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Some journalists on Twitter are arguing that the "stuff happens" quote is being taken out of context and that everyone is freaking out that he equivocated shootings as just "stuff." Bullshit. Bush's context is that massacres happen and will continue to happen, and the government should just accept it if doing anything about it involves any sort of new regulations. It's an unacceptable premise that would never fly for any other threat to American lives.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Some journalists on Twitter are arguing that the "stuff happens" quote is being taken out of context and that everyone is freaking out that he equivocated shootings as just "stuff." Bullshit. Bush's context is that massacres happen and will continue to happen, and the government should just accept it if doing anything about it involves any sort of new regulations. More to the point, he doubled down on the quote later. If it was out of context, he should have clarified, not doubled down.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:nine americans murdered by american: "oh well, stuff happens, what can you do" Imagine Hillary saying "Stuff happens" at a Benghazi hearing.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-gun-laws_560ee5fde4b0768127020a88?utm_hp_ref=politicsquote:“I said what I said,” he said. Is is this real? This can't be real. ![]()
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You realize this guy is running for the GOP nomination right? A firm rejection of the "nanny state" mentality is going to make him more popular.
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Iron Twinkie posted:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeb-bush-gun-laws_560ee5fde4b0768127020a88?utm_hp_ref=politics That sounds perfectly consistent with Republican thinking and I don't see how its a gaff among his base. He's arguing against government overreaction in their minds.
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Trabisnikof posted:That sounds perfectly consistent with Republican thinking and I don't see how its a gaff among his base. that's the funny part, they have to win so they can lose. you have to make yourself toxic enough to capture enough of the republican base so that you can become too odious to convince the rest of the country to vote for you. the strange part is that none/few of the republicans so far have the balls to be publicly sane
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Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Some journalists on Twitter are arguing that the "stuff happens" quote is being taken out of context and that everyone is freaking out that he equivocated shootings as just "stuff." Bullshit. Bush's context is that massacres happen and will continue to happen, and the government should just accept it if doing anything about it involves any sort of new regulations. Well he didn't necessarily say we should do nothing. His solution seems to be mandating praying in schools.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko. old school four loko, not the baby kind they tried remaking, the kind that you drink one and you die
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko. lol you're right "A child drowns in a pool and the impulse is to pass a law that puts fencing around pools," he continued. "Well, it may not change it. Or you have a car accident and the impulse is to pass a law that deals with that unique event, and the cumulative effect of this is in some cases -- you don’t solve the problem by passing the law, and you’re imposing on large numbers of people, burdens that make it harder for our economy to grow, make it harder for people to protect liberty, and that is, the whole conversation today was exactly about that. That as we shift power up to Washington, D.C." so jeb bush is in favor of full drug legalization?
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Popular Thug Drink posted:lol you're right I presume he'd give the traditional "since we already have pools, cars and guns we can't add weed on top of it."
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I'm glad we all collective said "poo poo Happens" after 9/11.
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SedanChair posted:You realize this guy is running for the GOP nomination right? A firm rejection of the "nanny state" mentality is going to make him more popular. Yep. No one on the right gives a poo poo. SirPablo posted:I'm glad we all collective said "poo poo Happens" after 9/11. Probably should have. Less people would have died.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko. Four Loko still exists, they've been pre-rolling their lovely ads all over videos on the internet. Also it's a godawful beverage for any purpose, including getting drunk for cheap because OE800 exists as do Steel Reserve tallboys. It's like the Axe to Smirnoff Ice's Curve.
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Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:so jeb bush is in favor of full drug legalization? If he's okay with mass shootings and drowned children, I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything he wouldn't be okay with.
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DaveWoo posted:If he's okay with mass shootings and drowned children, I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything he wouldn't be okay with. See, that's what great is conservatives will hold up comments like yours as proof that liberals don't understand the real world and want to institute thought controls. While liberals decry Bush and those that will support his comment as unfeeling pro-drowning children monsters. Both sides win... America loses
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Stuff happens and they get an abortion.
