Senators McConnell and Schumer opted not to consider any gun violence solutions before letting the Senate leave for a two week break, and Republicans who are concerned with violence on TV need look no further than their own campaign ads. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
Now imagine if one of these parents pulled out a firearm and tried to enter the school. Guarantee you these cops would have shot the “good guy with a gun” dead while the massacre continued inside. https://t.co/Ud5X5ULhdZ
— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) May 27, 2022
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m just trying to imagine being one of those parents, terrified for my children, and a goddamn cop draws a gun on me because I want them to go in and save my kids. What the actual fuck?!
Doesn’t matter what your hobbies are—you can’t commit a mass shooting if you don’t have a gun. https://t.co/r2k6MMamnX
— jordan (@JordanUhl) May 27, 2022
Funny how the cops can protect the NRA from unarmed protestors…
…but CAN’T protect kids from the NRA. https://t.co/6KZQfkFqIG— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 27, 2022
Before the shooting:
“Don’t retreat, reload!”
“Second Amendment Solutions!”
“Hang Mike Pence!”
After the shooting:
“…we know the individual was into cyber gaming.”
Jesus fucking christ…this tweet reads like a horror movie script.
Student calls to 911:
12:03—whispered she’s in room 112
12:10—said multiple dead
12:13—called again
12:16—says 8-9 students alive
12:19—student calls from room 111
12:21—3 shots heard on call
12:36—another call
12:43—asks for police
12:47—asks for policehttps://t.co/CzkuF1llq1— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) May 27, 2022
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
Guns don’t kill people, VIDEO GAMES KILL PEOPLE!
Never mind the literal billions of peaceful video game players around the world, most of whom don’t even own guns. Or the shooters here in the United States who weren’t video gamers. Noooo, it’s not the guns that are the problem, clearly it’s video games and their oh-so-realistic depiction of *checks notes* elves shooting at orcs with bows that inspires gun violence.
(And yes, I’m aware of hyper-realistic first-person-shooters such as the Call of Duty franchise, but the point is still as ridiculous.)
So what happened when the National Rifle Association held its 1999 convention in Denver only a few weeks after the massacre at nearby Columbine High School won’t be anything like what happens as the NRA holds this year’s convention in Houston only days after the massacre in an elementary school in nearly Uvalde.
Except for one thing:
The NRA’s revoltingly cold-blooded determination to go on with the show in spite of the carnage.
They just gotta have their bang-sticks.
If they ever show the same compassion to their fellow man as they do to their weapons, then we will moving in the right direction.
From downstairs:
re: #274 GlutenFreeJesus
Lock up the local GQP factions in the crime scenes so they can see with their own eyes what they’re allowing to happen.
The QAnon Qcumbers would probably just say, “It’s just Hollywood special effects like the ones Tom Savini does!” or something like that.
re: #9 Egregious Philbin
They just gotta have their bang-sticks.
If they ever show the same compassion to their fellow man as they do to their weapons, then we will moving in the right direction.
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as your guns.’ On these hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
-Jesus, probably
How horrific. No wonder they ‘lost’ 18 minutes of police scanner record…it was probably 911 operators shouting, “FUCKING DO SOMETHING!” over the radio.
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) May 27, 2022
Abbott pulls out of NRA convention - kind of.
JUST IN: Greg Abbott will not show his face at the NRA convention today after intense public backlash— but he will still deliver a video message. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Kristi Noem are all still scheduled to speak.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 27, 2022
Won’t someone think of the cowards?! https://t.co/csA2biBkBE
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) May 27, 2022
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
“The way they’re firing these questions… is a little unfair”? WHAT THE FUCK?! NINETEEN KIDS ARE DEAD, ASSHOLE! I think the reporters are allowed to get a little bit skeptical, and be a little bit heated, when the police are VERY OBVIOUSLY LYING THEIR ASSES OFF about how 19 innocent kids, 2 teachers, and 2 other adults died when they were RIGHT FUCKING THERE!
The Texas police HANDCUFFED FRANTIC PARENTS AND PULLED GUNS ON THEM while their children were being murdered. This is an absolute nightmare.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2022
11-year-old Uvalde survivor gives chilling details about music killer played as he murdered her friends https://t.co/u4yfyBLFnQ pic.twitter.com/uk17IBrVhv
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) May 27, 2022
“They were watching ‘Lilo and Stitch,’ it was the end of the school year, and she said one of her teachers got the email that there was a shooter in the building and went to the door, and he was right there,” Neus said. “They made eye contact.”
The 18-year-old gunman then shot out the window in the classroom door and came into the room.
“Miah says it just happened all so fast, he backed the teacher into the classroom and he made eye contact with the teacher again, looked her right in the eye and said, ‘Goodnight,’ and then shot her and killed her,” Neus said. “He said, ‘Goodnight,’ then it happened pretty fast after that, as well. He started open firing in the classroom. He hit the other teacher, a lot of Miah’s friends. At that point Miah was hit by fragments of the bullets. You could even see them yesterday on her back, on her shoulders, the back of her head.”
The killer then went through a doorway to an adjoining classroom, and he kept firing his AR-15 rifle.
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gun freaks spin like crazy whenever they cause another massacre. The guns and gun freaks can’t possibly be the problem.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
Cyber gaming and group gaming aren’t even actual terms in the gaming community.
Online gaming and multiplayer gaming would be the correct terms.
🇫🇷🐋 The #Seine River has an unusual visitor: a killer whale.
Its presence is raising concern as authorities say the orca needs to get back to the sea as soon as possible.
It was last spotted in Rouen, Normandy pic.twitter.com/u6L7Bsu8Ap— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) May 27, 2022
re: #20 Captain Ron
Enough to Rouen your boat trip…
Across the street from the NRA convention: “Am I next?” pic.twitter.com/bEl9vLY6gG
— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) May 27, 2022
If you think your hobby is more important than these kids’ lives, you’re a sociopath.
When fire escapes are outlawed, only outlaws will use fire escapes.
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) May 27, 2022
re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Enough to Rouen your boat trip…
“Rouen, Rouen, Rouen votre bateau…”
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I’m absolutely certain we still don’t know everything about how bad the police response really was. They’re still covering things up.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2022
re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg
Cyber gaming and group gaming aren’t even actual terms in the gaming community.
Online gaming and multiplayer gaming would be the correct terms.
Ask this idiot what he imagines that “cyber gaming” is.
He’s not qualified to be involved in the response to this horrific incident. Send him home.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
re: #12 darthstar
Police in Sweden took mass shootings into account when they developed the protocol that would be used in case of a mass casualty attack. They determined that the standard course of action should be to enter with the intent of neutralizing or pinning down the perpetrator. 2/
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) May 27, 2022
(sv: Förstärkningsvapen), which is the CGA5P, which is the civilian variant of the Ak 5, which in turn is a FN FNC modded for Nordic climate.
The actions of the Uvalde, TX cops as well as the ZQP religio-political bloc raises a helluva lot of questions.
/END— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) May 27, 2022
Beto just arrived at the anti-NRA protest in Houston. Both governor Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick have pulled out from attending the NRA convention in person. pic.twitter.com/IIzuc9BUZE
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) May 27, 2022
A whole lot of people are about to learn some very unpleasant truths about how thoroughly the system protects cops from almost any accountability.
