This is a wonderful grand explanation of conservatism. Regressive. Well worth the read. After watching it then argue with me about it if you disagree. Hugs
Month: June 2022
Switzerland: So Many Guns, No Mass Shootings | The Daily Show Throwback
The way to have guns and still be responsible adults. Hugs
MA Sec Of State Nominee: Teachers Are Telling Five Year-Olds “He Can Suck Another Five Year-Old’s Dick”
This candidate doesn’t even pretend to hedge her belief in this. Yet these same people in this same party are demanding these same teachers be armed to protect children even when the police cannot. All so they can keep their gun fetish. Because that is what it is if you reject common sense regulations, it is a fetish. The Republican party is / has become the party of hate and disinformation. These people think that teachers of the youngest grades are organizing gender swapping sex orgies. In their minds little kids are being made to strip off all their clothing and notice in every story they are always little boys, and then instructed in sexual acts. Some acts I doubt these Republicans really understand how they are done, maybe they should read up on it. Oh wait, those books are banned now aren’t they? These people really think this is going on, when teachers are underpaid, cannot get enough instruction time as it is, and cannot even get supplies to teach normal subjects. What did they read to give them this idea, the erotic fiction of Anne Rice? Do they think the kids have Only Fan accounts? Teachers have to be everything from mothers and nannies, to councilors, to instructors, mandatory reporters, child armed protectors, and so much more.
But beyond that what is the real point here? It is to ridicule the idea that if little johnny asks if it is OK for boys to get married or even kiss the teacher says yes two boys can love each other and move on with the lesson plan. If little Sally says someone has two mommies, the teachers say yes, some families are two mommies and move on with the lesson plan. The teacher taught acceptance of alternative non-heterosexual lifestyles instead of screaming no, no, no never boys must only marry girls and only kiss girls or the great sky daddy will destroy the planet! That is what terrifies the right and what they want to outlaw, so they have to make it as unpleasant and horrible as possible by changing it to the teacher telling the boys to line up, pull their pants down, and suck each other’s dicks.
The rabid right doesn’t want tolerance of other ideas than their own extreme traditionalist religious ideas to be taught to kids. They don’t want kids to be taught that people can be of different religions and it is OK, that people can have different kinds of families and it is OK, that two boys or two girls can fall in love and it is OK. That calling a person by a different pronoun is the right thing if they ask you to do so, and it is OK. No, they demand we indoctrinate kids that an impossible global flood happened, that the earth is only 6 thousand years old despite the evidence, that god created a man and woman from dirt just as they are, magic is real and good when our god does it, and evil and bad when someone else’s god does it or a human does it.
They want their bible to be the new textbooks and their religion to be what all society and understanding to be based on. Anything else is indoctrination and child abuse. They are violent thugs that are willing to use threats and intimidation to get their way while claiming they are victims of cancel culture who are not allowed to get their racist bigoted hate speech out to the public. I am done with these people and this party who have members sitting in congress spouting this stuff and refusing to disavow it. They are the US Taliban! Please watch the last video, it says it so much better than I can. Hugs
“You can’t just sit and say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible. Maybe somebody else will take care it. Oh, that’s not so nice.’ Well, I don’t think it’s so nice when they’re telling your five year-old that he can go suck another five year-old’s dick, do you? This is what they’re doing!” – Rayla Campbell, GOP nominee for Massachusetts secretary of state, speaking at the state Republican convention.
Campbell first appeared on JMG in February when she led a group of QAnon nutjobs and anti-vaxxers in a protest outside a Boston hospital where an anti-vax man had been denied a heart transplant for refusing to get vaccinated.
Of note, some of her QAnon tweets that I included in that report have since been deleted. In the final video below, reporters debunk her insane claims.
No. No they are not. Liar.
Galvestonian ChipSF • 2 hours ago
Where the hell are they getting this shit ? An overactive deviants mind playing havoc with her mouth. If anyone is perverted it’s people like her coming up with outrageous crap like that. Horrible, horrible person
Longpole Galvestonian • an hour ago
Its all a diversion from the crisis within the church.