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FAUXTON posted:Four Loko still exists, they've been pre-rolling their lovely ads all over videos on the internet. Also it's a godawful beverage for any purpose, including getting drunk for cheap because OE800 exists as do Steel Reserve tallboys. It's like the Axe to Smirnoff Ice's Curve. It's no longer caffeinated so there's really no point. I wanna get Loko dammit.
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What does a fence around a pool, seat belts, airbags, and gas tanks that do not spontaneously explode all have in common? They are all job-killing Washington regulations. As President, I promise a dead kid in every pool and a human body through every windshield.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:It's no longer caffeinated so there's really no point. I wanna get Loko dammit. Brew coffee with redbull and pour in a few shots of cheap vodka.
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Literally The Worst posted:old school four loko, not the baby kind they tried remaking, the kind that you drink one and you die Four Loko doesn't kill people. People who drink Four Loko kill people.
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DeusExMachinima posted:Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy. Welcome to the Libertarian Party!
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DeusExMachinima posted:Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy. Google Ron Paul
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Remember when a handful of college kids died from drinking too much Four Loko and now Four Loko doesn't exist anymore? If the solution that gun violence is more guns then I want more Four Loko. ![]() I don't think it's the government's job to protect people from making dumb decisions. ComradeCosmobot posted:Welcome to the Libertarian Party! I used to consider myself a libertarian because I support that stuff but then I found out that 99% of libertarians don't give a gently caress about those issues, they just want low taxes and no business regulations.
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MaxxBot posted:
Don't forget the marijuana!
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MaxxBot posted:I used to consider myself a libertarian because I support that stuff but then I found out that 99% of libertarians don't give a gently caress about those issues, they just want low taxes and no business regulations. ![]() The problem is that government regulations are good when it comes to actually keeping us safe from predatory business practices and negative economic externalities. Libertarians refuse to acknowledge this distinction.
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DeusExMachinima posted:Where's the party that takes the (100% correct) "poo poo happens" attitude on guns, 18+ drinking, terrorism, drugs, police sobriety checkpoints, etc etc? I want to vote for that guy. There'd better be a good reason for hostility to that one besides "I drive better when I've had a few."
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It's like he couldn't have picked a worse analogy. Look, I can play republican better than Jeb here. "HEY WE GET THAT CRAZY GUY WHO CRASHED HIS RV ON CRUISE CONTROL AND NOW THERE'S A WARNING SAYING CRUISE CONTROL WON'T DRIVE ITSELF, WE DON'T NEED THAT KIND OF NANNY STATE" Instead he says "man, what's next, keeping kids from drowning in fukken pools? i've got a pool boy for that dammit."
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I remember that. A million parents saw a story on CNN about Four Loko as the greatest new threat to college students, and immediately put down their rum and coke to call their senators to make sure something was DONE about the dangers of caffeinated alcohol. It's a pretty great model of crisis response, we should definitely follow it.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Brew coffee with redbull and pour in a few shots of cheap vodka. That sounds loving disgusting.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:There'd better be a good reason for hostility to that one besides "I drive better when I've had a few." You shouldn't be able to pull someone over without evidence that they actually did anything wrong. It's not a pro-drunk driving position to not want people pulled over at random to check their BAC.
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MaxxBot posted:You shouldn't be able to pull someone over without evidence that they actually did anything wrong. It's not a pro-drunk driving position to not want people pulled over at random to check their BAC. There's nothing very random about pulling everybody over, drinky.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:That sounds loving disgusting. It's better if you toss in a few ground up adderall.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:That sounds loving disgusting. Just like Four Loko.
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I don't think mandatory pool fences are how one gets the middle class vote
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Antti posted:Imagine Hillary saying "Stuff happens" at a Benghazi hearing. She said something like "at this point what difference does it make?" during a Benghazi hearing, and they trotted that line out for years trying to make her seem callous and indifferent.
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Arresting everyone with an above ground pool would probably be extremely effective from a crime control point of view.
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Nintendo Kid posted:There's nothing very random about pulling everybody over, drinky. They ought to have probable cause though.
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