— NotNOWMonkeypoxHat (@Popehat) May 27, 2022
re: #30 jaunte
I’m glad going wasn’t an option for me then. 90F and I do not go well together.
Fucking unreal. Reflexively defending the cops.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2022
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Fucking unreal. Reflexively defending the cops.
I feel like we can do both. Any cop that didn’t run into an elementary school to stop a shooter is a coward.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
This woman swapped out her sign after several NRA attendees joked about wanting to take her up on the offer, including an older man who walked up to her and said, “Let’s do it. I’m horny. You look good.”
This is gonna be a long day. https://t.co/Cmhv8MUB9O— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) May 27, 2022
re: #33 Charles Johnson
” is too difficult and dangerous for a typical local police force to handle”
I think it would make sense to, I don’t know, maybe look into WHY the situation would be too difficult or dangerous for police?
And regardless any such investigation would probably lead to two obvious conclusions: We need more competent police and measures taken to reduce the danger level associated with these situations.
We always invoke the bravery of the first responders at 9/11 who entered the buildings others were fleeing EXCEPT — let’s not forget that no one was expecting the buildings to collapse. They thought they might be facing fire but no one was anticipating the actual disaster that killed them. It did not take the same level of courage to rush into the towers when your mission was to rescue people who were trapped rather than face likely death yourselves because of the hazards you would be encountering.
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Fucking unreal. Reflexively defending the cops.
These weren’t Bobby’s. These were armed American police. Don’t make excuses for cowards.
What an out of touch person might think our police look like: pic.twitter.com/001Vk4h6ia— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth
What he was really into was talking to groups that promoted the overthrow of the government.
NRA Convention Applauds As Gunman Massacres Entire Crowd https://t.co/bz1wo3GXJn pic.twitter.com/dfXQUkh4t0
— The Onion (@TheOnion) May 27, 2022
1:29 p.m. CT, Houston pic.twitter.com/WREe3gUwCr
— Robert Costa (@costareports) May 27, 2022
re: #33 Charles Johnson
Fucking unreal. Reflexively defending the cops.
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If the cops are afraid to go into a school and protect children because the perpetrator has a particular, very frightening weapon they don’t want to have to go up against… isn’t that an argument for why any random 18-year-old should not be allowed to buy such a weapon over-the-counter with no waiting period, no training, no license, no questions asked?
re: #38 Crush White Nationalism
I’ve always admired British cops for their ability to deescalate situations while still being able to apprehend their suspects.
By no means is that “cowardice”.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
” is too difficult and dangerous for a typical local police force to handle”
I think it would make sense to, I don’t know, maybe look into WHY the situation would be too difficult or dangerous for police?
And regardless any such investigation would probably lead to two obvious conclusions: We need more competent police and measures taken to reduce the danger level associated with these situations.
Especially when they tout these guys:
re: #43 Sherlock Hound
I’ve always admired British cops for their ability to deescalate situations while still being able to apprehend their suspects.
By no means is that “cowardice”.
The bobbies have their own share of problems and make their own fair share of messes, but their messes generally aren’t as deadly, because they don’t carry a weapon with the ability to instantly inflict fatal damage as part of their daily duties.
re: #43 Sherlock Hound
I’ve always admired British cops for their ability to deescalate situations while still being able to apprehend their suspects.
By no means is that “cowardice”.
No one said it was.
re: #45 Dopamine Fish
The bobbies have their own share of problems and make their own fair share of messes, but their messes generally aren’t as deadly, because they don’t carry a weapon with the ability to instantly inflict fatal damage as part of their daily duties.
But they also aren’t as likely to confront malefactors who are armed to the teeth with weapons anyone can acquire. If their population was as armed as ours, they too would be likely to be carrying lethal weapons.
re: #46 Crush White Nationalism
No one said it was.
I could see how your picture with your comment in your tweet might imply it. Those of us who know about Bobby’s know that’s not correct, but not necessarily those that don’t.
re: #43 Sherlock Hound
I’ve always admired British cops for their ability to deescalate situations while still being able to apprehend their suspects.
By no means is that “cowardice”.
Cops tend to be less intimidating to the public when they don’t act aggressively and dress up like rejected Red Dawn cast members. Makes cooperation just a BIT easier to achieve.
For #FemaleBirdDay, one of North America’s tiniest passerines - a Bushtit! Females have striking pale eyes compared to the males. They make intricate hanging nests out of spiderwebs, lichen, fur and feathers, and plant material. pic.twitter.com/YfpcFcRvkP
— olivia wang (@oliviabirding) May 27, 2022
re: #48 Belafon
I could see how your picture with your comment in your tweet might imply it. Those of us who know about Bobby’s know that’s not correct, but not necessarily those that don’t.
People are exhausting.
As a good friend just texted, “If laws don’t stop bad people from getting guns then WHY DID HE WAIT UNTIL THE LITERAL DAY IT WAS LEGAL TO BUY ONE?”
— Robert Mann (@RTMannJr) May 27, 2022
re: #44 austin_blue
Especially when the touts these guys:
It took awhile thinking about this and then seeing the comments eviscerating these officers to realize that it’s analogous to the Russian video that Ted Cruz so praised last year, when he mocked the recruitment video of our military. There’s nothing of substance behind these Texans — it’s all posing for an audience. Look tough but act like cowards or incompetents when confronting real danger
re: #53 Hecuba’s daughter
It took awhile thinking about this and then seeing the comment eviscerating these officers to realize that it’s analogous to the Russian video that Ted Cruz so praised last year, when he mocked the recruitment video of our military. There’s nothing of substance behind these Texans — it’s all posing for an audience. Look tough but act like cowards or incompetents when confronting real danger
“All hat, no cattle”. That Texasism sums it up nicely.
“When specially equipped federal immigration agents arrived at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, the local police at the scene would not allow them to go after the gunman who had opened fire on students inside the school…”
https://t.co/7aOS5i7w7m— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 27, 2022
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The tactical team arrived to the scene of the Uvalde shooting just after noon but local police reportedly stopped them from entering the elementary school until almost an hour had passed. They didn’t enter the school until sometime around 1pm.
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 27, 2022
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“The federal officers had driven up from the Mexican border, one official said. The official said it was not clear to the federal agents why their team was needed, and why the local SWAT team did not respond.”
…seems like a question that should’ve been answered by now.— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) May 27, 2022
re: #56 ckkatz
WTF was the local SWAT team doing? Was there a sale at Dunkin’ Donuts or something?
re: #56 ckkatz
To the people fully capable of handling this were present, and were stopped?
This just keeps getting worse!
re: #58 Crush White Nationalism
To the people fully capable of handling this were present, and were stopped?
This just keeps getting worse!
But he played cybergames!
re: #57 Dr Lizardo
WTF was the local SWAT team doing? Was there a sale at Dunkin’ Donuts or something?
They were probably tasked to some multi-jurisdictional task force as part of “Operation Lone Star” and out of the area due to the ongoing “border crisis”
re: #59 Belafon
But he played cybergames!
Which I assume are a fusion of cybersex and games, and I’m not going to let anyone tell me different.
re: #58 Crush White Nationalism
To the people fully capable of handling this were present, and were stopped?
This just keeps getting worse!
Contrary to the opinion of Greg Abbott.
