Today's Podcast

The Professional Left

Main point: a theme is emerging - has emerged - that Trump isn't really a Republican. He's zomby-fied enough GOP rubes to get this far, but "we" hafta stop him before he destroys "our" beloved Republican Party.

'Scuse me?  Donald Trump has gathered more Republican Votes in the primaries than any other Republican candidate ever.  Donald Trump is going to the convention with more than enough committed delegates - he has 305 more than he needs.  He could wipe his ass with those 305 people, and Cruz plus Kasich would still be 200 delegates short.

Donald Trump is the GOP now, because all those GOP voters voted for him - see how that works?  He owns what the "Repub Establishment" has been building for the last 30 fucking years.

And also too - driftglass and Blue Gal have been saying exactly that for a long long time.




BTW - Trump read The Snake at a rally back in January, and it's been rattling around in my head ever since, and this is what eventually came tumbling out: When a politician (or a silver-tongued devil of a salesman) spins a yarn obviously intending to warn you, there's a fair probability he's making a subconscious effort to tell you something about himself.  And keep in mind, a guy like Trump is always thinking and talking about himself.

  

Today's Quote

What's Up With That?

It's always the hair.  These guys show up and they look weird as hell, and it's always something about their hair, and we're like - "What? Look at his hair, man. Anybody lookin' that goofy has to be pretty harmless, right?"

It should be a dead give-away by now, but we still fall for it - 

every

fucking

time

Lupica Brings It

Mike Lupica on Morning Joe:

Coupla things:

Ari Melber: Dude - land the plane.  If you have a point to make, then make the fuckin' point.

Nicole Wallace: Among the pimpiest of the pimps. She sat there and heard Lupica say it very plainly; and she knew exactly what Melber was trying to say; but she tries to position it as a matter of law; or nothing more than a way to use a political issue to get votes.  

Which is where (I hope) the Dems should be able to find their leverage - the guns issue is about what we mean when we say "American Values".  It's about being willing to make a conscious decision to change something in our lives - even if it means having to sacrifice something near and dear to us - in an effort to make life here in USAmerica Inc a little better for most of us, not to mention making life simply fucking possible for the 700 or 800 kids who get blown away every year because gutless wonders in the GOP think their NRA paychecks are more important than the lives of our kids.

Why are we allowing anybody to treat children like this - ours or anybody else's?  

It's The Morality, Stupid.

hat tip = driftglass and Blue Gal

Today's GIF

I guess I always thought some guys were sitting around doodling and noodling and think-tanking or whatever, and they eventually worked it out because they were trying to work it out.

This makes me think there might've been a coupla random stoners just chillin' by the side of the road, watching the oxcart traffic and, having nothing else to do and nothing to distract them, they started to notice something and yada yada yada - wow - Math, motherfucker!

Today's Quote

“Consensual sex” is just sex. To say that implies that there is such a thing as “non-consensual sex”, which there isn’t. That’s rape. That is what it needs to be called. There is only sex or rape. Do not teach people that rape is just another type of sex. They are two very separate events. You don’t say “breathing swimming” and “non-breathing swimming”, you say swimming and drowning.  --Anonymous 

Today's Tweet

One of those 'N's in CNN stands for "news"
The other one stands for "not"

Did you know that one 'N' in CNN stands for "news" ?

The other one stands for "not" https://t.co/PcTByiR0K6 via

— Jason Hitchcock (@JasonHitchcock) June 23, 2016

Brilliant

Today's Poe Wannabe

This guy is Poe's Law in reverse

...an Internet adage which states that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, parodies of extreme views will be mistaken by some readers or viewers for sincere expressions of the parodied views.

(CAUTION: I could feel the IQ points dropping off my intellect the longer I listened)

Yeah - and what kids today really need is a dose of good ol' American hardship.  So let's go back to the 1950s when we could count on knowing that at least one of the neighbor kids would be killed or crippled by Polio or Whooping Cough or Scarlet Fever or a car crash because seatbelts are for pussies.  Back when things were so much better here in God's Own USAmerica Inc, that the Death Rate for children was 10 times what it is now.

And no, of course he's not a raging bigot - he just liked it a lot better back when all those scary black people didn't have the same rights as the rest of us.

Fake Lord have mercy.

