It’s criminal negligence by crash paddle The whole regime really

So close, if only had he had voted for Kamala!

Authoritarian regimes crumble by the sheer weight of incompetence. Unfortunately, we are collateral damage.

I hate how everyday people are the beta test for powerful idiots’ terrible plans.

OMG! They need to be questioned IMMEDIATELY by the Senate and then fired and arrested for NEGLIGENCE!

With THIS particular Senate? Yeah... Don't hold your breath.

I know. 😠

In fairness, the FBI has been REALLY preoccupied with pursuing Trump’s political enemies and scrubbing the Epstein files for any mentions of Trump.

If all else fails, they will blame Biden.

Obama. The "Mooslim Neegro" is the evil mastermind.

The sonofabitch wore a tan suit, for God’s sake!!!

Don't forget they've been purging the most serious people too.

Cruelty is the point, that, and hunt hispanic people. I will never forgive that.

Anyone have a better, verified source for this?

Crazy, yes. Calling Patel and Bondi incompetent would be a bit more accurate...

This should be all over the network news how the FBI are not protecting us from these psychopaths ,instead they are going after the ice cream man,and Trump's enemy list

They're too busy going after people who hurt their orange daddy's feelings.

This happened under Bidens administration as well. Crazy indeed.

And, now Joey Mannarino is making these demands. @georgetakei.bsky.social

WTF?! Unfortunately not unexpected though.

Maybe if this person was a minority and posting from a Home Depot parking lot. 🤷‍♂️

Instead of preventing this awful shooting, they detained firefighters fighting a fire

🤯🤯🤯🤯💩💩💩💩💀💀

They probably figured if he was talking about shooting some place up that it was another MAGA conservative.

1. The US has a mental health crisis. Solution? Ignore it, because there's no money or will to rectify it. 2. The US has a gun problem. Solution? Arm more, because the second amendment is my mac daddy. 3. The US has an extremist problem. Solution? Nonsense. We ain't Talibans, just good old Nazis.

Quoting Pestiny is not a good idea

It’s one of those rare moments awful person says something right and we all feel bad for agreeing

Where’s the nonstop, 24-7 media machine on the abject failure of the FBI? If this collapse happened under Biden, they would still be writing about it 100 yrs from now. Pam Bondi and Kash Patel are playacting at their jobs. They now have the blood of 20+ children on their hands. This is egregious.

And it's going to get worse. Trump's FBI is planning to lower the training period for new Agents from 18 weeks to eight weeks, and new FBI agents will no longer be required to have a college degree. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

That's bc Kash Patel & Dan Bongino don't want anyone stronger or smarter than them in the FBI.

Oh shoot... it'll be OK. They will all have mandatory training in how to pull up that bandit mask so no one will know why they are.

Terrifying!

Trump and his appointees display their incompetence daily.

Arrest Bondi and Patel

Hey George, you know that Destiny guy was just reported to the police for being a PDF file rigbf?

It'd look bad to arrest one of their own...............

TFW Destiny is right

In the name of humanity, I am telling you to contribute and participate for the sake of our children. Save our children. We are dying of hunger and fear. Please help. www.chuffed.org/project/1365...

When you think how MAGA tried to twist every killing, every disaster, every accident to be somehow Biden’s fault and then here they are presiding over this utter negligence without so much as a ‘sorry’.

Don’t forget about the thousands of man hours redacting Trump’s name from the 100,000 pages of Epstein documents. I wonder if we’ll ever know the average the number of Sharpies required for each page?

So a not-trans Nazi shot those kids cuz he needed mental health care, and no one saw his posts? Or cared?

Exactly 👍 my thoughts as well. Even his family should have been able to see he was very disturbed

I would think that the FBI & Kash Patel and DHS & Noem should have been the ones to catch this shooter beforehand. Ultimately, the blame and responsibility falls to the allowance and proliferation of assault weapons, as well as the ones who refuse to ban these weapons.

They're busy w/ photo opps and blowing smoke up Trump's as 12x a day - they also most likely fired the agents whose job it was to catch this shit

This is one of the loudest cries for help I have personally seen. How did this escape government surveillance? Oh wait. The trump regimes war against crime is how. Irony is officially dead.

Irony has been replaced with morony.

Almost as if a background check and waiting period would have stoped this tragedy

i wouldn’t use destiny as your source for this. he is gross.

bsky.app/profile/bone...

They need to be fired!

