Month: May 2022

Nobody who says "We don't have a gun crisis, we have a mental health crisis" gives a fuck about dealing with mental health. Do you know how I know that? Where's the follow-up? Where's the money? It's just a little stalling ruse to allow the latest gun atrocity to fade from the headlines. Also, even the most cursory mental health screening for gun ownership would immediately put gun ownership waaaaay out of the reach of anyone who has ever said, "We don't have a gun crisis." Similarly, "armed teachers" is a bunch of bullshit. Setting aside the fact that it assumes that school shootings are natural and inevitable, like tornadoes, last week they wanted teachers locked up if they mentioned in passing that "gay" is a real thing. So which is it, guns or handcuffs, for the nation's underpaid surrogate moms and dads? So yeah. All of the GOP's talking points on this are pure bullshit. But it is Democrat's that allow them to get away with it every time. At least Beto had the guts to call them on it this time. Maybe that sensibility can spread.

You know your country is in a bad way when you’ve developed a sort of hierarchy of the awfulness of mass shootings, depending on the location and the number and identity of the victims. It’s safe to say the worst of all happen in an elementary school. The Sandy Hook massacre was a special kind of horror that transfixed the nation for days, and now so is Uvalde, Texas, where a lone gunman butchered 19 children and two adults in a local school on Tuesday. In response, some senators proposed a vote on a background check bill that has passed the House several times, most recently last March. The swing Democratic votes in the Senate leaped into action to clarify that nothing of the sort would be done. Reached by reporters at the Capitol asking if he would support ending the Senate filibuster to clear the way for the bill, Joe Manchin refused, insisting, “The filibuster is the only thing that prevents us from total insanity.” Kyrsten Sinema concurred, telling reporters that she doesn’t think “D.C. solutions are realistic here.” The Senate leadership barely even pretended to try to force their hands by scheduling a vote. Instead, senators are reportedly going on their Memorial Day recess. It’s a broken, worthless institution.

Meanwhile Senator Chris Coons would like you to know that "we" have to do more, but by "we" he does not mean the US Senate.

Senator Chris Coons @ChrisCoons We have to do more. We have to make it harder for individuals to get access to weapons who have demonstrated the capacity, or the potential, to use them to harm themselves or their families. And we have to do more to address gun violence. We cannot become numb to this.

Cassandra Marshall - Via FB This is so very appalling. Especially that Governor Carney can’t connect the dots between the DSU student stop that was utterly fueled by anticipation of…

Ho hum....more children murdered in their elementary school.  Here is the Pro forma, boilerplate response used by many GOP leaders.  Ted Cruz even re-used an exact tweet from a mass murder of children in October.

There seems to be a formula for how right-wing politicians are now responding to mass shootings on social media that goes something like this: I [We] am [HORRIFIED, HEARTBROKEN, ETC] at the senseless tragedy in [LOCATION] today. We are [LIFTING THEM UP IN PRAYER, PRAYING FOR THEM] and thank the heroic efforts of [POLICE, FIRST RESPONDERS, ETC] on the scene.

Any Delaware politician, Republican or Democrat, that accepts money from the bloodthirsty Delaware arm of the NRA needs to be removed from office. We can start with the Democrats, every…

We're in the worst timeline. I envy the fuck out of the Jason330 who is in the timeline where Gore beat Bush, climate change was taken seriously, Rupert Murdoch was stoned to death by an angry mob, and corporate hegemony was vanquished. That Jason330 is probably sitting at his lap top right now bitching and grousing about some trivial nonsense, like cakes vs pies.