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Remember the Parkland shooting?

5/29/2020

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That's the one in Florida. The one where Moms Demand Submission stopped screaming about dead children and decided to use actual traumatized children as their puppets. That wesley crusher looking kid and the negasonic teenage warhead kid all spouting their talking points like the expertise fairy somehow blessed them in the crossfire?

Remember the deputy who arrived during the shooting, stayed huddled in his car, and refused to let anyone else on scene?

He was reinstated last week.

Why, You may ask?

Turns out governments love their procedures. And they require said procedures to be fulfilled to the letter. Cross all the t's, dot all the i's.

Florida fired him quick without going through all that. So he sued, with the backing of his union. He's reinstated with back pay, back seniority, and his former rank back.

The wheels of justice turn too slow for the news cycle, let alone social media.

Floyd was killed on Monday evening.

All four officers involved fired by close of business Tuesday.

Arrests were made about an hour ago, early Friday afternoon.


Last night I read something about five people shot and fifty buildings damaged, though I'm sure that number will be revised somewhere.


Investigations happen the way they do for a reason.


A medical examiner has to determine homicide as a cause of death.


Investigators have to collate reports.


A D.A. has to figure out what charges (if any) apply to the case.


But we don't want that.


We want our justice, even if it tastes a lot like revenge.


And we want it now.


We want it all and we want it now.


The NCIS crew can find the bad guys and wrap everything up in 40 minutes plus time for commercials, why can't our own sworn officers manage this?


Tearing shit down is fun. And real therapeutic when you're pissed off.


Cleaning up the mess, not so much.


Chasing down every asshole with a piece of paper you need to see justice done? Even less so.


That's the ugly price we pay for being a country instead of a mob with zip codes. If we can keep it, as the man said.


Years ago, I talked about how we wanted "Burger King Wars." Cheap, fast, and our way.


Now it looks like we want burger king justice.


Fuck due process. People we don't like don't need them.


Nobody stops to think that any law like that doesn't care about who you don't like. It just affects people who can least afford to challenge or fight it.


About a week ago, I saw a picture of a guy being arrested in Germany for giving the Hitler salute. Germany doesn't have a first amendment, and doing anything vaguely nazified is grounds for arrest, fines, and jail time.


And my usual prog suspects were wistfully hoping for America to have such a thing.


The actual wording of the law is, "public use of the symbols of unconstitutional groups."


Take a wild guess at what SCOTUS, in or out of its current configuration, could find unconstitutional.


I had to blow a willpower not to say, "what, Kapernick being blacklisted wasn't enough? you wanted him to serve time? Assholish of you."


Cross those t's and dot those i's.


And take care of yourselves out there.

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Not picking up that ball.

5/18/2020

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A couple years back, I wrote some self-indulgent pieces of what I'd do as Secretary of education. They were silly but pointed out some rather big flaws in the current system.
(Although to be honest, Devos justified her entire tenure by kicking the fucking title IX witchhunts to the fucking curb. Doesn't make up for all of her bullshit, but makes up for a lot.)
I recently got a request to do something similar about the state of American theater.
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Not to expose my sadistic tendencies, but that's like saying, "Hay Jay, here's your abusive ex and a roll of duct tape. I want to see what you'll come up with."
I appreciate the thought, but I think you're kind of a freak.
I took two days to convince myself that posting "learn a new skill" wasn't too harsh. I don't know if I'm even capable of pulling punches far back enough on an industry that's still huddled in a blanket fort with a cup of tea, no matter how many ugly truths need to be told.
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"Your fears don't trump someone else's rights."

