Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

what the hell

I had a huge post about something else I just deleted, because wow.

what the fuck is wrong with people

god bless the NRA

don't bring a baseball bat to a gunfight i guess

http://scalise.house.gov/issues/2nd-amendment

see, it's what he wd've wanted

This guy is a dick who spoke at a white supremacist rally, but I don't want to gloat in his ironic misfortune just yet. Thankfully it sounds like no one was killed besides the shooter. But as for Scalise, if the shooter was, say, not a Republican gun nut, he becomes a right-wing martyr, and allows opposition to Republicans to be painted as violent extremists. (Which we all know will stick better than when the Dems try to do that for right-wing nuts.)

I got a glimpse of the shooter which meant he also could see me if he looked in my direction. At that point I ran around home plate.

This guy is a dick who spoke at a white supremacist rally, but

solid start

I could probably start describing a host of GOPers that way.

the saddest truthbomb

About 50 shots were fired, congressional sources said.

i would say i hope this ruins Trump's birthday at least, but if you go to his Twitter page right now balloons start ascending.

"I feel like I can no longer understand a lot of whats coming up in this thread anymore. It feels like 10 metric buttloads of Probably Irrelevant Shite are constantly being churned in the air above the government and obfuscating a bunch of Actual Evil Things happening but we have no idea because... covfefe and russians."

covfefe means ADHD

I think it's a walk-and-chew-gum thing. Personally I feel like I can _both_ oppose evil AND snark about trivia. YMMV.

And in my AD(H)D-tainted experience, it's impossible for me to NOT simultaneously walk and chew gum and sing a song and jot down a grocery list and spin a plate on my nose.

But that's neither here nor there.

Only reason capital police were at the practice is because I guess Scalise is in the line of succession, under Paul Ryan maybe?

p sure i heard one of Scalise's colleagues/eyewitness slip in a joke about how the Democrat team usually beat them

grace under fire

ya gotta get up pret-ty early in the morning to shoot a congressional baseball player

not to make light of the misfortune but I suppose these were the same people who support loosening gun control laws?

http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Steve_Scalise_Gun_Control.htm

Note - Police were there with guns to "protect " but that's no use if you have already been shot

I turned on the TV just as an anchor was quoting someone saying that the shooter's goal was to kill as many Republican lawmakers as possible. Anyone know who might have said that?

Well, keeping in mind we know no details, if police were not there the guy with a rifle on a baseball field surely would have shot more people. But that's what police are for, not yahoos with concealed carry.

xpost That seems like bullshit, unless he shouted that as he shot. For all we know it was a republican gunman who showed up to the wrong practice.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who was at the practice, told CNN "it would have been a massacre" had Capitol Police not been present.
"Nobody would have survived without the Capitol Hill police," Paul said on CNN. "It would have been a massacre without them."

Don't worry, the narrative will quickly be in place.

Trump-supporting Infowars blames the media for this morning's attack on Republican members of Congress. pic.twitter.com/gK18Q1DIfo

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) June 14, 2017

It seems like possibly an outrageous claim or irresponsible reporting, but it was literally the first thing I heard about the whole incident and I've been awake for just over half an hour, so I wondered if that was a popular theory at this stage.

"Aim for the late-middle-aged tubby white guys" doesn't exactly help here.

it's never a republican. it's either a terrorist or an isolated incident

White man with rifle tends to skew conservative or crazy, but who knows.

I think it was Alex Jones, that is my "theory."

Cool, so when Infowars spurs gun nuts into executing journalists, can we finally throw Alex Jones's ass in jail for approximately forever?

meanwhile:

On the GOP side, enthusiasm for the president lifted outspoken Trump supporter Corey Stewart to an unexpectedly strong finish in his race against the GOP establishment’s favored candidate, Ed Gillespie.

Although Stewart came up short, his showing in the primary creates a new challenge for Gillespie in the general election. Gillespie had hoped to keep some distance from Trump to help him with Virginia’s notably centrist voters. But now he may need to warm up to the president to bring along the Republican base/

This bodes well for 2018, if anti-Trump sentiment spurs Dem turnout and pro-Trump sentiment spurs GOP candidates to tack right.

so long as Dems remember to offer voters actual policy along with the vitriol.

If the Dems offer policy that gives the GOP something to run against. It's all grossly symbiotic.

Yeah, starting to feel like going the exact opposite direction of Clinton's campaign ads is the smart move. Pretend like these venal fuckers don't even exist and present people with a sharply-contrasting platform.

I'd been wondering what it would take to get the Republican base to start shooting their representatives. If I was Paul Ryan, I'd never leave the house without body armor.

if i was paul ryan, i'd save constituents the trouble and shoot myself

Smaller government!

Corey Stewart has always been an evil fuck. I on purely strategic grounds I'm pretty happy about his statement quoted in the Post last night:

“There is one word you will never hear from me, and that’s ‘unity,’ ” Stewart told supporters at a restaurant in Woodbridge. “We’ve been backing down too long. We’ve been backing down too long in defense of our culture, and our heritage and our country.”

Yes, Corey. Go there. Run third-party; moar Confederacy plz.

Never thought I'd be reading a Peter Himmelmann piece on current perceptions of the military and working against assumptions but here we are

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/war-myopia-what-i-learned-from-my-week-united-states-army-himmelman

God saw somebody on facebook refering to the shootings as potentially being a Reichstag Fire, do hope that is heavily misguided.
But hate to think something like this was actually going to benefit their cause

people on facebook stub their toe and refer to it as potentially being a recihstag fire tbf

ur mom is a reichstag fire iirc

tru

Nazis made sure they weren't in the Reichstag when they set fire to it tbf

say what u like about the nazis, their false flag operations were logical at least

well, shooter is seemingly a bernie bro.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2017/live-updates/public-safety/updates-shooting-at-congressional-baseball-practice-in-virginia/shooter-named-as-james-t-hodgkinson/?utm_term=.cd0c472b3034

https://www.facebook.com/jthodgkinson

BERNIE WOULD HAVE GUN

oh well this changes everything