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[Irish_Dem]

1. The US is becoming a war zone.

This is what the PutinGOP wants.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Why go to Somalia when we can bring Somalia here?

[Irish_Dem]

4. Right, at some point Americans will be the ones fleeing for safety to other countries.

[Cha]

2. It Fucked UP like that fucking

Abbot Asshole.

[Guilded Lilly]

5. Never great again. Not in our lifetimes.

[Irish_Dem]

7. You are right. Greatest moral collapse in American history.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Who benefits from all of this violence and how?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. Republicans benefit from the silent fear they're injecting into all of us.

Fascist right-wingnuts want a public living in constant fear of something - fear of guns, fear of your brown skin neighbor, fear of losing Social Security, fear of space lasers, books, vaccines, LGBT, etc. Faux News and Limbaugh preached it 24/7 for decades. Lock your doors and keep yer guns loaded. Build fences and switch off PBS.

A divided, fearful public will slowly loose it's sense of community and brotherhood, and therefore will never organize and rise up against the corporate machine that is the backbone of the GOP. Reagan and Murdoch took the helm soon thereafter, and W used the method to entangle us in a multi-trillion dollar war.

I've been watching it happen since Nixon via Agnew rabidly preached fear of welfare (and government in general) in the South like a tent revival preacher.

Rant done, just my 2c worth.

[NJCher]

18. I think it's just this simple

They are bought and paid for by the gun mfr's. Just look at the enormous amount of money they've gotten over the years from the industry. This list was published by Public Citizen in 2022:

Link to tweet

I don't particularly think the violence is a goal in and of itself. Instead, with most GOP being sociopaths, they shrug it off and consider it the cost ofattaining power.

Who else is going to finance them? Most certainly not small donors, like with what you saw with Bernie Sanders.

They stay in power because they appeal to the basest, scummiest people and unfortunately there are plenty of them in America.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. If I were a Texas parent, I'd be demanding an opt out for my kid.

Parental rights and all.

[plimsoll]

9. Pretty sure this was a troll introduced by Democrats.

I consider it dangerous, because as you may recall Republicans are unfamiliar with satire.

[NoMoreRepugs]

17. Saw the story in Vanity Fair.

[plimsoll]

23. It's a real bill

But introduced by Democrats to highlight the stupidity of GOP "solutions."

[NJCher]

19. here's the bill

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB00496F.htm

snip

4) require the district or charter school to annually
offer instruction on the use of a bleeding control station from a
school resource officer or other appropriate district or school
personnel who has received the training under Subdivision (3) to
students enrolled at the campus in grade seven or higher.

snip

It really does seem like something out of The Onion, but it's true.

[plimsoll]

24. Absolutely real, but introduced by Democrats.

Trolling the GOP for the inane solutions they usually put forth. "Let's get a bucket of rocks." That struck me as something even the Onion couldn't come up with.

[Hassler]

10. No doubt the GOP will next be certifying the kids as medics.

[wnylib]

11. Why wait for Texas to secede and then let them?

Why not just expel them as unwilling and incapable of committing themselves to the US constitution?

OK, I know that the constitution does not provide for expelling rogue states. So next best thing is to encourage them to secede and then accept it when they do.

[pazzyanne]

12. ...

[rickford66]

13. I learned this in Boot Camp

What's next. Training for nerve gas attacks ?

[bringthePaine]

14. fuck Texass🖕🏻best I can say: a model SHITHOLE

[Mr. Ected]

15. They want to create a world of desolation and despair

Then they can control us. And stupid people let them do it, thinking themselves immune...or imagining themselves in gestapo mode.

[soldierant]

20. It sounds like an effective way

tobring up children to be exactly the kind of voters the QGQP wants. Trumatized and unquestioning.

[bhikkhu]

21. "And what if I'm dressing the wound and the patient struggles so I don't feel safe?"

Well, you just shoot him then.

[dai13sy]

22. Just hear me out

What if they seceded but couldn't live in Texas and they are not allowed to move in to any other state, period! People who secede don't get to live with rest of us

[dlk]

25. This seemed like intentional infliction of emotional distress

Traumatizing children in furtherance of their agenda to destroy public schools. How Republican.

[Takket]

26. You all need to read post #9 before replying to this thread.

[spanone]

27. ...K&R...