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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Open Thread: Everything’s Bigger in Texas

Open Thread: Everything’s Bigger in Texas

by Anne Laurie|  November 18, 20151:47 pm| 15 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Assholes, Meth Laboratories of Democracy

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Including the idiocy!

Shot:

Uh. Rep. Joe Barton just suggested that the FCC try to shut down "the Internet and all the social media" used by ISIS. What.

— Brian Fung (@b_fung) November 17, 2015

Chaser:

Texas GOPer warns refugees could carry out attacks thanks to lax gun laws in his state https://t.co/vr59r6mfmb pic.twitter.com/uoPovQoGdG

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) November 17, 2015

"Goddamn gun grabbers is trying to whip up hysteria about them refugees so theyz can grab our guns…wait." https://t.co/5uT26jfIib

— Billmon (@billmon1) November 17, 2015

3,400: Americans who died by Terrorism since 2001 3,400: Americans who died by household Firearms since five weeks ago.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 9, 2015

I really miss Molly Ivins, right now.

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15Comments

  1. 1.

    Roger Moore

    November 18, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    I thought the lax gun laws were supposed to guarantee there were always plenty of good guys with guns around to kill the terrorists before they got started. So which is it: is Texas unsafe because it gives refugees easy access to guns, or was Paris unsafe because it denied citizens easy access to guns?

  2. 2.

    MattF

    November 18, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    @Roger Moore: Both. Everywhere is unsafe. All the time. Because Obama.

  3. 3.

    Peale

    November 18, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    I wonder how many of Joe’s constituents would actually write him to remind him to keep his hands off their free porn.

  4. 4.

    Germy

    November 18, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    I miss Molly Ivins acutely right now. I can just imagine what she’d be writing about the current crop of presidential candidates.

  5. 5.

    Richard Mayhew

    November 18, 2015 at 2:06 pm

    Big footing removed

  6. 6.

    David Hunt

    November 18, 2015 at 2:11 pm

    To my everlasting shame, Joe Barton used to be my Congressman before the districts got moved around. That comment strikes me as right up his ally.

  7. 7.

    hitchhiker

    November 18, 2015 at 2:12 pm

    “household firearms”

    Possibly the strangest phrase I’ve read this morning. And it’s been a mighty weird morning.

  8. 8.

    Starfish

    November 18, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    Rep. Joe Barton needs to realize that Anonymous is on that already. (Link goes to breitbart. Sorry.)

  9. 9.

    leeleeFL

    November 18, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    @David Hunt: Well, it’s up something! These guys are certfiable! I got nothin!

  10. 10.

    Fred

    November 18, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    We all miss Molly. Hunter too. They both could see the crooks coming from miles away and could skewer them with a laugh.

  11. 11.

    Southern Beale

    November 18, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    Republican is a synonym for coward.

  12. 12.

    Ben Cisco

    November 18, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    Good news: Mrs. Cisco is home, after a week in the hospital and two more in rehab.
    Recuperation is progressing at levels “higher than anticipated.”
    A full recovery is expected.

  13. 13.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 18, 2015 at 2:57 pm

    @Ben Cisco: Very good news!

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    November 18, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    @Ben Cisco: HUZZAH!!!

  15. 15.

    Satby

    November 18, 2015 at 9:13 pm

    @Ben Cisco: late but hooray. Best wishes to her!

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