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I refuse to accept this new "normal."
"Maryland School Shooter killed by Armed School Resource Officer." Let's unpack this: A student brings a gun to school. The armed student opens fire on other students, wounding two students. The armed student specifically targets a young female. An armed school resource officer intervenes. Both fire at each other. The armed shooter dies in EMR. The armed school resource officer is lauded as a hero. We shrug and say, "Too bad." 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 . 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. The...
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...
