It’s kind of amazing how much weird gross stuff there is on Phil Fortunato. Is there a store of gross anecdotes on a bunch of legislators, and we would hear about it if any of them ran for higher office? Was this news before, but I just missed it?
by Carl Ballard — ,
It’s kind of amazing how much weird gross stuff there is on Phil Fortunato. Is there a store of gross anecdotes on a bunch of legislators, and we would hear about it if any of them ran for higher office? Was this news before, but I just missed it?
WTF?! spews:
PI, that poor guy, should have listened to me. It’s probably too late now. Gonna have to wait it out and bite his nails off. Stay away from all bridges, and have no rope or shoelace lying around. Nothing can feel worse than feeling that someone robbed you of all you hard earned savings.
He’s lucky if he’s down to 23% now. I hope he survived this.
PI's poor mother spews:
My worthless son was arrested last week for shoplifting diamond rings at a jewelry store. You may have heard of it. The store manager held him at gunpoint until the police arrived.
I’m not posting bail. For this week, at least, the money in my purse is safe.
Politically Incorrect - just another "stupid" millionaire spews:
1. Actually, I’m doing some buying this week and am not worried about the volatility. Volatility is always the long-term investor’s best friend: the idiots will panic and run for the exits, abandoning good investments at lower prices.
2. Mom! You’ve risen from the dead! BTW, I don’t even know where any of your purses ended up. Probably given to Good Will after you died nearly 30 years ago.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@3 I heard they were fakes and the shopkeeper was tired of being ripped off $5 every time he walked into the store.
He was lucky not to get the Michael Brown treatment. Doctor Dumbfuck thinks shoplifting $5 of cigars deserves the death penalty. But only if you’re black.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@3 I wouldn’t be buying just yet. This is only the recession warning. Wait until Trump’s policies lock in a recession.
RedReformed spews:
Fox: New Evidence Hillary Killed Lincoln
Why won’t they investigate? What are they hiding!
Steve spews:
Republican justification for denying victims of rape and incest access to abortion.
“Steve King goes full Handmaid’s Tale: If not for rape and incest, ‘would there be any population left?’”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/steve-king-goes-full-handmaids-tale-if-not-for-rape-and-incest-would-there-be-any-population-left/
Roger Rabbit spews:
Re Phil Fortunato link:
“In the case of families with children, every gun owner I know has their guns secured.”
Yeah, we only read in the papers about the ones who didn’t, and of course he doesn’t personally know any people like that.
Most people wouldn’t drive 120 mph on the freeway even if we didn’t have traffic laws and traffic cops. The laws and cops are for the 1% who would. Same with safe storage laws — somebody’s got to protect these people’s kids if they won’t.
Funny how the same folks who oppose abortion in the name of saving babies are against laws to protect babies from irresponsible gun owners. And perfectly okay with rape cages, too.
Show me a Republican and I’ll show you a hypocrite going down in flames. They couldn’t make a logical argument to save their own lives.
Roger Rabbit spews:
A Republican is someone who does what they want and dreams up an argument to justify it (or, more accurately, get the argument from the talking heads at Fox Noise, because none of them are capable of thinking for themselves, or no Republican has had an original thought in 1,000 years).
We got a taste of how this works in real life back in 2003 when the Bushies “fixed the facts to the policy,” i.e., they not only dream up justifications for what they feel like doing, but they also dream up facts to justify the argument.
And a Republican voter is someone stupid enough to put these people in charge of something. See, e.g., Doctor Dumbfuck, who’s living proof that morons can become radiologists.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@6 I suspected her all along, ever since she murdered our diplomats in Benghazi, although her trail of serial killings goes much farther back than that, beyond Seth Rich even.
Honestly, the Republicans who lap up this shit are the most gullible people on earth, and of course gullibility and stupidity go hand-in-hand.
