Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Bark louder, little dog.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

People are complicated. Love is not.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

In after Baud. Damn.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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…who is, as far as I can tell, an all-around awful human being. But he’s not awful enough for the Texas GOP. I don’t condone this attack, but as far as I can tell, he should have seen this coming with his good eye (I’m going to hell for that one).

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  3. 3.

    Gvg

    Context? Why did Tucker attack Crenshaw? What was the attack other than a nickname? Why is eyepatch McCain derisive?

    Also I would think that is too direct an immediate for Carleton to get away with. I would think he could be charged for something since he came up with such a unique label that was so quickly used during a physical attack. If Crenshaw doesn’t want to take on Tucker, then his staffers maybe could.

    Also staffers getting attacked is going to chill others.

  4. 4.

    Uncle Jeffy

    TaMara, if you’re going to hell for that one, F*cker Carlson and the Texas Rethuglikkkan Party will be your honor guard.

  5. 5.

    scav

    Apparently not even the one-eyed can lead the grand olk party of the (willfully) blind.

  6. 6.

    TaMara

    I thought Colorado’s GOP convention was off the rails, TX is just driving the train straight off the bridge:

  8. 8.

    scav

    It’s also going to put a bit of a spanner in TFG’s claim that words he dun said could in no way ever possibly incite violence in his devoted pacifistic touristic followers, nohow.

  10. 10.

    Scout211

    @Gvg:

    He attacked Crenshaw over his support  for Ukraine.

    Fox News’ Tucker Carlson mocked Republican Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw as he discussed his support for Ukraine, dubbing the congressman, a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye while fighting in Afghanistan, “eye patch McCain.”

    Carlson was discussing the plan for the United States to send Ukraine $40 billion in aid as it continues its fight against Russia, which Crenshaw supports. Carlson argued against the aid and said that the nationwide baby formula shortage should take precedent.

    “Why is Congress so focused on Ukraine but you can’t find baby formula, you can’t even fill your truck because things in our economy are declining really rapidly,” Carlson said.

    “Don’t ask questions, according to Congressman Dan Crenshaw of Texas, asking questions like that, really any questions at all, thinking you’re a citizen, makes you pro-Russia.”

  11. 11.

    encephalopath

    Maybe Crenshaw IS hung. Maybe even really well hung.

    Nobody said he should be hanged or anything so it’s all good.

  14. 14.

    Citizen Alan

    @TaMara:
    The LCR shouldn’t worry too much. I’m sure they’ll still get their tax cuts even as they’re being marched into the camps.

  19. 19.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Scout211: In addition to that, Crenshaw has said a couple of times that the far-right is crazy. He’s absolutely guilty of the two things that get you in trouble with the Right:

    1) Insufficient fealty to Republicans
    2) Not reflexively promoting Russia when it would hurt Democrats and Democracy

  22. 22.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Apparently, some right-wing “comedian” named Alex Stein and others were involved in this

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    Been offering a variation of the tourist slogan for decades:

    “Texas. It’s a whole ‘nother country dimension.”

  25. 25.

    Mike in NC

    The imbecile hawking Trump merchandise today had a yard sign that read, “Law & Order. Vote Trump”. Proving that irony is indeed dead.

  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    @Ken:

    I’m hearing “Narrow-minded is fine, until it affects us” in that.

    Exactly.  Republicans being narrow-minded is news?

    Who wants to belong to a group that loathes you???

  28. 28.

    The Moar You Know

    Where’s the gallows?   I know these folks know how to put together a halfass one very quickly.

  29. 29.

    JPL

    @TaMara:  The Log Cabin Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief.   Imagine what would have happened if they were allowed in.

  30. 30.

    Scout211

    @MisterForkbeard:

    Update from Mediaite.

    World Economic Forum sellout! (Huh?)

    Supports red flag laws!

