I was pulled over for speeding today.
When you get pulled over for speeding, you usually know how fast you were going, and when the cop asks you if you know how fast you were going, it's a wrap.
But today was different. Today, I decided to try the trump defense.
First, blame others. "It wasn't my fault officer. That car behind me was going too fast, it was tailgating me, you should go after them!"
Then whataboutism: "But officer, what about all of those other cars speeding? Why aren't you going after them?"
Then, cry foul: "You know, I don't think I was actually speeding. I think you just needed to fill a quota!"
That shit didn't work.
I got the ticket anyway.
Because in the real world, there are consequences for our actions.
@JoJoFromJerz One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
— Frank Lautenberg
Mass shooters don’t choose the AR-15 because it looks “cool.” They choose it, because they can kill upwards of 30 people before needing to reload.
On Sept 28th, 1982, 12 year old Mary Kellerman was hospitalized after being poisoned by a killer who laced a bottle of Tylenol that was on a store shelf, with cyanide. She died the next morning. A day later, six more would die from poisoned Tylenol.
By October 5th, Johnson & Johnson had issued a nationwide recall of 31 million bottles of Tylenol, and launched a massive advertising campaign to get people not to consume any of their products that contained acetaminophen (Tylenol)
The 1982 event inspired a rapid and radical shift in how certain products were sent out, quickly prompting manufacturers to start using tamperproof packaging. Untold lives have been saved in the years since.
The crisis management response by Johnson & Johnson is taught today as a model of corporate public relations and public safety.
These fucking shootings should be SIMPLE to fix. We KNOW how to rapidly bring about a massive reduction in school shootings and the senseless deaths of children and staff. We KNOW how.
It’s not happening, because organizations like the NRA spend millions upon millions of dollars to make sure GOP politicians do NOT allow those solutions to be implemented.
The NRA rewards the GOP for allowing our children to continue being slaughtered.
It’s NOT that we don’t know how to crush this. That, has never been the problem.
@JeffClarkUS The only thing making it political is the fact that Trump is a former (& wannabe 2024) President who blatantly committed crimes. He has been indicted by 2 grand juries (so far). Have you read the indictment? This is no "tempest-in-a-teapot".
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw