Trump

[merman]

There was an attempted shooting on Valentine's Day at the All Faith Mission in Amarillo, Texas.

A witness managed to wrestle the rifle out of the shooter's hands - and was then shot by the police when they arrived, mistaking him for the shooter.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texa ... 704202.php


This follows hot on the heels of anecdotal evidence from the Las Vegas shooting that those armed with guns actually caused MORE panic by running away with their guns drawn.

Arming more people will never reduce the number of people who get shot.

[F-ZeroOne]

Well, that was quick:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ar ... ol-n851986

[Little stoned kiwi]

Idea Of Doing Nothing Until Next Mass Shooting Quickly Gaining Traction In Congress

I get all my news from The Onion these days.

[skab]

I get all my news from The Onion these days.

Fake news!

No. Wait.

[Little stoned kiwi]

Exactly. Disturbing, isn't it? They are often ahead of all the media outlets. Like this one earlier in the week.

News in Pictures: National Security Council Distracted By Whimpering Jared Kushner Pawing At Door Throughout Meeting

Followed up yesterday with
Jared Kushner Forced To Follow Along With Ivanka's Classified Documents During Meetings

[Little stoned kiwi]

I see Hope Hicks is leaving.

Hope Hicks Instructed To Clean Up All The Evidence In Her Office Before Leaving

[ThetaReactor]

Well, that was quick:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ar ... ol-n851986

The nutty folk are already claiming "false flag" on that one. While I think that may be a stretch, it's certainly a bit odd.

[Little stoned kiwi]

The Onion hasn't got anything funny to say about Russia's new missile.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark.

[F-ZeroOne]

Trump apparently now wants to meet videogame producers because videogames are of course the entire, sole, only possible cause of school shootings.

[KlaxonCow]

So, the best way to deal with bad guys with guns is to have good guys with guns.

But a simulation of exactly that - with the added convenience that the bad guys are clearly labelled and friendly fire is turned off - is the root of all evil?

Personally, I blame Elvis. Everything was just fine and dandy - according to that real-life documentary called "Happy Days" - until he started sexually gyrating his hips at all the youngsters with his negro music. Inspiring all those heavy metal bands to sing "hail Satan" in backwards messages. Because Satan is a real person whose magical powers are fuelled solely by praise - without heavy metal bands saying "hail Satan" backwards in their tracks and people playing video games, Satan would be powerless to use his god-like omnipotent powers to create such evil anyway. Somehow.

[PFVA]

Trump apparently now wants to meet videogame producers because videogames are of course the entire, sole, only possible cause of school shootings.

So they kids won't be allowed violent videogames but they will be allowed real guns. "That makes lots of sense".

[Little stoned kiwi]

The Onion covered that days ago.
Nation Fondly Recalls When Just Regulating Video Games Seemed Like Solution To Gun Violence

If the date is to be believed, they covered it years ago and were just promoting an old story.

[carolen]

Florida shooting: US airlines join other firms in dropping NRA

Doesn't seem to have worked out well for Delta, at least -

The number of Delta Air Lines passengers who [ever] bought tickets with NRA discount: 13

And now the (Republican-controlled) Georgia legislature has punished the company by removing a jet-fuel tax break from a larger tax package, which will cost the company the best part of $40m.

Can't make it up

[KlaxonCow]

And now the (Republican-controlled) Georgia legislature has punished the company by removing a jet-fuel tax break from a larger tax package, which will cost the company the best part of $40m.

You see, this is what I meant by corruption.

I'm sure absolutely nothing will happen, as it's too complicated and uncertain (and deeply expensive if you lose) to bring a legal case against this sort of thing.

But, for fuck's sake, this is corruption.

Altering the law to bully corporations into supporting a small special interest group - who are not at all statistically representative of the population but they just have very rich friends and supporters to be able to lobby "favours" out of powerful people, so this has no democratic remit to claim - by a bizarre backwards "morality tax"?

In philosophical terms, this has no leg to stand on. It's a textbook definition of corruption.

Just transplant this to something else besides guns. Let's say Walmart gave a special discount on cookies and lemonade to Girl Scouts. But then they decide that they're not going to do that anymore, for whatever reason. How fucking dare you, say the politicians. And then they bring in a "you must worship the Girl Scouts" tax. Anyone who says or does anything negative about the Girl Scouts will get taxed hard by the Thought Police for their "sins" of believing otherwise.

Which, of course, is also arguably straying towards the establishment of a state religion too. Bow to the Gun God... or else!

Basically, this is, on all levels, totally fucked up. I have no doubt, mind you, that they'll get away with it. Because, you know, 'Murica and all that jazz.

No matter how much it just oozes and drips with hypocrisy. "We need our guns to fight the government's tyranny. Wait, is that someone disagreeing with our guns? Quick, use government tyranny and taxes to force them to agree with us."

I mean, there is surely nothing more fundamentally un-American than not just taxation without any representation, but taxation with the aim of killing off any representation of opposing views. That was literally the war cry of American Independence - "no taxation without representation". America was founded on those very words, for pity's sake.

But here we have taxation, by (state) government tyranny, to deliberately kill off any representation of dissenting opinions.

This is the Anti-Christ of everything that America was supposed to be. And they're calling it "patriotism", in that most darkly Orwellian fashion. Bizarro World writ large.

Fuck me, humans are stupid.

[F-ZeroOne]

Looks like theres going to be a trade war over steel as well...