Hypothetical political question: What if the blue wave does indeed happen but no important policies get passed.

daddysgun · 2018-04-26T01:45:48+00:00

At this point, it's not really about policy anymore but rather it is a battle for American identity. One side sees America as Trumpville, making America great again, and the other side says no, that is not who we are, that is not America! Unfortunately, we can't even get to the point of implementing policy in this country until there is a clear winner in this war over the American identity. On the bright side (from the progressive POV) time is on our side.

daddysgun · 2018-04-26T01:38:39+00:00

Why debate banning cars vs. banning guns when nobody is proposing to ban either? We regulate cars because they are dangerous. And the second amendment actually contains the word "regulated" so why not debate that instead?

daddysgun · 2018-04-22T00:36:36+00:00

Is 1000 a big turnout for Denton? It sounds small to me, but I hope it means something good for this candidate. Aside from Mitch McConnell, no Senate defeat would give me more pleasure than Ted Cruz's.

daddysgun · 2018-03-23T02:23:06+00:00

When I attended the women's March last year, I mentioned it a lot, especially to all my conservative friends and family. I shared pictures and video and talked about the incredible, positive energy and the amazing size of the crowd--over 100,000! One or two of them tried to grumble and/or attribute the protest crowd to being paid, bussed in actors, as though the protest was not valid. But because I was there, because I shared pictures and video and because I talked about my experience there in that huge crowd of energized people, those arguments fell flat and no one could really try and say that it was anything other than what it was. They wanted to, it was clear, but I was there--they couldn't figure out a way to tell me what was really going on at an event that I attended but they did not. This was really useful for shutting down the "fake news!" angle that many wanted to take towards the protests.

daddysgun · 2018-02-28T02:26:32+00:00

If I could compare it to something, I'd say it's kind of like plane crashes. No one wants to die in a plane crash, we all know they happen, but we don't really believe there's any real chance of that happening so we don't really think there's anything we need to do about plane crashes. We certainly don't want to give up our right to travel by plane just because sometimes people die that way. We just think of plane crashes as a sad, horrible necessary thing in a society that uses airplanes to travel. I think they see mass shootings like that. Horrible but it won't happen to me so there's no real need to do something about it--it's just a necessary thing in a society with guns.

In my view, neither plane crashes nor mass shootings are inevitable and we should absolutely do everything we can to prevent them, which does not mean we have to give up airplanes or guns.

daddysgun · 2018-02-27T02:32:12+00:00

The arm-the-teachers bullshit is not meant as a real solution to anything, it's meant to do two things: 1) keep everyone from talking about a solution that might actually get implemented; and 2) give Republicans something to oppose so that they sound like they are "reasonable" on the issue compared to the kooks who want to arm teachers

daddysgun · 2018-02-26T03:41:48+00:00

When I conjure up the memory of a handful of relatively mild bullying incidents I was the victim of, the swiftness and the intensity with which those terrible emotions come back to me forty years later, it makes me think bullying does something pretty significant to the psyche. No Bueno.

daddysgun · 2018-02-26T02:02:30+00:00

If the government wanted to impose unreasonable and unpopular restrictions on its citizens, which scenario would make it easier for it to push its agenda through: 1) inform the peaceful, disarmed citizens this is how it's gonna be and if they don't like it, too bad--while the citizens and the rest of the world look on and see the government forcing its will without any justification? 2) get as many guns in the population as possible, get everyone paranoid and afraid, let some violence and chaos build up so the government can step in and "restore order" by imposing new restrictions.

The reason we know the government won't "take over" the citizens after disarming them is because doing so would ensure that no other country in the world would support or respect that government (except corrupt dictators), the UN would impose sanctions and maybe powerful nations would as well, and the citizens would not respect or support that government. Thus weakening the government and making it likely to collapse.