Steve spews:
“New Evidence Hillary Killed Lincoln”
She was…awful, having killed 124 people so far and Republicans still can’t pin anything on her. SAD!
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
6,
relax. Don’t worry.
A report from the IG is just around the corner.
Just ask Teh Dumbfuck.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@7 So now we’re all children of incest and rape? I had no idea I might be my oldest brother’s son. I can’t ask my mother because she’s dead. It’s no use asking him, because he’s a Republican, so I wouldn’t get a straight answer. Where I came from will just have to remain a mystery.
Steve spews:
@13 If one is a Republican male, rape and incest is seen as a good thing, apparently because it’s the only way they can have sex with females of their own species.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@14 I’ve always believed incest isn’t as prevalent as some people claim, given that most mothers hate their kids, at least the ones that turn into Republicans.
Roger Rabbit spews:
You can do the best parenting job in the world, but there’s no telling which kids will grow up to be serial killers or Republicans. Parents have little control over that. All you can do is teach them right from wrong and try to set a good example while they’re growing up.
Roger Rabbit spews:
According to Wikipedia, not only was Ted Bundy born out of wedlock, but some family members suspected he was a child of incest (i.e., his mother’s father was his real father), and look how he turned out — he was both a Republican and a serial killer. It’s hard to know which he became first, as these dysfunctions appear to have existed in him in tandem, but I wouldn’t be surprised if one led to the other.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Following Columbine, in a fairly evidence-free environment of parental hysteria, the US hired about 15,000 “School Resource Officers”, ostensibly to prevent school shootings.
In the twenty years since, not one single school shooting has been interrupted or avoided by an SRO. Instead, over 1 million teens have been arrested and railroaded through the crim justice system into convictions for petty bullshit mostly consisting of joints and contempt of cop. You will of course be pleased to learn that most of the dangerous characters removed from the dank halls of Rydell High were
thugsAfrican American males.The SRO sexual assaults on your daughters are just a little free extra service: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2019/08/12/lansing-police-sex-assault-misconduct-student-molest-child-eastern-school/1989935001/
More police do not make us more safe.
More police make us less safe.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
More “Damn Fine Police Work”:
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/08/14/royal-oak-police-stop-black-man-for-looking-suspiciously-at-white-woman
Everyday Murika now.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Let’s just keep the suburban Michigan theme going:
https://wwjnewsradio.radio.com/articles/woman-stopped-cops-sterling-heights-wants-her-car-back
Three days. One area. This shit is totally routine.
Steve spews:
@19
Looking at a white woman while black. Hmm, bad move. He could have been shot!
WTF?! spews:
Like I said – bloated like a big fat pig. Recession or no Recession. The stock market is a Ponzi scheme
WTF?! spews:
I envision that Bob spent the day, the whole, or the best part of it, ironing the skirt. As he ironed, he was deep in thought and dreams that one day, just one day, it will be, be that the Pom Poms will be with the skirt one day again.
WTF?! spews:
I know..,I know….(raising my hand as the next apprentice)….tomorrow all I have to do is say “Great progresso soup being made with the chinc), and then vwala, stocks rise once again!
Jack Handey spews:
“Deep Thoughts” by Jack Handey:
“If the Chinese are paying for the tariffs, how can they possibly affect US consumers shopping for Christmas?”
Roger Rabbit spews:
Doesn’t anyone know how to spell voila! anymore? I mean besides me.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@25 I’ve seen it argued in the financial media that by devaluing their currency to counter the tariffs the Chinese are actually paying them.
However, it wasn’t explained how that would work if Trump succeeds in devaluing the U.S. dollar like he says he wants to do.
I guess if everybody just prints more money we’ll all be richer, eh? Never mind Weimar Germany or Argentina, that’s ancient history.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Stocks dropped 800 points today and it’s all Jerome Powell’s fault, although you gotta suspect Hillary had her fingers in it, too.