    Alex Rosen shouts at various people in the hotel calling the congressman a “fraud” and a “World Economic Forum sell-out.” Another person applauds and shouts back that Crenshaw supports Red Flag laws.

  31. 31.

    Leto

    he should have seen this coming with his good eye (I’m going to hell for that one).

    We’re going together because I lol’d.

  33. 33.

    JPL

    The one thing Crenshaw did not do is walk out and refuse to speak at the conference.   Let’s not give this guy another medal.

  35. 35.

    Benw

    Patriotic, anti-communist, pro-military, real-man Republicans attacking an ex Navy Seal for supporting aid to our ally fighting a war against Russia because Tucker Carlson told them to! How do they keep it all in their heads at the same time?

  38. 38.

    germy shoemangler

    “You know what I liked about Trump? Everybody was afraid of him, including me.”

    — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at “Faith and Freedom Coalition” conference in Nashville, Tennessee pic.twitter.com/yozINJD5vq

    — The Recount (@therecount) June 17, 2022

    Nobody wants their face eaten. Leopard 2024!

  39. 39.

    Kropacetic

    Crenshaw, for his myriad flaws, is one of the rare Republicans who occasionally says something I actually agree with*.

    That is to say, I understand why wingers would want to get rid of him.

    *Don’t ask for a citation. I don’t remember what he said or did, just that I felt once or twice “that’s a normal human attitude right there.” High praise from me for a Republican.

  40. 40.

    JPL

    The reason the Pencette’s like Crenshaw won’t stand up against the extreme right wing, is because they want their votes.   That’s it.

  41. 41.

    Tony Jay

    Hey, they’re just trying to purify their movement. And as everyone knows, there’s nothing more attractive to middle-of-the-road, apolitical voters than the violent ideological flagellations of a really, really purified movement.

  42. 42.

    debbie

    Whoever slimed Cawthorn and is trying to do the same to Boebert needs to stretch even further and go after Tucker. There’s got to be a reason he sounds like a prepubescent incel.

  43. 43.

    germy shoemangler

    SCOOP: Uvalde and Uvalde Police have hired a private law firm to fight against being required to release body camera footage and other records related to school shooting

    Files could be ‘highly embarrassing,’ involve ’emotional/mental distress,’ it argueshttps://t.co/8GYMgLYJQv

    — Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) June 17, 2022

    if cops don’t have to produce body cam footage that is “highly embarrassing” to them, what’s the point of pretending body cams are an effective tool for accountability? https://t.co/qFDsPb8JSU

    — molly conger (@socialistdogmom) June 17, 2022

  44. 44.

    Kropacetic

    @germy shoemangler: You know what I liked about Trump? Everybody was afraid of him, including me.

    I don’t like to kink shame, hell, this is close to my own flavor of kink (minus any Trumpy BS, of course).  Still, your kinks should not be the basis of public policy or choosing officials.

    debbie: There’s got to be a reason [Tucker Carlson] sounds like a prepubescent incel.

    When you put it that way, it explains itself.

  45. 45.

    EmanG

    I just wonder how long it’s going to take for someone to apologize to Pete Davidson.

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I have no use at all for Dan Crenshaw, but Tuckums makes him look like the second coming of Barbara Jordan, Lyndon Johnson, and Molly Ivins (to name three pretty impressive Texans at random).

  48. 48.

    germy shoemangler

    @debbie:

    The only way to shame him is to loudly and persistently amplify the story that he petitioned Hunter Biden for help in getting his son Buckley into Georgetown.

  49. 49.

    JPL

    The Texas GOP is voting today to call homosexuals abnormal, so those who said I’m not a drag queen or a trans, so I’m safe are idiots.

  50. 50.

    Ken

    @germy shoemangler: “You know what I liked about Trump? Everybody was afraid of him, including me.”

    Did Sen. Graham go on to praise the Green River Killer and Osama bin Laden?

  51. 51.

