I was going to complain about my job. About how my company fired a lot of people, and now I’m expected to do the work of three. But then something came up that overshadowed my day.
Sam came back to the nightly vigil again. It would be hard to create someone who is more of a cliché, but I swear I’m not making this person up.
It would be pointless to summarize everything he said. He went on for almost two hours. But I would not leave before he did. I rallied the two other people there to stay as well. I feel like I did my good deed for the day.
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” ~ Garry Kasparov.
One of Sam’s subjects stood out tonight — he told us he was arrested and sent to jail for threatening an Occupy Wall Street protester with a knife. In his story, he was the victim. Sam went on to say that he found out the name of the person who reported him to the police. He then dug up as much personal information on this person as he could find online. Then he found this person on the street, accused him of being a “rat” and a “snitch,” and dropped hints about all the information he knew.
I don’t even understand what’s going on in my old state anymore.
When I was there, we had Tenncare, which was a huge progressive step toward health care for all (including part-time minimum wage workers, unemployed people, and those deemed ‘uninsurable’ or with pre-existing conditions). Tennessee did that. And that was 10 years ahead of Obama getting elected, so way before Obamacare. Although apparently now it’s been stripped down to just basic medicaid for a few people.
Just after I left (with my student loan debt) they made 2 years of college or trade school free with Tennessee Promise, which later became the model for Obama’s “America’s College Promise” proposal. Again, very progressive. People elsewhere are just recently thinking that should be a thing, but Tennessee did that awhile ago.
Chattanooga made headlines for having “the best internet in the entire United States, period.” years ago with its gigabit municipal internet. Again, very progressive. We don’t even have that up here in the northeast a decade later. People now are saying it should be a utility, and Comcast shouldn’t be a monopoly and so on. Tennessee did that (well, one city at least).
But then they go and do stuff like this. (And of course, they’re known for the Scopes Monkey Trial.) It seems to go to both extremes.
I know. Chattanooga has had a cool mayor but he can’t run again and the new candidates aren’t very exciting. We have a horrible awful no good governor. As far as I can tell, the Republicans are using the same strategy that’s worked nationally: rigging the voting system.
Tennessee saw the benefits of the CCC during the Great Depression. Doesn’t surprise me that they learned to not be afraid of extending a helping hand to their communities.
I’m not a big Guns-N-Ammo person, but I do recall my hunter safety class. The woman appears to have her finger on the trigger, while she’s looking somewhere else. This would seem dangerous, and what I might naively consider poor trigger discipline, plus brandishing a firearm. But what do I know?
MS-13 was a Los Angeles county gang that was exported to Central America through deportations. They are bad people who murder and cause a lot of folks to flee their violence, becoming refugees. I’d still rather hang around with them than these two absolute assholes.
As for the illegal job thing, when graphic design is illegal only criminals will have… well typeset and properly printed marketing materials…? Congressperson DUI is endlessly ridiculous.
“Trigger discipline” has been cancelled by the idiots tired of getting pwned on gun safety. The image is meant to depict a pair of active shooters, which is unrealistic because dude on the left has probably already killed his partner. It’s def a Matt Gaetz joint.
The guy also ends up with his gun pointing at her more often than not through the incident.
And both are barefoot, which you would think they’d do something about if they actually felt they were in danger.
And they’re waving those guns at a crowd of unarmed, peaceful protestors who are passing by on the road some distance away, with absolutely no provocation.
[edit]Oh, and according to various tweets I’ve seen, the left-handed grip that guy is holding the AR-15 in would result in hot brass flying directly into his face if he actually fired it.[/edit]
So, of course Matt Gaetz would fully endorse that shitshow.
Other pictures really do a better job of illustrating these rich idiots:
(And of course, they’re known for the Scopes Monkey Trial.) It seems to go to both extremes.