Rubio is trying to argue that government can't do anything about the gun problem because government can't do anything.
It's another swipe at government itself - the concept of government. Republicans aren't just saying the Democrats' gun safety proposals are bad. They're saying "the government is bad".
Rubio is not as dumb as we like to think he is. Ain't none of 'em that dumb - not dumb at all.
What they're doing is working - it's having the desired effect.
Brian Tyler Cohen
Val Demings showed some real guts, and more than a little brain power. I like it when Dems get up on their hind legs and fight like there's something worth winning.
"I don't know anything, and I didn't see anything, and if I did, I'm really just too dumb and clumsy to pull it off. Besides, what about Nancy Pelosi? Now excuse me, but I gotta go steal my paycheck and syphon off a few billion tax dollars for Mr Koch."
Yes - if the FBI can execute a lawful search warrant on an ex-POTUS because there's credible suspicion he's committed a crime, then the FBI could come to your house too - it there's credible suspicion you've committed a crime.
Brain Tyler Cohen - Liz Cheney and a criminal referral
I'd consider giving up one of my nuts if the Press Poodles would stop framing their questions in GOP talking points.
And if they're "just asking the question so the interviewee can answer", then they can issue the damned caveat - "Republicans are coming at you with this, how do you respond - assuming you think it's worthy of a response?"
- or -
"Y'know, Liz - there's a buncha really stupid people in this country who can't tell the difference between a legit legal thing and the kinda political crap many in the GOP peddle all day every day. What can you say to countervail that stupidity?"
Stupid GOP policies are about to create a metric fuck ton of "welfare babies", and we're supposed to believe that Republicans are having a Scrooge-On-Christmas-Morning moment, so now they'll open up the government coffers and fund the necessary infrastructure to provide support for all the newly minted poor and brown people they love so much.
Fat fucking chance.
It's another lie. When I listen closely, I hear the coded "cha-ching" language of privatization and the move to funnel public funds into sectarian enterprises.
We didn't raise enough of a stink about GW Bush's "Faith-Based Initiatives" bullshit, and this year, SCOTUS has further paved the way by allowing tax dollars to be paid out to religious schools.
Beto O'Rourke interrupts the latest Thoughts-n-Prayers circle jerk in Texas.
When you say, "This latest horrific thing came out of the blue, and holy cow whooda thunk it!?!" - when you know this horrific thing that happened today is pretty much exactly the same as the horrific thing that happened yesterday, and the horrific thing that happened the day before that - and you know there's a very high probability that the horrific is going to happen again tomorrow, and the day after that, and and and - when you say that stoopid thing Republicans always fucking say, then you're either paying absolutely no attention to the world around you, or this horrific thing is something you want to happen.
Greg Abbott actually said, "It could've been worse."
That was not just a clumsy fucked up attempt to console anyone.
When a Republican says that, he means it as a threat.
Translation: We can - and will - make it worse if necessary, because it serves our purpose. We create the circumstances for these disasters in order to keep you in your silos - small groups isolated from (and fearful of) "the other" - one group pitted against other groups. We are the ruling minority, so we can't afford to allow you to make common cause against us.
And isn't it interesting that "conservatives" were totally in favor of blowing up town hall meetings in 2010 screaming about the bullshit Death Panels fantasies, but when Beto tries to bring a little reality to the public square - well now, that's just rude, you "sick son of a bitch".
BTW, if you think anything would change if the victims included kids of the typical coin-operated Republican, then you're living in dream world, and maybe somebody should kick you in the stomach until you snap the fuck out of it.
Even if we leave aside the fuckery of their cynical manipulations, these assholes know a good revenue opportunity when they see one. They'd simply notify the NRA that the price of their vote just went up.
Republicans are despicable people and we have to drive them out from among us.
"...Republicans...are making a conscious decision to defend the status quo..."
Sen Chris Murphy
About 250 Republicans (mostly) in the US Congress are accomplices to murder.
Every time some asshole with a gun and a chip on his shoulder kills innocent people at school, or out grocery shopping, or in church - in church for fuck's sake.
Every time that happens and the GOP not only does nothing about it, but obstructs any and all efforts even to talk about doing something about it, the GOP is aiding and abetting the murderers - of Americans - our kids and their friends, our parents and grandparents, our neighbors and colleagues and strangers we have no reason to believe are anything but good decent folks who've done nothing to deserve dying in fear and pain - all because Republicans (IMO) need us to be fearful so they can go on pretending to be our protectors.
And how ironically fucked up is that? Our "protectors" are making sure we're under constant threat, so they can keep us all suspicious of one another, thereby prevent us from getting together to make common cause against them.
US Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Dumbass), took to the podium in Laramie and decided to float a few Republican turd points past the graduating class. It didn't go well.
So, the first draft of the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v Wade was leaked to Politico, and apparently, they're all really pissed off about it - like they had an expectation of privacy or something.
This marks the first time the government has stepped in to reinstate an obstacle to an American citizen's right to self-determination.
Brian Tyler Cohen - with a special 'fuck you' for Sen Susan Collins
If we're going to be the nation of laws we say we want to be - if we're to have any real chance at moving forward towards that "more perfect union", then we have to hold everybody to account for every piece of our constitution - the body of law that is supposed to facilitate self-governance, as opposed to having an elite cadre of people who get to tell us which laws they'll adhere to today, and which ones they don't feel like obeying. All of which could be completely different tomorrow, of course, depending on what fuckery they've been up to lately.
