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My mom has been a teacher for 30 years. Now, because of mass shootings, this is part of her back to school training: learning how to staunch a giant sucking bullet hole.
I wear a mask because if the experts are correct, I could potentially prevent someone from getting sick and dying. If the experts are wrong, the most I’m out is the inconvenience of wearing a piece of fabric on my face.
I often wonder who raised some of y’all.
Today I learned that bartenders who provide mass shooters access to alcohol face harsher consequences than parents who provide mass shooters access to firearms.
Guys, I could be wrong, but I’m starting to think objections over NFL players taking a knee might have been about more than just respecting our troops.
If you think having to show your vaccine card to enjoy jalapeño poppers at a shitty chain restaurant is analogous to the experiences of Jews during the Holocaust, why not make it your New Year’s resolution to read a book this year?
Congrats. You stalked an internationally-recognized scientist at his home because the Fear Factor bro wants him to debate a conspiracy theorist over a vaccine that has saved millions of lives. We are truly living in the dumbest time.
I haven’t slept a wink since learning that 87,000 IRS agents dressed in drag and high on rainbow fentanyl plan to replace our gas stoves with electric ranges smuggled into the country by Mexican cartels.
CLUTCH CATCH: Surveillance footage shows a pawn shop manager swoop in to save a baby who toppled head first off the counter as two women shopped for a gun in Utah.
One day, they’re going to come up with a term to describe the ability to shoot 14 people and still have journalists lead with your athletic accomplishments in high school.
Arguing that you’d prefer arming teachers — so that they can kill your angst-filled teen when he brings your unsecured firearms to school — over safely storing your weapons doesn’t make you a patriot. It makes you a sh*tty parent.
If your city doesn’t have to grease its light poles to prevent your degenerate fans from climbing them, you honestly don’t deserve to go to the World Series.
Trained officers spent 25 minutes in a gun battle with a kid who’s too young to buy cigarettes and the outcome was:
• one officer seriously wounded
• kids potentially killed in the crossfire
• the shooter emerged unscathed
But you want to arm the calculus teacher. Okay.👌🏽
Police responding to shots fired inside Santa Fe High School got locked into a 25-minute gun battle with the gunman, and some of the 10 people killed may have been caught in the crossfire, a Texas sheriff said.
I’m just spitballing here, but what if we made it harder for a young man whose “hit list” and “rape list” once caused a school lockdown to buy an assault-style rifle, high capacity magazine, and body armor?
- 339 years of slavery
- 89 years of segregation
- decades of mass incarceration
Y’all: “Get over it!”
- 5 weeks without a haircut
Y’all: 🎵 “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.” 🎵
Please, for your own sake, stop challenging Waffle House employees to fight. They are dead-eyed mercenaries with a very particular set of skills that generally have nothing to do with food prep or customer service. It is rarely going to turn out the way you had hoped.
"This is the first administration in decades not to get America into a new war,” said Mike Pence before returning to his bunker inside the Green Zone in D.C. where 20,000 troops are currently patrolling the streets.
Here’s an idea: Rather than arming teachers and hardening schools, maybe we should disarm disgruntled suburban youth by having their parents secure their firearms | Most guns in school shootings come from home
Trying to imagine a 17-year-old N. Philly kid being allowed to stroll around with an AR-15 after curfew before getting into a scuffle in which he shoots and kills two people and having the president defend him on national TV.
Call me an optimist, but if someone who can’t pronounce “Yosemite” can become President of the United States, I feel like your kids can miss a few months of in-class instruction and still become whatever they want to be.
Shout out to all the suburban commandos who want to carry a 7 lb AR-15 inside Chipotle to protect patrons from a terrorist attack that’s unlikely to happen but find it too taxing to wear a 0.4 oz face mask to protect patrons from a virus that’s already killed 100,000 Americans.
Explaining that you’re against Cancel Culture while calling for a boycott of Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, ViacomCBS, Citigroup, Cisco, UPS, and Merck.
This video became a viral meme but I hope it ultimately serves to remind us how important it is to savor every moment we have with the people we love.
#RIPKobe
#RIPMamba
They had names. They were loved.
Soon Park, 74
Hyun J. Grant, 51
Suncha Kim, 69
Yong Yue, 63
Xiaojie Tan, 49
Daoyou Feng, 44
Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33
Paul Andre Michels, 54
#StopAsianHate
Nothing will ever be as funny as someone who somehow made it past the 4th grade without learning the difference between “your” and “you’re” attempting to disparage a Black NASA engineer by calling him a DEI hire.
