If there’s one thing the last 2 years have taught us, in the USA, and in the Russian Federation, life is expendable.

The GOP and NRA have gathered in Houston this weekend to celebrate the massacres. Republinazis are just fucking evil.

will the nra's
Nuremberg Rally
also host Hair Furor?

they've so well-primed their Minions
for upcoming Election Fraud they'll NEVER
accept Defeat (or barely victory) in November

which'll be another Dry Run for 2024

fave local day trip?
Paradise if the weather is fine
if you hike do Not leave your mind behind
or at least have a Reliable Guide & and an Ace bandage

Apparently cops are afraid of being shot by automatic weapons. But most of them still vote for Republicans. Dumbshits.

they do Love them some nra-approved Pols
just like they Love the FREE-dumb! of
going Maskless -- 'To Inflict & Spread'
cough cough oughtta be their Motto

they both make about as much
'sense.' Blu Lives do NOT
Matter to the Covid
nor to the nra

@2: Well, the convention hall was booked before the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde.

@ 7, it doesn't matter when the convention was booked because America has non-stop gun massacres for the GOPnazis, like Tr666p, Texass Governor Dalek, and Ted Cruz, to celebrate--they're terrorists that want to kill us.

Now that we’re well into primary season, I’ve started a munnieball list of candidates to donate $$ in the hope of saving the last micrograms of this fucked up, violent country’s sanity. ActBlue makes it easy--I’ve already pushed the button for Beto again.

Chris Jones AR Governor
Katie Hobbs AZ Governor
Mark Kelly AZ Senate
Michael Bennet CO Senate
Val Demings FL Senate
Stacey Abrams GA Governor
Marcus Flowers GA House
Raphael Warnock GA Senate
Gretchen Whitmer MI Governor
Trudy Busch Valentine MO Senate
Cheri Beasley NC Senate
Maggie Hassan NH Senate
Catherine Cortez Masto NV Senate
Kendra Horn OK Senate
Tina Kotek OR Governor
Josh Shapiro PA Governor
John Fetterman PA Senate
Beto O’Rourke TX Governor
Kim Schrier WA House

I already feel ugly typing this, It's one of those things about Old Seattle that I'm always bitching about disappearing or has altered beyond recognition, but who the fuck missed Folklife?

@8: At the least, Ted Cruz's heartburn continues as shown here at this likely overpriced meal at a mediocre Houston restaurant:

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1530584866718265344?s=20&t=OGczCpCQOu2Lc0AMjgbXEA

Remember, kids don’t vote and complacent bureaucrats don’t really care if they live or die.

Thank goodness for the Border Patrol and Homeland Security agents who finally stormed the building and took out this worthless excuse for goat flesh.

With the nearest trauma center 80 miles away in San Antonio, time was of the essence for these blameless victims of some whack-job’s misguided anger and bloodlust.

Thanks to the Barney Fife effect, and an unseemly desire for coffee and donuts, 21 innocent people are dead, many of whom bled to death while complacent law enforcement munched on pastries and scratched their nuts.

The mentality of police is the province of evil.

They under react in tense situations where immediate action is imperative, then strangle some black guy with their baton because he had a bag of weed or stole a pack of gum.

While President Biden is busy writing taxpayer funded checks to upper middle-class white kids who don’t want to pay their student loans, he may want to bail out the City of Uvalde, which is facing a full-frontal litigation assault from numerous ambulance-chasing attorneys who wish to cash-in on this atrocity.

Understandably, the parents are traumatized and more than entitled to seek compensations and justice through the courts.

It is not difficult to imagine a scenario where the city is literally sued into oblivion by angry parents who lost beloved children in this horrifying debacle, which was made more problematical by law enforcement inertia.

If you want to know why people don’t like cops and want to defund the police for more humanitarian priorities, this incident in Uvalde illustrates the theory well.

A battalion of law enforcement stood around outside the elementary school with their thumbs in their anuses waiting for the shooter to run out of ammunition so they could safely enter and have another donut break.

Krispy Kreme or Top Pot donuts should issue a commemorative “Uvalde Donut” with several holes representing arms fire so we don’t forget what a bunch of losers this Uvalde police force is.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes, use our expensive mass transit to take a getaway this weekend, even if it is just a bus out to the airport.

Hannah, if you only have two days, you had better get rolling (that reminds Polly, she needs to hit the garden dispensary for more hootchie-koo) because mass transit is exciting yet time-consuming.

Head out to the San Juans for some impromptu camping or hit the ocean beaches, although that would be an all-day bus trip.

Sad to see going concerns like Borracchinis abandoned and burned, like corpses piled up in the aftermath of COVID, which was our generation’s Black Death.

@1 pat L, @2, @8 & @9 Original Andrew, @3 and @6 kristofarian, @5 DOUG , @10 Bauhaus I, and @13 pollysexual +9. Agreed with you all.

@9 Original Andrew: Thank you for providing an excellent Democrat voter list. I have made note of it for whom to contribute to. May all candidates listed win and boot out the raw sewage that is RepubliKKKan.

