Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-... - ThreadSky

juliusgoat.bsky.social • 238 days ago

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame.

Full Essay: https://www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-casablanca/

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sonomalass.bsky.social•238 days ago

Thanks for saying it so clearly.

issabailot.bsky.social•237 days ago

Swifties

turblescelbor.bsky.social•238 days ago

Never thought the leopards would eat my face. I just wanted them to eat my enemies faces.

marccunat.bsky.social•238 days ago

Shoot this in my veins.

blonicyouth.bsky.social•238 days ago

incidentally there is a guy with this same decal on his truck around here (in Rhode Island lol) but he installed it upside down so the the truck bed is on the top and Biden's tie has antigravity

blkmsk.com•238 days ago

South county or Cumberland?

blonicyouth.bsky.social•238 days ago

idk the guy was out on 95

pnutzgg.bsky.social•238 days ago

How could you fuck that up? Were they having a conversation while putting it on?

blonicyouth.bsky.social•238 days ago

They probably make lots of bad decisions and wrong turns in life

pnutzgg.bsky.social•238 days ago

Many of which end up going into one way streets

chicagomstie.bsky.social•238 days ago

The darker side of #youhadonejob

shadyoldlady.bsky.social•238 days ago

Goddamn well-put. I’m sharing this with some people I know who don’t want to vote because “both sides are the same.” Thank you.

indigo-k.com•238 days ago

Thank you for your service.

bigk64.bsky.social•237 days ago

“YOU, the left, are to blame for this political violence,” says the person from the political side who glorifies lone gun men and spread hateful rhetorics 24/7

. . . . . Did I mention said gunman in question is a Republican. Like the left didn’t do nothin!

timkrauss.bsky.social•238 days ago

They are also OUTRAGED that guns are so easy to get

rotanen.bsky.social•238 days ago

And the shooter was a registered Republican wearing a far-right Youtube channel Tshirt.

krazykitkat.bsky.social•238 days ago

Excellent article. The bloody hypocrisy of Republicans.

juliusgoat.bsky.social•237 days ago

This essay appears to have resonated with a lot of people, so just a reminder that you can get this sort of thing weekly for free at my newsletter.

https://www.the-reframe.com/

juliusgoat.bsky.social•237 days ago

Also, my newsletter is supported by patrons, who are thanked in the acknowledgements of my book of essays, VERY FINE PEOPLE, which is very much about the current nightmare we find ourselves in and how we might find our way out.

https://www.armoxon.com/books/very-fine-people

roosefella.bsky.social•238 days ago

I believe that they're all looking for the guy who did this.

gordos52.bsky.social•238 days ago

The guy who owns this truck is just asking for it to be defaced. He probably has a very very sensitive car alarm that can be heard for three counties, but that wouldn't stop someone determined enough.

stephscythes.bsky.social•238 days ago

💀 Short & Sour: How the fuck can Trump be a "victim" of the same political violence/gun violence which he and his 🔴💀🔴 cult/party explicitly advocate?

Answer: He CAN NOT!

Like Trump stated about our horrific school massacres, 'Get Over It.' https://www.rawstory.com/trump-responds-iowa-school-shooting/

pedter.bsky.social•238 days ago

Thank you for fighting and writing so eloquently through the weariness, so that we can conveniently and effectively communicate our shared weariness to anyone who adds to it.

(This came out sounding sarcastic for some reason, but I mean it: Thank you.)

fortunasaga.com•238 days ago

Trump lavishing praise on Rittenhouse's intentional murder of protesters remains the most galling example to me because it demonstrates how little the real and terrible violence mattered to him when it was pointed at "undesirables."

"He should not have had to suffer through a trial for that."

grmammatam55.bsky.social•238 days ago

Smh!

ksmithmi.bsky.social•238 days ago

Rittenhouse isn't someone that should be glorified.

But he did fire in self-defense. The verdict was correct.

The criminal justice system doesn't magically become good when it goes after someone you don't particularly like.

snakebitcat.bsky.social•238 days ago

Rittenhouse chose to seek out a chance to kill someone. If he had stayed home instead, his victims would still be alive.

charleskinbote.bsky.social•237 days ago

That wasn't self defense, he went out specifically looking to shoot people

We don't "gotta hand it to them" with violent neo-Nazis

fortunasaga.com•238 days ago

Trump said, "He should not have had to suffer through a trial for that." The violence that Rittenhouse enacted, to Trump, was so obvious and necessary that even an *inquiry* into whether or not three people should have been shot in the streets was seen as an affront.

rawrtigerlily.bsky.social•238 days ago

No, no. We're doing it all wrong. Only the "others" are supposed to have violence inflicted on them all day, every day. The rest of us are supposed to remain polite, law abiding, good neighbors who hold the door for them as they rush in with guns to murder us. :P

kevychristian.bsky.social•238 days ago

Only thing shocking about this is it didn't happen sooner. I had to turn off the news this morning because it's so damn annoying hearing people spout this bs about how we need to unite and violence is never the answer regarding this motherfucker who does nothing but call for disunity and violence.

eleven11.bsky.social•238 days ago

Exactly. There’s also a stark difference between how Democrats have reacted with care and concern denouncing the attack from how Republicans reacted to the attack on the life of Mr. Pelosi. Way different.

gordos52.bsky.social•238 days ago

Repubs count on Dems to always be the adults so they (R's) can be the toddlers, throwing tantrums, demanding their way. So much so that they're furious at Dems if they ever don't immediately live up to their parental duties.