    Cameron

    @germy shoemangler: It’s probably just a quirk of mine, but I’d actually prefer being “highly embarrassed” and “shamed/humiliated” to being, y’know, shot dead by a lunatic.

  53. 53.

    debbie

    @JPL:

    I wonder what they’ll do? Try to fight the nutjobs for control of the party, or will they sit quietly outside the circle, not attracting attention, and vote for the nutjobs? You just know this won’t stay in Texas.

  55. 55.

    germy shoemangler

    Pete Davidson really worked one of the most demanding jobs in show business with the energy of a seasonal temp employee and I commend him for that.

    — Kady Ruth (@kady_ruth) May 23, 2022

  57. 57.

    Scout211

    @germy shoemangler:

    The new version they are leaking to the media is that they could have fired at the shooter, but we’re too concerned that they might  hit the children.

    Releasing the body cams could clear up all of these “confusing” versions of CYA the police response.

    UVALDE, Texas — Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school, a senior sheriff’s deputy told The New York Times.
    That would mean a second missed opportunity for officers to stop Salvador Ramos before the May 24 rampage inside the school that killed 19 children and two teachers. Officials said that a school district police drove past Ramos without seeing him in the school parking lot.
    The unidentified officers, one of whom was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, said they feared hitting children playing in the line of fire outside the school, Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios of nearby Zavalla County told the newspaper.
    The officers’ chance of stopping Ramos passed quickly, perhaps in seconds, Rios said.

  61. 61.

    JPL

    @debbie: Since abortion will not be an issue in 2024,  they are turning to the gays.   trump signaled it when he went after teachers who taught trans.   That doesn’t happen but it sure riles up a crowd.   Gay marriage is the next target and they hope no one pays attention to the supremes ridding us of the EPA.

    just my opinion

  63. 63.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Tony Jay: 

    Hey, they’re just trying to purify their movement. And as everyone knows, there’s nothing more attractive to middle-of-the-road, apolitical voters than the violent ideological flagellations of a really, really purified movement.

    You’d think, but they’ve purified their movement so many times between 1980 and now, and it hasn’t seemed to hurt them yet.

    I think part of it is that both the Dems and the media continue to treat the GQP like a normal political party, so the message really never gets through to low-info voters just how far they’ve gone off the rails this time.

    Another part of it is that the media treat the GQP hordes like some force of nature that lacks agency: as someone said in the previous thread, they put the responsibility entirely on the Dems to reach across party lines. Cornyn threatens to kill the gun control deal? The story isn’t about Cornyn’s double-dealing, it’s how it’s up to the Dems to find a way to keep him on board.

    Another part is the media not saying diddly as the Rethugs routinely vilify the Dems, just taking it for granted that that’s the way they are, while they say things that would give a case of the vapors to every MSM pundit in America if the Dems said them about the Rethugs.

    There’s more, I’m sure, but that’s a start.

  65. 65.

    NutmegAgain

    Maybe it’s beginning of a (Night) Friedman Unit of the Long Knives, and the RW will consume its own. With a different outcome, of course.

  67. 67.

    Kent

    @JPL:

    @debbie: Since abortion will not be an issue in 2024,  they are turning to the gays.   trump signaled it when he went after teachers who taught trans.   That doesn’t happen but it sure riles up a crowd.   Gay marriage is the next target and they hope no one pays attention to the supremes ridding us of the EPA.

    just my opinion

    You are right and you aren’t right.

    They throw every vile thing they can think of at the wall and just run with whatever sticks.  Mostly that is hate.  Hate for LGBT folks which is where all the trans panic comes from.  But also pure unadulterated racism which is where all the CRT panic and “build the wall” comes from.   I don’t think there is a particular master plan to achieve specific objectives like eliminating gay marriage except in the most fundie circles.  It’s more about weaponizing hate for political power.