You can now buy Doctor Dumbfuck’s stock for what you could’ve bought it for in June 2017. Good thing you didn’t buy it then, though, because there being no dividend you wouldn’t have made a red cent in the last 2 years.
He would’ve been better off shorting GE, like I suggested, but he wouldn’t listen. That’s his misfortune.
WTF!? spews:
I wonder if the farmers have any personal savings tied up in the stock market. Yeah, I support The Hump too!
WTF!? spews:
@26 I wouldn’t have know how to spell viola, but I was trying to spell wvala. As in wvha la.
WTF?! spews:
America’s Jihadists, bringing you Sharia Law. Ehhh Bob.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/matt-shea-biblical-war-washington-team-rugged
Ban Religion now!
Steve spews:
“America’s Jihadists, bringing you Sharia Law.”
Doctor Dumbfuck doesn’t post on days when the DJIA is being clobbered, so I’ll fill in for the douche the best I can.
“But, but Hillary was so…um…awful.”
WTF!? spews:
4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years!
Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!
4 more years!
The past 3 years haven’t been that bad – I say 4 more years! It can only get better. Maybe a war with France!
Roger Rabbit spews:
@30 Republicans usually spell it “walla.” They’re a lot into phonetics. Especially the ones who didn’t finish third grade.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“Tyson, one of the country’s largest meatpackers, is petitioning the Trump administration to reduce the number of government inspectors at a Kansas beef plant …. In the request, Tyson Fresh Meats proposes using its own employees, rather than independent Department of Agriculture inspectors ….”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/tyson-wants-fewer-government-inspectors-one-its-beef-plants-food-n1041966
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The Bushnies wanted to do this, too. Fire the USDA inspectors and let the meatpackers inspect themselves. Republicans are trying to kill us all. Botulism costs less than Zyklon-B and is just as effective.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“A former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 14 people dead.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/former-blackwater-security-contractor-sentenced-life-iraq-shootings-n1042366
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I haven’t shed any tears yet for this mercenary. Maybe Doctor Dumbfuck can think of a reason to weep for him. He won’t do life, though. The NRA will lobby for his release and some Republican who deeply admires gunslingers will commute his sentence.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
36,
Check his picture then get back to me.
Neckbeard wont get a pardon because a) contractor, not soldier, and b) he does not fit president peepee’s “central casting” image of square jawed handsome American “hero”.
Live by the imbecile, die by the imbecile.
In a universe where Rick Perry runs Sandia Labs, this is to be expected.
@godwinha spews:
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s having a great day. He gets to see millionaires lose money in the morning, and Philly cops shot by the half-dozen in the evening.
The wealth gap between real millionaires and Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit has narrowed. Police officers have been hurt by a criminal.
This is what Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit lives for. Today’s a twofer.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
38,
You didn’t have nearly as much sympathy when Harris and the Weavers tracked cops through the woods and ambushed them in cold blood, did you?
Oh, wait. I see now.
Never mind.
A1 spews:
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Everything Is Racist News – White-hating Demorats Celebrate Open Border White Replacement Policy.
——————-
CNN’s Anderson Cooper said during an interview with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos that he found the demographic decline of white people “exciting”.
“The idea that, you know, whites will not be the majority, I mean, that’s — it’s an exciting transformation of the country, it’s an exciting evolution and you know, progress of our country in many different ways,” said Cooper.
Ramos agreed that whites becoming a minority in America was inevitable and a positive development.
https://www.infowars.com/cnns-anderson-cooper-says-demographic-decline-of-white-americans-is-exciting/
I’llHaveAPilsner spews:
@38
All officers have been released from the hospital.
Now do Charleena Lyles
Now do Oscar Grant
Now do Philando Castille
Now do De’Von Bailey
And on and on.
