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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#243476: May 25th 2018 at 6:47:15 AM

That seems our of nowhere and alarmist given that no Democratic administration could hope to top our current garbage fire

Unless you mean ICE and their I'll should worry, in which case carry on

edited 25th May '18 7:11:33 AM by sgamer82

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#243477: May 25th 2018 at 6:48:11 AM

@Wildcard

First the wall, then comes the Death Star.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#243478: May 25th 2018 at 6:49:42 AM

[up] You joke, but Trump has made some noise about putting a military presence in orbit or some shit.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#243479: May 25th 2018 at 6:50:06 AM

Hence my comment

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#243480: May 25th 2018 at 6:51:20 AM

I meant ICE. Maybe thats why they want the records destroyed.

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#243481: May 25th 2018 at 7:14:35 AM

Shots fired at an Indiana middle school, shooter is detained and one injury has been reported.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/25/us/indiana-school-shots-fired/index.html

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#243482: May 25th 2018 at 7:47:47 AM

Are we getting better at catching these guys alive or just getting lucky?

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#243483: May 25th 2018 at 8:05:38 AM

I mean, the last shooting before this one had ten deaths. Let's not attribute this to a positive trend of any kind.

It's been fun.
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#243484: May 25th 2018 at 8:06:31 AM

Geez, they waited a whole week? They’re slacking off from the usual timeline. :|

You joke, but Trump has made some noise about putting a military presence in orbit or some shit.

Yeah, and the reason that’s especially dumb is because of the inevitable fallout once a country mistakes (or “mistakes”) a tv or weather or GPS satellite for a military launchpad or whatnot. Or once the agreement on space being a neutral, non-militarized area for humanity, what happens when there’s an arms race in space, or countries start deciding that part of their strategic interest is denying other countries any kind of space presence.

If it happens, it’s going to be messy, nasty, and it’s going to really fuck with scientific achievements and our ability to move further out into space.

Or at least that’s how it looks to me.

edited 25th May '18 8:07:23 AM by TheWanderer

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#243486: May 25th 2018 at 8:13:10 AM

I mean, the last shooting before this one had ten deaths. Let's not attribute this to a positive trend of any kind.
I'm a way that's precisely why I want to know. Catching these guys alive means they actually have to answer for what they did and maybe, just maybe, being able to do so more consistently will dissuade the ones who use these attacks as flashy suicides.

math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#243487: May 25th 2018 at 8:15:01 AM

We really need a good president and good government to reform ICE, cause right now as it stands they are basically American stormtroopers.

No, the organization just needs to be disbanded and its upper leadership tried for human rights violations.

If you want something in charge of customs enforcement, build a new agency. There's nothing in ICE worth saving.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#243488: May 25th 2018 at 8:16:54 AM

I feel like we just stopped talking about the last one. Remember when school shootings were huge horrifying tragedies that the whole nation would mourn for months on end? They've happened so much it's desensitizing, and that really scares me/pisses me off.

Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#243489: May 25th 2018 at 8:23:04 AM

[up][up]I agree, but I also feel like if that happened the narrative would be "Democrats want deh illegals to take over!!1!" and the Kingmakers in the midwest would take that into account and vote for republicans.

DeathorCake Since: Mar, 2016
#243490: May 25th 2018 at 8:31:27 AM

[up][up]

This one hasn't popped up on the BBC yet, and that one with 10 deaths got one article then vanished under the tide of parasite mating ritual coverage a few days ago. Maybe they get more coverage over in the States.

RainehDaze Nero Fangirl (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Nero Fangirl
#243491: May 25th 2018 at 8:33:27 AM

Got to say, a royal wedding is more relevant to UK news than yet another school shooting in the US, it's not like the BBC's priorities are out of order there.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#243492: May 25th 2018 at 8:43:04 AM

parasite mating ritual?

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#243493: May 25th 2018 at 8:44:04 AM

@Pushover

I know, I hate myself for not feeling more upset at these sort of things, but I did get quite upset seeing one article on CNN where a state plans to give teachers a $100,000 benefit to their families if said teachers are killed in "the line of duty", Like, is is this what we've come down to now?

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
DeathorCake Since: Mar, 2016
#243494: May 25th 2018 at 8:49:26 AM

[up][up][up]

True, although it's one of our many pet media gripes that the press can't stop talking about the Royals and they could have at least kept the article about the shooting up for more than one evening. I'm the only person I know who bothers to even make casual remarks about this stuff anymore, and it looks like the Parkland kids campaign just vanished from our perspective because Media Cycle.

[up][up]

The wedding. Yes, I know the royal family brings more money into the UK than they cost and that technically makes them a symbiote, but it's one of my dad's phrases that I've always liked.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#243495: May 25th 2018 at 8:53:13 AM

Right,it's just referring to them as parasites is ridiculous,and I'm not even a monarchist

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243496: May 25th 2018 at 8:55:31 AM

McConnell says he backs Mueller probe after classified briefing

] Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell (R-Ky.) said Thursday after attending a classified briefing that he continues to support special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, including possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

Mc Connell told NPR that Mueller's investigation and a separate probe by the Justice Department's inspector general into the FBI's actions during the 2016 election will ultimately provide answers to a number of questions swirling around the presidential race.

"The two investigations going on that I think will give us the answers to the questions that you raise - the [inspector general] investigation in the Justice Department and the Mueller investigation," Mc Connell told NPR.

"I support both of them, and I don't really have anything to add to this subject based upon the Gang of Eight briefing that we had today, which was classified."

Whatever must have been in the briefing must have been really damning, as everyone who's actually read any of the unclassified Documents (so not Nunes), thinks that the investigation is completely warrented.

edited 25th May '18 8:56:05 AM by megaeliz

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#243497: May 25th 2018 at 8:57:53 AM

Yeah, well, I just hope that all the information in the briefing doesn't show up on Fox and Friends tomorrow after Nunes tells Trump and Trump starts a-tweetin'.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#243498: May 25th 2018 at 9:01:16 AM

Wouldn't that be a viable Pull-The-Plug option? Put everything on Twitter, get Impeached but then claim before the Courts that there is no way you get an unbiased Jury?

I mean, very unlikely but...

edited 25th May '18 9:01:36 AM by 3of4

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#243499: May 25th 2018 at 9:02:58 AM

teachers are killed in "the line of duty"

My idea of selling bulletproof vests to students and staff doesn't seem nearly as ridiculous as it ought to be.

Disgusted, but not surprised
danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#243500: May 25th 2018 at 9:05:54 AM

Bulletproof backpacks, Kevlar binders, maybe one of those rolling backpacks with a fold-out riot shield in it... yeah, this shit is getting ridiculous. We shouldn't have to factor in "chance of death" into a goddamn teacher's job.

Somwhat related: Two armed citizens kill a shooter who opened fire in an Oklahoma restaurant

I'm torn. Thankful as I am that the shooter was stopped, this will only give more material for the damn "good guy with a gun" crowd.

edited 25th May '18 9:07:56 AM by danime91


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