Pam Bondi: “I was defending the constitution”

To be fair, the dead don’t generally try to get their stolen civil rights back.

Her attempts to elide the queerness of most of the dead (and thus why they were targeted) by insisting that the dead were merely “Floridians” and “human beings” was maddening. Oh, so LBTQ people are sex deviants when they want to marry, and child molesters when they want to use a bathroom, but it takes dying to be…

Wow. A journalist asking challengingly confrontational questions like a journalist is supposed to do. And asking follow ups to challenge the answers, no less.

I was talking about this yesterday; a masculinity that seeks to assert itself through dominance and violence is a toxic masculinity. It’s not surprising he was attracted to ISIS, which is just another violent hierarchy frustrated men with death wishes can join when their life goes poorly.

People seem to have a hard time understanding that a person can have more than one motive for something. It sounds like he was not a stable individual, and may have had some mental health issues. He was also known to be very homophobic and racist. On top of that, though all reports except for one describe him as not…