I’llHaveAPilsner spews:
Stock market tanking on fears of a slowing economy and polls (“Keep America Great Again”)
Donald Approve/Disapprove spread
Females National (-25)
35-49 National (-16)
Colorado (-18)
Florida (-3)
Georgia (-5)
Minnesota (-15)
Nevada (-23)
New Mexico (-9)
Ohio (-2)
Wisconsin (-10)
North Carolina (-9)
Virginia (-17)
Utah (-3)
Pennsylvania (-12)
Texas (-1)
New Hampshire (-26)
Michigan (-11)
Iowa (-4)
Arizona (-9)
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
40,
So here’s the thing, bro.
The stuff you keep posting, presumably to illustrate some thesis of how “the left” has become “un-American” as you define it, in the end amounts to nothing much more than a whole lot of pitiful crying that you and those like you are no longer special.
That’s it. That is your “crisis”.
Now check yourself for just a split second and think about how that stacks up against:
Russian election assistance;
WhitePower!;
PussyGrabber-in-Chief;
NRA/Russian money laundry;
cratering the economy… again;
Porn Hooker Campaign Payoff;
Send Them Back!;
White House Wife Beaters;
criminal obstruction;
and criminal perjury.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“As the Trump administration eyes canceling billions of dollars in foreign aid funding, a senior administration official said Wednesday that projects spearheaded by Ivanka Trump and Vice President Mike Pence would be saved from any possible cancellation.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/14/politics/pence-ivanka-projects-global-aid-rescission/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Of course they will. And you know, without my telling you, what these projects are: Using taxpayers’ money to support Christian missionary work and spread the Christian gospel.
I'llHaveAPilsner spews:
@40
You could probably figure this out for yourself if you had a couple functioning brain cells….
Worrying about a day when the white people are no longer a majority in this country….THAT’S RACIST!
Enjoy it while it lasts. As @43 points out, trying to get one more term out of WHITE POWER! is all that’s left for you.
Triggered!
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
45,
It’s their theme now.
And I don’t think they’d be pushing it this hard if they didn’t have the polling.
“THEY (the liberals, the “elites”, the Democrats, the Left, etc) are no longer on YOUR side! (the exclusive side of The Whiteness)
But WE (the GOP, NRA, FOX, Franklin Graham, Equinox Capital, etc) are YOUR party (exclusive party of The Whites).”
I know it’s going to work with the base and idiots like our trolls. But if enough college educated whites under fifty buy this, then as far as I’m concerned we totally deserve another four years of their bleak racism. And a whole lot of parents who ought to know better should be ashamed of how they raised their children while criticising everyone else’s.
I’llHaveAPilsner spews:
Apparently Hickenlooper is out.
I like the guy. He turned a red state utterly blue but his message of “Let’s be reasonable here we have a lot in common with GOP” isn’t right for this race.
He’s probably the next Senator from Colorado taking a GOP seat if he wants it.
I’llHaveAPilsner spews:
Side note to Dumbfuck.
In all it took Philadelphia Tactical (Swat) and approximately 50 personnel to bring in one criminal.
So the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is 50 good guys with lots and lots of guns and tactical vehicles?
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
48,
You left out ATF.
Seriously, they had ATF tactical assistance as well as HRT advising.
Yet oddly enough, not so much as a peep from Rill Murika about “jackboots” and black helicopters.
Weird, I know.
RedReformed spews:
@38. Typical republican lying and projecting his sins onto other people
Liberals want sensible gun relegation and corrupt and incompetent police officers off the force so that more people are safer and don’t get killed.
By contrast, the conservative racist incel’s loser in the white house didn’t care that the central park five were innocent, he still wants them killed. More specifically, the conservative racist incel never said that was wrong that Trayvon Martin or Robert Castile will killed.
P.S. the 6 policemen did not have life threatening injuries and were released by 7 pm. The same could not be said for Trayvon Martin, Robert Castile, etc.
RedReformed spews:
@38. Typical republican lying and projecting his sins onto other people
Progressives want people who work, to be paid a living wage even if that cuts into corporate profits a bit.