Currently the SBC Is having to release all the names of the accused preachers and other church workers involved in sexual misconduct charges with minors.
What, me worry? • 3 hours ago • edited
And never an ounce of evidence that any of this is actually happening–BECAUSE IT ISN’T. I don’t know what the answer is here, but hate speech and lies are not free speech. There needs to be consequences for this.
CaliJAB What, me worry? • an hour ago
Trump proved evidence is not required. Just repeat it often and STUPID people will believe it. Remember 80 is the AVERGE IQ.
A MA R State committee member resigned from a cemetery cmte after he said “Let’s Go Brandon!” at their Memorial Day service.
JoeMyGodMod • 3 hours ago
Post to her campaign Facebook page.
Shy Guy Adam Schmidt • 2 hours ago
It’s their strawman argument they use to get the parents riled up to support their next ‘Don’t say gay’ bill. They know it will get people angry, and that almost none of them will look into how true it is.
14 Shot, 3 Dead, in Mass Shooting on South Street
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/14-shot-3-dead-in-mass-shooting-on-south-street/3261464/
Why do we have to accept this? If people cannot go out safely there will be no more economy and no more USA. I watched a Republican in Congress use his time at the gun hearing to show a bunch of guns he claims to won and that restricting the magazine sizes would make the guns illegal. That is wrong because the gun manufacturers would design small magazines that will fit those guns. But he went on about his rights, the rules would take his rights, he would lose his freedom. What the hell did the kids shot in their schools lose? Did they have a right to live or the right to freedom? What did the shoppers in Buffalo lose, did they lose their freedoms when they were shot to death? What do the rest of us in the US lose when we are afraid to leave our homes because we may be shot? What does every school kid lose that has nightmares and is afraid that this school day will be their last? I am tired of a small minority that believes their right is to make the rest of us live in fear or face death and harm. That is not a civil society. Also notice another time police were right there, and people were still shot. Plus even though relatively close the officer still missed. Think of untrained armed bystanders all yanking their pistols out and starting firing? Hugs
An officer saw several gunmen firing into a crowd of people on South Street in Philadelphia shortly before midnight, police said. That officer then fired his gun at one of the shooters
At least 14 people were shot, three of them killed, when gunmen fired into a crowd on a popular stretch of South Street in Philadelphia late Saturday night.
It happened on South Street between 2nd and 3rd streets shortly before midnight. Hundreds of people were out enjoying the night when officers said they heard multiple gunshots, then saw several gunmen firing into a crowd.
An officer fired his gun at one of the shooters, Philadelphia Police Inspector D. F. Pace said. It is not known if the suspect was struck; however, they did drop their gun and flee.
The officer was “within 10 to 15 yards of the shooter, watching this person shoot into the crowd” when he decided to engage, Pace said.
At least 14 people were struck by the barrage of gunfire, police said. Three of them, two men and a woman, were shot multiple times and died at the hospital.
“Once again, we see lives senselessly lost and those injured in yet another horrendous, brazen and despicable act of gun violence,” Mayor Jim Kenney said in a written statement Sunday morning. “My heart is with the family, friends, loved ones of those lost or injured, and with everyone impacted by this terrible tragedy.
South Street is a popular area in Philadelphia lined with restaurants, shops and bars. It is highly trafficked among both locals and tourists.
“There were hundreds of individuals just enjoying South Street, as they do every weekend, when this shooting broke out,” Pace said.
Pace said two guns were found at the scene, one of them with an extended magazine.
The search for the gunmen continued Sunday morning, police said. One of the shooters was last seen running south on American Street between 2nd and 3rd streets.
Police are hoping businesses along South Street captured the shooting on surveillance video.
“I want to emphasize that South Street is manned by numerous police officers,” Pace said. “This is standard deployment for Friday and Saturday night – weekends – and especially during the summer months.”
