Chit-Chat: The Feels

[peacheslatour]

29 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:

I must say I got a laugh out of today's viral photo of everyone eating McDonald's on Trump's jet.  Everyone happy except RFK.  I am not finding a way to post the photo here. 

 

Scroll down below on this post -- that may work.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/photo-rfk-jr-eating-mcdonalds-drinking-coke-trump-goes-viral-1987051

Here you go.

 

[bluegirl147]

41 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Here you go.

 

All the money in the world and this is what they eat.  

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump doesn't make it to the end of his term. Because he dies or for other reasons.  He was always a means to an end whether he knows it or not.  

[fastiller]

1 hour ago, tearknee said:

CBS Sunday Morning ran a story in its latest episode, concerning how parents of school shooting victims deal with the tragedy. The story followed photographer Lou Bopp, as he traveled from home to home, photographing the child victim's bedroom. Many of the parents keep the room as their child left it before going to what would be their last day. Beds unmade; toys scattered all over the room. The parents would never touch anything, even letting dust accumulate. That story made me think about one thing. How many of those parents voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election? Particularly with his "Smithers" J.D. Vance's attitude of "Get Over It" in regard to school shootings. I would hope that none of them did.

I get how photo like these would be touching & powerful.  I think they need to start publishing photos of the schoolrooms & hallways immediately after the shootings.  Or those of the ER where the victims are brought.  Maybe that'll tip the needle for some people. 

Edited 1 hour ago by fastiller

[peacheslatour]

9 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

All the money in the world and this is what they eat.  

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump doesn't make it to the end of his term. Because he dies or for other reasons.  He was always a means to an end whether he knows it or not.  

I wish we had a puke emoji.

Edited 1 hour ago by peacheslatour

[Annber03]

9 minutes ago, fastiller said:

I get how photo like these would be touching & powerful.  I think they need to start publishing photos of the schoolrooms & hallways immediately after the shootings.  Or those of the ER where the victims are brought.  Maybe that'll tip the needle for some people. 

In my ideal world scenario, if such a thing were possible, I would make it so that the politicians who refuse to support any sort of gun control and continue to donate to the NRA would be required to go to the sites of all these mass shootings. Let them be involved in or witness to the first responders pulling out the the bodies of the victims. Then I'd also make them go to the morgues and observe the autopsies, and require them to pay for the funerals for those who died and the medical bills for those who were injured. 

Not because I think it would magically change their minds, 'cause if a politician sees a mass shooting on the news and STILL refuses to do anything to try and stop it, it's clearly because they have no interest in doing so.

No, I'd just make them do that because if everyone else has to suffer and struggle in the wake of a mass shooting, it needs to impact the politicians, too. Once it starts to affect them on a financial level, then maybe that'll be enough to make them do something to stop this. 

[Ohiopirate02]

I will give RFK, Jr. credit for making it off that plane without punching Elon or Junior. Both of them have extremely punchable faces not to mention their personalities. And to me at least, the Kennedy family has always given off the vibes of a family where boys and men settling things outside was permitted. That tends to go hand in hand with letting boys be boys.

[Browncoat]

45 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

I wish we had a puke emoji.

Here ya go:  🤮

[Avaleigh]

59 minutes ago, fastiller said:

I get how photo like these would be touching & powerful.  I think they need to start publishing photos of the schoolrooms & hallways immediately after the shootings.  Or those of the ER where the victims are brought.  Maybe that'll tip the needle for some people. 

Unfortunately, the gun fanatics can't be reasoned with. You can show them dozens of kids and their response is to have armed security at schools. There's no reasoning with people who think more guns is the answer to this problem. 

Sandy Hook was proof to me that we'll never see meaningful change when it comes gun control. If that doesn't get people to wakeTF up, what will?

[Lantern7]

1 hour ago, bluegirl147 said:

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump doesn't make it to the end of his term. Because he dies or for other reasons.  He was always a means to an end whether he knows it or not.  

That is what I think. I'd say how I figure things will shake out, but I do not wish to cross any lines here.

[fastiller]

@Avaleigh - of course you're right.  

[Bastet]

2 minutes ago, Avaleigh said:

Sandy Hook was proof to me that we'll never see meaningful change when it comes gun control. If that doesn't get people to wakeTF up, what will?

Same here -- once it happened to six-year-olds and still nothing, I knew nothing would ever be horrible enough to motivate Congress to stand up to the NRA. 

[bluegirl147]

8 minutes ago, Bastet said:

Same here -- once it happened to six-year-olds and still nothing, I knew nothing would ever be horrible enough to motivate Congress to stand up to the NRA. 

The fact so many people thought that horrible thing didn't happen and was just a ruse for confiscating people's guns told me we were never going to have meaningful gun control.  How do convince people who believe an entire town faked young children's deaths that we need stronger gun laws?  Forget lack of empathy those people have lack of brain cells.

[Browncoat]

17 minutes ago, Avaleigh said:

There's no reasoning with people who think more guns is the answer to this problem. 

Or who think there is no problem because they believe these shootings never actually happened.  That they were all staged with actors.  Alex Jones did immeasurable damage with his lies.

[JustHereForFood]

9 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

Pretty much. They appeased him and kept trying too long after the invaded Poland. The other countries pretty much when like this; the Dutch well they invaded Poland and Belgium but they won't invade us because we're neutral. Denmark-they invaded Poland but we'll declare neutral. Norway-well they invaded Poland and Denmark but they won't invade us because we're neutral. It's really not that different from now Russia has never stopped. They maded it all the way to Berlin in WW2 and kept all the land they took. Putin invaded Crimea, nothing happened. No one did anything. So of course he invaded Ukraine. You have people saying let him have parts of Ukraine or all of it. As if that's going to end things. Ah, no Putin will invade another country and another until he's stopped. That's how Putin works. That's how Russia rolls.

 

Thank you, andromeda! That's what I keep saying, it's exactly the same pattern as back then. I'm sure I'm probably already annoying with mentioning it, but I'm just so tired of seeing history repeat itself, step, after step, after step. Especially with the past being still pretty much within living memory. And I'm worried how much worse it can get with that idiot in charge of the most powerful country in the world, when he seems to be deciding foreign policy based on how well he sleeps that night. I was just listening to some interviews with political analysts and the moderator tried to joke that with Trump being so unpredictable, he might do something good or clever when we don't expect it ... none of the guests laughed.

[Lantern7]

11 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

The fact so many people thought that horrible thing didn't happen and was just a ruse for confiscating people's guns told me we were never going to have meaningful gun control.  How do convince people who believe an entire town faked young children's deaths that we need stronger gun laws?  Forget lack of empathy those people have lack of brain cells.

It defies logic. What, did a family of actors move into town, embed themselves there for years, wait for a notice that a "gunman" would come to the school, and their "kid" would fake a death? And this happened many times over? It's like a litmus test for stupidity.

In case you didn't hear, Sean Duffy has been tapped to head Transportation. Yes, he was on The Real World and two seasons on what would be known as The Challenge, but I don't consider him a "reality star." I think he's best known as a Congressman from Wisconsin and from impregnanting his wife many times over.