Watching ignorant gun owners — all male — armed with semi-automatic rifles and pistols, storm a state capitol, sticking their ugly faces inches away from very tolerant state police, it makes one want to scream loudly. Donald Trump, you ignorant asshole, there “are no good people here.” Period. Seeing these low IQ creatures wave their […]
When second-string Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” is Beto full of it? Probably. Did his defiant stand on guns help the Democrats? Probably not. When Beto made his promise during last Thursday’s televised Democratic presidential debate, at best he was drawing a symbolic line […]
Time to decide where you stand on gun reform laws, Donald J. Trump. You, too, Mitch McConnell. This is not the time for flip-flops, for empty promises of action to produce comprehensive legislation that will, hopefully, stem the flow of blood from Americans gunned down by domestic terrorists in our country. Hoping mindless chatter, or […]
It has been over a week since the last spate of bullet-spattered massacres in America ended and Donald Trump has already declared there is no political appetite for removing guns from America’s mean streets. Apparently mollified, the Republican-controlled do nothing Senate is already getting back to the new normal in the land of the free and […]
Inexplicably, a sinkhole has appeared on the White House lawn. Appearing almost exactly one year after a similar void appeared in front of Donald Trump’s “Southern White House” at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, the hole on the North Lawn of the presidential property revealed itself on May 22 without much warning. Could these events be […]
Wearing a “Born to Kill” t-shirt and a trench coat, a heavily armed Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, allegedly walked into a Santa Fe, Texas high school art classroom at 7:45 a.m. last Friday and killed ten people. He wounded another 13, one of which was reportedly the school’s resource officer. Authorities estimate the murderous rampage and […]
When Parkland, Fla. high school students proclaimed that the February 2018 shooting at their school would be “the last mass shooting,” sadly, we knew it wouldn’t be true. After all this is America, where too many people love their guns more than the life of your child. After another horrific school shooting today, this time […]
Manuel Oliver is an artist whose son, Joaquin, was among the victims in the Parkland High School massacre. He has become a noted critic of the NRA, the nation’s gun laws and the cowardice of American politicians who won’t stand up to the gun-rights organization and it’s payoffs — uh, campaign contributions. The Shinbone Star […]
Mostly in the shadow of Dallas City Hall, two generations of gun attack victims were together on Saturday just up the street from the annual convention of the National Rifle Association. The catalyst for youth and adults who want to do something about the proliferation of automatic weapons in the U.S. was, of course, the […]
Perhaps before the day is out, in various media availabilities, National Rifle Association spokesmen will have something to say about the concerns that they’re receiving money from Russian oligarchs — money they use for . . . well, what DO they use that money for? And aren’t the Russians suddenly trying a little too hard […]
We’re expecting more than 70,000 Americans, many of them gun-totin’, to attend this year’s convention of the National Rifle Association this week here in Dallas. Registration was yesterday and I was expecting a 101-gun salute, but it didn’t happen. That would have commemorated the number of lives sacrificed across the country since the last […]
Yellow-bellied, draft-dodger Ted Nugent is now a board member for the National Rifle Association and has compared Democrats to “rabid coyotes” that should be hunted and shot. “Keep your gun handy,” Ted said, “and every time you see one, you shoot one.” Ted, you will remember, was too cowardly to go to Vietnam. “Took a […]
All she wanted was to go to school. Linda Brown, whose father Oliver was the named plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, died on Sunday in Topeka, Kansas. She was 75. It was the Topeka Board of Education that refused to enroll Brown in an all-white school in 1950 when she was 6 years […]
Dear NRA, Wayne LaPierre, Dana Loesch, Congress & Donald Trump: How does it feel to be in the crosshairs of a powerful projectile? Millions of young soon-to-be voters are pissed at you and your failure to protect them from being murdered with vile semi-automatic AR-15s. Millions across the nation are speaking and singing a loud message. […]
Donald Trump insisted earlier this week that he will unilaterally “ban bump stocks,” the gun accessory used to simulate automatic rifle fire, even if lawmakers decline to take up the issue. “I’m writing that out myself. I don’t care if Congress does it or not. I am writing it out myself,” Psycho said this week […]
Something incredible happened this week. Actually, a few incredible things: Donald Trump publicly shamed his attorney general; Trump’s girl Friday, Hope Hicks, announced her resignation; and Jared Kushner was outed for getting bank loans from bankers he met with in the White House. And then there was the freakily amazing meeting on gun reform between […]
Marion Hammer, the National Rifle Association’s Florida lobbyist, owns the balls of that state’s legislators. Because of this miserable piece of dung, Florida has been the model for the loosest gun laws in the nation. Hammer, 78, is nearing four decades as the most influential gun lobbyist in the United States. According to The New Yorker, […]
Sometimes the wings of a butterfly can start a hurricane. Emma Gonzalez, the 18-year-old senior and survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 of her classmates and teachers, is that butterfly. Her impassioned 11-minute speech at an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale just two days after […]
The Re-Education of Mr. Trump APPROVAL ALERT AT PRESS TIME: Gallup Poll: 37% — down from 40% last week Rasmussen Poll: 50% — up from 47% last week Welcome to Trumplandia, a place where with a bit of wit and snark, we keep the world caught up on all of the tasty Nuggets- O-Trump you […]
So now the dance begins. It started in Tallahassee, Fla., and spread across the United States as thousands of high school kids called bullshit to the entrenched gun folks of the National Rifle Association. In response, the NRA is already dribbling concessions in the hopes that getting rid of bump stocks and stiffening background checks […]
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