Philadelphia police said a separate shooting incident happened nearby around 11 p.m. Officers found 13 bullet casings at 4th and Bainbridge, a couple blocks away. Pace said investigators are looking into whether there’s a connection in the two shootings.
Last Tuesday, video captured the moments a woman and other gunmen opened fire on the 400 block of South Street – less than two blocks away from Saturday night’s shooting. One man was injured.
“Furious. I am furious, not just for my neighborhood, for the whole country. If I hear one more time ‘thoughts and prayers’ – bull—,” neighbor Maureen Long said through tears. “We cannot disagree about this. We have to do something. I don’t care what your political leanings are. We can’t continue to let people kill people.”
The Saturday shooting in Philadelphia is just the latest in a spate of mass shootings across the country.
In Buffalo, New York, a gunman killed 10 Black people and wounded three others at a supermarket in what authorities said was a racially motivated attack. In Uvalde, Texas, another gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. In Oklahoma, a man killed four people and wounded several others inside a Tulsa medical building.
Data from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive show that gun violence deaths more than doubled nationwide from 2018 to 2019, when such deaths totaled 39,572.
In the years since, gun violence deaths have only increased. There were 43,658 such deaths in 2020 and 44,957 in 2021, according to the GVA. Thus far in 2022, there have been at least 18,564 deaths related to gun violence across the United States, according to the group.
In Philadelphia, the toll of gun violence is not reserved to isolated mass shootings, however.
A gun violence tracker from the city controller’s office tallied 743 nonfatal and 188 fatal shooting victims as of June 2. Several shootings have occurred in the days since, with the number of fatal and nonfatal victims both sure to rise.
Shootings have accounted for the most killings in Philadelphia this year. The slight bit of positive news amid the carnage, though, is that killings as of Saturday night were at 211, down from the 225 seen at the same time in 2021, which finished as the year with the most murders since the city first began keeping record.
The recent high-profile shootings, though, have renewed calls for stricter gun control amid rising gun violence across the country.
President Joe Biden on Thursday acknowledged there is little left for him to do through executive action and called on Congress to pass legislation to tighten gun laws. While the Uvalde shooting renewed bipartisan talks about modest gun reforms, such talks have broken down in the past.
Meanwhile, legislators in Philadelphia are barred by Pennsylvania’s preemption law from enacting gun control statutes that are stricter than state laws.
“We cannot accept continued violence as a way of life in our country. Until we address the availability and ease of access to firearms, we will always be fighting an uphill battle,” Kenney said in his statement. “As Mayor, I will continue to fight to protect our communities and urge others to advocate for stronger laws that keep guns out of the hands of violent individuals.”
Let’s talk about time marching on and a secret I kept for thirty years….
DeSantis Ramps Up Culture Wars – Dean Obeidallah & Fernand Amandi Fight Back!
One of the panel says that Florida is not a democracy anymore, but an authoritarian state modeled after Hungary and Viktor Orbán and I think he is correct. The Republican party held their CPAC convention there, DeathSantis has learned well from his beloved tRump, he never backs down, never admits a mistake, doubles down against any push back. In short he is a bully and a thug. He is a mob boss, not an elected leader. He is a ruler who orders his people to obey him rather than him listening to voters. And the Republicans in the state love it. Almost every day Ron tells me he wants to move out of Florida now. Hugs
Watch All In With Chris Hayes Highlights: June 3
The first ten minutes of this show are incredible. Chris Hayes details the threats VP Pence was under and how his people suspected tRump would turn on Pence including trying to have him taken out / removed from the capital. I understood why Pence and his wife never went home after they left Washington and they moved constantly staying with friends and supporters. Many people are not aware or are forgetful of trump’s connections to organized crime figures. Pence was clearly worried that tRump or his supporters would still try to kill him. But with him removed from the capital the plan was to have Grassley or another senior Republican simply give the election to trump in the way the Eastland memo details. In fact Grassley did say he would be presiding over the certification then he managed to not even show up himself. Think he was warned of the insurrection ahead of time? The whole show is worth watching but the first ten minutes are very informative. Hugs
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