“We will of course appeal this rogue judge’s ruling. The women of North Dakota deserve closed obstetrics units and obstetrical hemorrhage.”
Felipe Rodriguez, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and former detective sergeant for the New York City Police Department, slammed the officers who interviewed [mass killer Colt] Gray.
“They walked in there like it was their first day out of the academy,” said Rodriguez of the way the deputies took what the 13-year-old said at face value. “Good cops get facts and you corroborate it. When you don’t corroborate it, that’s when you drop the ball and then we look like idiots.”
A crucial failure, he said, was not getting into the house where they could have verified the elder Gray’s guns were inaccessible or checked the house for cleanliness and whether there was enough food – red flags that would have prompted a call to child services.
[The] officers failed to ask either Gray for details on their answers or present the elder Gray with facts concerning the family’s own run-ins with the law, from 911 calls to an eviction a year earlier.
Rodriguez also said Colt fit the profile of a mass shooter: a young, white, male, loner.
“We’re getting mass shooters left and right, you have to do whatever you can,” Rodriguez said. Instead, “they were talking and joshing like the kid stole a cupcake.”
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A photograph of the encounter shows the father wearing a humongous cross on his chest – could the “idiots” have done what George Bush did with Vladimir Putin, and assume that anyone who wears a big cross is too Christian to do anything naughty?
Insisting that he was widely respected, Trump invoked the support of Viktor Orbán, the far-right prime minister of Hungary, who has dissented from Nato’s support for Ukraine in its war with Russia and shares much of the former president’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“Viktor Orbán is known for destroying Hungarian democracy using techniques Trump has tried to copy,” said David Driesen, a constitutional law professor at Syracuse University, who has written on the capture of democratic institutions by autocratic leaders. “It was surreal to hear Trump cite Orbán’s praise as validation of his own leadership.”
In the good old days, Tariq Ramadan lectured non-Muslims on Islam’s beautiful treatment of women, and I guess a lot of people bought it cuz Oxford, televised debates, best-selling books on the subject, etc. etc. When women started complaining that he was raping and torturing them, one of his friends was shocked, and mounted this moving defense:
“That [Tariq Ramadan] had many mistresses, that he consulted [porn] sites, that girls were brought to the hotel at the end of his lectures, that he invited them to undress, that some resisted and that he could become violent and aggressive, yes, but I have never heard of rapes, I am stunned,” [Bernard Godard] told French magazine L’Obs.
Compelling as this defense was, courts were undaunted, and just today he was sentenced to three years in prison, two suspended.
Concepts of a plan
Concepts of a plan
Into debate we’re thrown
Into a flop full-blown
Like a Haitian-eaten dog
Like a madman monologue
Concepts of a plan
There’s Kamala on the road
My brain is squirmin’ like a toad
Took a long holiday
All my concepts went astray
If you give this bitch a ride
Sweet Jesus you will die
Concepts of a plan
MAGA gotta love your man
MAGA gotta love your man
Concepts of a plan!
I know you understand!
My world on you depends
Our greatness never ends
Gotta love your man, yeah
Trump’s team has asked for a box of hankies at the next debate.
“They’re eating the dogs!” he said. “The people that came in — they’re eating the cats!”
Ms. Harris threw her head back. She clasped her hands. Mr. Muir refuted the claims as Mr. Trump glowered.
“I’ve seen people on television!” he protested. “People on television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food!’”
Ms. Harris shook her head, projecting the deep concern of a disappointed relative.
‘Praise the Lord! Every time President Trump mentioned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is working every day to keep Hungarian young women out of college and in the bedroom, I knew that Trump and especially Vance mean it when they say NO MORE CHILDLESS LADIES. All praise the killers of Roe v Wade!!! I enthusiastically endorse the Republican ticket.‘
‘[Another family member] said that Colt “was begging for help from everybody around him.”’
Nancy Lanza, Deja Taylor, the Crumbleys, Colin Gray – the crazed, gun-obsessed parents of America’s littlest mass killers/mass killers in waiting — what are we to say about them? Is there anything we can do?
There are so many of them by now. The list of four highlights only the most depraved/pitiable progenitors of the sickest of the shooters; but it’s easy to recall plenty more child/preteen/teen predators with a smaller body count, or with a higher age of slaughter-onset. These are America’s version of Africa’s child soldiers, automata we glance at in court and quickly look away from because we are totally not interested in taking on board just how grotesque a gun culture we have now achieved, how the AR-15 revolution is actively eating its children, how generational gun insanity is upon us. Crazy people with guns produce crazy children with guns; and families and neighbors watch it happen and think none of my business or hey maybe weaponizing this troubled kid will help him.
Gun laws in this country will only become more lax. No point looking there. The only thing that might make a difference is vigilance — people in the orbit of graphically fucked up and highly armed families finding the guts to call the authorities. It take guts cuz duh these are nutty violent people with twenty guns.
And then the authorities must do whatever they can do — remove the guns, take the killer-to-be out of the classroom, detain the parents for other shit they have going on (drugs, illegal weapons, child abuse, disturbing the peace, whatever) — to begin neutralizing America’s emergent children’s army.