Nina burn!
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— Brent Peabody 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@brent_peabody) May 27, 2022
Looking at the Uvalde massacre in a cynical light…
“Success has many parents. But failure is an orphan.”
In the grand scheme of fingerpointing, the Uvalde Police Department is at the bottom of the heap. And everything is going to roll downhill. They are the designated under-the-bus chumps.
And in the end, I suspect that not much is going to change in rural isolated Uvalde. The mayor and his clique will still need somebody to beat the locals into submission. And the children will still be dead.
re: #57 Dr Lizardo
WTF was the local SWAT team doing? Was there a sale at Dunkin’ Donuts or something?
I suspect that they were present on the scene.
Look for the shared point of failure. For an entire organization to fail, strongly points to the leadership. Of the Police Force and of the town.
re: #66 ckkatz
I suspect that they were present on the scene.
Look for the shared point of failure. For an entire organization to fail, strongly points to the leadership. Of the Police Force and of the town.
Yeah, this really smells like complete organizational failure and that’s a leadership failure. They’ll probably find a couple of mid-level chumps to throw under the bus.
Y’all notice the “mama bears” who pitched fits at school board meetings about books become super silent on the topic of school shootings? We see you…
— Piper for Missouri (@piper4missouri) May 27, 2022
Nazi guilty on five counts for insurrection as his “I’m as dumb as dog shit” defense fails.
BREAKING: Timothy Hale-Cusanelli GUILTY on all five counts, per @FionaGlisson. Sentencing set for Sept. 16. https://t.co/knllrGaPMf
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 27, 2022
re: #67 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, this really smells like complete organizational failure and that’s a leadership failure. They’ll probably find a couple of mid-level chumps to throw under the bus.
They were our own mini-Russian army. There to control the masses, but once a real event came along, they couldn’t do the job they were supposed to be able to do.
I guess that I read the Frum tweet a bit differently.
As folks here well know, there is a rwnj meme that a “Good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun”. This meme is flung around to justify everybody in the public carrying a gun. (And to sell everyone those guns.)
My impression of what Frum was saying is that
- There were in fact ‘good guys’ with guns right at the massacre scene.
- They did not, in fact, stop the bad guy with a gun.
The meme is (as we already knew) therefore absolute bs.
Uvalde shooter had purchased a total of 1,657 rounds of ammunition.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) May 27, 2022
You want “Grooming”?? Well then, here ya go. I got yer Grooming right here. pic.twitter.com/3HkNqX37Qk
— Elgon Husk 🦎 (@DaveoutofAustin) May 27, 2022
The first proposition is that cops can’t be held accountable because they’re always putting themselves at mortal risk.
Therefore, they have to be as violent as they are.
The second proposition is that cops that don’t do what is supposedly the essence of their job—risk themselves to confront danger—have to be understood as merely flawed people and cannot be held accountable.
As I point on a regular basis, the trick is to never accept the argument as an argument, it’s just a trailhead that will lead you back to the thing they’re protecting.
re: #56 ckkatz
Couldn’t the Federal agents just have told the Uvalde police: “Fuck you, we’re going inside” and proceeded accordingly?
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
Couldn’t the Federal agents just have told the Uvalde police: “Fuck you, we’re going inside” ?
While we do not know enough details yet…
It is certainly beginning to sound like, after figuring out what was going on, that is basically what they said and did.
re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg
Couldn’t the Federal agents just have told the Uvalde police: “Fuck you, we’re going inside” and proceeded accordingly?
Then when kids die they are to blame.
re: #77 I Would Prefer Not To
Then when kids die they are to blame.
Should have given firemen guns and vests and sent them in. They’ve proven they’ll risk their lives for others. These cops are worthless.
Time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #78 Crush White Nationalism
Should have given firemen guns and vests and sent them in. They’ve proven they’ll risk their lives for others. These cops are worthless.
Iirc, last night on Lawrence ODonnell, he had on a former head of one of the Fed LE Agency divisions. The guy was saying that barricades were a well known problem.
At the beginning of one SWAT exercise, he simply walked up and locked the hallway door. And by doing so, managed to basically shut down the entire exercise.
His solution was basically what you proposed. Get a hook and ladder truck with FD guys in. “Those guys have also sorts of power equipment for opening stuff and they know how to use it.”
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
Fox is a big part of the sick subculture that causes all these massacres with their gun fetish. Republicans are the reason that we’re not like developed nations, and our kids die bloody.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
That work incident I mentioned on the previous thread turned into a first rate cluster…
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re: #82 mmmirele
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every damn time pic.twitter.com/6cXYOF19W0
— Hannah (@hannnahmmarie) May 26, 2022
Authorities said there would be someone to brief reporters and give answers in Spanish. AGAIN THEY FAILED TO COMMUNICATE any information in Spanish in a predominantly Latino Community in #Uvalde. Again.
— Lilia Luciano (@lilialuciano) May 27, 2022
re: #86 wrenchwench
There are not enough desks to flip.
re: #86 wrenchwench
Texas is broken due to Republican leadership at a time when Republicans just aren’t capable of leadership anymore. It’s time for change.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
The massacres will continue because people want you to understand that massacres aren’t inherently bad, the right kinds of people are entitled to do massacres—vaporizing Yemen children because they might be Houthis—and if you play your cards right you’ll have the option to do further massacres of approved subjects—protesters, rioters, traitors, immigrants, perverts—and be a hero for doing it.
The problem is that occasionally an individual imagines themselves entitled to do the wrong kind of massacre.
Exclusive: We’ve just obtained this image from today’s NRA convention of the items banned from entry. The list includes firearms, toy guns, selfie sticks and backpacks such as the ones kids wear to school. pic.twitter.com/NIJOPgMeEh
An Iraqi wedding is a write-off.
An room full of school children is spillage.
re: #89 The Ghost of a Flea
The massacres will continue because people want you to understand that massacres aren’t inherently bad, the right kinds of people are entitled to do massacres—vaporizing Yemen children because they might be Houthis, —and if you play your cards right you’ll have the option to do further massacres of approved subjects—protesters, rioters, traitors, immigrants, perverts—and be a hero for doing it.
The problem is that occasionally an individual imagines themselves entitled to do the wrong kind of massacre.
I hate that it would take a massacre at the NRA convention to change gun laws, but that would be when Republicans accept that gun control is good.
This is the guy who used NRA money to take trips to the Bahamas on private jets, to stay in luxury hotels, and to pay people to stay silent. https://t.co/2WL7yjGyun
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2022
Stock market finishes the week with two really strong days in a row. So I guess that means the DOW will drop 2,000 points on Tuesday.
re: #92 Crush White Nationalism
I hate that it would take a massacre at the NRA convention to change gun laws, but that would be when Republicans accept that gun control is good.
Why do you think the NRA convention is a gun free zone?
Yeah this time is gonna be different. This is in front of the NRA convention in Houston. pic.twitter.com/3BLhKK1St9
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) May 27, 2022
Greg Abbott addresses NRA convention by video and says, “there are thousands of laws on the books across the country that limit the owning or using of firearms, laws that have not stopped madmen from carrying out evil acts.”
Might as well abolish laws then. pic.twitter.com/pXCwYJxv9R— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
re: #92 Crush White Nationalism
I hate that it would take a massacre at the NRA convention to change gun laws, but that would be when Republicans accept that gun control is good.
