All the embarrassing headlines from the U.S. usually don't phase me.
If anything they just make me happy I don't live there anymore and don't have to frequently threaten to move to Canada.
But today I read a headline that incensed me and brought all the other recent b.s. to a boil in my mind.
Apparently, the TSA (which should stand for Total Stupidity Administration) beat up and bloodied a young woman who was undergoing chemo therapy for a brain tumor. Even though the girl's mother told them she had trouble understanding what was going on, they handled the situation with their signature style of escalation and overkill.
The girl was arrested and later released. The charges against her were dropped.
These TSA dipshits honestly think they are the tip of the spear.
This is the wise organization that once detained a five year old because he had the same name as someone on the "do not fly" list.
They are the scourge of mothers carrying pumped breast milk and sure to mishandle any interaction with someone wearing a prosthesis.
They riffled through my military issued gear once and "forgot" to put $260 worth of it back in my bag. I was left to buy replacement items with my meager Army salary.
One of their female agents also felt me up once.
America was not a safer place because of this.
I can't think of a single time the TSA has foiled a terrorist plot or picked on someone who was a serious threat. If they did I'm sure it was purely accidental.
Amazingly, they continue to get funding to hire the worst and the dullest.
None of that funding seems to go towards training their people to act like professionals and exercise discretion. Instead it all seems to be funneled into the "make vague statements to the press" department every time they need to do damage control for their latest stupidity.
And since I'm on a tear here, what the ever loving f**k is wrong with America when it comes to gun control?
Is there really anyone outside the NRA lobby who honestly believes the forefathers meant for us all to have an arsenal of high powered assault rifles?
When the second amendment was made you had to have a powder horn and flint and steel to get off your one shot. If you missed, too bad. Hopefully you had five to fifteen more minutes to reload and wait for the fuse to go off.
The "well formed militia" exists today in the form of the National Guard and various branches of the military.
How many more mass shootings does the place need before Republican law makers stop kow towing to the NRA and a bunch of paranoid separatists that probably don't vote for "big gubmint" in the first place?
The idea that more people with guns would help is ridiculous.
You would have to have a loaded gun on you at all times and be constantly vigilant.
No one can do this.
If you have children you can't leave a loaded weapon lying around and if someone breaks into your home they aren't going to send you a letter notifying you of the fact so you can be armed and ready when they get there.
As for making that cesspool great again, dream on. It was never great in the first place. Not in a way that those talking about it now would like to believe.
It was founded by theft and slaughter of the indigenous people who lived there. It was built up on the backs of slaves and it excluded women and minorities from having a say in government for ages.
It was supposedly a refuge for persecuted minorities and masses but let too many Irish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans or Middle Easterners show up and the tune changed significantly.
Those wishing to "Make America Great Again" are aspiring to a future where whites still have unchallenged power, Christianity is the only acceptable faith and women return to domestic life and let men make decisions for them. They advocate for the expulsion and exclusion of minorities and the degradation of the environment. They are anti science and pro war.
The days they try to recall were never great. They were a nightmare for everyone who struggled to overcome them and move forward. To have them now would be to create a dystopia.
I don't know where the cooler heads or calmer voices are but I am grateful for the land I live in and its great distance from America.
If anything they just make me happy I don't live there anymore and don't have to frequently threaten to move to Canada.
But today I read a headline that incensed me and brought all the other recent b.s. to a boil in my mind.
Apparently, the TSA (which should stand for Total Stupidity Administration) beat up and bloodied a young woman who was undergoing chemo therapy for a brain tumor. Even though the girl's mother told them she had trouble understanding what was going on, they handled the situation with their signature style of escalation and overkill.
The girl was arrested and later released. The charges against her were dropped.
These TSA dipshits honestly think they are the tip of the spear.
This is the wise organization that once detained a five year old because he had the same name as someone on the "do not fly" list.
They are the scourge of mothers carrying pumped breast milk and sure to mishandle any interaction with someone wearing a prosthesis.
They riffled through my military issued gear once and "forgot" to put $260 worth of it back in my bag. I was left to buy replacement items with my meager Army salary.
One of their female agents also felt me up once.
America was not a safer place because of this.
I can't think of a single time the TSA has foiled a terrorist plot or picked on someone who was a serious threat. If they did I'm sure it was purely accidental.
Amazingly, they continue to get funding to hire the worst and the dullest.
None of that funding seems to go towards training their people to act like professionals and exercise discretion. Instead it all seems to be funneled into the "make vague statements to the press" department every time they need to do damage control for their latest stupidity.
And since I'm on a tear here, what the ever loving f**k is wrong with America when it comes to gun control?
Is there really anyone outside the NRA lobby who honestly believes the forefathers meant for us all to have an arsenal of high powered assault rifles?
When the second amendment was made you had to have a powder horn and flint and steel to get off your one shot. If you missed, too bad. Hopefully you had five to fifteen more minutes to reload and wait for the fuse to go off.
The "well formed militia" exists today in the form of the National Guard and various branches of the military.
How many more mass shootings does the place need before Republican law makers stop kow towing to the NRA and a bunch of paranoid separatists that probably don't vote for "big gubmint" in the first place?
The idea that more people with guns would help is ridiculous.
You would have to have a loaded gun on you at all times and be constantly vigilant.
No one can do this.
If you have children you can't leave a loaded weapon lying around and if someone breaks into your home they aren't going to send you a letter notifying you of the fact so you can be armed and ready when they get there.
As for making that cesspool great again, dream on. It was never great in the first place. Not in a way that those talking about it now would like to believe.
It was founded by theft and slaughter of the indigenous people who lived there. It was built up on the backs of slaves and it excluded women and minorities from having a say in government for ages.
It was supposedly a refuge for persecuted minorities and masses but let too many Irish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans or Middle Easterners show up and the tune changed significantly.
Those wishing to "Make America Great Again" are aspiring to a future where whites still have unchallenged power, Christianity is the only acceptable faith and women return to domestic life and let men make decisions for them. They advocate for the expulsion and exclusion of minorities and the degradation of the environment. They are anti science and pro war.
The days they try to recall were never great. They were a nightmare for everyone who struggled to overcome them and move forward. To have them now would be to create a dystopia.
I don't know where the cooler heads or calmer voices are but I am grateful for the land I live in and its great distance from America.
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