By contrast, The conservative racist incel get all bent out of shape when low paid workers are paid slightly better and when people who don’t work for a living, lose a bit of money
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Well, it would now appear that a major recession is all but guaranteed:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/cramer-says-a-recession-should-not-be-a-foregone-conclusion.html
– Jim Cramer, March 2008
Roger Rabbit spews:
@38 “Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s having a great day. He gets to see … Philly cops shot by the half-dozen in the evening.”
Bleats the dumbfuck who’d be cheering if the cops were black and the shooter was white instead of the other way around.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@38 “Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s having a great day. He gets to see … Philly cops shot by the half-dozen in the evening.”
Bleats the goatfucker who’d be cheering if the cops were black and the shooter was white instead of the other way around.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@40 “Ramos agreed that whites becoming a minority in America was inevitable and a positive development.”
With respect to you and your ilk, yes. They can’t possibly do worse to this country than your crowd. Nobody can.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@42 Logically, if the world’s chief agent of chaos tanks, stocks should go up.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@48 Drug dealers with assault weapons shooting cops — bad! Ban assault weapons? Bad! Anybody else see the inconsistency here?
Republicans have nothing meaningful to say about cops and schoolkids getting shot as long as they continue to oppose any and all forms of gun control.
A society where anyone can readily obtain military weapons intended for battlefield use is incompatible with public safety and law and order. You can’t have it both ways.
Roger Rabbit spews:
For 13 months, I was married to an M-16. I ate with it, slept with it, and took it with me everywhere. Including the outhouse. Every day, I cleaned and checked its working parts with the diligence and devotion of a new father changing his baby’s diapers. I did everything in my power to keep it happy.
(It was a piece of shit anyway. I went through two M-16s in Vietnam, and neither of them was ever able to fire off an entire 19-round magazine* without jamming.
*Yes, I know M-16s had 20-round magazines in those days. They had defective springs, so we always stripped off 1 round to lessen the magazine’s contribution to the jamming problem, although that wasn’t the only thing causing those damn rifles to jam frequently.)
I have no feelings of affection for military assault rifles. Maybe it’s just familiarity breeding contempt, but in any case, I’ve had my fill of them. I have no desire to ever see one, hold one, or shoot one again.
When people claim they just like to shoot them, I don’t see what the attraction is. They go “bang” and kick up a spurt of dust behind the target. That’s it, nothing more. Where’s the thrill in that? Nor can I see spending hard-earned money feeding their appetite for ammunition.
Maybe those people just like to intimidate their neighbors and people who think differently from them. We know criminals and madmen like to shoot cops and schoolchildren with them. If that isn’t an argument for banning civilian possession of the damn things, then what is?
If you want to shoot military weapons, talk to a recruiter. He’ll discuss opportunities to shoot people with them, if that’s what you’re really after. But if a Democrat replaces Trump in 2021, those opportunities may become limited or nonexistent, so if this is what you want, don’t delay, enlist now, because it’ll take at least a year to get through training and be deployed.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
In the last three years a kind of cottage industry has arisen mining the notion that Trump’s win in 2016 was somehow the result of heretofore overlooked masses of “deplorables” quietly and not-so-quietly organizing themselves in dank recesses of the internet and social media. Companies like Vice Media have built their business model around such a myth. As 2020 draws nearer it’s worth grounding these kinds of myths in a few basic facts.
Voter file data from the actual election itself (as opposed to hangar rallies, performative media wannabes, and self-promoting social media “influencers”) consistently indicate that Trump’s narrow electoral college win was driven by the same fucking people who always vote for Republicans every four years. Older, whiter, relatively less educated, yet financially stable voters who live well outside of major metropolitan areas. The “white flight” generation of post WWII worker bees who systematically abandoned cities to avoid school desegregation and neighborhood desegregation.
