Posts made by ganda

Urgh. It’s looking like the police in Uvalde chronically mishandled* the school mass shooting, and got their lies out ahead of the truth.

*and that’s being kind

The shooter was wearing body armor! Nope.
The shooter barricaded himself in! Nope, he locked a door and this was too much for police to overcome (school staff eventually unlocked the door for police).

They waited up to an hour to enter the school. Well, most of them did, at least one local police entered the school, got their own child and left. The ~40 police in attendance physically stopped parents from trying to rescue their children.

Good guys with a gun. Back The Blue. Heroes.

Paraphrasing (I think) James Carville “Pennsylvania is Philly in the east, Pittsburgh in west, and Alabama in between”. I would add that the non-coastal parts of southern New Jersey are also Alabamarific

@kamal said in The other politics thread.:

@ganda

I live in Cleveland, right next door to Pennsylvania. Outside the big cities at the east and west end of the state, PA gets very Republican very fast.

I’m well aware. I regularly drive through Carbon county and Susquehanna county (and rural Eastern Maryland - holy crap!). The Trump love, and Biden hate, is astonishing. And Biden is literally one of them - a local, working class, Christian who pulled himself up by his bootstraps.

~250,000 voters in Pennsylvania looked at Doug Mastriano, a man who was at the Capitol on 1/6, a man who organized a bus full of the tourists who invaded the Capitol, a man who says if he was Governor he would have voided the 2020 PA election result and Trump would still be in office, a man who has pledged to purge the PA election roll of “invalid” voters… and said “yep, that’s who we want for our next Governor”.

And Pennsylvania’s not unique in doubling down on this right-wing nuttery. I genuinely think we’re in trouble, not a new Civil War scale trouble, more something like The Troubles in Northern Ireland with violence from both extremist ends. The 2024 election is going to be a mess.