New Developments III

[Big Magilla]

I think it's up to the party to name a replacement if the candidate drops out or drops dead before the election or after the election but before he or she takes office. I don't think it automatically falls to the candidate with the next highest number of votes, but Conor Lamb would be the logical replacement.

[Sonic Youth]

Fetterman said doctors have told him to continue to rest, eat well, exercise and focus on his recovery, “and that’s exactly what I’m doing.” Which is great because WE NEED TO FUCKING WIN.

Yes we do.

Any way we can get Conor Lamb back?

[Sabin]

David McCormick has conceded to Mehmet Oz.

Meanwhile his opponent, John Fetterman, just revealed that he almost died when he had his stroke. His doctor disclosed that Fetterman has cardiomyopathy, in which the heart muscle becomes weakened and enlarged.

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm ... ce=Twitter

Fetterman said doctors have told him to continue to rest, eat well, exercise and focus on his recovery, “and that’s exactly what I’m doing.” Which is great because WE NEED TO FUCKING WIN.

[Big Magilla]

It's just another one of his gaffes.

9mm is a strong caliber. The NYC police dept. has recently made it their weapon of carry replacing the .38 because the .38 was no longer effective against the "bad guys".

There is no reason not to ban weapons of war, which these high-powered rifles are. Properly stored hunting rifles OK, a handgun for home defense OK (even though I am personally against the idea), but the indiscriminate handguns and ghost guns, those made of components easily purchased through the mail that you can put together to make your own gun, cause the most deaths from guns in this country, not the assault weapons which cause the most harm and generate the most headlines. It should all be banned.

[OscarGuy]

I agree. I'm no lover of guns, but even I know that 9mm isn't the gun they should be focusing on. It's the AR-15 automatic rifle. It's the one all the mass murderers use.

[Sabin]

I had a pretty good idea of what the Trump White House looked like on a day to day basis, the level of control, general chaos, and organizational capacity. I feel like I had a pretty good idea of what the Obama and Bush White House looked like as well. I'm coming to grips with the fact that I have no idea what the Biden White House looks like on a day to day basis or how the decision was made to publicly speak out against 9mm's, which account for more than half the handguns sold in this country. What kinds of conversations are happening? I guess I'll just have to wait for the books to come out...

Even floating the idea of getting rid of 9mm's on Biden's part, what's the point? I can't imagine that bill would pass and we're going to hear about how the Democrats want to ban 9mm's for years now from the right. Meanwhile if Chuck Schumer can't put any gun control measure through the Senate, so it's just going to be seen as more Democratic inaction thanks to the filibuster. It's a lose-lose.

BTW: Please don't mistake me for anyone who has any kind of love for guns. I've been robbed at gunpoint as well as watched my first college roommate become radicalized by a skinhead group as well as purchase a magnum at a gun show in my first month of college. I hate guns.

[Heksagon]

At least in Uvalde, the press appear to be willing to criticize the police response and challenge the police narrative. That rarely happened before.

[Okri]

Every detail that comes out is excruciating. I have no idea how to move past raging nihilism when I think about this topic.

[Sabin]

We live in a nightmare country.

EDIT: the more I read about the school shooting in Uvalde, the more horrific it is. I do not want to paint an entire organization with one brush but it's the best argument against cops that I've ever heard. They were just useless.

[Big Magilla]

That Supreme Court decision has already been considered. The decision is due at the end of this term along with the Roe v Wade decision.

It began as an upstate New York case in which the complainants arguing that they should not have to give a reason why they want to carry concealed weapons, that they have a right to do so under the second amendment.

Here's a novel idea. Instead of overturning protections under the 14th amendments (including Roe v Wade), overturn the protections under the second amendment as interpreted by the conservative Supreme Court beginning in 2008.

Michael Moore on MSNBC just now suggested that we make guns the cigarettes of the 21st Century. Just as no one thought they would ever do away with smoking in bars, it can be done, but it has to begin with doing away with the filibuster in the U.S. Senate as do so many other sensible things that aren't going to happen anytime soon.

[Okri]

The Supreme Court is currently considering a case that will likely make it easier to carry firearms in public/prevent communities from prohibiting it.

[mlrg]

United States of America… the country of “thoughts and prayers” instead of actually do something about gun control.

[Sabin]

OscarGuy wrote
Too much trauma listening to the man. Care to transcribe? Is it that he says Iraq, but means Ukraine? I mean, it wasn't unilateral, he had a whole cadre of warmongers urging him to do it, but it would indeed be funny if he accidentally said the quiet part out loud.

More than fair.

George W. Bush was giving a speech against Putin and Russia and at one point said that the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Ukraine -- except instead of saying Ukraine, he said Iraq. Then he corrected himself, "I mean, Ukraine." Then he took a beat, snickered, and said, "Iraq too. Anyway!" Then a moment later he tried to excuse it by saying "75 year old brain."

[OscarGuy]

Too much trauma listening to the man. Care to transcribe? Is it that he says Iraq, but means Ukraine? I mean, it wasn't unilateral, he had a whole cadre of warmongers urging him to do it, but it would indeed be funny if he accidentally said the quiet part out loud.

[Sabin]

For all the OG's on the board.

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1 ... MPSW3X7epQ

GEORGE W. BUSH: "The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine. Iraq too. Anyway."