Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

No one could have predicted…

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

T R E 4 5 O N

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

This fight is for everything.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Cole is on a roll !

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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  1. 1.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    It’s beyond ridiculous. And tragic for the victims.

    But what Pierce said today is kind of chilling:

    As Laura Nyro once put it, I have a lot of patience and, baby, that’s a lot of patience to lose. And my tank is pretty much run dry with the local gun-humpers and paranoids in and around Roseburg in Oregon, where the first of the now three school shootings of the past two weeks took place. The president is out there today to do the president thing in this kind of situation, and there were some public officials there, and some local radio rubes, ginning up the same kind of atmosphere that, in November of 1963, made the staff of the Kennedy White House nervous about their man’s plan to go to Dallas.​

    “He’s not wanted here. He’s coming here purely to push his garbage, and we don’t want it,” said Michelle Finn, who is helping to organize the protests planned for intersections near the small airport where Obama’s helicopter is expected to touch down.

    Let us be clear. At least Lee Harvey Oswald (or Whoever) had to hide his weapon. If any of the people involved in these protests were armed, they should have been detained for the balance of the president’s time in Roseburg. Back during the 2008 campaign, when people started showing up at campaign appearances strapped, you could see this kind of thing coming. The last administration cuffed people for wearing unfriendly T-shirts. If you have a gun, and you are standing near where the president’s motorcade is likely to pass, you get picked up. Period. Afterwards, you can call the ACLU. I’ll even give you their number, since you’re very unlikely to have it handy.

    Good god, enough, people. This kind of thing comes to no good end.

    Will the ammosexuals in this country ever figure out that their love of all things gunmetal is not healthy for the rest of us? It’s making me tired.

  2. 2.

    scav

    Second Amendment Patriotism is bursting out all over.

    ETA: “not healthy for the rest of us”?! Welcome to their entire point.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    Multiple emergency agencies responded to Jefferson Community and Technical College at Eighth and Chestnut streets on a report of an active shooter.

    They are doing a floor-by-floor sweep of the building, but nothing has been found. link

  4. 4.

    Rusty

    I’m not saying I want this to happen, but if these shootings started happening at Ivy League schools as opposed to JC’s, it might wipe out quite a few future hedge fundies.

  6. 6.

    Percysowner

    Well I usually say Oh, Shoot! so I avoid the other sh word that will put me in moderation, but that sounds too much like encouragement.

  8. 8.

    Patricia Kayden

    It’s exhausting just to hear about all these shootings. Feel so sorry for the families impacted by all this violence. Sigh.

  12. 12.

    Not That Guy

    So we solve the problem of guns by adding guns. I guess that means we solve the problem of drugs by adding drugs. And we solve the problem of terrorism by adding more terrorists.

    Do I pass the class?

  13. 13.

    raven

    This is great! Everyone can talk to themselves and prove how smart they are and not one fucking thing changes.

  14. 14.

    trollhattan

    From the NRA hivemind:

    “Today’s shooting…two shootings…several shootings demonstrate the need for Patriotic Citizens(tm) across the Republic (GodSaint Glock bless it) to arm themselves against the Evildoers(tm).

    –“Amen”

  19. 19.

    benw

    @raven: Phone numbers for US House and Senate. Everyone can call your reps up and tell them you’re sick of this shit. I just did. It’s a start.

    Also, I am very, very smart, too.

  20. 20.

    Gian

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    Honestly, part of the reason we saw things get worse after sandy hook is the gun industry’s marketing of paranoia any time a democrat is president. between Clinton and Obama they’ve had almost 15 full years of selling fear of mass confiscation (and of course concentration camps- it’s part of the gun-nut ideology) and the gun nutters think a background check is the first step to the gas chamber. they are THAT propagandized

    I’d like to see Obama do is invite the surviving members of every family that lost kids to mass shootings at schools to the national cathedral for a prayer service, and photo opportunity. there are enough to fill the building, and many of them have tried to get gun control legislation moving. (and the ensuing nutjob open carry protest at a memorial service will help marginalize the gun nuts)

  21. 21.

    sm*t cl*de

    @benw:

    Phone numbers for US House and Senate. Everyone can call your reps up and tell them you’re sick of this shit.

    None of them seem to be campaigning for open-carry gun rights within Congressional buildings and the Supreme Court. Why do they deprive themselves of Freedom?

  22. 22.

    Gin & Tonic

    @benw: My Congressman is confined to a wheelchair as the result of a firearm accident when he was 16. He is a firm supporter of gun control.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    @goblue72:

    The only thing that can stop a Bad Guy with a Gun is gun control.

    I would say that it’s really hard to stop a Bad Guy with a gun, so step 1 is to keep the Bad Guys from getting guns. This is apparently too challenging of a concept for the ammosexuals.

