Matt Wuerker for May 01, 2024

Right wingers think their arrogant violence makes them attractive.

Nah. It’s OKAY If A Republican Does It.

Shooting puppies shows how ‘strong’ they are.

It’s an epidemic of mental illness. That craving for violence that a certain segment of our country has become addicted to, it must end up being some kind of extinction event. Only problem is that the collateral damage is to an awful lot of innocent bystanders, especially school kids, concert goers, families who go to church to pray together, people who just want to pick up some groceries for dinner, take a walk or jog around the block,….(feel free to add some forms of innocuous activities,) The list is soooo very long .

Mr. Wuerker, you got puppy-killer Kristi’s crazy eyes exactly correct!

Hey, not bad, but there is one step missing to go full circle: the one who shoot their family for christmas.

Too far?

Not for the magat crowd.

Only missing Dick Cheney.

Crickets from the RW House and 2nd Amendment advocates after 4 officers were killed in North Carolina.

I’ll bet when the barn cat had kittens Kristi got to drown them!

Rule number two for gun owners: do not brandish your gun. Rule number one: never point your gun at anything you are not willing to destroy. The GOP (what’s left of it) has gun and animal rights all backwards.

So does she happen to own a Dalmatian spotted coat?

Missing is trump who only has to threaten he can shoot real people and is currently lobbying SCOTUS for permission. Gun Nuttery indeed.

They’re all crazy.

Is violence the only recourse for those with an extremist right-wing authoritarian “ideology” that the majority of the republic’s electorate is not willing to endorse?

Kristi Noem’s dog-killing embodies the cruel phoneyness of today’s Republicans

The South Dakota governor’s proud dog murder tells a lot about how posturing Trumpists like she and Greg Gianforte think

Her political brand is simply a veneer – a fake, stylized brand of dangerous Trump Republicanism whose moral roots are about as deep as a bad facelift. This brand not only fails what used to be the Republican party; it is also destroying and dividing the US, and it’s more evident than ever here in the American west.

In Montana, the Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, has a registered cattle brand, yet he owns no cattle. He takes agricultural tax exemptions on his luxury estate in Bozeman even though he doesn’t do much serious ranching or farming.

In 2021, Gianforte illegally shot and killed a collared Yellowstone wolf that had its leg caught in a steel-jawed trap. He wanted to stuff the wolf and display it in his office – presumably without its radio collar, which would have dampened the effect he was going for.

Then, after realizing he didn’t have the proper training certification to shoot a live animal stuck in a trap for what could have been days, Gianforte tried to lie to investigators about shooting it. If this sounds familiar, it is; in 2017 Gianforte also misled police officers after body-slamming a Guardian reporter.

Real hunters, real gun enthusiasts, real bird dog owners – “real Americans”, to use a phrase so often invoked by the Republican party – know that politicians like Gianforte and Noem are phoneys. They’re trying to create fake versions of themselves to publicly demonstrate their capacity for cruelty and extremism without being bothered by any responsibility or morality.

Where is “I shot my buddy in the face!” Dick Cheney?

Me! Me! I wanna join, too! I— I shoot— yeah! I shoot Republican congressreps! Yeah! Oh, wait, ‘too far? too much?’ Well gee, then, maybe I don’t. Wouldn’t want to get in trouble, no.

Republicans are self-satarizing

I recall an episode of “The Simpsons”, in which Homer, as a little boy during the early 1960’s, was imitating JFK’s talk, saying that he hoped to grow up and become President. But dad laughed at him, saying “We have laws to prevent idiots like you becoming President!” (They must have been repealed in 1981)

Excellent artwork, Matt ♥♥

…and no mention of arming teachers in Tennessee! Fortunately, several school districts have already declared they will not be arming teachers or staff and see the issue as more dangerous for everyone if they allowed guns with school personal.

All of them begging for violence is really sad, they need help.

And not one is breaking a law or burning down buildings.