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the bottomless barrel
#61305 03/31/22 06:33 PM
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Just when I thought that the bottom of the barrel has been reached, Trump dug through it. Stephen Colbert Condemns Trump’s Digging for Dirt During a War


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It's hard to imagine a new depth (height?) to idiocy, but here it is: Why Tucker Carlson wants men to aim lasers at their private parts



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Sounds like a good idea: so men who are stupid enough to do it won't reproduce?


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jchuzi #61424 04/23/22 01:35 AM
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I think Kevin McCarthy just sailed right past the bottom of the barrel straight into the sewer.

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Douglas #61425 04/23/22 01:20 PM
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Kevin McCarthy couldn't help himself. For Republicans, lying is reflexive.


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ryck #61430 04/23/22 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by ryck
Kevin McCarthy couldn't help himself. For Republicans, lying is reflexive.

What is even scarier is they don't think they are lying.


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joemikeb #61431 04/23/22 08:52 PM
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In a lighter vein, speaking of the bottom of the barrel, has everyone seen Rudy's Masked Singer "performance?"

There's no more explicit an admission that you've hit rock bottom - that you're a pathetic has-been - than appearing on reality TV (and, especially, having one of the judges walk off the set when he sees it's you)!


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jchuzi #61577 05/23/22 09:05 PM
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Just a note:

The links to the NYT stories require PAID memberships to view the articles.


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MG2009 #61578 05/23/22 09:13 PM
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You can sign up for a free membership, but it doesn't get you many free looks.


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artie505 #61615 05/26/22 07:11 PM
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I am constantly amazed and astounded at how low some people can get. For those who cannot access Debunking 3 Viral Rumors About the Texas Shooting, the gist is that:

1. The shootings were staged.
2. The shooter was transgender.
3. The shooter was an illegal immigrant.

Needless to say, none of these are true. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised anymore about human idiocy/cupidity/evilness. mad


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jchuzi #61624 05/27/22 11:43 AM
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The NRA convention, planned months in advance, will take place today in Houston. Trump and Cruz are scheduled to attend. It's difficult to see how the timing could have been worse, but this will be interesting... tongue


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jchuzi #61625 05/27/22 12:06 PM
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Maddox too, and guns have been banned during Trump's appearance.

Talk about irony!


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jchuzi #61629 05/27/22 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by jchuzi
The NRA convention, planned months in advance, will take place today in Houston. Trump and Cruz are scheduled to attend.
Along with Governor Greg Abbott. I watched an item with a mother whose son was killed at the Sante Fe school shooting in 2018 and she recounted that Trump, Abbott and Cruz were all at a meeting with parents following that slaughter. She said they all promised "This can never happen again" and they said there will be changes to gun laws. Now we've seen the unspeakable horror of Uvalde.

Trump, Abbott and Cruz are prime examples of a core issue - they, and other politicians, have no morals. A moral politician would say: "I don't care how my party wants me to vote, Lives are all that matters and I will vote for any legislation that brings an end to the horrific events."

The decision by Trump, Abbott and Cruz to appear at the NRA convention puts We don't have morals in bold lettering.


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Originally Posted by artie505
Maddox too, and guns have been banned during Trump's appearance.
Oops! Meant Abbot, not Maddox.


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ryck #61637 05/28/22 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by ryck
The decision by Trump, Abbott and Cruz to appear at the NRA convention puts We don't have morals in bold lettering.
And, as through President Bonespur thought that putting his and other politicians' immorality in bold lettering, he decided to underline it as well - "We don't have morals". At the NRA convention Bonespur has spouted the diversionary tactic used by other Republican politicians, and certainly the position of the NRA: It is not a gun issue, it's a mental health issue.

There's no doubt that these shooters are not mentally stable. However, I am quite sure that, on a per capita basis, other countries have a similar percentage of mentally unstable people as the U.S., except other countries don't have the ability for those unstable people to access guns easily. As long as slack-jawed Troglodytes like Bonespur, Abbott and Cruz remain in positions of power, children will continue to be murdered.

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ryck #61639 05/28/22 08:41 PM
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It needs to be highlighted that Abbot not only enabled the shooter, who bought his weapons just days after he turned 18, by pushing through the legislation that enabled him to buy them at 18, but just months ago he cut $211 million from Texas's mental health budget.

Between this, abortion, and ERCOT last year, Abbot's got far more blood on his hands than the shooter!


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artie505 #61640 05/28/22 11:05 PM
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I just spent the better part of an hour carefully writing, rewriting, and editing a diatribe on Gregg Abbot and his actions or rather inactions only to decide this is not an effective place to vent my political spleen. So I edited it one more time and ended up keeping only my concluding sentences.

Originally Posted by joemikeb
Personally, I wish Gregg Abbot would finally follow through on his threat to secede from the Union -- not Texas, just Gregg Abbot.


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ryck #61643 05/30/22 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ryck
There's no doubt that these shooters are not mentally stable. However, I am quite sure that, on a per capita basis, other countries have a similar percentage of mentally unstable people as the U.S., except other countries don't have the ability for those unstable people to access guns easily.

Or maybe we are all missing the point: clearly countries like Great Britain, Australia and Japan just do not have mentally unstable people, which is why they do not have mass shootings. crazy

If you all have access to HBO you might want to view the two-part George Carlin documentary. Naturally they show in part two of Carlin's performances, one from the 1980's and one from 1992. His social and political perspectives are incredible sharp and the really scary part is that if you did not know the dates of those performances, you could easily think he was talking about today. Alas, the more things change, the more they stay the same.


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Originally Posted by Ira L
... clearly countries like Great Britain, Australia and Japan just do not have mentally unstable people, which is why they do not have mass shootings. crazy

I object! We clearly have nutters in GB. We've got one in Number 10. On the mass gun killing score, only Dunblane (1996) and Hungerford (1987) in my recollection. Knives and bombs are more our speed, but only half of those are "home grown".

I would not like to imagine a world where a teacher wears a gun on his or her hip.


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freelance #61646 05/30/22 11:34 PM
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I believe that Ira was being sarcastic (look at the emoji).


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Originally Posted by jchuzi
I believe that Ira was being sarcastic (look at the emoji).

Yes, I was, and I suspect Freelance was too. smirk


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Originally Posted by jchuzi
I am constantly amazed and astounded at how low some people can get. For those who cannot access Debunking 3 Viral Rumors About the Texas Shooting, the gist is that:

1. The shootings were staged.
2. The shooter was transgender.
3. The shooter was an illegal immigrant.

Needless to say, none of these are true. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised anymore about human idiocy/cupidity/evilness. mad
Then in the midst of the madness, we see a meaningful gesture.

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There have been some editorials in the local newspapers suggesting that photos of the dead (with parental permission if a minor) in any shooting should be printed or shown on news broadcasts. This would make the reality of the event more real to everyone and generate outrage and (hopefully) changes in gun regulations. The argument makes mention of the photos from the Viet Nam war (in particular the one of the Vietnamese child running naked away from a napalm bombing) and other similar ones. Any thoughts?


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I've been thinking about that since I read that some of the Uvalde parents have said they're considering open casket funerals, and I wonder if, particularly in the case of the Uvalde victims, who were identifiable only by DNA, it might tend to unnecessarily help promote the (not to minimize it) "mental health problem" argument, by pushing individual depravity to the forefront, at the expense of the underlying problem...that guns enable the depravity.


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