    In 2024 we will have a full throated festival of hate and whatever seems to stick and incite the MAGAts will be what they run with.  Remember, Trump isn’t actually a leader of any kind.  He is simply a follower.  He has a ferret’s nose for the worst stench out there and just follows along

    Oh, and what makes you think abortion won’t be an issue in 2024?  Of course it will be an issue.  “We need to rein in those Godless abortion factory states like California.  And elect good people to do it.”

  69. 69.

    Steeplejack

    “When they came for Eyepatch McCain I didn’t say anything, because I was in there swinging a fist.

    “When they came for the Log Cabin Condo Republicans I didn’t say anything, because I was busy wielding a pitchfork.”

  71. 71.

    germy shoemangler

    @karen marie:

    That’s the only thing he’s embarrassed by.  The rest of the stuff we uncover, he just laughs at us.  He doesn’t care.

  72. 72.

    mrmoshpotato

    I have some popcorn in my cupboards, some cooking oil and salt.

    And, yes, I can make enough for everyone.

  73. 73.

    karen marie

    @Scout211:   So let me get this straight.  The police were outside, knew there was an active danger entering the school but they didn’t think to notify the school so an alarm could be sounded and classrooms locked?

    Not exactly covering themselves with glory here.

  75. 75.

    zhena gogolia

    Couldn’t some enterprising reporter get to the bottom of tuckers ties to Putin?

  76. 76.

    mrmoshpotato

    @debbie:

    Carlson needs to go the way of Alex Jones.

    Very charitable of you to not say the way of Rush Limbaugh.

  77. 77.

    gene108

    @TaMara: 

    Texas GOP has been shutting out Log Cabin Republicans since 1996.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/wagatwe/status/1538237349200400384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1538237349200400384%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefaultf%3Dwonkettecomt_i%3D2657529453t_u%3Dhttps3A2F2Fwww.wonkette.com2Fgop-holding-up-gun-bill-to-make-sure-abusive-ex-boyfriends-can-have-gunst_d%3D0A2020202020202020GOP20Holding20Up20Gun20Bill20To20Ensure20Abusive20Ex-Boyfriends20Can20Have20Guns0A20202020t_t%3D0A2020202020202020GOP20Holding20Up20Gun20Bill20To20Ensure20Abusive20Ex-Boyfriends20Can20Have20Guns0A20202020s_o%3Ddefaultversion%3Dcfefa856cbcd7efb87102e7242c9a829

  80. 80.

    mrmoshpotato

    I don’t condone this attack, but as far as I can tell, he should have seen this coming with his good eye (I’m going to hell for that one).

    I felt a ping of shame from laughing, then went “Aw, fuck it!”

  81. 81.

    JPL

    There is some good news to share.   You know who supports Red Flag Laws?    ……   DeSantis.   Won’t the gun nuts be proud.

  84. 84.

    Jim Vandewalker

    This looks like a test: “Who can we send our flying monkeys after?” *pteradactyl scream

  89. 89.

    Tony Jay

    @lowtechcyclist:

    Hasn’t it hurt them? In 1980 the Republicans won the Presidency by almost 10%, the popular vote by something like 8 and a half million votes, and took 44 states. Compare that to the Glorious Shrub’s razor thin wins and the tiny number of voters who tipped 2016 towards The Pustule.

    Yes, you’re right to point out that they’ve been given too much unearned credibility by Dems and had the Media firmly in their corner while they’ve been transitioning from a national political Party into an apocalyptic cannibal horde, but that’s just masked the problem that inevitably comes from winnowing your Base down to the scummiest scum and your candidate list down to the most villainous villains.

    They’re heading towards midterm elections with their racist TV hosts inspiring their hyped-up Party stalwarts to attack their Party candidates on camera. And it’s only going to get worse as the hysteria on the Right gets amped up by their Citrus Messiah’s paranoid ravings.

    I’m hardly the Oracle of Delphi, but sniffing these vapours is giving me visions of a Party that a – lot – of normies are going to shy away from voting for.

  90. 90.

