Let me tell you, as someone who isn’t getting news from television or the formerly awesome Breaking News (a digital news aggregator that was bought by NBC and later shutdown in 2016), things are bad when you hear about a mass shooting a day after it occurs. This shouldn’t be happening but it should be the worst thing making headlines. The fact it got drown out by President Dumbberfuckle Trumperdickle isn’t good.
“This event is tragic in more ways than you people in the audience could ever fathom from a law enforcement perspective,” McNeil said.
Every time I think my opinion of cops is at rock bottom, they find a new way to piss me off. This shooting is special and bad because one of our people might get in trouble for it!!
And the usage of "you people" feels intentionally pointed. Insulting to everyone's intelligence/sense of empathy.
Then they go on to claim that they'll make sure mass shootings won't be tolerated in this country. Well where the fuck has this person been for the past few decades?
Okay, so not that I think cops deserve fairness, but in fairness...
If she had an extremely strong devotion to her community and a sense of duty to those people, I could see how that would add a layer of grief and guilt on top of her son being an attempted mass murderer.
But given that her son had access to at least one of her weapons, I'm not certain that she's any different from the rest of the pro-gun-toting rules-don't-apply-to-us that most of the "blue lives" are.
There’s criminals under every rock and behind every tree. Gotta have unsecured guns within easy reach at all times. On counters, in bedside drawers, in closets, under car seats…
They're angry that they havent been given permission to start The Purge against everybody who isn't MAGA.
Now "the liberals and their courts" are trying to stop HitlerPig's agenda, and they're getting really froggy. At some point, HitlerPig is going to make a statement that they'll interpret as "Go," and we'll have massacres all over the country.
You saw this a lot in Trump's first term too. Essentially they're pissed that the world still sucks even though their guy got elected and it's breaking their brains because they think the problem is that Trump hasn't killed all the minorities or made women property or whatever it is they think will fix the world and that all hope is lost.
Its terrifying that rather than having to admit that they were wrong, people will usually double down on their positions.
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan
That's the thing. They are getting what they thought they wanted but their miserable lives so far have not become one bit less miserable. The cognitive dissonance must hurt like hell.
Wait until the tariffs on Chinese goods hit in the next few weeks, and EVERYTHING in Walmart and Target double in price. TEMU and Schein have said that the low-cost model is dead, and their prices are going to jump in the next two weeks.
They are going to have a very hard time blaming it on the Libz, no matter how delusional they are.
It seems odd his mom is a sheriff given her criminal record. I would expect abducting a child to a foreign country would disqualify someone from law enforcement.
My comment doesn't add to this conversation, but I'm curious about why you quote the entirety of the comment that you were responding directly to.
I'm not going to tell you what you can and can't do, but it seems pointless and a waste of screen space to me, so I'd like to understand why some people do this if you don't mind sharing.
It's really not a big deal though, I'm just interested in the why.
My guess has always been that it's a habit from forum days. Does that ring true for you?