.
Now I can say that about me, and I more or less know what I am doing with guns. How the fuck are you going to ask my colleagues to do that who do not shoot at all??!!
It is insane to ask me and my fellow teachers to do this.
re: #626 lawhawk
Teachers spend significant amount of their time with their backs to their students. How exactly can they prevent a shooting when they’re at a white board writing?
Where are they supposed to keep the firearm? Hip holster? Because anywhere else is going to mean life and death since the shooter has upper hand.
How much training? SWAT level training is a full time job, but that’s what’s needed for active shooter situations. That’s a full time training on top of their full time teaching gig.
Who pays? Where is all this money suddenly coming from?
THIS!
Rubio dancing. Trying to change the subject. Kasky isn’t letting go.
Not going upstairs for a bit… Can’t miss this
re: #641 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
We all know she’s not smart.
Yeah, they all think “Oh, I’m smarter than these weak snowflake millennials!” And they are not smarter, not by a longshot.
re: #646 Scottish Dragon
Spec ops people train to do that shit. Engaging a target in a crowded place like an airplane or a hall surrounded by people..and they practice with live ammo all the time.
I am competent and comfortable with firearms. I am absolutely not able to shoot on that level. No way. NO FUCKING WAY.
Now I can say that about me, and I more or less know what I am doing with guns. How the fuck are you going to ask my colleagues to do that who do not shoot at all??!!
It is insane to ask me and my fellow teachers to do this.
Nailed it.
re: #650 Unshaken Defiance
Not going upstairs for a bit…
Please do. The comment count is killing my phone.
re: #656 Unshaken Defiance
Say it Rubio you will take the money.
He own goaled by saying they support people they agree with.Then tried to say he doesn’t agree with everything “that organization” (wouldn’t even name it) wants. Yeah, he’s taking every dime and is too cowardly to say “yeah, I’ll take it.”
re: #597 Belafon
I have strep. Awesome. Suggestions on how to deal with a seriously sore throat until the antibiotics do their work?
If it swells, you will need prednisone to keep it open.
Wish it were an OT:
My college freshman son who should have gotten out of his Physics class at 9 pm just texted me. Not to say he was heading for the light rail, as normal. To say he and two friends are in friend’s car, just left campus and heading to a nearby grocery store ‘to regroup.’ Because they left in a hurry, because there was an announcement: “There is an emergency on campus. Evacuate immediately.”
Says that’s all he knows. Says he’s safe.
Waiting for the next text, with my blood pressure rising.
(Now back to comment #256 or so as I try to catch up on this very long thread. I wasn’t going sleep well tonight anyway.)
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