Sauce for the goose

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I refuse to accept this new "normal."

"Maryland School Shooter killed by Armed School Resource Officer." Let's unpack this:

1. A student brings a gun to school. 
2. The armed student opens fire on other students, wounding two students. 
3. The armed student specifically targets a young female. 
4. An armed school resource officer intervenes. 
5. Both fire at each other. 
6. The armed shooter dies in EMR. 
7. The armed school resource officer is lauded as a hero. 
8. We shrug and say, "Too bad." 
9. The armed school resource officer is now touted as proof that we need armed school personnel to counter the threat of rage-student-revenge shootings. 

I can't go any further than this because the sheer insanity of this, the mass hysteria of this, is mind-numbing. We shrug, and this is the new normal. And of course the answer is more guns.

1. The student doesn't have a gun to bring to school. 

This horrible syllogism, this mad freight train of conservative mythology stops in its tracks. There is no need to "Step Up" (whatever that is). the Marshall Dillon school resource officer disappears, the mass murders stop. Yes, it's that simple. Gun nuts spend millions to fool us into thinking this simple and effective response—the rule of law—is "overreach," so all these deaths are right and natural and normal, part of our modern lifestyle, inherent in our culture, "too bad." We must resist this lie. We need to regulate guns. We start by banning assault rifles. Once we all see the murder rates plummet after this ban (especially males killing females), we'll realize gun laws work, and we can reduce the violence.

xkcd: She’s not saying anything

This horrible, and part of the horror is it is so commonplace....

White supremacists is not a bridge too far, but tariffs are?

Driftglass quoting Michelle Goldberg on Meet the Press:

Transcript:

MICHELLE GOLDBERG: I mean I am maybe a very naive person because I just cannot get my head around the psychology that there are good people among the white supremacists is not a bridge too far, but tariffs are, right? And that I can kind of suck up the white supremacy for a tax cut, but this is my red line. I mean I just -- you know, I will go to my grave not understanding the mentality not just of the Gary Cohn but all the people that collaborate with these people.

TOM BROKAW: I don't think that's being fair to Gary Cohn.

GOLDBERG: What? You think Gary Cohn has collaborated with this foul, disgusting government for a tax cut?

JOHN PODHORETZ Yeah. He is the economics person. He's not the Charlottesville person. And he could say to himself, you know, "I'm trying to serve the country. I think this is a good thing to do, to do the tax cut." He did the tax cut and then the policy that's in his bailiwick, that's in his portfolio, comes down the pike that is indefensible. I'm not arguing that people who would have resigned over Charlottesville wouldn't have been doing a noble thing, it's just, you know, he thought -- you know, do you want people who are able to work in a White House?

xkcd strikes again!

Coached? Or well organized and on-message?