Republicans spent 50 years arguing people need to carry guns to protect against government tyranny, then the minute someone carries a gun to protect against government tyranny they side with the government.
Republicans are pathetic.
🚨NEW: Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara just embarrassed the feds without even trying:
“Third shooting in less than 3 weeks… MPD recovered ~900 guns last year and didn’t shoot anyone. This is not sustainable.”
So let’s be clear:
Minneapolis wasn’t the problem.
The problem is federal agents showing up like an occupying force, pulling triggers, then hiding behind badges.
.@ezraklein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?”
@JamesTalarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices very strategically to provoke our outrage, because that leads to more clicks, which leads to more money for them.
They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection.
And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”
James Talarico: “The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich. That’s exactly what we’re seeing with Elon Musk become the first trillionaire. This is a spiritual sickness. What leads a person to accumulate more money than they could possibly spend in a hundred lifetimes when we have people starving in this one?”