Steve Scalise was shot at the Congressional baseball game. They don’t care.
Blaming single moms🗑🗑🗑🗑 https://t.co/8BZYhhMFoP
— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) May 27, 2022
I’ll trade you all the moments of silence, for one moment of action.
— Senator Jason Pizzo (@senpizzo) May 27, 2022
re: #98 Dopamine Fish
Steve Scalise was shot at the Congressional baseball game. They don’t care.
I thought of that, but that was not a massacre, just a racist being shot by a lunatic.
If as many adult Republicans were wounded or killed as in our latest school shooting, I think we’d see change.
We may see change without the need of a bloodbath. I hope David Hogg is right.
Executive Director of NRA defiantly says they will continue to oppose all gun control measures: “We’re gonna take this message to Congress, the voters, and ballot boxes all across the country this November.” pic.twitter.com/uS1B7vIocc
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
yes, you just do that, Wayne…
re: #98 Dopamine Fish
Steve Scalise was shot at the Congressional baseball game. They don’t care.
You’re right. They don’t care. 60% of gun deaths are suicide.
re: #103 wrenchwench
You’re right. They don’t care. 60% of gun deaths are suicide.
They say those don’t count, as part of a tradition of ignoring data that doesn’t fit their narrative.
re: #92 Crush White Nationalism
I hate that it would take a massacre at the NRA convention to change gun laws, but that would be when Republicans accept that gun control is good.
In response to open discussion of both individual and institutional complicity in sexual abuse, reactionaries have promoted social stigma and harsh penalties for the kinds of people that they find abnormal, not the kinds of people that actually do the most harm.
What they already propose w/r/t to gun violence is…
- stigma and punitiveness towards kinds of people find threatening, not the kinds of people that do the most harm
- greater license for the right kinds of people to kill without accountability
Were they ever to explicitly propose gun control…and eventually they will…it will simply follow the same path: here are the kinds of people that cannot have guns, opposed to the good kinds of people that are permitted guns and their free usage.
Hierarchy is super-ordinate to morality: punishment is not proportional to the deed but to the caste status of the doer.
re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth
We would have to have those laws here in Texas first.
re: #105 The Ghost of a Flea
In effect, “turn black people, poor people, and homeless people into felons by increasing the penalties for minor transgressions” is a form of gun control.
Shoulda had it in four. Très médiocre. #tomorrowswordle
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They just announced the NRA event here with former President Trump starts in 10 minutes. Here are new photos of the 4,300-seat venue. pic.twitter.com/moB0lnN27z
— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) May 27, 2022
Guy drives by NRA protesters with Trump flags on his truck. Crowd yells, “F*ck Trump! F*ck Trump!” at him. From @ScooterCasterNY pic.twitter.com/wG7UyKzaSA
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
I would bet money one of the reasons why Trump is going to be so late for his NRA speech is that he is insisting law enforcement find a way for his motorcade to get into the arena without driving by protesters.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
‘Tell 21 Families He Had a Right to Buy That Gun’ pic.twitter.com/jdK8xqAnQz
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
So many worthless people in one place. Anyone who would want to see the failed former President who attempted a coup when his personality disorder made accepting his loss impossible is an enemy of our democracy.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
re: #7 Dopamine Fish
Guns don’t kill people, VIDEO GAMES KILL PEOPLE!
Never mind the literal billions of peaceful video game players around the world, most of whom don’t even own guns. Or the shooters here in the United States who weren’t video gamers. Noooo, it’s not the guns that are the problem, clearly it’s video games and their oh-so-realistic depiction of *checks notes* elves shooting at orcs with bows that inspires gun violence.
(And yes, I’m aware of hyper-realistic first-person-shooters such as the Call of Duty franchise, but the point is still as ridiculous.)
Back in the 1990s, my favorite game was DOOM II. You know, on 3.5 inch floppies, because bandwidth was so crap then it took less time to run out and buy it or even get it sent by mail than to wait for it to hopefully download before timing out yet again. I loved killing monsters, just loved it. I loved playing the mods. And I knew it was a fantasy game. And at that time, I was a woman in my 30s. Not exactly the DOOM II crowd, but there was something just *satisfying* in eviscerating various types of demons on Mars with my chaingun.
I’ve since moved on to 4x space empire type games, and I’m thinking about buying a 4x strategy game with wargame elements called Shadow Empire. The attraction is that as part of the game setup, you get to generate your own planet from various types and characteristics, but every planet is pretty much guaranteed to be a challenge in some way or another to play. The planet itself might be hostile, there are other groups on the planet, there may be alien life forms, and so on. No garden planets or space Edens. Since my foot is pretty much nailed to the floor this weekend, I might do this for some fun.
Not content to carry the swill live, CSpan will re-broadcast the NRA bullshit tonight in prime time. Ugh.
I fully believe that he’s an idiot. I take his claim that he didn’t know what was going on much less seriously.
WASHINGTON — A New Jersey man with alleged Nazi sympathies who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, tried and failed to convince a jury this week that he didn’t know the Capitol building is where Congress meets.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, who was in the U.S. Army Reserves when he stormed the Capitol, was convicted Friday on all five counts he faced, including a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding.
Hale-Cusanelli, who has been in jail since Feb. 2021, did not dispute that he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, and his defense lawyer explicitly admitted that Hale-Cusanelli engaged in criminal activity that day. Video shows Hale-Cusanelli yelling at cops outside the Capitol, entering the Capitol moments after it was breached, waving other members of the mob into the building, and attempting to grab another rioter away from police.
But Hale-Cusanelli attempted to defend himself against charges by saying he didn’t know that the Capitol was where the House and Senate sit — despite having described himself during the trial as a history buff who closely followed the electoral college certification process. He claimed in testimony on Thursday that he didn’t realize that senators and House members were in the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
Jan. 6 rioter convicted after telling jurors he’s an ‘idiot’ who didn’t know Congress met at Capitol (NBC News)
re: #115 BeachDem
Not content to carry the swill live, CSpan will re-broadcast the NRA bullshit tonight in prime time. Ugh.
If they added some fact checking and facts on gun violence in a text overlay that would be a good thing to do, but they’re probably not doing that.
re: #116 Crush White Nationalism
I fully believe that he’s an idiot. I take his claim that he didn’t know what was going on much less seriously.
Jan. 6 rioter convicted after telling jurors he’s an ‘idiot’ who didn’t know Congress met at Capitol (NBC News)
At least an NPR report on this made the statement that he claimed to be of Jewish and Hispanic ancestry. Which makes him an idiot for supporting Nazis.
Welp. Another Clusterf**k.
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re: #119 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #114 mmmirele
Back in the 1990s, my favorite game was DOOM II. You know, on 3.5 inch floppies, because bandwidth was so crap then it took less time to run out and buy it or even get it sent by mail than to wait for it to hopefully download before timing out yet again. I loved killing monsters, just loved it. I loved playing the mods. And I knew it was a fantasy game. And at that time, I was a woman in my 30s. Not exactly the DOOM II crowd, but there was something just *satisfying* in eviscerating various types of demons on Mars with my chaingun.
