President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Exactly. It is a terrible comparison made by an idiot desperate to justify his verbal attack on a bunch of teenage victims.

And the survivors are victims. They are a group of teenagers who just went through a horrifying event and they are dealing with it as best they can. Somebody tried to murder them in their school. At some point, if they haven't already, they have to return to that building knowing they aren't as safe as they thought.

The idiots ranting about these young people need to shut up. If they are too young to fully understand the situation, they are too young to be attacked that way. Just say you think they are too young to understand and move on. It's ignorant bullshit, but the guy is entitled to that opinion. But tearing into them? Sorry. No. That's not right.

 

I know it's impossible and impractical and possibly ill-advised for numerous other reasons, but I think there should be consequences for spreading false information. Like, here, if you say the victims of a shooting are crisis actors. That's reprehensible, and compounds the hurt of victims (the Sandy Hook parents haven't suffered enough?), and fosters a further coarsening of the discourse, as well as heightening the levels of wingnuttery that lead to things like mass shootings. It strikes me that you shouldn't be allowed to do that.

I know this asshole got fired for it, but the way the UK now has laws against online hate speech, I'm starting to feel like feeding conspiracy with provably false information should be a public offence.

 

For a rebuttal of these kids, we go to Fox News for a panel featuring Scott Baio, Chuck Norris and a former ESPN employee most famous for a parking garage incident.

 

This may be the most Baby Boomer post of all time.

 

It reads like an Onion piece.

 

John T. Reed's Facebook feed is now my No. 1 go-to comedy read.

One of my West Point roommates and I created what we called “The System.” It was a spectacularly successful way for guys at West Point, which had no girls then, and junior Army officers, who move around a lot, to meet attractive girls soon after arriving in a new area. I met my wife of 43 years through The System. It is described in detail in my Succeeding book.

 

I swear to Christ I don't get what some of you people see in cats.

 

What about satire?

 

This falls under the "ill-advised for numerous other reasons" clause.