These assholes are serious about being deliberately stoopid, and this level of Weapons-Grade Dumfuckery just gets worse if we don't take every opportunity to stomp on it.

hat tip = Little Green Footballs

I'm So Un-PC

Sometimes, ya just gotta.

@SpeakerRyan Due respect, Mr Speaker - blow it out your ass. Publicizing your venal disregard for public safety is legit, and you know it.

— Mike Roberts (@eVilleMike) June 23, 2016

Today's PSA

Today's Anti-Trump

Lil Donny recently tried to make a case for being "good to the gays" or some such - the usual clumsy left-handed shit that falls out of his face every time he opens his yap.  Anyway, he was trying to pander to LGBTQ, and this started making the rounds:

"If gay people felt the least bit friendly towards Trump, one of us would've already done something about his makeup, and fixed that ridiculous thing on top of his head."

Today's Tweet

Another American massacre took the lives of 49 innocent people in Orlando, Senate Republicans responded “So what?” pic.twitter.com/5VaEGqKFW3

— ✯bennydiego✯ (@bennydiego) June 22, 2016

Today's GIF

Today's Silly Sports Analogy

Donald Trump was born on 2nd base, got to 3rd because his dad paid the next two batters to wait for an inside pitch and lean into it, then wandered into foul territory beyond the dugout thinking he'd go ahead and make a pass at the Ball Girl since he was out there anyway, tripped over the tarp and was eventually tagged out by the slowest catcher anybody's ever seen play the game - and now he's bitchin' about how everybody's so spiteful and jealous he hit the double that they're all trying to keep him from scoring the winning run in a game his team is trailing by 8. 

The Ablative Absolute

I've done this one before - or one like it.

The sentence structure of our 2nd amendment is important, and too many of us are either willing to be bamboozled by the Ammosexuals, or we're not willing to risk sounding soft and Librul on the issue of Gun Control.

Here's a bit I dug up in The Denver Post from a few years back:

The main argument about the amendment has always been a semantic one: What is meant? What is the intention? I use the present tense, because grammatical deconstruction is done in the here and now. We are not trying to divine intentions from our personal beliefs of what the Founders “stood for” or what they “believed.” The Founders are dead, but their words remain alive in the present, and their words, as well as their meticulous grammatical construction, leave no doubt as to their intentions.

Read these sentences:
“Their project being complete, the team disbanded.”
“Stern discipline being called for, the offending student was expelled.”

In both cases, the initial dependent clause is not superfluous to the meaning of the entire sentence: it is integral. The team disbanded because the project was complete; the student was expelled because his offense called for stern discipline. This causal relationship cannot be ignored. Reading the Second Amendment as “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right to bear arms shall not be infringed,” clearly shows the same causal relationship as the example sentences; in this case, that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed because it is essential to maintaining a well-regulated militia.

Words matter.  What those words meant to the people who wrote them 230 years ago can give us a decent perspective on what they thought was important back then and what can be carried forward to us all these years later, but that was way back then and this is right here right now. We have to deal with what's going on today.  We need laws that help us sort ourselves out now.  We need lawmakers and industry leaders who can see past their own profits and venal ambitions. And we need everybody to stop fuckin' around. Get something done. Now.

Cuz guess what, chicken butt - a coupla hundred more dead Americans since Orlando:

(the interactive map crapped out, so I put up this link to Slate instead)

Today's GIF

Trumpty Dumpty Sat On A Wall

We take you now to live coverage of the Donald Trump Campaign. 

But it ain't over yet - not by a long shot.

After sending out a tweet Monday dancing on ex-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski's grave, top adviser Michael Caputo admitted the tweet was "too exuberant" and resigned his post with Donald Trump's campaign.

When news broke that Corey Lewandowski had been ousted from the campaign following months of discord with other top staffers and Trump's adult children, Caputo tweeted, "Ding dong the witch is dead!", an allusion to the famed "Wizard of Oz" villain.

Today's Bullshit

From a good while back - some things just never change.

hat tip = FB pal VW-E

Colbert Explains

What - I gotta draw ya a fuckin' picture!?!

They Seem Like Such Nice Girls

My darling daughter got me to watch the opening episode of the new season of OITNB last night.  Here's the tune they chose to go with the closing credits. (NSFW)

Today's Quickie

Today's Tweet

We were trained for, and fully indoctrinated into this mess.  

Barbie dolls and Transformers and GI Joe and all the rest.  