There is no secret Pepe Army out there. Never has been. Never will be. Vast Russian bot-farms, yes. Massive electoral interference campaigns from foreign espionage agencies, yes. Huge sums of foreign cash laundered into the campaigns by the NRA, yes. And that probably contributed to the sense of influence given to these sad, incel weirdos. But sad freaks like C’ville DeathCar driver never even vote. They may spend hours sewing badges onto Fred Perry polos and working up “dank memes” to “pwn the leftists”, but actual participation in the democratic processes are apparently not violent and “hands on” enough for them. Also, no breakfast cereal.
So while these guys pose a very real risk to shoot up a theme park, bomb a synagogue, or vandalize a pre-school, they pose no risk at all at the ballot box. Sadly, that risk lives next door, drives a pickup with an NRA sticker, works at the post office or the public works dept. and spends a week fishing in Canada every summer. They’ve voted Republican every four years since Reagan. And they always will. And the “one simple trick” to eliminating that risk is to outnumber them next year.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“The firearm used in the deadly Riverside, California, shootout was an untraceable AR-15-type weapon assembled from separately acquired parts, commonly known as a ‘ghost gun,’ a law enforcement source told CNN Thursday.
“‘Ghost guns’ are firearms manufactured without serial numbers and require no background checks for purchase, making them difficult for law enforcement authorities to trace, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Gun parts can be ordered online and assembled at home, the ATF said.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/us/riverside-shootout-ghost-gun/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: There are millions of AK-47s and AR-15s in circulation. Here’s how you get them under control:
1. Prevent manufacture of “ghost guns” by banning online sales of gun parts; require parts to be purchased through licensed gun dealers only.
2. Create a paper trail for every assault rifle in private hands by requiring they be registered at any local law enforcement agency, which then feeds the information into a national database accessible to all law enforcement agencies.
3. Authorize police to do registration checks on assault rifles without showing probable cause and to confiscate any unregistered assault rifles. The owners must then register them in order to reclaim their weapons. Any confiscated weapons unclaimed after a specified period (say 90 days) will be destroyed.
4. Require re-registration upon any change of ownership.
5. Authorize police to confiscate any assault rifle found in possession of a person to whom it is not registered. This means you can’t loan your AR-15 to the MS-13 gang member down the street whom you’re friends with.
The inconvenience to gun owners is slight compared to the effect on public safety of keeping these guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. You can still buy, own, and shoot an AK-47 or AR-15 at your favorite target range. If it’s registered, and you keep it under your control, you won’t be hassled. Registration checks will be like license plate checks; if your registration is in order, and Tommy down the street doesn’t have your firearm, you’re good to go.
Why would any reasonable person to object to this?
Sure, the government could use a national database of assault rifles to come for your AK-47 or AR-15 if a tyrannical government has it in for you. But in that scenario, they’re going to come for you anyway, and if they come with tanks and squads of soldiers in armored vehicles, how much good will your assault rifle do you anyway? The Philadelphia drug dealer who shot 6 cops with an AK-47 yesterday is now in jail and very lucky to still be alive. Does anyone believe the Holocaust could’ve been prevented by Jews armed with pistols, rifles, and shotguns?
Roger Rabbit spews:
Doctor Dumbfuck never misses an opportunity to rail against Roger Rabbit whenever cops got shot by criminals armed with military-style assault rifles, but never once has suggested doing anything to get these weapons under control and keep them out of the hands of the criminals who are shooting cops with them.
Notice I didn’t say ban them, just get them under control. But for some, including Mitch McConnell, even asking for universal background checks is too much. His ilk are vastly more responsible than me when these weapons are turned against our brave men and women in blue, but you don’t see Doctor Dumbfuck criticizing him.
That’s because the good doctor has his head up his ass so far that he can’t see what’s plain to see in daylight.
Roger Rabbit spews:
“The wife of an Arkansas jail administrator was arrested on Monday after she allegedly pulled a gun on four black students who were going door-to-door to raise money for a school athletic program, according to WMC.”
