StrangeSox

Democrats are responsible for conservatives backing Trump through the primaries and in the general election because they called their political opponents too conservative in a political campaign. Republicans are not responsible for their rhetoric that was and remains 100 times worse. For some reason, we haven't seen a comparable radicalization of the Democratic base, but rest assured, whatever happens, conservatives will not be to blame.

His incompetence and pettiness is getting Americans in Puerto Rico killed right now. He seems bent on provoking NK into a nuclear confrontation. He's constantly diminishing the standing of the US around the world. Why should people stop criticizing him and pointing out his many, many failures only 8 months into a disastrous presidency? To wit: Trump denies Puerto Rico request to let hurricane victims use food stamps for prepared hot meals: report Actually, incompetence is too forgiving. This is malevolence.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...rto-rico-215668

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 28, 2017 -> 12:55 PM) Nearly 9 million children in this country rely on CHIP, and it expires this Saturday. This expired over the weekend. Here's when states will start running out of CHIP funds because Republicans were too busy trying to strip 20+ million people of health insurance again: And relatedly

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Oct 3, 2017 -> 02:33 PM) I do wonder what role the mass media has on these cases. Let's assume the media treats these mass shootings as they treat suicides - you never hear about them except in rare circumstances; does that lessen the likelihood that the events would take place? If the sick f***s don't become instant celebrities, do they still have the desire to do it? We would hear if there was a mass suicide, though. We all still know about Jonestown and Heaven's Gate.

This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors This is how authoritarian police states crack down--they rely heavily on people turning each other in. The kicker here is that ICE still has the completely unredacted database full of the snitchers' names, ohone numbers, addresses and SSN's posted on their website.

Last week's $70B Pentagon funding increase to $700B total for the year could have paid off the entirety of Puerto Rico's debt and still had $11B left over.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 3, 2017 -> 11:22 AM) "Thrown our budget out of whack". What a f***ing ghoul this guy is. From the same speech/incoherent rambling

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 3, 2017 -> 11:22 AM) "Thrown our budget out of whack". What a f***ing ghoul this guy is. There's no way his mush brain comprehends that Puerto Ricans are Americans. None.

Donny rates his response for all of those lazy ingrates as A+. Meanwhile: It's pretty incredible how completely unqualified this guy is to do his job. Unfortunately, the consequences are a whole lot of unnecessary suffering and death. that number is almost definitely going up quite a bit, too. okay done listening to this because I'm getting pretty angry again

This Shooting Isn’t About Gun Control We Refuse To Pass, It’s About Access To Mental Health Care We’re Continuing To Gut

Photos a Boston channel has of some of the weapons in the shooter's room. Large capacity magazines--apparently the one in the second photo is 100 rounds, which matches the ~90 shots per round of firing people estimated from the audio files-- and the "bump fire" modification that lets you fire a gun that is still technically a semi-automatic at near-automatic speeds. If there actually is a push for gun control after this, I imagine it'll be trying to go after high capacity magazines again and also rewriting the classifications around things like "bump fire" so they're considered to fall under the NFA.

When Bush's Katrina response is orders of magnitude better than your own hurricane response, you know you're doing really, really bad.

Kushner still inexplicably maintains a Top Secret clearance Hundreds of White House emails sent to third Kushner family account

This seems more political than would be appropriate in the SLaM thread. It's about the shooting but not necessarily about guns or gun control, but I think it's important to discuss the disinformation, often deliberate, that is out there and is greatly amplified by companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. That their algorithms wouldn't automatically blacklist sites like 4chan from being promoted as legitimate news sources shows how much modern technology can spread false information and outright lies. e: The tieback to gun violence is that this sort of bulls*** helps to radicalize people. Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news

Silencers wouldn't have mattered here

Equifax says 2.5M more people than originally reported were affected, bringing the total to 145.5 million people. That's roughly 60% of the adult population of the US.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 2, 2017 -> 03:56 PM) TMZ disputes CBS report Petty has died. Yeah, but they are saying his family has a DNR order and it's only a matter of time. He did a lot of work with Johnny Cash towards the end of his life, too. I think he was the main guitarist on a couple of the America albums in the 90's and early 00's.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 2, 2017 -> 03:29 PM) Depends on what you define as the profile. White Male who owns guns checks a lot of them. Also worth noting - people with mental illness are far more likely to be victims of gun violence than the perpetrators of such violence. that's very heavily due to suicide rates, right?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 2, 2017 -> 03:17 PM) Trump's a lousy guy but I thought he gave a nice speech today. Trump will find out the president has no control over s*** like this. Obama couldn't prevent this bulls***; neither can Trump. I disagree with your guys' harshness on a day like today. The world needs to be kinder, gentler. Many people in Puerto Rico are struggling just to make it through the day with enough clean water, food and shelter right now while he's largely neglecting them and feuding with the people actually there helping.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 2, 2017 -> 03:12 PM) You seem like a good guy but that seemed to be a classless post on a day like this. Why post that? Trump is a prick and all that, but he doesn't want all those people killed by a gunman. Calling millions of Americans in Puerto Rico struggling to survive day to day ingrates and lazy for daring to ask for help when you're the President is pretty classless.

I have no idea how to embed youtube videos here anymore but listening to Tom Petty Wildflowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myptVbH03SU