This’ll probably be my last day on this platform for the foreseeable future. All is ok, just doing some spiritual cleanup. Be well, folks! Vote Democrat when possible.
Regarding the Palestine, Ohio Environmental mess:
- Yes, it's bad
- No, It's not even close to a "chernobyl"
- Yes, Norfolk Southern is almost entirely to blame
- Yes, Pete Buttigieg could have said more publicly
- Yes, Biden offered Fed assistance
- Yes, DeWine declined Fed assistance
- No, Buttigieg couldn't have prevented the disaster
- No, Buttigieg is NOT responsible for the clean-up
- No, Democrats didn't order the train cars be burned
- Yes, Gov. DeWine ordered the train cars be burned
- Yes, The Norfolk Southern CEO donated to DeWine
- Yes, Trump removed safety standards
- Yes, Trump weakened the EPA
- Yes, we ALL should be working together to make sure this doesn't happen again!
We have 400m+ guns in America. They aren’t going away. In fact, that # will go up. We have a gun culture. That isn’t going away. We have a 2nd Amendment. That isn’t going away.
Deal with this reality. And focus on reforms that keep guns away from people who shouldn’t have them.
No no, there’s a solution. A lot of Americans just don’t want it. #repeal2a. The second amendment is outdated. We don’t need guns, let alone the massive proliferation. People just cop out, thinking there’s nothing to do. We just aren’t courageous enough. We’re too selfish.
We’re all frustrated, but “do something” “we can’t live like this” and “this must stop” are not solutions. “Get rid of guns” is not a solution. This is a tough, complicated issue. The conversation must address specifics. Specifically, what would’ve stopped last nite? Be specific.
The frequency of school shootings in the United States totally baffles friends abroad. They don’t understand how a country, a great country, would allow it, appear to tolerate it and refuse to address it. Some families don’t want to send their kids to study in the US.
From abroad, school shootings are seen as a uniquely American problem and one the US is unable or unwilling to deal with. It doesn’t happen everywhere.
during the final performance of Clue @BeefandBoards, I dislocated my shoulder, onstage, while lifting another actor. This was 9 days after the initial dislocation, which of course made Sunday’s incident happen so easily. Backstage, I popped it back in place. Unexpected life event
We’ve figured out in the last 25 years that social media is dangerous in its ways. Republicans know this & admit it. But the gun obsession is so obviously blinding.
Gun lovers in the U.S. don’t see the connection between their obsession with death machines and how violent we are, as a society. It’s pathetic, horrifying, embarrassing. I’ve said this all before, and I have zero power. Just going on record.