Apparently, its a great time to crime. They are asleep at the wheel at the highest levels of law enforcement. This is awful.

Someone in Trump's cabinet doing their actual job? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... (deep breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. None of them knows what their job is!!

Mental illness is the problem in America. Guns are only the mechanism with which they kill.

They have mental health issues but in the US anyone can walk into a store and buy a gun after a barebones background check.

Mentally ill people are far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators

Ban the gun they'll use a screwdriver. Need to counter the murderous urges not the tools used

How many mass casualty events are conducted using a screwdriver? Sure you can do some damage with one but easy access to lethal weapons like guns allows more death and injury to take place in this country.

That's true. USA is one of a handful of countries in the world that has school shooting drills

The entire rest of the world has more sense than to let it happen

Yes. Assault weapons need to be removed. The answer does lie though with mental illness. Correcting that a is a very long road. Remove the guns now.

Or even more restrictive laws for ownership...just THAT...tiny thing would make a difference (i btw have no problem w a ban).

False. It’s actually domestic abuse that ties mass shooters together. Being the perpetrator of.

How many people would be in the hospital or morgue if he were poking a screwdriver through that window?

0. That's the point.

So maybe banning the tool could reduce the carnage?

Yep.

Well there were studies and research being done on why gun violence is attractive and other reasons… but it’s been stopped and guess by who? It wasn’t stopped by the AMA or NIH.

And even way back in the days of the first school shootings- Dr’s got the AMA to publish articles and get some studies started and looked at by Congress. But- the NRA busted in and stopped any progress.

Yes, ban the gun and they won’t be able to cause any actual harm. Good idea!

If there are no guns they will use other methods. But banning the guns will have a huge effect.

Safe gun control... we have it .. we don't have mass shootings .. there is a few in our history however .. safe gun laws have helped... why is it a uterus needs more laws than guns ????????

Because it's more about turning a woman into a walking baby factory than it is a stable and functioning society. They'd overturn the 19th amendment if they could get away with doing it.

You start by controlling the most harmful thing and work down

This is actually not true. A deranged person can shoot someone through a church window but they are unlikely to face someone up close with a knife. Bullies are always cowards.

Yes!

“Mental illness” is a term used to demean and dehumanize anyone who is struggling. EVERYONE has a “mental illness.” Some are just less socially acceptable than others.

And somehow, the right wing gun nut jobs think that we'd have the same problem if all the shooters were pointing their index fingers at their victims and yelling, "Bang, bang!"

It is more a cultural illness that is the issue, as the USA has a unique, and toxic, culture. People with serious mental illnesses are rarely violent, and when they are, it is usually the product of a psychotic break where the person truly believes they are defending themselves in a terrible...

...situation. We are likely to see a picture of online radicalisation through right wing propoganda come out in the coming days. The culture wars in the US are becoming deadlier every year. At this point, I'm praying that it doesn't break down into mass violence.

Definitely a cultural problem. Try to change the TV channel more than 4 times without seeing a gun.

Right? And then go to any toy section and try to find a "boys toy" for kids over 6 which doesn't involve some form of violence. But gods forbid they market something like a cooking toy for boys, because loving Bobby Flay and demonising cooking toys for boys never occurs to the right wing as kooky.

Violence has been subliminally engrained in the American pysche via mostly TV. Sounds crazy but...

Wrong. There’s also bombs, arson, bladed weapons, vehicles and a hundred other ways to go on a rampage. Guns are simply the easiest and most viscerally removed from the act. Just pull a trigger. Guns are a fetish in American culture. Guns ARE a problem. Every country has mental illness.

Yes they will kill with a pitchfork if necessary. It IS mental illness that is the problem. It is a huge problem in America.

What is a more destructive weapon? A rifle ..lets say a sig sauwr m400...or a pitchfork. I will give you a second.

I think that kinda goes without saying?

Point to all the knife, pitchfork, etc. attacks in another country. Hell point to a group of countries. One American shooting event will have more casualties. Mental illness is world wide, this doesn't happen world wide buddy. You are right, it is an issue to be addressed, not the pressing matter

I disagree, mental illness is out of control in America. The president is mentally ill for Christs sake. The mental health care in America sucks. But it is not strictly as a result of mental illness, there are a lot of causes.

yet you keep saying... it's not a gun issue when no other country goes trough this. Nobody disagrees mental health is AN issue. Health in general is.

It IS a gun problem, absolutely. Remove the guns and reduce the killing. But guns are not the root of the problem. It is a mix of mental illness and American culture which seems to thrive on violence.

Yes mental illness is worldwide. You're suggesting therefore it is not the problem. Let me ask you a question: Do you think a person can shoot a kid and be mentally well? Absolutely not possible.

It's stated around 10% of the population is born psychopathic/sociopathic. Nothing to be done, just a genetic trait. Again, you keep arguing against yourself. Cuz THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN ANYWHERE ELSE. Even places with guns. This post makes even less sense than the last.

With Donald Trump I can understand, as you say, how a pitchfork might be very useful.

So why don't they have weekly pitchfork attacks in other countries that regularly kill dozen+

The American culture is highly flawed at this point.

Aight you can't answer my question

American culture is highly flawed, and America is all I know. I'm guessing other countries aren't quite as nuts as America.

Too fucking right we're not!

I wish I lived somewhere other.

Have you look at American literacy rates? Probably has something to do with it.

*looked

False! We are NOT the problem

I suffer from mental illness, OCD to be precise. Whether or not it's caused by full blown mental illness or not, America is not mentally well. Just watch the violence on TV and try to think otherwise.

Do you mean fictional violence? Or real violence?

There is little difference affecting a person's thinking.

That’s simply untrue psychologically

Pitchforks can’t kill dozens of people in a minute.

It takes longer and requires close face-to-face combat, which means guns make it easy for the killer to mentally distance himself from the event.

Yes. It was the weapon of choice chasing Frankenstein. Guns make it easy to kill, pitchforks not so much.

Gun control. You need a license to drive- a license to hunt. Deliberate stupidity.

No healthcare forces people with mental health issues to go untreated, they listen to right wing propaganda, go buy a gun, go shoot people. Summary the symptoms are: -Lack of health care -Right wing media propaganda -No gun restrictions Conclusion -Republicans are the problem Not mental health!

Plus they saturate their audience with images of men being "tough" with guns. I've wondered if the gun violence rate would be lower if all guns had to be painted pastel pink maybe with a pansy sticker or two.

It might help, macho A-holes likely don't do pink.

But, can a person shoot a kid and be mentally well? No way. It's mental illness.

Countries all over the world have mental illnesses, but what countries around the world don’t have is mass shootings every day . Not understanding this is mental illness.

Yes I understand that, there are other things at play in America that cause this, in concert with not being mentally well. I ask again, can you shoot a kid and be mentally well?

If you’re Republican you can, because that is essentially what they support.

Insanity is an evolution's gift to mankind. To give up insanity you must give up awareness.

Not if you don’t have a gun!

Damn right, get rid of the guns for sure. Shame the Republicans only care for themselves and the guns remain.

P. S. I know all about the suckass mental healthcare in America, I suffer from mental illness, OCD, myself.

I didn’t say you could be mentally well shooting a kid, what I’m saying is there is mental illness everywhere in the world, but America is the only country that has mass shootings every day, the only country in the whole world that has a mass shooter event every single day. Why is that

I believe the reason is American culture. Desensitized to violence via a very slow, subliminal increase in the violence shown on TV for the past 60 years. That's part of it anyway.

Gun worship and easy access is also a huge factor.

And 400 million guns in a population of 340 million people

Yes. 400. Why? Holy crap why? We have arrived here very slowly. Subliminal explains it all.

All under the guise of the Second Amendment yet we are IN an actual fascist takeover of the USA and the NRA is silent.

Gun reverence was added to conservative ideology as a means to gain power. Propaganda keeps alive the myth that you need guns to resist the government.

Agreed.

Sadly, the only practical way to fix this is to take control of SCOTUS, and revert to an earlier ruling that said gun ownership is a State Right, used by 'well regulated militias'. So join the protests already in progress nationwide.

One of Jeffersons reasons for the 2nd Amendment, (the State Armed Militia) was to enforce the Constitution should the Government in DC decide to go "rouge" and the states would keep them in check and defend the Constitution.

So this guy shot up christians and wanted it to look 'atheist' as a false flag operation ?

We are TRULY on our own.

They probably knew but ignored it. Either way, there will be someone or something else to blame.

It’s George Takei commenting on something he finds bizarre or outrageous, likely a recent event or news story, though the exact topic isn’t clear without more context. His reaction suggests disbelief or strong emotion.

No, they are too busy looking at posts from immigrants