5/15/2020

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Unless you've done a lot of activism, I can pretty much guarantee I've said this phrase more than you have.
Used it a lot when I was pushing for campus carry nationwide. I got a lot of well-meaning but wrong folk going, "don't I have the right to feel safe?" and I had to be the asshole saying, "No. You don't. You don't have the right to feel anything. You don't have the right to an emotion. And even if you did, how the fuck would you enforce it? What, are we gonna shoot you with a tranq dart full of seratonin if your comfort isn't there?"
There's one hoplophobic little bitch of a college professor I had to remind of this on an annual basis. I'm half convinced she was just pushing the emotional manipulation button and I should've just told her to go fuck herself, but that's water under the bridge.
And, as I predicted back in March, the current crisis is slow going and has a lot of us with time on our hands. Which makes panicking and being an asshole even easier.
And as also predicted, government response has been mixed. Ultimately, everyone's trying to get along as best they can.
Which is why, to those adamantly refusing to wear masks in public right now, the best thing I can say is:
you're. not. fucking. helping.
I don't give a shit what report you read. American journalism was a wretched hive before the plague, and having discoveries made on the hour isn't helping. Masks may never be a panacea, but it's a damn sight better than the Chinese methods of using your phones to track down everyone, privacy be damned. Then welding shut the apartments of those who balk.
I want businesses open and people working too.
I don't want a fucking famine when winter comes.
I don't want a totalitarian regime to gain power because they say it's for our own good.
But the thing about rights is that they come with responsibilities.
Fuck, the entire concept behind emergency prepping is about responsibility. It's about being able to take care of yourself so emergency personnel don't have to.
So if you're going to engage in commerce, WHICH I WHOLEHEARTEDLY ENCOURAGE, stay at arm's length and wear the fucking mask.
It's about the only growth industry we got right now. I guarantee one you'll like is out there.
Take it off once you're in the car.
Clean the motherfucker when you get home. I've been sterilizing mine in a rice cooker for months now, it doesn't take a whole lot of brains.
Tip like you're back in the strip joint and trying to impress your boys. Restaurant workers and delivery folk are playing through fire for peanuts here, show them love and cash.
And stay at home the rest of the fucking time.
Look, if I can tell my extended family, who I love dearly but sometimes cannot get a fucking clue, that they need to put the mask on and back the fuck up because absolutely nobody has the capacity to deal with their "we're family so rules don't apply to us" bullshit?
I can tell you, randos of the internet, to wear your fucking masks.
It's not oppression.
It's responsibility.
Happy Friday.
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May militias

5/1/2020

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Even living in the south since puberty, I'm considered a damn Yankee. But I'm well aware of getting hit with stereotypes that don't stand up in the light of day. Which means I'm kinda used to hearing things like, "if you want to find a lot of KKK supporters per capita, you really need to go to Indiana."
And if you want to find the freakiest militia, you need to go to Michigan.
We've kind of forgotten that lately, what with the Bundys and their antics in Nevada and Oregon over the last few years. But Michigan has some long standing nuttier than squirrel turds militias going back at least 30 years.
The Michigan Militia officially formed in the early 90's. Calling themselves the Wolverines (because fanboying a movie that was obsolete the month after it came out in theaters is really a way to get people to take you seriously) they were a punchline in a lot of op-eds. I vaguely remember them claiming that American servicemembers all had microchips implanted in their butts as a condition of enlistment and/or commission.
Their first leader was a former AF officer and Baptist minister (go fig) who put out a press release after the Oklahoma City Bombing claiming it was done by Japan as revenge for the Tokyo subway sarin gas attacks. That was too weird even for them, and he stepped down before it showed up that Tim MicVeigh had attended some meetings.
And these yahoos are what's left.
Like most professional protesters, they're well aware of how obnoxious they can get without being rolled up by the cops. And let's face it, people dressed normally quietly participating in local politics doesn't make for good pictures at press time. That's why the only person arrested was a counter-protester, who decided they had the right to rip a flag out of someone's hands.
So they have guns? Concealed carry's prohibited in the capital, but open carry isn't. I've yet to see a booger hook on a bang switch, so they're being better than some range goblins I've met.
"But guns scare me!" Whoopty fucking do. You've been cheering on guillotines for months, suck it the fuck up.
I'm personally much more annoyed that they crowded tight spaces and went unmasked. Social distance fail there, guys.
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