American Government Thread 2: RIP John McCain, 81

Teachers in America gonna be straight out of Snowpiercer.

Then in 100 years, they gonna be coming into class like

Or worse yet, what if one of the students gets their hands on the gun and uses it? Again, this is one of the most genuinely stupid ideas I’ve heard in a long time. I can’t believe anyone is suggesting this in earnest, much less people who are supposed to be running things.

Teacher shoots child in class.

“Darnell was getting angry, he looked upset the entire time I had him in my class… I felt threatened… He reached into his pants and that’s when I got scared for the students, so I shot him. I feel so terrible now.”

Darnell was reaching for his cell phone as he had received a text. Mr. Johnson will be placed on administrative leave. This is the 6th shooting of a black student this year by a white teacher.

That’s the kind of America Trump wants.

Bernie blames Hillary for allowing Russian interference
The senator and his top political adviser also denied Mueller’s assertion that Russian actors backed his campaign.

Lawmakers in South Carolina want to crack down on saggy pants.

Jimmy Bales (D-Richland), Russell Ott (D-Calhoun), Robert Brown (D-Charleston), Wendell Gilliard (D-Charleston), Carl Anderson (D-Georgetown), Robert Williams (D-Georgetown)

Linda Bennett (R-Charleston County), Steven Wayne Long (R-Spartanburg), Richard Martin (R-Newberry)

These state representatives introduced a bill that fines men caught with their pants sagging more than three inches below the hip exposing his skin or undergarments.

Infractions would result in a $25 fine for first-time offenders with a max of $75, plus six hours of community service after multiple slip-ups. Saggy pants would not, however, result in a criminal record.

"It’s unbecoming, it’s unprofessional,’ said Rep. Joe Jefferson, a Democrat from Berkeley County who’s one of the bill’s sponsors. “Now there’s some misunderstanding. I understand that some people are assuming that if one is caught, then they won’t be allowed to go to college, grants, loans, all these other opportunities will be taken away. That’s not the case at all. This is just to prevent these fellas and giving them at least an obligation to realize that they’re walking around and they’re convincing others to follow them. That’s not what it’s all about.”

Jefferson said the bill is not designed to target minorities.

“it’s no more than a warning to allow these fellas to be more responsible,” says Jefferson. “It is not just targeting African-American men. I see men of all races walking around with this same problem. It is just disingenuous, we should not have this. There ought to be a better way.”

The head of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina called the bill a “waste of taxpayer money” and an intrusion on South Carolinians’ civil rights.

“We would hope that our elected legislators are working on more important issues and causes that enhance the economic viability and increase protections for all South Carolinians,” Executive Director Shaundra Young Scott said in a statement. “Instead, our lawmakers are making and introducing bills to criminalize sagging pants, which will disproportionately affect minorities in communities and schools.”

A white guy talking about “blackness” and a fad that originated from gay prison sex has made me chuckle.

I will say it’s pretty dumb law tho. Crimes of fashion should be dealt with the appropriate way. On social media.

“pull your pants up” 1st result on Youtube

So there’s a video of CNN talking to a Trump supporter in Florida about how the Facebook page she took part in was organized by Russian trolls and the woman was completely in denial. It went something like this:

“While the Trump supporters at the protests were real supporters, the events organized on the Facebook page were organized by Russian trolls. Did you know that?”

“I don’t care! That’s BS! HILLARY CLINTOOOOOOOOON! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

She voted, folks. :rofl:

Just get rid of your vidya games and everything will be fine!

What an asinine human being lol Even below Jack Thompson level of stupid.

Can’t wait for Eminem and Marilyn Manson to be blamed next.

This what happens when you vote a grandpa racist white old man in

I can’t believe it’s 2018 and we’re actually seriously discussing that violent video games are to blame for school shootings. I’m sure bringing back REEFER MADNESS is next. “Those damn kids wouldn’t be shooting up schools if it wasn’t for that dang marageewanna!”

Pretty sure Sessions is already into that.

Anyway it’s expected. Idiots voted in an administration that was 30 years old in the 70s and wonder why things are so backwards and fucked.

So… Are we going to arm math teachers now?

Teachers II: they’re no longer armed with JUST knowledge!

Coming Summer 2018!

Thank goodness I’m not those students. I don’t wanna have to figure out the equation that plots the bullet’s trajectory on a graph.

I saw that, and that CNN reporter just came off as an asshole. Why would this woman know whether or not Russia backed that FB page when she’s probably pushing 75 and is just lewrning not to believe everything she reads on the internet? That was just smug CNN gotcha “journalism” designed to make CNN watchers feel good but does nothing to inform anyone of anything except that CNN and its staff aren’t above chasing people around with cameras and embarrassing them for not knowing things most people wouldn’t know. Between this and all the celebrity trash they “report” it can be hard to call CNN a “news Network” sometimes.

So about that…

Back in the long, long ago of the late 90s, I went to stay with my dad and step family in California for a while. I didn’t have much in the world at that point, but my only real job had been in a music store so I had a metric fuck-ton of CDs. Mostly obscure shit I paid for on the cheap, but also a lot of more mainstream promo and in-store-play CDs labels were always giving out.

So my step sister, about 14 at the time, had a crush on a neighbor boy, same age. Boy had conservative, churchy parents, trying to rebel. My sister asks if she can pick out some CDs the kid can borrow as a way of impressing him. I say sure, let her look through my collection, she takes Manson’s Portrait of an American Family, and No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom.

About a week later, I wake up to ambulances across the street. Kid had hanged himself from a tree in the night. Nobody noticed until the morning.

So I’m out two CDs, because fuck if I’m going to the dead kid’s parents to say “Hey, you don’t know me but can I get my stuff back? Oh, and sorry for your loss.”

Thing is though, about 2 months later, I’m channel surfing basic cable bored out of my mind with everything on. Surf passed CSPAN for like the 2nd pass… hey, wait, don’t I know that guy? So I stop and watch CSPAN. It’s the kid’s dad. Testifying before some Congressional panel, saying that devil music drove his son to suicide. Holding in his hand as his evidence my Marilyn Manson CD.

…

And all these years, I’ve secretly thought that if anything was to blame, it was probably the No Doubt album.

Yo that’s pretty crazy lol

Good thing you didn’t go ask for your CDs back lol.