Here, kids - learn about accessorizing - so we'll be able to trigger that response a little later on, when we figure out the next round of putting Competitive Consumerism together with SocioPolitical Paranoia in order to synthesize a more-easily manipulated electorate.

Finally, thank you democrats for taking a stand against gun violence. 💥🔫#Enough #filibuster pic.twitter.com/pZgGh1wp32

— Skook (@skookerG) June 15, 2016

The Co-Marketing and Cross-Branding and the blending of Government with Commercial Interest (which basically is nothing short of Proto-Fascist positioning) has to be stomped on every chance anybody gets.

Today's Pix

Today's Tweet

Coming next week: #DelegateRevolt protection line for Anti Trump delegates facing threats & harassment. pic.twitter.com/ZFVa7wWzfF

— Stop Trump PAC (@StopTrumpPAC) June 17, 2016

How does this get any less weird now?

#NeverTrump

#DelegateRevolt

Rhetoric of violence
+ political fervor 
+ guns 
+ stoopid people in large groups 
= What exactly?

I can't go Full Carlin and say I have no stake in the outcome so it's just fun knowing I have a front row seat at the freak show - but this is something I'll be watching with great interest.

With all the flips and turns and pivots and loop-dee-loops - there's some kinda crazy Judo going on here.

The View From Out There

Holding Hillary's feet to the fire is a political absolute.

We can fix this.

Dumb Donald

THANK YOU! #AmericaFirst pic.twitter.com/qp07UfnnjM

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 17, 2016

Seeing as how Trump has been polling behind Hillary by (sometimes) 20 points, maybe he's trying to say he's catching up? it's not as bad as they say? hey guys - I may be a complete bag-o-shit, but I'm only a coupla points behind that other slightly-less-a-bag-o-shit?

Politics is so friggin' weird sometimes.

I'm going to put up this screen shot, just in case Trump deletes the tweet.

Wait - What?

In what may be a clear signal that at least one of the Seven Seals has been broken, here's Charlie Sheen making a thoughtful and cogent observation.

Behold The CINO RINO Wars

Charge and counter-charge.

A squad of semi-behind-the-scenes Repubs are gearing up for something.  Of course, we won't get to see what it is exactly for a while - if we get to see much of it at all.

Remember, these Trumpkinite bozos comprise the GOP's base.  Reince Priebus et al have to figure out how to lose Trump without losing the assholes who follow guys like Trump around believing the basic bullshit that guys like Trump are always peddling.

And please - while we're at it - let's make no mistake here: Only some of Trump's voters are with him because he gives vent to the shittier angels of our nature.  Most of them are willing to overlook an awful lot of the really bad shit because he's telling them they deserve not to have been fucked over by a system that took a giant dump on their heads and now expects them to say, "Thanks for the hat".  

I'm not giving any of these bigoted assholes a pass - I'm just saying there's plenty of angst to go around, and people react to that shit in some pretty weird ways.

HuffPo:

Richard Armitage, who was Bush’s deputy secretary of state during his first presidential term, told Politico in an article published Thursday that Trump “doesn’t appear to be a Republican, he doesn’t appear to want to learn about issues. So I’m going to vote for Mrs. Clinton.”

Armitage, who also served under President Ronald Reagan, isn’t the first Republican to throw his support behind Clinton.

Arne Carlson, the Republican former governor of Minnesota, told CityPages on Wednesday that “no human being in history has been more vetted” than Clinton while Trump “has taken campaigning to a new low.”
Mike Treiser, a former Mitt Romney staffer, said that “in the face of bigotry, hatred, violence, and small-mindedness, this time, I’m with her.”

As conservative writer Ben Howe put it, “I am a fiscal conservative and I am a social conservative. That will not change. But I will not vote for an egomaniacal authoritarian. Nope.”

And we might even get to see a few Press Poodles up on their hind legs because Trump yanked WashPo's press pass, but also because they just really can't afford to have a tin-plated strutting martinet push 'em around.  The cumulative standing of the American Press Corps is only marginally better than the unholy triumvirate of politicians, lawyers and lobbyists, plus a raging Herpes Outbreak all over your lip the day before prom.

Margaret Carlson:

Smoke is rising from the capitol dome and the first responders are missing in action. Instead of running into the building to save it from their presumptive nominee, Republicans are running away. Watch them scurry at the approach of a reporter wielding nothing more than a notebook or microphone asking about the latest outburst from Donald Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's press briefings have been designated Trump-Free Zones. His No. 2, Senator John Cornyn, announced that he won't take any Trump questions until after the November election.

