It’s consistent with the Republian response to any mass shooting, which is: throw any shit at the wall and hope something sticks that doesn’t involve guns. It’s a mental health issue! It’s cowardice in the sheriff’s department! We need to arm teachers! Any solution will do as long as it doesn’t piss off the NRA.
Liked to have seen the expressions on the reporters’ faces.
It weirds me out how he keeps saying teachers love their students. They…do? :dubious:
More than he loves his country, anyway.
Teachers get arrested for it fairly often.
The bald eagle the symbol of our country, a figure we use to represent freedom, power and strength, HATED him.
If that was not an omen of things to come, I don’t know WHAT is.
Trump, about seeing blood:
“I’m not good for medical. In other words, if you cut your finger and there’s blood pouring out, I’m gone,” — Donald Trump
I have a lot of teachers in the family. Yes, they do.
Of course it’s creepy. But it’s also typical of the American cultural tradition that says, quite firmly, that teachers are expected to be selfless martyrs.
Because, make no mistake: this ‘arm the teachers’ idea is dependent on the idea that each and every teacher will willingly DIE in order to make sure that Amurrica can go on giving mentally-ill teenagers access to assault weapons.
It doesn’t matter if the teacher in question has children of his or her own at home–he or she WILL die to keep the gun manufacturers’ profit margins up, up, up.
Because teachers LOVE their students.
It’s precisely because I know that teachers (for the most part, of course) love their students that makes this proposal so loathsome. “You love your kids, right? Great: strap this on. Their safety is now in your hands.” (problem solved!)
Every teacher I know feels that this idea is, to quote David Brooks’ pithy response, demented.
Borowitz Report weighs in: Trump orders parade to celebrate his hypothetical act of heroism in Florida school.
Please Mr. President, leave the Secret Service behind and go confront an armed maniac with your bare hands. I’m begging you to go do that, for the good of the country. :rolleyes:
What’s sad and a little frightening is I honestly believe that Trump really believes he would have done that. He’s a master at retconning his life.
I read this sentence as code for Clothahump.
I’ll be glad to have the White House on speed-dial the next time we have one around here.
He’s a master at lying–including to himself. Well, everybody has to be good at something.
As I was saying: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/ivanka-trump-south-korea-white-house-tension/index.html
That pathetic draft dodging bone spurs coward? I on’t think it could/would ever happen, in any universe or multiverse.
“The last time I saw one act this way was at the bar.”
“What was in the bar?”
“Russians…”
To give Trump the benefit of the doubt (something I seldom have to do given his noxious behavior), I think most of us believe we (as individuals) could/would have done something if given the chance to (potentially) save lives, especially of children. If not in this instance, at least in some hypothetical place (call it the Walter Mitty effect, if you will). If he had said something like “like everyone, I wish that I could have done something to prevent this tragic event”, he might have been called on it, but it wouldn’t have seemed dumb, just political.
Difference is Trump is President, so he needs to be the grownup in the room (HA!) and monitor what he says (and again, HA!).