  24. 24.

    Botsplainer

    Weird – this was the first I heard of it. Looks like an unsub report right now. Location is about 15 long blocks from my office, not on my commute.

  25. 25.

    MomSense

    @Botsplainer:

    We had a false alarm at UMaine Augusta yesterday. They sent out a cryptic warning message but nothing happened.

    I’m still trying to figure out what to tell my son about their active shooter protocol. It doesn’t conform to the latest recommendations. We talked about it but he is a follow the rules type of kid (unlike his siblings) so he doesn’t like the idea of going against the instructions.

    ETA Middle school and the drill is to clutch your backpack in a dark, unlocked room and hope the shooter doesn’t enter.

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    Has President Obama left Oregon yet?

    Can we have a happier thread? A pet picture? Something that’s not about anger and dysfunction?

  28. 28.

    gex

    I’m pretty sure the lie of NRA’s whole “good guy with a gun” approach to solving these problems is found in the fact that their last round of laws have prohibited law enforcement from asking people to show their publicly carried weapons are licensed. Which presumably is one way we’d have to tell the good guys with guns from the bad guys with guns and one way we’d be able to, you know, actually take guns away from bad guys.

  29. 29.

    MomSense

    @Elizabelle:

    When I walked in the door, the pup went nuts wagging her whole hind end. Her nickname is Miss Wigglebutt. It’s so cute. If I posted a video the cuteness would probably break the internet.

  31. 31.

    ThresherK

    @Gin & Tonic: I’m fairly observant on congresscritters; my wife is either amazed or scared that I can ID many of ’em by sight on TV.

    That said, I have no idea who your Congressman is, and why he is not on TV more.

  32. 32.

    cmorenc

    The NRA wants to turn the contemporary United States into a frontier Western from the 1870s at a time when the only law was the gun in every man’s holster. Some of the more strong-willed women who could shoot, too. Where homicide was justifiable if a dead man was one who “needed shooting” because it’s just too difficult to expect the sheriff to be able to timely capture every bad hombre before he does bad things to someone.

  33. 33.

    D58826

    The shooter in Arizona is an 18 year old freshman who loves his guns and like to post photos of himself draped in cartridge belts and flags while holding high powered rifles. So a fight between a couple of groups of college students, hardly a unique event, ends up with one dead and another facing life in prison. All because one of them had a gun. American exceptionalism in action

  34. 34.

    A guy

    Meanwhile black thugs in inner cities cap each other with considerable more frequency than……

  37. 37.

    scav

    @A guy: Which in your eyes makes them hyper-patriotic and and of superior politeness! Too bad your white-wonder-bread ‘merman culture warriors and their quivers aren’t keeping up.

  38. 38.

    EZSmirkzz

    And to think, some people have the temerity to say we live in the stupidest country on Earth!

  40. 40.

    A guy

    Scab- no. Just makes them murdering thugs. And to be fair theirs more than enough white cracker thugs to go around as well. The diff is they ain’t on a college campus so nobody cares

  42. 42.

    benw

    @sm*t cl*de: Seems like a reasonable question to ask.

    @Gin & Tonic: I figure even calling up the ones who support a particular issue and telling them you appreciate that support helps, too; but yeah, on gun control sounds like you’re good.

  43. 43.

    Feudalism Now!

    More Blood for the Blood God! More Skulls for the Skull Throne!
    There is no will for gun control in the United States of Armedmerica. There is abject apathy or irrational resistance to common sense.
    So I guess it is Warhammer for all.

  44. 44.

    Suzanne

    @D58826: Why no one wants to admit that shootings are a masculinity problem is just mystifying to me. Then I remember, oh yeah, patriarchy.

    We are teaching our sons all the wrong things.

  48. 48.

    Pogonip

    @MomSense: Yay! Wagging tails make everything better.

    I love (most) dogs, despite their questionable tastes. Although even that’s not all bad. Antarctic explorer Roald Amundsen constructed his latrines so the huskies could get in and, er, clean them, thus saving the men the job.

  49. 49.

    Pogonip

    Speaking of dogs–who has Thurston?

    And before you cat people get all smug, I just finished reading the interesting, though sad, memoirs of a forensic pathologist. She says that if you should die alone with your pet, and it’s a while before you’re discovered, a dog will rarely eat its master unless it’s close to starvation, while cats usually start chowing down on the deceased as soon as he quits kicking. So it’s not as if dogs have cornered the market on disgusting.

    And I still like cats, too. What the hell.

  51. 51.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @cmorenc: The NRA imagines the old west was like that, but what they think it was like was invented in Hollywood, in the 20th century.

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