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/08/15/jail-administrators-wife-arrested-after-allegedly-pulling-gun-on-black-students-who-were-fundraising/23794233/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: They’re lucky they weren’t shot. I wonder what would’ve happened if they’d knocked on Doctor Dumbfuck’s door? I’m not insinuating anything, just curious, that’s all.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
When you get right down to it, it’s The Whiteness.
It’s probably the greatest irony of our age that white males are statistically the most likely to die from a gunshot. Of course, those are mostly suicides. But it is without a doubt the white male obsession with guns and “self defense” that is responsible. White males have greater, and more frequent access to firearms than any other group. And the history of that relationship with firearms tells the story of why white men are literally dying for the sake of protecting that relationship.
It’s no coincidence that the only times and situations when white men agreed to support firearms safety regulations coincided with black men openly arming themselves. And it is the emergence of the qualified immunity standard in modern law enforcement that is responsible for restoring the assymetry in access, availability, and open display. No sane black man today would deliberately arm himself with a high capacity semi-automatic tactical rifle and openly carry it into a public place. And yet that precise thing is a daily routine for “open carry” advocates hoping to test local law enforcement. Amazingly (not really) they never get shot by police.
The Right to Bear is pretty much exclusively reserved for white people only, if not by law, then certainly by effect. Black folks, often forced to live in bad neighborhoods and take dangerous jobs are faced with a fraught relationship with firearms when compared to white men. They have to acknowledge that acquiring a gun to protect themselves is more likely to get them killed by police. White men face no such choice. It is truly one of the last great privileges of The Whiteness. And it is a privilege many white men are apparently happy to die for.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@63 You humans are pretty stupid across the board, and the world’s wildlife laughs at you, but white male heteros in particular seem to be a paranoid bunch. And unlike my woodland friends, nobody’s hunting you, except your own kind.
Red Wolf spews:
64
Rabbits are just prey animals. You don’t have any woodland “friends.”
Roger Rabbit spews:
@65 Just because you want to eat me doesn’t mean I can’t be friends with other creatures in the woods. I have lots of friends. Raccoons, chipmunks, birds, to name a few.
Roger Rabbit spews:
The GOP wants to recall Oregon’s Democratic governor because of her “politically motivated policies.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/governor-kate-brown-oregon-gop-recall-climate-change_n_5d545135e4b0c63bcbf19c1e
Roger Rabbit Commentary: If that’s valid grounds for removing an elected official, then we can impeach Trump simply because we don’t like his policies.
Of course, Republicans won’t agree. They believe in different rules for them and us. The whole purpose of being Republicans is to have special privileges.
Roger Rabbit spews:
This should not only get Matt Shea kicked out of the legislature, it should get him disbarred, too.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/aug/14/rep-matt-shea-endorsed-training-child-soldiers-for/
WTF!? spews:
@68 America’s jihadist terrorists that Bob loves.
WTF!? spews:
@63 give them more guns, and let them kill themselves and each other.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
68,
I don’t think it would bother anyone if a Muslim American elected official “endorsed training children to fight holy war”.
Do you?
Roger Rabbit spews:
Trump is a racist and voting for him is a character flaw.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Trump hates the Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos.
So, I’m happy to report that Bezos has turned the WP around, it’s making money now, and has grown its newsroom from 650 to 900 reporters and editors.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/media/jeff-bezos-donald-graham/index.html
I don’t know, but assume, that most of the 250 new reporters are assigned to investigating Trump.
WTF?! spews:
Fuck Israel. Not the people of Israel but the government. Fuck you you mother fuckers. Ehh Bob, you Terrorist supporter.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@74 Just bar Bibi from the U.S., tit-for-tat. No more speeches to Congress subverting our duly elected leadership.
Roger Rabbit spews:
If something’s grossly inappropriate, you can count on Republicans to dip their dicks in it.