I’ve since moved on to 4x space empire type games, and I’m thinking about buying a 4x strategy game with wargame elements called Shadow Empire. The attraction is that as part of the game setup, you get to generate your own planet from various types and characteristics, but every planet is pretty much guaranteed to be a challenge in some way or another to play. The planet itself might be hostile, there are other groups on the planet, there may be alien life forms, and so on. No garden planets or space Edens. Since my foot is pretty much nailed to the floor this weekend, I might do this for some fun.
Zmodem solved that broken connection problem in the 80’s, allowing resume. I was very happy when that was adopted, since I lived with my parents at the time, and there was only one phone line. It was still faster to go to the store and buy a game on disks of course.
NEW: At the NRA convention, Ted Cruz just blamed mass shootings on “prescription drugs, video games, and declining church attendance.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 27, 2022
sigh
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
sigh
Cruz tries to blame “violent online content” and “desensitizing the act of murder in video games” for America’s scourge of gun violence pic.twitter.com/imIevYEyRT
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
We’ve literally reached the point where almost an entire generation of kids has grown up on Call of Duty (first game was released in 2004 or 2005) and very few have turned into violent maniacs.
Funny that.
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re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg
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re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But never the guns. Never can be the guns. Guns are but mere inanimate tools….but drugs and video games? Those are tools of THE DEVIL! They clearly must be wholly responsible! You know, despite the only common denominator in these shootings being the fucking guns.
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
sigh
Dear Ted,
Europe has all of those things, as does Japan. Why aren’t their children getting gunned down?
Me
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
Republicans can’t ever be real for even a moment, or their voters will reject them. We need to sweep them from our government.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
It’s incredible how Abbott refuses to acknowledge that *GUNS* are the problem — not background checks, mental health, health care, or anything else. He refuses to even entertain the possibility that it’s the guns. pic.twitter.com/ks91o3k3uh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
I find it strange that simulated violence in video games is suspect but simulated violence in fanfiction about how guns will be used to defeat the bad guys is wholesome.
Or, for that matter, the relationship between reactionary excuses for state and individual violence—that person had to get hit, get beaten, get killed—and the individual shooter’s argument that they’re entitled to kill who they feel is an acceptable target.
As I said, the thing these people can’t say outright is that they’re pro-massacre, they just want exclusive rights to determine who should be massacred.
If he is so livid, name the official who lied. Identify them so they can’t slink away under bureaucratic CYA. Shame them. https://t.co/87aV3MznhK
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 27, 2022
re: #119 The Pie Overlord!
Welp. Another Clusterf**k.
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re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
You can’t look to Republicans for answers to real problems.
He can’t do anything that might solve the problem, or his insane voters will reject him. Republicans are nuts from propaganda and I think they’ve fully proven that they’re worse-than-useless in a crisis in recent years.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
Abbott again is highlighting a need for mental health funding in Texas.
His record: Abbott has cut state funding to mental health care in Texas. https://t.co/KouyfK45hf— Natasha Korecki (@natashakorecki) May 27, 2022
re: #101 Crush White Nationalism
I thought of that, but that was not a massacre, just a racist being shot by a lunatic.
If as many adult Republicans were wounded or killed as in our latest school shooting, I think we’d see change.We may see change without the need of a bloodbath. I hope David Hogg is right.
Hogg isn’t. The NRA and the GOP don’t care how many lives are taken. It’s thoughts and prayers as the standard response. And if adult Republicans were killed, the response would be to implement laws to silence anyone who criticizes Republicans, but not to limit access to guns, except by anyone who has ever expressed objections to GOP rule.
re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well-adjusted happy people do not vote for Republicans, and all Republicans care about is attaining power to abuse. We have to sweep them from our government and replace them with qualified people who want to serve the public.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
Hogg isn’t. The NRA and the GOP don’t care how many lives are taken. It’s thoughts and prayers as the standard response. And if adult Republicans were killed, the response would be to implement laws to silence anyone who criticizes Republicans, but not to limit access to guns, except by anyone who has ever expressed objections to GOP rule.
The GOP obviously need to be swept from power. People angry at the constant bloodbath could do that.
re: #136 Crush White Nationalism
I’ve never seen Abbot so incensed. He’s a hell of a lot madder about a flawed briefing than he was that a bunch of kids got their brains blown out.
re: #137 Crush White Nationalism
The GOP obviously need to be swept from power. People angry at the constant bloodbath could do that.
With the gerrymandering, Russian money and an utterly corrupt supreme court? Nope, not going to happen. Best we can hope for is a slim majority that gives us two more votes to nuke the unconstitutional Filibuster.
re: #138 austin_blue
I’ve never seen Abbot so incensed. He’s a hell of a lot madder about a flawed briefing than he was that a bunch of kids got their brains blown out.
He was made to look incompetent. That matters a lot more than dead kids to people like that.
Having a broken major political party that puts the worst assholes they can find in power is a major problem.
re: #138 austin_blue
I’ve never seen Abbot so incensed. He’s a hell of a lot madder about a flawed briefing than he was that a bunch of kids got their brains blown out.
Abbot is obviously the *real* victim in all this.
You can’t do background checks because certain kinds of people—men, fathers, husbands, authority figures—are entitled to their violence and coercion. It’s not violence, and it’s not immoral, for higher kinds of people to harm lesser kinds of people.
But when an individual granted this license does far too much violence…
…it has to be explained as the product of alien forces working upon the perpetrator, who thus has diminished responsibility; or the perpetrator is revealed to be a lesser kind of person that is guilty of borrowing the license of their betters.
Problems can only arise from outsiders and perverts, and can only be solved by punishing outsiders and perverts.
“Mental illness” is not invoked because there’s a genuine interest in psychology of violence, it’s just a stigmatized category.
Video games are not invoked because there’s a genuine fear of simulated violence as conditioning, it’s just a stigmatized category.
These aren’t good faith arguments, they’re bullshit constructed to protect the unstated core premise that people are not equal and the better kinds are entitled the violence and their coercion.
re: #138 austin_blue
I’ve never seen Abbot so incensed. He’s a hell of a lot madder about a flawed briefing than he was that a bunch of kids got their brains blown out.
Yeah, cops lie a lot. We knew that already.
Kristi the evil garden Noem. https://t.co/Sf0WiFClm7
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTdove) May 27, 2022
Says the guy speaking at a conference that has plenty of doors but banned guns https://t.co/Cm68R2t4nI
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) May 27, 2022
re: #138 austin_blue
I’ve never seen Abbot so incensed. He’s a hell of a lot madder about a flawed briefing than he was that a bunch of kids got their brains blown out.
He probably is furious. It makes his propaganda task much harder. The cops are supposed to at least _pretend_ to do more than their job of keeping the minorities and peons in their places.
Not that it matters since nothing will happen to change this unless 1%er kids start dying and that would only get private armies gunning down any potential shooters outside their gated communities. See your nearest Cyberpunk game for details…
read the fucking room, mom, and take a seat
Texas School Shooter’s Mother Pleads For People to ‘Not Judge Him’: ‘He Had His Reasons’ https://t.co/wijXwfhZHi
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 27, 2022
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
She’s lying of course. Right-wing authoritarians lie a lot, even to themselves. It’s why they seek propaganda like Newsmax.
Americans have had enough to the massacres that Republicans enable. Republicans can’t tell you the truth about that, since they’re the source of the problem— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 27, 2022
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wait, so we’re not supposed to be hard on a guy who killed 19 third graders because “he had his reasons”???