So, Press Poodles - if you're any good at all; if you want any chance to redeem your-mostly-worthless-asses; if you wanna do the job you're supposed to do, then every goddamned one of you asks the Trump Questions every goddamned time any GOP politico steps in front of you.  Every fucking one of you - Every.Fucking.Time.

Keep 'Em Flyin'

Thoughts And Prayers!!!

...the video game that's sweeping the nation
...brought to by (not really) The GOP

(click on the link at the top - I couldn't figure out how to embed)

And also too:

I am angry.

Yesterday I was sad. Today, I am angry.

I know that’s facile and cliche and maybe even self-absorbed. I’m trying to think of a better word — I bet the Germans have a perfectly and oddly specific one, but English doesn’t, so angry will have to suffice.

I’m angry that I’ve always known this would happen.

I’m angry that when marriage equality passed last year, my second thought, right after “OMG yay!” was, “I wonder how long it will take for someone to blow up a gay bar.”

I’m angry that I then immediately scolded myself: “DON’T LET THAT IN. Don’t put it out there. Don’t live in fear. Cling to hope and the arc of justice always bending in the favor or righteousness and all that. Don’t let the bad become conventional wisdom, don’t let the pain of the past calcify into cynicism. Relish this. Celebrate it. Believe in it.”

I’m angry that that has now been proven to be naive.

I’m angry that Christians were taking to YouTube calling for armed reprisals the day marriage equality happened, and so far not a single Christian I know has voiced any support or agony over this barbaric tragedy that killed 49 gay and trans people and allies.

I’m angry that that will be swept under the rug because the gunman was a Muslim.

...it goes on for a while, and just gets better. Let it out. 

Mr Rick Wilson

10 tweets from a guy who should be fully on board with the GOP nominee.  When a Political Operative total rat-fucking pimp like Rick Wilson bails on your candidate, you've got more than a small problem.

1/ How the actual fuck does anyone at the RNC have standing to act shocked that Trump is not doing the basics of campaigning?

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

2/ You can't elide over his utter dipshittery. No matter how much you try to act surprised, you own this. You're covered in his stench.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

3/ History will be so cruel to you.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

4/ Your off the record sniping and grumbling is no substitute for moral courage. That's so DC.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

5/ You won't escape the stain. It's like a big, visible "No Ragrets" chest tat that will mark your careers forever.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

6/ Go public. Man up. Show courage. Say what's in your hearts; he's insane. He's poison. He's doomed. He's killing the Party.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

7/ None of you are good enough to spin the unspinnable ratfuck that is Trump. None of you can say, "I was just following orders."

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

8/ This weekend, people were lined up hundreds deep to give blood to the victims of Orlando. Your Cheeto Jesus was praising himself.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

9/ There is no better Trump. There is not Presidential Trump. He is a vile stain on the this Republic.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

10/ Your resumes will always read "Worked for a batshit crazy crypto-fascist who destroyed the GOP"

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 16, 2016

Some Kinda Of Sick Sense

Today's tweet, and holy fuck - this makes the whole vulgar charade into an even bigger shit show than we thought.

Trump "considering creating his own media business built on the audience that has supported him thus far in his bid" https://t.co/hdZ2P4nNcd

— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) June 16, 2016

Here're the first few graphs from the Vanity Fair piece:

Every election cycle has its own breakout media star. In 1992, it was CNN. A few years later, it would be an e-mail blast called the Drudge Report. By 2000, the country had more or less been neatly delineated between MSNBC and Fox News households. The 2008 election introduced Politico and the Huffington Post to the adults’ table. BuzzFeed joined in 2012. 

The breakout media star of 2016 is, inarguably, Donald Trump, who has masterfully—and horrifyingly—demonstrated an aptitude for manipulating the news cycle, gaining billions of dollars worth of free airtime, and dominating coverage on every screen. Now, several people around him are looking for a way to leverage his supporters into a new media platform and cable channel.