She did this while he awaited his release from jail on bail for a felony domestic violence charge. Half of women who are murdered are killed by men who profess(ed) to love them; half of these women are killed with firearms. She’s not crazy. The system is broken.
Tamir Rice was demonized after being killed while playing with a toy gun in an empty park. Kyle Rittenhouse is being encouraged to run for public office after killing two people with a straw-purchased rifle.
I feel like there must be a term to describe this phenomenon.
Stephen Miller has long used the possibility of immigrants spreading disease as a reason to close the border but likely got COVID from a Republican at the White House.
Shout out to the folks who were cool with migrant children being separated from their families but are losing their sh*t over the prospect of having to skip one Thanksgiving with relatives they mostly dislike.
When someone finally makes a film about the fiasco that was Trump’s presidency, the final shot should just be a group of hypothermic senior citizens roaming aimlessly along a frozen Omaha road.
Happy Cinco de Mayo to all the folks who will complain about the border crisis today before donning a sombrero and downing copious amounts of tequila at Chili’s to celebrate what they mistakenly believe to be Mexican Independence Day.
The alpha males who claim they’ll use their AR-15s to take on the U.S. military have so far gone to war with school librarians, green M&Ms, Big Bird, Mickey Mouse, and rainbow t-shirts. If I’m being honest, I kinda like our military’s chances.
If this had happened at an AutoZone in an inner city neighborhood, Fox News would have interrupted their regularly scheduled broadcast for a half hour segment on the erosion of the nuclear Black family.
You represent a state that has had 4 of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history, despite there being 1,000,000 citizens with concealed carry permits. Look at Chicago? Nah, fam. Look at Texas.
Gun control doesn’t work. Look at Chicago. Disarming law-abiding citizens isn’t the answer. Stopping violent criminals—prosecuting & getting them off the street—BEFORE they commit more violent crimes is the most effective way to reduce murder rates. Let’s protect our citizens.
If you were willing to sacrifice your grandma two years ago so that you could keep eating at Applebee’s, you don’t get to call yourself pro-life. I don’t make the rules.
I rarely curse on here but the fact that politicians who downplayed the virus, refused to promote community mitigation efforts, and held superspreader events in the leadup to the holidays are getting the vaccine before frontline healthcare workers is some truly sinister shit.
The mom who left her children alone in a car with a loaded handgun will face no charges. Meanwhile, authorities recently prosecuted another mom for leaving her children alone in a car while she went on a job interview. This despite her kids being unharmed.
Colorado nurses in the throes of a disaster that is exacerbated by the denial of science watching another disaster that is exacerbated by the denial of science is the perfect encapsulation of our times.
Fun Fact
#1
: Shootings in Chicago have decreased for 15 consecutive months.
Fun Fact
#2
: Chicago isn’t among the top 5 deadliest cities in the nation (it barely cracks the top 10).
Fun Fact
#3
: You’ll never find a greater collection of drama queens than the folks at the NRA.
What makes
#Chicago
one of the best cities in the world for some, but one of the most violent in the world for others?
@MrColionNoir
goes to Chicago – walks the streets the politicians avoid, and talks to the people the
#MSM
will never feature – to get the real story.
Louisiana attorney leaves gun in car after taking it to auto shop for repairs. Gun is stolen and later turns up at scene of deadly Florida shootout.
Again, no group does more to arm criminals than “lawful gun owners” who fail to safely secure their firearms.
Imagine being more upset about a mentally ill homeless man who vandalized the Fox News Christmas tree than a group of conservatives who flew cross-country to vandalize the U.S. Capitol building.
Oh my god. The AZ Senate won’t be getting the full “audit” report from Cyber Ninjas today…because the CEO and two other ninja tested positive for COVID, per Senate President Karen Fann
Seven years ago, America was visited by the kind of evil that provided the perfect opportunity to prove that we deserve to call ourselves the land of the free and home of the brave... and we did nothing.
*former gunshot patient gets on elevator at Labor & Delivery floor*
Him: Yo!
Me: Yo?!
Him: Yeah, man. I was born in this hospital, damn near died in this hospital. Now I just saw my child born in this hospital.
Shout out to our trauma docs who help make third acts possible.
Here’s normal tourist Peter Francis Stager without a mask. He was sentenced to 4 years and 4 months in prison for beating a Capitol police officer with a flagpole. You’re not very good at this.
Shout out to all the folks whose unspecified medical conditions prevent them from wearing masks inside CVS but don’t prevent them from competing in the Redneck Ninja Warrior competition.
There must be some reason why he had harsher words for NFL players who took a knee than right wing terrorists who plotted to kidnap Michigan’s governor but I just can’t seem to put my finger on it.