“Yes the police definitely didn’t handle this situation well, but if they weren’t there at all, how would this have ended?”

I enjoyed Beto O’Rourke’s outburst at Greg Abbott’s press conference earlier this week. I thought that was pretty good.

While there were numerous idiotics plotbeats in the second episode, there were two in particular I want to highlight as they had me howling in laughter.

If you abolish the police, who is going to stand around for an hour waiting for backup while a gunman is in the school with your kids? Answer me that.

Even armed police are too afraid to confront shooters. But republicans demand teachers lay down their lives to stop shooters. Armed police hesitate to attack shooters, yet this mad country thinks training 5 year olds to attack with scissors is the answer.

Yeah, I knew the police version of the events was wrong from the start of it... they said they were in the school in less than 5 minutes after the guy entered. Yeah, right - that’s why he was able to shoot up the place for 45 minutes! Good luck getting a consent decree to investigate and make changes, though. Texas…

Cops exist to protect property, not lives or freedom or any other bullshit they claim, not even elementary school kids trapped in their school with a mass shooter. They’re the enforcement arm of our dictatorship of the wealthy, nothing more, nothing less. They’ll kill you for stealing a pack of Pokémon cards or…

And this is why I drive around with a “Beto for Texas” sticker on my car in Dallas and routinely get the bird from my “neighbors.” My southern politeness hates incivility, but damn, he is right and I am glad he has the guts to speak out to the horrible humans sitting on that stage. My fellow Texans just chose that…

At least now I understand Abbott’s anti choice stance on abortion. If you’re gonna let this many kids get slaughtered on the reg, you really need a plan for backfilling their positions.

They say this every time, yet they never seem to be able to find the time. When is the time? Let us know and we’ll mark it on the calendar. Otherwise, just say never and we’ll plan accordingly.

We need at least 60 more Betos in the Senate, please.

Between this and all the handwringing over peaceful protests at justices houses, wonder these fucking cowards think they need to be armed to the hilt at all times.  Talk about thin-skinned cowards.

These are the motherfuckers responsible for this...

I know I’m a gray so y’all think I’m some right wing racist dicknozzle and thus nobody will ever see this or take it seriously, but I must ask, in this very specific instance with this very specific musician: Is it cultural appropriation if he grew up in and was immersed in that very culture himself? How is being as…

society would be so much better without rhetoric like yours. you’re so boring.

I would counter that telling a bunch of depressed autistic people that taking large doses of unnatural hormones and cutting off parts of their bodies will finally make them happy does a lot more damage to society than anything I’ve ever said or thought.

No it isn’t. Forcing people to call men with cocks women is actual lunacy

Clearly you don’t know the definition of forcing.

But there’s so much money to be made, validating a small number of bigots’ feelings. That’s a real business model these days.

Picking on trans people is punching down.