Trump is indeed considering creating his own media business, built on the audience that has supported him thus far in his bid to become the next president of the United States. According to several people briefed on the discussions, the presumptive Republican nominee is examining the opportunity presented by the “audience” currently supporting him. He has also discussed the possibility of launching a “mini-media conglomerate” outside of his existing TV-production business, Trump Productions LLC. He has, according to one of these people, enlisted the consultation of his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who owns the The New York Observer. Trump’s rationale, according to this person, is that, “win or lose, we are onto something here. We’ve triggered a base of the population that hasn’t had a voice in a long time.” For his part, Kushner was heard at a New York dinner party saying that “the people here don’t understand what I’m seeing. You go to these arenas and people go crazy for him.” (Both Kushner and Ivanka Trump did not respond to a request for comment.)

Bless You, Charlie

Charlie Pierce:

When are people going to realize that the big bag of fucks to give at 1600 Pennsylvania is not only empty, but it's sitting in a back closet somewhere and nobody's going to find it until the midway point of Sasha Obama's second term in the White House? Why does this continue to surprise people?

On Tuesday, right around lunchtime, the president came out and parked He, Trump onto a rooftop across Waveland Avenue. In brief, the president informed the vulgar talking yam that he, the yam, was screwing with the country's heartbeat because he, the yam, is an ignorant, ridiculous man who doesn't know shit from tunafish about anything beyond where to find good-quality, child-sized gloves in a hurry. He made very short work out of the preposterous notion that if he uses the magic conjuring words, then the entire Middle East will turn into Sweden.

And then Mr Pierce quotes Barry Bams:

"That's the key, they tell us, 'We can't beat ISIL unless we call them radical Islamist.' What exactly would using this label accomplish? What exactly would it change? Would it make ISIL less committed to trying to kill Americans? Would it bring in more allies? Is there a military strategy that is served by this? The answer is none of the above. Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. This is a political distraction…Not once has an adviser of mine said, 'If we use that phrase, we're going to turn this whole thing around.' It's a political talking point. It's not a strategy. And the reason I am careful about how I describe this threat has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with defeating extremism.""We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from entering the United States. To bar all Muslims from emigrating to America. We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence. Where does this stop?... These are not religious warriors. They are thugs and they are thieves."

I really hope Hillary's listening.

Today's Meme

It Just Gets Worse

And suddenly, this is an older and - though it doesn't seem possible - an even sadder story.

NY Daily News:

Omar Mateen lived a double life.

The homophobic maniac who murdered 49 people inside Orlando’s gay-friendly nightclub Pulse Sunday morning had been hanging out there for three years — and chatted with men via online dating services like Grindr, said multiple witnesses who claimed to have firsthand knowledge of Mateen’s habits.

Mateen’s family said his bloody rampage was sparked by anti-gay hatred.

But his ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, when asked on CNN Monday if he was gay, sat in silence for a few seconds before answering, “I don’t know.”

The Guardian:

His former classmate Samuel King, who also worked at the same shopping mall as Mateen after high school, said Mateen had known that he and many of his friends were gay but never expressed any disapproval. “He had to know it, but I never got any sense of homophobia or aggression from him,” he told the Washington Post.

The information adds to a complex and often contradictory picture that is emerging of the gunman and his motivation for the outrage. His father, Seddique Mateen, hours after the shooting said that Mateen had once become incensed when he saw two men kissing in Miami in front of his wife and child.

I don't know that any of this will matter much because the narrative has been set for the DumFux News crowd - Radical Islamic Terrorism.  So the part about the guy being a closeted gay is secondary. 

Except when it comes to a maybe kind of a subtle little kink for the Rabid TheoCons.  You've got a Muslim with an assault rifle shooting down a buncha QueerFolk.

Forget about all the social toxicity of the Authoritarian shit and the Daddy Issues and Self-Loathing and the Blame-Shifting, and turning that anger outward to keep from totally imploding, while at the same time taking action that will ensure your own demise.

Let's not think about any of that, and let's be sure we don't even try to keep guns away from the nutty people.

The only thing that matters is that we've got a political trifecta for the Right Radicals - a guy they hate is using a weapon they love to kill other people they hate.  It doesn't get any better than that for a modern GOP, where thinking things thru is just not something they wanna encourage.

They don't do anything about it - and they obstruct everything anybody else wants to do about it - because it's working for them.  They benefit from the problem politically, and their Crony Contributors profit from both the problem itself and the false solutions they support.  USAmerica Inc.

These people have no soul and no honor.

