Tales From An Alternate Universe … I Wish
from thefreeonline on by jilldennison at Filosofa’s Word
It doesn’t take a whole lot to raise my hackles and make me growl these days. Here are just a few of the things that succeeded in doing both within about an hour yesterday … {this is the stuff ulcers are made of}
Say WHAT????
I want you all to hear this statement made by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem speaking of her grandchildren at the NRA convention yesterday … make sure you’re sitting down before you read it:
“Little Miss Addie, who is almost two, and Branch who’s just a few months old, they have brought us so much joy. They’ve brought us purpose. Now Addie, who you know — soon will need them, I wanna reassure you, she already has a shotgun and she already has a rifle and she’s got a little pony named Sparkles too. So the girl is set up.”
My jaw dropped and for just a second I thought I might be sick. This is the governor, for Pete’s sake!!! This is a ‘woman’ who claims to be ‘pro-life’! Those grandchildren should be taken out of the care of this family and put into foster care anonymously in some other state! I am enraged, incensed, and would happily rearrange this woman’s face for her if she were anywhere near me! WHERE is the common sense?
Call yourself ‘pro-life’ and buy a two-year-old child a damn shotgun and a rifle??? 👿
I knew there were a lot of truly deplorable people in the Republican Party these days, but this one takes the prize for the biggest deplorable in the basket — at least at this moment!
Is Mike Pence human???
Mike Pence also attended that same NRA convention where a number of attendees actually booed him … I’m not sure why, but one analyst believes it is because he has extricated himself from the Trump circus and Trump is still quite popular with the gun nuts. At any rate … Pence has decided on a way to solve the problem of mass shootings in the U.S. without having to enact stricter gun laws. Do tell?
“I believe the time has come to institute a federal death penalty statute, with accelerated appeal, to ensure that those who engage in mass shootings face execution in months, not years.”
A number of problems with his “solution” … it only addresses the problem after-the-fact. Most mass shooters realize they will likely not be alive at the end of the day, so the threat of execution is not going to be a deterrent – never has been, never will be. And ‘execution’ is not something we should be striving to increase, but rather to put an end to! Way to go, Mike … open mouth and stick your big, stinky foot into it.
More questions than answers
So, some 21-year-old racist punk Air National Guardsman turns out to be the leaker of national security secrets that’s had everyone up in arms about for days now. He’s not even an interesting individual nor a particularly smart one, but my question is … WHY did someone at his low level on the totem pole even have access to such high-level security data???
Is the military really so lax with highly classified information that a punk kid can get it, spread it around to teenagers on a gaming platform, and it takes us days to figure out what happened??? Seriously? And do they not perform background checks or other means of screening before allowing someone hands-on access to classified data?
This punk had a history of racist remarks and actions … shouldn’t have been hard to figure out he wasn’t exactly a fine, upstanding man. … he is going to be a pain in the arse for as long as he lives. But no … they’ve charged him only with two counts under the Espionage Act.
One of the counts is unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information which “could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation”. The other count is the unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material.
The two counts combined could carry a maximum sentence of 15 years, and if some Republican judge or governor has anything to say about it, he’ll get a pat on the back and a ticket to freedom! He’ll be like Kyle Rittenhouse, invited onto Tucker Carlson’s show, invited to intern for Republicans in Congress, and praised by the likes of Marge Greene. Grrrrrrrrrrrr …
Seems to me we have some serious security issues in our military. Lots of questions are going to be asked and need to be answered in the coming weeks/months.
Is Greg Abbott human???
Oh, and last but not least … Daniel Perry, the man shot and killed BlackLivesMatter protestor Garrett Foster as he tried to run his vehicle into a crowd of peaceful protestors, may soon be pardoned by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
He should never see the light of day again, for there can be no doubt that he had every intention of killing at least one Black person on that day, given his text messages.
Here is just a sample …
- He compared the Black Lives Matter movement to a “zoo full of monkeys”
- A friend texted Perry, “Can you catch me a negro daddy.” Perry responded, “That is what I am hoping.”
- One message read, “might have to kill a few people on my way to work.”
And it goes on. So, Governor Abbott wants to pardon this a-hole and let him walk free so that next time he kills 10 or 15 or 20 as he plows his car through a group of protestors??? YO, TEXANS! Wake the hell up and vote this jerkface out of office! He’s a disgrace to your state and a disgrace to you!
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comment: Lucky the Pentagon Leaker wasn’t a leftist, a black, a pacifist or an anarchist punk! … Jack Teixeira may or may not be yet another macho nazi nutter. But the Pentagon is certainly responsible for the horrific deaths of millions of us innocent civilians. If guilty Jack struck a brilliant blow for humanity, if maybe for all the wrong reasons
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