As an old fart, I couldn’t be more proud of kids today. To them I say: take the world for your own, and make it better.
Many schools were closed yesterday for President’s Day, and the Tide Pods thing is mostly an urban legend.
Here, here. They can hardly do a worse job than we did with it.
Yeah, well, all we had was sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. If Nintendo had come out in '66, we’d still be in Viet Nam.
Those kids shouldn’t just own it, they should be damn proud of it.
And Rush Limbaugh can drop dead. The sooner, the better.
Rush Limbo. How low can he go?
Why does that surprise you? These guys really do try to brainwash their kids with things like homeschooling and Bible Camps, and teach them that they’re in training to be warriors for God and similar sorts of rot. So why wouldn’t they believe that the other side does the same thing?
No, but if we wish hard enough, maybe he will.
That’s pretty much what ‘own it’ means.
“Projection” is the explanation for 89% of right-wing talking points.*
It’s otherwise difficult to understand that they simply cannot conceive of the idea that a teen, lying on the floor watching classmates die, might actually think for him or herself: ‘this is bad.’
No, the only thing the right-winger can imagine is that George Soros swept into Parkland and performed brainwashing there and then, resulting in teens who robotically and on cue, state for the cameras: ‘this is bad.’
*that’s an OOMA figure.
It’s based on the same old shit he’s been pulling since the 1980s, when he demonized the word “liberal”: Make a word a snarl term, out of your snarl when you say it, and then apply it to your enemies.
“Liberal” didn’t used to be a dirty word. Back before the wheels came off, we had what was called the “Liberal Consensus”, the broad, bipartisan notion of how things ought to be in the post-WWII world. In the 1950s, the USA was an unabashedly Liberal nation. Then the word got demonized, turned into a snarl term, by Limbaugh and people like him.
Unnecessary. All Limbaugh has to do is make a big deal out of it being political, and then the dittoheads all agree that high schoolers being political is a bad thing.
Yes. I meant it in a more "“in your face” type of way.
“Angry gets shit done” - Anansi, American Gods
The time for patience is over. The time to wait for the politicians (who are bought and paid for) is over. Time to clean house. Time to also get rid of the cowards who are just NOW severing their ties (or just pretending to) for purely poltical reasons.
And those “lawmakers” who say “thoughts and prayers” can quit their job of doing nothing and go to church instead.
All the way down to hell. The sooner the better.
Dinesh D’Felon (one of the few people whom I eagerly await reading about their painful and prolonged death via wild hogs) is on it, too.
What a maroon. My kid came to me to ask permission to participate in an upcoming school walkout that is being planned by the students. Nobody is “trotting him out.” He and his classmates have just had it.
FWIW, I told him yes, on the condition that they actually DO something with the time other than just wander around. He looked at me like I was nuts and told me they were planning to march from the school to our congressman’s office, which happens to be less than a mile from the school.
These kids are serious.
I don’t know that anyone really does believe the kids are being manipulated, or even just up for an extra day off school. It feels to me like it’s admitted bullshit, a sideways sort of facetiousness.
During the campaign, one of the Trump supporters was called for his use of “jew” - I can’t remember the context - and he replied that he was mispronouncing “you” so Hispanics would feel included. That kind of obvious insincerity.
To be fair, sometimes it means, “own up to it”.
Some yoyo said his name three times, and now we’re stuck with him forever.
I did see two of the students interviewed on the Opposition, and I was very impressed.
These teenaged kids have grown up in a world of ‘forever war’ and have seen (or been the targets of) the majority of mass shootings in the last 75 years.
They will be a different political force. Woe to any politician who discounts them, first in 2018 then in 2020…