Gary Markstein for November 22, 2022

And I’ll bet she thinks her kind of “thoughts and prayers” are being answered by people like the shooter.

It is a shame she will never admit that two persons visiting an evening at a bar that hosts drag revues were so much braver than hundreds of armed law officers in Uvalde

Tucker Carlson and Fox News are to blame for the rise of white nationalist mass shootings, as most right wing media (propaganda) outlets are. — Stochastic Terrorism

The 22-year-old Colorado Springs mass shooter whose record was mysteriously sealed after making a bomb threat last year is the grandson of GOP California State Assemblyman Randy Voepel from San Diego, who voiced support for the Jan 6 Capitol attack.

There were calls to expel Voepel from the state Assembly after he made comments comparing the January 6 attacks to the Revolutionary War. — Total magat

Conservatives are blaming liberal policies for this as this kid called in a bomb threat and was charged with multiple felonies. DA dropped the cases and the DA is Republican former Navy vet in a very red district. Colorado Springs, where local law enforcement (repug) doesn’t give a sh!t. We’re a “gun sanctuary” county, where sheriffs refuse to enforce red flag laws that would have prevented this from happening.

Colorado Springs is a cesspool of “Christian” Nationalism. This twisted, racist, authoritarian philosophy of a radical minority is a dire, terroristic threat to our country.

“We are all domestic terrorists.” — CPAC in Dallas, Aug 2022

They had to reelect that despicable hate monger and gun lover.

one of the many heroes of the GQP, which comprises WAY too much of the GOP, that list consisting of Ye, Kyrie Irving, David DePape, Ron Watkins, Louie Gohmert, Tudor Dixon, Kari Lake, Herschel Walker, Kari Lake, Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Oz, trumpster fire, trumpster, jr, Margorie Greene Taylor, Jim Jordan, Steve Bannon, Mike Johnson, Matt Gaetz, Queen Didulo, Alex Jones, Lauren Boebert, Tucker Carlson, Virginia Thomas, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Mike Lindell, Don Bolduc, Michael Flynn, the whole Q-Anon thing, the whole 6 Jan thing, Putin

We have to dial back the rhetoric and stay on the positive track or Boebert and other congressional crackpots will bury us.

We need to always keep in mind that we’re dealing with “tip of the iceberg” here – every right-wing nut job in congress got there because more of their “constituents” liked their opinions more than those expressed by more sane members of their communities. The Boeberts, the Gomherts, the Marjorie Taylor Greenes are just what are the visible signs of the “rot” that we see just as is the roaches we see in the kitchen when we turn on the light at night!

So we can’t really blame them completely – they’re simply the most outward sign of the disease – it goes a lot deeper than them, unfortunately.

Maybe this is a “wonton killing.”