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
read the fucking room, mom, and take a seat
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re: #138 austin_blue
I’ve never seen Abbot so incensed. He’s a hell of a lot madder about a flawed briefing than he was that a bunch of kids got their brains blown out.
Meh. It’s all an act.
The agony of these pediatricians waiting for a mass casualty event that never arrived because an AR-15 doesn’t leave survivors. My god. https://t.co/c121hXjP5W pic.twitter.com/WicR9Ok4Ra
— Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell) May 27, 2022
re: #141 austin_blue
Abbot is obviously the *real* victim in all this.
And the villain, of course, is Beto for “attacking” him.
It’s amazing seeing Cruz spinning this line when the “good guys with guns” were cowering behind their thin blue line for the best part of an hour whilst children were being killed in their classroom. https://t.co/sO36lWUDlM
— Jimmy (@JimmySecUK) May 27, 2022
re: #150 wrenchwench
You can guess that there are deep, generational problems when the shooter goes after gramma first.
He SHOT her own mother!
It was a lot worse. https://t.co/MCEaYUUFB3
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) May 27, 2022
re: #155 Sherlock Hound
He SHOT her own mother!
She may have encouraged it. On purpose or accidentally.
cops are the real victims here
Officials say several law enforcement entities from across the state have been called in by Uvalde police to not only assist in supplementing their police force, but to also provide extra protection to officers and the mayor following heavy criticism and threats. #Uvalde pic.twitter.com/nDltMYOuMa
— CBS DFW (@CBSDFW) May 27, 2022
Not all billionaires are good at skipping town.
Petro #Poroshenko arrived in a private Range Rover car at the Rava-Russian checkpoint of #Lviv customs.
He tried to escape from #Ukraine to #Poland, but the border guards did not let him through. Rats are running 🐀 pic.twitter.com/OzMaHbcHmj— Proud to be Russian (@proudberussian) May 27, 2022
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
cops are the real victims here
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As an ex prosecutor from Uvalde, I can say based on my past interactions with Uvalde PD, you will never know the truth about what went down in that school until every inch of video tape is released to the press.
— Sara Spector (@Miriam2626) May 27, 2022
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
cops are the real victims here
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They had almost an hour and a half to act and prevent this kind of public scrutiny…but none of them had the courage to enter the school.
Every time I think Republicans can’t possibly come up with anything dumber or more offensive, they whip out something like “door control.” https://t.co/3HSvGM2HHd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2022
It’s like he just parachuted in from a Cancun beach. https://t.co/Nfh9cvLijk
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 27, 2022
re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth
cops are the real victims here
Oh so the cops get extra protection, but fuck those kids who had to wait an hour in their classroom before anyone did anything.
*spit*
The doors strike back https://t.co/O82QwdJ6Cf
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 27, 2022
No, not all police are afraid of teenagers with AR-15s…but the fact that ENOUGH of them are is reason enough to ban this kind of gun. pic.twitter.com/nGCubpXeKd
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) May 27, 2022
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cruz: Ultimately, as we all know, what stops armed bad guys is armed good guys.
You ever heard of a face/heel turn there, Ted? A “good guy” can sometimes become a “bad guy” pretty quick.
re: #150 wrenchwench
You can guess that there are deep, generational problems when the shooter goes after gramma first.
Think of Adam Lanza: murdered his mother before he went to massacre 20 children and 6 adult staff at Sandy Hook. This killer seems to have the same issues.
Also how many mass shootings in the past 10 years have been stopped by an “armed good guy”?
*crickets*
re: #162 Charles Johnson
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Last I heard, the shooter got in through a door that had been blocked open by a teacher.
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
Johnson Flees Reporter’s Questions On Gun Control - https://t.co/r610ZlEVum pic.twitter.com/lnRi6fZudu
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 27, 2022
re: #169 Eclectic Cyborg
Also how many mass shootings in the past 10 years have been stopped by an “armed good guy”?
*crickets*
Every example of an ‘armed good guy’ being on scene during an active shooter event in the last several years has demonstrated that they kept their gun holstered, out of fear of either shooting the wrong person or being mistaken for the active shooter by police.
Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez interrupted Abbott’s presser to implore him to do something on gun control pic.twitter.com/rP3x64MUhP
— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) May 27, 2022
re: #170 wrenchwench
If they’re not going to spend the money on proper ventilation to deal with COVID, they won’t spend the money to improve ventilation enough to take propping the door open with a brick out of the mix.
Last I heard, the shooter got in through a door that had been blocked open by a teacher.
I don’t believe anything — stories get circulated and the truth often never catches up. They need a thorough independent investigation.
re: #170 wrenchwench
If they’re not going to spend the money on proper ventilation to deal with COVID, they won’t spend the money to improve ventilation enough to take propping the door open with a brick out of the mix.
Last I heard, the shooter got in through a door that had been blocked open by a teacher.
isn’t that what the police said in today’s presser, when they got to “blame the teachers”?
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
Think of Adam Lanza: murdered his mother before he went to massacre 20 children and 6 adult staff at Sandy Hook. This killer seems to have the same issues.
An article (that I didn’t read) referred to misogyny as a commonality among mass killers, but (at least in these 2 examples) it is very much in the family.
One of the surviving kids on CNN: I used to want to be a police officer, but now I want to be a surgeon so I can help people.
— Marc Love (@marcslove) May 27, 2022
wtaf
Trump blames public school administrators for mass shootings, saying they are making excuses and turning a blind eye to bad behavior from their students. pic.twitter.com/1YRr3m6oAL
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
re: #178 The Pie Overlord!
I seriously doubt Trump was a well behaved student.
Trump reads the names of the Uvalde shooting victims, with a bell ringing after each of them pic.twitter.com/nDH8OoMj5N
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
“Clearly, we need to make it far easier to confine the violent and mentally deranged into mental institutions,” says Trump, before calling to politicians to “harden our schools” and for #DoorControl pic.twitter.com/D4BSEh8Afr
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
he is disgusting
New: Border Patrol tactical agents who breached the classroom and killed the shooter acted on their own initiative after mounting frustration, sources tell @JuliaEAinsley
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) May 27, 2022
WTF kind of dystopian Hunger Games mess? https://t.co/LqrV5k4YHU
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) May 27, 2022
Trump is being a vile son of a bitch again.
This is just gross. They have Trump trying to pronounce and read the names of the dead children while the NRA rings a bell. Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/AADaVc4o0s
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
He’s unable to read the words “virtue signaling.” https://t.co/Yot0wohX0s
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2022
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
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How very CCP of him.
“Clearly, we need to make it far easier to confine the violent and mentally deranged into mental institutions,” says Trump….”
re: #178 The Pie Overlord!
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Trump did not write this speech. I wonder who actually prepared it for him. Stephen Miller?
why didn’t anyone think of lockable doors before https://t.co/rUYdPe9LQP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
“White Settlement, Texas” sums it all up. #Uvalde https://t.co/Fu3xzQKOGd
— Liddle Pizza Pie🌻🇺🇦🌈🍕 (@Pie_Overlord) May 27, 2022
“Congress should vote immediately to take back every penny of unused Covid relief money. Take it back from the states and use that money to quickly establish impenetrable security at every school all across our land.” — Trump pic.twitter.com/Sa1spIWW6P
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
re: #182 The Pie Overlord!