@12 Ted Cruz doesn't HAVE a heart, Elmer.

RepubliKKKan men really should all be castrated at birth.

Go, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden--kick RWNJ Jo Rae's batshit crazy Q-Anon ass around the moon.

Hooray for the birth of J-59! Here's hoping our southern resident orca population can recover and thrive again soon.

I wonder how former Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman is doing in D.C. Has anybody heard anything lately about Jaime Herrera-Beutler? For their sake, I hope they both changed their political party affiliations. The Party of Orange Turd eats and shits out RINOs like diarrhea while farting in lockstep.

and upon Arming
all those teachers
janitors vice princples
& issuing body armor will
they not -- just like the Po-po
live in a state of perpetual Fear*
perpetrated by oceans of Donughts
caffiene and White Sugar and see every
lack of enthusiasm for the Lesson Plan as
just another Attack on Civility and turn on the
Fully Automatic feature of their WMD of Choice?

will they be Encouraged
to use their Tasers on malcontents*
and those with sleep and/or food deprivation
issues or show some Compassion & maybe die?

now, who wants
to be a Teacher?

*when all the Children
are overly-well-armed &
Dangerous too 'cause well
why Not -- it's nra Approved

@16: Pretty sick of you to wish 1/2 of the murdered little boys at Uvalde be retroactively castrated before they get later slaughtered.

doughnuts
dammit
mmm

"Not the new girl-whale, but it would be very feminist if the girl-whale balanced a dead fish on its nose" - typical stranger PC pablum

I keep reading that school districts are starting to fly their school flags upside-down and at half staff, as a "distress signal" from the students. Seattle school flags are at half-staff, but not yet upside-down.
We need our local schools to join this trend. Upside-down flags as a "distress signal" were pretty common during the Viet Nam War protests. To show that "our country is in distress".
From what I've seen, the goal is to keep the school "distress signals' in place, until congress passes meaningful gun reform law(s). It can't happen soon enough.

@19 kristofarian: That's the Party of Orange Turd for ya, especially in the Kenfucky-Fried Deep South.
They only have four laws:
1.) Arm the all wrong people with military assault rifles to serve as their army;
2.) Strip everyone of their Constitutional rights who ISN'T filthy stinking rich, corrupt, RepubliKKKan, and assigned white male at birth;
3.) Dumb down all those who don't meet the criteria for being among the filthy stinking rich, corrupt, RepubliKKKan, and assigned white male at birth, and
4) Fatten 'em up with nothing to eat but heavily processed toxic waste, where food deserts and the extreme lack of good doctor's offices stretch for hundreds of miles.

@20: I'd be careful about calling anyone else sick, Mr. Orange Turd Sympathizing Nazi-Worshipper.

@21: blip for the whack-a-troll slam dunk WIN, baybeeeeee!!! :)

The nominee for the best performative sarcasm goes to this guy who praised Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Convention thanking him for all his thoughts and prayers. It goes right over their heads.

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1531096061921710081?s=20&t=Z2esUwNmXkAT-7UdqGYVeg

https://www.facebook.com/groups/153529898931885/

happy Monday!

Europe’s Leaders
Poised to Punish Russia
With Sweeping Oil Embargo

The far-reaching measure, if approved, could deprive the Kremlin of a key stream of revenue for its war machine and would hasten Europe’s independence from Russian fuel.

Fighting raged in eastern Ukraine as Russia struggled with a potential insurgency in occupied territory elsewhere.

tonnes more:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/30/world/russia-ukraine-war

inching towards
Armageddon
are we?

@28 kristofarian: In addition to the European oil embargo, I know how we can REALLY punish Ru$$ia: Let's fire all RepubliKKKans, their fixers, lawyers, lobbyists, Extreme Court Injustices, and MAGA dupes one-way at Moscow. Vlady would be screaming "NYET!!!" before anyone could say Bolshevik.

@auntie Gee
now you'e Talkin
put 'em in a canon
shoot 'em into Putin's
back yard* they'd prolly
get along Fine with Vlad
fascists think Alike the Billion-
Aires'd surely sorely miss 'em tho

*don't forget to put
up the Net Vladdy!

[Gee -- didja get my missive
re the composer lady
(as heard on NPR!)
who found an app
or something that
simplified adding
video to music?
it sounded pret-
ty Cool & right
up your alley]

@30 kristofarian: Vlady would need a butterfly net for Sarah "Oh, look, honey--RUSSIA!!" Palin. Meanwhile, Putin might enjoy riding Turtle Boy, Moscow Mitch McConnell like a polo pony at Churchill Downs, in his undies getting ready to get initiated into Faber College's Omega Fraternity: "THANK YOU, SIR! CAN I HAVE ANOTHER?"

I missed your missive, kris---rats! Can you re-post it?

There's video of the teacher the Uvalde School District cops want to blame, the one who called them and they did not respond, actually removing the rock and slamming the door shut before the shooter could get in.

Also, the Uvalde school and city cops both know: NEVER TALK TO THE COPS

https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-police-school-district-longer-cooperating-texas-probe/story?id=85093405