    Cameron

    @karen marie: It might be best to start with the assumption that everything they’re saying is a lie.  All that SWAT-training bullshit was just macho posturing – when the shit hit the fan, why….hey…a man could get hurt here, y’know?

  93. 93.

    Cameron

    @JPL: Wow.  I did not know this.  He does a few more things like that, he might almost rise to sea level in my opinion.  Not that he would give a shit about my opinion.

  94. 94.

    MisterDancer

    @Kent: They throw every vile thing they can think of at the wall and just run with whatever sticks. Mostly that is hate.

    Yes. There is no plan. The Conservative Movement — yes, even the Club for Growth and Federalist Society wankers — aren’t building out 10 Year Plans to take over America.

    Or rather — it’s the same game plan their fore-fathers used to create Jim Crow. Cull the voting population, terrorize the ones they can’t cull out, and throw empty promises of money and power to the ones they tell to Hate.

    Y’all gotta recall — they got so many with tax and budget cuts. SO MANY. The GOP was the Party (or so they claimed!) for low taxes and “fiscal responsibility” off the backs of some lower classes. Which lower classes? Oh, the ones who also happened to be pilloried as “Welfare Queens.” They sold to so many that the Democrats were taking money from “ordinary Americans” and giving it to, well, Black folx, keeping alive the Hate while tying it directly to the slow loss of financial power.

    They did all that not with careful planning, but just by various Right-Wing groups throwing shit at the media and seeing what stuck. When you’re funded to do this full-time, with a staff at your beck and call, it’s a lot easier than the shoestring-funded Left-of-Center advocacy groups have it!

    Now: they literally write Hate bills. They have a whole system for shoveling Right-Wing Judges into the court system. They have so much dark money they can sue — and win! — to basically let politicians pay themselves in “contributions”.

    No carefully-developed plan could have worked all that out. No, they literally let a thousand points of filthy light bloom, and like the cockroaches these assholes are, they’ll let one or another get squashed if they fail — but leaves so many more to grow and breed in the underbelly of American life.

  95. 95.

    RSA

    @germy shoemangler:  Wow, those twitter threads were eye-opening. I had to laugh about one contribution in particular.

    Libertarian Party Mises Caucus
    @LPMisesCaucus
    Abolish the police & public schools, and repeal all gun control. Sovereign immune government agents who use taxpayer funds to resist the release of bodycam footage of a massacre at a youth indoctrination prison shouldn’t exist, let alone be the only ones armed in society.

    Never change, LP. And I say that out of pity, because they just can’t change.

  96. 96.

    JPL

    not sure what happened but this is one article about DeSantis and the Red Flag Law.

    btw I didn’t bother reading it cuz I knew he supported it     link

  98. 98.

    Cameron

    @MisterDancer: Yeah, they can pretty much run with knuckle-walkers.  What’s really dangerous is the fact that these bozos control the Supreme Court – and those folks actually sort of understand the law (yes, even Beer Bro).  So they can have howling mobs in the streets, and sortakinda official-looking judgements from the SC.  I think it’s going to be a hard road ahead.

  99. 99.

    gene108

    @JPL:

    I don’t know, but thinking homosexuality is a lifestyle choice seems to be the dominant belief among conservatives across the U.S.

    Maybe their belief used to be so widespread across the country, they didn’t need to explicitly mention it?

  100. 100.

    RSA

    @Benw: Patriotic, anti-communist, pro-military, real-man Republicans attacking an ex Navy Seal for supporting aid to our ally fighting a war against Russia because Tucker Carlson told them to! How do they keep it all in their heads at the same time?

    It’s amazing. It wouldn’t be out of bounds for the general public to see Crenshaw as a war hero. (I’m also remembering the attacks on McCain and Kerry.)  And yet that’s what they explicitly go for!  “Let’s make fun of Crenshaw for the injury that brought him a Purple Heart, awarded in the name of the President.”  Anyone with an ounce of patriotism would think twice.