Then R's complain about the 'nanny state'. Then grow tf up already.

tristiger.bsky.social•238 days ago

I think it could have been harder on the Dems, but overall great as usual 🔥

nancyannn.bsky.social•238 days ago

👏👏👏👏👏

forzasicilia.bsky.social•238 days ago

📌

hrlatinam.bsky.social•238 days ago

Tree of Life shooting, Cielo Vista Walmart, Proud Boys attacks in DC, attack on US Congress, attack on Pelosi's husband, 2010 Austin, TX suicide attack on IRS building, Charlottesville, VA,....

marccunat.bsky.social•238 days ago

Attack on Cincinnati FBI office.

thelongmemory.bsky.social•238 days ago

The plot to blow up an apartment complex full of Somali refugees in Kansas in 2016.

thelongmemory.bsky.social•238 days ago

Both armed insurrections by the Bundys and their shitbag acolytes, none of whom ever got any prison time, btw.

tekweenie.bsky.social•238 days ago

Yes, this!

yuweiquan.bsky.social•238 days ago

Also, JFC, that photo, that image on the truck.

yuweiquan.bsky.social•238 days ago

Well put. I think, like the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we may have a brief moment of introspection before the partisan madness begins again with 10x the intensity.

loukas.bsky.social•238 days ago

ecarney.bsky.social•238 days ago

Someone had to post it.

ronzonola.bsky.social•238 days ago

Satisfied

gynostar.bsky.social•238 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/gynostar.bsky.social/post/3kx7i4noqid2s

osinskireflex.bsky.social•238 days ago

Not even that long ago

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4749880-liz-cheney-trump-treason-meme/mlite/?nxs-test=mlite

gpijanowski.bsky.social•238 days ago

They never thought the guns would be pointed at them.

mhduff.bsky.social•238 days ago

They should look in the mirror 🤦🏼‍♂️

doctecazoid.bsky.social•238 days ago

They don't own one, on purpose. Self reflection is anathema to adherents of dogma.

funmandave.bsky.social•238 days ago

And vampires.

Well, same thing in this case.

raggededge.bsky.social•238 days ago

Thanks. Excellent.

vqh888.bsky.social•238 days ago

Should have been squashed immediately. Remember when John McCain squashed that comment implying Obama was a Arab threat. He took the mic away from the lady and said "No, he is a decent American citizen".
That's called integrity 🇺🇲💙

ajbsaysthings.bsky.social•238 days ago

"I like Presidents who weren't shot."

ccquilts.bsky.social•238 days ago

John mccain called his wife a cunt

vqh888.bsky.social•238 days ago

Not a fan of the man but he did the right thing at that moment.

nancyannn.bsky.social•238 days ago

I think that was the last right thing that party did.

sbellefeuille.bsky.social•238 days ago

Thank you for this. It’s been a struggle to sort through all my thoughts and you’ve sorted them out for me.

cinemamack.bsky.social•238 days ago

Side that incites violence and calling for a civil war surprised when they're culpable for violence towards them.

thelongmemory.bsky.social•238 days ago

Goddamn. This and @sjshancoxli.bsky.social’s piece earlier this week calling for a 2nd American Reconstruction are the best things I’ve read in 6 months. Thanks for writing this.

jaymarose.bsky.social•238 days ago

Best seller!

zombzilla.bsky.social•238 days ago

Good piece, thanks.

grmammatam55.bsky.social•238 days ago

The responses from Dem lawmakers vs MAGA lawmakers are so telling! 🙄

getwired.bsky.social•238 days ago

juliusgoat.bsky.social•238 days ago

gravitybreak.media•236 days ago

god they want to be able to lynch people so bad

rdwoolf.bsky.social•238 days ago

I expect a lot of crazy theories coming from Q-Anon-type people. This has to make them squeal with delight. They’ll ask, “How did Thomas Matthew Crooks (a registered Republican) get a rifle through Secret Service’s security paremeters?” Their only possible conclusion will be “The Deep State!”

hopedixonseider.bsky.social•238 days ago

Crocodile tears...

reddevillaw.bsky.social•238 days ago

Wonder how this will affect his support of gun regulations?

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