Trump, reading the names of the victims, is completely WACK-O.
Trump tries to blame Biden COVID relief money for making students mentally ill, which he implies causes school shooters. pic.twitter.com/DmlvdfwIaE
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 27, 2022
earlier this week i saw a smol spider running across my window and feeling magnanimous at the time i just let it be and
i saw the same spider a couple days ago and let it be but
i just saw it three minutes ago and it is like three times the size now what do i do— darth™ (@darth) May 27, 2022
re: #197 wrenchwench
smol birb.
here’s 1
For #FemaleBirdDay, one of North America’s tiniest passerines - a Bushtit! Females have striking pale eyes compared to the males. They make intricate hanging nests out of spiderwebs, lichen, fur and feathers, and plant material. pic.twitter.com/YfpcFcRvkP
— olivia wang (@oliviabirding) May 27, 2022
re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth
read the fucking room, mom, and take a seat
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Opinion
Why I Don’t Care About The Uvalde Shooter’s Life And You Shouldn’t Either
I don’t care about monsters. Monsters destroy. Monsters leave wreckage in their wake. Monsters gorge until there is nothing left but sadness and pain.
The media needs to stop trying to make men out of monsters. Not everyone is redeemable. Sometimes what it looks like is exactly what it is. Sometimes evil wins.
it’s either that or burn it down sorry to say
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2022
re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg
I seriously doubt Trump was a well behaved student.
He was so poorly behaved his parents shipped him off to military school.
His siblings remained at home, going to local schools.
re: #201 sagehen
Yes. DT was not liked by his teachers.
re: #26 Charles Johnson
I can guarantee you the cops killed some of the kids too.
right out of the fascist leader playbook https://t.co/JDdNR32GFP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
Every word of this https://t.co/AfswPl3wIq
— Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) May 25, 2022
re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
The show she writes is a comedy…
re: #199 BeachDem
Opinion
Why I Don’t Care About The Uvalde Shooter’s Life And You Shouldn’t Either
I don’t care about monsters. Monsters destroy. Monsters leave wreckage in their wake. Monsters gorge until there is nothing left but sadness and pain.
The media needs to stop trying to make men out of monsters. Not everyone is redeemable. Sometimes what it looks like is exactly what it is. Sometimes evil wins.
Seeing the shit he’s spewing at the NRA fuckfest, the above sentiments work for fuckface as well. I am so sick of seeing his fucking face and reading his fucking nonsense (can’t say hearing, because the sound of his grotesque voice makes me ill.)
re: #209 BeachDem
Same here. I didn’t like DT before and I really despise him now.
re: #210 PhillyPretzel
Same here. I didn’t like DT before and I really despise him now.
Nothing can make me hate tfg more than I already do. The sound of his voice makes me want to stick a red hot screwdriver in my eardrums.
re: #212 The Pie Overlord!
I rather stick that screwdriver in one of his orifaces
NBC
Breaking: BORTAC agents waited with tactical gear for approximately 30 minutes, following the instructions of local law enforcement in Uvalde police, before finally forming a “stack” and moving in to take out the shooter, per 2 law enforcement officials
— Julia E. Ainsley (@JuliaEAinsley) May 27, 2022
After listening to these Texas news conferences, I think it’s time for President Biden to send the DOJ and FBI into Texas to clean up all the bullshit and lies. Abbott and Cruz will be pissed off claiming “State Rights” meaning they are in charge of the lying but this is truly a Terrorist Attack and therefore a Fed responsibility.
I also expect multiple Congressional Committees to conduct investigations.
Anyone believe the Texans can tell the truth?
re: #214 wrenchwench
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It’s kind of irritating to have to applaud the Border Patrol, that they actually did something right. But.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.
re: #138 austin_blue
I’ve never seen Abbot so incensed. He’s a hell of a lot madder about a flawed briefing than he was that a bunch of kids got their brains blown out.
The flawed briefing(s) mean that this massacre is not dropping out of the media cycle over the holiday weekend.
That beyond-useless police department is 40% of the city budget. Surely there’s better ways to spend that money.
re: #218 sagehen
It’s kind of irritating to have to applaud the Border Patrol, that they actually did something right. But.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.
They aren’t all the same. The worst has been the Border Patrol Union. Others may actually be serving in their own communites, or near them.
re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg
We’ve literally reached the point where almost an entire generation of kids has grown up on Call of Duty (first game was released in 2004 or 2005) and very few have turned into violent maniacs.
Funny that.
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And these games are available everywhere on the planet.
re: #215 Cheechako
After listening to these Texas news conferences, I think it’s time for President Biden to send the DOJ and FBI into Texas to clean up all the bullshit and lies. Abbott and Cruz will be pissed off claiming “State Rights” meaning they are in charge of the lying but this is truly a Terrorist Attack and therefore a Fed responsibility.
I also expect multiple Congressional Committees to conduct investigations.
Anyone believe the Texans can tell the truth?
I’m getting to the point where I almost want the resurrection of Palmer style raids, this time aimed at rightwing domestic terrorist groups like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three-percenters, National Rifle Association, CPAC organizers, and the Republican Party. I also want Trump under virtual house arrest and unable to communicate with the outside world except through his lawyers.
I want to see these people treated as the terrorists and existential threats to the nation and its people that they are.
It’s impossible, of course, and the civil liberties implications are nightmarish, and most likely illegal, and it would probably touch off the MAGA Civil War.
And then, my sanity kicks in.
I started wondering about the gun store where the killer picked up his weapons. No surprise, the authorities are familiar with them.
The gun store where the Uvalde mass shooter picked up an assault-style rifle he may have used to massacre 21 children and teachers at an elementary school was at the center of an ammunition smuggling case several years ago.
Oasis Outback sold more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in one day to an Eagle Pass businessman who gave them to Mexican cartel operatives, court records show.
re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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If yelling more would cause Abbott, Cruz, Cornyn, Patrick, and all of the other Republicans to change, I would.
But we’ve seen tv change things before. We all know about Reagan’s light nuclear war talk before the Day After. And TV was a big component of ending the way blacks were treated in the 50s and 60s.
But I don’t think a show whose main audience is African American needs a reminder. Now, if Saved By the Bell had done it, that would have been an event.
re: #220 sagehen
That beyond-useless police department is 40% of the city budget. Surely there’s better ways to spend that money.
A town of 15,000, with a 9 member swat team (who don’t show up). Yet they have 5 school resource officers for 9 campuses.