  102. 102.

    Kropacetic

    @gene108: I don’t know, but thinking homosexuality is a lifestyle choice seems to be the dominant belief among conservatives across the U.S.

    Well, a not insignificant portion of them are choosing not to despite their inclinations or choosing to hide it in airport bathrooms…

  103. 103.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @RSA:

    I’ve read this is the work of right-wing YouTube trolls like Alex Stein. They think they’re the good guys who love America and Crenshaw is a “globalist” who’s betraying America

  104. 104.

    Dan B

    @JPL: The GOP getting back in power is frightening to me because of the existential threat.  First they want LGBTQ people to be silenced.  When that doesn’t happen they will seek punishment.  States that push back against draconian laws will be subjected to thousands of lawsuits.  The Supreme Court is likely to be expanded with authoritarian, White Supremacist, and Dominionist appointments.  The thirst for total control seems to be growing.

  105. 105.

    gene108

    @MisterDancer:

    They did all that not with careful planning, but just by various Right-Wing groups throwing shit at the media and seeing what stuck. When you’re funded to do this full-time, with a staff at your beck and call, it’s a lot easier than the shoestring-funded Left-of-Center advocacy groups have it!

    I wish more people understood the reason Republicans seem to “be winning” is the nearly unlimited funds billionaires are willing to spend to get their way.

    I don’t know how to get this across to all the people upset at Democrats for not “fighting like Republicans”. Republican politicians are the beneficiaries of decades long investments by rich fuckwads to advance an agenda Republican politician either have to agree with or be forced out of Republican politics.

    Republican politicians don’t come with much of anything on their own. All the operatives and right-wing media do the heavy lifting.

  106. 106.

    Jeffro

    @gene108:I wish more people understood the reason Republicans seem to “be winning” is the nearly unlimited funds billionaires are willing to spend to get their way.

    one hunnert and ten percent THIS

    all the more reason to progressively tax the crud out of high earners…good things for more people happen with those funds, and we disarm the loons in the same stroke

  108. 108.

    Another Scott

    @RSA: They always attack their enemy’s strength early on, to try to make it old news and to belittle it.  They went after Carter’s decency and nuclear bravery vs Reagan’s movies.  Even on their own side they do the same thing. They went after GHWB’s strength (youngest Navy fighter pilot, called him a wimp), etc., and of course the slime they threw at McCain.

    They’re totally predictable.

    Maybe enough voters will recognize it this time…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  109. 109.

    David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch

    This is Great News for …. (checks notes)… McCain!

  110. 110.

    David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch

    They hate McCain because he lost to a black guy, which is the ultimate betrayal to white supremacists

  111. 111.

    RSA

    @NotMax: Yes.

    @Another Scott: They always attack their enemy’s strength early on, to try to make it old news and to belittle it.

    You have a plausible explanation—I’m mainly shocked that it’s effective.  Naive me.

  115. 115.

    Kropacetic

    @Cameron: Makes it much easier to use his name to disparage someone else by proxy. I doubt Tuck’em would have gone that route if McCain were still alive.

  116. 116.

    Cameron

    @Kropacetic: Well, yeah. Like I’ve said about the Uvalde cops: going up against somebody who can fight back, a man could get hurt…

  118. 118.

    Subsole

    @Benw:

    They don’t. They just swap the placard on the shrieking ball of (very, VERY white) white-hot rage that fills their skull.

    It’s all just excuses anyway. The actual verbiage doesn’t matter.

  119. 119.

    Geminid

    @Percysowner: Those cops had good reason to fear that shooter’s high powered, high capacity rifle, . I’d have been terrified. I wish they would admit it, though, instead of acting like there were reasons other than a military grade weapon that kept them out of that room. If it had been some black guy with an ounce of weed and a .38 caliber revolver behind it,  that door wouldn’t have lasted very long at all.

  120. 120.

