[Republican operative Paul Erickson and his Russian spy lover Maria Butina in happier times… According to prosecutors, Butina “privately expressed ‘disdain’ for him“.] Back in July of 2015, not long after officially launching his presidential campaign, Donald Trump attended a conservative event in Las Vegas called “Freedom Fest.” It was at this event that Trump, […]
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School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”
I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity and weaponized insecurity, where women, having been debased to the point of no longer being considered human, are seen merely as instruments […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alek Minassian, Alex Azar, anti-abortion, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Betsy DeVos, blood money, CDC, coined phrases, Dan Patrick, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Donald Trump, doors, enforced monogamy, Florida, gun control, gun reform, gun rights, gun violence, high capacity magazines, hollow promises, incels, insecurity, Intellectual Dark Web, involuntary celibates, Jeff Sessions, Jordan Peterson, Kirstjen Nielsen, Marco Rubio, masculine spirit, mass shootings, misogyny, NRA, Parkland, Paul Gosar, pro-life, Santa Fe, school safety, school shooting, sex, sexism, sexual marketplace, spurned advances, Ted Cruz, Texas, The Handmaid's Tale, the masculine spirit, thoughts and prayers, Toronto, toxic masculinity, violence, weaponized insecurity 60 Comments
Running out of things to say about mass shootings… well, almost
I tried to write something last night about the Orlando shooting that just left 50 people dead, but I gave up an hour or so into it. I’d sliced my hand open earlier in the day while working on the renovation of 209 Pearl Street, which made it difficult to type. [My right thumb was […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Ideas, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged 209 Pearl, background checks, coining new words and phrases, domestic terrorism, fearconomy, gay, gun control, gun violence, guns, guns in schools, guns on campus, homophobia, ISIS, Islamic State, jihad, Mark's health, mass shootings, murder, NRA, Obama, Omar Mateen, self-hating, terrorism 48 Comments