Uvalde: AR-15
Buffalo: AR-15
Boulder: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Aurora, CO: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
Waffle House: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15
Midland/Odessa: AR-15
Poway synagogue: AR-15
Sutherland Springs: AR-15
Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15— 🌊Lisa R. 🌊 (@LisaRoseGirl) May 26, 2022
All that time spent discussing how to brief him on Ukraine only to learn he doesn’t know how doors work. https://t.co/vGXiBleF9q
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) May 27, 2022
Legislators responded to the 2018 Parkland school shooting by hiring police officers in every elementary, middle and high school in Florida. It didn’t make students safer. Instead, it led to this: https://t.co/ew9NxbWfBe pic.twitter.com/ykc5win0hm
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) May 26, 2022
Let them call 911 from under a desk for an hour with their request. https://t.co/LkdHsOpuEC
— YesBiscuit (@YesBiscuit) May 27, 2022
Absolute fucking clownery. https://t.co/i8eCJf7OsO
— Christian Finnegan (@ChristFinnegan) May 27, 2022
This is Savannah. She is officially the first dog to circumnavigate the globe. She went from being abandoned as a puppy, to experiencing the entire world with her human, Tom. Earlier this week they were joined by fans as they completed their 7-year journey. 14/10 historic as h*ck pic.twitter.com/7wqWAmDcAG
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) May 27, 2022
As Americans demand that Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans protect kids from gun violence, he tries to change the topic to inflation.
But Mitch doesn’t care about your family budget. If he did, he’d help us cut families’ health care, child care and prescription drugs costs.— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) May 27, 2022
prove it, Tommy
ZERO. That’s the number of murderers who have been deterred by the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act.
The GFSZA was a knee jerk reaction in 1990 that has cost more lives than it has saved.
REPEAL it now. Let bad guys know unceremonious death awaits them if they target our kids.— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 27, 2022
“Run, Jasper! Ruuuun!”🤣🤣 https://t.co/gS9rs6fJFG
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 27, 2022
Blue Dogs aren’t moderates. https://t.co/BYjYxr5ESq
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 27, 2022
Delta’s mask-optional policy is going so well that they’re cutting 100 flights per day https://t.co/i8QXwh4nmk pic.twitter.com/puoC3ZcCAT
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) May 27, 2022
We posted a sign outside the NRA Annual Meeting where they are prohibiting guns in the main assembly hall. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/ePRDQLSYvy
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) May 27, 2022
NEW: At the NRA convention, Ted Cruz just blamed mass shootings on “prescription drugs, video games, and declining church attendance.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 27, 2022
re: #242 Patricia Kayden
Standard NRA response.
re: #243 PhillyPretzel
As if European countries, Canada, New Zealand and Australia don’t have prescription drugs, video games and declining church attendance. **rolls eyes**
I’m going out on a limb here, but I really *don’t* think that the reason why so many criticize and protest the NRA is “because [it is] the oldest and most effective civil rights association in America.”https://t.co/6PLH1MjTIa pic.twitter.com/xn4MOU8ZXa
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 27, 2022
Jon is also right: https://t.co/RpuWzEgucs
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 27, 2022
re: #208 austin_blue
Snek. Very smol snek:
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Really. Only 12” of snek.
Grey rat snake, BTW.
Beautiful shot.
At least now that school is out, the chance of more mass shootings is down.
oh…wait…
6 shot at Anniston graduation party early Friday morning, police say
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#Uvalde police have called for extra law enforcement from across Texas to protect the Uvalde police https://t.co/WH2YIbc1OF pic.twitter.com/ZRW053tCTe
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 27, 2022
Who’s going to protect the kids if everyone else is protecting the local police?
— The Traveling Kit (@kits_in) May 27, 2022
NEW: DNC official says these four cities have submitted bids to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention
Atlanta
Chicago
Houston
New York City— Natasha Korecki (@natashakorecki) May 27, 2022
I guess the message here is that they are more badass than the cops in Texas. Sorry, this isn’t vibing that for me. https://t.co/1XZOl0wTiz
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
Trump says that if he’s president again, he will use federal forces to crack down on violent crime on cities run by Democrats pic.twitter.com/2DSh62Smuj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2022
More punishment, for less infraction, for the kinds of people they dislike, is the solution to everything.
Sexual assault.
Foreign policy.
Crime.
The only thing that’s real is their caste system.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
the message I hear is that anyone looking to suicide by cop, the Lee County Sheriff is your go-to guy.
SF Giants Manager Gabe Kapler will now refuse to take field for the National Anthem. He says he is done “participating in the glorification of the only country where mass shootings take place.” https://t.co/ytq2UPrIAl
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2022
re: #253 William Lewis
Pretty. Is that dogwood?
re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I feel better about the direction of our country” – Gabe Kapler pic.twitter.com/J1MdlVL3XI
— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) May 27, 2022
— Dad 2.0 - allergies are going to kill me (@DadaBaseThought) May 27, 2022
re: #263 William Lewis
Ah. It is still very pretty.
A speech where Trump read the names of the victims ends like this pic.twitter.com/fQZxrB9OiI
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 27, 2022
disgusting
re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That’s an instance where a Will Smith move might be justified: “take the names of those children out of your mouth!”
A California man has pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up the state Democratic Party’s headquarters in what prosecutors said was the first in a planned series of politically-motivated attacks after the defeat of former President Donald Trump. https://t.co/ed5XZ8a2th
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 27, 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California man pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to blow up the state Democratic Party’s headquarters in what prosecutors said was the first in a planned series of politically-motivated attacks after the defeat of former President Donald Trump.
Ian Benjamin Rogers, 46, of Napa, pleaded guilty to conspiring to destroy a building by fire or explosives, possessing an explosive device and possessing a machine gun under a plea agreement that could bring him seven to nine years in federal prison.
U.S. prosecutors in San Francisco charged Rogers and Jarrod Copeland with conspiring to attack targets they associated with Democrats after Trump’s defeat in the November 2020 presidential election.
The pair “hoped their attacks would prompt a movement,” prosecutors said when they announced the charges in July.
Copeland, 38, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and destruction of records.
“I want to blow up a democrat building bad,” Rogers wrote in one of the messaging apps he used to communicate with Copeland, according to the indictment. In a different message he said that after Democratic President Joe Biden was inaugurated, “we go to war.”
dang this is getting complicatedhttps://t.co/pHFuwYJbMm
— darth™ (@darth) May 27, 2022
The Alabama news aggregator has cut and published the state list of perv SBC preachers. It’s a long read, Not Safe For Hypertensives.
These 33 Alabama ministers are on the Southern Baptist Church’s alleged sex abuser list
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re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth
A goodly spider helps keep down the Alabama Palmetto Bugs (Eurycotis floridana).
re: #274 Decatur Deb
A goodly spider helps keep down the Alabama Palmetto Bugs (Eurycotis floridana).
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When I was about 10 years old we had a big ass wolf spider build a web between an oak tree and our shop wall. I could see it from the swimming pool. So I caught the biggest grasshopper I could and threw it into the web. Thought it would tear free and leave but before it could get its legs set that fuckin’ spider raced across three feet of web and started hammering away on it and spinning silk at the same time. Took about three minutes to bind the grasshopper to where it couldn’t move.
I never fucked with a spider’s web after that.
re: #276 darthstar
When I was about 10 years old we had a big ass wolf spider build a web between an oak tree and our shop wall. I could see it from the swimming pool. So I caught the biggest grasshopper I could and threw it into the web. Thought it would tear free and leave but before it could get its legs set that fuckin’ spider raced across three feet of web and started hammering away on it and spinning silk at the same time. Took about three minutes to bind the grasshopper to where it couldn’t move.
I never fucked with a spider’s web after that.
Charlotte loves you, because you fed her. She told her children about you.
re: #276 darthstar
In gradeschool I was afraid of them, so I made myself keep a big one in a watch box and handle it until it wore out. Now I remember it as a probable Wolf spider.
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