    Kay

    @Geminid:

    This is the error though:

    “But Arredondo was not trying those keys in the door to classrooms 111 and 112, where Ramos was holed up, according to the law enforcement source

    I think they’re focusing on the wrong part. It’s what happened before “Ramos was holed up”.

  121. 121.

    J R in WV

    @Kropacetic: 

    Well, a not insignificant portion of them are choosing not to despite their inclinations or choosing to hide it in airport bathrooms…

    I’ve flown all over the nation, even into other continents, and I’ve never been in an airport toilet where I was inclined to engage in a sexual encounter with anyone. And I’m kinda a horny person!

    Toilets are not a place where I think “Wow, lets get into some great sex right now, right here!!” Just not a thing where I react with “Whoo, lets go now!”

    More like “Please, Let me discharge my waste in time to find my departing flight!!”

  123. 123.

    Geminid

    @Kay: The police certainly blew their chances to stop the shooter before he “holed up.” But once he did, that door was only so big a problem. Cops break down doors without master keys, even ones as strong as this one may have been. They have special rams for the purpose. And the class room’s walls were most likely regular 8″ cinderblock, lightly reinforced if at all. Knocking holes big enough to aim and shoot through would not take long at all.

    I think the destructiveness of the shooter’s rifle was the crux of the problem, at least once he holed up. He could shoot through that door and those cinderblock walls. Rather than hiding behind the door, the police would do better to point out how crazy it is for us to allow civilians to own military grade firearms. They lack the moral courage to do this, though, which is the crux of a second problem.

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    Ksmiami

    @Poptartacus: I’m so ready for this. It’s punch them into submission or a national divorce- you can’t negotiate with violent crazy Nazis

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    Jinchi

    @Scout211: Two Uvalde city police officers passed up a fleeting chance to shoot a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before he went on to kill 21 people inside the school

    There’s a lot to criticize about the Uvalde police, but that’s a weird report.

    Two officers didn’t make a split second decision to open fire at school grounds on a man they didn’t see before he went on to commit a crime???

    That’s a far cry from “passing up” a chance to stop the shooter.

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    Amir Khalid

    @gene108:

    For as long as I have known of their existence, I have never quite understood why the Log Cabin Republicans are Republican.

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    Soprano2

    @Percysowner:  You’ve got to be kidding me! There wasn’t a janitor with a master key anywhere to be found? Sounds like a bullshit excuse to me.

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    Geminid

    @Amir Khalid: Their website tells me that the Log Cabin Republicans began their existence as an organized group in the aftermath of California’s “Briggs initiative.” Mr. Briggs was an ambitious politician who in 1978 succeeded in qualifying a ballot initiative that would prohibit homosexuals from teaching in public schools. Gay rights activists organized against the initiative, and with the help of former Governor Ronald Reagan the Briggs initiative was defeated. Gay Republicans then decided to take a visible role advancing their rights by starting the Log Cabin Republicans.

    Since then the power of political evangelicals has increased within the party to the point where the Log Cabin Republicans are marginized. In my state of Virginia, the bible thumpers used to be a junior partner in the state’s Republican coalition. During the last decade, though, they formed an alliance with the radical tea party cranks and now have the upper hand over the establishment Republicans who used to call the shots.

    I think this is more or less the case nationwide, and the Texas Republicans are a good example. The religious zealots fear homosexuality, so they hate it. The politicians in the party do not stand up to their bigotry, but try to exploit it instead. Now the Log Cabin Republicans might as well rebrand as the Log Closet Republicans.

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    Citizen Alan

    @Amir Khalid: They’re rich. They think their wealth and status will insulate them from the worst aspects of institutional homophobia and so tax cuts are a bigger priority.

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    HeartlandLiberal

    “he should have seen this coming with his good eye (I’m going to hell for that one)”

    No, you’re not. But you do get only one angel’s wing.

    (Rim shot sound effect)

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