Today's Quickie

Flag Day

Today's GIF

Today's Tweet

pic.twitter.com/bJFs1tgITu

— Randy Prine (@randyprine) June 13, 2016

You're not really gonna try to argue with Morgan Freeman on this, are ya?

It Bears Repeating

Jim Jeffries - Gun Control - Part 1

Jim Jeffries - Gun Control - Part 2

The Essence Of Stoopid

TPM:

The man allegedly behind the largest mass shooting in American history purchased his weapons from a gun dealer and shooting range whose owner has in the past posted anti-Muslim and anti-President Obama comments on Facebook, the New York Daily News reported.

ATF Agent Sal van Susteren confirmed to the New York Daily News that accused Orlando shooter Omar Mateen purchased the weapons he used in the weekend's massacre at St. Lucie Shooting Center, not far from Mateen's apartment in Fort Pierce, Florida.

The New York Daily News reported that the store's owner, Ed Henson, an ex-NYPD officer, had posted on Facebook in December a meme that said, "F--- Islam, F--- Allah. F--- Muhammad. F--- the Koran. F--- people who support terrorism,” as well as a comment in November calling for Obama to be "handcuffed, removed from Office and charged with Treason and then publicly executed!"

No, Mr Henson, fuck you.

You helped amp up the atmosphere of hatred and paranoia, which you knew would make it that much easier for you to sell guns and ammo to weak-minded individuals who don't quite fully understand the deathly shitty game you're playing.

This is on you and The NRA and all the other smarmy little grub worms in the Ammosexual Community who've created a dank and noxious underworld at the nexus of Religion and Politics and Unfettered Free Market Capitalism.

Sorry not sorry if you feel I'm singling you out unfairly, Mr Henson - there's a group of 50 dead Americans who all probably felt the same way when Mr Mateen was killing them; for reasons you contributed to; with a gun you sold to him.  Maybe you could keep that in mind next time you sell guns to somebody who just might be as big an asshole as you are.  

You wrote, "Fuck people who support terrorism" - so yeah - fuck you, Mr Henson.

My Donkeys

1700 guys making almost $5 Billion a year, but it's the jewelry they really play for.

Peyton adds to his collection.#Horsepowerhttps://t.co/2ToDeTQsc9

— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) June 13, 2016

John Oliver

And a tweet

pic.twitter.com/G6Ba4zXYr2

— Steve Galluccio (@stevegalluccio) June 13, 2016

To Whom It May Concern

Dear God,

Prince was my favorite guitar player, and you called him home last month.

Muhammad Ali was my all-time favorite sports hero, and you took him last week.

I just wanted to get up with you today, and remind you that my favorite candidate is a guy named Donald Trump.

I'm not expecting miracles here, but, you know - just in case you got nothing better to do or whatever.

Thanks,
Mike


cribbed from a post by FB pal Linda

Let Them Show

Like a rainbow

Today's Eternal Sadness - Orlando

We can usually expect some jagoff on DumFux News to start spluttering about "where are the moderate Muslims...!!!!"

CAIR to ISIS: "You do not speak for us, you do not represent us. You are an aberration." https://t.co/5HsAkKaqvp https://t.co/xCq4sInXFC

— CBSN (@CBSNLive) June 12, 2016

So now, I guess I have to wonder why we never heard from "the moderate Christians..." when dick-face-what's-his-name shot up that Planned Parenthood joint in Colorado Springs.


But anyway.

9-11
😖Never Again
+ Massive Response
= No more 9-11s

Sandy Hook
😖Never Again
+ Don't Do Shit
= another 998 mass shootings since then

🖕NRA

— Mike Roberts (@eVilleMike) June 12, 2016

Meanwhile:

Connecticut’s U.S. senators blamed Congress for the killing of at least 50 people early Sunday at an Orlando club, saying lawmakers’ inaction on gun control makes them “complicit” in the shooting rampage.

Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, both Democrats and vocal gun control advocates, represent the community of Newtown, where a gunman fatally shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

“This phenomenon of near constant mass shootings happens only in America – nowhere else,” Murphy said Sunday. “Congress has become complicit in these murders by its total, unconscionable deafening silence. This doesn’t have to happen, but this epidemic will continue without end if Congress continues to sit on its hands and do nothing – again.”

 

I Wonder

McConnell popped into view right about the time Ms Ryan disappeared - just sayin' - ya never see 'em in the same place at the same time.