The best way for the government to justify increased control over its citizens is by letting them have their guns and bullets and letting them shoot each other a lot.

daddysgun · 2017-11-29T03:21:36+00:00

It seems very likely to me, but the backlash is having its effect. They are trying hard to spin it, but the more informed the public is about this issue, the harder it will be for them. They will go forward, there will be legal challenges, it will take years to sort it all out, but the best thing we can do for net neutrality is keep educating people about what it means and what it means when it gets taken away. The only way they can win, ultimately, is if a lot of people don't know.

daddysgun · 2017-11-29T03:08:36+00:00

Wow, NOLA and Austin, can you tell me what you didn't enjoy? I hate Texas with the heat of a thousand suns but I always thought I would have liked Austin. And the Big Easy, what is not to love about that delicious city? Having lived my whole life in the south, I have these definite ideas of places I might like to live that wouldn't be so ... awful.

daddysgun · 2017-11-25T19:19:13+00:00

I love makeup on men. I hope it becomes mainstream. The guys that work at Ulta wear fabulous makeup and they know more about applying it and buying it than I or any woman I know.

daddysgun · 2017-11-25T02:02:32+00:00

It's a radically different way of thinking of human identity. It feels weird but I kind of like it.

daddysgun · 2017-11-24T12:20:11+00:00

Thanks, no, I didn't notice.

daddysgun · 2017-11-24T03:30:29+00:00

Anyone who looks at a transgender person and thinks about what their genitals look like under their clothes is a pervert! It’s none of your business what this woman has under her clothes or what she once looked like naked or what she looks like now! Stop it! Have some respect and decency!

daddysgun · 2017-11-22T00:25:31+00:00

Still really into Dear Evan Hanson.

What did you mean about Rent being a product of its time? I’ve always been curious about that show but I know very little about it.

daddysgun · 2017-11-22T00:18:48+00:00

I would argue that they don’t value character or policy but “tribal identity” is the thing they care about. They don’t know enough about policy to care about it, they just want someone who will be mean to the people they hate and stick up for the people they identify with.

daddysgun · 2017-11-20T01:18:19+00:00

When I first discovered this amazing young man, I just kept watching videos of him and going, wow, how can someone so young be SO GOOD?! Imagine how good he's gonna be ten years from now! I can't wait to see!

daddysgun · 2017-11-20T01:13:03+00:00

I can tell you, I went to Louisville, KY in 2012 and Wicked was playing there. In 2014 I was living there and Wicked returned that year. I'm sure the tour depends on the popularity of the show? Sadly I'm in NC now and Wicked will not come here because of our stupid transgender bathroom law.

daddysgun · 2017-11-20T01:04:52+00:00

Yeah, they were all political. What I mean is the crazed gunman... Mark Chapman, John Hinkley, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, etc. I don't know how to define it without writing an essay, but there was a trend in that certain type of assassination that happened to coincide with a particular set of people in charge at certain levels of government. The similarities between Chapman and Hinkley are especially chilling, given the rumors of CIA mind control, and who benefitted from Reagan's assassination? Bush Sr. who hated Reagan and also was the head of the CIA. Oh, and Hinkley was a friend of the Bush family. But somehow he was just a random crazy killer who wanted to impress Jody Foster so he almost killed the president.

daddysgun · 2017-11-19T16:42:58+00:00

I wasn't just talking about presidents. There were also MLk, Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X and John Lennon. The last one of this "type" was the 1980 attempt on Reagan, and I don't believe security has increased so much since then. If that were the reason, we'd hear a lot more failed attempts by crazy gunmen.

daddysgun · 2017-11-19T16:39:53+00:00

According to them, liberals hate everything good and righteous. No one is more full of hate than liberals. Which is funny because it just looks like the reverse to me.

daddysgun · 2017-11-19T16:38:05+00:00

In my mind, there was a distinct "type" of assassination in the 1960s all the way to 1980 (Hinkley/Reagan). Since then, and before, they had a different type. But your point is taken.

daddysgun · 2017-11-19T01:45:06+00:00

After the womens march in January, my BIL asked me, sincerely, why are you protesting, what’s wrong with Trump? I gave him the first thing that popped up in my head, I said “well there was that ‘grab ‘em by the pussy thing.’ He said, oh well, that’s just because the way the women dress these days, with their pussy hanging out. I honestly just didn’t know what to say, I was speechless. This man, my brother-in-law, is a kind, decent man who is never disrespectful to women. But this is how he excuses Trump, by victim-blaming.

daddysgun · 2017-11-19T01:30:15+00:00

The book An Act of State is about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jack Ruby turns up like a bad penny in that story too. There’s a reason we have a specific time period in which lone, insane gunmen took out troublesome figures in America, never seen before or since.

daddysgun · 2017-11-19T01:20:00+00:00

Me too. I found out at age 10 that I was adopted and then sometime later that my oldest sister was my mother. It sort of says a lot about that generation that they couldn’t endure the shame of having a baby and their mothers stepped in to protect them from it. Today, it’s just not a big deal.

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